China News Service, January 1st (Chen Jing Jinheng) Five children with cleft lip and palate from Guoluo Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province, returned to their hometown on the 1st. The warm winter sun reflected everyone’s smiling faces, and they showed their new faces to their loved ones. Welcome the new year together.

All the children recovered well after the operation, their facial features were successfully repaired, and their language functions were greatly improved.

Chen Jing

　　It is understood that they have just finished their 13-day treatment in the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Department of Shanghai Stomatological Hospital·Stomatological Disease Prevention and Treatment Center.

Professor Liu Yuehua, Dean of Shanghai Stomatological Hospital, told reporters on the 1st that the children ranged from 16 months to 16 years old and received general anesthesia for lower lip deformity correction, cleft palate repair, lip deformity correction and pharyngoplasty.

All the children recovered well after the operation, their facial features were successfully repaired, and their language functions were greatly improved.

　　It is reported that in mid-September last year, the Shanghai Stomatological Hospital sent a dental specialist medical team to Guoluo, Qinghai to carry out a week-long "Healthy Oral Guoluo Xing" medical tour.

In the snow-covered plateau with an average altitude of more than 3800 meters, the team members overcame altitude sickness, carried out 11 health education sessions, completed more than 360 questionnaires on the oral condition of children in plateau, and carried out oral health examinations for more than 400 children.

At the same time, doctors in Shanghai also screened and registered many children with cleft lip and palate.

With the support of the National Health Commission of Guoluo and Shanghai, five children with cleft lip and palate came to Shanghai in mid-to-late December. In late December, they successfully underwent a nonprofit operation at the Shanghai Dental Hospital.

　　A 16-year-old child, Xiaozhi (pseudonym), was raised by his grandfather alone. He was unable to pronounce normally and was unwilling to interact with others.

During the Guoluo screening, the child kept his head down and said nothing. Because he was afraid of being laughed at, he was willing to go to school when he grew up, and now he has reached the second-grade literacy level of elementary school.

Now that he saw himself in the mirror, he couldn't restrain his excitement and wrote a "thank you letter" in Tibetan.

The aid team member Song Jue said emotionally: "On his freehand painting, I saw the Oriental Pearl and his heart that wanted to fly again. I finally saw what a 16-year-old boy should be."

　　The boy Ari (pseudonym) is only 16 months old and is the youngest child to undergo the operation.

At that time, the township cadre drove the mother and son to the Shanghai expert for more than 3 hours, holding the doctor's hand and said: "The child's parents are sanitation workers, and they work hard. I hope you will help the child." Mother Rnzeng would not say. In Chinese, I always expressed my joy with a warm smile during the treatment.

　　In order to alleviate the nervousness of the children and their parents, the Guoluo State Health Commission sent a medical staff from the Guoluo People’s Hospital to accompany the team to accompany the children around the clock and strengthen the communication between doctors and patients through Tibetan translation to ensure medical safety. . Chen Zhengqi, Secretary of the Party Committee of Shanghai Stomatological Hospital, told reporters that in the future, we look forward to continuously improving the oral health of the local people through dental assistance, talent training, and continuous oral health intervention projects, and using Shanghai medical care to do practical and good deeds for the people of Guoluo. . (Finish)