Advance Dental Care  © 2010

At Advance Dental Care, Riccardo Jones, D.D.S., M.A.G.D. dental practice, we offer our patients gentle and caring dental care.  A beautiful bright healthy smile can totally change your life, enhance your self confidence, boost your career, and help you look years younger. Dr. Jones is a dentist dedicated to helping his patients achieve and maintain healthy teeth and gums along with an award winning smile.  

The Advance Dental Care Team is highly trained in creating custom-designed smiles using state of the art Cosmetic Dentistry techniques created just for you.  Our practice is a full service center offering General Dentistry, Cosmetic Dentistry and Dental Implants.

Advance Dental Care is conveniently located just 2 minutes off the Capital Beltway 495 in Greenbelt Maryland, within Prince Georges County next to College Park MD, Laurel, Beltsville, Glenn Dale, Lanham Seabrook, Riverdale, New Carrollton and other areas of PG County. Riccardo Jones D. D. S., M.A.G.D. is a gentle dentist that has been serving patients from all over the Greater Washington DC including Hyattsville, Mitchellville, Springdale, Largo, Upper Marlboro, Bowie and Springdale Metro area for over 21 years.

Dr. Jones excels in aesthetic dentistry by taking meticulous measurements, and by looking at your entire smile, facial features and the proper alignment of your upper and lower jaw. With his training in Neuromuscular Dentistry, he can alleviate chronic TMJ symptoms using orthotics to bring the bite back into proper alignment.  Then he will design, with your input, a customized smile for your unique characteristics by having you look at a Smile Guide so you can choose with him which style of teeth look best for your particular style.

General Dentistry is the cornerstone of our practice. Healthy teeth and gums are the most important concerns that we have for our patients so we recommend a dental cleaning at least twice per year.  At your first visit we will take full mouth x-rays, perform perio-charting to check for gum disease and will clean your teeth if no major periodontal issues are present. Next, a complete oral exam with Dr. Jones and comprehensive treatment plan will be thoroughly presented and discussed with you.

Using Cosmetic Dentistry to create award winning smiles and replacing those old unnaturally colored metal fillings using the latest techniques is one of our specialties at Advance Dental Care.  Old metal fillings are made from mercury that expands and contracts as you eat and drink hot foods; this may cause tooth fractures that can be painful and allow harmful bacteria to infiltrate into the tooth, resulting in your needing a root canal.  Using Composite Resin Tooth Colored materials, Dr. Jones can replace your metal fillings with this natural looking resin materials that are long lasting and attractive.  For small and large cavities these resin materials are preferred for they can outlast amalgam fillings and look like your own natural teeth.

Porcelain Veneers are thin layers of porcelain that are bonded to your individual teeth to create the smile of your dreams!  Using porcelain veneers, Dr. Jones can reshape, close gaps, lengthen, straighten and even whiten the appearance of your teeth. Best of all it takes two to three office visits.

Tooth Whitening can be achieved in 60 minutes with a in-office procedure called Zoom. A gel-like substance is used to protect your gums and an oxidizing agent (the bleaching solution) is then applied to your teeth. Sometimes a special light is used at five-minute intervals to help activate the whitening agent. The At Home Whitening Method has become popular and it is simple. Dr. Jones takes an impression of your teeth and makes custom-fitted trays which you fill with whitening gel and wear up to two hours daily or at night for about two weeks. When done under the supervision of our office, the at-home whitening method is very effective and safe.

Dental Implants create a stable anchor for replacement teeth. Made from safe titanium posts, they act like root substitutes and are inserted into the jaw bone. After a few months the bone bonds with the implant and then the implant can be used to anchor a crown a bridge or denture. This creates a natural looking tooth that functions like your own; patients say this procedure has made them feel young again.