Long Journey

In the arms of her father, four-year-old Mayda Chen Pan prepares for her palatoplasty on Wednesday morning. Four days earlier, she and her dad, along with six-year-old Esvin Danilo Gual and her dad, arrived at MPSC after an eight-hour journey from a small village in...

Tenderness

On Wednesday, nurse Angie Englert gives the first sips of clear liquid to three-month-old Angel Carias following his bilateral cleft repair with doctors Wainwright and Sato. For the first week after surgery, young patients are fed with a syringe fitted with a soft...

Teamwork

When the Austin Smiles team returns to the U.S., Guatemalan medical professionals will continue providing care for patients who underwent procedures during the mission. Here, with the aid of two translators, Dr. David Wainwright consults with Guatemalan plastic...