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

The Mayo Clinic says surgeons there successfully performed a face transplant for a Michigan man who was severely injured from a self-inflicted gunshot wound 10 years ago.

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

After receiving a face transplant at Mayo Clinic earlier this year, a Michigan man can now smile and breathe through his nose for the first time in a decade. It is Mayo Clinic's second face transplant and its most complex and extensive one to date.