Giving back
Every smile you start helps fund another
Active Aligners is proud to partner with Operation Smile. A part of every case we complete, anywhere in the world, contributes to Operation Smile’s cleft surgery and care programmes. When you straighten your own smile, you help give a child the chance to smile too.
Our partnership
A part of every case, wherever you are
For every Active Aligners case completed, we contribute towards Operation Smile’s work repairing cleft conditions. It costs remarkably little to change a life, and every contribution goes directly towards safe surgery, follow-up care and the specialist support a child needs to thrive. Your treatment quietly becomes part of something much bigger.
How it works
How every case helps fund a surgery
You start treatment
Choose Active Aligners with a trusted provider and begin your own smile journey, planned and guided by your dentist.
We contribute for your case
A part of every completed case goes towards Operation Smile’s cleft surgery and care programmes.
A child receives care
Your case helps fund safe, life changing cleft surgery and follow-up care for a child who needs it.
The need
Every three minutes, a child is born with a cleft condition
Operation Smile is a global, volunteer based medical charity providing free surgery to repair cleft lip and cleft palate. In many parts of the world safe surgery is still out of reach, and a child may wait years for the care that changes everything. These are a few of the faces behind that need.
A global family
One vision, shared across the world
With more than 6,000 active medical volunteers, Operation Smile is one of the largest volunteer based nonprofits in the world. Its supporters believe every child born with a cleft condition deserves safe, effective and timely care, wherever they happen to be born. As long as children need help, the mission is simple: do whatever it takes to give them the care they deserve.
“When you choose Active Aligners, you join a community that gives back. A part of every smile we straighten helps another child find theirs.”
Real stories
Lives changed by care like this
Behind every surgery is a child, a family and a future changed forever. Here are three of the smiles this kind of support helps make possible.
Faustina
For 17 years, Faustina lived with the pain and isolation that often come with an untreated cleft lip. Today, after free surgery from Operation Smile, she is living out her dream as a seamstress and has grown into a warm, outgoing young woman. “Now, when I take a cup and drink, people use that same cup. It means I’m accepted by all.”
Akosua
Bullying over her cleft lip pushed Akosua out of school in second grade and followed her into adult life. At 52 she finally learned what had caused her different smile, and that free surgery could change it. After a long journey to a surgical programme, she saw her new smile. “Now I am confident, always happy and love having my photo taken.”
Melokuhle and Anele
Born during the pandemic with a cleft lip and palate, two year old Melokuhle left his mother Anele with little support and a great deal of worry. “Watching milk come out of his nose during feeding was traumatic.” A surgical programme brought healing for Melokuhle, and real peace of mind for his mother.
Start your smile, and help fund another
Begin your own journey to a straighter smile with Active Aligners, and become part of a child’s brighter future at the same time.