Could not subscribe, try again later Invalid EmailA man whose body rejected a face transplant has been given a second donor after living nearly two months without a face. It is the first time in transplant history doctors have replaced one donor face with another, according to Olivier Bastien of France's biomedicine agency. (Image: AFP)In 1996, a similar operation was performed in Victoria, Australia, when a woman's face and scalp, torn off in a similar accident, was packed in ice and successfully reattached. The world's first partial face transplant on a living human - using a face not previously belonging to the patient - was carried out in France, in 2005. (Image: Universal Images Group Editorial)A triangle of face tissue from a brain-dead woman's nose and mouth was grafted onto the patient.

Source: Daily Mirror January 21, 2018 07:57 UTC