Transplant patient feels new face

Associated Press
Monday, May 1, 2006; Posted: 12:49 p.m. EDT (16:49 GMT)

PARIS, France (AP) -- The French woman who received the world's first partial face transplant has complete feeling in the new tissue five months after the operation, she told a Sunday newspaper.

"The scars have considerably healed. The doctors are confident. In addition, I have recovered total feeling," Isabelle Dinoire told the newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche.

... During the 15 hours of surgery, a team of doctors replaced a gaping hole from a dog mauling with a partial face that included a new nose, mouth and chin.

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