Face transplant patient appearing in public

The French woman who received a new nose, chin and mouth in a groundbreaking transplant operation has taken strolls in public without drawing stares, her surgeon said in an interview published today.

The world’s first partial face transplant patient, Isabelle, is doing well and is focused on the future – the prospect of returning home from the hospital and restarting normal life, Dr. Bernard Devauchelle told Le Courier Picard, a regional newspaper in northern France.