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

A patient of mine in her 70s told me she'd been looking at her crooked, discolored teeth her entire adult life.Her famil...
10/15/2026

A patient of mine in her 70s told me she'd been looking at her crooked, discolored teeth her entire adult life.

Her family always came first. There was always something more important than her own smile — kids, bills, life. By the time she finally had the money and the bandwidth to do something about it, she'd been living with teeth she hated for decades.

She told me she didn't want to go through something that would take a long time, like Invisalign. She just wanted something done quickly.
So we did veneers and crowns, and she had her new smile in two weeks.

Every single time she came in for a cleaning after that, she told me how much she loved her new straight teeth… and how she wished she'd done it sooner.

If you've been putting yourself last for years and your smile is the thing you keep pushing to "someday" — someday can be two weeks from now.
Book a consult at www.cornell-dental.com or call 503-648-9772 Let's talk about what's possible.

10/14/2026

Dr. Adams really brought the moves to the office today! 🕺⚡

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A funny thing happens after you've been doing this a while. Eleven years in, I catch things now that I'd have walked rig...
10/13/2026

A funny thing happens after you've been doing this a while. Eleven years in, I catch things now that I'd have walked right past early in my career.

When you're new, you tend to have tunnel vision – you fix the tooth in front of you and move on. With time, you start seeing how everything connects. Why a tooth keeps breaking. Why one problem keeps coming back in a different form. The patterns get easier to spot.

That means when you sit in my chair, you're not just getting the one thing patched. You're getting someone looking at the whole picture and asking what's really driving the problem, so we can solve it instead of repeating it.

I still love this work as much as I did on day one. I'm just better at seeing the why now.

Want care that looks at the whole picture? Visit my Hillsboro dental office online at www.cornell-dental.com or call 503-648-9772

10/12/2026

Creating healthy smiles. It sounds simple, but there's a lot of meaning packed into those three words.

A healthy smile isn't only about how it looks in a photo. It's about teeth that don't ache, gums that aren't bleeding, and a mouth that supports the rest of your health instead of working against it.

That's what we're really after here at Cornell Dental.

Every cleaning, every check-up, every clear conversation about what your smile needs, it all adds up to the same goal: keeping you healthy, comfortable, and confident for the long run.

Because when your smile is really healthy, you don't have to think about it. It just lets you live, eat, laugh, and smile freely.

If it's been a while since your last visit, that's okay. The best time to start taking care of your smile is right now.

We'd love to help you create yours. Come see us at Cornell Dental in Hillsboro, OR.

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One of the first things I tell people after oral surgery: put the straws away for a few days.It sounds random, I know. B...
10/08/2026

One of the first things I tell people after oral surgery: put the straws away for a few days.

It sounds random, I know. But the suction from drinking through a straw can pull on the healing site and dislodge the blood clot that's protecting it. That can lead to dry socket, where the bone underneath gets exposed – and it's exactly as unpleasant as it sounds. So for the first few days, you sip from the cup like a normal person and skip the straw.

It's one of those small rules that makes a real difference in how smoothly you heal. We send you home with the whole list so nothing catches you off guard.

I know these instructions can sound oddly specific – a bit like being told not to sneeze after some other procedure. But there's a real reason behind each one, and following them is what keeps recovery boring. Boring is the goal.

Got a procedure coming up? Call (503) 648-9772 and we'll walk you through every do and don't.
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10/07/2026

Behind every smile that walks out our door, there's a whole lot you never see.

The early mornings. The rooms set up just so. The quiet check-ins between team members. The small, careful steps that happen long before you ever sit in the chair, and long after you leave.

This is a little look behind the smiles at Cornell Dental.

Because a good dental visit isn't one thing. It's a hundred little things done with care, by people who take pride in getting them right. The hands that keep everything clean and ready. The friendly faces at the front. The attention to detail you feel even if you can't quite name it.

We love what we get to do here. And we love the team that makes it feel like more than a dentist's office.

So here's to the people behind the smiles, and to every patient who lets us be part of theirs.

Come see what it feels like from the inside. We'd love to welcome you to Cornell Dental in Hillsboro, OR.

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You notice it in the group photos first.Everyone's grinning, and there you are with your lips pressed together, doing th...
10/06/2026

You notice it in the group photos first.

Everyone's grinning, and there you are with your lips pressed together, doing that closed-mouth almost-smile. You don't say anything about it. But you see it, and it stays with you.

A lot of people tell me that's the moment it finally got real. They'd put off fixing their teeth for years, usually because of cost, and then it hit them that they weren't smiling big anymore – not at the dinner table, not in pictures, not when everyone was together.

Nobody around them necessarily noticed. But they knew, and that feeling is what eventually brought them in.

If that's you, I want you to hear that it's fixable, and it's probably more doable than you think. You should get to laugh in the photo with everyone else.

Want to be all the way in the picture again? Call (503) 648-9772.
Learn more: https://cornell-dental.com/

10/05/2026

It's easy to tell yourself a bad tooth is just a tooth. To push through the pain, put off the visit, and hope it settles down on its own.

One of our patients wanted to share why that thinking can be risky, because he lived it.

As he explains, dental pain is often a sign of infection. And infection doesn't always stay put. In more serious cases, it can spread beyond the mouth and affect the rest of your body, which is part of why he felt his overall health suffering before he got treated.

Here's the hopeful part of his story. He was candid that treatment does cost money, but he also wanted people to know there's financial help and payment options available, so cost doesn't have to be the reason you keep putting it off.

And once it was handled? In his words, the infection and the problems were gone, and his health improved. As he put it, his health has improved greatly because of what Dr. Adams has done.

Every situation is different, and your path will be your own. But if pain has been keeping you up at night, please don't wait it out.

Let us take a look and talk through your options, at Cornell Dental in Hillsboro, OR.

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I've turned down work, and I'll tell you exactly why.Sometimes a patient wants the fastest, cheapest version of somethin...
10/01/2026

I've turned down work, and I'll tell you exactly why.

Sometimes a patient wants the fastest, cheapest version of something, and the honest truth is I won't do substandard work just to get a yes. If I can't do it in a way I'd stand behind, I'm not going to do it.

That doesn't mean I'm rigid about budget – I'm really not. If money's tight, I'll always offer a real alternative and walk you through it. But I'll also be straight about the trade-offs: this option might not last as long, and we may be revisiting it down the road. You deserve to know that going in.

What you'll never get from me is a rosy pitch that leaves out the catch. I'd rather lose the case than do work I'm not proud of.

Want a dentist who'll tell you the truth, even when it's not the easy sell? Message us 503-648-9772 or visit https://cornell-dental.com/

09/30/2026

Where smiles happen. 😊

That's the whole idea behind Cornell Dental. More than a place you go when something's wrong, it's a place where good things happen for your smile, and where you're really glad you came.

Every clean, every checkup, every little moment of care adds up to something worth smiling about.

Come see what we mean. We're here for your smile at Cornell Dental in Hillsboro, OR.

📞 Call: 503-648-9772
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Address

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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+15036489772

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