In February, Raffi Khatchadourian wrote about Dallas Wiens, the first person in the United States to receive a full face transplant. On Friday, Wiens and Khatchadourian answered readers’ questions in ...

(CBS/AP) What's the first American to get a full face transplant doing these days? Smiling. Ten months after his operation, 25-year-old Dallas Wiens is recovering the ability to express himself. The ...

Dallas Wiens, the nation's first full face transplant recipient, is speaking publicly one year after having the groundbreaking operation at Brigham and Women s Hospital in Boston."I am able to feel my ...

The nation’s first full face transplant patients are growing into their new appearances—literally. Medical imaging shows new blood vessel networks have formed, connecting transplanted skin with the ...

(CBS/AP) "Daddy, you're so handsome." That's what America's newest face transplant recipient, Dallas Wiens, said his young daughter told him when she saw him after his operation. Sporting a goatee and ...

Dallas Wiens, the nation’s first full face transplant recipient, sported a goatee and dark glasses in his first public appearance Monday since the 15-hour procedure in March that he said changed his ...

(CBS/AP) Dallas C. Wiens wants to be able to smile, to smell the rain, to feel his 3-year-old daughter's kisses. "I do miss my sight," said Wiens, "But I miss the sensation of my face and my sense of ...

Dallas Wiens (left, in 2008) had been featureless from reconstructive surgeries prior to his full-face transplant. Dallas Wiens (left, in 2008) had been featureless from reconstructive surgeries prior ...

(CBS News) In the year since Dallas Wiens became the first American to undergo a full face transplant, he's made much progress along the way with a return of some sensation and movement. Now he has ...

The nation's first full face transplant recipient, sporting a goatee and dark sunglasses, joined surgeons Monday at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston in his first public appearance since the ...

(CBS/AP) BOSTON - Dallas Wiens, a Texas construction worker horribly disfigured in a power plant accident two years ago, can finally face his future. After 15 hours of surgery at Brigham and Women's ...

A burn accident left Dallas Wiens a man without a face – literally. Now the 24-year-old Texas man wants to be a candidate for a face transplant, a procedure so rare that only a handful have been done ...