With the New Year ahead

With the New Year ahead of us, Dr. Mostofi’s office would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your continual support and many referrals. We would also like to share some wonderful office, as well as personal news with you. In July 2008, Dr. Mostofi and his wife welcomed their first child, Cameron, into the world. Cameron is now smiling and Dr. Mostofi is anxiously awaiting his first tooth.

Beginning in February 2009, tune into TLC’s hit show “10 Years Younger” to see
Dr. Mostofi transform smiles through full-mouth reconstruction, placement of porcelain veneers, tissue recontouring, laser teeth whitening, and porcelain fillings. Through such procedures Dr. Mostofi is able to take years off of each patient.

We would also like to remind our patients who have a dental insurance plan that their insurance benefits for 2008 are coming to an end. If you have been putting off that cleaning or need a porcelain crown, now is the perfect time to take advantage of the insurance benefits you have already paid for in 2008. For a limited time, we are also providing $50.00 off of our popular ZOOM!® Advanced Teeth Whitening treatment to brighten up your smiles for the holiday season.

As always, we are here to provide you with excellent care to maintain your smile for a lifetime.

Dr.Mostofi will be featured on TLC's hit show 10 Years Younger, beginning February 2009.

What makes a beautiful smile?

1.Line Angles
In a beautiful smile the teeth are angled towards the middle of the body.

2.Symmetrical Gums
Without symmetrical gums, beautiful teeth can look like a beautiful picture with an average frame. Symmetry of the gums can be achieved with laser gum contouring.

3.Beautiful Centrals
A youthful, beautiful smile starts with long, white, gorgeous front teeth.

4.Golden Proportions
Both artists and scientists alike have noticed that beautiful things in nature have what we call the gold proportions. Beautiful veneers are made with this in mind, so your teeth have perfect visual harmony.

5.Color & Shape
The shape and color of our teeth should be in harmony with the shape of our face, eyes, and skin tone. All these things should be considered in the design process.

Look 10 Years Younger in One Day!

A Beautiful Smile makes a difference and so does a bad one. Unlike fine wines, our smiles do not improve with age. As we age our teeth lose their luster and it's not just about teeth. As time moves on, our lips become less plump and gravity draws our upper lip down covering our upper teeth.

Every day more and more people are having their smiles transformed to enhance their overall appearance. Choosing the right dentist to perform these aesthetic procedures can save you years of unnecessary dental repair, as well as time and money.

Sedation Dentistry

1. Oral Sedation is a safe and effective way of relieving the fear and anxiety associated with going to the dentist
2. Dentists have used oral medications for many years to relieve fear and apprehension associated with dental appointments
3. It works well for most patients allowing them to relax and have little or no memory of their dental appointments (partial or total amnesia)
4. Its easy, you take a pill one hour prior to your dental appointment
5. Some patients are so relaxed that they sleep right through their dental appointment. When someone is relaxed they will feel less tired after a long dental appointment.
6. Patients are so relaxed and comfortable, that a large amount of complex treatment can be accomplished in a single appointment
7. People who have trouble getting numb are often helped by Oral Sedation Dentistry
8. If you are scared of needles, sedation dentistry can help you
9. People who have difficulty controlling movements, such as Parkinson’s Disease or Cerebral Palsy are often helped by oral sedation
10. The dentist can complete more dental treatment of higher quality, in a shorter period of time, on a patient who is relaxed

Laser Gum Surgery for a Beautiful Smile

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
www.centurysmile.com