Smiling Girl with White Teeth and Red Lips

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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Three Beautiful Smiles at Brookside Dental Staff Gathering

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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Kym portrait exhibits beautiful smile created with porcelain veneers

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.

Smile before treatment with Porcelain Veneers

Beautiful Smile after treatment with Porcelain Veneers

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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Men are able to acquire attractive smiles with various Bellevue Cosmetic Dentistry procedures. Men are able to have increased physical attractiveness resulting from Cosmetic Dental work, because of their new beautiful smiles. Additionally, most men likely will become even more outgoing after altering or changing their smiles with Bellevue Cosmetic Dentists. Often they may find that their personal lives and work opportunities will improve. Often only a minor alteration, such as tooth whitening can improve a man’s smile, while an extreme makeover of the smile can improve the appearance of an exceptionally poor smile. This article discusses how a Cosmetic Dentist can be used to improve and create new their smiles for men.

Andy After Cosmetic Dentistry

Cosmetic work performed: Upper arch central Porcelain Crowns, general Tooth Whitening, and lower arch Cosmetic Tooth Movement for midline alignment Patient of Dr Pauley, Brookside Dental, Bellevue, WA

Most articles about Cosmetic Dentistry show photos of beautiful women. However, this article is different because it does not show any photographs of beautiful women only handsome men of various ages that have new smiles. Cosmetic surgery photos, beauty ads, and nutritional advertisements are generally aimed at women. Therefore it is understandable that Cosmetic Dentists resort to the same thing in their advertising and on their websites where they show and display photographs of women with beautiful smiles. These beautiful smiles are one of the first physical features seen by a new person. These stunning smiles on men are also one of the initial attractions and a major influence on how attractive a face is perceived. Therefore, men need to know how to chose a Cosmetic Dentist the same as women. Trade magazines in dentistry, also exhibit beautiful smiles almost entirely on women. If men are shown, they are almost always shown with a beautiful women as a couple.

Recently, men of various ages are having cosmetic surgery performed such as hair transplants, face lifts and tummy tucks. Men want to look handsome and more youthful, the same as women want to appear more youthful and attractive. Men are having Cosmetic Dentistry performed in an effort to look better. Both women and men want more success at work and better personal lives. Some surveys have indicated that attractive people have more success in life and business than other people.

As always, this information is not in any way meant to replace a visit and examination by your own dentist. However, if you do not currently have a dentist, you may contact Bellevue Dentists, Dr Patricia Pauley or Dr Cynthia Pauley, to set up a dental exam. Both cosmetic doctors can be contacted at info@brooksidedental.com in Bellevue, WA, and additional information may be viewed at their Bellevue Cosmetic Dentistry website.


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Washington State in 2008 put into effect the expanded functions dental assistant (EFDA) program at three locations: Seattle Central Community College, South Puget Sound Community College, and Spokane Community College. The program is designed to give dental assistants expanded abilities in the restorative dentistry arena. The Washington State Dental Association (WSDA) was instrumental in moving the program through the state legislature by making sure the program was well understood by both dentists and legislators. Two classes of EFDAs have graduated from Seattle Central CC. The program is modeled after similar programs in the Indian Health Services, the US Army and the US Navy, which for differing years have had thriving EFDA programs. These EFDA graduates are now doing expanded duties in restorative dentistry in many dental offices in Washington State. Our lead assistant at Brookside Dental, Bellevue, WA, who has been with us for 15 years, has applied to the EFDA program at Seattle Central CC and if accepted will complete the program in the summer of 2010.

Washington State has for many years allowed dental hygienists to do expanded functions in restorative dentistry. Advantages to having the new program for dental assistants are first that dental assistants generally work more directly associated with the dentists and are therefore more experienced in restorative work and second that the more highly paid and more specialized dental hygienists will continue to provide hygiene care which can not be provided by dental assistants in Washington State.

According to the WSDA, the US Army has a report on EFDAs that indicates that dentists that work with an EFDA provider are 40 percent more productive than their counterpart dentists working without an EFDA without any compromise in the quality of dental care delivered to the patients.

Although the end result is the same and should allow more people to have access to high quality dentistry, the route to graduation at the three schools is different. SCCC has their students do all of their hands-on clinical training on patients that come to the vocational schools’ clinic and follow that with a 20-24 hour externship at a community health clinic. The other two schools use private dentists under contract to teach individual students within the private practice offices during the regular day while seeing scheduled patients of record. Administrators at the different schools champion the method that they use as the better model. Ultimately all EFDA graduates must pass a state board examination to receive an EFDA credential.

It may be too early to determine if EFDAs will increase the access to care for people, but there appears to be some anecdotal evidence that they are helping to address a portion of that problem according to the WSDA. There is no doubt that the Indian Health Care model definitely provides increased access to care for those people served by those providers. At this time, the EFDAs are being trained in three metropolitan areas where dentists are not in short supply as they are in some of the smaller communities in the state. These smaller communities will need to be given the opportunity to have their dental assistants be able to enroll in some type of EFDA program in the future. Additional information regarding this program can be obtained at the SCCC EFDA program, email efda@sccd.ctc.edu, SPSCC EFDA program, email jmartin@spscc.ctc.edu, or at SCC EFDA program, email bmoneymaker@scc.spokane.edu.

BELLEVUE DENTIST IMPLANTS

My most recent article is about Dentistry Implants. A summary is:

Dental Implants are changing how beautiful new smiles are created for people. Dental bridges used to be the standard restorative dental treatment when a tooth or two was missing and they are still used in many instances. However, people are discovering that dental implants are more comfortable and natural feeling than bridges or dentures in most cases.

The entire article may be viewed at my other Bellevue Cosmetic Dentistry Blog.

If you are interested in a consultation to discuss dental implants with one of the cosmetic dentists at Brookside Dental in Bellevue, WA, please call 425-643-2818 or email our office at info@brooksidedental.com.

BROOKSIDE DENTAL RECEPTION AREA

We at Brookside Dental provide gentle cosmetic and family dentistry in a relaxed state of the art setting. Our office was featured on the front page of the Seattle P.I. in 1997 in an article that focused on decay prevention in children. Brookside Dental also was featured on the Today Show in 2003 as an example of a modern dental spa. Dr Cynthia Pauley and Dr Patricia Pauley have been featured Doctor of Dentistry Magazine, Bellevue Reflections Magazine, and the Top Dentists Issue of Seattle Magazine. With our advanced artistry, technology and materials, plus an on-site porcelain artist, we can create beautiful, durable and natural appearing smiles.

We cater to the entire family. For Kids, our special Teddy Bear chair and children’s room keep the little ones looking forward to their dental visits. Special touches for adults include movie glasses and a huge movie library.

Give us a call for more information on how we can help you and your family with your beautiful smiles.

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The Bellevue Dentists at Brookside Dental are always looking for better ways to serve our patients and friends. Recently, we put together a short two minute Bellevue Cosmetic Dentistry Slide Video Collage of some of our recent Cosmetic Dental patients. We are very proud of the work that we have done and the many smiles that we have enhanced. The video represents a sampling of many types of work performed to create or enhance smiles. Each person shown in the video has had different types of Cosmetic Dentistry work performed to give the beautiful end results exhibited in each situation. The work includes extensive restoration with all porcelain crowns and porcelain veneers as well as tooth colored fillings and tooth colored dental bonding. Several cases involve cosmetic movement of a few teeth to give perfectly aligned smiles. Most cosmetic dental smile alterations and creations involve some type of tooth whitening in addition to the other cosmetic dentistry work that is done.

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Cosmetic Dental bonding is done with a composite resin material that is used to fix various dental problems. The composite bonding material can be used to fix some breaks, cracks and chips on teeth and some spaces between teeth called diastemas. If the tooth imperfections or spaces are large, bonding may not be an option, in which case porcelain veneers or crowns may be required to give a good cosmetic result.

Anterior Dental Bonding was used to create this beautiful smile. Patient of Dr Patricia Pauley, Brookside Dental, Bellevue, WA

To start the tooth bonding procedure, your Bellevue Dentist will prepare your tooth or teeth for treatment by roughening the surface to be repaired and then recontouring the surface to acccept the composite resin material. Surface roughening is performed to allow the resin to adhere properly to the tooth structure when it hardens. When the tooth or teeth are properly prepared, the cosmetic dentist will apply a mixture of two different materials which have an adhesive and a catalyst in them. The putty-like composite material, which is tooth colored is applied and sculpted to correct the problems. The composite material is then carefully applied to the properly prepared area of the tooth to be fixed. The tooth-colored composite is then shaped and smoothed to accomplish the desired cosmetic appearance. To harden the composite resin material once it is placed on the tooth, a high intensity light is used to cure it by your Bellevue Cosmetic Dentist. If the area to be fixed is large or deep, more than one layer of composite material may have to be applied and cured separately. After shaping the material, the newly fixed area is smoothed and polished to look like the natural tooth structure. If done correctly by someone well trained in cosmetic dentistry, the finished tooth colored composite should have the same appearance as its adjacent natural tooth structure. Any tooth whitening that is needed or desired should be done prior to the use of cosmetic dental bonding resins, because the resin is not effected by the bleaching process and remains its original color. Generally, composite bonding is done on teeth after they have been bleached. At that time after bleaching, the tooth-colored bonding material is matched to the newly whitened teeth. Cosmetic tooth bonding with composite material can usually be completed during one office visit, depending upon the amount of repair needed and the number of teeth to be treated. Cosmetic cases that are complicated involving multiple teeth may require more than one visit to your Bellevue Cosmetic Dentist.

COSMETIC DENTISTRY TOOTH BONDING BENEFITS

Cosmetic dental tooth bonding is quick and generally able to be finished in one visit to the dentist if they are properly trained in cosmetic dental work. The finished product is usually relatively long lasting, assuming the patient takes normal care of their teeth. Tooth colored dental bonding is a wonderful alternative to more extensive and more expensive cosmetic dentistry treatment that is done with porcelain veneers, crowns, and bridges. Cost is often a concern for patients. The cost of dental tooth bonding varies depending upon three things: (1) the number of teeth that are repaired; (2) the size of the individual areas that are bonded; and (3) the geographic area of the country where the procedures are performed.

Two other important facts about dental bonding should be pointed out. First, very frequently, dental bonding will be at least partially covered by your dental insurance, because in many cases the problems are primarily structural rather than just cosmetic. Or they may be a combination of structural and cosmetic, where the structural should be given preference as to payment by an insurance company. Strictly cosmetic dental work is never covered by your dental insurance. Since dental bonding can straighten, whiten, fill spaces and generally improve the overall appearance of your smile, the work is usually worth the cost even if your insurance does not pay any it. Second, check the amount of advanced cosmetic dental study and training that a dentist has done, especially if you are having extensive bonding performed on your front teeth. Even though there may be extensive structural problems, anterior tooth work is always going to have some cosmetic dentistry component to it. Therefore there is both a technical aspect and an artistic aspect to dental bonding, especially on anterior teeth.

As always, this information is not in any way meant to replace a visit and examination by your own dentist. However, if you do not currently have a dentist, you may contact Bellevue Cosmetic Dentists, Dr Patricia Pauley or Dr Cynthia Pauley, to set up a dental exam. Both cosmetic doctors can be contacted at info@brooksidedental.com in Bellevue, WA, and additional information may be viewed at their Bellevue Cosmetic Dentistry website.

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