ONE month after receiving a new face, Isabelle Dinoire is using her new lips to smoke a cigarette.
But rather than condemn her for renewing the habit, the French surgeons who performed the first ever partial face transplant, by giving Dinoire a flap of tissue containing the nose, lips and chin of a dead woman, are hailing the operation’s outstanding success.
At the Sixth International Symposium on Composite Tissue Allotransplantation in Tucson, Arizona, last week, her surgeons Jean-Michel Dubernard from Lyon and Bernard Devauchelle from Amiens described how they selected the tissue and connected the blood vessels (Â鶹´«Ã½,…
