14 DAY TRIAL // 16-year-old Cassidy Hooper is suffering from a rare medical condition which caused her to be born without her nose and her eyes. However, the girl is soon to have one of these issues fixed by a team of doctors working with the Levine Children's Hospital in Charlote.
Long story short: these specialists plan on combining cartilage and bone collected from Cassidy's own skull, and then use these materials to fit the girl's face with a proper nose.
Information shared with the general public says that the process of “engineering” a nose for this 16-year-old will last about two weeks, and that the teenager will have to undergo three major surgeries.
Should things go as planned, Cassidy is bound to experience more than just aesthetic benefits.
Thus, the doctors explain that the nose they intend to build for her will allow the girl to both breathe in a more natural fashion, and pick up the smell of various items found in her proximity.
Prior to their getting ready to fit this teenager with her laboratory-made nose, Dr. David Matthews, one of the physicians in charge of looking after her, had to spend a total of five years doing his best in expanding Cassidy's face. Daily Mail reports that Dr. David Matthews' goal was that of creating a small bony opening to which he and his colleagues can now attach the girl's new nose.
As far as Cassidy's eyes are concerned, it appears that the teenager did wear prosthetic ones for a considerable period of time.
However, the girl eventually outgrew them and her parents found themselves lacking the money needed in order to buy her a new pair.
Most of the specialists who got the chance to have a look at Cassidy and her medical records believe that, for one reason or another, the girl failed in developing both her eyes and her nose while still in her mother's womb.