Naim lost a chunk of her nose and her right thumb when a coalition missile struck her home in northern Baghdad in April 2003 in an attack that killed her mother, according to several humanitarian groups that arranged for her trip to California.

This year, Naim was flown to UCLA Medical Center, where plastic surgeons agreed to rebuild her nose without pay. Doctors faced a daunting task: Naim was missing the bulbous tip of her nose and there was a lot of scar tissue from the injury.

During four operations, doctors removed a rectangular skin flap from her forehead and rotated it 180 degrees to fashion a new nose. Then they took cartilage from her ear to rebuild the tip and "give it a shape," said Dr. Timothy Miller, chief of plastic surgery.

Miller showed a video of Naim's last visit earlier this month in which she took off the bandage from her nose and smiled while looking at her new face through a handheld mirror.

Naim still faces a long recovery. Her face is still swollen from surgery and there's a scar that runs down the middle of her forehead where doctors removed skin for the nose.

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