Dear Friends, 

In this new site Smile Train Italy aims to create a space dedicated to the technical and scientific aspects of cleft lip and palate, offering a tool that can be used by everyone to find out about the latest news, as well as receive information on conferences and national and international courses on cleft lip and palate and related issues.

This site will provide an opportunity to express your comments on techniques and surgical procedures, ask for clarification and comments through a forum open to everyone, and go on line with colleagues from all the Countries that are also interested in offering several weeks work experience to medical doctors that make an application. This site offers everyone the chance to share their ideas with all the doctors and health care workers who have taken to heart the interests of children affected with cleft lip and palate.

There will also be an area for the parents of children born with cleft lip and palate and for patients who have already been operated on and who wish to make a comment, give advice or anything else through a site which is dedicated to them.

Fabio Massimo Abenavoli
Presidente Smile Train Italia Onlus