Our Stories

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

“It's amazing what your cleft journey will do to your life when you embrace it.”

The Las Vegas Raider’s surprisingly personal connection to cleft care.

In honor of Cleft Awareness Month 2021, Smile Train's Cleft Community Advisory Council presents real-life stories of growing up with a cleft or being the mom to a child with a cleft from people who have been there. 

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 endurance events got canceled around the world, these Smile Train supporters ran anyway.

"There's power in my cleft."