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A French man became the first person to receive two face transplants.

In April 2018, Jérôme Hamon, 43, of France, became the first person in the world to receive two face transplants.  The man, who suffers from neurofibromatosis type 1, a genetic disorder that caused benign, disfiguring tumors to grow on his face, initially underwent a face transplant in 2010 but his body began to reject the new face in 2016. He lived two months without a face before French surgeons led by Laurent Lantieri, the same doctor who oversaw Hamon's first transplant, gave Hamon a new face.  The successful landmark surgery proved that re-transplantation is a possibility.