Face-transplant patient reveals herself

Tuesday, May 5, 2009 - 21:14 in Health & Medicine

Connie Culp, who underwent the groundbreaking procedure in December after her husband shot her four years earlier, praises the medical staff that made her new face possible. Five years ago, a shotgun blast left a ghastly hole where the middle of her face had been. Five months ago, she received a new face from a dead woman.

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