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Surgery Allows Girl to Open Jaw For First Time in 8 Years


A teenager from Afghanistan, who’s been living with a debilitating condition for years, has been given a new lease on life thanks to a team of doctors in New York.
Wahida Sher-Agha was eight years old when she fell off a bridge and broke her jaw, the New York Daily News reported. Since that time, she has barely been able to open her mouth.
But everything changed for the 16-year-old Thursday when doctors at Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx performed surgery to reopen her jaw. More...

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Poor girl. I bet she is glad she can open her mouth.

Anonymous said...

I am glad they fixed her.

Gabby said...

how would she eat?