Operation Smile
A shared commitment to safe surgery and care for people born with cleft lip and cleft palate.
Our founders, Dr Lara Watson and Dr Priyanka Chadha, became business ambassadors for Operation Smile, bringing the academy’s surgical background to its fundraising and awareness work.
Learn about the charity’s work and ways to support it.
Our founders’ ambassador storyDr Lara Watson & Dr Priyanka Chadha
Business ambassadors
Operation Smile works to improve access to safe surgery and comprehensive cleft care.
For an academy founded by clinicians with backgrounds in plastic, maxillofacial and head-and-neck surgery, the charity’s work connects directly with the disciplines that shaped Acquisition Aesthetics.
Clinical roots
The founders’ surgical backgrounds connect the academy with the charity’s focus on safe surgery and cleft care.
Ambassador platform
The partnership used the academy’s platform to support awareness and fundraising activity.
Explore the work
Continue to Operation Smile for current information about its programmes and ways to get involved.
Raising awareness
Dr Watson and Dr Chadha set out to use the academy’s platform to raise awareness and support fundraising for Operation Smile.
The partnership also connected with the Aesthetics United Charity Conference, organised by the founders.
“It has been a longstanding ambition of mine and Lara’s to be involved with Operation Smile.”
Dr Priyanka ChadhaFrom the original partnership announcement
From the partnership archiveView the original announcement and ambassador message
These original materials describe the partnership at the time of its announcement. The target mentioned in the artwork was an ambition, not a report of outcomes or a current fundraising commitment.
Original partnership announcement. View full-size artwork
The founders’ message looked ahead to fundraising events and a future medical mission. View full-size artwork
Explore the charity's work
Read about Operation Smile’s programmes and the ways you can get involved on its own website.