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

Eventually, she wound up at Cleveland Clinic.

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With the skin grafts used to close the open wounds on Katie’s face failing, the need to find a more permanent solution led her family to Cleveland Clinic, a world leader in intracranial trauma. The doctors there were the first to bring up the idea of a face transplant.