Defective teeth wreck a child’s self-esteem

Orthodontic surgery aligns crooked teeth and enables them  function properly, writes JOHN MUTURI

We nick named her mang’ethia, literally translated as one who stares with her teeth because her teeth protruded. I shared the desk with her in our lower primary school. Like everyone else, I was insensitive to her feelings. Her other nickname was ‘dracula’, which means a blood-sucking monster.