Smile Train Italia
Knowledge is vital but knowledge is nothing without understanding
(everyone knows you need a hook to catch fish but not everyone is able to persuade them to swallow it: this is the real goal)
Smile Train Italia is a Humanitarian Association that carries out reconstructive and maxillo-facial plastic surgery in developing countries on poor children affected by serious facial malformations, burn and war injuries.
Smile Train Italia works in the field of international health cooperation in order to help and to promote health care and scientific development in developing countries.
In particular, Smile Train Italia is professionally involved in the following areas:
- Health care: Operating children affected by cleft lip and palate giving them a new smile and a new lease on life;
- Training course: Theoretical and practical programs organized and managed by Smile Train Italia in plastic surgery, maxillo-facial surgery and anaesthesia practices;
- Scientific research: Scientific projects and protocols, submissions to open-access international journals.
