BOSTON - first recipient of transplantation full face of the country, said the first thing that he was told by his young daughter when she saw him after the operation was "Daddy, you're so beautiful".
Dallas Wiens, sporting a goatee and sunglasses, black joined surgeons Monday at Brigham and women's Hospital in Boston for his first public appearance since the procedure for 15 hours in March.
"It is natural," said man Fort Worth, Texas, aged for 25 years, received a new nose, lips, skin, muscles and nerves from an anonymous donor. The operation has been paid by the U.S. military, who hopes to use the results of the procedure to help soldiers with serious facial injuries.
Characteristics of Wiens burned all but far and he was left blind after hit a line electric everything in painting of a church in November 2008.
On Monday, Wiens appeared before a packed room of journalists and photographers with a new somewhat swollen face and a new head of hair.
"I adapted to it very quickly," Wiens said to journalists. "As time went...". I was able to feel again and breathe through my nose. Each step of the way in which was incredible. ?
The first thing Wiens nose is capable of detecting after months of having no odour? Lasagna of the hospital.
"You would not imagine, but it smelled delicious", Wiens said.
Surgeons said graft was not successful in restoring his sight, and some nerves were so severely damaged from his injury that probably will be only partial sensation on his left cheek and the left side of his forehead.
Plastic surgeon Bohdan Pomahac, who performed the operation on Wiens, said results of better transplant that he expected.
"The most fun is to see the next six to nine months when the service begins to return and when Dallas will begin to feel a light touch on his face," said Pomahac. "" "". For me, it's really exciting. ?
In a history of the Associated Press and a poignant last fall, spoken Wiens YouTube video why he wanted a transplant and how he wanted to smile again and feel the kisses of his 4 years, Scarlette girl. Face transplants give horribly disfigured people hope for an option rather "research in the mirror and hate what they see", he said.
He told the AP that his daughter and her faith kept motivated. He reiterated Monday. "Even if I am in the incredible hands here," Wiens said, "I am also in the hands of God."
The surgery was paid by the Ministry of defence, which gave the hospital 3.4 million research grant for transplants of five.
On the face of a dozen transplants were conducted in the world, in the United States, France, Spain and China.
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