Iraq Veteran Gets Beard Transplant After Burn Wounds

'I want to look normal': Army vet whose facial hair was burned off by a roadside bomb gets a beard for the first time in 10 years after transplant
Joseph Jones lost his facial follicles in 2004 when he was injured in by roadside bomb in Iraq
Jones had his procedure covered by the little known Faces of Honor program for vets from the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
More than 3,000 follicles were transplanted to Jones' face over the eight-hour procedure
Process will restore Jones' eyebrows and beard
Daily Mail
By MAIL ONLINE REPORTER
2 September 2014

Dr. Jeffrey Epstein marks Army vet Joseph Jones on the areas he plans to transplant new hair follicles where Jones was injured in combat

For the first time in more than a decade, Army veteran Joseph Jones was able to recognize bits of his old face in the mirror following a eight-hour procedure to repair damage to his face sustained by a roadside bomb.

Over the course of the surgery, performed in South Miami, roughly 3,000 follicles were transplanted from to Jones' face, returning the beard and eyebrows he had before the explosion that burned them away while serving in the Iraq war.

Jones was the beneficiary of Faces of Honor program, an initiative from the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery to help Iraq and Afghanistan veterans.
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