Firefighter Receives World’s Most Extensive Face Transplant

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Patrick Hardison, before (left) and after (right) the pioneering procedure. NYU Langone Medical Center.

A team of surgeons at New York University’s Langone Medical Center has carried out the world’s most extensive face transplant, with the medical school’s dean Robert Grossman calling the operation “a major milestone and [a] critically important contribution to the advancement of science and medicine,” as reported by the Guardian.