Professor Sailer has made it his task to give children with disfigured faces the gift of a smile and to pass his knowledge on to local doctors.
It affects the poorest of the poor throughout the globe.
Sathia – once a severely disfigured girl, now a young woman of promise.
The story of Padmavathi is the story of a strong girl. It is a story which says much about what the CCI aid project actually delivers. From a cleft-child with no future to one of the best trained, pretty young women.
How a big story in Switzerland started with a small boy from India.
Prof. Sailer's big goal: to give cleft-children a good future.
Following the birth of her baby, 26-year-old Sharmila returned to her mother's house - in rural India a very wide-spread tradition.
How we reach people in distant rural areas of India.
Prof. Dr. Dr. Hermann Sailer specified his guidelines for cleft surgeons
A chance encounter resulted in a friendship and co-operation.
When Surya now sees his reflection in water, he is warmed to the cockles of his heart. Every child should be happy when they see their reflection.
Ritu can also smile, at last! Only when she was eight years old was the young girl allowed to come to the Cleft-centre for treatment.
Joint aid in the spirit of Mother Teresa CCI enters into a collaboration in Kolkata with the order of the Nobel peace prize holder.
What are the causes of cleft lips and palates? How malnutrition and genetics can cause clefts,
Development deficits during pregnancy
Depending upon which developmental defect took place and when during the pregnancy, 14 different cleft forms may occur.
Luckily there is help at hand: How we can treat clefts.
Prof. Sailer still talks of the day when he and Dr. Shetty saw and examined 543 patients.
Top requirements in theory and practice - how we train doctors at our Cleft-centres to become specialists.
Our Cleft-centre in Mangalore, established in 2001, developed under the leadership of Prof. Krishna Shama Rao into a clinic focussing on cranio-facial malformation surgery. In the summer of 2007 Prof. Rao passed on the activities to his young colleague and successor, Dr. Dr. Vikram Shetty.
Just a few months later, CCI opened its second Cleft-centre in Hyderabad
With a TV room for small patients - the Cleft-centre in Chennai, India
Speech therapy for integration - our Cleft-Centre in Mumbai has a particularly good speech therapy centre.
It was in the Cleft-centre at Timisoara that Dr. Urtila operated the young Gabriela, one of his most difficult cases to date.
Our Cleft-centre in Lahore, Pakistan, helps some of the poorest children in the
A Cleft-centre with a big history - the St. Thomas Hospital in Chengannur
On her trips through India Dr. h.c. Erika Sailer encountered people with cleft disfigurements for the first time.
The mother gives her son all her love and strength - and Jamal becomes healthy.
A family in poverty - but now they have three healthy children
Know-how transfer and training have proven their worth - doctors return to their home countries as highly qualified cleft surgeons.
Transferring experience, exchanging knowledge - our concept for the treatment of
Professor Dr. Hermann F. Sailer is the founder and chief physician of the clinic bearing his name. He is one of the world’s most experienced experts in the field of maxillofacial surgery, successfully performing thousands of complicated operations in over thirty years at Zurich University Hospital and at his own clinic. CV Professor-Sailer PDF
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