The Smile Generation [official blog]

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 [...]

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, [...]

On Sept. 23, 2011, five of the best dentists from Smile Generation approved offices will travel to the capital city of Addis Ababa to once again serve the dental needs of the Ethiopian people. This is the second time the Smile Generation team will head to Ethiopia, having traveled there last October, where they saw [...]

Two years ago our company was one of the first to pilot charity: water’s new online giving platform called “mycharity water”. This was our first introduction to providing clean drinking water to people in need. Through this first campaign we were able to raise $11,887 and fund three water projects. Finally after two years the [...]

We are happy to share that some of our Smile Generation offices in San Diego recently contributed toothbrushes in support of the Back to School Brigade of Operation Homefront Southern California, an organization that provides assistance to the families of our service members and wounded warriors. The project was spearheaded by Kevin Schieffer of Tierrasanta [...]

On Saturday, August 13, 2011, over 140 Smile Generation approved dentist offices and 1200 volunteers served their communities by participating in the first ever Smile Gen Serve Day. The dental offices provided pro-bono treatment to those in need – about 450 fillings, 332 extractions, over 150 CEREC single day visit dental restorations, and hundreds of [...]

The Smile Generation team is bringing smiles to Natuvu in the Fiji Islands. The dental mission team includes Kyle Guerin, We Serve Manager, Dr. Kenny Burson of Falcon Park Dental Group ( Highlands Ranch, CO), Dr. Ashleigh Harrison of Cherry Creek Modern Dentistry (Glendale, CO), Dr. Kelsey Majors of Arvada Modern Dentistry (Arvada, CO), Dr. [...]

Last May 7th, 2011, the Smile Generation participated in two Race for the Cure events – one in Sacramento and another in Southern Nevada. Our Smile Generation-affiliated offices sponsored Race for the Cure teams – recruiting members from our various dentists’ offices, family and friends in the Sacramento and Nevada areas. Susan G. Komen Race [...]