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FOCUS ON YOUR SMILE ADVISES BELLEVUE DENTIST

Bellevue Dentist Dr Cynthia Pauley says focus on your smile. Your mouth is a complex system and many scientists believe that gum disease can potentially influence other parts of your body and have harmful effects. Therefore, take care of yourself by focusing on your smile. If you have a vibrant and beautiful smile it indicates that you have a healthy mouth and this in turn should be good for other parts of your body. If you your smile is right, you will feel right also.
There are many things that you can do with the help of your cosmetic dentist to improve your smile if there is anything that needs improvement. Research indicates that a majority of people are either not happy with their current smile or would like to improve their smile to make it more beautiful. Also remember that according to current research that having a beautiful smile, even if it is cosmetically improved, will make you appear more attractive and popular with the opposite sex. You will seem more intelligent, interesting and successful. Additionally, remember that research indicates that attractive smiles can help get you a more rewarding job and more friends. Most people want to associate with attractive and successful individuals.
It is not surprising that people’s teeth and their smiles are so highly valued when surveying both women and men, because it is one of the first things about people that are noticed when first meeting. Most people quickly notice a beautiful or handsome smile, but they also notice a very poor smile. A poor smile is greatly accented if there are missing, crooked or discolored teeth. In consultation with your Bellevue Cosmetic Dentist you can choose one or more of the following options to change your smile.

•Brighten your teeth with whitening, bonding or porcelain veneers.
•Restore chips and cracks in teeth and close spaces between teeth.
•Straighten crooked, twisted or crowded teeth.
•Alter the shape, width and length of your teeth so they blend with your gums and lips.
•Change the contour your gum line with a soft laser to eliminate a “gummy” smile.

There are many other things that can be done to improve your smile, but these things can eliminate many of the problems that prevent you from having an attractive and beautiful smile. For additional information about changing your smile contact Dr Pauley at info@brooksidedental.com.


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NEW DENTAL SOCIETY PRESIDENT A BELLEVUE WASHINGTON DENTIST

Dr Cynthia Pauley, Bellevue Cosmetic Dentist, recently was elected as the new President of the Seattle-King County Dental Society (SKCDS) in April 2010. She has served as Secretary of SKCDS and also as a member of the SKCDS Executive Council for 8 years, during which time she was a delegate to the Washington State Dental Association for two terms. During her time on the Executive Council, she been involved in several projects to help the under served citizens of King County, including working on the Smile Mobile which serves people in out lying areas. Currently, she is involved with projects that include “The Northwest Kidney Foundation” and SKCDS Dentists working together on the dentistry care needs of kidney transplant candidates and assisting them to get validated for the new kidney list. Dr Cindy recently has written two articles for the SKCDS Quarterly titled, and “­­­ The Beginnings of Something Great: A Joint Effort to Support Kidney Patients” (2008) and “A Morning with Medical Teams International” (2010). These articles detail individual projects involving the efforts to bring dental services to the under served people in the Seattle-King County area. The mission statement of SKCDS, “We are behind every smile in King County”, is actively being carried out by Dr Cynthia Pauley, a Bellevue Dentist. The overall goal is to have as many members of the SKCDS working toward this as a common goal. Certainly, a major goal is to see that young children receive adequate dental care and exhibit an overall reduction rate of childhood cavities. Dr Cindy has been a Bellevue Dentist in the Seattle Area since graduating from dental school at the University of the Pacific in 1992. Along with her mother, Dr Patricia Pauley, they practice family dentistry with an emphasis on Bellevue Cosmetic Dentistry.

Since its founding in 1892, the Seattle-King County Dental Society has promoted the highest levels of oral health for the citizens of King County. Through various venues they provided essential support, dental information and educational opportunities for dental professionals practicing dentistry within King County. The overview page of SKCDS provides more information about resources that are provided to the general public and to dental health professionals. The Seattle-King County Dental Society is a membership organization of approximately 1,700 dentists practicing in greater King County, Washington. It is the largest professional dental organization based in Washington State and is a major component society of both the Washington State Dental Association and the American Dental Association. The Seattle-King County Dental Foundation, established in 1992, works in association with the Sea-King Society to provide access to dental care for many of the neglected and poorer citizens of King County. The Foundation also supports dental educational programs for members of the public and for healthcare professionals. Each year the Foundation has an annual auction which is attended by hundreds of dentists and their spouses, which brings in several hundred thousand dollars to help finance the various projects of the society.


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BELLEVUE DENTISTS SOFT-TISSUE LASER CREATES NEW SMILES

Bellevue Dentists at Brookside Dental are always striving to stay on the cutting edge of new technology in the field of Dentistry. Dental technology is constantly evolving and developing new methods, procedure and equipment to make visits to the dentist more rewarding and pleasant. Our newest patient-friendly acquisition at Brookside Dental has these Bellevue Cosmetic Dentists using the Odyssey soft-tissue laser to create beautiful new gum lines. The soft-tissue laser is used for sculpturing a new contour around the teeth resulting in a new more attractive gum line and overall smile. Whenever gum tissue does not have the correct contour for a beautifully aesthetic smile, the soft tissue laser can be used to reshape the gums painlessly. Anesthetic generally is not required for this process, because the pulse duration of the laser is so short that the reaction threshold of the nerves is not reached. This laser also can be used to sterilize periodontal pockets that are diseased areas around teeth, because it painlessly kills the germs found there. The soft-tissue laser also can be used to condition and rejuvenate the tissue around teeth so that exceptional dental restorations, tooth fillings and crowns, can be placed correctly and look beautiful, even if the tissue around the teeth is not in the best condition.

For many people, bright white teeth and a beautiful smile seem impossible, due to the fact that they have “small teeth” which exhibit a considerable amount of pink gum tissue. Generally, this is not caused by “short teeth”, but rather it is due to a gummy smile or excess gum tissue that shows at the time of smiling. People with this problem can obtain a beautiful smile that has a well proportioned gum to tooth relationship with soft-tissue laser gum sculpting. The soft-tissue laser offers a painless, minimally invasive, non-surgical, and extremely successful method to obtain a beautiful smile. The excess gum tissue needs to be eliminated so that your teeth will exhibit their natural length and beauty. Patients heal very quickly, with few problems, and with less discomfort than is usually associated with traditional gum surgery methods or crown lengthening. To insure that the proper gum to tooth ratio is achieved for a beautiful smile, it is important to chose a Bellevue Cosmetic Dentist that has had experience with this soft-tissue laser technique.

For most people with “short teeth” or a “gummy smile”, the dentists at Brookside Dental, Bellevue, WA, will be able to reshape your gums to painlessly create a beautiful new smile with the Odyssey soft-tissue laser. In a very few people that have this laser contouring of the gums, there may be a need to refer them to a dental specialist for some crown lengthening that would involve surgical removal of some of the bony tissue around the teeth. Your Bellevue Dentist at Brookside Dental will be able to quickly evaluate whether or not you will need additional surgery. The case with most people is that only simple soft-tissue laser sculpting will be sufficient to give you a fabulous new smile.


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BELLEVUE PORCELAIN VENEERS FOR A BEAUTIFUL NEW SMILE

Kym’s Testimonial Video on YOUTUBE discusses her Brookside Dental porcelain veneers which were used to create her new smile.

With Bellevue Porcelain Veneers the shape, shade and whiteness that you want for your teeth can all be done by your Bellevue Cosmetic Dentist at Brookside Dental. We are able to serve our patients in a high quality manner because we have an on-site porcelain artist that will make a new smile just as you would imagine it by individually crafting your new porcelain veneers.

PORCELAIN VENEER USES

A Bellevue Porcelain Veneer can also be named a dental veneer, a porcelain veneer or a dental laminate. Porcelain veneers are a more recent and successful development in the field of cosmetic dentistry. They are extremely thin sheets of porcelain that are attached to the front side of a tooth and they also cover the biting edge of the tooth. They create beautiful new smiles because they are a wonderful solution for a variety of dentistry problems that include teeth that are stained, chipped, or slightly misaligned. Bellevue Cosmetic Dentists use porcelain veneers for new beautiful smile makeovers by every day. They are used to close gaps between teeth, to cover chipped teeth, to help improve a gummy smile, to make short teeth longer, and to generally improve the overall smile for anyone that does not like the appearance of their smile.

PORCELAIN VENEERS COMBINE ART AND SCIENCE

Bellevue Porcelain Veneers are an excellent example of combining art and science in the area of cosmetic dentistry to give a patient that beautiful smile that they desire. For decades dentists have had materials which can be bonded directly to teeth to make a new smile. However, by taking the bonding process a step farther, Cosmetic dentists now use the bonding capabilities of certain dental materials to securely attach thin sheets of porcelain to an individual tooth. These thin porcelain veneers are attached to cover both the front of the tooth and the biting surface of the tooth to give the appearance of a natural looking tooth. Although porcelain is inherently brittle, it becomes very strong and durable when it is attached to a sturdy substructure like a tooth.

Porcelain veneers are used to create new beautiful smiles instead of other types of cosmetic bonding material because the veneer becomes the permanent tooth covering that will create a very natural appearing tooth structure. Bellevue Porcelain Veneer coverings that have been used to create new smiles are not susceptible to tooth decay. A significant advantage of porcelain veneers over other types of cosmetic dentistry bonding is that porcelain is ceramic, or glass-like, giving it a surface that is extremely smooth and impervious. Because of this impervious feature, porcelain veneers will not pick up any permanent stains. Therefore, the color will not change because the porcelain veneers are resistant to stains such as tea, coffee, red wine, grape juice, and cigarette smoking.

BROOKSIDE DENTAL PORCELAIN VENEER PATIENT TESTIMONIAL

The magic of these beautiful porcelain veneers will keep Kym’s smile looking gorgeous indefinitely. Kym’s Testimonial is available on YOUTUBE regarding her new porcelain veneer smile.

Brookside Dental Cosmetic Dentist patient Kym gives video testimonial about how she had her smile changed with Bellevue Porcelain Veneers. This Bellevue Cosmetic Dentistry procedure was done to straighten and even her teeth and to eliminate visible chips at the biting edges of her teeth which then would generally change her smile. The result of the cosmetic restoration using this procedure is the beautiful smile exhibited in her portrait. Kym tells how she acquired a beautiful smile with porcelain veneers by Cosmetic Dentist Dr Pauley at Brookside Dental in Bellevue, WA. Kym also talks about how beautiful her teeth look, as well as how natural looking her beautiful smile is and that no one is able to know that the porcelain veneers are not her real teeth. She also talks about how many of her relatives now want to change their smiles by getting porcelain veneer.


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