How do you go from cleft to smile?
First stop is the Operating room.
Add a highly skilled medical team.
Now you have the team that can make the magic happen.
When he awakens, it will be to a new smile, and a new life.
Thank you Rotaplast!
Home • Missions • Latin America • Venezuela • Cumana • 2016 • Where Smiles Are Made
How do you go from cleft to smile?
First stop is the Operating room.
Add a highly skilled medical team.
Now you have the team that can make the magic happen.
When he awakens, it will be to a new smile, and a new life.
Thank you Rotaplast!
Cumana, Venezuela
Yaismar’s mother brought her daughter to Cumana when she first heard there was a Rotaplast mission in Cumana. Yaismar was born with a very large gap in the roof of her mouth. A cleft palate is a gap in t... Read More »
Cumana, Venezuela
In this composite photo you are looking in the doors of each of our three operating rooms as they work on three patients at the same time. To date we have completed over 55 surgeries on patients. Our host... Read More »
Cumana, Venezuela
Samuel is a boy that was here three years ago, and I remember him well. He has a ready smile, a quick handshake, and he likes to tell stories. My favorite is his 101 girlfriends. I can see why he Read More »
Luxor, Egypt
This mission to Luxor involved a team of 22 people from the US, 3 surgeons from Egypt, local Rotarian hosts, many local volunteers and translators plus local hospital staff. While some team members had bee... Read More »
Luxor, Egypt
As part of the new Education Committee approved by the Rotaplast Board, we piloted the Rotaplast Global Scholars Program on five recent missions over the past year. This initiative provided clinical experi... Read More »