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22/04/2013
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Rio de Janeiro - A non-governmental organization (NGO) Smile Train has launched an awareness campaign on the treatment of oral clefts (also known as cleft lip) in children. The action is taking place across the country through the website of the NGO (www.smiletrainbrasil.com), social networks and through partners.
The problem occurs as the baby's development is incomplete during pregnancy and it stays with an opening in the lip or palate (roof of the mouth). The cleft may also occur simultaneously in the lip and palate.
The objectives of the campaign are to make people know that there is treatment for crack and 20% increase in the number of corrective surgeries in Brazil. Approximately 4000 children are born each year in the country with this problem, but only half can go through the surgical procedure.
According to the program manager Smile Train Brazil, Mariane Goes, the expansion of this campaign is "essential to provide people suffering with cleft lip and palate the same opportunities for a person without this problem."
In Brazil since 1999, Smile Train helps in performing free surgeries for treatment of cleft lip and palate and also monitors the result by tracking various specialist areas - such as audiologists, dentists, orthodontists and otolaryngologist.
The NGO reached last year's total of 13,500 surgeries in partnership with surgeons and hospitals across the states of Pará, Maranhão, Piauí, Ceará, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Bahia, Mato Grosso, Goiás of Minas Gerais, the Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Paraná and Rio Grande do Sul
Source: Jb Online
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