Prof. Dr. Herrmann F. Sailer

„THE MOST VALUABLE PAYMENT FOR ALL THE WORK IS THE HAPPY AND SATISFIED SMILE ON THE FACE OF AN OPERATED CHILD.”

Professor Hermann F. Sailer is one of the world’s most experienced and respected experts in facial and jaw surgery. In Sailer’s famous private clinic in Zürich, Switzerland you will invariably meet the “who’s who” of the entertainment, beauty and business worlds.

Next to his glamorous appearance Prof. Sailer has a deeply human and modest side. In 2000 – inspired by his wife Erika Sailer – he founded “Cleft-Children International” (CCI), a foundation to help disfigured children escape from a terrible destiny that can easily otherwise impede their breathing, eating and sometimes speaking.

To date, in India, in the first five Cleft centers, no less than 88,000 surgical interventions have been successfully carried out, and more than 420 doctors and nurses trained. Today the organization runs centers in Mangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai (Madras), and Kolkata (Calcutta) as well as in Lahore, Pakistan, in Bethlehem, Palestine, and in Kitale, Kenya.

In 2009 the Cleft School Project was started. Currently, over 90 children which have undergone surgical treatment through Prof. Sailer’s program also receive an education.

Photo: Sailer clinic