Harrisburg Smiles

Harrisburg Smiles is a seven year old collaborative created originally by members of the Harrisburg Area Dental Society whose goal was to:

Identify shortcomings in the delivery of oral health care to underserved populations in the Harrisburg area
Work with other stakeholders in the area that shared an interest in improving access to oral health care in this community
Develop a system to better match identified needs and known resources
Recruit volunteers from the dental community to provide pro bono care to members of the underserved population

Our mission statement is :

To act as a conduit of urgent dental care for underserved populations and help match those dental needs with the available resources in our dental community”
Currently Harrisburg Smiles is a coalition of the Harrisburg Area Dental Society, Holy Spirit Health Share, Pinnacle Health working closely with many others including Harrisburg School District, HACC Dental Hygiene Program, Capital Blue Cross, United Concordia, Hamilton Health , Christ Lutheran Church . Future plans include development of increasing access through the Hershey Medical Center.

Harrisburg Smiles is proud of the selfless volunteer efforts of over 70 dentists from the Harrisburg Area Dental Society who provide pro bono services either in their private offices or through the free dental clinics at Christ Lutheran Church or Bethesda Mission, both located in Harrisburg PA. To date, over $200,000 of free dental care has been provided through the generosity of our participating dentists.

Funding for these programs comes from the generosity of the Harrisburg Area Dental Society and other grantors coordinated by the Foundation for Enhancing Communities. We encourage you to consider offering your time and talent to Harrisburg Smiles. The poor will always be with us. Existing governmental programs have proven insufficient to fully meet the needs of this population. Harrisburg Smiles is an entirely private enterprise that is truly the “safety net beneath the safety net” that can be turned to when existing programs cannot meet the need.

For more information, please contact
John Kiessling jkiessl511@aol.com
Andy Gould tooth.doc@verizon.net
Harry Meyers hdjmeyers@comcast.net

Thank you to to Harrisburg Smiles Dentists. Because of your generosity, we have 400 patient visit commitments for 2017. Please join us and make a commitment of your choosing today!

Dr. Sulekha Agrawal
Dr. Kimberly Alfano
Dr. Brice Arndt
Dr. I.G. Bhat
Dr. David Body
Dr. Gilbert Carney
Conestoga Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery
Dr. Jason Devey
Dr. David Ditty
Dr. Katherine Dively
Dr. Charles Foer
Dr. Ernest Fontaine
Dr. Becky Fox
Dr. Joseph Gensbigler
Dr. Thomas Gensbigler
Dr. Tad Glossner
Dr. Andrew Gould
Dr. Joshua Greenberg
Dr. Sara Haines
Dr. C. Richard Harrison
Dr. Michael Hartman
Dr. Dan Hengst
Dr. Brian Keane
Dr. John Kiessling
Dr. Barry Klein
Dr. Gary Klein
Dr. Ross Kline
Dr. Robert Kolts
Dr. Craig Lahar
Dr. David Larson
Dr. Carol Layton
Dr. Sarah Lynch
Dr. Aziz Majid
Dr. Saleh Malik
Dr. John Mayes
Dr. David McNeal
Dr. Michael Mendelson
Dr. Harry Meyers
Dr. William Moffet
Dr. Brian Mosetti
Dr. Katelyn Murray
Dr. Devendra Parikh
Dr. Yogesh Parikh
Dr. Larry Pepper
Dr. Dennis Red
Dr. Terry Reese
Dr. Ryan Rother
Dr. David Russell
Dr. Eric Solberg
Dr. Samuel Selcher
Dr. David Lee Settino
Dr. Bennett Sharf
Dr. Eric Shirley
Dr. Warren Silvers III
Dr. Bruce Spivak
Dr. William Spruill
Dr. Michael Vener
Dr. Michael Verber
Dr. Stephen Verber
Dr. Richard Walters
Dr. William Warren
Dr. Casey Williams
Dr. Steven Wylie
Dr. Rick Yazinski
Dr. Peter Yelk