News -02-06-06 Face Transplant Recipient Appears (MSNBC News) "The Frenchwoman who received the world’s first partial face transplant showed off her new features to the public Monday, saying in a heavily slurred voice that she now looks 'like everyone else' and hopes to resume a normal life." Includes several photos. 02-06 Papers Face Transplant Recipient Thankful (MSNBC News) "Five years ago, a shotgun blast left a ghastly hole where the middle of her face had been. Five months ago, she received a new face from a dead woman." 05-09 Face Transplants Considered (CBS News) "This is no extreme TV makeover. It is a medical frontier being explored by a doctor who wants the public to understand what she is trying to do." "It is this: to give people horribly disfigured by burns, accidents or other tragedies a chance at a new life. Today's best treatments still leave many of them with freakish, scar-tissue masks that don't look or move like natural skin." "These people already have lost the sense of identity that is linked to the face; the transplant is merely 'taking a skin envelope' and slipping their identity inside, Siemionow contends." 9-05 French Doctors Transplant a Face (CBS News) "French doctors on Wednesday claimed a world-first partial face transplant, saying a nose, lips and chin were grafted onto a 38-year-old woman disfigured by a dog bite. " 11-05 Second U.S. Face Transplant Recipient Thankful (U.S. News) " Just months after his miracle face transplant , Maki, America's second person to undergo the procedure, is settling down and beginning to feel his smile again." 05-09

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