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Isabelle Dinoire (3 February 1967 – 22 April 2016) was a French woman who was the first person to undergo a partial face transplant, after her pet dog severely injured her face while she was passed out from an overdose of sleeping pills in May 2005.
The first face transplant in history was carried out in France in 2005 on a 46-year-old woman who had severe facial injuries from a dog bite. Isabelle Dinoire died of cancer at age 49 in 2016.
Isabelle Dinoire, the first person in the world to undergo a face transplant, died at the age of 49 in Amiens, France, of complications following her groundbreaking surgery. In May 2005, Dinoire ...
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A face transplant is a medical procedure to replace all or part of a person's face using tissue from a donor. Part of a field called "Vascularized Composite Tissue Allotransplantation" (VCA) it involves the transplantation of facial skin, the nasal structure, the nose, the lips, the muscles of facial movement used for expression, the nerves that provide sensation, and, potentially, the bones ...
First partial human face transplant: Jean-Michel Dubernard and Bernard Devauchelle: Isabelle Dinoire: Dinoire's body rejected the transplant in 2015 and she lost part of the use of her lips. The daily immunosuppressive drugs she was required to take left her vulnerable to cancer which later claimed her life. November 27, 2005 10 years [9] [10]
In 2005, Isabelle Dinoire received the world’s first face transplant after losing her nose, chin, and lips to an attack by a dog, reports The Guardian.
On 26 November 2005, Benoît Lengelé performed, with Bernard Dechauvelle and Sylvie Testelin in Amiens, the first partial face allograft to repair the mutilated face of Isabelle Dinoire, a young woman severely bitten by her dog.