Same Day Teeth Restores Blessing's Smile
Online, October 24, 2013 (Newswire.com) - As a young boy living in Zimbabwe, Blessing Makwera suffered a horrible, life-changing accident. While playing outdoors one day, he found a small device with two wires coming out of it. In order to free his hands to touch the wires to a battery, he placed the device in his mouth. When the wires made contact with the battery, the device exploded. It was a landmine detonator. Blessing suffered severe damage to his mouth, including the loss of his lower jaw and most of his teeth.
Due to the extensive damage, Blessing had difficulty eating and communicating. Years later, as an adult, he appealed to Operation of Hope, an international charity that connects patients in need with medical specialists. An exhaustive search spanning 5 years, led Operation of Hope to a highly specialized team of doctors out of SHARP Healthcare in San Diego. This team would make national headlines with their innovative plan to reconstruct Blessing's damaged mouth. Happy to be a part of this team is Dr. Joel Berger, co-creator of the PermaDontics Same Day Teeth procedure.
"As an oral surgeon, my first task was to create a new lower jaw for Blessing," said Dr. Berger. "We were able to borrow a portion of his fibula and using delicate microsurgery techniques shape it into a new mandible. We connected the nerves and blood vessels to it, thereby ensuring its efficacy."
On March 2, 2013, Blessing endured a 10 hour-long surgery. The specialty team of doctors was able to successfully place the new lower jaw. Blessing has remained in the United States for follow up care to this ground-breaking procedure and now, eight months later, he is ready for the final step in his recovery - new Same Day Teeth.
PermaDontics is pleased to announce that Blessing Makwera will be getting Same Day Teeth on November 5, 2013.
"It truly is an honor to be involved in this case," said Dr. Ian Aires, Prosthodontist and co-founder of PermaDontics. "Blessing is a nice young man with such a bright future ahead of him. We are glad to be able to help him and can't wait to see his new smile!"
