A 'wonderful gift': Lye attack victim reveals new face after transplant surgery

Wednesday, May 1, 2013 - 20:00 in Health & Medicine

Almost three months after a undergoing a full face transplant, Carmen Blandin Tarleton, the 44-year-old Vermont registered nurse horribly disfigured when her estranged husband squirted industrial strength lye all over her body, stroked her new chin with her hand, calling the surgery, a "wonderful gift." Tarleton revealed her new face – reconstructed in a 15-hour operation that transplanted a donor...    

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