Joy for The Smile Train, and Priceless Exposure, as Smile Pinki Film Earns Oscar

The good news is that every single child with a cleft can be helped with surgery that costs as little as US$250 and takes as little as 45 minutes.

In a major article last year, The New York Times noted how The Smile Train had harnessed technology to create efficiencies in every aspect of its business – from fund-raising to charting patients’ outcomes. “It developed surgery-training software that helps educate doctors around the world. There are high-tech quality-control measures: using digital imaging, a Texas cleft expert grades a random sample of operations performed by The Smile Train doctors around the world, in order to know which surgeons in, say, Uganda or China need more training.”