French team performs full face transplant with eyelids

A FRENCH surgeon said yesterday he has conducted a full-face transplant, including eyelids and tear ducts, in a rare operation on a 35-year-old man with a genetic disorder.

French team performs full face transplant with eyelids

Rivals called the French operation, similar to one carried out in Barcelona in April, a new achievement that further advances efforts to provide faces – and new lives – for the disfigured.

The latest French patient has new “eyelids, tear ducts, full face,” surgeon Laurent Lantieri said. “He’s doing well.”

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