22-Year-Old Attempted-Suicide Survivor Is Youngest Person to Receive Face Transplant

But Katie has done better than the doctors had expected.

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Only 11 months after the surgery, Katie had regained a good portion of facial movement, including her ability to smile. According to her primary surgeon, Dr. Brian Gastman, that kind of progress had taken nearly two years with other transplant patients.

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