Operation smile: how jaw surgery changed my life

For years, Martha Hayes was bullied for being ‘goofy’. An operation at 18 gave her a new self-confidence, but would it last?“Skinny, ginger, goofy bitch.”I was walking to school one morning when I heard this from a girl I’d never seen before. She threatened to “get a hammer and knock my teeth in place”. I was 12, and recognised the girls on either side of her, egging her on, because they had been my friends at primary school. Now, here we were, pupils at