Interplast

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Interplast is the first international humanitarian organization to provide free reconstructive surgery in developing countries, primarily children with cleft lip and palate and Burn scar contracture.

Interplast was founded in 1969 plastic surgeon Donald Laub, and as of 2005, has treated over 60,000 children. The first patient treated was a 13 year-old boy who had come to Stanford University Medical Center from his home in Mexicali, Mexico to receive surgery to repair his cleft lip and palate. Soon after, Laub and other surgeons began organizing regular trips to a charity hospital in Mexicali to treat children with disabling deformities.

Over time, Interplast began organizing surgical volunteer trips to other parts of Latin America, and eventually to Asia and Africa as well. Training doctors in developing countries has become a large part of Interplast's focus.

Interplast was the subject of A Story of Healing, winner of the 1998 Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject.