Dr. Steve Farley may be a dentist from a small town, but he’s making a big difference in the world. And he doesn’t plan on stopping any time soon.

“It’s giving back. I feel so lucky and blessed to have what I have and to be able to do something with a great group of people that at the end of the day, leaves someone else far better off than they were before. It is incredibly fulfilling to me,” says Karen Phillips, Ultradent’s Director of US sales, of her recent humanitarian trip to the Dominican Republic as part of the Crown Council’s Smiles for Life Foundation.

“I can tell you that volunteer humanitarian dentistry is one of the most rewarding things I've ever done,” says Dr. Clyde Larsen of the extensive dental humanitarian work he’s performed worldwide since his formal retirement.

Dr. Dan Fischer, CEO and founder of Ultradent founded the company's non-profit organization with a mission of strengthening and aligning global communities by empowering vulnerable and underprivilaged children through education. Having grown up in a third-generation polygamous sect, the The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (FLDS), Dr. Fischer left the sect in the early 1990's, and later, saw an influx of teens and young adults being kicked or discouraged out of the group-- left to fend for themselves with little education and zero connection to the outside world. The Diversity Foundation aims to help these young people integrate into society--mostly through mentoring and education-- as well as to help prevent crimes by encouraging diversity and awareness among people of all backgrounds and walks of life. Here is a recent Diversity Foundation success story: When Brenda Nicholson, her husband, and her six children left the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS) church in 2012, not only did they have no income and nowhere to go, but they also had hardly any resources to help them integrate into society. After years of isolation in the Shortcreek area of Utah and Arizona—a hub of the FLDS community—Brenda's husband didn't even know how to write re'sume' to obtain a job, and none of the members of their family had obtained anything more than a high school education.

On the morning of Wednesday, April 27, 2016, the Utah Board of Oil, Gas, and Mining honored Ultradent with its 2016 Earth Day Award for the company's innovative reclamation of a mine located in Tooele County, Utah. Every year, the board presents the award to Utah companies, organizations, and individuals who go beyond what is required by regulation to protect the environment and develop Utah's natural resources.

When we say Ultradent’s goal is “Improving Oral Health Globally,” we mean it—even when it comes to the coldest, darkest, driest, highest, and windiest continent on the globe: Antarctica. Yes, even people in the South Pole get a toothache once in a while. And that’s where Dr. Bob Koff from Colorado Springs comes in.