Global Smile Foundation (GSF) is a nonprofit organization based in

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, U.S.

History

Global Smile Foundation was founded in 2008 by Usama Hamdan. It gives cleft care,

cleft lip and cleft palate A cleft lip contains an opening in the upper lip that may extend into the nose. The opening may be on one side, both sides, or in the middle. A cleft palate occurs when the palate (the roof of the mouth) contains an opening into the nose. The te ...

, to underserved communities. Hamadan was recognized by the Social Security of Health, Peru in 2022 when they announced that they are establishing a fissured center to treat congenital facial deformities, named after him. In 2012, the Global Smile Foundation established a cleft center in Guayaquil, Ecuador, and Fundacion Global Smile-Ecuador at Leon Becerra Hospital. By 2014, the Global Smile Foundation was seeing 350 patients with congenital facial deformities and performing surgeries on over two hundred patients during a one-week mission. In 2015, the Global Smile Foundation surgeons worked with Peruvian surgeons virtually using an augmented reality technology called Proximie to perform a surgery on a cleft lip patient. Global Smile Foundation is active

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, and

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. In Peru, they have assisted more than four thousand children recover their smiles with the help of EsSalud. In Lebanon, GSF started its work in 2014 by establishing a specialized association. To further develop their work in Lebanon, they entered in a cooperation agreement with the Union of Relief and Development Association Lebanon in order to treat Syrian refugees’ children with cleft lip and palate.

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