New face brings smile, Spain hospital says
Posted: August 23, 2009 at 5:24 a.m.
Spain's first face transplant patient - the first anywhere to get a new tongue and jaw - has been so pleased by his new appearance that he smiled, hospital officials said Saturday.
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