Welcome to the Save a Smile Foundation

The Save A Smile Foundation (SASF) is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping children with cleft lip and/or cleft palate; cranial defects. One in seven hundred children will be affected by cleft lip and cleft palate; cranial defects. This number reflects just how pervasive this birth defect is among newborns.

Founded in 2008 by Bruce Patterson, Save A Smile engages in a wide range of activities in the community in an effort to not only raise awareness about cleft lip and cleft palate defects, but to raise funds in an effort to eradicate this birth defect. In the process, Save a Smile will assist families who are facing the financial challenge these defects incur; that are so often prevalent in families dealing with this circumstance. SASF will engage this issue head on and be a driving force in the search to find a cure.

The Save a Smile Foundation welcomes you and appreciates your interest in this issue. Please feel free to browse this site to learn more about Cleft Lip and Cleft Palate and to find out what you can do to assist in the fight against this defect.

Save a Smile in the News!

The Save A Smile Foundation is making a difference in our community!

To view the News segment that aired on Sunday August 16, 2009 Click on the Newsroom tab in the Navigation Bar.

Save a Smile Media

• Wes Sarginson's final Wes Side Story with Save a Smile
• Childrens Healthcare of Atlanta Center For Craniofacial Disorders
• Visit the Atlanta Holiday House
• Save a Smile on YouTube

Information and Awareness

• Cleft palate occurs in about one in 700 live births worldwide
• The cause of cleft lip and cleft palate formation can be genetic in nature
• Cleft lip and palate is very treatable however, treatment can be a lifelong process
• According to diagnostic imaging...King Tut may have had a cleft lip