Face Transplant Recipient Shows Her Face | CONNIE CULP | ABC News

The recipient of the first face transplant done in the United States has stepped forward to reveal the results of her surgery.

Connie Culp, a 46-year-old Ohio woman, lost a large part of her face in 2004 when her husband shot her in the face, then turned the gun on himself. He went to prison for seven years. According to the Associated Press, the gunshot destroyed Culp's nose, cheeks, the roof of her mouth and one eye and left hundreds of bone fragments and shotgun pellets lodged in her face. Only her upper eyelids, forehead, lower lip and chin remained. Culp could not breathe without the aid of a tube inserted into her windpipe.

But now a 22-hour face transplant operation -- conducted Dec. 10 and led by Dr. Maria Siemionow of the Cleveland Clinic -- may have given Culp a new lease on life.

Her expressions are still a bit wooden, and her face has a bulky, squarish look. But doctors say subsequent operations -- performed once her circulation and nerves begin to grow -- should improve her appearance further. [HEALTHDAY NEWS] MAY 6 2009

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[Terrywarrior]

she is a real warrior .......real damn warrior

[LadyAngelaGray]

She is brave for sure. But it's so sad that we live in such a superficial culture that a person can't be ugly and be OK with it because advertising and Hollywood has people believing that image is everything. Even over intellectualism.

[MethshockFilms]

DERP!

[undeadgirl18]

This made me tear up

[Lollocide]

@BigBend2012

It is an organ and the method of rejection is pretty much the same as organ rejection, the body identifies the new tissues as 'not us' and starts attacking it like it was any other invader.

[LinkShack]

Skin is an organ, and like an organ it can cut off blood to it and she will loose the skin. Amazing how medical science has got so far.

[BigBend2012]

someone should rip her piece of crap husbands face, slowly with a knife and slowly cut off EVERYTHING til HE TOO has nothing left. what a shame, and more power to her!!!

how would the surgery reject her face? like the tissues,? is it like a organ transplant where it may reject the recipient

[aradioactivedonut]

@TheJMG98 Hell? oh no!

[TheJMG98]

@aradioactivedonut your an asshole rot in hell i thumbs up so people could see how stupid you are and spam your youtube fuck face,

[emilyhunt1798]

@EmosShouldAllDieLOL Go fuck yourself. I bet she's better looking than you.

[joshuadiesel]

@EmosShouldAllDieLOL

the one who gave birth to you better off dead haveing a child like you

[EmosShouldAllDieLOL]

Ugh...ugly bitch wouldve been better off dead