Surgery is a very effective way to gain the trust of the community, due to immediate results. Trust opens doors to other programmes (e.g. family medicine). Surgery can be incorporated with all other aspects of health care, which can in turn be incorporated with all other aspects of human development, education, food production and nutrition, housing, work and productivity, communication, and recreation.

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Our study suggests that SK is not a homogenous group of patients. Two patterns of pre- and post-operative CSA are demonstrated in TK and TLK groups. T1 slope is the most important parameter in determining pre-operative CSA and correlates with other regional anatomical parameters (TK and LL). Post-operative CSA adaptations also correlate with T1 slope post-operative changes. However, post-surgical T1 slope correlates with different parameters in the two SK groups (TK and PT in TK group; TLK, LL, and PT in TLK group).