Humanitarian Trips

The time is almost upon us! The Smiles For Life Campaign is starting in only four months and folks all over the world will begin sharing in our dental web of empathy. Whether you’re a dental patient, a practice, or a business, you have a role to play in changing the world with is. But how does it work?

It’s actually simple. It starts with a simple act of kindness that triggers a chain reaction that can be felt continents away. First, one of our dentist decides to donate their teeth whitening services – totally free of charge! Then, the happy, satisfied patient makes a donation to Smiles For Life. This happens over and over, and before you know it, Smiles For Life has raised over $46 million for children’s charities like the Garth Brooks Foundation.

What’s more; some of these funds go toward funding much needed dental health trips to developing nations. So the entire world can benefit from your new smile; it can travel around the world and pass from patient to patient, making life a little better for a lot of people.

Did We Say Four Months?!

That’s right. Smiles For Life runs from March-June 2023 and encompasses hundreds of doctors, dental assistants, patients, and beneficiaries. These next four months are the perfect time to sign up. Visit our website for more information and help us make the world a little bit more empathetic by doing some good!

The Crown Council is a prestigious alliance of dental professionals committed to dental excellence, fighting oral cancer, and serving their communities and children’s charities.

Smiles For Life is an association worth joining, and we’ll tell you why. Every March-June, dentists all over the nation band together with their patients to perform a global community service like no other! The dental professionals donate their teeth whitening services and, in exchange, their satisfied patients make a donation to Smiles For Life and its associated charities. These donations are finally used to fund initiatives like dental health trips to developing nations.

So far, Smiles For Life has raised more than $46 million for charitable causes. Whether you want to get involved as a patient, practice, or business, now is the perfect time to start looking into it! During the lull between donation drives, we are busy training our new recruits with top-of-the-line marketing materials and setting them up on our networks so they can be community leaders.

If you are a dental practice looking to both foster a relationship with your community and do some good, we can help you with both. Smiles For Life is always recruiting; the doors to our web of empathy are always open!

The Crown Council is a prestigious alliance of dental professionals committed to dental excellence, fighting oral cancer, and serving their communities and children’s charities.

If you read our blog, then you are by now familiar with the Crown Council’s Smiles for Life Foundation. But if you’re just checking in now, we’ve got your back. If you’re a veteran, let this be a reminder. If you’re a beginner, then consider it a primer. Smiles for Life transforms smiles and changes lives. Hence, the name! But how exactly do they do this?

Every March-June, Smiles for Life casts a web of empathy that connects dentists, patients, and society. It consists of three easy steps that all our dental practices follow. They prepare all year with materials provided by the Crown Council, and come this exciting three-month period, they get to work!

1. A dentist or dental practice offers tooth whitening services for free.
2. The patient then makes a donation to Smiles for Life.
3. Smiles for Life distributes these donations with the help of trusted charities like St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital and the Garth Brooks Teammates for Kids Foundation.

That’s not all! Smiles for Life donations also go towards funding healthcare-based trips to developing nations, wherein teams of dentists and dental professionals donate their time and effort to bring smiles to those who need it most.

This is our last month, which means our dentists have been hard at work providing their top-of-the-line whitening services for almost 90 days! If you’re a dental practice and you want to get involved, create a free account and learn more today. You’re right on time to start studying up for next year! If you’re a patient and want to find out whether your dentist is a member of the Smiles for Life campaign, use our custom search to find participating practices.

The Crown Council is a prestigious alliance of dental professionals committed to dental excellence, fighting oral cancer, and to serving their communities and children’s charities.

The Crown Council’s Smiles For Life campaign is gearing up to start, and from March-June, thousands of selfless dentists in the United States and Canada will donate their time and talent to whiten the smiles of their patients for free. The patients, in turn, will make a charitable donation to Smiles For Life.

This incredible web of social giving is made possible by all our dental practices, who are willing, year after year, to do good for the community that supports them. So, if you’re already a contributing member of this wonderful campaign, it’s time to get your dental practice team ready! The countdown is on.

If you’re not yet part of Smiles for Life, you might be wondering what it entails. In this article, you can find a thorough explanation of the role Smiles for Life plays in the dental community, as well as how it can benefit you as a dental professional.

What is Smiles for Life?

As previously stated, the Smiles for Life campaign is geared toward charitable donations on behalf of patient and dentist alike. The dental professionals donate their time, while the patients monetary contributions help fund the campaign.

But where do those funds go? This is the special part. Smiles for Life funds go toward helping children in need.  So far, the campaign has raised more than forty million dollars to support organizations like the Garth Brooks Teammates for Kids Foundation, Feed the Children, St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital, and the Ronald McDonald House, among many others.

In addition to this, the Smiles for Life Foundation plans and sponsors four Humanitarian Trips each year. Two trips are to the Dominican Republic (March and November) and two trips are to the Eastern Highland of Guatemala (March and September). About 200 Crown Council dentists, their team and family members participate in these experiences each year.

How Can it Benefit My Practice?

If you’re a dental professional leading a practice, you can foster a sense of trust and empathy with your patients through Smiles For Life. The campaign provides an opportunity for organic social outreach, and can cement you as a leader of your community in more ways than one.

More and more, newer generations of patients are looking to spend their hard-earned income on services that are not only practical and affordable, but that also come bundled with a social conscience.

Joining Smiles For Life is not only the right thing to do, but it can also be immensely helpful in growing your business and its influence. The campaign runs each year from from March through June. Interested dentists can find out more about Smiles For Life participation. Please visit the Smiles For Life Facebook page to help spread the word!

The Crown Council is a prestigious alliance of dental professionals committed to dental excellence, fighting oral cancer, and to serving their communities and children’s charities.

Back in the 1990s someone had a stroke of genius, and created Smiles For Life.

Smiles For Life is the charitable arm of The Crown Council. Since it began in 1997 it has raised more than forty million dollars to benefit children’s charities all over the world.

Its flagship event is the Smiles For Life Campaign, which runs each year from March 1 through June. With the help of Ultradent, the makers of dental products like Opalescence™ Boost™, dentists in the United States and Canada whiten the teeth of their patients. The proceeds go to St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital, Ronald McDonald House, and many other charities.

Smiles For Life also sponsors humanitarian trips to developing countries like The Dominican Republic. “I guess the question is, why would somebody do something like this?” said one dentist during a visit there in 2017. “I believe that we’re all given certain gifts. And I think it’s important, whatever your gift is, to share it and participate and contribute.”

“It’s an experience that’s really indescribable,” another dentist added. “You can’t put words to it.”

Sharing your dentistry gifts can be as simple as taking part in the Smiles For Life teeth whitening campaign. Find out how you can! Please visit the Smiles For Life Facebook page to help spread the word!

The Crown Council is a prestigious alliance of dental professionals committed to dental excellence, fighting oral cancer, and to serving their communities and children’s charities.