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Here's the donor face and the original face transplant marking on Richard Norris, a man who lost his entire mid-face and got disfigured after a shotgun accident blew off half his face in 1997!! He doesn't remember how or why it happened, but his mom, who was three feet away, said it was an accident. She remembers pieces of Richard's face showering her body. This was in the living room. The gunshot had blown off his nose, cheekbones, lips, tongue, teeth, jaw, and chin, leaving just his wide brown eyes and a swirl of nameless twisted flesh. For years, Norris lived hiding behind a mask and only coming out at night time. He can now feel his face and is able to brush his teeth and shave. He's also regained his sense of smell, which he had lost after the accident.When he shot himself in the face, he lost his nose, lips and most movement in his mouth. He has had multiple life-saving, reconstructive surgeries which also replaced underlying nerve and muscle tissue from scalp to neck. Motor function is now almost fully regained after he received a new face from an anonymous donor whose organs saved five other patients' lives on the same day. The face of the recently deceased 21-year-old man came off as one solid flap, skin, muscle, bone, nerves, blood vessels, tongue- everything as one piece. The leading reconstructive facial surgeon removed what was left of Richard's disfigured face, dissected down to the skull. He attached the new face midway back on his scalp. He stabilized it with screws, tapped the jaw together, and finally draped the skin and sewed it down like a patch on a coat or pair of jeans. Before, people used to stare at Richard because he wore a mask and they wanted to see the deformity Now, they have another reason to stare at him
