>> The best piece of advice I've been given for my professional life was to never be restricted,
think out of the box and be creative.
And that's what prosthodontics do.
They innately create the reconstruction of patient's missing pieces, missing parts.
The epitome of that piece of advice showed up very recently when a young boy from Ethiopia,
was referred to our center from Geisinger hospital in northern Pennsylvania.
When he was six years old, he was attacked by a wild hyena who charged him and bit off his face,
took his entire nose and his upper jaw in one bite.
Missionaries ended up getting him to the United States.
Plastic surgeons were able to give him a lip,
but there was nothing other than this hole in his face.
So, when he came to us, we had to think out of the box.
Now, here's an eight year old whose face is not yet developed, but we need to build him a nose,
and so I called on my classmates from Temple to come in and as a team, we rebuilt him.
We made a framework that would grow with his -- would grow with his cranium.
It's implanted with -- dental implants in his skull,
and he's able to wear a nose that's held on with magnets.