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For 24 years Pascal Coler's face drew so many taunts in the street that he retreated to his home to live the painful life of a recluse.
All of that changed one night in January when he got the call: They'd found a face donor.
After 16 hours in the operating room, Coler emerged with a new face.
Laurent Lantieri, the head of plastic surgery at Henri-Mondor Hospital, says that "almost all" of Coler's face was replaced with that of a donor: new lips, cheeks, nose and mouth.
Lantieri, who took part in the operation, hails it as the world's first full face transplant.
For 24 years Pascal Coler's face drew so many taunts in the street that he retreated to his home to live the painful life of a recluse.
All of that changed one night in January when he got the call: They'd found a face donor.
After 16 hours in the operating room, Coler emerged with a new face.
Laurent Lantieri, the head of plastic surgery at Henri-Mondor Hospital, says that "almost all" of Coler's face was replaced with that of a donor: new lips, cheeks, nose and mouth.
Lantieri, who took part in the operation, hails it as the world's first full face transplant.
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