Lynne Gawley Hofstetter was never wild about her smile. She felt that one of her front teeth stuck out too far, and her bottom teeth were crooked. She hid them by not smiling. “I never smiled a big, toothy grin,” she says. “I wasn’t showing…
For the first time, Howard is smiling and he’s not thinking about the gap in his teeth. Now, that’s a great way to rock in the New Year. Howard chose SmileDirectClub for one main reason: simplicity. He didn’t want to straighten his teeth with a complicated or…
Some people make New Year’s resolutions to eat healthy or to stop bad habits. Riman’s resolution for 2020 was to get a new smile. “I told myself, ‘Hey, why not start off a new year with a new smile? It’ll be something good to look…
Erin Oprea, a celebrity fitness trainer in Nashville, Tennessee, grew up with what she called “super buck and crooked” teeth. She was skeptical that SmileDirectClub could give her a straighter smile. But when it came time for her son Hayden to have his teeth straightened, she joined…
A new SmileDirectClub smile was the last step on Spencer’s 6-year journey to becoming the man he is today. Spencer, a transgender man, says that straightening his teeth was the final step in this major life transformation. “It was just the one thing that was missing…
Growing up in rural McCamey, Texas might have been a bit too quiet for many kids, but Julia found plenty of activities to feed her insatiable curiosity . This 17-year-old plays the bass guitar, makes a perfect pie crust, enjoys refinishing furniture, and loves powerlifting heavy weights. Like…
As a pediatrician in a hospital pediatric intensive care unit, Dr. Corey Chartan cares for some of Houston’s most medically fragile children. Outside of his medical practice, he keeps up with two small kids at home, too. That schedule doesn’t leave him a lot of…
The year 2020 was a year of change for Diana Hairston, for so many reasons. In January, the Baltimore mom of two young children, ages 4 and 1, and her husband, a musician, moved their family from a neighborhood she describes as riddled by crime…
Transformation isn’t easy, but the payoffs — well, just look at those smiles. Raquel Pryor and Ralph Walner live hundreds of miles apart. They’ve never met. Yet their stories of personal transformation share similarities. They’re both busy parents with full time professional jobs who were…