The world’s first transplant was performed in France in 2005 on Isabelle 
Dinoive, a 38- year-old woman who had been mauled by her dog.
Worldwide there had been five face transplants to date, three of them in France, two in United States and one in China, in which one person died after stopping anti-rejection drugs. But it was the first time a transplant of both hands and face has been completed in one go.