World's First Partial Face Transplant
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Stumble This"Isabelle Dinoire, born 1967, was the first person to undergo a partial face transplant, after her Labrador dog mauled her in May 2005. Prior to the operation, she could barely eat or speak, but after the operation, she can do both...
Regarding the mutilation:
...The family is sure that the dog, which has since been put down, mutilated Isabelle by accident. They believe that the damage was caused when the dog, finding she wouldn't wake up, got more and more frantic, and began scratching and clawing her." [wikip.]
Regarding the mutilation:
...The family is sure that the dog, which has since been put down, mutilated Isabelle by accident. They believe that the damage was caused when the dog, finding she wouldn't wake up, got more and more frantic, and began scratching and clawing her." [wikip.]
>> ^schmawy:
Yeah, I can hear it now. "You look familiar".
When this surgery took place I remember them saying that the the new face wouldn't look exactly like the donor's, mainly because the recipient's facial bone structure would change the shape of the donor tissue.
The scene where they unclamp the large artery and the skin turns from flacid, dead looking discolored flesh into rosy, vital tissue is truly remarkable. I've done some plumbing, and the satisfaction I feel when I turn the water back on and don't have any drips is great, I can't imagine the satisfaction of the surgeons upon completing this procedure.
"I've done some plumbing, and the satisfaction I feel when I turn the water back on and don't have any drips is great, I can't imagine the satisfaction of the surgeons upon completing this procedure."
Schamwy, I've done some plumbing too. I'm still waiting for that sense of satisfaction. Calling the plumber afterwards is not doing it for me.
The scene where they unclamp the large artery and the skin turns from flacid, dead looking discolored flesh into rosy, vital tissue is truly remarkable. I've done some plumbing, and the satisfaction I feel when I turn the water back on and don't have any drips is great, I can't imagine the satisfaction of the surgeons upon completing this procedure.
I'm sure after 15 hours of surgery the sentiment was: "She's lucky that worked cause I was not about to redo that"
Oh, and I'm fairly sure the donor wasn't using it anymore.