Rafaele D. Brooks, DDS

Welcome Back!!! Our practice is reopening! While many things have changed, one thing has remained the same: our commitment to your safety. Our office follows infection control recommendations made by the American Dental Association (ADA), the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)We do this to make sure that our infection control procedures are current and adhere to each agencies’ recommendations.... COVID-19 SAFETY MEASURES IN OUR OFFICE 1. Our office will communicate with you beforehand to ask some screening questions. You’ll be asked those same questions again when you are in the office. 2. At the time of scheduling, we will screen patients for symptoms of COVID-19 such as fever, cough, and exposure to anyone with a COVID-19 infection. You will be asked those same questions again when you are in our office. 3. We will kindly ask you to remain in your vehicle until it is time for you to come to your appointment. 4. We will perform temperature checks upon arrival and anyone with a temperature of 100.4F or above cannot be seen. 5. We ask that all patients come to their appointments alone; only caretakers or a minor patient’s parent are permitted to accompany patients into our office. 6.We require that all patients, and those that must accompany them to our office, wear a mask or a cloth face covering. 7. We provide hand sanitizer in the reception area and other places in the office for you to use as needed. We will ask you to use it when you enter our office. 8. We will require that patients stand at least 6 feet apart during check in / check out and while in the reception area. 9. Our reception area will no longer offer magazines, books or newspapers since those items are difficult to clean and disinfect. 10. Our appointments will be managed to allow for social distancing between patients. We are looking forward to welcoming you again in our practice! Feel free to contact us if you have any questions.

The California Dental Association strongly recommends that dentists practicing in California suspend all in-person dental care with the exception of emergency treatment, until further notice. Given the gravity of this health care crisis and national emergency, CDA implores dental practices to suspend all dental care with the exception of emergency cases that present as life threatening. The purpose of this recommendation, consistent with the statewide shelter-in-place order, ...is to minimize the risks of virus exposure to patients and the dental team and to preserve critical health care workers’ personal protective equipment (PPE), which are currently in extremely short supply. When this situation changes, we will adapt the recommendations accordingly. Stay at home! Stay well!

According to the American Association of Orthodontics, If you recognize any of these signs or concerns in your child or yourself, it might be time to schedule a consultation with an orthodontist. -You want a beautiful smile -You feel a great smile will improve your self-esteem and self-confidence. -Difficulty chewing or biting. -Mouth breathing.... -Sucking the thumb or fingers, or other oral habits. -Crowded, misplaced or blocked-out teeth. -Jaws that shift, make sounds, protrude or are recessed. -Speech difficulty. -Biting the cheek or biting into the roof of the mouth. -Protruding teeth. -Teeth that meet in an abnormal way or don’t meet at all -Facial imbalance or asymmetry (features out of proportion to the rest of the face) -Grinding or clenching of teeth. -Inability to comfortably close lips. See more

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Dr. Brooks, and her staff are skillful, experienced professionals with years of success in caring for patients like you and your family.

Happy to announce the opening of our beautiful West Los Angeles practice!