Department of Physical Therapy at Waltham

The surgeons in the department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at Boston Children's Hospital provide a full range of surgical services for your child - and compassionate support for you and your family. Our oral surgeons frequently work in conjunction with our orthodontists in the treatment of patients requiring orthognathic (jaw) surgery. Whatever condition your child is suffering from, the physicians in the Boston Children's Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery have the expertise to help.

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Hemophilia is an inherited bleeding disorder in which the blood does not clot normally because of a missing or dysfunctional clotting protein. Clotting proteins, also called clotting factors, work with other blood components such as platelets, von Willebrand factor, and other proteins to form a blood clot. When any of these components is absent or low, increased bleeding can result. If clotting factor VIII (8) or factor IX (9) are affected, this bleeding disorder is called hemophilia.