Rice Village is where a lot of Houston adults realize it has been a while. Between grad school, residency shifts, and a job that eats the calendar, the cleaning keeps getting pushed. Hermann Park Smiles is a ten minute drive east of Kirby and Rice Boulevard, and we see people who have been away from a dentist for two years, five years, or longer. No lecture. We start where you are.
Rice Village runs on a different clock than the neighborhoods around it. Rice University students and postdocs. Residents and fellows coming off shifts at the Texas Medical Center. Young professionals in the apartments off Morningside and Times. People who moved to Houston for a program or a job, never got around to finding a dentist, and now feel a twinge on one side and are not sure what they are walking into.
Here is what actually happens when you come in. We take new x-rays, do a full exam, and put the images on a screen so you can see what we see. Then we tell you what is urgent, what can wait, and what is fine as it is. Most people who have gone years without a cleaning turn out to be in better shape than they feared, and the ones who are not would rather hear it straight than keep guessing about it. Nobody at this office is going to make you feel bad about the gap.
The other thing Rice Village adults ask us about is how their smile looks in photographs and on video calls. Two treatments handle most of it.
Invisalign moves teeth that were never straightened, or that drifted back after childhood braces because the retainer got lost in a move. Clear aligners, no metal brackets, and most adult cases run six to eighteen months depending on how far the teeth have to travel. Professional whitening is the faster one. We do it in the chair in about an hour and it holds far longer than a strip from the pharmacy shelf.
For either one you get an exam, a look at the screen, and a written plan with a written price before you commit to anything.
What Rice Village patients book most often:
A cleaning and exam runs about an hour. If you are coming from a lab on campus, a shift at the medical center, or an office downtown, tell us the window you actually have and we will work inside it. We run a tight schedule on purpose. The whole point of a short drive is defeated if you sit in a waiting room for forty minutes past your appointment time.
From Kirby and Rice Boulevard we are about three miles east. University Boulevard across to Almeda Road, or Bissonnet past the museums, gets you here in around ten minutes outside of rush hour. Parking is at the door, which is more than the Village itself can promise on a Saturday afternoon.
Ready to get back in the chair? Call us at (713) 522-1717 or schedule an appointment online. Hermann Park Smiles is at 5927 Almeda Rd Ste J, Houston, TX 77004.
No. It is one of the most common reasons adults call us from Rice Village. We take x-rays, do a full exam, and show you the images on a screen so you can see exactly what is going on. Then we tell you what is urgent, what can wait, and what is fine. Most people who have been away for years are in better shape than they expected. You will not get a lecture about the gap.
Most adult cases run somewhere between six and eighteen months, depending on how far the teeth have to move. Teeth that drifted after childhood braces are usually at the shorter end. Teeth that were never straightened take longer. We do an exam, show you the plan on a screen, and give you a written price before you start.
Yes. Tell us the window you actually have and we will work inside it. A cleaning and exam runs about an hour. We run appointments to time on purpose, because a ten minute drive is pointless if you then sit in a waiting room past your slot. Call (713) 522-1717 and we will find a block that fits.
About three miles east, roughly a ten minute drive outside of rush hour. Take University Boulevard across to Almeda Road, or Bissonnet past the museums. We are at 5927 Almeda Rd Ste J, Houston, TX 77004, near Hermann Park, and parking is at the door.
Hermann Park Smiles welcomes patients from Rice Village and the streets around Rice University every week. Our office is at 5927 Almeda Rd. Ste J, Houston, TX 77004, on the edge of Hermann Park near the Texas Medical Center. Call or text (713) 522-1717 and we will find a time that works for you.