Plastic surgeon Dr. Bohdan Pomahac, far right, refers to a graphic during a news conference at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston regarding the first face transplant in the U.S., which was performed by his team. The recipient, Dallas Wiens, was disfigured in a power line accident.

First published in the March 22, 2011, 7:48 p.m. edition

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