A Dentist Serving Redding, CT

Radiant Smiles Family & Aesthetic Dentistry is at 2240 Madison Avenue in Bridgeport's North End — about fifteen miles and thirty to thirty-five minutes south of Redding, down Route 58.

That is the longest drive of any town on this website, and it is the first thing you should know rather than the last.

We are almost certainly not the dentist you should use

Let us be completely straightforward, because a page that pretends otherwise is worthless to you and, frankly, worthless to us.

Redding has good dental practices of its own — well-rated, long-established, minutes from your house. Danbury, Bethel and Ridgefield are all closer to you than we are, and between them they have more dentists than you could see in a lifetime.

If you need a cleaning, a checkup, a filling, or any of the ordinary business of keeping your teeth: book locally. A seventy-minute round trip twice a year for routine hygiene is not a sensible use of your time, and we are not going to encourage it. That advice costs us a patient and it is still the right advice.

Most pages of this kind exist to catch the search term "dentist Redding CT" and say nothing true. This one is going to say something true and lose most of its readers.

The narrow case for coming anyway

NEEDS SIGN-OFF C-11, C-20, C-22 Costs stated here — single implant, post+abutment+crown $4,000–$6,500; porcelain veneer, per tooth $1,400–$2,500; invisalign, limited case from around $3,000. Approve as written, or give the correction.

Having said all that — there are two situations where the drive is rational, and we would be doing you a different disservice by not naming them.

You are coming for a specific, significant piece of treatment. Implants. Porcelain veneers. A full cosmetic plan. These run into thousands of dollars and their consequences last decades — an implant should outlive the car you drove here in, and veneers are irreversible.

At that level, the choice of dentist genuinely matters more than thirty minutes. People routinely cross a county for a surgeon. Nobody thinks it is strange.

And you can test whether we are worth it without leaving your kitchen. We publish our prices. Implants at $4,000 to $6,500 for a finished tooth, post and crown together. Veneers at $1,400 to $2,500 each. Invisalign from around $3,000 for a limited case. Almost nobody in Fairfield County prints those numbers. Take whatever you have been quoted and compare it. If we are not clearly better, do not get in the car — and we will have been useful to you anyway.

You already drive south on Route 58. A number of Redding residents commute down the Black Rock Turnpike through Easton to Fairfield and Bridgeport. If that is your morning anyway, an 8:00 a.m. appointment is a stop, not a journey.

The road, since you asked

Route 58 — the Black Rock Turnpike — runs from Redding south through Easton into Fairfield and on toward Bridgeport. It is the road Redding uses to go south, and it has been for a very long time.

It is also fifteen miles of it, and we would rather you knew that from us than from a satnav that has already started the engine.

And if you do come

NEEDS SIGN-OFF K-13, K-14 Claims about the practice — Parking at the building; Hours: Mon/Tue/Thu 8–5:30, Fri 8–1; closed Wed/Sat/Sun. Approve as written, or give the correction.

There is parking at the building. We are closed Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday — open Monday, Tuesday and Thursday to 5:30 p.m., and Friday to 1:00 p.m. On a thirty-five minute drive, check that twice.

Call (203) 372-0881. Tell us where you are calling from. If the honest answer is that you should stay in Redding, that is what you will hear.

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Radiant Smiles is in Bridgeport, not Redding — at 2240 Madison Avenue, about fifteen miles and thirty to thirty-five minutes south. Redding has its own well-rated dental practices, and Danbury, Bethel and Ridgefield are all closer to you than we are.