Check those pearly whites!
Evan Hill endured years of taunting from his bullies, who so cruelly called him “rabbit kid”, for his large front teeth.
“They call me bunny rabbit, and I’m not,” said the Christchurch local in a clip that aired on New Zealand television in 2011.
Touched by his story, many began to send in donations for the 12-year-old to finally have the orthodontic work his family were unable to afford.
In almost no time, he’d been generously given over $100,000 to rework his smile.
“I don’t know where we would have been today without the generosity we had,” Evan’s mother Barbara told Newshub.
“We looked at probably mortgaging our house to pay for them but this came up and blew me away.”
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Throughout monthly visits over the past five years, Orthodontist Ronald Sluiter worked on shifting back his front teeth by 15 millimetres, and with the help of braces transformed his bullied smile into a source of confidence.
“We’ve come a long way haven’t we,” the specialist says to Evan in a clip (above) where he can be seen removing his braces for the first time.
Now, as he looks at his winning smile, he has only one word to say: “good!”
The remainder of Evan’s smile fund will be distributed to children alike whose families can’t afford dental care.
What a transformation!
