Show surgeon rebuilds face of baby girl UNIONTOWN PA A dental sur geon at uniontown Umon Union town hospital here performed a series of delicate ope rations which are expected to give a baby girl born with its mouth sealed completely a chance for normal life the baby weighing only tour four pounds was normal in every re when born except that its up per and lower jaws were grown growl tightly together feeding was ac complis hed by a tube through its nostrils examination by xray X ray showed that the lower jaw was much too email small and had grown to the roof of the mouth there were no joints by which the jaw could swing the baby was taken to the hos pital immediately after being born fhe rhe staff dental surgeon performed two operations in the firt first operation the upper and nd lower jaws were separated and the tongue freed the lower jaw was manipulated into position the second operation removed excess tissue and completely freed the jaw since then the joints have developed tev loped eloped and the infant can move her jaws freely xray X ray examinations have shown that the tooth buds were not dam aged in the operation apparently the child will have normal teeth |