Pfaff shot himself in the face while home from college during spring break in March 2014 when he was 19 years old He is one of only about 50 people in the world to have undergone the procedure A ...

A groundbreaking surgery was completed 20 years ago. The first partial face transplant was performed by a team of doctors in France on Isabelle Dinoire, a French woman who was mauled on the face by ...

Joe DiMeo was the first survivor of a combined face and double hand transplant. He and his wife, Jessica, have made his story go viral At 18 years old, Joe DiMeo was in a life-altering car crash that ...

Richard Norris was 22 when a gun accident took his lips, his nose and the front portion of his tongue. The damage to his jaw left him with limited mouth mobility and gave the appearance that his face ...

HARBOR BEACH, MI - Night had fallen over Harbor Beach, covering the shoreline in darkness when the town’s quiet was shattered by a father’s anguished scream. “No, Derek, no!” Jerry Pfaff screamed. Ten ...

After the comprehensive pretransplant process, including when the prospective transplant recipient has been evaluated and decided to proceed with a face or hand transplant and is listed on the waiting ...

A volunteer firefighter badly burned in a 2001 blaze has received the most extensive face transplant ever, covering his skull and much of his neck, a New York hospital announced Monday. The surgery ...

Charla Nash, whose friend's pet chimp infamously "ripped her face off" in 2009, says she's being given a second shot at life with a groundbreaking face transplant The mom — who also lost her hands in ...

Last year, the most extensive clinical face transplant to date was successfully carried out at NYU Langone Medical Center. A complete report on this procedure--including the extensive organizational ...

Derek Pfaff has undergone 65 surgeries since 2014, when he was found lying outside his home on a mound of blood-covered snow Mayo Clinic/YouTube Derek Pfaff, a 30-year-old Michigan man, recently ...