She was born sixteen years ago with a congenital deformity of her mouth, which prevented her from opening it.
Now, thanks to an exceptional maxillofacial surgery at the San Marco hospital in Catania, Aurora (invented name) can begin a new life made of words, smiles, solid foods and everything she had to give up during her life. life.
The form of genetic Nager syndrome that Aurora has suffered from since birth is among the rarest in the world, only six in all of Italy. In this case, a bone mass had already developed in the fetus which had fused the jaw to the skull, not allowing the articulation necessary to open the mouth.
The success of the operation, which lasted approximately ten hours, was the result of multidisciplinary work between the various company teams. In addition to the maxillofacial surgeons, there were twenty colleagues in the operating room who were anesthetist surgeons from the resuscitation and thoracic surgery rooms.
«However - says the hospital - the operation could not have been carried out without the full availability of the general director of the Etna university hospital, Gaetano Sirna, who allocated the resources for the creation of the titanium prosthesis implanted in the young patient, a true work of bioengineering among the most modern." Leading the teams of doctors and paramedics was the collaboration between some of the most expert maxillofacial surgeons in Italy which gave rise to a perfect synergy between the North and South of the country. In particular Alberto Bianchi, professor of the Complex Operational Unit of Maxillofacial Surgery of the University Hospital "Policlinico "G. Rodolico - San Marco" and Massimo Robiony, director of the maxillofacial clinic of the university hospital of Udine and his associate professor Salvatore Sembronio.
«We are proud of this intervention - explains Professor Bianchi - Massimo Robiony is a luminary in the sector, he is the one who presented facial prostheses in pediatrics for the first time just four years ago. When I asked him for collaboration, out of friendship he had no hesitations, even calling his right-hand man with him. Together with our highly trained staff at San Marco, we worked for months on studying the situation of our extraordinary young lady, ."
