A ton of photos are missing from my iphone after having restored with icloud

my wife restored her iphone 4s this afternoon and lost a lot of pictures.
can anyone help me figure out where they went and how to get them back onto her phone?

Only Photos stored in the Camera Roll are backed up to iCloud.  Any photos synced from the computer or added in other albums will not be restored when restoring form iCloud.  To retrieve those photos, you must sync with the computer or set up the service that created the album where the photos were stored, such as Facebook or Dropbox.
Source: http://support.apple.com/kb/PH12519

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