A plastic surgon from Cardinal Glennon called today with an update. As we have known the prongs on the cpap have damaged Mabry's septum (nose)
Once the wound heals there will be scarring (her body trying to close the wound) which can cause changes to her nasal shape. The goal for now is to heal the wound on her septum with a little as scarring as possible.
They would wait a few years until she grows more develops more tissue and then give her plastic surgery to repair it.
They will talk to us more about some reconstruction and when to do it. It may require more than one surgery as she grows and may require multiple revisions over time.
The is a new powder called Matristem that we could consider using on Mabry as she heals (Click here to read more about it). If we go in that direction Mabry would be the first child at Cardinal Glennon to use it.
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