Less than two months ago, a 26-year-old named Dallas Wiens underwent the first full-face transplant surgery in the United States. He held his first press conference yesterday, and he actually looks pretty good.
He's still blind, but he said his main goal was to be able to feel his 4-year-old daughter's kisses again. And doctors say he'll be able to soon. Dallas even said that when his daughter saw him for the first time, she said, "Daddy, you're so handsome".
In November 2008, Dallas was up in a cherry-picker helping to paint his church. His head grazed a high-voltage power line, and he basically lost his entire face to severe burns. But doctors used donor tissue to transplant a forehead, nose, lips, and muscles
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