Editing Face transplant (section)

====France====
The world's first partial face transplant on a living human was carried out on 27 November 2005<ref name="titleBBC NEWS | Health | 'My face transplant saved me'">{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6058696.stm|title=My face transplant saved me|last=Austin|first=Naomi|date=17 October 2006|work=BBC News|access-date=25 November 2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4484728.stm|title=Woman has first face transplant|date=30 November 2005|access-date=10 May 2011|work=BBC News}}</ref> by [[Bernard Devauchelle]], an [[oral and maxillofacial surgeon]], Benoit Lengelé, a Belgian plastic surgeon, and [[Jean-Michel Dubernard]] in [[Amiens]], France.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Alberti|first=Fay Bound|date=2017-09-01|title=From Face/Off to the face race: the case of Isabelle Dinoire and the future of the face transplant|url=https://mh.bmj.com/content/43/3/148|journal=Medical Humanities|language=en|volume=43|issue=3|pages=148–154|doi=10.1136/medhum-2016-011113|issn=1468-215X|pmid=27941098|url-access=subscription}}</ref> [[Isabelle Dinoire]]<ref name="titleBBC NEWS | Health | 'My face transplant saved me'" /> underwent surgery to replace her original face, which had been mauled by her dog. A triangle of face tissue from a brain-dead woman's nose and mouth was grafted onto the patient. On 13 December 2007, the first detailed report of the progress of this transplant after 18 months was released in the ''[[New England Journal of Medicine]]'' and documents that the patient was happy with the results but also that the journey has been very difficult, especially with respect to her immune system's response.<ref>[http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/357/24/2451 Outcomes 18 Months after the First Human Partial Face Transplantation], ''[[New England Journal of Medicine]]'', 13 December 2007</ref><ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/12/AR2007121202012.html "Face-Transplant Patient 'Satisfied': Some Who Criticized Procedure Are Impressed With Results"], By Rick Weiss, ''[[The Washington Post]]'', Thursday, 13 December 2007; p. A22</ref> Dinoire died on 22 April 2016
at the age of 49 following cancer from medications.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/06/health/france-face-transplant-patient-dies/index.html|title = First face transplant patient, Isabelle Dinoire, dies at 49|website = [[CNN]]|date = 6 September 2016}}</ref>

A 29-year-old French man underwent surgery in 2007. He had a facial tumor called a [[neurofibroma]] caused by a genetic disorder. The tumor was so massive that the man could not eat or speak properly.{{citation needed|date=February 2019}}

In March 2008, the treatment of 30-year-old Pascal Coler of France, who has neurofibromatosis, ended after he received what his doctors call the world's first successful almost full face transplant.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=4511813&page=1|title=World's First Full Face Transplant Hailed|last=Watt|first=Nick|date=25 March 2008|publisher=abcnews.go.com|access-date=25 March 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/03/23/wface123.xml|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080325061807/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/03/23/wface123.xml|url-status=dead|archive-date=25 March 2008|title=Man has first full-face transplant|last=Franklin|first=Katie|date=25 March 2008|work=The Daily Telegraph|access-date=25 March 2008|location=UK}}</ref> The operation, which lasted approximately 20 hours, was designed and performed by Laurent Lantieri and his team (Jean-Paul Meningaud, Antonios Paraskevas and Fabio Ingallina).