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31/10/2023

We want to express our gratitude to Dr. M C Sudhakar, Honorable Minister for Higher Education, Karnataka Government, and District Incharge Minister for Chikkaballapura, for organizing the recent cleft lip and palate screening camp at Chikkaballapura.

Dr Pritham Shetty from Cleft Leadership Center, Bhagwan Mahaveer Jain Hospital, Bangalore, conducted the screening and provided necessary outpatient services, including dates for their required interventions.

Dr M C Sudhakar was pleased to learn that our multidisciplinary services are free of cost with support from Smile Train.

These efforts are contributing towards building a more inclusive and compassionate community.

24/10/2023

Dr Aparna V S is our lead speech language pathologist with a decade of experience in treating speech disorders in children with cleft.

Her passion and zeal in helping individuals with cleft reach their optimum potential by communicating efficiently has positively influenced thousands of families over the years.

An alumni of the prestigious All India Institute of Speech and Hearing, Mysore, she started her career as a cleft speech pathologist with our Smile Train Unit back in 2013. She completed her PhD in speech language pathology titled “Speech outcome measurements in CLP”. She has several presentations and publications to her credit that reflects her continual effort to stay updated with latest research in cleft speech.

She has been instrumental in setting up one of the best VPD clinics in the country, equipped with high-end diagnostic evaluations including MRI.
She has been training many SLP’s, interns and is an active part of Smile Train’s SLP training programme.

As a passionate clinician-cum-researcher Dr Aparna tries to bring the best possible evidence-based practices for assessment and treatment in our unit.

Beyond clinical work Dr Aparna values building relationships with children and their family guiding them through their journey of complete cleft care at our center.

✨We are grateful for being able to transform the lives of all our children with cleft, not only with surgical correction, but also by providing speech therapy under the same roof for over a decade✨

01/09/2023

Empowering mothers and nurturing smiles! 🤱💕

World Breastfeeding Week was celebrated at our Unit by a demonstration and presentation on the importance of breast milk feeding for mothers of children less than 3 months of age.

Our Nutritionist presented in detail the various aspects of breast milk feeding for children with cleft explaining the importance of expressing milk and feeding if direct breastfeeding was not feasible as is in most cases. The role of the father and family’s support was stressed upon to encourage them to lend a hand in feeding the child thereby reducing the mother’s stress of being solely responsible for the same.

One of the mother’s who is exclusively breastfeeding her child with cleft was called upon to share her experience and encourage other mother’s to express and feed similarly.

This was followed by a demonstration of how to express milk from the breast, using models that were given to each mother to practice the right manner of expression.

A meal rich in galactogogues was served to each parent who attended the programme.

Breastfeeding Week at CLC, Smile Train was all about promoting health, happiness, and the beautiful bond between mother and child.

29/08/2023

Dr Dipesh Rao is a Dually Qualified (Medically and Dentally trained) Maxillofacial surgeon. He was one of our first fellows and joined back as one of our three Surgical Consultants at the Unit after furthering his training.

Globally, only a few surgeons have the privilege of training in Paediatric Maxillofacial Surgery and Craniofacial Surgery, and Dr. Dipesh is one of them.

He did his Paediatric Maxillofacial fellowship at the Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne. It is here he gained knowledge of Orthognathic surgery, Paediatric OMS and Complex craniomaxillofacial distractions and has carried it forward in his practice here in India.

He furthered his training by pursuing a Royal College of Surgery-supported fellowship at the Oxford Craniofacial Unit. The Oxford Craniofacial Unit is world-renowned for its pioneering work in Craniofacial surgery and its well-integrated multidisciplinary practice.

To date, you can hear him speak about the tremendous influence these three fellowships have had on him.

Dr. Rao's spectrum of work includes cleft lip and palate deformity, syndromic and non-syndromic craniosynostosis (fusion of skull growing lines), complex facial deformity requiring orthognathic correction and distraction osteogenesis.

Dr Rao prefers to keep the child at the apex and the doctor and parents at the base to form an interlinked 'relationship triangle' providng care from antenatal diagnosis to adulthood.

He dreams of a world where every child born with a facial deformity can explore their full potential and lead a life without social stigmas.

He is a wildlife photographer by avocation and his photos have received global acclaim

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06/08/2023

🤰🏻Nourishing Love, One feed at a Time 🍼

During Breast Awareness Week, we at Smile Train CLC, BMJH, Bangalore celebrate the strength and love shared by moms and children with clefts.
Together, we nourish and support every little smile, proving that no challenge is too big for a mother's bond.
🥛While direct breast feeding may not be the most plausible option, breast milk feeding is what we propagate for our children with cleft.

📌 Let us know in the comments what your experience has been so far.

04/08/2023

Meet our Project Director
- Dr Pritham Shetty

Dr Shetty is a surgeon with two decades of experience in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery.

He is also a Professor at the Bangalore Institute of Dental Sciences.

Along with Dr Krishnamurthy, he worked to build the Cleft unit at Bhagwan Mahaveer Jain Hospital, and they have successfully operated on over 10,000 fully funded cleft cases.

In addition, Dr Shetty served as the Honorable General Secretary for the Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons, India, from 2016 to 2021—one of the highlights from his term in initiating Fellowship training opportunities for young Maxillofacial Surgeons.

He is now the Honorable General Secretary of the Indian Society of Cleft Lip, Palate and Craniofacial Anomalies. His dynamic leadership and vision have made him a well-respected figure in the fraternity.

Dr Shetty's patients often comment that his treatment values and firm decisions always help them choose the best for their children.

Dr Shetty's area of expertise is Cleft deformities, Maxillofacial Trauma, Orthognathic Surgery, Temporomandibular joint disorders, and Rhinoplasties.

Olley!!

25/07/2023

Cleft Lip Palate is a congenital defect. Congenital means the defect is present from birth.

The presence of this defect can be diagnosed from antenatal scans between 12th - 20th week of pregnancy.

A cleft lip is detected more easily than a cleft palate.

Early diagnosis facilitates preparedness of the parents and family and allows for early intervention after birth.

Together, let's break barriers, erase stigma, and shine a light on the strength and beauty of every unique smile.
For an Appointment Call: 080 40875555 or visit us at www.bmjh.org

14/07/2023

A leader inspires you to dream bigger, learn deeper, perform better and strive to become your best version each day.

Dr Krishnamurthy Bonanthaya is a Maxillofacial surgeon with over three decades of experience. His subspeciality area of interest is Cleft lip and palate deformities .

He believes that empathy towards patients is the cornerstone for an ethical practice and strives to achieve this in practice

He built the Smile Train supported Cleft leadership Center and over the years, his team has performed over 10,000 fully funded cleft procedures. He was the program's Project Director from 2005 - 2023 (Feb) and was the fellowship director for over 25 cleft surgeons during this period. The fellowship programs are run under the auspices of the Rajiv Gandhi University of health sciences and the International Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons. His trainees are successful cleft surgeons in different parts of the world.

Over the years, he has also engaged in clinical research and has tried to contribute- through his publications of his research- to the body of evidence for management of cleft deformities.

He is also a Professor of Maxillofacial Surgery at the Bangalore Institute of Dental Sciences.

He is the former President of the Indian Society for Cleft Lip Palate and Craniofacial anomalies (ISCLPCA) and the Indian Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (AOMSI). In addition, he is the president of the International Board for Certification of Specialists in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery.

He also is the Chairman of the Indian Medical Advisory Council for Smile Train.

✨ We at CLC SmileTrain, BMJH, are ever grateful to him for paving the path of comprehensive cleft care and giving children with cleft differences more reasons to smile ✨

08/07/2023

July is National Cleft And Craniofacial Awareness Month, a necessary time to bring attention to these conditions.
Cleft Leadership Centre, Bhagwan Mahaveer Jain Hospital

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