General & Family
Exams, cleanings & fillings
Routine preventive care — comprehensive exams, hygiene visits, and tooth-coloured fillings for the whole family. The baseline of long-term dental health.
Provided by Drs. Rangel, Lim & Romero
Our story
Three decades on the Drive.
"After immigrating to Canada in 1986 and continuing my studies in Brazil and São Paulo, in 1994 I decided to stay definitely in Canada — and in 1996 I opened my own private clinic on Commercial Drive."
— DR. CLAUDIA RANGEL, FOUNDER
Sorriso Dental Clinic was opened by Dr. Claudia Rangel in 1996, the year she committed to building her practice in Vancouver. By then she had already graduated from the Federal University of Brasil, earned her specialty in Orthodontics, passed the Brazilian National Board of Orthodontics among the top of her cohort, taught in the orthodontics department for five years, and spent three months as a visiting researcher at UCLA Orthodontic Department.
She built the clinic on Commercial Drive deliberately. East Vancouver is one of the most linguistically diverse neighbourhoods in the country, and dental care — with all its insurance forms, treatment options, and recovery instructions — is a domain where being able to ask a question in your first language is not a luxury; it's the difference between care that lands and care that doesn't.
Over the next three decades, the practice grew into a four-dentist multi-specialty clinic. Dr. Mindy Lim brought a CWRU implant and full-mouth-reconstruction residency. Dr. Karina Romero brought a DDS from Lima and an MPH from the Royal Tropical Institute in Amsterdam. Dr. Mike Zhong brought a five-year Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery specialty and an OHSU anesthesia fellowship. The clinic still operates from the same suite — 205 – 2555 Commercial Drive — that Dr. Rangel chose nearly thirty years ago.
