Our Stories

A night of sips, sweets, and smiles in SoHo

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

Meet the 2022 Cohort of International Scholars from Smile Train, American Society of Plastic Surgery and The Plastic Surgery Foundation

We brought the stars out to spread the word: #AllSmilesAreBeautiful

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

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.

When award-winning chef and Smile Train Ambassador Graham Elliot joined Selena Gomez on her HBO Max show Selena + Chef, the good times stretched from Selena‘s kitchen to the faces of children in need around the world.

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