Patient reveals transplant face

AMERICA’S first full-face transplant recipient said the first thing his young daughter told him when she saw him after the operation was “Daddy, you’re so handsome”.

Dallas Wiens, sporting a goatee and dark sunglasses, joined surgeons yesterday at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston in his first public appearance since the 15-hour procedure in March.

“It feels natural,” said the 25-year-old Fort Worth, Texas, man, who received a new nose, lips, skin, muscle and nerves from an anonymous donor.