The Smile Generation [official blog]

“Tooth decay affects more than one-fourth of U.S. children aged 2–5 years and half of those aged 12–15 years. About half of all children and two-thirds of adolescents aged 12–19 years from lower-income families have had decay.”  This was one of the findings in a study by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). [...]

The Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure Series is the world’s largest and most successful education and fundraising event for breast cancer ever created.  Last year the Smile Generation had teams at 8 different races, totaling 443 team members.  Between sponsorship, registration and fundraising the Smile Generation provided nearly $100,000 to Susan G. Komen [...]

February is National Children’s Dental Health Month (NCDHM). NCDHM observances began in Ohio in February 1941. Since then, the concept has grown into a nationwide program, spearheaded by the American Dental Association (ADA) which held its first national observance of Children’s Dental Health Day on February 8, 1949. The slogan for this year’s campaign is [...]

Studies show that over 133 students drop out of school every school day and only 45% of Nevada’s high school students graduate. During the past year the Smile Generation-affiliated offices in the Nevada Region partnered with Communities in Schools of Southern Nevada (CIS) to provide community support which helps students feel enriched, empowered and help [...]

The Smile Generation recently sponsored a Holiday Photo Contest on Facebook and received over 370 entries and generated quite a buzz via social media. Prizes totaled $1900 in VISA gift cards and $1900 was also donated to charity. The photo contest was hosted on the Smile Generation’s Facebook page via a third-party application. People were [...]

Season’s Greetings from the Smile Generation. Here’s to an awesome new year!

Smile Generation-approved offices Tierrasanta Dental Group,  Stonecrest Dental Group and Orthodontics, Camino Dental Group, Gateway Dental Group  and South Oceanside Dental Group in San Diego County  joined forces  to collect 1600 pairs of socks for the homeless of San Diego last October.  The drive dubbed “Sock It to the Mission in Socktober” was spearheaded by [...]

We’re building a playground!  That’s right, volunteers from The Smile Generation and KaBOOM!, the national non-profit dedicated to saving play, have partnered with Casa Ramona Academy to build a new child-designed playground at the school in San Bernardino with hundreds of volunteers in one day. The playground build will take place on Saturday, November 12, [...]

Halloween may not be the most-dentist-friendly holiday, but you can still have fun and enjoy the festivities if you take note of the following tips. Feed your family a healthy dinner before they go trick-or-treating so they’re full and less tempted to reach into their candy bucket. When purchasing candy to hand out to trick-or-treaters, [...]

With Halloween around the corner, we’ve gathered some interesting facts for you. FACTS: More than 35 million pounds of candy corn will be produced this year; equating to nearly 9 billion pieces — enough to circle the moon 4 times if laid end-to-end. Candy accounts for only 6% of the added sugar in the American [...]