He appeared before the media at the Virgen del Rocio hospital in Seville, southern Spain, where he underwent surgery for 30 hours on 26 and 27. He had left the hospital and said he could feel pain, heat and cold on his face - and even started shaving.
Rafael still has difficulty speaking clearly, because he can not control over his tongue for three bulan.Wajahnya is still inflamed. He told reporters that he is a fan of Real Betis Seville football team and look forward to their return to the stadium to watch the game.
Rafael appeared at a press conference with his mother and sister Juana Belen, who held her hand.
He asked for privacy to be respected, said: ". Please, after the press conference I want you to leave me, family and my friends in peace" the doctor said face transplant donor network is lower than two-thirds of his face.
Discard the first part of the transplant facial tissue, blood vessels and nerve endings from the donor.
The second part puts a face on pasien.Rafael spent five weeks in intensive care and another week in the burns unit before being transferred to a regular hospital bed 15 Maret.Tim plastic surgeons spend a year to practice surgery on the body and 3D computer simulator.
He added that Rafael "was able to swallow normally" and within three months he will have normal mobility in the face.
Dr Gonzalez Padilla said the patient "admitted his own" when she first saw herself in the mirror after the surgery, and added: "He does not see himself as a monster, in fact she thinks she looks younger."
Rafael had suffered from congenital neurofibromatosis, type 1, previously known as von Recklinghausen, a genetic problem that causes abnormal cell growth, from birth. He had a benign tumor on the two-thirds of his face.
Dr Rafael Gomez Cia said to "no alternative except for the reconstruction of the donor tissue transplants other patients who have died". Since Rafael surgery, the surgeon in Barcelona have done the first full face transplant in the world.
A farmer whose face was deformed in a shooting accident five years ago, underwent surgery in the town of Vall d'Hebron Hospital.