Namibia: Reconstructing a Smile After Ameloblastoma

13 September 2017

WHEN Windhoek-based doctor Panduleni Itula was approached by a 32-year-old mother of four with a facial deformity because of a tumour, he knew that he had to do something to bring back her smile.

Joaquina Macana was suffering from Ameloblastoma, a medical condition that caused a big growth on her jaw and had turned her life upside down.

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