California Man Shows Remarkable Recovery Less Than One Year After Facial Transplant
On January 6th , Cameron Underwood was wheeled out of the operating room at NYU Langone Health at the end of a 25 - hour surgery to exchange his damaged depressed face with the hide , tissue , bone , and tooth of a presenter . Now , just 11 months later on , 26 - year - old Underwood has healed remarkably and is in first-class wellness . Like all graft patients , he will need to persist onanti - rejection medicationfor the rest of his life , but his squad of specialist doctors are encouraged by his body ’s acceptance of the new face thus far ....