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 HOUSTON (AP) - A 4-year-old Kenyan boy who was mauled by dogs after he was abandoned on a trash heap at birth underwent surgery Thursday for the first of a series of procedures to reconstruct his face.
Part of the operation will rebuild Daniel Wachira's jaw with one of his ribs. Doctors also plan to take muscle from Daniel's shoulder to form a cheek.
"Everything's going fine," Larry Jones said about 6 p.m., seven hours after the surgery began. Jones and his wife, Frances, are Daniel's legal guardians. Jones said later that doctors told him the procedure could take until midnight to complete.
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