Squirrel Hill runs on routine. People walk to the same bakery on Murray Avenue, loop through Frick Park or Schenley Park on the same path, and often keep the same dentist for decades. When that dentist retires, or when a problem outgrows a six-month checkup, it helps to have a specialty practice a few minutes away.
Our Shadyside office on Ellsworth Avenue is a short drive up Shady Avenue from the Forbes and Murray business district. Drs. Nicholas and Mara Mangini are prosthodontists, so Squirrel Hill patients get cleanings, fillings, and crowns from the same team that plans implants, dentures, and full-mouth reconstruction.
Most Squirrel Hill households need a mix of things from a dentist: a cleaning twice a year, a crown when an old filling finally gives out, and eventually, for some family members, a conversation about replacing teeth. Splitting that between a general dentist, an oral surgeon, and a separate specialist means more appointments and more records passed between offices.
At Atlas Dental Specialists those pieces stay together. Prosthodontists complete three years of residency after dental school focused on restoring and replacing teeth. Both Drs. Mangini trained at the University of Pittsburgh School of Dental Medicine and later taught there as Clinical Associate Professors.
If you want to brighten or reshape your smile, start with our guide to cosmetic dentistry near Squirrel Hill. For a missing tooth, dental implants near Squirrel Hill explains how a single implant or a full arch is planned and placed, and our Squirrel Hill prosthodontist page covers when specialty restorative care changes the outcome.
If you wear dentures now or expect to, read about dentures and implant dentures near Squirrel Hill, including snap-in options that keep a lower denture from lifting. Routine teeth cleaning, same-day CEREC crowns, and gum disease treatment round out the care we provide across Squirrel Hill North and South.
Intraoral scanners replace the putty-filled impression trays many Squirrel Hill patients remember, and 3D imaging shows bone and root structure before we recommend an implant or an extraction. Digital smile design previews cosmetic and restorative results before any tooth is touched.
Our CEREC system mills crowns in the office, so a cracked molar can often be restored in one visit instead of two appointments spaced weeks apart.
Many people who come to us from Squirrel Hill have crowns, bridges, or partials placed twenty or thirty years ago. Some of that work is still sound. Some of it is failing quietly at the edges. We review your history and X-rays before recommending anything, and we tell you plainly what can stay and what should be replaced.
Drs. Nicholas and Mara Mangini took over Atlas Dental Specialists in 2014 from Dr. Kathryn Duncan Friedman and opened the Shadyside office to make specialty care easier to reach from the East End. Contact us to schedule your first visit.
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