A non-profit organization serving the dental needs of our community. With the support of our many volunteer dentists and specialists that serve the clinic. We have a post doctoral residency program which is central to Community Smiles operation. Community Smiles has been delivering oral health care to the underserved since 1946 and we're now the largest community-based dental clinic in the state of Florida – $14.6 million in subsidized care and served over 10,000 patients in 2016. Originally the Dade County Dental Research Clinic, Community Smiles began as a program of the Dade County Public School System, with the mission to provide quality dental care and oral health education to the underserved, while providing post-graduate dental education and training for dental assisting students. Over the past 70+ years the clinic has evolved into a beacon for accessible care to recent immigrants, the homeless, at-risk youth, and other compromised populations.