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Sima says that she didn’t really speech therapy and they would Sima is at Messiah College

understand her condition until always tell me that everything beginning her studies and

she was about 8 years old.
was going to be OK. They al- her career. But, she wants

ways told me that they were go- everyone to know that at the
“My irst memory of the
ing to help me and they made Clinic they always want to see
surgeries was when I was 8 and
me feel like a normal kid.”
your smile!
they did a bone grafting on the

jawline for my front teeth. They

took tissue from my hip and in

that surgery I got a better idea

of what was happening to me.

I saw a picture of myself when I

was 2 or 3 and I began to un-

derstand more of my condition.”

“The Clinic was always a fun

place to go to because every-

one was so nice and the team

helped me so much. I had
Dr. Rusty Long and Sima.

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