The dental specialty focused on rebuilding, replacing, and restoring teeth – and fewer than 3% of dentists in the U.S. have the training. Dr. Jesspreet Parmar, DMD is one of them, right here in Lakeland, FL.
At Brilliant Smiles Lakeland, you can get specialist-level restorative care and comprehensive family dentistry in the same chair.
Here’s the simplest way to think about it: General dentistry keeps healthy teeth healthy. Prosthodontics is what happens when teeth are missing, broken, worn down, or failing — and the mouth needs to be rebuilt.
A prosthodontist is a dentist who finished dental school, then completed three additional years of full-time, ADA-accredited residency training in a single focus: restoring and replacing teeth. It is one of only twelve dental specialties formally recognized by the American Dental Association.
Prosthodontics focuses on:
Dental school
Prosthodontic residency
Rebuilding & restoring teeth
The foundation of your health
Specialist in rebuilding and replacing teeth
Handles the complex cases in-house
Most patients never need a prosthodontist. But when you do – when several teeth are failing, when a denture has never fit right, when a bite feels wrong and no one can say why – that’s the difference between being referred somewhere else and being treated where you already are.
These are the situations where three extra years of training changes the outcome — not just the treatment plan.
Replacing one tooth is straightforward. Replacing several means planning how they work together – spacing, bite forces, bone support, and how the final result looks. Implants, bridges, and implant-supported options, mapped as one plan.
Loose dentures, sore spots, adhesive that stops working by lunchtime. Prosthodontics is the specialty built around denture fit and function, including implant-secured options that don't move.
Years of grinding, acid wear, or old dental work reaching the end of its life. When most of the mouth needs attention at once, it needs to be rebuilt in the right sequence — not one tooth at a time.
The most complex work in dentistry: restoring an entire mouth's function and appearance together. This is the core of what prosthodontic residency trains for.
Jaw soreness, teeth that don't meet evenly, crowns that keep failing in the same spot. Often the underlying issue is occlusion — how the bite functions — which is a specialty focus.
Veneers and aesthetic crowns look best when they're designed around function, not just shade. Smiles built to hold up under real bite forces.
Not sure which of these describes you? That’s what a consultation is for.
Most prosthodontists only take referrals. You see your regular dentist for cleanings and checkups, then get sent elsewhere when something complex comes up — new office, new records, new opinions, and a treatment plan built by someone who’s never seen your mouth healthy.
Brilliant Smiles Lakeland works differently. Dr. Parmar is a prosthodontist practicing comprehensive dentistry. Your cleanings, your fillings, your implants, and your full-mouth work all happen in one place, planned by one person who knows your history and your preferences.
Complex cases go wrong at the handoffs. When the dentist who maintains your teeth is also the specialist who rebuilds them, nothing gets lost between offices.
A prosthodontist sees wear patterns, bite issues, and failing restorations differently — often years before they become emergencies. That perspective is in every routine exam here, not just the big cases.
The office that placed your implants is the office that maintains them. Long-term follow-up from the person who did the work.
Prosthodontist at Brilliant Smiles Lakeland | Less than 3% of all dentists achieve this prestigious specialty. Think of a prosthodontist as the “architect” of your smile. While a general dentist can handle many routine procedures, a prosthodontist is brought in when you need a master plan for complex or aesthetic dental work.
Dr. Jesspreet Parmar was born and raised in Southwest Florida. He attended to the University of Florida where he graduated cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in Microbiology and Cell Science.
He continued his studies at UF and graduated cum laude with a Doctorate of Dental Medicine degree in 2015. After graduation, Dr. Parmar was accepted into a three year specialty program in Prosthodontics at The University of Illinois at Chicago. Through his training, he has expanded his knowledge in complex total restorative rehabilitation, implant placement and trained to achieve the highest levels of aesthetics and patient care.
Dr. Parmar is excited to return to his home state. In his free time, he enjoys spending time with his wife and two young children. He also enjoys skeet shooting, playing video games, and traveling.
