Our board is in discussions about additional missions in 2012 and 2013 and we are looking to expand into other countries outside of Ecuador and the Philippines. As our team grows as well as our resources we would like to conduct more then one mission per year. We are also in the process of developing a collaborative education program in which we will work closely with the local doctors and nurses prior to the mission and after the mission. We believe this will be an integral part of our organization moving forward and will further solidify our international relations.
In early January Sam Ahani, DDS, boarded a plane for a life-changing trip which would take him to Quito, the capital city of Ecuador . Ahani, who co-founded Shore View Dental here in Pacifica with his wife, pediatric specialist Sepi
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We started the morning with patient number 201 and ended with number 301. We saw baby after baby after toddler with unrepaired lips and palates, most frightened clinging to their parents and many crying uncontrollably. Then swaggered in number 210, eight year old Jesse.
Emron is an eleven-year-old boy that has a cleft lip and a cleft palate. I can't believe an eleven-year-old boy still had such a deformity.
Lucio Parro is an active 7-year-old boy who just wanted to be like all the other kids in his village. He came to us with his mother and he had already put a lot of thought into his surgery and those who would help him.