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| Founder | Usama Hamdan |
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| Type | Nonprofit |
| Headquarters | Norwood, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Website | gsmile |
Global Smile Foundation (GSF) is a nonprofit organization based in Norwood, Massachusetts, United States. [1]
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| Founder | Usama Hamdan |
|---|---|
| Type | Nonprofit |
| Headquarters | Norwood, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Website | gsmile |
Global Smile Foundation (GSF) is a nonprofit organization based in Norwood, Massachusetts, United States. [1]
Global Smile Foundation was founded in 2008 by Usama Hamdan. [2] It gives cleft care, cleft lip and cleft palate, to underserved communities. [3] Hamadan was recognized by the Social Security of Health, Peru in 2022 when they announced that they are establishing a fissured center to treat congenital facial deformities, named after him. [3] [4]
In 2012, the Global Smile Foundation established a cleft center in Guayaquil, Ecuador, and Fundación Global Smile-Ecuador at Leon Becerra Hospital. [5]
By 2014, the Global Smile Foundation was seeing 350 patients with congenital facial deformities and performing surgeries on over two hundred patients during a one-week mission. [6]
In 2015, the Global Smile Foundation surgeons worked with Peruvian surgeons virtually using an augmented reality technology called Proximie to perform a surgery on a cleft lip patient. [7] [8]
Global Smile Foundation is active Ecuador, El Salvador, Lebanon, [9] and Peru. [10] [11] In Peru, they have assisted more than four thousand children recover their smiles with the help of EsSalud. [3] [12] [13] In Lebanon, GSF started its work in 2014 by establishing a specialized association. [14] To further develop their work in Lebanon, they entered in a cooperation agreement with the Union of Relief and Development Association Lebanon in order to treat Syrian refugees’ children with cleft lip and palate. [15]