Watch | US firefighter gets world’s most extensive face transplant

A volunteer firefighter badly burned in a 2001 blaze will finally regain normal vision - after receiving what appears to be the most extensive face transplant ever. The surgery covered virtually his entire head and much of his neck. The patient is 41-year-old Patrick Hardison, who is still undergoing physical therapy at the hospital but plans to return home to Senatobia, Mississippi, in time for Thanksgiving. Hardison was injured Sept. 5, 2001, in Sanitobia. A 27-year-old father of three at the time who'd served for seven years as a volunteer firefighter, he entered a burning house to search for a woman. The roof collapsed on him, giving him third-degree burns on his head, neck and upper torso. Hardison went through a series of transplants before a 26-year-old competitive bicyclist David P. Rodebaug, who was lying brain dead in a Brooklyn hospital, became the perfect donor. The procedure left no scars on Hardison's new face. The face and scalp had been removed with an incision down the back of Rodebaugh's skull, which was sewn shut on Hardison.