The nation's first full face transplant recipient said the first thing his young daughter told him when she saw him after the operation was "Daddy, you're so handsome."
Dallas received a new nose, lips, skin, muscle and nerves from an anonymous donor. Wiens' features were all but burned away and he was left blind after hitting a power line while painting a church in November 2008.
These photos are - left to right - 2008, 2010 and May 9, 2011. It's a miracle what advancements medicine has made.
The Department of Defense gave Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston a $3.4 million research grant for five transplants with hopes to use findings from the procedure to help soldiers with severe facial wounds.
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