Hope Smiles

In partnership with the University of Tennessee Dental School, Hope Smiles offers a Hope Restore elective course to fourth-year students, providing them the opportunity to receive advanced training while they learn and serve hands-on with us at our Nashville clinics. Dr. Phillip Kemp, adjunct faculty at UT Dental School, oversees and instructs the students alongside other volunteer faculty instructors, providing the students an opportunity to experience the real impact of quality dental care.

Hope Smiles vision in Haiti is to see provision of excellent dental care at the hands of highly-trained and skilled Haitian professionals. We are equipping, empowering, and releasing Haitian Dental Professionals to provide excellent and compassionate dental care in economically sustainable ways, breaking the cycle of poverty and addressing the critical issues of dental health and quality patient care. We relentlessly committed to the discipleship of people within their community, mobilizing them as servants of the Kingdom Gospel within their community. We are establishing two fully operational Hope Smiles Dental Centers for world-class dental care that serve as the front-runners of the next generation of dental care in Haiti. We deploy community-based mobile dental clinics to provide communities surrounding our Dental Centers with access to dental care. We are launching a Community Health Advocate Program educating community members on oral health, hygiene, and preventative care.

We develop local leaders who transform lives through quality, compassionate dentistry for all Ugandans. We do this by working shoulder to shoulder with talented, passionate Ugandan dental professionals, providing advanced dental training and resources combined with practical leadership development. Hope Smiles team members transform the lives of all Ugandans through our "Hub and Spoke" clinical model. The "Hub" is a dental center in Jinja that offers all dental services, including dental implants and orthodontics. The "Spokes" are mobile teams operating in remote villages and schools throughout Uganda with no access to dental care. Week-long outreaches are held in these remote villages and schools, establishing a "Mobile Dental Home" for each community. This creates access to consistent, quality dental care for previously unreached communities.

The end result is a group of local leaders running an independent, innovative clinical model transforming lives in previously unreached communities all over Uganda. Ugandan Hope Smiles team members are focused on replicating our clinical model in other locations currently without access to transformative dental care. Leaders develop more leaders...who develop more leaders.

Local leadership development combined with the Hope Smiles clinical model creates generational impact.