Face Transplants

An Ohio woman who was the first US recipient of a near-total face transplant has unveiled the results of her surgery, which restored key features after she was shot by her husband five years ago.

Connie Culp, 46, who was left without a nose, a palate or lower eyelids following a shotgun blast in 2004, underwent a 22-hour operation at the Cleveland Clinic in the state of Ohio last December.

Surgeons transplanted about 80 per cent of Ms Culp's face using facial tissue from a dead woman that was placed like a mask atop her own.

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