Face Transplant

A Young Woman’s Road to Recovery

Transplant Evolves With Hologram Technology

Face Transplant: Rebuilding Lives

The Long Road to the Transplant — and the Path Ahead

How Augmented Reality Shaped the Transplant

The Transplant’s Biggest Moment

Inside the OR: Tapping the ‘Collective Genius’ of the Team

the transplant: step by step

Exact replicas of the donor’s and Katie’s heads from a 3D-printer allowed surgeons to match their anatomy.

Experts from 15 specialties, including 11 surgeons, labored for 31 hours in two ORs.

Francis Papay, MD, led the total face transplant surgery team, along with Brian Gastman, MD.

Katie, midway through her pre-transplant reconstructions (left) and one year after transplant (right).

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Interactive hologram images guided surgeons’ steps throughout Katie’s total face transplant.

Exact replicas of the donor’s and Katie’s heads from a 3D-printer allowed surgeons to match their anatomy.

Experts from 15 specialties, including 11 surgeons, labored for 31 hours in two ORs.

Francis Papay, MD, led the total face transplant surgery team, along with Brian Gastman, MD.

Katie, midway through her pre-transplant reconstructions (left) and one year after transplant (right).

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Reconstructing Katie's new face

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the transplant: in video