The Orthodontic Gallery serves Progress Village from our Riverview office at 10061 Beach Verbena Drive, about 13 minutes south. We provide braces, clear aligners, early treatment for children, and adult orthodontics.
Dr. Wakas Abdulrazzaq is a board-certified orthodontist. Consultations are free and no referral is needed.
Search for an orthodontist in Progress Village and you get almost nothing. Not thin results, not weak competitors. A directory category page, a few practices in other parts of Tampa that happen to contain the word “village,” and a job listing. No orthodontic practice anywhere targets this community by name.
We think that is a small but telling omission, and this page is a deliberate correction to it.
Progress Village was built in the late 1950s as one of the Tampa area’s first planned communities for Black families, at a time when housing options in this county were formally restricted. It was developed with its own homes, its own institutions, and its own civic identity, and that identity has held for close to seventy years. It is not a subdivision of anywhere. It is a community with a history that predates most of what surrounds it.
That history is visible in its institutions today. Progress Village Middle Magnet School of the Arts draws students from across Hillsborough County, which is not something most neighborhood middle schools can say. The Emanuel P. Johnson Recreation Center and Progress Village Park anchor local recreation. Progress Village Christian Academy and Ippolito Elementary School serve the younger children in the area and along the Falkenburg Road corridor.
We are a new practice, and we are not going to pretend to a relationship with this community that we have not yet earned. What we can say is that we are close by, we are open to new patients, and we intend to be here for a long time.
We can also say why we bothered writing this page at all. Orthodontic marketing works on volume, and Progress Village is a community of around ten thousand people, so it gets skipped. That is the same logic that leaves a place without a pharmacy or a grocery store. It is a poor reason for a family here to have less information than a family four miles away.
About an hour, at no cost. We take photographs, an X-ray, and a 3D digital scan, which uses a small wand rather than a tray of impression putty. Dr. Abdulrazzaq examines the teeth, the bite, and the jaw relationship, then shows you the scan on screen and explains what he is looking at.
You leave with a written treatment plan, the options that actually apply, and the fee. There is no pressure to decide anything that day, and a fair number of people are told they do not need treatment at all. See your first visit.
About 13 minutes and six and a half miles. From Progress Village, US-301 south, across the Alafia, to our Riverview office on Beach Verbena Drive just past the Gibsonton Drive interchange. It is one turn off 301, with no interstate involved.
Appointment times include weekday evenings and Saturdays, which matters for households where taking a weekday morning off is not straightforward.
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. Our payment plans are financed in-house and carry no interest. We accept CareCredit and HSA and FSA funds. The consultation is free and includes the examination, the imaging, and a written plan with the fee stated on it, which is yours to take away and think about. See cost and financing.
Our staff speaks Spanish, and Dr. Abdulrazzaq speaks Arabic.
Every smile is different, so every treatment plan starts with a conversation. Here is a general overview of the care we offer at Progress Village to families. Dr. Wakas will explain which options make sense for you.
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.
US-301 south is the simplest, about 13 minutes and six and a half miles, crossing the Alafia River. We are on Beach Verbena Drive just past the Gibsonton Drive interchange. If US-301 is backed up, Falkenburg Road south to Big Bend Road and west to 301 is a reasonable alternative.
Yes, and we prefer to. We will send your dentist the records and the treatment plan, coordinate around any dental work that needs doing first, and send you back for your regular cleanings during orthodontic treatment. No referral is required to see us, but if your dentist has already sent one, bring it.
Not yet, honestly. We opened recently and we are still finding our footing here. We would like to be involved with school and community health events in this part of the county, and if your organization runs one, tell us about it when you call. We would rather be asked than guess.