The face of the Fire is completely melted and the doctor made him a new from scratch

Former member of the volunteer fire brigade of 41-year-old Pat Hardison (Pat Hardison) went through the most extensive face transplant in history. In 2001, Hardison's face was badly burned during one of the fires. The man's face was so badly disfigured that he feared his own children. The donor face 26-year-old became Extreme Roudbah David (David Rodebaugh) died in an accident while riding a bike.

Photo by Pat Hardison made two years before the unfortunate fire that left him with a disfigured face





Pat with your children before the tragedy





As a result, the largest 26-hour transplant surgery face former fireman was transplanted oval face of another person as a whole, including the nose, ears, lips and eyelids





Pat went into a burning building with three other firefighters in the city Senatobiya, when suddenly above him collapsed ceiling. The mask on his face began to melt, and snorkel melted along with it. He took off his mask, closed his eyes and held his breath, according to doctors is what helped him to preserve vision and prevent damage to the throat and lungs

By the time Pat taken out of the burning house, his face had time to melt like a plastic mask. In case of fire, he lost his ears, lips and most of the nose, and almost the entire eyelid skin





The man was hospitalized for 63 days, for which the doctors were able to create some semblance of face using skin from his thigh





Pat returned home to find his three children were terrified by the appearance of his father

Operation with the participation of 150 doctors was held at the medical center at New York University. In fact it was a double parallel operation, as long as a person Pat is prepared for transplant, doctors at a nearby table with his face removed the donor





After the tragedy, he was declared bankrupt and lost his home. This happened not because poluchnennyh injuries, but because of the painkillers to which addicted Pat, and because of which lost a new job in a tire shop

26-year-old David Roudbah, who died in an accident, and became a donor face to Pat





David's mother was not against the transplant, he said: "He always wanted to be a fireman»

An experienced biker-extremals was pronounced dead early as August of this year, at the same time and had an operation to transplant a person, information on which doctors provide only now





The process of engraftment of the new entity





Since August 2014 Hardison was on the waiting list. He needed a donor who matched the color of his skin, hair color, blood type, and the skeletal structure

One person one piece literally threw in the face of a man. "Everything is perfectly situated", - said Eduardo Rodriguez, a plastic surgeon who led the operation





Before surgery face transplant Pat Hardison went through 71 surgery to repair face using skin grafts





Through centuries of the new faces, Pat first time in ten years, will be able to look at the world of normal vision





Pat Hardison posing for a magazine in the form of New York
Pat wants to help wounded veterans with the help of motivational speeches, and he has set an ambitious goal to regain driver's license