James Maki

James Maki Just weeks after Connie Culp showed the world the results of her technologically ground-breaking face transplant, James Maki has done the same. Maki, 59, is just the second person in the United States to receive a face tranplant. In 2005, Maki fell onto a rail at a Boston subway stop, horrifically burning his face. He lost his nose, upper lip, cheeks, lower eyelid, top of his mouth and underlying muscles bones and nerves. Maki is still healing from the surgery, with more procedures to come. "They’re going to look at me as a new person," Maki said at his first public appearance ... Read Full Story

Pictures of US face transplant patient James Maki James Maki before his face transplant surgery James Maki before surgery James Maki at a press conference Thursday, May 21 James Maki after the surgery Joseph Helfgot , the man who donated his face to Maki after dying from complications due to a heart transplant Susan Whitman-Helfgot (Joseph's widow) at the press conference May 21 Read Full Story