Face Transplant

[OneFinger]

I followed with awe the news of the first face transplant a few weeks ago. I can't believe the medical technology that is fastly evolving.

 

Here's a brief update and picture on the woman.

 

http://www.sundaytimes.news.com.au/common/imagedata/0,1658,5102413,00.jpg

 

She is house-hunting, planning a new career and her once-broken heart is filled with hope.

 

Isabelle Dinoire knows that rebuilding her life will be a slow process.

 

But, even though her scars are still livid, she can now look at the world with optimism.

 

Barely two months ago, the 38-year-old French divorcee received the world's first face transplant and this exclusive photograph reveals the full extent of her remarkable transformation.

 

Last May, she had a wide, tilted nose, a prominent chin and thin lips. Today, the donated face of suicide Maryline Saint-Aubert has given her a straight and narrow nose, a neater chin and a fuller mouth.

 

Despite the prominent surgical scars, Miss Dinoire and her doctors say they are delighted by the results...

 

http://www.sundaytimes.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,7034,17967407%5E950,00.html

 

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"We need to have more respect for each other. Things have just gone really crazy, out of control. ... We're on a very weird kind of cycle." Stevie Wonder

[Guest ReturnOfS]

ew.... I hope that her face looks much better after some more healing.

 

I wonder if she has any feeling in her face. Were they able to connect the nerve endings?

[+ deej]

I saw the "before" picture somewhere. She's definitely better off even if it stays this way.

 

It's amazing.

[trilingual]

As soon as they come up with a "whole body" transplant I may volunteer! There are quite a number of bodies I wouldn't mind living in! ;-) Having done short, ordinary and unathletic, I'd like to try tall, handsome, built and hung. . . }(

[Guest ReturnOfS]

>As soon as they come up with a "whole body" transplant I may

>volunteer! There are quite a number of bodies I wouldn't mind

>living in! ;-) Having done short, ordinary and unathletic,

>I'd like to try tall, handsome, built and hung. . . }(

 

Ok, now we're getting into scary sci-fi. Didn't Ewan McGregor recently do a movie where a doppleganger was grown solely to be spare parts for someone else? hmmmmmm.....

[OneFinger]

Here's some pictures I found of her before and right after the transplant. I believe the "before" picture is even before her mauling by the dog. Have not seen pictures after the mauling and before the transplant.

 

Before:

 

http://img.timeinc.net/people/i/2006/news/060206a/idinoire.jpg

 

Right after surgery:

 

http://img.timeinc.net/people/i/2006/news/060206a/idinoire2.jpg

 

Have also found articles on a woman from England that has petitioned to have a transplant. Here is her before picture.

 

Before accident:

 

http://health.discovery.com/centers/plasticsurgery/facetransplant/gallery/face9_v.jpg

 

Jacqueline "Jacqui" Saburido before being hit by a drunk driver that left her face permanently disfigured. The car in which Jacqui was riding caught on fire, causing third-degree burns to 60 percent of her body. The majority of people burned as badly as Jacqui die.

 

After surgery (she's now hoping for a transplant):

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/graphics/2005/12/20/nfacelift20.jpg

 

I'm still amazed at the advances of modern medicine.

 

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"We need to have more respect for each other. Things have just gone really crazy, out of control. ... We're on a very weird kind of cycle." Stevie Wonder

[+ deej]

The "before" is definitely before the dog mauling. I forget where I saw it, but it looked more like the woman who's waiting.

 

And yes, the miracles of modern medicine boggle the mind.