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Especially parents because they start to feeling guilty even though it has nothing to do with them probably. but it has a long impact in the fami family. so, but at the same time, it is a simple defect to be corrected, you know. with a little bit of training, any plastic surgeon or general surgeon can operate on these patients and correct the deformity. >> reporter: so how does a cleft palate and lip happen? in the fourth and seventh weeks of pregnancy in development, tischb shoe joins together to make the face including the lips and mouth. when it does not fully join, an opening in the upper ...

Village and people used to make all sorts of assumptions how it happened. i was afraid that people would bully my son because of his condition. >> in nepal we did a small study which showed that 1 of 500 live births would be a cleft child. 1 of 500. cleft denorm formities cleft li cleft palate is simple to correct, but yet, it has a deep social impact in the family as well as in the child when they grow up. they are outcasted from the society. we have many incidents where the children were left alone by the families, because of the deformity and many other stories of the father coming to know ...

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 w...

Life. this is one example in surgery, but you could have any number of surgeries like a broken jaw or a large benign tumor in the face, and if they can be corrected with a single or two surgeries, and somebody can become a fully functional member of society again. >> reporter: the operation goes smoothly. afterwards, she is pleased if not unsure. because she has only known her son with a cleft lip. she tells us that she is wondering if her other sons, his olderer brother will recognize him, but she knows that today it marks a new beginning for sandesh. >> when i started operating on the cleft ...

Between the ears. but surgery can fix it, and that is what doctors shaye and are rai are doing for sandesh. >> all of the parts are there, but they are not aligned or they have grown in different dr directions. so if you can see that ahead of time, and the ma jor u ti of the operation is to mark the points ahead of time and then taking a big puzzle to take it apart and put itting it back with the muscle of the lip and the skin and all carefully to re-establish the normal anatomy. the cleft lip is one form of surgery which can change someone's life. although it is not life-saving, it is life-ch...