Transplant patient shows face

When her husband shot her five years ago, Connie Culp was left without a nose, a palate or lower eyelids, but on Tuesday she revealed her new face.

Culp’s was the world’s first near-total facial transplant and the fourth known facial transplant to have been successfully performed to date.

The 46-year-old mother of two underwent a procedure last December that lasted 22 hours at the Cleveland Clinic in the state of Ohio.

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