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Thursday, December 15, 2011

Surgery takes bite out of jaw deformities

Alyssa Wolfe spent a confident, carefree adolescence without ever questioning whether something was wrong with her. All that changed in her first week of seventh grade, when a boy stood up on a cafeteria table, pointed at her through the crowd and shouted, "She doesn't have a chin!" At 13 years old, her permanent teeth growing in and her face maturing, Wolfe was displaying the full effects of prognathism, an inherited condition marked by a protruding upper or lower jaw and a severely uneven bite. MORE

SOURCE: Sun Sentinel BY: Nichole Brochu

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