The American Dental Association reports it is asking Congress to pass the Ensuring Lasting Smiles Act — legislation that would require all private group and individual health plans to cover medically necessary services that repair or restore congenital anomalies.
To get a sense of the new reality for medical missions, NPR talked to representatives of a half-dozen organizations whose volunteers provide surgical and medical care while training local health professionals.
Ongoing data from board-certified plastic surgeons reveal evolving trends in cosmetic breast augmentation techniques, including incision location and implant type, emphasizing a focus on evidence-based practice for patient safety and satisfaction.
Cleft organization Smile Train announces the Safe Surgery and Anesthesia Initiative in partnership with Lifebox, a global nonprofit organization that aims to make surgery safer in low-resource settings.
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Cleft organization Smile Train will take on the operations of Simulare Medical, a developer of cleft surgery simulators, it announces.
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20-year-old David Bufkin, born with growth deformities that made it hard for him to eat and talk naturally, has found his happy ending, Banner Health explains.
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Having an increased number of surgeries between ages 8 and 10 years is associated with increased anxiety and depressive symptoms in teenagers with cleft lip and palate, according to a study published recently in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.
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Cleft charity Smile Train announces a partnership with Scottish charity Kids Operating Room (KidsOR) to supply an initial 20 pediatric operating rooms across Africa as a way to help provide surgical care to more than 12,000 children by the end of 2021.
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Microtia is a congenital deformity affecting approximately one out of 4,000 births globally. Children born with the condition have incompletely formed or entirely missing ears, according to ILoveQatar.net.
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A 10-day-old infant, born with a very rare condition of joint or fused eyelids as well as fused upper and lower jaws, was successfully operated upon by plastic surgeons at the King George Hospital recently.
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To put smiles on the faces of children affected by abnormal facial and other conditions, surgeons...
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A team of Australian doctors have radically transformed a young woman born with a rare medical condition that caused tumors to deform her face, according to Daily Mail.
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A baby who was born with no ears is unable to have an operation to allow him to hear as Medicare considers it cosmetic surgery and will not cover it, Daily Mail reports.
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In a group of internationally adopted children with cleft lip and/or palate, speech at age five is impaired compared to a corresponding group of children born in Sweden, a study suggests.
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