Dentsply Sirona, Smile Train Mark Milestone
On World Cleft Awareness Day, the partners celebrate their 7,000th enabled cleft surgery and, for the first time, share the economic dimension of their collective impact: an estimated $470 million in lifetime value generated and more than 45,000 years of healthy life restored. Dentsply Sirona donates digital equipment to Smile Train Partner Centers to support cleft care planning, collaboration, and appliance fabrication. In recognition of World Cleft Awareness Day, Dentsply Sirona and Smile Train are celebrating a major milestone in their partnership—the 7,000th cleft surgery enabled since 2021—and sharing new data that quantifies its impact well beyond the operating room. For Dentsply Sirona, this work is part of the company’s mission and sustainability strategy, “BEYOND: Taking Action for a Brighter World.” Behind that single number sits a wider story the partners are telling for the first time. Alongside the surgeries themselves, Dentsply Sirona and Smi...
