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How We Partner with Caregivers to Keep Patients Safe Under General Anesthesia
Patient safety is our top priority at Special Smilesand caregivers play a vital role as our partners in this effort. Most Special Smiles patients are medically fragilewith complex physical characteristics unique to each individual. Due to their severe intellectual and/or developmental disabilitiesour patients require general anesthesia to receive dental treatment. ...
Read More6abc Action News Features Special Smiles in Story on Autism Acceptance Month
A 6abc Action News story on Autism Acceptance Month featured the Special Smiles dental practice catering to special needs patients. Reporter TaRhonda Thomas interviewed Special Smiles Founder Mark GoldsteinDDSas well as Lou Berman and his 23-year-old son Louiea longtime Special Smiles patient who is on the spectrum and non-verbal.
Read More20 Years of Special Smiles: A conversation with our founder

Mark S. GoldsteinDDS founded Special Smiles Ltd. in 2003. From the vantage point of 2023he looks back on 20 years of progress — but acknowledges not nearly enough progress — in providing access to comprehensive oral health care for severely compromised special needs patients. Below are excerpts from a recent conversation. It’s impossible to sum up 20 years in a few words but tell me the biggest change over the last two decades.
Read MoreWHYY Program Features Special Smiles
The Philadelphia-based public television station WHYY produced a “You Oughta Know” segment about Special Smiles that aired February 17 and is archived on the station’s website. You can view the segment on our YouTube channel. “The WHYY team did a great job capturing in just four minutes what Special Smiles is and does,” said Mark AxelmanSpecial Smiles Executive Vice President.
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