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Smile For a Lifetime

Sanborn Orthodontics is proud to partner with the Smile for a Lifetime Foundation. Our mutual goal is to change lives through orthodontics and impact our communities in a positive way. A smile can inspire hope, increase self confidence, and change a community.

What is the Smile for a Lifetime Foundation?

Founded as a charitable non-profit organization, the Smile for a Life foundation is an orthodontic organization dedicated to providing care to individuals who otherwise may not receive treatment. Launched in 2008, the foundation has grown to over 85 orthodontic partners across the United States. With local chapters, each having its own Board of Directors to determine awards, the foundation is community focused and locally based. The Foundation sponsors the orthodontic care of hundreds of patients each year and hass participating orthodontists throughout the US. If you, or someone you know, is deserving and could benefit from the gift of a smile, please fill out the application.

Our Mission

At Smile for a Lifetime Foundation it is our mission to create self confidence, inspire hope, and change the lives of children in our community in a dramatic way. The gift of a smile can do all this for a deserving, underserved individual who, in turn, can use this gift to better themselves and our community. Words from Dr. Sanborn: "Our Mission Statement above sums up everything we are trying to do with our foundation, and it is our way of giving back to the community that has been so gracious to us! It is our goal every year to give 12 orthodontic scholarships to the children in our local community to help create self-confidence, inspire hope, and change their lives in a dramatic way. It is our hope that this gift of a smile will, in turn, allow them to better themselves and our local community."

A few notes about the application process:

Letters of Recommendation are mandatory. Please submit no more than two letters, each no more than one page in length. Be sure that the letters are either typed. Please submit clear, high-quality pictures of the applicants face, smiling and showing their teeth. As this is a need-based gift, we must be able to accurately assess the applicants orthodontic need in order to consider him or her.

Once submitted, the application, pictures, and letters of recommendation become the sole property of the Smile for a Lifetime Foundation and will not be returned. Please, before you submit the application and support materials, keep copies for your records.

The applicant must be a resident of the area that the local foundation serves. You may not apply to more than one foundation, nor may you apply to a foundation that serves an area in which you do not reside. The foundation reserves the right to disqualify applicants that are determined to live outside of the local area.

Incomplete applications and applicants that do not meet the above requirements will not be voted upon by the Board of Directors. The Board shall meet quarterly to determine and distribute awards and award notifications. It must be noted that neither Dr. Sanborn nor his orthodontic team chooses the recipients. They have only committed to providing the orthodontic services to the selected candidates. The recipients are chosen by an independent Board of Directors, who in no way provide any bias or influence toward the candidates who are chosen. Applications will be reviewed quarterly, and the ones chosen will be contacted by the Sanborn Orthodontics Team upon selection by the Board of Directors.