Amelia Chim, DDS, MSD and Warren Aka, DDS are pediatric dentists specialists in Sammamish, WA serving infants, children, and teens in surrounding cities of Sammamish, Redmond, Issaquah, Fall City, Bellevue, Carnation,and beyond..
'As an airway and physiologically-focusedpediatric dentist specialist, Idedicate myselfto provide a fun and educational environment that will promote a lifetime of health and fearless dentistry. Thank you for your trust and theprivilege of caring for your children'
Dr. Amelia Chim is one of the very select few that has comprehensive advanced trainingin infant and children sleep and airway functional dentistry and believes in continually adding to her dental education so she can offer the most current preventative orofacial growth and dental treatment available.
Dr. Amelia is also one of thefew pediatric dentists whocompleted the most rigorous examinationsand earned the highest distinction in the profession: Diplomate of American Board of Pediatric Dentistry. This puts her in the top 10% of all Pediatric Dentist in the nation and sets her apart from all the other Pediatric dentists in the country.
Dr. Amelia Chim had earned a masters degree for her publishedresearch in the children with Autism in addition to completingayear-long fellowship specializing in dentistry for patients with special needs.
As a pediatric dentist, Dr. Amelia Chim dedicates her career specifically to treatboth healthy and medically compromised children and adolescence. Within this, she spends the majority of her time collaborating with local functional therapists to help infants and children feeding, speech, and other growthproblem. Dr. Amelia is highly educated in allfacets of physiologic dentistry and offer multiple treatment options to address oral myofunctional problems in children.
As a parent to four children, she can personally relate to parents concerns and believes that parents educationplay a very important role in their childrens oral health.In addition to being in her private practice, Dr. Ameliaalso spends her time teaching at the Pediatric Dentistry department of the University of Washington
Raised in Torrance, California, Dr. Aka is a graduate of the University of California at San Diego (BA, Animal Physiology) and the University of California at Los Angeles (DDS). During his four years as a dental student at UCLA, Dr. Aka volunteered atseveral children 's dental clinics. Quickly discovering that children werefun and that 'big people werescary,' he made the easy decision to dedicate his career to caring for the dental needs of infants, children and young adults. As a result, after completing the requirements for his DDS degree, Dr. Aka applied to and was accepted by the UCLA School of Dentistry 's Postdoctoral Program inPediatric Dentistry. During the final year of his two-year residency, Dr. Aka was chosen by the faculty, staff and peers to serve as Chief Resident.
Upon graduation, Dr. Aka was offered the position of Director of Pediatric Dentistry for the Hawaii Dental Group (HDG). He could not resist the opportunity to live and work in Honolulu, Hawaii, where he had spent many summers as a youngster. Following five years with HDG, he ventured onward to 'sunny' Seattle, worked as an associate for pediatric dentists in Seattle and Tacoma until ultimately opening his own practice, Plateau Dentistry for Children. He has over 25 years of experience as a pediatric dentist.