A severely burned Irish girl will likely be the first recipient of a face-transplant.
Once a board of ethics, headed by Falklands War veteran Simon Weston has given the go-ahead, Lena will receive the face of a dead donor, removing her own severely burned face…
The surgery involves “degloving” the donor’s face from a four-hour-old corpse, severing the top layer of skin and then grafting it onto the recipient’s face.
(Thanks, Heath!)