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Cleft Lip and Palate
When the Baby Has a Cleft! Your long-awaited baby is here. You planned this day for so long. And there is a problem. Nobody cheered when your baby was born. Everyone in the delivery room grew quiet. Somebody said something about a birth defect, and you didn't hear much...
Wide Smiles: Cleft Lip and Palate
Wide Smiles: Cleft Lip and Palate
Other Publications and MerchandiseWIDE SMILES New Parent Issue This special edition of WIDE SMILES is made up of articles previously published in WIDE SMILES that speak directly to the needs of the brand new parent. The cost of this issue varies depending on...
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Wide Smiles
Bundles of Love Dawn and Randy Addington wanted a miracle, and on March 31, 1993, that miracle came -- in ways they had never dreamed to hope. After years of frustration and infertility, Dawn and Randy became the proud parents of four beautiful, healthy babies! Jarred, their only...
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Wide Smiles
The Other ReasonsWhy we pursue those "purely cosmetic" procedures. by Joanne Green
It is not hard to justify our children's initial surgical repairs. When your darling baby sports a huge bilateral smile and food goes into the mouth and out the nose on a regular basis, we...
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Wide Smiles
From Russia With Love The Adoption of Elizabeth Svetlana McKeown Drialo by Richard McKeown & Donna Drialo
Why Russia? At one time or another, everyone who heard we were adopting from Russia asked us that question. We chose Russia because of their liberal policies on age and...
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Wide Smiles
The WIDE SMILES LACY MARIE MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP!
We at WIDE SMILES believe that nothing should stand in the way of a person's total develppment - and particularly not a craniofacial birth condition. However, we acknowledge that for sone there are special challenges.
For persons...
Cleft Lip & palate: Staging the Tip
Cleft Lip & palate: Staging the Tip
Staging The Tip by Joanne Green A reader whose son was born with a bilateral cleft lip and palate asked the following question:
"After my son's initial lip repair his nose seems very flat, with no length at all to the flesh that seperates the nostrils....
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Wide Smiles
The Strongest Person I've Ever Known The strongest person l've ever known was my father. That's not really surprising. Most girls think their father is the strongest person in their lives. But my experience was not like every other girl's experience. And the moment that sticks out...
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Wide Smiles : Support for cleft lip and palate
Ordering InformationWIDE SMILES is a quarterly magazine of 44 pages packed with useful, informative, insightful information for the family of the cleft-affected child. WIDE SMILES Magazine is available by subscription. The cost is $18 for one year...
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Wide Smiles
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