在2007年十二月，法國團隊就移植後二年的經驗在New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM)發表文章，當時美國媒体曾訪問Cleveland Clinic 整形外科主任，對，就是上篇提到的Siemionow對這件事的看法，Siemionow大概很不是滋味說這位病人疑似自殺，不該做臉部移植。原文如下:
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The Cleveland Clinic won approval from its in-house review board in 2004 and has been developing donor consent procedures and identifying patients who are most physically in need and most mentally capable of dealing with a transplant.
Alluding to reports that Dinoire's overdose was a suicide attempt, Siemionow called her "psychologically questionable as a candidate" for a face transplant.
Siemionow declined to predict when the first transplant at her own hospital might occur
--- FOX News.com, December 13, 2007
Cleveland Clinic 在2004年就提出院內人体實驗(IRB)通過，但一直等到2008年12月才找到適合的病人和捐贈者完成美國第一例，但世界第一的頭銜被法國搶去，難怪匹茲堡大學整形外科主任Andrew Lee 酸了法國這次移植是 "This has been a very successful surgical exercise." 看到沒，說人家的移植手術是一次很成功的手術"練習"，可見美國人很介意這件事。 _________________ With malice toward none, with charity for all
