Serving to sufferers smile is a precedence for the dentists and workers at Somerset Dental Care, situated within the Somerset Skilled Park in Tampa Palms. The long-time observe of normal dentist Louis Cerillo, D.D.S (it was beforehand often known as Cerillo Household Dentistry), has expanded and now contains Dr. Cerillo, Danielle Jones, D.D.S., and Tamara Tavakoli, D.M.D. The trio has practically 60 years of mixed expertise and affords a wide selection of companies that features corrective, restorative and emergency dental companies, in addition to skilled enamel whitening and cleansing. Whether or not you want a daily check-up, a crown, Invisalign® aligners, dentures, oral surgical procedure or beauty dental companies, Somerset Dental Care may also help.
Dr. Cerillo earned his Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Psychology from Creighton College in Omaha, NE, and his Physician of Dental Surgical procedure (D.D.S.) diploma from the Creighton College Faculty of Dentistry. He then did a normal observe, hospital-based residency on the College of Nebraska Medical Middle in Lincoln. Dr. Cerillo’s first job out of dental college was in New York Metropolis, however in 1988, he determined to maneuver to Florida for the solar and heat.
He opened his first personal observe workplace within the Metropolis Plaza at Tampa Palms buying middle in 1993, which suggests he has been caring for a few of his sufferers for greater than 30 years. However, it’s not simply sufferers who’ve caught round with him. Dr. Cerillo has a number of workers who’ve been working with him for 10-25 years, and a number of other that retired after working their complete careers with the observe. That longevity has helped foster what Dr. Cerillo describes as a “relationship-based” versus a “transactional” observe.
That long-term connection to the neighborhood, and his love for the work, had been high of thoughts for Dr. Cerillo as he regarded so as to add to his staff.
“I at all times wish to be certain that I’ve the suitable folks in right here to deal with the sufferers and look after them like I look after them,” explains Dr. Cerillo.
A shared philosophy in direction of affected person care, and her 15 years of expertise, makes Danielle Jones, D.D.S., a terrific latest addition to Somerset Dental Care. Throughout her time as a observe proprietor for Reasonably priced Dentures & Implants in Clearwater, she supplied companies to veterans and the unhoused and gained helpful implant dentistry expertise. She then transitioned to Heartland Dental, the place she gained recognition for her excellent veneer work.
All through her profession, Dr. Jones additionally made time to volunteer to offer dental care to underserved communities. Placing her expertise to work within the service of others, and probably altering their lives, is a large motivator for Dr. Jones. “My objective is to at all times present long-lasting, high quality look after sufferers, make them comfy and to serve and influence as many individuals as I can,” she says.
After incomes her Bachelor of Science (B.S.) diploma in Well being Science from Truman State College in Kirksville, M), she earned her D.D.S. diploma from the Meharry Medical Faculty Faculty of Dentistry in Nashville, TN. She accomplished her Common Observe Residency at Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Middle in Brooklyn, NY, earlier than beginning her profession in public well being. For 5 years, Dr. Jones labored for a Medicaid workplace serving the Florida panhandle communities of Fort Walton Seashore and Crestview. Her expertise working in public well being confirmed her first-hand the rampant decay that may occur when dental points go untreated.
“Due to dental anxiousness and monetary pressure, [many] folks sadly neglect their enamel,” explains Dr. Jones.

Each Dr. Cerillo and Dr. Jones see serving to sufferers by that worry and anxiousness as an necessary a part of their function as dentists. They know that many individuals strongly dislike and keep away from going to the dentist and, for that cause, they each put in further effort to make their sufferers really feel comfy.
After practically 4 a long time of personal observe, Dr. Cerillo has seen his fair proportion of nervous sufferers. “I’ve handled a whole lot of phobic sufferers,” he says. “Plenty of occasions they suppose they’re going to are available and have a practice wreck but it surely wasn’t as unhealthy as they thought it will be.”
Working over so a few years has given Dr. Cerillo the chance to see sufferers transfer from that worry to lastly being comfy with dental visits. He encourages individuals who have been avoiding the dentist to take the initiative and meet the folks offering their care. He hopes that getting into the welcoming setting at Somerset Dental Care and dealing with the workplace’s pleasant and caring workers will assist put them relaxed.
Each dentists see humor and enjoyable as a means to assist put sufferers relaxed and reduce their stress. They perceive that laughing and joking with them may also help ease their rigidity and maintain the ambiance enjoyable and alluring.
“I’m actually cracking jokes all day lengthy,” Dr. Jones says, “as a result of I’m making an attempt to take you away from specializing in one thing that’s, for one, exterior of your management. Plenty of anxiousness is pushed by making an attempt to regulate one thing you can’t. If I could make you extra relaxed and kinda chortle by a dental appointment, then I’ve carried out my job for the day.”
Whereas they make the most of humor to ease sufferers’ fears, Dr. Cerillo and Dr. Jones take their work very significantly. Smiles can affect first impressions, success, relationship satisfaction and even our personal moods and confidence. Dental well being additionally performs a much bigger half in our total well being than most sufferers notice.
“The mouth is the gateway to the remainder of your physique,” says Dr. Cerillo. “So clearly, the more healthy your mouth is, the more healthy the remainder of your physique can be, too.”
Dr. Jones provides that there are a number of advantages to constant dental visits and sustaining oral well being. “Lots of people suppose it’s simply the aesthetics,” she says, “however the whole lot is intertwined. I believe educating sufferers on the influence of your total dental well being and the way it impacts your physique is extraordinarily necessary.”
For instance, she says, individuals who have points with blood sugar and diabetes are extra liable to gum illness and, in some cases, these issues have even been linked to stroke.
“When sufferers don’t maintain their mouths,” Dr. Cerillo provides, “that micro organism can really trigger systematic [health] issues.”
Advances in expertise are also making visits to the dentist extra environment friendly and patient-friendly and Dr. Cerillo says the observe has been extremely technology-driven from the start.
For instance, Somerset Dental Care makes use of three-dimensional X-ray expertise that makes use of a high-speed video scanning digicam to take digital impressions of the mouth. Which means that sufferers can obtain crowns or Invisalign® aligners with out the trays and goopy materials that tastes horrible and may make some sufferers gag — and with higher precision. It additionally allows dentists and sufferers to see how the enamel are oriented within the jaw. With this data, the dentists can plan out implant surgical procedures forward of time and present their sufferers the place the implant can be positioned preoperatively.
“We will just about do a surgical procedure earlier than we even contact a affected person,” explains Dr. Cerillo. “Because the expertise advances, it helps create a brand new normal of care.”
That’s key for Dr. Cerillo, who additionally leads San Antonio Dental Care north of Wesley Chapel, and who says he personally needed to bear a whole lot of dental work himself. He provides that not all dental points are a matter of care and maintenance — some are hereditary. There are folks whose enamel are skeletally not match. If the higher and decrease jaw are incongruent sizes, that may create points over time from fixed put on and tear.
Then, by the point these sufferers attain their 40s and past, the issue might require corrective surgical procedure. Dr. Cerillo was a kind of sufferers. He needed to have corrective surgical procedure at age 39 and braces to repair his chunk, as a result of it was up to now off that it was inflicting him excessive jaw ache.
“I’ve really had extra dental work carried out than ninety % of my sufferers,” he says.
Whether or not it’s a common check-up and cleansing or one thing extra intensive, Somerset Dental Care is there to maintain sufferers’ total dental well being with compassion and a smile. And, as Dr. Jones says, “It simply appears like household right here.”
Somerset Dental Care is situated at 15277 Amberly Dr. and is open Monday-Thursday, 7 a.m.-3 p.m., and eight a.m.-2 p.m. on Friday. For extra data, go to SomersetDentalCareFL.com, name (813) 971-1688 or see the advert beneath. Dr. Cerillo’s San Antonio Dental Care is situated at 11938 Curley St., off C.R. 52. For more information, name (352) 668-4819, or go to SanAntonioDentalCareFL.com.
