FORCE FOR GOOD
Big Hearts Making a Big Impact
Published: Aug 30, 2017
Updated: Oct 05, 2023
Serving Our Communities on Smile Generation Serve Day 2017
Smile Generation Serve Day is an annual day of service as part of a nationwide campaign of giving. It focuses on dental care and also includes local service projects, such as cleaning up community parks and volunteering at local food banks. On Saturday, August 19th 2017, over 540 Smile Generation®-trusted dental offices and nearly 5,000 Smile Generation volunteers joined together to support the 7th annual Smile Generation Serve Day! Smile Generation-trusted offices came together to serve over 2,300 patients resulting in 3 million in donated dentistry in one day! Our biggest day of service yet!
Stephen Thorne IV, CEO and Founder of Pacific Dental Services, sees Smile Generation Serve Day as a way of engaging volunteers to help people through acts of service. Thorne reflected, “I’ve found when people engage in the physical act of service – of giving oneself and one’s time and talents to serving others – it changes our hearts and minds about what is truly important in life.”