“I have now a face like everyone else,” declared Isabelle Dinoire, confronting the world’s press on Monday after becoming the world’s first face transplant recipient last November.
Although she now looks remarkably normal, her face is very different to everyone else’s. A triangular flap of tissue containing her nose, lips and chin once belonged to a woman from Lille, who died shortly before the operation took place and donated the tissue.
The surgeons who performed the transplant say Dinoire is doing well. “She is normal, except for maybe a little insensitivity [on her face],” Bernard Devauchelle told reporters at the…
