The face of 30-year-old Derek Pfaff was left severely damaged by a self-inflicted gunshot wound on March 5, 2014, while he ...

Derek Pfaff tried to take his own life 10 years ago, but miraculously survived, although his face was left severely damaged.

A nearly 60-hour-long surgery that began in February and involved more than 80 health care professionals, Mayo Clinic ...

A Michigan has been given a second chance at life after receiving a face transplant that has restored his ability to blink, ...

A Michigan man left disfigured after a suicide attempt a decade ago now has a new face after a Mayo Clinic surgery that took ...

A catastrophic gunshot wound changed Derek Pfaff's life. Ten years later, at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, his life changed again ...

A Michigan man can blink, swallow, smile and breathe through his nose for the first time in a decade thanks to a face ...

Mayo Clinic announced on Monday that in February, a team performed a successful face transplant on a Michigan man.

March 5 had been a day of dread for the Pfaff family since 2014, when Lisa and Jerry found their 19-year-old son, Derek, bleeding in the snow from a self-inflicted gunshot wound that ripped away his ...

Nearly a decade after he shot himself in a failed suicide attempt, Derek Pfaff underwent a 50-hour face transplant at Mayo ...

According to the Mayo Clinic, Derek Pfaff, 30, from Harbor Beach, can blink, swallow, smile, and breathe through his nose for ...

The team behind Derek Pfaff's transformational surgery said the procedure took around 50 hours and was performed by at least ...