6th International Comprehensive Cleft Care Workshop (CCCW)

The 6th International Comprehensive Cleft Care Workshop (CCCW), organized by Global Smile Foundation (GSF), held from Oct 10 - 13, 2023 at Hyatt Regency Barcelona Tower, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

Description:
The Comprehensive Cleft Care Workshop (CCCW), founded by Global Smile Foundation, is carefully designed to empower cleft care providers to deliver the best patient outcomes in their own communities by offering simulation-based training and education that is led by the world’s leaders in the cleft and craniofacial fields. Our standard for cleft care is based on replicable, evidence-based, and experience-proven outcomes.

We believe that the best cleft care is provided by an integrated team of specialists that includes surgery, dentistry, orthodontics, pediatrics, speech pathology, psychology, nursing, and anesthesiology.  

Patient access to cleft care is extremely limited in underserved areas because training and education for cleft care are concentrated in a few global regions. Our workshops rotate between Latin America, Europe, and the Middle East/Asia to reach healthcare providers around the world. Our goal is for the CCCW attendees to acquire the skills necessary to create sustainable cleft care capacity where they live and work.