Ugur Acar, Turkey's first face transplant patient, saw himself on the mirror for the first time since his surgery.***
ANTALYA
On January 21, Prof. Dr. Omer Ozkan, surgeon at Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery Department at Akdeniz University Hospital in southern Antalya province, and his team performed the face transplant on 19 year-old Ugur Acar whose face was almost completely seared by a burning blanket when he was only 40 days old.