Amsterdam Dental Group

At 100 South Broad Street, a block below City Hall, Amsterdam Dental Group occupies Suite 2000, an address within walking distance of most Center City offices and a few minutes from City Hall station on both subway lines. The practice dates to 1948 and is built around an unusual specialty: periodontal prosthesis, a dual training in periodontics and prosthodontics held by very few dentists anywhere. Drs. Harold Baumgarten, Jeffrey Ingber, Howard Fraiman, Caleb Cross, Brian Kasten, Thomas Yoo and Michelle Ordway all teach at Penn Dental Medicine, which shapes how cases get discussed here.

Complex full-mouth reconstruction is what that training equips the office for, the kind of case where gums, bone and bite all need attention at once rather than one tooth in isolation. A periodontal prosthodontist plans the endpoint first, deciding how the finished teeth should meet, how much tooth should show when you smile and where the gum line ought to sit, then works backwards to determine which teeth are worth saving, where implants go and what grafting is required. Implant work includes All-on-4 same-day full-arch restorations and the practice's minimally invasive MIDI technique. Digital Smile Design and 3D digital impressions let you see a proposed result before anything is prepared, though a digital preview is a plan rather than a promise.

Cosmetic and restorative work runs alongside: porcelain veneers, bonding, crowns, whitening and Invisalign. Routine periodontal care is in-house as well, from scaling and root planing through gum surgery and tissue grafting, so a patient whose gums need stabilising before restorative work is not sent elsewhere partway through a plan. The team also treats cleft palate and ectodermal dysplasia and handles reconstruction after oral cancer, which is a genuinely different skill set from routine cosmetic dentistry. Dr. Ordway speaks Spanish, Russian and French.

Veneers are a reasonable answer to worn, chipped or badly discoloured front teeth, but fitting them removes enamel permanently, and whitening will not lighten an existing crown or veneer; the colour of ceramic is fixed when it is made. The Philadelphia office runs 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday through Thursday and closes at 4:00 p.m. on Friday, with sister offices in Paoli on the Main Line and in Margate at the shore. Parking on this block of Broad Street means a garage rather than the kerb, so budget for it or come by subway.