Our Stories

Smile Train brought 200+ medical partners from 40+ countries to America’s leading cleft conference

Inside and outside the operating room, Dr. Elizabeth Igaga is fighting to make anesthesia and surgery safer for every patient. 

Building a sustainable, local foundation for success in our newest partner country.

While other cleft organizations’ operations were indefinitely suspended or severely cut back, Smile Train was able to keep moving.

Thanks to Dr. Cuadros — and Smile Train — having a cleft on the Navajo reservations of New Mexico is no longer a sentence to a life of isolation and sickness.

The COVID-19 Surgical Patient Checklist empowers surgical teams to stay safe while operating on COVID+, or suspected COVID+, patients.

It's past time to rethink the mission model of cleft care.

Meet the future of global cleft surgery.

When Dr. Dau started as a Smile Train partner, he knew children with clefts were often abandoned or put in orphanages. As an orphan himself, he comes to work each day determined that no other child should experience that pain.