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BELLEVUE COSMETIC DENTIST LASER GUM SURGERY CREATES BEAUTIFUL SMILES

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 is available from your Bellevue Cosmetic Dentist at Brookside Dental.

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Dr Cynthia Pauley Cosmetic Dentist

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 on the Brookside Dental website.
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. You can visit her Brookside Dental website and her Cosmetic Dentistry Blog site for additional information on Cosmetic Dentistry and family dentistry and to see before and after pictures of many dental procedures.

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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).

BBB Business of the Year 2005 Award

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”>the Better Business Bureau web site. “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 which has details available to be viewed at another post in this blog. 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. Descriptions of several of the Cosmetic Dentist procedures and services that they provide at Brookside Dental are given elsewhere.

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