Overseas Surgical Missions Photo Gallery

Phoenix and Glendale, Arizona

Photo Gallery

  • Rotaplast team, La Oroya, Peru 2000
  • Patients with families waiting for evaluation, La Oroya, Peru 2000
  • Patient Daimir, before repair of bilateral cleft lip, age 6 months, La Oroya, Peru 2000
  • Dr. Angelchik performing a cleft palate repair with Peruvian host surgeon assisting, Hospital Loayza, Lima, Peru 2001
  • Family with Rotaplast patient (front and center )at their home in the slums of Lima. They live in the one room woven structure in front of the brick buildings.
  • Daimir, Lima 2001, one year after bilateral cleft lip repair and just a few days after his cleft palate repair. The family traveled several hundred miles from the Andes region to find us for this procedure.
  • Doctor Angelchik with Rotaplast plastic surgeon Dr. Bob Demuth and our Peruvian colleagues in La Oroya, 2000
  • Peruvian Pre-Columbian pottery figure with representation of cleft lip. Peru has a high incidence of cleft deformities.
  • The world's highest railroad crossing ( 16000 ft ) on Central Highway in Peru, on the way to La Oroya, 2000
  • Looking down on the lost city of Machu Picchu, sacred to the Incas, 2000