integrated back into society. this is one example of surgeries, but you could have a numb ber of surng ris a broken jaw or benign tumor of the face, and all of these things, if they can be connected with one or two surgeries somebody can be a fully functional member of society again. >> reporter: the operation goes smoothly. afterwards, lalita is pleased if unsure, because she has only ever known her son with the cleft p. she tells me that shedes brothe olders will recognize him sh, b she knows that today marks a new day for sandish. >> when i started to operating on the cleft patients there were many, many adult patients, and many, many older patients with cleft lip or palate that were not operated at all. we have operated on all of them and now almost all of the cleft