Operation Smile Ireland - Largest Ever Effort
Posted on February 14th, 2008
In November 2007, 23 Irish medical volunteers went to Ethiopia, Kenya and Morocco. Between them they treated 250 patients in a two-week period. Co-ordinator Anne McGillivary was based in Jimma, Ethiopia, along with Mr. David Orr and Triona Sweeney. The conditions in Jimma were particularly challenging but the team managed to screen 157 patients and perform 127 surgeries. Patients’ ages ranged from 3 mths to 68 years!
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Benefit Night for Operation Smile
Posted on September 4th, 2007
“EDEN”
A play by Eugene O Brien
[winner, best new play, Irish Times Theatre Awards]
in the
Millbank Theatre, Rush, Co. Dublin
on
Wednesday September 12th 2007 at 8.30pm
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Operation Smile - Happy Anniversary
Posted on July 21st, 2007
Operation Smile, a private, not-for-profit, volunteer medical services organization, provides free reconstructive surgery and related healthcare to children around the world born with cleft lip and/or palate.
Operation Smile was founded by Doctor William P Magee, a plastic surgeon, and his wife, Kathleen, in 1982. Operation Smile medical volunteers have treated more than 100,000 children worldwide since 1982 and currently has programs in 25 countries.
This year, Operation Smile commemorates its 25th anniversary, and its celebrations will culminate in November 2007 with the World Journey of Smiles, 43 simultaneous missions in 25 countries, with a goal of providing new smiles and new lives for an estimated 5,000 children living with facial deformities.
Happy 25th Anniversary to Operation Smile from the Cleft Lip and Palate Association of Ireland
Operation Smile Ireland
The growing interest from donors and medical professionals in Ireland about Operation Smile’s mission prompted the creation of Operation Smile Ireland in 2003.
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Stickler Syndrome - Contact
Posted on June 30th, 2007
Irish families seeking information and support regarding stickler syndrome should contact:
Theresa Corrigan, Tel. 042 9665548
A word from Theresa…
(2nd February 2002)
Hi everyone,
My name is Theresa Corrigan, I live in Bailieborough, Co. Cavan. My husband was born with a cleft palate and short chin, we know it as Pierre Robin Sequence (PRS). We have four children from 10 to 3. Two of the girls had PRS and a very traumatic start to life.
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Epilepsy Sufferers - Lamictal Warning
Posted on June 3rd, 2007
The US Food and Drug Administration reported in Sept’06 that preliminary information from the North American Antiepileptic Drug Pregnancy Registry suggested that babies exposed to Lamictal during the first three months of pregnancy may have a higher chance of being born with a cleft lip or cleft palate.
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Mandatory folic fortification to protect babies from defects
Posted on May 27th, 2007
According to today’s Sunday Independent (May 27, 2007), Ireland will become the first country in Europe to implement mandatory folic acid food fortification next year.
“The move will result in a 24 per cent drop in the number of babies born with neural tube defects such as spina bifida and anencephaly, doctors say. Ireland has one of the highest rates of neural tube defects in Europe with between 49 and 93 affected babies born here every year. Folic acid is a vitamin that, when taken prior to a woman becoming pregnant, can help prevent neural tube defects in babies.” (Quote)
A recently (May 2007) published1 Norwegian study on folic acid supplements and risk of facial clefts concluded that folic acid supplements during early pregnancy seem to reduce the risk of isolated cleft lip (with or without cleft palate) by about a third.
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