Glenn “DocSmile” MacFarlane, D.M.D., a lifelong New Jersey resident, was born in Newark, grew up in North Arlington and Belleville, and attended Seton Hall Prep in South Orange, earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Fairleigh Dickinson University in Madison, and earned his Doctor of Dental Medicine degree from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey in Newark, graduating in 1985.