San Lorenzo, CA Drs and Health Practioners

Dr. Ruchira Gupta compares the level of service at Willow Family Dental to bespoke tailoring, as each service is customized to fit their clients perfectly and leave them looking great. Even though she’s been working with teeth for more than 15 years, she continues her education with classes and seminars that keep her up to date on the latest practices, sharing newfound knowledge with her dedicated dental team. She equips her office with digital x-rays, which release up to 90% less radiation, and intra-oral cameras to snap detailed images of teeth so she can keep track of progress or have a picture for their smile’s yearbook. She also uses lasers to treat gum and soft tissue less invasively as well as to whiten grins chair-side. Dr. Gupta also specializes in restorative dentistry, cosmetic dentistry, and children’s dentistry, offering a suite of services from comprehensive exams to porcelain veneers.

During appointments, clients relax in massage chairs, listen to music, or watch DVDs. The staff keeps nitrous oxide—or laughing gas—on hand to soothe any anxiety as well as warm blankets to serve as makeshift curtains for impromptu sock-puppet performances. In the lobby, waiting family members can browse the web via free WiFi.

Licensed optometrists and Bay Area natives Drs. Adrienne Lee, Pearl Yee, and Noelle Sung draw from a wealth of personal and professional experiences—from Dr. Lee’s exemplary violin performance with her chamber group to Dr. Yee’s six years as an officer in the Navy’s optometry corps—to restore the sight of patients. Throughout the high-end boutique, a bounty of stylish frames from Japan, the United States, and Europe grace the walls, tempting eyeballs with the retro-chic of Entourage of 7 eyewear or the futuristic floating lenses of ultralight Avantek titanium pieces. High-tech treatments, such as corneal-refractive therapy and LASIK eye surgery allow patients to eschew glasses and witness the glories of nature unfiltered and unblurred, from the stunning majesty of a cloud-crowned mountain vista to the upfront banality of a road sign.

For Rebecca Berke, the key to understanding common personal struggles such as weight loss or smoking cessation doesn't exist externally in the form of a pill or self-help book, but deep inside the mind. As a certified hypnotherapist, Rebecca guides her clients on journeys through their subconscious selves, identifying the roadblocks and construction zones that prevent positive change. Rebecca then helps clients eliminate the revealed impediments, and builds on their personal progress toward healthier habits and self-improvement goals in subsequent sessions.

Since graduating from the University of Missouri-Kansas City in 1989, Dr. Cliff Broschinsky—known as Dr. B to his patients—has been keeping pace with the constantly evolving field of dentistry. At his practice, tooth-colored composite resins replace metal amalgams for cavity repair and Invisalign orthodontics take the place of wire braces or stern ballet instructors to nudge teeth into straighter positions. Patients undergo these modern treatments while surrounded by décor from a bygone era, including Victorian-style couches, brocade curtains, and ornate tables.

Since receiving his medical degree from Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons, Dr. Perry Solomon has served as the medical director of various practices, published scientific articles, and drawn on his personal experience to open Bridges Medical Clinic. In a candid note to his patients, Dr. Solomon explains that he was thrilled when Botox first thwarted his own hyperhidrosis, a fancy term for excessive perspiration. For 11 years now he's been injecting the elixir into hands and underarms to prevent extreme sweating, helping patients feel more confident and preventing T-shirts made out of sugar from melting. Dr. Solomon’s site is full of information, replete with an FAQ, a detailed description of how Botox is used, and even a video of the hand-injection technique.:m]]

In her spare time, she photographs and bakes, but by day, Dr. Birim Boyer turns her aesthetic sense and exacting eye to the art and science of dentistry. Her combination of family, restorative, and cosmetic dentistry keeps grins gleaming with services that include preventive care, veneers, and orthodontia. Over the years, Dr. Boyer has not only sharpened her technical skill but her chair-side manner, easing patients’ minds with her warm demeanor, delicate touch, and hand-monogrammed security blankets.