AdventHealth Sharing Smiles

Our next trip will take place the week of September 24 in Campeche, Mexico. We had a very successful trip in 2023 and look forward to serving children in the area once again. Support our mission and follow live updates here give.adventhealth.com/Campeche2024.

July is National Cleft and Craniofacial Awareness and Prevention Month, a time to raise awareness and improve understanding of orofacial clefts (clefts of the lip and palate) and other conditions of the head and face. In honor of this month, please consider supporting Sharing Smiles at give.adventhealth.com/CleftMonth.

Great piece on our own Dr. Raj Sawh-Martinez. Dr. Raj not only volunteers on our trips, but he also sits on the Sharing Smiles board. We are so thankful to have him!

Thank you AdventHealth for Children for honoring our wonderful volunteers during National Cleft and Craniofacial Awareness and Prevention Month.

Our team has a successful weekend at the new dental clinic in Guatemala. They were able to treat many patients who had never been to a dentist before!

We love creating healthy smiles and teaching healthy habits to our patients!

Our dental team had a great first day in Guatemala, despite facing some challenges. The power went out as soon as they got ready to start seeing patients, however they were still able to take x-rays and do exams. The team is geared up for what should be a busy day ahead.

The entire Sharing Smiles team would like to extend our deepest appreciation to Dr. Wilbur Davis as he retires from the Sharing Smiles board. Dr. Davis joined the board in 2013. Under his leadership, we fulfilled our sustainability goal at Mission Emanuel in the Dominican Republic and are well on our way at El Hogar in Honduras.

Dr. Davis has a keen talent for building clinics and developing high quality teams. Because of his reputation as a skilled doctor and leader, he was recruited by former board chair Nestor de Armas to lead the Sharing Smiles pediatric dental program, which he continues to do with the help of the high caliber dental team he built.

Dr. Davis has donated countless hours sourcing the appropriate supplies and equipment for our trips and onsite clinics. His personal philanthropy and commitment to creating smiles for children in need has inspired our board to dream bigger, open more dental clinics and serve more disadvantaged children than we ever thought possible.

In addition, Dr. Davis helped spearhead bone graft surgeries on our cleft trips and continues to provide oversight and mentorship for cleft bone graft procedures.

Thank you so much for your service, Dr. Davis. We are confident that you are a lifelong advocate for Sharing Smiles.

The recent AdventHealth Sharing Smiles pediatric rehabilitation trip to Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic was a tremendous success! We had the incredible opportunity to work with 48 inspiring children, focusing on improving their quality of life and overall health. A heartfelt thank you to everyone who supported this initiative—our talented and generous team, and our local partners who welcomed us with open arms.

We are thrilled to share the success of a remarkable partnership between United States and Mexican volunteers that resulted in life-changing outcomes for 51 cleft lip and palate patients, with a total of 60 procedures performed during our most recent trip to Merida, Mexico! This incredible effort highlights the power of collaboration and the importance of providing specialized care to those in need.

Today is our final day in Merida. We have 12 more patients on the schedule to round out the trip. See photos from yesterday and a heartwarming update from a patient's father in our trip blog at give.adventhealth.com/Merida.

Our team in Merida completed 15 surgeries yesterday. Our busy week continues with 14 surgeries on the schedule, including lips, palates, and alveolar bone grafts. Follow our daily updates at give.adventhealth.com/Merida.

Our latest update from Merida is up now in our trip blog. Find out what the team has been doing and view updated photos at give.adventhealth.com/Merida.

Our return to Merida is off to a great start. We have our first update from the team on-site posted now on our trip blog at give.adventhealth.com/Merida.

Our trip to Merida is nearly here. The team was packing up four huge suitcases of supplies to bring along on the trip this afternoon. We will be sharing live updates via our trip blog beginning May 11th. You can follow along and/or support our mission at give.adventhealth.com/Merida.

Our team is gearing up for their return to Merida coming up the week of May 11th. We look forward to seeing the progress of our past patients and meeting new ones. You can support our mission and follow our entire trip with daily updates at give.adventhealth.com/Merida.

This week in the Dominican Republic, our team met Sweet Zoe. Read her story in. our latest blog update at give.adventhealth.com/SmileDR. See how you can make a difference by joining our generous trip sponsor, Venice-Nokomis Rotary Club, and supporting our mission on that page too.

Our team performed 4 successful surgeries Tuesday and we continue our first cleft trip to the Dominican Republic. Follow live daily updates at http://give.adventhealth.com/SmileDR. Thank you to Venice-Nokomis Rotary Club for generously supporting this trip.

Stay tuned for daily updates on our first ever cleft trip to the Dominican Republic! View our trip blog at give.adventhealth.com/SmileDR, where we're sharing stories, photos, and experiences. A heartfelt thank you to the generous support of the Venice-Nokomis Rotary Club for sponsoring this trip and helping to forever change the lives of the children we see this week.

Our first ever cleft trip to the Dominican Republic is off to a great start! This morning we will be screening patients and begin surgeries this afternoon. You can follow along with daily updates and support our mission on our trip blog at give.adventhealth.com/SmileDR.

Later this week our team touches down in the Dominican Republic for our first ever cleft trip in the area. We can't wait to meet all of the wonderful families and heal the smiles of children in need. Follow along with our daily updates on our trip blog at give.adventhealth.com/SmileDR.

We are less than 10 days away from our first ever cleft trip to the Dominican Republic. The week of April 13, our team will embark on a new chapter in Sharing Smiles history. You can support our trip and view live updates at give.adventhealth.com/SmileDR.

We have our first ever cleft trip to the Dominican Republic coming up the week of April 13. This is an incredible opportunity for our team to serve the children in this area. The gift of a healed smile truly lasts a lifetime. You can support our trip and view live updates from the team at give.adventhealth.com/SmileDR.

We have had a successful and fulfilling first quarter of 2024. See the photos and read all about it at bit.ly/Smiles2024.

Our team had an incredibly successful and fulfilling week in Villahermosa. Over the course of the week they performed 39 successful surgeries. We wish them a safe flight home tomorrow. You can view our daily blog updates and more photos at give.adventhealth.com/smile24.

Our team in Villahermosa has had a very successful trip thus far. Yesterday they performed 8 operations. They have 8 more scheduled for today. That's 16 lives changed forever, and it's only Tuesday. To see a detailed breakdown of our daily events with photos, check out our trip blog at give.adventhealth.com/smile24.

Our team has made it to Villahermosa. Saturday was spent training our volunteers in preparation for a busy day of patient screenings today. We will share more photos and live updates on our trip page at give.adventhealth.com/smile24.

Our amazing team of skilled volunteers is getting ready for their return to Villahermosa this week. We can't wait to serve the wonderful children in need of a healed smile. To follow along with our trip and help support our mission, please visit give.adventhealth.com/smile24.

We are excited to return to Villahermosa to heal smiles in February. It's been a year since our last visit, so our team of volunteers will surely be busy. If you would like to support this trip, please visit this page give.adventhealth.com/smile24. Thank you for supporting Sharing Smiles!

As we quickly approach the holiday, we would like to offer our deepest thanks to everyone who participated in this year's 50 Smiles campaign. Following , generous gifts continued to come in. Due to the generosity of our donors, we raised over $17,000. These funds will provide the life-altering gift of a healed smile to children in Central and South America. Thank you for being a part of our mission!