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LI surgeon leads mercy missions abroad
Photo credit: Danielle Finkelstein | Dr. Edwin Moreano, a plastic surgeon who resides in Bayville, with daughter Gabriella, 11, and son Cameron, 13, has been leading missions to Ecuador and the Dominican Republic since 1999, where he performs free birth deformity and burn reconstruction surgeries for the poor.
Edwin Moreano isn't the only doctor leading missions to impoverished regions in Latin America. Nor is he the only one treating severe burns or birth defects.
But the Bayville plastic surgeon's mission, now in its 13th year, stands out for its focus on the same patients.
"We go back to the same places every year," he said, noting many patients need more than one surgery. "If you don't...
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