[Reconstructing the face, an identity issue].

The human being invests a physical body, a symbol of different significations and values. When this body is damaged, it is the individual's relationship with the world which is unsettled. The disfigured person is confronted with a loss of his or her identity and with a destabilising social relationship. A transplant is an option which leaves patients with an identity which they and others can find difficult to accept.