Jose's new smile. Operation Rainbow patient Jose is shown during a visit with Operation Rainbow volunteer doctors Thursday, April 6, 2000 during final rounds. The photo on the right, taken Saturday, April 1, shows Jose as he looks at an IV fluid pouch as he is prepped for anesthesia during the first day of surgeries Saturday, April 1. Jose had unilateral incomplete cleft lip. (click image to see full size)

A word about multimedia.

Multimedia portions of the virtual mission are based on QuickTime software from Apple and Macromedia Flash.

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Each day, reports, photos and multimedia from the mission in and out of the operating rooms were uploaded to this web site as a live, real-time virtual mission project.

A team of volunteer plastic surgeons and orthopaedic surgeons worked along side Venezuelan doctors and performed surgeries. These included cleft lip and palate repair, club foot repair, and the reduction of fractures.

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