BOSTON — One of the things Dallas Wiens has missed most is kissing his 3-year-old daughter, Scarlette.

The 25-year-old Texas man suffered horrific burns in a 2008 electrical accident that obliterated his lips and most of his other features, but last week he received the nation’s first full face transplant — a feat performed at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and announced Monday.

A Brigham team of more than 30 specialists worked for about 15 hours to replace Wiens’s lips, nose, facial skin, the muscles that animate his face, and the nerves that power them and provide sensation.

“Dallas is looking forward to giving his daughter a kiss again,” said Dr. Bohdan Pomahac, director of the Brigham’s burn unit and the surgeon who led the transplant team,