Some of you may be familiar with Isabell Dinoire, a Frenchwoman from Amiens on the River Somme in Northern France. Just over a year ago, Isabell was mauled by her dog in a horrific attack and lost her nose, lips and chin. Surgeons operated on her shortly after and using borrowed skin from a brain-dead donor, grafted the missing pieces on to her.

The consensus was that while she wouldn’t look like her donor, she wouldn’t look like her original self either; she’d have a “hybrid” face. Initially there were questions about whether the skin tissues would be rejected by her body and whether she would ever be regain movement and normal feeling in her face.

I’ve been following the story since and one year on, it appears she is doing much better and while she still has some recurring issues with the tissue grafts, she has regained the ability to eat and smile normally. And she still smokes, what a trooper! I wish I was that harrrrrd. Face bitten off by a dog? Fuck it, light me up a Marlboro Light please.

Medical sciences are advancing at an unbelievable rate. This was just fantasy when we saw it in the John Woo flick, Face/Off. I have much respect for the doctors and researchers who are on the cutting edge of medicine and the medical sciences. Their field is nothing but engineering on the human body and the living world in general, and they are all pioneers.

One question though, why did she have shark teeth right after the operation? More info can be found at the BBC website HERE. Good luck Isabelle, and this time, get a fucking hamster.

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