For the Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n Haeger Orthodontics celebrates this week the first year of the office’s participation in the Smile for a Lifetime (S4L) program that provides free, full orthodontic treatment to needy youth in the community.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Four patients receive their one-year adjustment and three new candidates receive their braces on Thursday from 8 to 10 a.m. at the Maple Valley office, 22443 SE 240th St., Suite 100.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n A year ago Dr. Robert Haeger and his team initiated the first “Smile” program in South King County.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n “Before orthodontia people would just stare at my teeth,” recalled 20-year-old Anahi Reyes of Auburn. “But now I like to smile because I look good.”<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Haeger credits a number of other professionals in the area who have donated dental, periodontal and surgical support to the less fortunate youth.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n “These candidates have disfiguring teeth,” Haeger said. “Our goal is to help them achieve a smile that will benefit them their entire lives.”<\/p>\n<\/p>\n JoAnne Moen of Kent is confident Haeger and the Smiles program will do just that for her former foster child and 2014 candidate, 13-year-old Bianka Anderson.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n “Bianca has a beautiful voice but she won’t sing in public because she is so self-conscious about her smile,” Moen said. “Orthodontia will change Bianca’s life.”<\/p>\n<\/p>\n To learn more, visit www.S4L.org<\/a>. To apply contact Haeger Orthodontics (www.mybraces.net<\/a>) at (253) 850-7043 or drhaeger@mybraces.net.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Haeger Orthodontics celebrates this week the first year of the office’s participation in the Smile for a Lifetime (S4L) program that provides free, full orthodontic treatment to needy youth in the community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":5158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-5157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5157"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5157"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=5157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}