Cornell Dental

Cornell Dental At Cornell Dental, we provide top-quality services in a friendly, comfortable environment. Visit us for a healthy, beautiful smile!

Our experienced team offers exceptional care, flexible payment options, and sedation to ensure a stress-free visit. Dr. Anthony Adams, DMD in Hillsboro, OR, practices a full scope of general and cosmetic dentistry with expertise ranging from porcelain veneers to dental implants, crowns and bridges. He can correct a wide variety of so-called permanent cosmetic dental problems, and can literally red

esign your smile. In addition to that, He also offers comprehensive family dental care for adults and children.

If your kid plays sports, they need a custom mouth guard. Not the $5 boil-and-bite from the sporting goods store. A real...
06/25/2026

If your kid plays sports, they need a custom mouth guard. Not the $5 boil-and-bite from the sporting goods store. A real one.

Those store-bought guards are bulky, they don't fit well, and kids hate wearing them — so they don't. Which defeats the entire purpose.

A custom sports guard is molded to your kid's actual teeth. It fits snugly, it's comfortable, they can breathe and talk normally, and they'll actually keep it in during the game. That's the part that matters most — a mouth guard only works if it's in their mouth.

I'll let my kids play just about anything. Soccer, basketball, hockey — I'm not the kind of parent who wraps them in bubble wrap. But they're wearing a proper mouth guard. Because I've seen what happens when a tooth gets knocked loose or knocked out, and it's not something I'm willing to gamble on.

Chewing on pens, biting nails, opening things with their teeth — those are the habits I'm on them about at home. And a good mouth guard on the field.

Getting your kid fitted for a custom sports guard is quick and easy.
📞 Call us: 503-648-9772
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06/24/2026

So we let AI write our marketing lines. We have some notes. 😅

We figured we'd read them to you with a straight face and let you be the judge. The results were... confident. Apparently you're not a patient, you're "the crown jewel of our day." Apparently we've "analyzed 10 million smiles" and yours is the only one that "truly computes."

We're keeping our day jobs.

Here's the thing, though. Underneath the robot poetry, the AI accidentally landed on something true, even if it said it in the most ridiculous way possible. We do actually look forward to seeing you. We are genuinely happy when you walk in. We just promise to say it like real humans, not like a very enthusiastic toaster.

So no, we won't be calling your smile "computationally optimal." But we'd love to take great care of it.

Come see the humans (not the algorithm) at Cornell Dental in Hillsboro.

📞 Call us: 503-648-9772
🌐 Visit to learn more: https://cornelldental.digitalfloss.com/learnmore

A patient at my Hillsboro dental office had completely stopped brushing his teeth on purpose. His front four teeth were ...
06/23/2026

A patient at my Hillsboro dental office had completely stopped brushing his teeth on purpose. His front four teeth were so dark and damaged that he just didn't see the point anymore.

We fixed those teeth with four brand-new crowns that transformed the way he looked, and he promised us that he was going to take care of him.

Six months later he came back for a cleaning, grinning from ear to ear.

He'd bought an electric toothbrush, started flossing, and his teeth looked fantastic. "I told you I was going to take care of them," he said. "Now that they look good, I want to keep them this way!"

First of all, I'm thrilled that he's taking care of his teeth. Second of all, I get that you're not going to start flossing just because I told you to. You'll start flossing when you care about your teeth.

So let's start there. Come in and we'll take a look. If you've been stuck in that cycle where things just keep getting worse, the way out might be simpler than you think. Check out https://cornelldental.digitalfloss.com/learnmore or give us a call 503-648-9772

06/22/2026

Let's talk about the one part of orthodontics nobody wants to hear. Ready?

Retainers are forever.

We know, we know. After all that time in braces or aligners, the idea that there's a "forever" step feels a little unfair. But here's the honest truth: teeth remember where they used to be, and the moment you stop wearing retention, they start drifting back. Braces, Invisalign, ClearCorrect, doesn't matter how you got here. Retention is what keeps it.

Now the good news, and it's actually good. A clear retainer at night is about as low-effort as dental care gets. Pop it in, go to sleep, done. That's the whole job.

So if you went through the work of straightening your smile, protect the investment. The hardest part is already behind you. This is the easy part. You just have to actually do it.

Questions about retention or need a replacement? Come see us at Cornell Dental in Hillsboro.

📞 Call us: 503-648-9772
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To all the amazing dads out there, today we celebrate you and the countless ways you make a difference every day.Wishing...
06/21/2026

To all the amazing dads out there, today we celebrate you and the countless ways you make a difference every day.

Wishing you a day filled with love, laughter, and well-deserved appreciation. From Cornell Dental, Happy Father's Day! 👔✨

ChatGPT is making dental implants sound way more complicated than they actually are.I'm hearing it more and more from pa...
06/18/2026

ChatGPT is making dental implants sound way more complicated than they actually are.

I'm hearing it more and more from patients — "I'm glad I came in because ChatGPT really had me worried." It's the same thing that used to happen with Google, except now the information comes faster and sounds more confident.

The problem is that AI pulls medical information from everywhere and presents it with a lot of jargon. So you read about implants and it sounds like this massive, terrifying ordeal with a hundred things that can go wrong. Osseointegration. Abutment placement. Bone grafting. Guided surgery protocols. It starts to feel overwhelming before you've even picked up the phone.

In real life? You come in. We look at your CT scan. I tell you if you're a candidate. If you are, we make a plan. You sleep through the surgery, wake up with teeth, and recover over a long weekend. That's the version most people actually experience.

I'm not saying do zero research. But if you've been reading about implants online and you're more confused and anxious than when you started, come talk to an actual human who does this every week.

I'll give you the real version. Call Cornell Dental at (503) 648-9772.
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06/17/2026

Here's a number that might surprise you. Most dental insurance plans cap out around $1,500 a year. And that number? It hasn't really moved since the 1970s.

Think about that for a second. Picture what $1,500 could buy back in 1975. That's the benchmark your insurance is still using today, decades later, while the cost of everything else has gone up.

So here's what happens. You hit that ceiling, and it doesn't take much to get there, one bigger treatment can do it. After that, you're paying out of pocket for everything else anyway.

We think that's worth questioning. Our in-house membership doesn't work that way. There's no annual cap. The savings just keep going, all year, no ceiling waiting to cut you off.

We're not telling you what to do with your coverage. We're just saying there's another option worth knowing about. Curious how it works? Ask us at Cornell Dental in Hillsboro.

📞 Call us: 503-648-9772
🌐 Visit to learn more: https://cornelldental.digitalfloss.com/learnmore

A patient came into my Hillsboro dental office with pain in her upper molars, which is a common complaint,especially in ...
06/16/2026

A patient came into my Hillsboro dental office with pain in her upper molars, which is a common complaint,

especially in the spring when allergies kick up. A lot of the time what feels like tooth pain is actually sinus pressure pushing on the roots of the upper teeth.

But when we took a CT scan to rule out any dental issues, I noticed her sinus on the left side was severely blocked. Like, WAY more than a little bit of hay fever.

I sent her to an ENT, and she told them she'd been dealing with it for years. They did a procedure to clear it, and she came back to me afterwards and said she hadn't been able to breathe that well in a long time.

That's the thing about having a CT scanner in the office — we see more than just teeth. We see your sinuses, your jaw structure, your bone density. And sometimes we catch things that have nothing to do with dentistry but everything to do with your quality of life.

Experiencing facial pain or tooth pain that doesn't quite make sense? Call Cornell Dental at (503) 648-9772 and let's take a real look.
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06/15/2026

Have you ever heard of aligner fatigue? It's real, and almost nobody warns you about it.

Here's something I tell my aligner patients early, because it helps so much later. Somewhere around the one-year mark, a lot of people just hit a wall.

And I get it. In the beginning, the routine feels exciting. You're motivated, you can see it working. But by month twelve, the shine wears off. Keeping the trays clean, wearing them basically all day every day, coming in for checkups. It starts to feel like a lot. You might even feel a little done with the whole thing.

I want you to hear this clearly: that feeling does not mean something went wrong. It doesn't mean you're failing. It's a normal, expected part of the process, and honestly, it happens to almost everyone.

Knowing the hard part is coming around month twelve is usually the very thing that gets people through it. You're closer than it feels. Keep going.

If you're in that stretch and need a little encouragement, come see us at Cornell Dental in Hillsboro.

📞 Call us: 503-648-9772
🌐 Visit to learn more: https://cornelldental.digitalfloss.com/learnmore

Rome wasn't built in a day. And your teeth probably won't be fixed in a single day either.When someone comes in after ye...
06/11/2026

Rome wasn't built in a day. And your teeth probably won't be fixed in a single day either.

When someone comes in after years away from the dentist and I hand them a treatment plan with a long list of things that need attention, I can see the overwhelm hit. The cost. The time. The sheer volume of it.

So I want you to know, we don't have to do this all at once. We can prioritize what's urgent, take care of that first, and then we work through the rest over time. We can even spread the work out over several years if that's what works for your budget and your schedule.

I've had patients take four years to complete their treatment plan. I'm not frustrated by that — I'm proud of them. They showed up, they took every step seriously, they went home and bought the electric toothbrush and the water pick, and their cleanings got better every time they came in.

By the time we finished the last filling, their whole mouth was different. Not just fixed — healthy. Because they changed their habits along the way.

Don't let a big treatment plan scare you out of starting. The first step is just coming in.

Schedule at https://cornelldental.digitalfloss.com/learnmore or call (503) 648-9772. We'll make a plan that works for your life.

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5880 NE Cornell Road, Ste A
Hillsboro, OR
97124

Opening Hours

Monday 8am - 5pm
Tuesday 8am - 5pm
Wednesday 8am - 5pm
Thursday 8am - 5pm
Friday 8am - 4pm

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