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Florida
1 review
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Sporting Smiles Retainer
December 27, 2019

Well made retainer, fits well, easy to clean. The company Sporting Smiles has such friendly, professional and helpful staff. Very pleasant and easy to do business with. Recommend the product and the company highly.

Date of experience: December 27, 2019
Wisconsin
3 reviews
3 helpful votes
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I grind my teeth at night and have been wearing a guard most of my adult life. I can't sleep without it. I got a new puppy and has eaten 2 of them. Was sick of spending so much at the dentist decided to try an online company. Figured it wasn't going to be the last one that my dog eats.

It was easy to take the impression. I sent my order in and got my night guard back in 2 weeks. It fit great and is more comfortable than the one I get from my dentist. I like that they keep the impressions on file. I know I am going to need another one at some point. Overall sportingsmiles did everything they said they would do.

Date of experience: July 16, 2019
South Carolina
1 review
0 helpful votes
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A total pocket SAVER!
October 24, 2020

I purchased a upper EssixPLUS retainer earlier this year in January because I completely ruined my old retainer from my orthodontist (I like to chew on mine). Anyways long story short. I needed a new retainer and fast but I didn't want to spend $300. I got to searching on Google and found this wonderful company. Got to order a premium quality retainer that was wayyy better than my previous retainer and I spent less. I'm completely satisfied. Currently ordering my second set because I need a backup from my chewing problem but they still look great and UNdetectable!

Date of experience: October 23, 2020
California
2 reviews
4 helpful votes
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According to the video if you order the whitening kit your first package you will receive an extra mold set to take a mold for the whitening tray and Whitening Gel, however I did not receive either item. I contacted customer service and they told me that it would be in the shipment of retainers, it was not. I actually don't even think that I received the official retainer what I got was an extremely flimsy non -tooth conforming tray with my name written across the front teeth. F this isnt just a whitening tray, Why would you write visible writing across the front teeth on something that supposed to be invisible aligners? They don't click to the teeth or stay in place at all. I verified the my entire tooth impression was in the mold with gumline. I sent a complaint with photos a week ago and have not heard anything back. 100% dysatified in quality and communication!

Date of experience: September 4, 2019
Tennessee
1 review
2 helpful votes
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I was having issues with my teeth shifting while wearing my final set of retainers from Invisalign, so I started looking at alternatives. The overall experience with Sporting Smiles was pretty painless. It was quick, easy, and (best of all) I haven't seen any of the shifting I saw with my Invisalign set.

Date of experience: August 24, 2019
New York
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Unprofessional company
October 25, 2022

I ordered the retainer kit from SportingSmiles in June this year. They were keep asking me to redo my impressions because they weren't useful. Once they approved my impressions they sent me the retainer but it was poorly made. Covered only half of the teeth and it wasn't stable on my teeth. I emailed them and they said that they cannot make it better that that. Wow! So I returned the retainer and I received less money than I paid for initially! It also took them couple of months for the refund!

Date of experience: October 25, 2022
Pennsylvania
1 review
3 helpful votes
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I was happy with product and even processed a REORDER with them just last year. I had a major fall this week and messed up my teeth and am in need of a new retainer to reset my teeth. When I called today I learned they destroy all records after just one year. Considering I paid full price to go through the initial impressions THEN even ordered another new set of retainers last year, it seems idiotic to destroy my records after a mere year. The excuse I was given was "we receive thousands of impressions and can't keep all of them…". Ha, good thing Amazon doesn't have that mindset or they'd be extinct. How about an upgrade on your cloud storage?! Terrible business model to destroy records of someone who has already done one reorder and very likely to probably do another—-unless of course you just want your customers to have to go through the full price of redoing their impressions all over again. In my case, my teeth are now wrecked, so that is not an option and my dentist was very excited to know I had these impressions on record with you because they could be hugely beneficial in getting my teeth back to normal. I'm so disappointed in this lack of procedural management within your organization. Oh I'm sure somewhere in the fine print you claim they are only held for one year and will hang your hat on this, but it still doesn't make any sense from a business perspective whatsoever

Date of experience: September 15, 2021
Evan M. Sporting Smiles Rep
over a year old

This review isn't a fair review of our company. We do not hide that we keep impressions for only 1 year. The products were made perfect and the customer even reordered. We keep the impressions on file for 1 year. It's all over our site. When a year is up we sent 4 emails throughout the month letting our customers know that a year is coming. We do have the option when you place a reorder to 3d scan it in so the model would be digitally stored. Dentists do not keep impressions on file. We are one of the companies that do keep impressions on file for 1 year.

I understand why the customer is mad, but they should be mad at themselves, not SportingSmiles. The customer lost their retainer, didn't buy another one within the time frame. Had an accident that they messed up their teeth, and are now looking for a retainer to help fix their problem. We tell all customers that they should always have a backup retainer.

I feel we provided great service and a great product and this is an unfair review.

Massachusetts
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Quality retainer performs just like a retainer obtained at a dentist's office without the ridiculous price! Sporting Smiles also provides excellent customer service. I'm so glad that I found them!

Date of experience: January 11, 2020
Ohio
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Fit perfectly
June 20, 2023

Fit really good definitely would get again i haven't had a retainer in forever and i'm glad with what i got

Date of experience: June 20, 2023
Ohio
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Fits Perfect
January 30, 2020

The mouthpiece I ordered for my 10 year-old grandson fits perfect. He claims he can breath and talk better in his new mouthpiece. We are extremely satified with the quality of this product.

Date of experience: January 30, 2020
Florida
1 review
2 helpful votes
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My order is over a month old. They told me they had my impressions and proceeded to make just the lower portion of the mouth guard. I was told "great, we have your impressions". They are making half a mouth guard and charging me full price $65. I also ordered two upper essix retainers. I got an impression kit instead because they said they no longer have my impression. They evaded all my question over the last week. I get a response supposedly to pacify me, but no real answers. I asked for an update (they can't get in the lab but once a day. What? No email, texting, or calling to the lab?), an explanation of why I was told they only have the lower impression (they said because they have my name in the database under two spellings), I asked for an extension on making the new impression because of an injured tooth (no response), then I asked for a total refund (no response). They are horrible. I'm getting non-answers. I never had this problem before and I'm a long-time customer. I can only guess they sold to new owners. DO NOT use this company any more.

Date of experience: March 8, 2022
Florida
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Great customer service and Evan the owner is very nice. Highly recommended especially as getting these services done in person is not very feasable at the moment

Date of experience: April 2, 2020
Texas
1 review
0 helpful votes
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The return is very sturdy and doesn't get stained or dirty easily. I can barely feel it in my mouth at night time!

Date of experience: June 14, 2023
Arthur M.
California
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Better Than Dentist
December 22, 2019

My dentist charged me $400 for upper and lower retainers, I paid $130 and $84 for additional pair from Sporting Smiles, Perfect fit right out of the box!

Date of experience: December 20, 2019
Washington
1 review
1 helpful vote
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I love my sportingsmiles teeth teeth guard. Sits perfect and was easy to get. I have reordered just to get a backup. Had to take impression twice, but wasn't that hard. Would recommend them.

Date of experience: March 6, 2023
California
1 review
1 helpful vote
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I have been using Sporting Smiles since a month after I removed my braces because I just happen to forget my retainers in my pants and send them through the wash and dryer.

Yeah, ouch. And when I asked my orthodontist how much it would cost to replace them just a month after I got them, she said like $600! I was so upset. I found Sporting Smiles online and almost couldn't believe it would be just $130 to replace both upper and lower retainers. They sent the impression maker (it's not idiot proof, but not too hard if you are careful) and a few weeks later I got my retainers and they fit perfectly.

Since that time, I've order from them for replacements and other night guards for myself and my wife. When my dentist and orthodontists hear about this, they aren't too happy about it but they couldn't argue with the results and of course, not the price.

Oh, and great customer service too. Seems like a small business, several times I got to talk to the owner Evan myself and he is super helpful.

Date of experience: March 2, 2020
New Zealand
1 review
7 helpful votes
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I ordered two packs of teeth whitening for my partner and I which included the whitening light. I paid I think about $25 to have it sent to NZ and purchased extras I spent over 100usd and to find products missing with no explanation I contacted customer service to ask what happened. Wasn't greeted or apologised to in the email they said they were out of stock and that was it. I had to keep hounding them for them (they were still selling them on the website so how were they out of stock?!?) they again replied rudely and eventually said we are putting through a $10 refund... keeping in mind I purchased 2 packs... they cost more than that on the website so what's going on?!? I said I wanted the lights I had purchasd not a partial refund. They also said that the lights don't even have a purpose... ummmm so why are you selling them?!

I also asked about the colour of the blue protective gel as it came a very different cloudy colour to what is in the clear picture on the internet so being that it's my teeth it's a bit of a worry so I haven't used them. A lot of the caps come off the other gels too so arrives a bit of a mess.

Now I could totally handle all of that but the terrible customer service is appalling! No "hi" no apology for there muck ups or any explanation! Quite frankly they've kept money that doesn't belong to them and are selling products they don't have and also that they don't believe in. That's scary!

Date of experience: March 12, 2019
Wisconsin
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Great mouthguard
July 10, 2019

Son needed a mouthguard for football. He loved that he got to pick his own colors. Came fast and fit great.

Date of experience: July 9, 2019
Wisconsin
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Have used a mouth guard at night, for years and have always had great service and products from Sporting Smiles!

Date of experience: July 10, 2019
California
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Customer service review
February 4, 2020

I had an issue with shipping time and customer service promptly reached out to me and fixed the issue.

Date of experience: February 3, 2020

Overview

Sporting Smiles has a rating of 2.9 stars from 66 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Sporting Smiles ranks 3rd among Dental Products sites.

service
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value
30
shipping
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returns
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quality
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