A baby who was born with a cleft palate can smile after having life-changing surgery
News24xx.com - Cam Martin is a baby who was born with a cleft palate. He was born two minutes after his twin brother Jack on April 3 2018. But, unlike his sibling, Cam had a cleft palate, meaning his upper lip, the bones of his upper jaw were split, which meant he was unable to breastfeed and had to be fed through a specially-designed bottle.
His condition makes their parents Matt Martin, 29 and Sara Martin, 27, very shocked. Plastic surgeons told to his parent that their little boy would need a number of operations to rebuild his mouth.
And they decided to approve the surgery at Medical City Dallas Hospital. On July 25, at just over three-months-old, Cam had the gruelling five-hour operation to repair his upper lip.
Matt, a filmmaker from Texas, said, "It was really hard to hand him over for surgery. When the nurses gave him back he was screaming. They had him on morphine and his face was swollen and bruised and bloody. It was like we had been given a different baby. He cried the whole day. We had to given him with a syringe after the operation."
But a few days after the operation, as the swelling went down and the bruising healed, the worried parents were rewarded by seeing Cam smile for the first time with his full upper lip.
He can smile for the first time in his life after having life-changing surgery.
"Sara and I cried because we were beginning to think we’d never see him smile. The beam was in his eyes and in his cheeks. He was saying: “I’m still here, I’m still the same baby, everything’s OK.”
Photo : After the surgery
Matt told. although some ultrasounds can pick up a cleft palate before birth, Cam’s remained undetected. But Matt said that as soon as he was born, he and Sara, a dental assistant, knew something was wrong.
After a few days on the neonatal intensive care unit, Cam was able to go home with his parents and brother.
Although the first operation has been a success, Cam faces a further two to fully heal his cleft palate. The second, which will happen when he is 18 months old, will repair the roof of his mouth. The final procedure, which will happen between the age of four and seven, will rebuild his gums with a bone graft.
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