Last year Dr. Peter Butler was granted ethical permission to conduct full-face transplants, and he’s been looking to perform a series of these operations at 30-day intervals. In 2005, Isabelle Dinoire was the first woman to get a partial transplant.
Dr. Butler has also said American military officials have visited him to discuss nine U.S. troops who may benefit from the operation. As an older veteran severely disfigured in the Falklands War, who’s come to grips with his own appearance, told the paper:
Here’s a BBC graphic on the operation.
