Kids Smiles Inc

The kids smiles outreach & education program is the accompaniment to clinical services provided in the dental centers. Through this program, the organization delivers a comprehensive and standardized oral health curriculum that was created by local educators with the purpose of increasing oral health and healthy lifestyle awareness, and improving the overall oral health condition. The organization partners with 200 schools, head start programs, daycare centers, universities, community groups, and health fairs to deliver the curriculum classroom to classroom or in small group settings, and also provides dental screenings and on-site preventive dental care. The oral health curriculum is also delivered in the waiting rooms of the organization's dental centers through the program entitled the kids smiles dental detective academy.kids smiles maintained over 85% patient retention rate in 2023 and 2024, demonstrating that the organization serves as a dental home for the vast majority of the over 19,000 children treated at kids smiles annually. The organization has received numerous prestigious awards since it opened in 2001, including recognition by the pennsylvania department of education. In 2010, the kids smiles oral health curriculum was deemed to align with the pennsylvania department of education standards and is available on the department's standards aligned system website for use by teachers throughout the state of pennsylvania.