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  Idnan Choudhary third child of Mir Hussain and Rubina was born with the deformity of cleft lip and palate. All near and dear ones started cursing the couple. A normal parent would have frightened after seeing such a deformity in their child. But this time it was different, as parents were a bit relaxed. They were knowing that this deformity is correctable with the help of surgery and they were also knowing the place where it has to be done. As the mother of Idnan, Rubina was also born with a similar deformity even the uglier one bilateral cleft lip. She had suffered this wrath of the creator through her whole life till she met her savior Mir Hussain in the form of the husband. Before meeting Mir, she was rejected many times by several boys for marriage. But Mir Hussain not only married her but after the marriage, he brought his wife to Smile Train accredited Amandeep Hospital, Amritsar where she was operated on free of cost in 2009. Mir had earlier seen a couple of children in...

When little Ruksana saw her face in the mirror, she couldn't hold back the tears and thought it was her destiny to wear that deformed face for life. In fact, she was born into a poor family with a congenital cleft lip deformity and was operated on in her early childhood by a local doctor who was not qualified enough to do justice to this type of deformity. The result was a more deformed face that was now even more difficult to fix than before. In the following years, the trauma in the family continued to increase with the untimely death of Ruksana's father, who was killed in a terrorist attack in Dodha, Jammu. When the family's main breadwinner left, the slim chance of Ruksanas getting her scarred lip repaired disappeared. Now the baby's mother had to work day and night to earn a living. They couldn't even afford two meals a day. It was never in their dreams that they would correct the deformity on the baby's face. Once, while working in a house, he discus...

Sandeep Singh and Rekha Bala were blessed with a baby boy Shivansh after 12 long years of their marriage but the happiness of both the parents went half when they saw the face of their son, as he was born with   cleft lip   cut on one side. His father felt devastated as he himself had cleft palate and was operated for the same in his childhood at a private hospital in Udhampur, which was very expensive and the results were highly unsatisfactory as he developed palatal fistula after surgery and his speech was also incomprehensible.  Sandeep worked as a labourer in a factory. His wages were hardly sufficient to meet the family’s daily needs. However, both parents kept on giving all the love and care to Shivansh, but they were apprehensive about the future of their son. Time kept on passing when Shivansh was 4 months old, one of Sandeep’s friend informed him about a camp which was organized by a smile train accredited centre in Jammu, regarding the facility of free treatment...

  Isha was going to Amritsar with her father in a bus from a village in Kangra with a ray of hope in her eyes for the correction of her cleft lip scar and with this hope was connected her dreams of pursuing her career in city. Although Isha had five previous surgeries, it was not enough for her, as she was dreaming her career after her senior secondary exams from a Kangra village to Kangra city and she was not having enough confidence to face the college life with her lip scar which was the greatest hindrance between her and her confidence. She had her lip and palate fixed in her early childhood which was done in a local hospital and it was a botched up surgery. Her last two surgeries were done in a smile train accredited Amandeep Hospital at Amritsar which was Alveolar Bone Grafting and Rhinoplasty. She was very happy with the results of her Rhinoplasty but her lip was not satisfactorily done in her childhood and that was the matter of concern for her as she was stu...