Face transplant patient reveals his feeling one year after | before and after images

Wiens bafore and after the face transplant

One year after having a full face transplant, Dallas Wiens reveals how he cried when he was able to feel his 4-year-old daughters kiss him on the cheek.

Speaking at a press conference at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Mr Wiens said he has more facial mobility than he ever expected a year on from receiving the first full face transplant in the United States.

Wiens speaks out 

In 2008 Wiens was severely injured when he was painting a church. Most of his face was burned off and he was blinded when his head touched a power line.

Asked by a reporter about how the transplant had affected his relationship with his young daughter, Mr Wiens revealed his tears of joy at feeling her kiss him on the cheek.

"I know that the first time that she kissed me on the lower part of my cheek, which is one of the first places that came back, with full sensation or mostly full sensation and I felt it, I stilled myself until she walked back into the kitchen where she was. She just ran in to give me a kiss. As soon as she did I broke into tears. Tears of joy obviously at just how amazing that was after so long of not being able to feel her," he said.

The transplant team said Mr Wiens' recovery is progressing remarkably well and they expect him to improve. He is continuing rehabilitation therapy in Texas, where he lives with his daughter.

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"With God, all things are possible" what a tragic touching story.