( CNN ) -- The Cleveland Clinic will announce Wednesday the successful completion of a near-total face transplant surgery , a clinic spokeswoman told CNN on Tuesday . Isabelle Dinoire underwent the first partial face transplant ; shortly after her surgery ( left ) and 10 months later ( right ) . In the surgery -- which was conducted two weeks ago by a team of eight surgeons at the Cleveland , Ohio , hospital -- 80 percent of the trauma patient 's face was transplanted , the spokeswoman said . The forehead and chin were left intact . The surgery was the first such operation done in the United States . In 2005 , French doctors performed the world 's first partial face transplant on a 38-year-old woman who was disfigured when she was attacked by a dog . `` I hope the successful operation will help other people like me to live again , '' said Isabelle Dinoire , the French woman who received a nose , lips and chin .
Cleveland Clinic to announce surgeons there performed the first U.S. face transplant . Trauma patient had 80 percent of her face transplanted two weeks ago . French woman Isabelle Dinoire received first partial face transplant in 2005 .