Isabelle Dinoire received the world's first partial face transplant in 2005 in France. Dinoire was disfigured when her dog chewed her face after she had passed out from a sleeping pills overdose. A Chinese farmer received a transplant in 2006 after being mauled by a bear. A 29-year-old man severely disfigured by a rare genetic disease received a transplant at a hospital near Paris in 2007. The patient had tumors that gave him monstrous features.
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