Isabelle Dinoire`s face transplant

Isabelle Dinoire, born 1967, was the first person to undergo a partial face trasplant, after her Labrador dog mauled her in May 2005. Prior to the operation, she could barely eat or speak, but after the operation, she can do both.Since then she has learnt to eat again, to speak properly, and to pull a range of expressions which make her feel “completely normal”.But kissing still remains beyond her, with a doctor telling her: “If we do the operation like that, I guarantee that you will be able to eat.“But the one thing which no-one is sure of is that if one day you will be able to kiss.”

Isabelle is the first woman in the history to receive first partial face transplant, the operation made on November 27 2005, a team of sergeants leaded by by Professor Jean-Michel Dubernard and Professor Bernard Devauchelle , The operation took place over the weekend in Amiens, France , A triangle of face tissue including a brain-dead human's nose and mouth was grafted onto Isabelle dinoire