Clearwater, FL -- (SBWire) -- 06/29/2011 --CosmicSmile.com – an international online retailer offering high-quality personal dental products – has chosen Smile Train as their charity of choice.
CosmicSmile.com pledges to donate up to 1 percent of their profit from sales of electric toothbrushes, water flossers and more to Smile Train each year. “We chose Smile Train over other worthy charities because both of our organizations focus on creating brighter smiles,” explained Allison Raver of CosmicSmile.com. “We applaud their hard work and want to be able to contribute to better lives for children everywhere.”
Not only does Smile Train provide free cleft surgery to hundreds of thousands of poor children across the globe, but they train doctors and medical professionals to treat cleft palates and cleft lips. They go beyond surgery and treat the “whole child” with comprehensive, total rehabilitative care including speech therapy, general dentistry and orthodontics.
Clefts are a major problem in developing countries where there are millions of children who are suffering with unrepaired clefts. Most cannot eat or speak properly. Many aren't allowed to attend school or hold a job. And almost all of them face very difficult lives filled with shame and isolation, pain and heartache. Their clefts usually go untreated because they are poor – too poor to pay for a simple surgery that has been around for decades. The good news is every single child with a cleft can be helped with surgery that costs as little as $250 and takes as little as 45 minutes.
Selecting Smile Train as their charity of choice is just one example of CosmicSmile.com’s commitment to the industry they serve, communities in which their employees live and work and is part of their overall approach to corporate social responsibility.
About Smile Train
Founded in 1999, Smile Train is the world's largest cleft charity with over 2,600 partner surgeons operating in more than 1,100 partner hospitals in over 75 countries - many of the world's poorest. Smile Train provides free cleft lip and cleft palate surgery to children from poor families that give a child not just a new smile, but a chance at a new life. For more information please go to http://www.smiletrain.org.
About CosmicSmile.com
CosmicSmile.com was created to provide busy consumers with a quick and easy way to shop for and purchase personal dental products ranging from teeth whitening kits to electric toothbrushes to SLS-free toothpaste. It is also an online resource where people can find oral health information. For more information, please visit http://www.CosmicSmile.com.
CosmicSmile.com Chooses Smile Train As Official Charity
CosmicSmile.com has pledged to donate up to 1% of their profit from the sales all of their products to Smile Train yearly.