face transplant

The Frenchwoman who underwent the world’s first face transplant has said she is still struggling to come to terms with her looks.Isabelle Dinoire admitted that three years on from the medical breakthrough, she remained uncertain as to whose face she looked at in the mirror every day.
Referring to the dead donor, Miss Dinoire, a 41-year-old divorced mother of two from northern France, said: “It’s not hers, it’s not mine, it’s somebody else’s.
“Before the operation, I expected my new face would look like me but it turned out after the operation that it was half me and half her.”
She said she had not yet worked out her new identity, adding: “It takes an awful lot of time to get used to someone else’s face. It’s a peculiar type of transplant.”

Miss Dinoire, from Valenciennes, northern France, was given a new nose, mouth and chin at the nearby Amiens Hospital in November 2005.
She was rushed to hospital after her pet dog apparently ripped off the vital features.
Miss Dinoire herself had no memory of what happened. After taking sleeping pills, all she could remember was waking up with blood on the ground.
When she tried to light up a cigarette, she realised her facial features were missing.

this is her face before transplant

and this is her after transplant.