Recently, Smile Train's focus is expanding CCC with nutrition, oral health, speech, and nursing care programs to improve functional and psychosocial outcomes for patients following their procedure. Examples include centralized online data record keeping for every patient, virtual simulations and training, and mobile applications to enhance care. Smile Train's model, aimed at increased sustainability, is supplemented by technological advancements to assist in the safety and quality of cleft care services provided in LMIC treatment centers. The founder of Smile Train desired to apply technology wherever possible to build sustainability within the treatment centers and surgeons supporting their own community. Furthermore, safety and quality protocols have been put in place as guidelines for each partner center, and partnerships with other nongovernmental agencies were created to increase safety in the operating rooms. With the goal of reducing disparities in access to quality surgical, anesthesia, and medical care, Smile Train strengthens partners with training, education, equipment, and patient support grants.

Having a presence in over 90 countries throughout its history, the organization provides support for cleft lip and palate repair as well as comprehensive cleft care (CCC) for patients with clefts. Smile Train, the largest global cleft nonprofit organization, employs a model of establishing partnerships with treatment centers and medical professionals in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).

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