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Fresh Start Surgical Gifts transforms the lives of disadvantaged infants, children, and teens with physical and cosmetic deformities by providing reconstructive and plastic surgery at no cost to patients or their families.

World-renowned surgeons donate their time and expertise to offer them the medical care they need, and a fresh start in life.

Partial List of Surgical Procedures Performed at Fresh Start Surgical Gifts:

  • Microtia
  • Scar Revisions
  • Otoplasty
  • Cleft Lip and Palate Repair
  • Septo-Rhinoplasty
  • Lefort I, II, III
  • Mandibular and Maxillary Osteotomies
  • Excisions of Lesions with or without Tissue Expanders
  • Burn Contracture Procedures
  • Polydactyly Hands and Feet
  • Abbe Flap I and II
  • Tongue Reduction
  • Gynecomastia
  • Poland Syndrome Reconstruction
  • Strabismus, Canthoplasty, and Other Eye Procedures
  • Treacher-Collins Syndrome Procedures
  • Hemi Facial Microsomia Procedures
  • Laser Procedures for Vascular Lesions
  • Facial Hypoplasia Procedures
  • Dental Procedures Resulting from Facial Deformities
  • And More

Fresh Start welcomes applications for reconstructive and plastic surgery on behalf of infants, children, and teens with physical and cosmetic deformities caused by birth defects, accidents, disease, or abuse and meets the requirements.

Click here to find out if you may qualify.

Click here to apply.

Every child receives the highest quality medical care, regardless of the family's ability to pay.

Surgery Weekends will take place at University Hospital 3-4 times per year.
Angela Paduch Send email
(726) 234-0382
Dr Ian Mitchell
Updated within the last year