Press Room Photo Gallery Mission 2010
These are pictures from our 2010 Mission to Quito, Ecuador. Click on any picture to enlarge and access the slideshow controls.
Faces of Tomorrow In the Press
FACIAL SURGERY DOCTORS BRING OUT HUNDREDS OF SMILES
For much of her 39 years, the woman hid behind a scarf and could not bear to see herself in the mirror. She kept her gaze down, her eyes averting those of the doctor who came from afar to help her smile.
Read More: Sac Bee January 4, 2010
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Patient Stories
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Jesse, patient 210
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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
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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
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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.
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