Dr. Thomas Romo III and Teenage Patient Renata Featured on The Doctors TV Show
- docromo
- Apr 17, 2014
- 1 min read
Renata is a teenager girl who says she’s been bullied since she went to middle school. “They said I was ugly, and they said I had a big nose, and they would just laugh behind my back,” Renata says.
Her mother, Michelle, says Renata became depressed and withdrawn. “She was just really hiding from the world,” she explains.
Renata eventually dropped out of school because she was tired of being bullied.
Michelle applied to Little Baby Face Foundation, which provides low-income families with free reconstructive surgery for children with facial birth defects, and Renata was selected.
Plastic surgeon Thomas Romo III, MD, FACS, who founded Little Baby Face, explains why he says Renata was a good candidate for surgery. Dr. Romo says that Renata has hemifacial microsomia, a condition in which the tissue on one side of the face is underdeveloped. Renata had a deviated septum fixed, rhinoplasty to correct the slanting of her nose and a chin implant.
Renata is planning to return to school.
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