August 2012 – Your Smile

WHY DO PEOPLE LIKE YOU?
Fall Night, moonlight; suburban cool, a breeze in the air as she said it with no hint of haughtiness, “People like me because of my smile.” The two of us, mere males, captivated by her echoing laugh, questioned whether that was all it took for people to like her. Not only did she radiate a certain cool, a detached way of not heightening her sensuality, she truly had a captivating smile.

Is it solely because you show your teeth or do you genuinely brighten a room with your mere presence? What if you only smile with your eyes, like I do the majority of the time, ever since I abandoned the “G” on my tooth; you know “way back when I had the red and black lumberjack…” #biggie #idigress

Your smile says so much about you. It can carry you anywhere, sort of a like a passport to enter other people’s worlds. Your smile lends you diplomatic immunity from certain misconceptions, except from those people who are always mean-mugging. They do not understand that if one cannot smile, the next step is not a frown, unless one is underground, riding the subway. Even then, I believe a simple poker face could do.

In fact, bring it full circle and turn your smile into your poker face! Let’s focus on all the things that get you glum. Reframe them as obstacles that you have or will overcome, and are here “still standing” like Antwone Fisher!

Doesn’t that make you smile, to think yourself as the winner?

Where does your smile start? I’ve seen people whose smile start from their mid-section. Others commence theirs from their brow, down to their eyes, and then their face light up. You know why? It is because you walked into the room with your smile.

HELP FOR YOUR SMILE
If you still cannot muster a smile worth sharing with everyone, I recommend you call on the following people:
 

RONALD TAYLOR
RCT Endodontics


 ANTHONY JOHNSON
Johnson Pediatric Dentistry

SHANDRA CUSHINGBERRY-RAND
Simply Smiles Family and Cosmetic Dentistry


MAUREEN POUX
Richard Mathews DDS for Children




LEE GAUSE
Smile Design Manhattan