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Roanlight Dental. Dental Studio
Providence RI

Home / The practice

Five rooms, one lab, and no upselling.

Roanlight Dental opened in 2011 above what was then a bike shop. We have since taken the ground floor, built a lab in the back, and kept the number of chairs deliberately small.

Dr. Nadia Okonkwo going through a treatment plan with a patient

Dr. Nadia Okonkwo, DDS

Nadia trained at Tufts and spent six years in a large group practice in Boston before deciding she disliked the way it made her work: fifteen-minute slots, quotas, and a treatment plan generated by software she did not control.

Roanlight Dental was the correction. Longer appointments, a hard cap on how many patients each dentist carries, and a rule she wrote on the wall of the staff room in her first month: never quote a number the patient hasn't seen the picture for.

She sees patients four days a week and still does her own hygiene checks.

Trained
DDS, Tufts University, 2006
Focus
Restorative and implant dentistry
Also
Volunteer clinic at the Fox Point community centre, second Saturday of the month

The people you'll meet

Nine of us, and you will recognise everyone by your third visit.

Dr. Theo Marchetti, DMD
Associate dentist. Restorative work and sedation. Joined in 2017 from a hospital dental unit, which is why he is unbothered by things that bother everyone else.
Priya Raman, RDH
Lead hygienist since 2013. Runs the ninety-minute hygiene visit and is the reason several local families switched to us.
Marcus Ilori
Treatment coordinator. Benefits checks, payment plans, and the person who will actually reply to your email.
Yelena Novak
Denturist and lab technician. Mills the crowns, builds the dentures, and adjusts them until you stop noticing them.
Front desk
Dana, Rosa and Theo K. between them cover Monday to Friday, and one of them will remember your dog's name.

The building

Daylight in every operatory, which is unusual and which we paid too much for.

The waiting area, with seating by a window
A treatment room with a chair and overhead light
The consultation room, where plans are talked through
2011Opened, with two chairs and a borrowed autoclave.
NinePeople on staff. Four have been here more than eight years.
2,400Patients on the books. We stop taking new ones when the diary gets tight.

Back page

Come in and we'll
show you the pictures.

First consultation is free and includes the 3D scan. You'll leave with the images, a written plan and a number, whether or not you book anything.

Book a consultation Call (401) 555-0142

Address
Suite 4, 212 Wickenden Street, Providence, RI 02903
Across from Coastal Roasters, next to Cormorant Books
Hours
Monday to Friday, 8:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Closed weekends
Parking
Free lot behind the building, off Brook Street