A 25-year-old Texas construction worker has undergone the first full face transplant done in the United States, media reports said Tuesday.

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Dallas Wiens, horribly disfigured in a power line accident, received a new nose, lips, skin, muscle and nerves from an unidentified dead person.

A team of more than 30 doctors, nurses and other staff worked for more than 15 hours to finish the operation last week at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.

Wiens was listed in good condition at the Boston hospital on Monday. He has been able to talk to his family on the phone, his grandfather, Del Peterson said Monday.

Wiens will not resemble "either what he used to be or the donor," but something in between, said plastic surgeon Dr. Bohdan Pomahac. "The tissues are really molded on a new person."

The transplant was not able to restore his sight, and some nerves were so badly damaged from his injury that he will probably have only partial sensation on his left cheek and left forehead, the surgeons said.

The Fort Worth man's features were all but burned away and was left blind after hitting a power line while painting a church in November 2008.

Wiens said last year that his faith and his daughter，Scarlette, who turns 4 next month have kept him motivated for the surgery, adding that he wanted to smile again and feel kisses from his daughter.

The world's first successful partial face transplant was performed in France in 2005, according to government health records. The first full face transplant was done in Spain in 2010. (Agencies)

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