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News items on 'Craniofacial Disorders'

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Surgeons give teenager a new chin

(BBC 19/12/2008)

A teenager from Ireland has been given a new "million dollar chin" by surgeons in America. Alan Doherty, 19, from Donegal, was born with a rare condition called otofacial syndrome, which effectively meant he had no lower half to his face. But after a huge fundraising effort by local people, he has become the first person to have a series of operations to create a new jaw and chin.

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