Nation’s first face transplant done in Cleveland

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Reconstructive surgeon Dr. Maria Siemionow adjusts her sterile bonnet as she heads into a micro-surgical procedure at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio in this 2005 file photo. The Cleveland Clinic has done the nation’s first almost total face transplant, a hospital spokeswoman said Tuesday. Dr. Maria Siemionow replaced 80 percent of a woman’s face with that of a dead female donor. The hospital spokeswoman said that the operation was done a couple weeks ago.