Again this year, Braces For Pretty Faces sponsored a Halloween candy buy back for orthodontic patients and community members in San Jose, CA. Participants were given $1 for each lb donated. Dr Yao matched each $1 for local a charity and candy was sent to our troops

2010 was our best year ever! We collected 610 pounds of candy. Patients in our orthodontic practice, kids from local schools, and local dental practices in the area joined us in our efforts.

Dr. Yao awards kids from our orthodontic practice and anyone who wants to join in from the community, $1 for every pound of candy donated. The office matches dollar for dollar the total cash awards distributed and donates that amount to a local charity in the area.

Halloween is a time when breakage of orthodontic appliances is common when kids Trick or Treat and collect candy they shouldn't eat while wearing braces. Our candy buyback program not only provides resources for our nonprofit organizations in the area, school programs, and our troops, it is teaching children the rewards of random acts of kindness and generosity.

All candy collected is donated to the US troops. Chocolate candy is donated locally and the remaining candy is sent to the troops overseas.

This year, Dr Yao will give matching charitable donations to the Big Brother Big Sisters for the Bay  Area  (BBBS). Local dental practices in San Jose also participated and donated their cash to BBBS.

And yes… collecting the Halloween candy dramatically reduces orthodontic emergency appointments that are very common this time of year. Not only does it keep us on time for scheduled patients in our practice by eliminating unnecessary emergency appointments during our day, it saves valuable time when kids don’t have to miss school to repair damaged braces, not to mention parents taking time off work to bring them in. It’s a win…win for all!

Candy was collected at both Braces For Pretty Faces office locations in San Jose, CA the week after Halloween. The money donated this year to the Big Brothers and Big of the Bar Area will go towards operation costs and other expenses.

Let us know your thoughts on our Candy Buyback Program.  Leave your comments below.  We are very interest in what you think and if you have any suggestions for next year.

Dr Yao and the entire Team at Braces For Pretty Faces wants to thank everyone for participating.  We hope you enjoyed playing our Internet Sleuth Contest. 

• The first winner of the Movie Tickets raffle is Kaylee  Kemtiz - Congratulations Kaylee!!
• The second winner of the Movie Tickets raffle is Samuel Mesfin – Congratulations Samuel!!

The Grand Prize Winner for the Video Glasses is:

ARIANNA CAZARES !!!

Thank you for playing and keep coming back to our Blog and  Facebook to find out about our next contest.  You don't want to miss out on fun times and great prizes.

Val Teplyuk - Ukraine

Olivia Liu - Mexico

Each winner receives a $50 dollar gift card from Braces For Pretty Faces

Thanks to all our patients who participated in our Grown Up Contest at Braces For Pretty Faces.

Congratulations to our winners Shelby and Santino who will each receive a gift certificate to "Dave and Busters"

Shelby Schrager Winner of Grown Up Contest

Santino DelGado Winner of Grown Up Contest

Want to know how you did matching the photos with the members of our Team?  The answers are:

1.  Marie
2.  Luann
3.  Jean
4.  Rebecca
5.  Emma

How do you like our contests?  Let us know… we would love to hear from you.  Any suggestions for Internet contests?

Here at Braces For Pretty Faces we are taking you back in time with a fun "

Grown Up's " baby photo contest.

The staff has pulled out the photos of themselves as babies to see if you can identify them as grown ups.

The rules are simple :

Include your first and last name so we can notify you if you are the winner.

In the comment box below submit your answers with the staff name and matching number that you think is the "grown up " that matches the baby photo.

All correct entry's will go into a drawing for a "Dave and Busters" gift card.

The winner of the Dave and Busters gift card will be announced on Monday Aug 2,2010. 

The contest is open to current and past patients of Dr. Yao's

SUPERMAN SMILE

We have two winners  for the best saying in our Internet Bubble Contest. They each won a $50 Gift Certificate to the Mall!

First winner is Jonathan Su who entered – "Rebecca, how do you like my nails? Aren't they pppeeerrrtttyyy."

Second Winner is Gavin Steiner - " The next time we need to order more business cards for me, I want you to add the title of "Superman" into my name right about here? After all, I am pretty super at making peoples' smiles PERFECT? We'll worry about ordering my tights and cape next week?"

Thanks to everyone for participating.  We had some great entries.  It was tough to choose!

What did you think about our Bubble Contest?  Leave a comment below and let us know.

Guess what Dr. Yao is saying to Rebecca?

The rules of the contest are simple to follow…

• Come up with a creative caption for what Dr. Yao is saying in the photo to Rebecca.
• Add your caption in the comment box
• Include your first and last name so we can notify you if you are the winner.
• The winners receive a $50 MALL gift card.  There will be two winners!!
• The winners will be decided by The Yao Team on May 14^th!
• The contest is open to all current and past patients.

Good luck to all you creative caption geniuses!!  It could be anything………the 2 funniest entries win!

1. Contest announcement will go out via Email, on our Website, Blog for contest and FACEBOOK Fanpage.
2. May 14th , we will pick the winner and notify them the same day.

Leave us your comments!!!

Arc de trioumphe

Downtown Paris background

Congratulations  from everyone at Braces for Pretty Faces!! 

Hope you enjoyed the fun – We plan to have more online contests.  Let us know what you think

Welcome to Day #5….more from Dr Yao’s Paris “Red Carpet” adventure!! John Travolta pictures are finally making their way to our blog!!

"John Travolta is so warm and friendly! We had a good chat." said Dr Yao. "We had such great seats in the theatre! We were right in the middle of the theatre and JT, Jonathan and others were 3 rows in front of us!"

I hope you have enjoyed yourself on the "Red Carpet" with Dr. Yao. 

The answer to today’s question is found in these the three photos below.  Read the instructions carefully to figure out the answer. 

1.  Count the number of people in picture # 1

2.  Add the number of people in picture # 2 to your answer to question # 1.

3.  Add the number of people in picture # 3 to your answer to question # 2.

4.  What is your final answer?

#1 Do you think Dr. Yao is excited to be at the Premiere????
#2 Dr. Yao-John Travolta with 3 guests	#3 Dr. Yao with the three special Ladies.