The First African American Man To Receive A Full Face Transplant Is ‘Thrilled’ With The Results

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cakeslady on November 8th, 2019 at 02:13 UTC »

their face starts out droopy because it takes time for the nerve endings to connect but after like a year that when the face is fully healed he'll be able to move his face properly

Artecanid on November 8th, 2019 at 02:57 UTC »

I read that he had rejected previous faces because the skin was a lot fairer than his was and he didn’t want a face that would make him feel “like someone else” so he was really happy to have a face that matched his skin almost exactly.

NotTheRealRilke on November 8th, 2019 at 02:59 UTC »

So amazing.

Here’s the Time version of the story: https://time.com/5709294/first-african-american-face-transplant/