In The Media - Smiles For Life Foundation

Jeff Gray DDS - Sedation and Cosmetic Dentistry is committed to several charity organizations throughout North America. The two most predominant charities are the Teammates for Kids Foundation started with superstar Garth Brooks. The other is the Smiles For Life Foundation. This charity is committed to helping out children all over North America by donating all proceeds from Tooth Whitening. Smiles For Life has raised over $25 million dollars in the last 10 years. The City of San Diego is also committed to helping children by working with Jeff Gray DDS - Sedation and Cosmetic Dentistry and declaring April 19th, SMILES FOR LIFE DAY.

Our 2010 Smiles For Life Campaign begins March 1
and runs through June 30.

50% of what our office raises this year will also go to help the San Diego Center for Children www.centerforchildren.org

One of the greatest challenges any community faces is to offer hope to a child or adolescent who is suffering from a mental health problem – mental, emotional or behavioral problems that often we cannot see, much less understand. The children and adolescents at the San Diego Center for Children know what it feels like to confront these challenges. They know what it feels like not to have their basic needs met – they question if anything they do even matters as they struggle to find their place in society.

At the San Diego Center for Children, their highly-skilled team of dedicated professionals knows how to reverse destructive behavior and restore a child’s and an adolescent’s greatest hope – to regain a healthy and normal life complete with family, friends, school, and routine.

When children and adolescents do not get the help they need at the earliest possible opportunity in their development, they are at greater risk of becoming a long-term statistic in the social services or juvenile court system, or even worse, a casualty of the streets.

Discover how the San Diego Center for Children heals the hearts and minds of children, adolescents, and their families and care givers. Click here to learn more about this charity.

Vote for Dr. Gray and Children's Charities

Dr. Jeff Gray has been nominated by People Magazine as one of three finalists for the San Diego Padres' All-Stars Among Us. Since founding Smiles for Life, dentists throughout North America have raised over $25 million. 100% of the proceeds go to children's charities to benefit kids around the world. Please click here to give him your vote today! You can click on the Padres logo and then vote for him under his photo! Thank you!

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A whiter, brighter smile will brighten your life and give you a whole new outlook. Jeff Gray DDS - Sedation and Cosmetic Dentistry, along with other local Crown Council dentist will provide the expertise to see that the whitening is done professionally and without cost.

The whitening products will be donated by Discus Dental. You make a charitable donation (amounting to less than the normal cost of whitening) directly to the Smiles For life Foundation to help sick and underprivileged children right here in our own community.

Major League baseball players will add to your donation and the total funds will be used for the benefit of children through the Garth Brooks Teammates for Kids Foundation.

Through a partnership with Garth Brook's Teammates For Kids Foundation, the Smiles For Life Foundation has made contributions to over 80 children's charities across North America including:

Major Gifts:

• St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
• Camp Trillium (Canada)
• Steven Spielberg's Starbright Foundation
• Children's Dental Center (Los Angeles)
• Heart and Stroke Foundation (Canada)
• The American Red Cross (NY Disaster Fund)
  

Other Gifts:

• Broad Horizons (La Mesa)
• Child Abuse Prevention Foundation (La Mesa)
• Child Abuse Prevention Foundation (San Diego)
• Child Abuse Prevention Foundation (San Diego)
• Child Abuse Prevention Foundation (La Mesa)
• Children's Dental Health Association of San Diego (La Mesa)
• Children's Dental Health Association of San Diego (San Diego)
• Children's Hospital and Health Center (San Diego)
• San Diego Youth & Community Services (San Diego)
• The St. James / St. Leo Dental Program (La Mesa)
• Atlanta Community Food Bank Bryan's House (Dallas)
• Challenge Aspen Children in Crisis (Mexico City)
• Children of Romania Children's Hospital (Austin)
• Children's Hospital (Denver)
• Clarke School for the Deaf (North Hampton, MA)
• Columbine High School (Littleton, CO)
• Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Heart to Honduras
• Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital (Hollywood,FL)
• Mother's Choice (Hong Kong)
• National Association of Street Schools
• National Jewish Medical Center
• Pan American Health organization
• Project Hope
• TAG Foundation (San Diego)
• The International Justice Mission (India)
• Whiz Kids UCLA Children's Diabetes Center

Smiles For Life Foundation - Total Gift Giving Summary 1999-2007. Charitable gifts given through the Garth Brooks Teammates for Kids Foundation through the generosity of the Smiles for Life Foundation.

Visit the Smiles For Life website to learn more or please call our office, 619-337-7700.