Partial face transplant patient speaks about her experience

Tuesday, February 7, 2006

AMIENS, France -- She spoke resolutely and with pride about her newly transplanted features, although she struggled to pronounce her b's and p's. She drank from a plastic cup -- showing that the mouth that once belonged to someone else works just fine.

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