The Orthodontic Gallery is about ten minutes from Gibsonton, at 10061 Beach Verbena Drive in Riverview, just off US-301 near the Gibsonton Drive interchange. We treat Gibsonton children, teens, and adults with braces, clear aligners, expansion, and complex care. Dr. Wakas Abdulrazzaq is a board-certified orthodontist and consultations are free.
Ten minutes. Four and a half miles. For most of Gibsonton, this office is closer than the supermarket you drive past to reach it.
Here is something we noticed while researching this area, and it is worth saying plainly.
The orthodontic content aimed at Gibsonton is not really aimed at Gibsonton. Some of it comes from practices in other towns running the same page with the city name changed, admitting halfway down that they are not actually located here. Some of it comes from practices that are physically here but brand themselves to the wealthier town next door.
Nobody names East Bay High School. Nobody mentions Gardenville. Nobody writes as though a Gibsonton family reading the page is the intended reader rather than a search result to be captured.
We are not going to claim an address in Gibsonton, because we do not have one. What we will do is treat this community as a place with its own schools, its own history, and its own families, rather than as a keyword.
Gibsonton grew up along the Alafia where it meets the bay, and for most of the twentieth century it was known as the winter home of American carnival and circus workers. That history is genuinely unusual and it is still part of how people here describe the place.
What the town is now is a fast-growing, young, working community along the US-41 and I-75 corridors, with a school-age population share higher than Riverview’s and a medical and dental cluster on Kings Lake Drive that has grown along with it. The professional services have followed the housing here more quickly than they have further south, which is part of why Gibsonton is a contested market and Ruskin and Wimauma are not.
Gibsonton has one of the densest school clusters in the whole south county, and roughly 31 percent of the population is under 18, a higher share than Riverview itself.
High school: East Bay High School Middle school: Eisenhower Middle School Elementary: Gibsonton Elementary, A Community School, and Corr Elementary, A Community School
Most orthodontic treatment in a family starts with a check around age seven, and most seven-year-olds turn out to need nothing yet. We do those evaluations free, we do them honestly, and we would rather see your child four times over four years and start at the right moment. See early treatment for children.
Teenagers are the bulk of orthodontic treatment, and East Bay families should know we hold evening and Saturday appointment times so treatment does not cost school hours. See teen orthodontics.
Gardenville Recreation Center and the school athletic programs keep a lot of Gibsonton kids in contact sport. Custom mouthguards made to fit over braces are worth arranging before the season starts.
Gibsonton 33534, including the Kings Lake and Gibsonton Drive corridors, and neighboring Riverview, Progress Village, and Apollo Beach.
Our building sits a short distance up US-301 from where Gibsonton Drive crosses it. If you come off I-75 at exit 250, you pass within a couple of minutes of our door on the way into town.
That matters more than it sounds. Orthodontic treatment means an appointment every six to ten weeks for a year and a half or more, plus the occasional unscheduled visit when a bracket comes loose. The difference between a ten-minute drive and a thirty-minute one, multiplied across two years, is the difference between treatment that fits into a Tuesday and treatment that eats an afternoon.
A loose bracket on a Wednesday is a short trip here, not a logistics problem. See emergency care.
Dr. Wakas Abdulrazzaq is a board-certified orthodontist, a Diplomate of the American Board of Orthodontics, and the founder of The Orthodontic Gallery. He completed his orthodontic residency at MedStar Washington Hospital Center and Georgetown University, where he served as chief resident. As the practice’s only orthodontist, he plans and checks every visit himself, from first exam to retainers. He treats patients in English and Arabic, and our team speaks Spanish.
Traditional braces start at $500 down. Payment plans are in-house and carry no interest. We accept CareCredit and HSA and FSA funds. Your free consultation ends with a written treatment plan and the fee attached to it, and nothing is owed if you decide not to start. See cost and financing.
We do not quote prices over the phone, because a number without an examination behind it is not a real number. What we will do is give you the real one, in writing, at no cost.
Se habla español, and Dr. Abdulrazzaq speaks Arabic.
Orthodontic care looks different for a child, a teenager, and an adult. The treatments below give Gibsonton families a starting point, and Dr. Wakas will help you narrow down what fits your smile, your schedule, and your goals.
Braces move teeth with brackets bonded to each tooth and a wire that connects them. The Orthodontic Gallery in Riverview offers metal braces, clear ceramic braces, and LightForce custom 3D-printed brackets, for children, teens, and adults.
Clear aligners are removable plastic trays, changed every one to two weeks, that move teeth in small planned steps. The Orthodontic Gallery in Riverview treats with Invisalign, Angel Aligners, and aligners fabricated in our own lab.
A retainer holds your teeth in their new positions after braces or clear aligners come off. The Orthodontic Gallery in Riverview provides removable clear retainers, Hawley wire retainers, and permanent bonded retainers, and we make replacements in our own lab.
Early orthodontic treatment means fixing a problem while a child’s jaw is still growing. The American Association of Orthodontists recommends every child have an orthodontic evaluation by about age seven.
Braces for teens are the most common orthodontic treatment there is. The Orthodontic Gallery in Riverview treats teenagers with metal braces, clear ceramic braces, LightForce custom brackets, and clear aligners.
Roughly one in four orthodontic patients in the United States is an adult. Adults at The Orthodontic Gallery are treated with braces, clear aligners, expansion, and coordinated surgical planning where a case calls for it.
About ten minutes and four and a half miles. We are on Beach Verbena Drive in Riverview, just off US-301 near the Gibsonton Drive interchange, which makes us the closest orthodontic practice to most of Gibsonton after the one in town itself.
Yes, and those schools are a large part of why this page exists. We schedule evening and Saturday appointment times so treatment does not have to come out of school hours, which matters most during the teenage years when the bulk of orthodontic treatment happens.
To Riverview. We have one office, at 10061 Beach Verbena Drive, and we are straightforward about that rather than implying a Gibsonton address. It is a ten-minute drive, and our Riverview office page carries the directions and the landmarks.