Pacific Clinical Research Foundation aka Smiles International Foundation

Smiles of Tecate performs biannual clinics in the Mexican Town of Tecate in the months of May and November.  These clinics diagnose and treat hundreds of children afflicted with facial deformities congenitally produced, and does so for free.  It works in close conjunction with the Rotary Clubs of Tecate, Carlsbad California.

This program operates twice annually in the city of Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine to provide free surgical care for the underpriviledged children and young adults afflicted with congenetal and developmental defects of the Cranio-Maxillofacial region.  The host hospital and surgeons have been made self sufficient to be able to provide services year long with equipment donations, didactic symposia, and demonstrated surgery since 2005. Mission visits are now for providing continuity of care, Surgical treatment skills augmentation, and international ambassadorial education.

This program continues an earlier successful program started by one of the groups Dr. Moses help start, Thousand Smiles Foundation.  The initation of the Hospital De Ninos craniofacial program with equipment, shared surgical experiences and didactic symposiums was done by Dr. Moses in the latter years of 1989 through his PCRF and Rotary partnerships.

This program is developing a small village hospital in Mori, A.as well as children screened and operated upon for facial cleft deformities.  Due to long standing lack of care in this region, adults as well as children are treated.  Local surgeons are provided equipment, training, and continued didactic interactions to ultimately provide a self-sufficiency of Cleft Care for this region. Clean water systems are being added to the village sources to prevent dyentary and water borne diseases of the children in order to reduce morbitiy and mortality.

Provides longitudinal corrective CranioMaxillofacial, ENT, Speech and Language, Dental, and Psychological Self-Esteem care to children afflicted with facial differences due to congenital and acquired deformities through the provision of sustainable SLP and Surgical mission clinics held at least twice annually. The months have been moved from April and October to February and August due to the extraordinary effect of COVID-19 on delays for the scheduled ongoing care in the year 2019. Additionally, annually in the month of November, the Foundation board leadership provides opportunity for engaging the W.O.N. Cabo Tuna Jackpot Tournament sponsors to participate with donations of part of their winnings to the charitable efforts of the Smiles International Mission in order to sustain Children's Care.

This is a field surgical team which has brought facial corrective surgery given at no-cost to the indigenous Mayan communities located at the base of the Yucatan Peninsula who otherwise have no other treatment for their Facial Cleft Lip and Palate deformities.

Several projects in Costa Rica are in process. One for the Hospital de Ninos San Jose, is ongoing for the strategic development of Virtual Surgical Planning and training for execution of surgical techniques for difficult facial reconstructive surgery for Facial Cleft Deformities patients. The other is for ongoing expert education and development of surgical care for the population of Costa Rica devoid of access for management of Temporomandibular Dysfunction Diseases through the use of Minimally Invasive Arthroscopic Surgery and options for Prosthetic Total Joint Replacement Surgery.