Tearful wife feels her dead husband's face after transplant
Lilly Ross feels the beard of face transplant recipient Andy Sandness during their meeting at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota. Picture: AP
Kyle Potter
A woman who donated her husband's face to a stranger burst into tears when she finally met him for the first time - 16 months after the successful transplant.
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