Chrissy Steltz, 27, from Milwaukie, Oregon, was shot accidentally at close range by a friend at a party in March 1999.
The shot blew a huge hole in her face where her eyes and nose used to be.
Mrs Steltz went into a coma and spent six weeks in hospital.
Doctors said it was a miracle that she was not killed but the blast left her badly disfigured. She was also blinded and lost part of her hearing.
Mrs Steltz, who married last year and has a one-year-old child, wore a sleeping mask to cover the hole but has now been given a prosthetic replacement 11 years later.
Doctors used photographs of her as a child to create the mask as they thought she would look like now.
Doctors used bone from her right leg, skin grafts, screws and menal plates to ensure the face stays fixed.
Mrs Steltz was quoted as saying the face was "going really well".
Dr Eric Dierks, a maxillofacial surgeon who helped Mrs Steltz, said: "The blast itself removed the contents of her left eye socket, removed her nose and the supporting mid-facial structures and damaged her right eye to the extent that she lost vision.
"It's unique to have an injury of this magnitude to the middle part of the face that removes the vision of both eyes, that removes the nose yet allows the injury to the base of the brain to heal."
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