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Global Smile Foundation
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Global Smile Foundation (GSF) is a nonprofit organization based in Norwood, Massachusetts, U.S.[1]
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Global Smile Foundation was founded in 2008 by Usama Hamdan.[2] It gives cleft care, cleft lip and cleft palate, to underserved communities.[3] 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.[3][4]
In 2012, the Global Smile Foundation established a cleft center in Guayaquil, Ecuador, and Fundacion Global Smile-Ecuador at Leon Becerra Hospital.[5]
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.[6]
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.[7][8]
Global Smile Foundation is active Ecuador, El Salvador, Lebanon,[9] and Peru.[10][11] In Peru, they have assisted more than four thousand children recover their smiles with the help of EsSalud.[3][12][13] In Lebanon, GSF started its work in 2014 by establishing a specialized association.[14] 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.[15]
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