Do looks matter in your personal life?

What Impact is a Beautiful Smile?
Do beautiful people make more money? Do they get the best jobs? Do they get job advancement rapidly? Do they have a more satisfying personal life? The answer to all of these things is probably YES! What is the very first thing that you notice about a person? It is their physical beauty and personal appearance that is first noticed—everything else is secondary to that. I once read that, “Beauty in a person is like rareness in a coin or stamp—it can conceal a number of minor defects”. As a Seattle Cosmetic Dentist, my goal is to give people more beautiful smiles that will allow them to compete and have success in all areas of their lives. A variety of cosmetic dentistry techniques can be used to accomplish a more beautiful smile.
Do beautiful people make more money?
Good looks can have a real impact on a worker’s bank accounts according to research published in the Journal of Labor Economics. Attractive people earn about 5 percent more in hourly pay than their average-looking coworkers and 14 percent more per hour the plain-looking workers. Additionally, plain-looking workers may also receive fewer promotions than those given to their better-looking contemporaries. These handsome men and beautiful women are not always the smartest or sharpest business-minded people. They simply are genetically blessed with attractive appearances and they know how to accent their looks. Most people, even with good looks, must display themselves attractively also.
Do good-looking people get the better jobs?
If attractive people earn more in hourly pay than both their average-looking coworkers and their plain-looking coworkers, then the obvious corollary to that statement would be that they in fact do get better jobs. In many cases, they probably do get the best jobs available—at least the best ones that their supervisors don’t already have.
Do attractive people get job advancement more rapidly?
Actually, according to the study in the Journal of Labor Economics, plain-looking workers receive fewer promotions than the number of promotions given to their better-looking contemporaries. These are not always the smartest or sharpest business-minded people. They simply are genetically blessed with attractive appearances and they know how to accent their looks. However, there are few genetically blessed women and men that could wear a burlap bag and dirty shorts to work and still be promoted if they are able to combine their goods looks with intelligence and a good personality.
Are good-looking people more talented?
Good-looking people may or may not be more talented than ordinary looking people, but if talent and ability are equal, the better appearing people probably will out perform the ordinary looking people. It remains uncertain, as to whether or not the most handsome people actually translate these good looks into better or more production. What does appear true is the perception of how well these attractive people perform their jobs. According to a University of Texas research study, students consistently gave the best-looking professors higher evaluations as teachers than the evaluations given to less attractive instructors and teachers.
If good looks can get you through the front door for an interview, they may not necessarily get you a lot farther. To proceed up the ladder of success, an attractive person also must be intelligent, competent, and have good interpersonal skills. Looks alone may help you get dates and therefore make your personal life more enjoyable. A person can be breathtakingly beautiful, but destroy the illusion very quickly if they seem superior, conceited, or are just an all around “jerk”. Generally speaking, discrimination based on looks is not treated the same as discrimination based on religion, ethnicity, disability, or age. In most jurisdictions, it is not illegal to discriminate against a person based on their “looks”.
How to become a more beautiful person!
To make sure that you take advantage of your looks, there are several things that you can do. In addition to eating properly, resting, and exercising, specific areas of your face can be targeted for a makeover. According to “New Beauty” Magazine, you can make yourself more beautiful by alterations of a number of areas of your face—your eyes, your nose, your chin, and your teeth. There are a number of surgical and noninvasive options that can be used to create or restore a more youthful and attractive appearance.
Cosmetic Dentists Create Beautiful Smiles!
Seattle Cosmetic Dentists can do an Extreme Makeover that can alter your bite, gums, and teeth to improve the overall look and beauty of your smile. The changes that they make also can help maintain healthy teeth and gums for life. The Seattle Cosmetic Dentist may use dental bonding or tooth colored fillings to restore the shape, size and appearance of your teeth. An Extreme Makeover can be accomplished with either porcelain veneers or porcelain crowns. Cosmetic tooth movement can be done on some teeth that are crooked or twisted. Gum surgery can be done with a laser to sculpt a more attractive interface between teeth and gums, which can give a more natural and beautiful look to your smile. Stained or darkened teeth can often be restored to beauty with simple tooth bleaching. These options and combinations of options can be used to accomplish a full-mouth reconstruction of your smile or minor alterations of some individual teeth, depending upon the level of change that you choose to have done.
Cynthia Pauley DDS and Patricia Pauley DDS are family and cosmetic dentists at Brookside Dental in Bellevue, WA, and are the winners of numerous awards for their community contributions and their dental work.


The Harley Street Smile Clinic believe the importance of an attractive smile should not be underestimated. A survey carried out by the American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry (AACD) found that:

- More than 92% of adults agree that an attractive smile is an important social asset*

- Over 85% say they always remember someone with a really attractive smile*

- 85% agree that an unattractive smile makes a person less appealing to the opposite sex*

- Nearly 75% agree that an unattractive smile can hurt a persons chance for career success*

The percentages speak for themselves...