Turkey's first face transplant patient utters first words
Turkey's first-ever face transplant patient, 19-year-old Uğur Acar, was removed from intensive care at the Akdeniz University Hospital on Wednesday and uttered his first words on Wednesday afternoon.
Doctors hailed the first US face transplant as a means for the severely disfigured to ``face the world'' without humiliation Wednesday announcing the successful replacement of 80 percent of a woman's face.