Rafael was the second person in Spain and the ninth in the world to receive a partial face transplant.
The world's first full face transplant patient, identified only as Oscar, appeared in public for the first time Monday.
The first successful face transplant was performed in France in 2005 on Isabelle Dinoire, a 38-year-old woman who had been mauled by her dog.
This was one of their first – another lucky juxtaposition of news stories: a Frenchwoman’s face transplant coinciding with the arrival of the new Tory leader.
Surgeons have performed the first U.S. face transplant, transferring most of the visage of a corpse onto a woman who was missing most of her own face, doctors said today.
The world's biggest face transplant program is being set up in Boston for veterans left severely deformed after surviving horrific war injuries in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Boston Globe reported.
The hospital said the operation was the 12th face transplant worldwide since the first conducted in France in 2005, on the nose, mouth and chin of a woman disfigured by a dog attack.
