Little Mia from Seychelles had a new lease of life through the surgery done by a Chennai based maxillofacial surgeon, Dr.S.M.Balaji. The little girl had a rare condition known as the Berkwith Weidmann Syndrome. This problem is caused by the abnormal regulation of genes in a particular region of Chromosome 11. She was only an eighteen month old and children with this over-growth syndrome are born with over-sized tongue which is known as macro glossia. She was not able to speak, swallow or breathe...
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