Dr. Paul Styrt wants to know: Will you join the Braces Brigade this summer?

Calling all Dr. Styrt patients! How would you like to get a $100 American Express gift card just for blogging about your experience in braces? Thanks to our friends at the American Association of Orthodontists, here's your chance! The AAO is proud to offer the Braces Brigade campaign, giving you the opportunity to share your orthodontic journey at San Diego's Simply Spectacular Smiles with the world!

From now through August 31st, the AAO is looking for current and former of ours, as well as parents of orthodontic patients, to join the Braces Brigade and blog about their unique experience in braces. Just head to the AAO's Braces Brigade page to sign up and get started blogging. If you're under 18, your parents should fill out a consent form along with your official entry, giving you permission to enter the contest.

We encourage you to apply for the Braces Brigade today! GOOD LUCK and, most importantly, have fun!

Dr. Styrt's Patient Referral Program

At Dr. Styrt's office, there are two things we absolutely love: creating beautiful smiles and having fun. But we also love to reward our patients with our Patient Referral Program. For each new patient an existing patient refers to our office, they have their choice of either an iPod Shuffle or a San Diego Restaurant Gift Card once the person has completed their New Patient visit.

For each new patient referred, the existing patient will be entered into a drawing to win a Sony Book Reader Pocket Edition, which holds up to 350 of your favorite books, supports multiple file formats, and gives you access to books from locations including the Reader Store and Google Books.

Finally, to show our patients how much we appreciate them, we hold patient appreciation parties. In fact, we had an ice cream social on June 16 and posted the photos this morning on our Facebook fan page! We encourage you to head on over and check them out!

Dr. Styrt and team appreciate our patients!

If you've ever stepped foot into our convenient San Diego office, you know Dr. Styrt and team love having fun. In-office contests are just a few of the ways we like to keep our patients and ourselves loose. Check out some of the patient contests we have run at our office lately!

Monthly “Clock” Contest

Guess how many fun, seasonal, items are in the clock in the clinic and win Dr. Styrt tokens to be used on the awesome, newly-updated, Token Prize Board

Baby Picture Match-Up

Match our team-member to their baby picture and win a Sammy’s Pizza (www.sammyspizza.com) and a Dr. Styrt Gift Bag

Dr. Job’s Clean and Cavity-free Club

All of our pediatric dental patients with at least a 95% hygiene score are entered into a contest to win a Dippin’ Dots Maker (one of the hottest prizes from our Ice Cream Social!)

Back-to-School Fun-stuffed Backpacks and Staples Gift Cards

All of our orthodontic and pediatric dental patients with excellent oral hygiene will be entered to win backpacks full of fun stuff and gift cards to kick off the new school year

At Simply Spectacular Smiles, we are a team of professionals dedicated to serving the needs of our patients and enhancing their lives. We consistently strive to provide the finest and most technologically advanced orthodontic and pediatric dental care to each person we serve. We value honesty and integrity in all that we do, and treat each person as we would want to be treated. We truly enjoy what we do — creating Spectacular Smiles!

Dr. Styrt and team want to know: what are your plans for the Fourth?

For many of our patients at Dr. Styrt's office, Independence Day is a day of fireworks, picnics, playing at the lake or spending quality time with family. Most people recognize July Fourth as a time to celebrate and commemorate the anniversary of the signing of our Declaration of Independence.

What about you? What are your Fourth of July plans? Are you heading to a barbecue? Taking in a Padres game? Hitting the open road with family? Are you planning on using fireworks to light up the California night sky?

Out of ideas? Then check out this helpful San Diego events guide for Independence Day weekend!

Share your July 4th adventures with us on our Facebook page! We even encourage you to post your photos there!

Have a GREAT weekend everyone!