Our Practice

Our History

On October 1, 1991, Dr. Sonny Spera began what was to be Progressive Dental.  The first office was located at 1080 Conklin Road, Conklin, NY.  This had been the office of Dr. Milton Lawney until his retirement.  Dr. Spera and a half a dozen dedicated assistants, hygienists and office personnel staffed the small office for two and a half years.  In that time, Dr. Spera added more office hours, additional staff and upgraded much of the equipment.

On April 4, 1994, the current Conklin Office at 703 Conklin Road, Conklin, NY was opened.  This office was built to accommodate the larger staff and provide state of the art dental design. In 1996, after an office naming contest, our patients input gave us “Progressive Dental” and thus Progressive Dental, PLLC was born.

In 1998, Dr. Loveland retired and joined our practice in Conklin and September 1997 we merged with Dr. Bernie Collins at 333 Hooper Road. We built our new office at 565 Hooper Road, Endwell, NY which we opened on February 1, 1999.

We continued to expand Progressive Dental.  In April 2004, Dr. DeRensis retired and Progressive Dental of Norwich, PLLC was born.  We continued to work out of the office at 89 N. Broad Street until October 2006, our new office was built and we opened 101 S. Broad Street, Norwich, NY.

Our Mission

• Progressive Dental, pllc’s mission is to provide patients with exceptional dental service through superior care, service, and education in a friendly, comfortable, responsive environment. We want to be known for caring more for your oral health than you do!
• Our Mission is to provide a pleasant environment in which we care about the employees as individuals first, and as employees second. We will continue to be as responsive to their needs as we are to the needs of our patients, without any compromise in patient care.
• It is also our intent to have good old-fashioned fun!

Our Vision

Progressive Dental’s vision is to continue learning new technologies, materials, and expanding the scope of our services. We want to be known as the friendly dental office that is committed to quality care and building a better community.

Our philosophy of our dental practice

We believe that preventive dentistry is the cornerstone of our health centered practice. Early recognition and treatment intervention will optimize the long-term Oral Health benefits for all of our patients. Quality dentistry, together with proper home care will ensure the best of dental health and reduce the amount of dentistry needed in your lifetime. Our practice commits and prides itself on providing you the highest quality of dental services by:

• Maintaining a well educated staff utilizing state-of-the-art equipment and sterilizing methods.
• Selecting the most appropriate methods of dentistry which keep you comfortable.
• Relieving patient’s pain THAT SAME DAY.
• Listening to our patients’ chief concern, which will allow us to formulate a proper diagnosis and custom treatment plan.
• Giving you a written estimate prior to starting any treatment.
• Referring to a specialist as needed.
• Practicing in a manner consistent with the code of ethics, keeping accurate records and complying with all laws.
• Offering a variety of appointment times at three convenient locations to meet your schedule.
• Providing you with an on-call Doctor, ALWAYS.
• Treating the underprivileged in our communities on our annual Doctors with a Heart Day.