The surgery, which lasted two hours and involved five doctors, was carried out as part of the second cleft lip and palate surgery campaign to be held at the hospital and which is expected to benefit patients from the Lunda Norte and Sul regions and Moxico.
Vitorino Jamba, the surgeon responsible for coordinating the campaign, reported that the patient in question – a resident of one of the municipalities in Moxico – had this condition due to a tooth that was not treated.
The doctor, quoted by Angop, explained that the residual deformity of infectious origin originated from a tooth that was not treated and that progressed to facial cellulitis, which then turned into chronic maxillary cellulitis.
According to the doctor, as a result, the infection destroyed facial tissue, creating a hole in the same area.
He also said that the operation took place without abnormalities, after the doctors had reconstructed the patient's soft tissue, writes Angop.
The second campaign ends this Friday and, according to Vitorino Jamba, it is going satisfactorily, with more than 80 surgeries having been carried out so far, the majority of which were on patients from Lunda Sul.
