ALMADEN DENTAL ASSOCIATES - Key Persons

Olga Belova, DDS, is a highly skilled and compassionate dentist. She provides the Bay Area community with exceptional dental care at Almaden Dental Associates, conveniently located in San Jose, California. Olga Belova, DDS, is a highly skilled and compassionate dentist. She provides the Bay Area community with exceptional dental care at Almaden Dental Associates, conveniently located in San Jose, California. Dr. Belova is incredibly passionate about dentistry. She's an active member of the Santa Clara County Dental Society, where she spends many hours engaged in society-sponsored events and committees. Dr. Belova is fluent in Russian. When she's not working with patients, she enjoys spending time with her two beautiful daughters.

After graduating from Emerson High School in New Jersey, Dr. Gray received her B.S. degree in Biology from Fairleigh Dickensen University in New Jersey. She received her Doctorate of Dental Surgery from Northwestern University in Chicago in 1982. She is a published researcher and worked at the American Dental Association research facility in Chicago. Dr Gray has attended years of continuing education in the area of Orthodontics and has had extensive training in General Practice orthodontics. She came to South San Jose in 1984 to start her private practice of general dentistry and general orthodontics. While in school she worked as a Medical Microbiology Technician for Northwestern Memorial Hospital. She enjoys sewing, scrapbooking, running, swimming and the outdoors.

Dr. Sophia Kang is an advocate of minimally invasive dentistry. Her philosophy is to treat patients like her own family with personalized solutions for their dental concerns and needs. Dr. Kang received her Doctor of Dental Surgery from the University of Tennessee at College of Dentistry in Memphis, TN. Upon graduation, she gained substantial clinical experience in pediatric, geriatric and routine general dentistry while working in a private practice setting in Tennessee, New York City and San Jose, CA. She has taken extensive CE courses and training in the planning and restoration of complex dental cases with up-to-date dental technology. Dr. Kang also enjoys cosmetic dentistry in a minimally invasive way and she is a provider of Invisalign for orthodontic treatment. Dr. Kang loves traveling, hiking and running in her appreciation of sunny and crisp Northern California weather with her husband and a young son. She also enjoys doing pilates and playing musical instruments such as piano and violin in her spare time. Dr. Kang is bilingual in Korean and English.