Recipient of Face Transplant Doing Well

picture from the NEJM

The woman who received the world’s first partial face transplant has regained nearly full use of her facial muscles eighteen months after surgery. The update on the woman was published in the December 13th issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.

Isabelle Dinoire was mauled by her Labrador retriever in 2005 after she overdosed on sleeping pills. Surgeons took the lips, chin, and nose from a 46-year-old brain-dead woman and grafted them onto Dinoire’s face. Her surgeon reports that Dinoire is “satisfied with the aesthetic result”.

See a video of Isabelle talking and smiling from the New England Journal of Medicine.
Read the story from the NYTimes.