EIGHTEEN children will see their lives drastically transformed for the better through free life-changing surgical procedures, including reconstructive surgeries, at Tygerberg Hospital during Smile Week.
Smile Foundation’s Smile Week, sponsored by Adcock Ingram, commenced on Monday.
Surgeons will perform free surgeries for conditions such as cleft lips and cleft palates, congenital hand and foot abnormalities, as well as more complex craniofacial reconstruction.
Yesterday, Andre Daniels, 10, from Elsies River, who was born with Crouzon syndrome, also known as craniofacial dysostosis, a rare genetic disorder affecting the shape of a child’s head and face, had his surgery.
Daniels’ mother Catherine said: “Andre gets bullied a lot by other children. It breaks my heart when they mock him and laugh in his face. I always tell him that he is a special…