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Isabelle Dinoire

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Partial face transplant recipient (1967-2016)

FranceLived 1967 to 2016 · aged 49
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Isabelle Dinoire was a French woman who was the first person to undergo a partial face transplant, after her pet dog severely injured her face while she was passed out from an overdose of sleeping pills in May 2005.

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Isabelle Dinoire was a French woman who was the first person to undergo a partial face transplant, after her pet dog severely injured her face while she was passed out from an overdose of sleeping pills in May 2005. She underwent a 15-hour operation in November 2005 in which surgeons transplanted the nose, lips and chin from a brain-dead donor at a hospital in Amiens. She died at age 49 in April 2016, though her death was not announced until more than four months later.

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France
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Lived 1967 to 2016 · aged 49
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