Girl Who Can’t Smile Goes Home After 2nd Surgery
Chelsey Thomas, the 7-year-old Palmdale girl who can’t smile, was released Monday from a Woodland Hills hospital after a second round of facial surgery to correct the disorder.
An earlier procedure was a success and doctors hope she will be smiling by her eighth birthday on June 29.
“She’s on the road to a smile,” said Krista Hershey of Kaiser Permanente Medical Center.
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