I got a great match.”More than 40 patients worldwide have received face transplants, including 16 in the United States. But in 2018, a French man whose immune system rejected his donor face eight years after his first transplant underwent a second. Dr Bohdan Pomahac, who did Tarleton's first face transplant, was hesitant to do another and favoured doing reconstruction surgery instead. Tarleton, who is being led to the operating room, is the first American and second person globally to undergo a second face transplant procedure after her first transplant failed. She requested in October to be put the hospital's list for a second face.

Source: The Star August 17, 2020 06:56 UTC