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the First face transplant in the world -> France - Patient : Isabelle Dinoire

Isabelle dinoire born in 1967 in France a divorced mother with two daughters. Lucie, 17, and Laure, 13, 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 .

"I now have a face like everyone else" Isabelle dinoire told reporters Monday at the hospital in Amiens in northern France "A door to the future is opening." The donated face has given her a straight and narrow nose, a neater chin and a fuller mouth. Dinoire appeared in a press conference on February 6, 2006, which showed that she has partial control over the transplanted muscles, although she appears unable to close her mouth fully , "I pay homage to the donor's family. ... My operation could help others to live again." Dinoire said she was passed out when the dog bit her and that she didn't realize the extent of her injuries when she awoke. "I tried to light a cigarette, and I didn't understand why I couldn't hold it between my lips," she said. "I looked in the mirror. I was horrified.",

For sure this surgery did help people to realize there is hope to others who had the same condition as this brave woman, Isabelle dinoire was the first woman to start this kind of surgeries “ face Transplant “ in the history and she will always be as the hero for all who is affected and got the surgery done, because of her, others got out of the shadow and try to have their face done .

NEW the second face transplant in the world -> China - Patient: Li Guoxing

China's first facial transplant patient to receive final operation in Xijing Hospital, Guo Shuzhong, director of the hospital's plastic surgery said that Mr Li Guoxing, a 30-year old patient, will receive surgery on Wednesday morning to make his right eye and lips appear more natural after he was disfigured in in 2004 after an attack by a bear.
likely the next face transplant patient will be Fang Changli, a 23-year old rural woman, whose face and ears were disfigured after an attack by a pig.

NEW First Face Transplant Performed in the U.S.

Cleveland Clinic surgeons have performed the nation’s first near total face transplant, officials said on Tuesday. The patient is a woman who was not identified.

The Cleveland surgical team, led by Dr. Maria Siemionow, said it had replaced about 80 percent of the patient’s face with that of a dead woman in the last two weeks. The doctors offered no details on the patient, but said they would discuss her surgery at a news conference on Wednesday.

Recent improvements in managing the care of transplant surgical patients, including the use of better anti-rejection drugs, have allowed doctors to forge into new areas of tissue transplants, including the hands and face.

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She can eat pizza. And hamburgers. She can smell perfume, drink coffee from a cup, and purse her lips as if to blow a kiss. Except that one lip is hers, and the other is from a dead woman. She is the nation's first face transplant patient, and on Thursday night, she went home from a Cleveland hospital. "I'm happy about myself," she told her doctors.

"She accepted her new face," said Dr. Maria Siemionow, the Cleveland Clinic reconstructive surgeon who led the historic operation in early December.

The woman's identity has not been revealed, and hospital officials won't say where she went. She and her family have declined requests for an interview.

She suffered a traumatic injury several years ago, the details of which doctors also won't reveal. But it left the woman with no nose, palate, or way to eat or breathe normally. In a 22-hour procedure, 80 percent of her face was replaced with bone, muscles, nerves, skin and blood vessels from another woman who had just died.

It was the fourth partial face transplant in the world, though the others were not as extensive.

The patient's recovery has been astonishing, Siemionow said. She shows no signs of rejecting her new face, is doing well on standard immune-suppressing drugs, and can breathe normally instead of through a hole in her windpipe.

You can find more information about the team and more pictures click here

NEW the third face transplant in the world -> France - Patient : Not yet announced

Tuesday, in France, doctor had performed the world’s third partial face transplant on the 29-year-old man whose face was disfigured by severe tumors, giving him a new nose, mouth and chin and replacing part of his cheeks. The operation took 15 hours to remove removed most of the tumors from the patient's face he suffered from a genetic condition known as neurofibromatosis, which causes tumors to grow on nerve tissue throughout the body, he had undergone some 30 to 40 operations over 10 years to try to improve his face’s appearance.
"The patient is doing well from a surgical point of view," chief surgeon Dr. Laurent Lantieri said at a news conference in Paris. ”We will have to wait many months for the results” the Dr added. the operation was carried at Henri-Mondor hospital in the Paris suburb of Creteil. The patient remained sedated Tuesday, and still had not seen a picture of himself. The doctor did not release any information about the patient or the donor, seeking to protect their privacy

NEW About Coming face transplant in UK

There is a new surgery but this time is a full face transplant , it will happened in UK maybe soon , the British surgeon already got the green light for it , this news was delivered by the spokesman for the Royal free Hospital in London today.
The team of the UK face transplant will be headed by peter bulter as he said “We have been given permission to go ahead with a series of four transplants”, a statistics was given by Face Trust More then 400,000 men, women and children in Britain have a facial disfigurement and 250,000 are severely disfigured

The Cleveland Clinic in Ohio is also working on plans for full-face transplants.

First face transplant operation in Spain

Spanish doctors are preparing to perform the country's first face transplant operation, one of the first in the world, media reported Wednesday.

Doctor Pedro Cavadas said he had two young candidates for the operation, one of whom has been disfigured by burns and the other by a disease.

The transplant would only cover the lower half of the face below the eyes. The medical team in the eastern city of Valencia was waiting for a suitable donor to appear.

The National Transplant Organization has given the green light to the operation. It still needs the approval of regional health authorities, which was regarded as a mere formality.

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