Restoring Smiles. Changing Lives. Sharing Hope.
We provide free dental care to underserved children, restoring confidence and creating opportunity one smile at a time.
501(c)(3) Verified · EIN 27-4036987 · Founded 2009 · Troy, NY
Every child deserves a healthy smile.
Too many children in underserved communities live with untreated tooth pain. They miss school, lose sleep, and grow up believing their smile is something to hide. The cost of inaction is measured in confidence, in opportunity, and in the lasting health of an entire generation.
Children deserve dental care delivered with the same dignity and skill regardless of where they live.
Smiles Bring Hope was founded in 2009 by Dr. Sabita Smail and Dr. Douglas Smail to bring dignity and care directly to the children who need it most. Through volunteer-led missions, faith-based partnerships, and uncompromising clinical standards, we meet families where they are. The work is simple, and it is sacred: one smile, one child, one act of service at a time.
Three programs powering our mission
Each program meets a different need, all guided by the same conviction: every child deserves dental care.
Children's Dental Care
Free preventive and restorative dental care for children in communities where access to a dentist is out of reach. From cleanings to fillings to extractions, we treat each child with the same standards we would want for our own.
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Community Outreach
We bring full mobile clinics to underserved rural neighborhoods, working alongside schools, churches, and community organizations to remove every barrier between a child and the care they need.
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Faith-Based Partnerships
Our work is rooted in service. We partner with churches and faith-based organizations to reach children whose families trust their congregation more than any clinic, meeting communities where they already are.
Learn more →More than 15 years of healing smiles
Dr. Sabita and Dr. Douglas Smail
Dr. Sabita Smail, DDS, MBA · Co-Founder & Clinical Director | Dr. Douglas Smail, DDS · Founder & Oral Maxillofacial Surgeon
Smiles Bring Hope began in 2009 when Dr. Sabita Smail (DDS, MBA) and Dr. Douglas Smail (DDS) saw children going without the dental care they needed simply because of where they lived, and decided to change that themselves.
Trained clinicians, volunteer mentors, and lifelong advocates for children's health, Sabita and Douglas have led every mission, every partnership, and every program since the organization's first year. Their work has reached communities across continents. Their conviction has stayed simple: every child, one smile at a time.
Meet our leadership →Service, faith, and the power of a smile.
Smiles Bring Hope started with a question: what would it take to give every child the same kind of dental care a parent would seek for their own? Not a watered-down version of treatment for those who could not pay, but the real thing, delivered with the same dignity and care.
Our missions began in church basements and community halls. They moved to mobile clinics, to schools, to faith partners on three continents. The work is hands-on. It is unglamorous. It is also a form of love made visible, because healthcare given freely is one of the clearest ways to say to a child: you are seen, you are valued, your pain matters.
If that conviction matches yours, there is room for you here.
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Frequently asked questions
Smiles Bring Hope, Inc. is a faith-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit that brings free, compassionate dental care to children and families in underserved communities. We were founded in 2009 by Dr. Sabita Smail and Dr. Douglas Smail and are based in Troy, New York.
Yes. Care is free for every child and family we serve, delivered with the same dignity and clinical standards wherever we work.
Our work began in Kenya, where the New Hope Dental Clinic and years of medical camps taught us how to do this well, and our missions have also taken us to Belize. We are now planning toward the Dominican Republic and St. Lucia, and we are looking for long term partners to help us get there.
Yes, to the extent allowed by law. Smiles Bring Hope, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, EIN 27-4036987.
You can give once or monthly by card on our donate page. You can also give by phone at (518) 281-3422, by email at sabitapsmail@gmail.com, or by check payable to Smiles Bring Hope, Inc., mailed to 25 Lindsay Drive, Troy, NY 12180.
Yes. You will get an email confirmation right after your gift, and a formal tax-deductible receipt follows separately within 30 days. Our Donation Fulfillment Policy has the details.
Yes, any time. Call or email us and we will take care of it. Our Refund Policy covers duplicate or mistaken charges.
Our volunteer page explains how to get involved, and our partners page is for schools, churches, and healthcare organizations looking to work with us long term. Our formal training programs are not accepting new placements at this time.
We are looking for partners for the long road.
Kenya is the foundation we built on. The Dominican Republic and St. Lucia are where we are planning to go next, and work at that scale is not built by one organization. It is built by long term partners who commit to a place and stay with it.