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Vice President of Medical Affairs and Dean E. Albert Reece speaks during a news conference at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore March 27, 2012. The University of Maryland announced on Tuesday that a full face transplant, including both jaws and tongue, was completed on a 37-year-old male patient, Richard Norris. The 36-hour operative procedure took place at the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center at the University of Maryland Medical Center and involved a multi-disciplinary team of faculty physicians from the University of Maryland School of Medicine. REUTERS/Patrick Smith