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Brand new smile
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Updated: 2006-06-29 07:26


Doctors remove thread from the "new jaw" of 1-year-old Li Hua yesterday at the Xijing Hospital in Xi'an, capital of Northwest China's Shaanxi Province. A donkey attacked the boy on June 6 when he and his grandmother were tending the animals on a mountain near his village in Lincang, Yunnan Province. The boy lost his whole lower jaw in the accident. The operation was conducted on June 20 and the chief doctor declared the operation successful since no infection had occurred as of yesterday. Li is expected to leave the hospital in the next five days. [newsphoto]


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