| Woman with first Partial face transplant has full feeling |
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A resident of Valenciennes, Northern France who received the world’s first partial face transplant five months ago, says she has complete feeling in the new tissue.
Isabelle Dinoire, 38, told the Le Journal du Dimanche newspaper, "The scars have considerably healed. The doctors are confident. I have recovered total feeling."
The French woman was under the influence of sleeping pills when she was horribly mauled by her pet Labrador in May 2005.
Some reports claimed that her daughter has said the dog was trying to wake Dinoire after she took sleeping pills in a suicide attempt, however, the hospital has denied this.
Dinoire is divorced and has two teenage daughters, Lucie, 17, and Laure, 13.
The world’s first partial face transplant on a living human was carried out on Dinoire on November 27, 2005 by a team of surgeons led by Professor Jean- Michel Dubernard-the surgeon who performed the first successful hand transplant in 1998 and Professor Bernard Devauchelle in Amiens, France.
Dinoire, who last spoke openly on February 6, 2006, at a news conference with medical personnel in the northern town of Amiens, admitted that "after a very upsetting week, with many personal problems, I took some pills to forget ... I fainted and fell on the ground, hitting a piece of furniture."
A triangle of face tissue including a brain-dead human’s nose, chin and mouth was grafted onto the patient. A team of doctors replaced the gaping hole in her face with a partial face in a 15-hour operation.
About her donor, Maryline St. Aubert 46, who had committed suicide by hanging, she said, "Each day that passes, I think, above all, of the donor and her family whom I cannot thank enough, we must not forget that today, thanks to them, I have become visible again."
Dinoire said prior to the operation she could barely eat or speak but after the operation, she can do both she also included that her speaking has improved. The lipless gums and teeth, which were permanently exposed before the transplant, are now no more to be much exposed. And the nose which was almost missing is now well grafted. The difficulty now remains only with pronouncing sounds that use the lips.
The appearance of her face is totally changed now. Her original face had a wide, tilted nose, a prominent chin and thin lips. The donated face has given her a straight and narrow nose, a neater chin and a fuller mouth.
But for the entire recovery, seemingly, Dinoire has to travel too long as each week she visits the Amiens hospital for a battery of tests, re-education sessions and visits to a psychologist. Not over here, each Month she must visit to a hospital in Lyon, in southeast France, where she is given more tests and her treatment is adjusted - now down from 20 pills a day to 10.
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