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Hello I’m Jessica Franz and this is my mother Michelle.
18 months ago my daughter Allison Franz was born with a Cleft Lip and Cleft Palate.
She was born with a unilateral or one sided cleft of the lip and palate.
So this was a cleft that involved her lip, her gums, and one side of her palate.
Allie had her first surgery with Dr. Kirschner.
She underwent repair of her cleft lip and at about a year of age we repaired Allie’s palate.
When she is 7 or 8 years old she’ll come back and we’ll replace the missing bone in her gums so that her teeth will have a chance to develop normally.
Now she can drink from a regular bottle.
She looks normal; we don’t have the fear that food is going to get caught up in her palate anymore.
Our Cleft Lip and Palate Center here is really devoted to taking care of the whole child and so at every stage of development
we have professionals in our multidisciplinary team that identify and address both the physical and psychosocial issues associated with Clefting.
We did good. They took good care of her and everything is fine. She’s a happy Baby.