Dr. Cynthia Pauley, who practices dentistry in Bellevue, has been elected president of The Seattle-King County Dental Society.

Pauley has been in practice for 19 years, starting with Dr. Pat Pauley, her mother, in the first mother-daughter practice team in the state of Washington. She is listed as one of Seattle’s “Top Dentists” in Seattle Magazine and Seattle Met magazine.

She earned her dental degree from the University of Pacific’s School of Dentistry and her undergraduate degree from University of Washington.

She practices dentistry with her husband, Dr. Brian Cave.