Beautiful New Smiles with Cosmetic Dentistry are exhibited on the walls of our dental office at Brookside Dental.  For the last  year, Dr Gil Pauley has been taking portraits of our many Cosmetic Dentistry smile makeovers and smile enhancements along with before and after close up photos of these beautiful new smiles.  Many of these beautiful portrait photos are now gracing the walls of our halls and clinic areas at Brookside Dental.  Dr Gil has also assembled two books that exhibit our patients’ beautiful new smile enhancements and makeovers.  Current smile photos, including both before and after pictures, are being taken using digital photography.  However, many of our more dramatic Cosmetic Dentistry before photos were taken using a Polaroid camera, because Dr Cindy Pauley and Dr Pat Pauley have been creating beautiful smiles for many years.  We are photographing current patients using the format prescribed by the American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry, which involves a large number of photos taken at different angles and orientations.  We have only recently been hanging our patients’ beautiful new smile pictures throughout the office and these photographs have gotten considerable attention and interest from our other patients.  Many of our patients thought we had purchased photographs of models to hang on our walls and have asked, “Who are the models in the pictures?” or “Are these famous people in the photographs?” — Our hygienists and assistants quickly explain to them that they are “all” patients of either Dr Cindy Pauley or Dr Pat Pauley that have had beautiful new smile enhancements or smile makeovers at Brookside Dental.  Both Dr Cindy Pauley and Dr Pat Pauley have had extensive advanced training in cosmetic dentistry, including courses at the Las Vegas Institute for Cosmetic Dentistry and the ALTO Advanced Training Program in Esthetic Dentistry.

In the February 2008 Seattle Magazine’s “THE BEAUTY ISSUE”, Dr Cynthia Pauley of Brookside Dental in Bellevue, Washington, was one of two experts in the Cosmetic Dentistry field asked to discuss, “More Natural-Looking Veneers” and “Gentler Whitening”.  Veneers which are the very thin laminates that are used primarily on anterior teeth to cover stained, misshapen, chipped and broken teeth.  They can be used to create beautiful smiles for people that have less than perfect teeth.  Today’s veneers, which cover the front and biting surface of the teeth, have a natural translucency that did not exist with the first veneers used.  The techniques for using them are improving, along with the materials, so that less natural tooth structure needs to be removed to accommodate the veneers.  Between the existing technology and materials available today, veneers can be in place for a new smile within two visits to Cosmetic Dentist’s office.

Costs will vary in different geographic areas and even within the same regions.  Selection of a cosmetic dentist should not be made upon cost alone, although it is certainly a major factor to consider.  Whether you need a complete smile makeover or only a smile enhancement, look for a Cosmetic Dentist that has advanced training in various aspects of Cosmetic Dentistry, uses modern techniques and materials, and may even have an on-site porcelain artist to create the veneers.  This will allow them to create beautiful and natural appearing smiles.  Always ask to see examples of their cosmetic artistry and pick a dentist around whom you personally feel comfortable.  When discussing your Cosmetic Dentistry needs, it is not unusual to get a second opinion.  Some dentists may be able to accomplish a beautiful smile with a conservative approach that will give you a smile that is just as beautiful as a more extensive and invasive approach.  Everyone does not need 8 to 10 veneers on their upper teeth to have a beautiful smile.  Often a beautiful smile can be accomplished with only 1, 2, or 3 veneers.  It should be noted that it is much more difficult to create a beautiful smile when an odd number, 1, 3 or 5, of veneers are used than when an even number, 2, 4 or 6, are used to create your smile.  Our website has 10 people with smile makeovers (http://www.brooksidedental.com).  Among these 10 is a person that has had either 1, 2 or 3 veneers to create their smiles as well as people with more extensive numbers of veneers used to create their smiles.

Veneers should be used on anyone that cannot obtain the results they want with professional tooth whitening and/or composite bonding.  Dr Cindy states in the article, “That we can now restore teeth to a very high level of esthetics and the future is only going to get better.”

Dr Cynthia Pauley is in private dental practice in Bellevue, WA, and has taught Restorative Dentistry at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA, where she received an outstanding teaching award.   Additionally, she was selected a TOP TEN COSMETIC DENTIST in both Cosmetic and Family Dentistry by Seattle Magazine in 2005.

SEATTLE COSMETIC DENTAL SPA FEATURED ON NBC TODAY SHOW

Brookside Cosmetic Dentist Spa was featured on the NBC Today Show hosted by www.cnn.com/CNN/anchors_reporters/obrien.soledad.html” Soledad O’Brien and referred to as the Seattle Cosmetic Dental Spa. The Cosmetic Dentists at Brookside Dental provide gentle aesthetic and family dentistry in a Spa-like setting. Relax and enjoy the possibilities of what modern Cosmetic Dentistry can do for you in our modern Seattle Dental Spa. Brookside Dental was featured along with a beautiful dental spa from New York City. We invite our patients and guests to view the segment of the Today Show that featured Brookside Dental while discussing the wonders of the modern dental spa. Simply go to our home page at www.brooksidedental.com and click on the flashing “VIDEO” button in the lower right hand corner or go directly to the www.brooksidedental.com/video/today_show.wmv “Video Link for the Seattle Dental Spa.

Everything about Brookside Dental says dental spa. When you first come into our office you will be greeted by a beautiful smile and a friendly hello from our receptionist. The reception area has vaulted ceilings, a designer fireplace, designer counters and lighting. The entire entry reception area has been designed to visually relax you and put you at ease. Take our complete office tour at www.brooksidedental.com/index.htm . The reception area has large over-stuffed chairs that are incredibly comfortable—patients often go to sleep in them. Complimentary hot and cold drinks are available for your refreshment. The office reception area always has beautiful fresh flowers and plants present. During the summer growing season, the dahlias are so spectacular that new patients viewing them for the first time are amazed to find out that they are live flowers. The flowers are part of our design to have patients feel relaxed and at home.

As you walk back to the dental operatories to visit with one of the doctors or hygienists, you will notice a large number and wide array of Award Plaques and Honor Plaques on the walls that have been received by Seattle Cosmetic Dentists, Dr Patricia Pauley and Dr Cynthia Pauley at the Brookside Dental. You will immediately notice the extra large size and privacy of our dental operatories, which have very large picture windows that looks out at a peaceful wooded setting with beautiful Kelsey Creek flowing through it.

The dentists at the Brookside Seattle Dental Spa are dedicated to the art and science of beautiful cosmetic and family dentistry. Relax and enjoy the possibilities of what a beautiful new smile created with an extreme makeover by this team of award winning dentists can do for your image and life. We offer all porcelain veneers, all porcelain crowns, all porcelain bridges, Seattle Teeth Whitening, 1-hour Zoom in office tooth whitening, dental implants, laser gum surgery and more in cosmetic dentistry to create an image-changing beautiful smile for you.

With the amenities of our Seattle Dental Spa that was featured on the NBC Today Show http://www.brooksidedental.com/video/today_show.wmv you will be totally relaxed. You will feel special as you watch one of our many movies available for viewing on stereo movie glasses. Scented and heated towels are available for you when you are finished to give you a fresh and relaxed feeling. Many of our guests find the need for anesthesia is greatly reduced simply because of our pleasant staff and relaxing ambiance. We have not used nitrous gas in our office for over 10 years because even the most dental phobic new patients find our Seattle Dental Spa unlike any dental or medical facility that they have ever visited. It simply radiates quality and relaxation, which in turn gives patients the utmost confidence in our Seattle Cosmetic Dentists. At Brookside Dental, we provide an atmosphere that is worthy of being called a Seattle Dental Spa. Many of our patients look forward to their return visits to our dental spa. When you leave, you will feel like smiling because of either something as simple as a thorough dental hygiene cleaning or as advanced as a beautiful smile makeover created by one of our award wining Seattle Dentists. For additional information about us see the articles on “Quality Dentistry at Brookside Dental” and “Beautiful Smiles” in our Spring 2005 Newsletter http://www.brooksidedental.com/newsletters/quality-dentistry.pdf

To visit the only Pacific Northwest dental spa to be featured on the NBC Today Show, call us at 1-425-643-2818, and you can experience first hand what the people at the NBC Today Show found unique and interesting about the Seattle Dental Spa at Brookside Dental.

America’s Top Dentists - Dr Cynthia Pauley and Dr Patricia Pauley

Dr. Patricia Pauley and Dr. Cynthia Pauley, Cosmetic Dentists at Brookside Dental, Bellevue, WA, each have been named one of America’s Top Dentists in the new 2007 Consumers’ Research Council of America “Guide to America’s Top Dentists 2007″. They were previously listed in the “Guide to America’s Top Dentists 2003-2004″. The Consumers’ Research Council of America, a Washington, D.C., based research organization, provides consumers’ information guides for various professional services throughout America, including dentists and physicians. It is their purpose to help educate and assist consumers in obtaining the finest professional services.

The Consumers’ Research Council of America “Guide to America’s Top Dentists 2007″ was compiled from dentists throughout the United States by utilizing a point value system. This system is based on experience for each year the dentist has been in practice, training and continuing education courses, certifications and dental specialties, and professional association memberships.

Consumers’ Research Council of America does not accept fees, donations, sponsorships or advertising from any individuals, professionals, corporations or associations. This policy was enacted and is strictly adhered to insure an unbiased selection for the lists of America’s Best.

Dr. Patricia Pauley and Dr. Cynthia Pauley at Brookside Dental, Bellevue, WA, were also recently featured in the “Seattle Magazine” 2005 Top Dentist issue. In this issue, Dr Cynthia Pauley was named as one the Top 10 Cosmetic Dentists in the Seattle area and one of the Top 20 general dentists in the Seattle area–only three other dentists were named in two top dental categories.

Bellevue Cosmetic Dentist Uses Many Techniques to Create Smiles

Your Cosmetic Dentist can enhance or create beautiful smiles and new images with extreme makeovers using various modern cosmetic dentistry techniques. These dental techniques include Seattle Porcelain Veneers, Seattle Tooth Whitening, Dental Implants, non-metal tooth-colored fillings, dental laser gum contouring, tooth bonding, tooth enamel shaping, porcelain crowns, all porcelain bridges and cosmetic orthodontia using limited tooth movement. For most people a combination of cosmetic techniques is needed to acquire a truly beautiful smile. However, in some cases, something as simple and as quick as Seattle Tooth Whitening will produce a beautiful and desired result. One of the first things you notice about a person’s face when you first meet them is usually that person’s teeth and their smile. Because of the many new techniques and materials available in cosmetic dentistry, you no longer have to live with teeth having spaces, cracks, chips, stains, or with teeth that are crooked, twisted, or different odd sizes. The various new dental techniques and materials available today give dentists and their patients multiple choices to accomplish beautiful cosmetic dentistry when they visit their Cosmetic Dentist. Your new beautiful smile will give you a new image as well as increased confidence in yourself both socially and at work.

Even subtle changes to your teeth will make dramatic differences with your smile. Your Cosmetic Dentist will discuss various options, which may be suitable for you to either enhance or change your smile. They also will discuss the results that you can expect realistically from Cosmetic Dental treatment and how much these cosmetic dental procedures will cost. The Cosmetic Dental procedures that we do most often at our Bellevue Cosmetic Dentist Spa include:

Bonding which can greatly improve the appearance of teeth that are broken, chipped, cracked, or widely spaced. Eliminating the presence of a space (diastima) between the two front teeth is one of the most common bonding procedures that Cosmetic Dentists perform to enhance smiles. Modern tooth bonding uses technologies and materials that blend the artificial dental material to match perfectly the color of your natural teeth.

Seattle Tooth Whitening or tooth bleaching makes teeth brighter if they are discolored or stained due to various reasons. As we age our teeth naturally get darker. The Seattle Tooth Whitening is a system that allows you to take home bleach trays and change the color of your teeth in the privacy of your home and at your own pace. Cosmetic Dentists may do Tooth Whitening completely in the dental office in approximately 1 hour using ZOOM as seen on the popular TV show “Extreme Makeover”. For more information on Seattle Tooth whitening see www.brooksidedental.com/sep/seattle-tooth-whitening.htm .

Enamel shaping is a very simple and easily performed procedure that simply involves changing the appearance of one or more teeth by gentle contouring, sculpting and shaping teeth by removing very small amounts of tooth enamel. This procedure is frequently combined with the tooth bonding process. This procedure is usually quick and does not require any anesthetic. Therefore, the overall process of enamel shaping is usually very comfortable for patients.

Porcelain Veneers are individually made porcelain tooth covers that are about the thickness of a fingernail which go on the front of teeth and cover the biting surface also. The onsite porcelain artist at our Cosmetic Dentist office makes custom Seattle Porcelain Veneers for teeth out of tooth-colored materials, which can be varied across a wide range of white color by adding dyes of different colors to the porcelain while it is baking. Porcelain Veneers are used on anterior teeth to fix spaces or gaps between teeth, to cover teeth that are worn, chipped, or misshapen. Porcelain Veneers are used to give an overall different shape, color and appearance to the teeth. Porcelain Veneers are most useful for discolored or stained anterior teeth that do not respond well to Seattle Tooth Whitening. For more information about Seattle Porcelain Veneers see www.brooksidedental.com/sep/seattle-porcelain-veneers.htm .

Cosmetic Orthodontia using appliances for limited tooth movement is very different than full mouth Orthodontics. Some Cosmetic Dentists have had extensive professional training with this little utilized technique, which makes use of a variety of appliances (fixed or removable) to move individual teeth in order to obtain cosmetic dental result that gives a beautiful smile. Limited cosmetic tooth movement is used on adults of all ages to move individual teeth that are crowded, crooked or that are spaced to far apart for proper contact. This is a very conservative procedure that retains the maximum amount of your normal tooth structure. For full mouth orthodontia, your Cosmetic Dentist should refer you to an orthodontist specialist if a large number of your teeth need to be moved to correct your bite or smile.

Bellevue Dental Implants are placed in spaces that exist between teeth where normal teeth have been removed or no longer exist. One implant is all that is needed to support a new Porcelain Crown that will fill the space of the lost tooth. The new permanent crown is not made until the jawbone has fused adequately to the implant. The dental implant with its specially constructed porcelain crown keeps the teeth next to missing tooth space from moving. If needed, more than one of the special Bellevue Dental Implants can be placed in the jaw. These implants can be either adjacent to each other and act like a dental bridge or several implants can be placed in different areas of the jaw as single or multiple implants.

LASER GUM SURGERY CAN CREATE A BEAUTIFUL SMILE

The shape, color and appearance of your teeth can easily be changed to create a beautiful smile with modern cosmetic dentistry techniques, such as tooth whitening, tooth-colored fillings, dental implants and porcelain veneers.  However, most people are not aware that a Cosmetic Dentist also can create a beautiful smile with subtle changes to their gums using soft-tissue lasers that recontour the gum-line.  Recontouring of your gums can drastically change and improve the natural balance of your smile.

The soft-tissue laser is one of the newer dental tools available to the Cosmetic Dentist.  It can be used often without any anesthetic to reshape your gums painlessly to give a beautifully sculptured smile that would be the envy of a Hollywood movie star.  Laser gum surgery may be appropriate for you in the following situations:

• Teeth appear small or short
• Gums appear large and dominate your smile
• Gum tissue appearance is different on each side of your mouth
• Overall balance between gums and teeth is not proportional
• Gum contours around teeth are not correct or uneven

When you smile, very little gum should be visible.  The majority of your smile should exhibit your beautiful teeth, with just a hint of gum showing above the teeth.   Each tooth should have a nicely arched and contoured gum-line above it.   The soft-tissue laser offers a painless, minimally invasive, non-anesthesia surgery that is an extremely successful method of obtaining a beautiful smile.

A beautiful smile created with soft-tissue laser surgery is accomplished simply by  rebalancing the amount of gum tissue that is exposed in relationship to the amount of tooth structure that is showing and recontouring the gums around each tooth to appear balanced.  Patients having soft-tissue laser therapy heal quickly and without the discomfort associated with traditional periodontal gum surgery done with anesthetic.  Additional information regarding cosmetic dental procedures may be found at http://www.brooksidedental.com/articles/bellevue-cosmetic-dentist.htm .

Dr Cindy Pauley Voted a Seattle Top 10 Cosmetic Dentist in Seattle Magazine
Top Dentists in the Seattle metropolitan area were chosen by their peers in several categories.  The Seattle Magazine Top Dentists list is the result of a survery the magazine conducted in which they asked over 3,000 dentists in the greater Seattle area, which colleagues that they would entrust with the dental care of their own family members.  The results of this survery’s peer-recommended list of dentists is an excellent tool that anyone can use to find an excellent dentist for your family’s  dental needs and desires.

Ten Cosmetic Dentists were listed by Seattle Magazine as being selected by their peers to perform techniques that will greatly enhance a person’s smile and overall appearance.  Dr Cynthia Pauley DDS at Brookside Dental was voted as one of those Top 10 Cosmetic Dentists in the Seattle area.  Cosmetic Dentists perform such procedures as tooth whitening, laser gum surgery, porcelain veneers, porcelain crowns, all porcelain bridges, dental implants, porcelain crowns on implants, tooth-colored fillings and selected cosmetic tooth movement or cosmetic orthodontia.

Dr Cindy was also selected as one of the Top 20 General Family Dentists in this same survery of over 3,000 dentists in King, Pierce, and Snohomish Counties which make up the greater Seattle Metropolitan Area.  Only four Seattle Area Dentists, including Dr Cindy, were selected in more than one category.  General family dentists do a wide variety of dental services including application of dental sealants to prevent tooth decay in childern.  It has been shown in numerous studies that dental selants will prevent decay in the posterior molars for many years when they are applied at a young age.  Many of the patients at Brookside Dental have gone for over 20 years without any cavities on teeth that received dental sealants.  Other dental sealant information is at http://www.brooksidedental.com/sep/seattle-cosmetic-dentist-cutting-down-on-cavities.htm
The Seattle Magazine Top Dentist Issue also featured Dr Patricia Pauley DDS and a Question and Answer session with Dr Cindy regarding the fact that they are one of the few mother and daughter dental teams on the planet.  They have practiced together for about 15 years, which may be a parent-child dental relationship that is unequalled.  The modern tools, techniques and materials available to dentists today and to Dr Cindy and Dr Pat at Brookside Dental make a visit to their dental spa a relaxing and enjoyable event.  One of Dr Cindy’s patient’s recently sent a very complimentary letter about her work and indicated in it that his “visits to Brookside Dental were among his favorite destinations second only to going for coffee at Starbucks.”
Dr Cynthia Pauley is very pleased and honored to receive this Top Dentist recognition from her peers in the dental field.  Visit her website at http://www.brooksidedental.com and her blog site at http://www.brooksidedental.com/blog for additional information on cosmetic dentistry and family dentistry and to see before and after pictures of many dental procedures.

Brookside Dental was announced on February 10, 2006, by the Better Business Bureau as the winner of the prestigious 2005 Small Business of the Year Award (50 or fewer employees). Brookside Dental was the only medical-dental business chosen to be one of the 15 finalists for the 2005 award. According to Robert Andrew, President of the BBB, there are hundreds of companies nominated by the public for these awards. All nominees submit a two-page executive summary describing their company and from these nominees the award finalists are chosen. The finalists go thru a competition that includes both written and oral presentations to the BBB Awards Panel. Nominees are required to be in good standing with the BBB, although membership is not required. Finalists were judged on their standards of ethics, customer service, community involvement, and innovative business practices. Several hundred people attended the BBB awards luncheon ceremony where Brookside Dental was announced as the award winner for 2005. The complete list of Western Washington award winners can be viewed at www.thebbb.org/BOY_wa.htm .

“The Business of the Year program is designed to promote the importance of ethical business practices and the efforts made by outstanding businesses to ensure that Western Washington’s marketplace remains fair and honorable,” according to Mr. Andrew. “The Business of the Year finalists are chosen for their exceptional commitment to their customers (patients), employees, communities, and suppliers and exemplify the ideals of the Better Business Bureau.” The prestigious 2005 Small Business of the Year Award recognizes overall excellence in the marketplace as well as dedication to our patients, our employees and the community.

Awards are given to one small and one large business in the categories of: customer service, innovative business practices, and community involvement, as well as the overall category of Business of the Year.

This is the second Better Business Bureau Award for Brookside Dental, which was the winner of the 2004 Community Involvement Award that can be viewed at www.brooksidedental.com/sep/brookside-dental-wins-community-involvement-award.htm The doctors and staff of Brookside Dental are honored to have received both of these prestigious awards. We thank our great patients that nominated us for these awards. We will continue to provide you with superior service, gentle family dentistry and exceptional cosmetic dentistry.

Dr Cynthia Pauley and Dr Patricia Pauley provide exceptional high quality dental services at Brookside Dental where they specialize in family and cosmetic dentistry. At http://www.brooksidedental.com/sep/seattle-porcelain-veneers-dental-services.htm , you can view a description of several of the Cosmetic Dentist procedures that they provide.

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TOOTH COLORED FILLINGS CREATE BEAUTIFUL SMILES

When you have a tooth filled or bonded at a Cosmetic Dentist office such as Brookside Dental, only non-metal, tooth colored materials are used to accomplish this type of naturally appearing tooth colored restoration. These tooth colored fillings are called composite restorations. Historically, two types of metal have been used to restore decayed areas of teeth�Silver amalgam and Gold. Posterior metallic crowns, onlays, and inlays are generally made with gold alloy. However, the majority of metal fillings have been silver amalgam fillings, which are an alloy of silver, mercury and other metals. The dark metallic amalgam fillings in teeth are often referred to as silver fillings by patients and have been used in dentistry for over a hundred years. Metal fillings are used on posterior teeth but not on anterior teeth for obvious aesthetic reasons. Many dentists use silver fillings today, because they are less expensive than tooth colored fillings. This is the only advantage that metal fillings have when compared to composite or tooth colored fillings. Much of this cost savings has been driven historically by insurance companies that do not want to pay the higher price commanded by composite fillings. This attitude is changing and some insurance companies are paying the same percentage for both types of fillings, because consumers and their employers are demanding the higher quality composite fillings. Additionally, people want to look younger and more beautiful. Insurance payments are typically 80% of the fees for fillings that are submitted by dentists.

Tooth colored fillings have long been the standard when working on the front or anterior teeth. More recently, there are several reasons for the shift toward posterior fillings that are tooth colored. The most obvious reason is that they look esthetically better than silver fillings. Silver amalgam fillings simply don’t look natural. The quality of these tooth colored materials used for fillings has become increasingly better each year with many scientific advances that maintain the color, resist fracture, and give natural translucent appearance. Quite honestly, amalgam is not aesthetically pleasing even in the lower posterior teeth which are exposed to view much of the time when talking. Patients should be informed of the discolored appearance that can occur to their teeth, particularly when the amalgam fillings are located in the more anterior and readily visible parts of the mouth. A major drawback to amalgam fillings is that preparation for the filling requires back cutting the tooth much like a pyramid so that when the metal hardens it will have good retention. This retention back cutting is required, because the metal does not actually bond to the tooth structure–it simply fills the cavity space and sits next to the normal tooth structure. The back-cut areas of the tooth are thin, weak areas, which fracture easily. Amalgam filled teeth are highly susceptible to having cusps that fracture off. Posterior teeth with fractured cups require the placement of a more expensive crown on the tooth to preserve normal architecture and function.

ADVANTAGES OF TOOTH COLORED FILLINGS

• Composite resin tooth colored fillings look natural with a translucent tooth-like appearance and can be mixed to match any color of the tooth by your dentist.
• Since �back-cutting� is not required, less of the natural tooth structure needs to be drilled away and removed by your Dentist, which maintains more of the strength and integrity of the natural tooth.
• Composite resin strengthens the tooth that is filled because the composite resin actually bonds within the tooth structure.
• Composite resin fillings rarely have areas of the tooth that are thin or weak, so that cusps rarely fracture off.
• Composite resin fillings do not conduct heat and therefore do not expand and contract with heat and cold in your mouth, which helps facilitate tooth fractures near metal fillings.
• Without back-cut areas or temperature movement, there is not any stress put upon weak areas of the composite filled tooth as occurs with metal fillings.
• Composite fillings do not have any unbounded area between tooth and filling to allow moisture and bacteria to enter and cause decay and aide fractures.

In Cosmetic Dentistry, composite resin is the material of choice for most fillings, including very large posterior ones. The Cosmetic Dentists at Brookside Dental have not used silver amalgam as tooth filling material since the early to mid 1990’s. In that time, we have never had a patient tell us that they would prefer amalgam fillings instead of the tooth-colored fillings. Tooth-colored fillings take much more time and artistry by your Cosmetic Dentist than do silver fillings and therefore have more expensive fees than amalgam fillings. The higher cost of materials and labor related to tooth-colored fillings may preclude them as an option for some people. However, at Brookside Dental, we only use composite resin tooth-colored material for fillings in both anterior and posterior teeth, because we think that from the patients’ perspective, both the long-term health of the tooth and the person are enhanced by the use of these natural appearing composite filling materials.

Visit www.brooksidedental.com/welcome_articles.htm and www.animated-teeth.com for additional information on composite tooth-colored fillings and other cosmetic dentistry techniques.