A 25 year old former construction worker from Dallas – Forth Worth who was horribly disfigured in a power line accident underwent the first full face transplant in the U.S. with a 15 hour operation at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston last week.  He received a new nose, lips, skin, muscle and nerves from an unidentified dead person in an operation paid for by the U.S. military, which wants to use what is learned to help soldiers with severe facial wounds.  As the new tissue is molded onto his bone structure, he will not resemble either what he used to look like, or what the donor looked like. 

Read about it here:  http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110321/ap_on_he_me/us_face_transplant