The KRIS Smilecare Story

This project is the brainchild of Dr. Faith Victoriano, DMD. In 2015, Dr. Faith joined a mission trip to the Philippines as a volunteer dentist. The extent of tooth extractions she had to do throughout the duration of the trip drained her spirit tremendously. Given her passion for preventive dentistry, she joined the KRIS Foundation Lift Up the Orphans (LUTO) mission trip to the Philippines in 2017 where she organized an Oral Hygiene Education Session for elementary students at a low income school, as one of the team’s community outreach projects. In the LUTO 2019 mission trip, Dr. Hyun S. Bang, DDS, a friend and colleague of Dr. Faith, and who is equally passionate about oral health joined her work by donating 1000+ oral hygiene kits which were distributed to the elementary school students during the oral hygiene education session at a local school. The school principal and her staff clearly saw that an ongoing oral hygiene education would greatly benefit their students. Thus, the KRIS SmileCare idea was born.