World's First Partial Face Transplant

"Isabelle Dinoire, born 1967, was the first person to undergo a partial face transplant, after her Labrador dog mauled her in May 2005. Prior to the operation, she could barely eat or speak, but after the operation, she can do both...

Regarding the mutilation:

...The family is sure that the dog, which has since been put down, mutilated Isabelle by accident. They believe that the damage was caused when the dog, finding she wouldn't wake up, got more and more frantic, and began scratching and clawing her." [wikip.]

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