Girl with sunken face recieves treatment (Newsphoto) Updated: 2006-09-15 10:03
Wang Na, whose face is
sunken from her forehead to mouth, is under treatment at the Oral Hospital under
the Fourth Military Medical University, in Xi'an, Northwest China's Shaanxi
Province, September 14, 2006. The 18-year-old girl from the province's Heyang
County, has no zygomas, the part of the bone of the skull forming the prominence
of the cheek. She also has no maxillas, a pair of bones in the skull which form
the upper jaw. [Newsphoto]
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