Dr. Eduardo D. Rodriguez, a plastic surgeon at the Langone Medical Center in New York University, performed the operation that has been credited as the world's most extensive face transplant to date.

According to the Washington Post, Rodriguez and a team of more than 100 doctors, nurses and technical assistants were able to give Patrick Hardison a new face from a 26- year-old organ donor, after the patient suffer from extreme burns in a 2001 fire.

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