女孩8歲時下巴停止生長 矯正手術後變美人
Doctors were able to give Ellie Jones her confidence back after they corrected a facial deformity that meant her jaw had stopped growing at age eight.
艾麗·瓊斯八歲時下巴就停止生長，醫生通過面部畸形矯正讓艾麗重拾自信。She was born with a condition that meant the bones in her lower face did not develop properly and were smaller than they should have been. But although she knew she needed dental work, Ellie had no idea that it was a congenital facial condition that had caused her teeth alignment problems.
小艾麗出生時臉部下半端骨頭髮育不良，比正常情況下小很多。儘管她知道自己需要牙齒矯正，但是她卻不知道正是由於先天性面部問題導致她的牙齒畸形。When she went to have braces fitted aged 14, her orthodontist Joy Hickman realised what had happened.
14歲去戴牙套時，她的牙齒矯正醫生喬伊·希克曼意識到了問題所在。
Over the next six years, Joy worked with maxillofacial surgeon Emma Woolley at Glan Clwyd Hospital in Rhyl, Wales, to transform Ellie's looks and her whole life's outlook.
接下來的六年裏，喬伊與威爾士里爾的格蘭克盧伊德醫院頜面外科醫師艾瑪·伍麗共同合作，改變了艾麗的相貌，同時也改變了她的整個人生。
She had her first operation at 16. Ellie, who is now 20, said: 'It was really painful but had to be done to sort the problem.
艾麗16歲時接受了第一次手術，現在的艾麗已經20歲了，她說：“手術真的很疼，但是爲了解決問題必須要做。”'I was on a liquid diet for about a month, which was really hard, and I couldn't talk properly – I had to use a notepad to communicate. After a while I was able to mumble a few words and I had a lisp for a while due to how swollen my mouth was.'
“最開始我吃了一個月的流食，非常艱難，那時候我也不能好好說話，我得用紙筆寫下來與人交流。不久後我能夠含糊地說幾個單詞，而且由於嘴脣腫脹，我很長一段時間內口齒不清。”The major surgery involved cutting her jaws horizontally and vertically, and then having more surgery to her chin a year later.
大外科手術包括水平和垂直切割頜骨，一年後再對她的下巴做進一步手術。But despite the pain of the operations, she says she is delighted with the results: 'I mostly just felt relieved – I finally felt like I could be myself. I was shy but now I feel really confident. It's changed my whole life.'
儘管手術很疼，艾麗表示自己對結果感到高興：“主要是感到寬慰。我終於可以做自己了。我之前很害羞，但現在感到非常自信。這改變了我的整個人生。”Shop assistant Ellie, 20, who lives at home with dad Simon, mum Natalie and sister Chloe, 21, now dreams of being a photographer.
20歲的艾麗是一個售貨員，目前與父親西蒙、母親娜塔莉以及21歲的姐姐克洛伊住在家中，她夢想有一天能夠成爲攝影家。'A lot of people don't actually realise they have a jaw deformity and just accept that they have difficulties biting,' her surgeon Emma said. 'By not treating it at a young age, it can cause real difficulties later in life.'
“很多人並沒有意識到自己有偏頜畸形，而只是接受了他們有齧合問題。”艾麗的主治外科醫生艾瑪說道。“如果小時候不進行治療，長大可能會造成真正的困難。”
