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GIVING SMILES

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Giving Smiles is a volunteer-supported, 501(c)(3) non-profit charity providing high quality dental services to residents of Middle Tennessee who have limited resources and barriers to accessing dental care.

We provide services with a mobile dental clinic van, and a three chair dental office for patients requiring longer procedures.
We provide some dental care for free or charge patients based on a sliding fee scale to determine their contribution.
Dentists give their time and service and receive no compensation. However dentistry is expensive, and we depend on the generosity of donors and volunteers to fill the gaps in costs.

Most of our patients come to us with hurting or missing teeth, broken fillings, and a story about why they cannot afford the high cost of dental care.

For the uninsured, working poor families, the recently homeless, the local musician without a steady paycheck, and those with limited resources we are here to help.

What We Do

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45 %

Of Low Income Tennesseans Avoid Smiling Because Of The Condition Of Their Teeth

70 %

Of Adults Say Cost Is The Reason They Didn’t Go To The Dentist In The Past 12 Months

100 %

Of Our Patients Receive Dental Care At Reduced To No Cost

Giving Smiles Dentistry

Patients we treated for no charge have included single moms working minimum wage jobs with no benefits, men and women ashamed to smile, women at a domestic violence center, patients missing a front tooth trying to get a job, uninsured musicians who cannot afford the cost of a dentist, cancer patients who need infected, broken teeth removed before they can receive radiation and chemotherapy, patients needing dental work before they can become eligible for a life-saving organ transplant, patients with few teeth who never dreamed they could get a denture, patients who cannot remember when their teeth did not hurt, homeless living in a car, and patients who need food pantry support.