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emron before SurgeryEmron is an eleven-year-old boy that has a cleft lip and a cleft palate.  I can't believe an eleven-year-old boy still had such a deformity.

My daughter Brooke is eleven and it is not even something that I can imagine. He is a quite kid but friendly.  I don't think he said one word to us, but he did not shy away when we tried to talk with him.

I taught him to do the fist bump with the hand explosion.  He thought it was pretty cool and so did I.  His cleft was really wide and he had his teeth showing in the cleft - a big deformity and disfiguring to say the least.

Emron after surgeryHe gets teased a lot and has stopped going to school.  After we did his surgery and he woke up in the recovery room, the nurses showed him a mirror.  He had the biggest smile you every saw!  He couldn't believe what he was looking at.  I was pretty excited about his repair, but after I heard about the mirror, I was thrilled. He said he is going to go back to school and is not going to be embarrassed anymore!

Faces of Tomorrow In the Press

Accomplishment: A volunteer medical team led by Rubinstein is one of 15 national recipients of Kaiser Permanente's 2011 David Lawrence Community Service Award.
Details: Rubinstein, chief for pediatric otolaryngology-head and neck surgery at Kaiser Permanente Roseville Medical Center, is the founder of Faces of Tomorrow, a Davis-based nonprofit organization that provides free surgeries to children and adults with facial deformities inEcuador and the Philippines.

Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/2012/02/13/4258796/applause-community-awards-for.html#storylink=cpy

 

 

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