First successful full face transplant

The earliest successful full face transplant was performed by a team of doctors from the Vall d''Hebron University Hospital, Barcelona, Spain, on 20 March 2010. The 24-hour long operation was performed on a 31-year-old man identified only as Oscar, the victim of a shooting accident, by a team of 30 doctors led by Dr JP Barret. The team transplanted muscles, nose, lips, maxilla, palate, all teeth, cheekbones, and the mandible by means of plastic surgery and micro-neurovascular reconstructive surgery techniques. It was the first full face transplant performed worldwide, as the 10 operations performed previously had been only partial.