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01-15-2012, 12:31 AM
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) – Ten months after becoming the first person to get a full face transplant in the United States (http://content.usatoday.com/topics/topic/Places,+Geography/Countries/United+States), a Fort Worth (http://content.usatoday.com/topics/topic/Places,+Geography/Towns,+Cities,+Counties/Fort+Worth) man marvels at recovering the ability of expression.
The progress of 25-year-old Dallas Wiens and the handful of other patients that have undergone the procedure is helping to make the case that it should be more widely available. "The ability to smile and to show emotion on my face, even unintentionally, is such a natural thing," Wiens told the Dallas Morning News (http://content.usatoday.com/topics/topic/Dallas+Morning+News). "Having a new face has changed me dramatically."
USA Today (http://yourlife.usatoday.com/health/medical/story/2012-01-14/First-American-full-face-transplant-patient-is-smiling/52562100/1?csp=34news&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+usatoday-NewsTopStories+%28News+-+Top+Stories%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher)
The progress of 25-year-old Dallas Wiens and the handful of other patients that have undergone the procedure is helping to make the case that it should be more widely available. "The ability to smile and to show emotion on my face, even unintentionally, is such a natural thing," Wiens told the Dallas Morning News (http://content.usatoday.com/topics/topic/Dallas+Morning+News). "Having a new face has changed me dramatically."
USA Today (http://yourlife.usatoday.com/health/medical/story/2012-01-14/First-American-full-face-transplant-patient-is-smiling/52562100/1?csp=34news&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+usatoday-NewsTopStories+%28News+-+Top+Stories%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher)