Cleveland Clinic does its 2nd face transplant

The Cleveland Clinic has performed its second face transplant. In an operation in late September, surgeons replaced nearly the entire face of a middle-aged man severely disfigured in a car accident.

The hospital says the recipient wants to remain anonymous. Doctors transplanted about two-thirds of the scalp, the forehead, upper and lower eyelids, eye sockets, nose, upper cheeks, upper jaw, upper teeth, salivary glands and nerves, muscles and skin.

In a statement released by the hospital Tuesday, the recipient says he is "grateful beyond words to the donor and his family for their amazing gift."

The Ohio hospital did the nation's first face transplant, in December 2008.