Electrocuted man receives America’s first full face transplant

A TEXAS construction worker badly disfigured in a power line accident two years ago has received the United States’ first full face transplant at a Boston hospital.

More than 30 doctors, nurses and other staff at Brigham and Women’s Hospital led by plastic surgeon Dr Bohdan Pomahac performed the 15-hour operation last week on 25-year-old Dallas Wiens, of Fort Worth, Texas.

The electrical accident in November 2008 left Wiens blind and without lips, a nose or eyebrows.