article_snippet.sent: A Spanish hospital claims A Spanish hospital has performed the 'world's most complex' face transplant, allowing a man terribly disfigured by a disease to lead a normal life.
article_snippet.sent: Doctors said the 27-hour procedure – to reconstruct a man's 's entire lower face and neck – is the most difficult surgery the man's entire lower face and neck – have carried out to date.
article_snippet.sent: The 45-year-old man, who did not want to be identified, underwent the 'world's most complex' face transplant to reconstruct his neck, mouth, tongue and throat.
article_snippet.sent: Unlike similar operations, where a patient has had features of The patient, a 45-year-old man face replaced, or rebuilt, the latest procedure was much more invasive.
article_snippet.sent: As a result, most of a man's 's face lower face was been reconstructed, including a man's  neck, mouth, tongue and the back of a man's  throat.
article_snippet.sent: And all the skin and muscles of a man's  face, nose, lips, jaw, all teeth, palate and cheek bones were transplanted by using plastic surgery techniques and  microsurgery.
article_snippet.sent: In 2010 the same hospital carried out the world's first full face transplant on a man who suffered an accident leaving a man's  without a nose and with a deformed jaw and cheekbones.
article_snippet.sent: The first ever partial facial transplant was carried out by doctors in France in 2005, on a woman who had been mauled by her dog.
highlights_snippet.sent: Reconstructed a man's lower face and neck in a 27-hour-long operation .
  