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Paediatrics South Africa

Dedicated doctors bring a smile where there was none

Nervous thoughts were running through Thabile's head before her daughter's operation. "I kept thinking 'what if'. But she's strong, she didn't even cry."

Thabile's 10-month-old daughter Nompumelelo was born without a soft palate and couldn't eat properly. She was one of the 15 children who received reconstructive surgery to correct a facial deformity as part of the DAV Smile Week run by the Smile Foundation at Chris Hani-Baragwanath Academic Hospital this week. Read on.

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