Creating Smiles,
Improving Lives
Medical Mission Trip Sponsorships
Providing a Continuum of Care
Contrary to popular belief, children who are born with cleft lip and/or palate may need multiple surgeries and services in their adolescence depending on the severity of their cleft. Although the first surgery on the lip is the most visibly transformational, a continuum of care is necessary to keep children healthy as they grow. Early surgeries focus on mitigating or eliminating the associated fundamental eating, hearing, breathing, and speech problems. Into adulthood, children born with cleft lip and palate may need further dental care, palate revisions, jaw surgery, rhinoplasty’s, or other secondary operations.
Providing a Continuum of Care
Contrary to popular belief, children who are born with cleft lip and/or palate may need multiple surgeries and services in their adolescence depending on the severity of their cleft. Although the first surgery on the lip is the most visibly transformational, a continuum of care is necessary to keep children healthy as they grow. Early surgeries focus on mitigating or eliminating the associated fundamental eating, hearing, breathing, and speech problems. Into adulthood, children born with cleft lip and palate may need further dental care, palate revisions, jaw surgery, rhinoplasty’s, or other secondary operations.
Now more than ever, Austin Smiles is in need of sustainable mission trip funding. Additional COVID safety protocol has added unexpected expenses to our trips including PPE, patient rapid COVID testing, vaccinations, and more. Learn more about how you can help fund a medical mission trip below.
How You Can Help Internationally
$1000
Provides a life-changing surgery & care for 4 children
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Logo recognition in promotional
mission trip video
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Featured in Newsletter as mission
trip Sponsor
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Logo recognition on all promotional
materials
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Social Media recognition
$500
Provides a life-changing surgery & care for 2 children
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Featured in Newsletter as mission
trip Sponsor
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Logo recognition on all promotional
materials
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Social Media recognition
Thank You to Our Medical Mission Sponsors!
Sponsor an upcoming medical mission trip and profoundly change the lives of children in need!
1 in 700 children are born with a cleft lip or palate
$250 covers the cost of one life-changing surgery
150 volunteers annually will change a child’s life forever
About Cleft Lip and Palate
Learn more about the needs of children born with this condition
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Our Medical Mission
Austin Smiles goes on 2-3 medical mission trips annually