Medical Mission
Dr Monaco has enjoyed spending time on medical missions and has performed numerous cleft lip and palate repairs, burn reconstructions and hand reconstruction cases. She plans to make more time to continue mission work when her daughter is a little older and can participate.
Dr Monaco performing a cleft palate repair on a young boy.
Dr Monaco performing burn reconstruction surgery.
Dr Monaco performing a cleft lip repair.
Peace Corps volunteers would round up patients who needed plastic surgery and they would sit in this hallway waitng to be called to the operating room. We would not go home until everyone was taken care of…long days, very rewarding.
This patient is Maya. She was a regular in our clinic as she needed several surgeries to fix her cleft lip and palate. She was so loving and made the experience worthwhile.
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