Privately owned
Dr. Lillis owns this practice and works in it every day, which means the person recommending your treatment is the person doing it and answering for it. New patients call to ask whether we are corporate-owned, and the answer is no.
Overland Park Dentist for Cleanings, Veneers and Full-Mouth Reconstruction
Dr. Patrick Lillis has treated complex restorative cases in Johnson County since 2004. Other dentists refer their hardest cases here and come to his lectures to learn how he plans them. Every crown and veneer is built by hand at a small ceramics studio in West Hollywood.
Patrick B. Lillis, DDS · Foxhill Medical Building, 109th and RoeOur Practice in Overland Park, in a few words
Overland Park Dental Design is a privately owned dental practice at 4601 West 109th Street in Overland Park, Kansas, led by Dr. Patrick B. Lillis, DDS. The practice focuses on complex restorative dentistry, including full mouth reconstruction, dental implants, porcelain veneers, and crowns, alongside hygiene and preventive care built around long-term health. Dr. Lillis completed a two-year Advanced Education in General Dentistry residency at UMKC and has practiced in Johnson County since 2004.
2004in practice since
20+years teaching other dentists
1 dentist4 operatories
5.0Google rating, 32 reviews
- Marquette
- Creighton
- UMKC
- Seattle Study Club
What kind of dental work
are you looking for?
What it usually involves
Rebuilding the bite and the height of the teeth together
Full mouth rehabilitation
What it usually involves
Finding out why they keep failing, then rebuilding correctly
Restorative dentistry and crowns
What it usually involves
A single implant, a bridge, or a full arch depending on what is left
Dental implants
What it usually involves
Going back to the diagnosis, then redesigning and remaking it
Natural cosmetic dentistry
What it usually involves
Veneers or bonding, planned around how your bite already works
Porcelain veneers
What it usually involves
Working out how the joint and the muscles are behaving, then treating the cause
TMJ, TMD and orofacial pain
What it usually involves
Saliva testing, scans compared over time, and a plan beyond deeper cleanings
Wellness and gum health
What it usually involves
A straight answer on whether they need replacing at all
Silver filling replacementNot sure which one applies to you?
Book a consultation and we will tell you.
Smile Showcase
Full-face photography and patients talking about their own treatment, rather than close-ups of teeth. Every image and video goes live only with written patient authorisation.
Patient testimonial videos
“He's just the kind of man that I would trust, so I quite literally put my money where my mouth is.”
“My teeth feel great. You would never know a difference.”
Why patients
choose us
The same dentist and the same hygienist, every visit
You see Dr. Lillis and the same hygienist each time you come in, so the person cleaning your teeth this year cleaned them last year and knows what changed.
Hygiene built around your health
One-hour hygiene visits with saliva testing, intraoral scans stored at every visit so tissue changes show up over time, and Thorne prebiotics, probiotics, and age-specific multivitamins when they fit your case.
How Dr. Lillis diagnoses a case
Every new patient gets the same exam, whether the concern is one chipped tooth or a mouth that has stopped working. Dr. Lillis looks at the whole system: the teeth, how the upper and lower arches meet, the jaw joints, the muscles that move them, and the airway. A single tooth that keeps breaking is usually a symptom of something else in that system, and treating the tooth alone means treating it again in two years.
The hardest cases he sees are worn dentitions, where years of grinding have shortened the teeth and collapsed the bite. Rebuilding one means restoring the lost height across every tooth at once, and there is no margin for error in the records, the occlusion, or the preparation design. He was trained on these cases in residency, has planned them for more than twenty years, and still treats each one as difficult.
The diagnosis comes first, and the plan comes out of the diagnosis. Cost comes after both. Nearly every failed case that arrives here from another office went wrong at that first step, because a plan built on a misread bite fails no matter how well the ceramic was made.
“We don't just look at one tooth. We look at the entire system.”
What your visit
looks like
You see the result on a screen first, then in your mouth as temporaries, and the ceramist builds the final restorations only after you have signed off on them.
Records
Intraoral scans, photographs, and records of how your jaw moves and how your teeth meet. Everything is captured digitally so the design work can start from an exact copy of your mouth.
Comprehensive exam
Dr. Lillis examines the whole system: teeth, jaw joints, muscles, and airway.
Diagnosis, explained
You hear what is wrong and why it happened, and cost comes up at the next step once the diagnosis is clear.
Options and costs
Two or three treatment paths, each with a written cost, so you can take them home, compare, and choose.
Digital design
The lab's designer in California designs your case, and the file comes back in about half an hour. Dr. Lillis prints the models in the in-office lab and turns the design into temporaries you wear and live with.
You approve the temporaries
You live with the design and sign off on it. Once you do, the ceramist builds the final restorations as an exact copy of what you approved, which is why the final visit holds no surprises.
The comment Dr. Lillis hears most after a reconstruction is finished is some version of
“I should have done this years ago.”
“You have better things to do than live your life in a dental office. I want to get you out of the cycle of perpetual dentistry.”
How we make your porcelain veneers and crowns
Dr. Lillis has sent his ceramic work to the same technician for over a decade. He runs a small studio in West Hollywood with five or six technicians, does not advertise, and chooses which dentists he works with. The studio builds ceramic for cosmetic practices in Beverly Hills, and it builds every veneer and crown for our practice.
He builds each restoration in layers. The dentin layer goes on and cools, then the enamel layer, then the final characterization and glaze. A high-volume lab turns a crown around in days by skipping that cooling time, which is why so much cosmetic dentistry looks like a matched set. Layering is what makes a veneer look like the tooth next to it.
The same studio develops printing and scanning workflows with SprintRay, whose headquarters are a short drive from the lab, so new techniques reach patients here early. And because the work comes back to Kansas, you pay Kansas fees for it.
“He's not cheap, and he's not fast. He's not fast because he builds the ceramic in layers, and each layer has to cool for 48 hours.”
Three cases from this practice
A college student, then his parents
A college student lost more than a dozen teeth in an accident and arrived with a broken jaw. Dr. Lillis rebuilt his mouth alongside an oral surgeon and an orthodontist. When it was finished, his mother booked her own reconstruction, and then his father booked his.
A girl born without eight permanent teeth
An oral surgeon referred her at ten. The practice carried her through adolescence with an orthodontist, holding space for the teeth that never came, and placed her implants once she was fully grown. She is an adult with a career now.
A husband, then his wife
A man was referred after orthodontics, needing a full reconstruction. When his case was finished, his wife came in for the same treatment.
Dr. Lillis says the cases he remembers are the ones where the patient sends in a family member for the same treatment.
If dental work done elsewhere has failed
“Every case I fix goes right back to the diagnosis. The diagnosis wasn't correct, and that's a domino effect.”
Some of the cases that come through this practice were handled elsewhere first. Chipped veneers, crowns that came loose twice, a bite that has never felt right since the work was done, or teeth that look too white and too uniform for the face they sit in.
When Dr. Lillis takes one of these cases apart, the materials are usually fine. The original plan misread how the bite worked, and everything built on top of it failed, no matter how carefully it was made.
So a redo starts with new records and a new diagnosis, and the plan is built around how your jaw functions. The cosmetic result follows from that.
Natural cosmetic dentistry in Overland Park
“Function is always first. Cosmetics are a byproduct of proper function.”
When a case is planned around looks alone, with no attention to how the teeth meet, the ceramic chips and cracks, and the teeth end up looking like they belong to someone else's face.
Dr. Lillis plans cosmetic work so that people look at you and think you have a good smile, without being able to point to the dentistry. Most of that comes down to shape. Closing gaps, rebuilding where gum has receded, and sizing the teeth to your face matter more than picking the whitest shade tab. Patients over sixty in particular want teeth that look like teeth, and that is what the layered ceramic is for.
Veneers are a luxury good, and like any luxury good, they eventually need service. Dr. Lillis compares it to buying a Porsche: you still change the oil, and one day the engine needs work. Anyone who promises a set of veneers will last fifty years with no maintenance is selling you something.
Silver fillings, and which ones need replacing
Yes, this practice removes silver amalgam fillings, and has for more than twenty years.
Whether a filling should come out depends on the filling, and the answer is often no. An intact silver filling over a sound tooth is doing its job, and removing it means drilling away healthy tooth structure you do not get back. Dr. Lillis will tell you to leave that one alone and check it at each visit.
A filling that is cracked, leaking, or has decay underneath comes out, and the tooth is rebuilt with ceramic or composite matched to the teeth around it.
“By the time people get to us, they're in such bad shape that removing amalgam is the least of our concerns.”
Longevity dentistry
Putting the mouth back into the body
“We're getting more into putting the mouth back into the body, and having the mouth be part of the patient's overall health plan.”
Longevity dentistry treats the mouth as part of your overall health. Hygiene is built around measurement and prevention, and restorative work is planned around how the bite functions so that chewing and digestion work the way they should.
Teeth that meet correctly let you chew properly, and digestion starts with chewing. Healthy gums mean less inflammation for the rest of your body to deal with. That is why a hygiene visit here runs a full hour with the same hygienist, who has been with the practice for more than twenty years.
The visit includes saliva testing, which shows which bacteria are present in your mouth, and an intraoral scan that is stored and compared against your previous visits so tissue changes show up early. The practice moved away from routine antibiotics years ago. Where nutrition is part of the picture, it carries Thorne prebiotics, probiotics, and age-specific multivitamins.
Plenty of families have been patients here for ten and twenty years and have never needed anything beyond cleanings and checkups. If you are looking for a dental home for your family in Overland Park or Leawood, the practice is taking new patients for routine care.
Our hygiene protocol
Saliva testing, intraoral scans stored at every visit to track tissue changes, and supplement guidance where it helps.
Meet Dr. Patrick B.
Lillis, DDS
Where Dr. Lillis is lecturing
- Seattle Study Club, Chapel Hill Oral Surgery, Chapel Hill NC · September 2026
- Seattle Study Club, Raleigh NC · October 2026
- ITI, Raleigh NC · October 2026
- National implant-education symposium, Nashville TN, 350+ dentists · October 2026
Dr. Lillis grew up in his grandfather's dental laboratory and was waxing and casting restorations at thirteen. His grandfather practiced until he was eighty and was home by five every evening, which is roughly the model Dr. Lillis has run his own career on.
“Everyone has gone scale, scale, scale. We doubled down and stayed small.”
He earned a Bachelor of Science in biomedical science from Marquette University and his Doctor of Dental Surgery from Creighton University School of Dentistry in 1998. He then completed a two-year Advanced Education in General Dentistry residency at the UMKC School of Dentistry, from 2002 to 2004, working under attending faculty on complex implant, cosmetic, and reconstructive cases. He had enrolled for one year and stayed for two, because the cases he inherited needed the time.
One of those attendings was Frank Gardner, who helped develop the porcelain veneer bonding techniques still in use today. That connection led Dr. Lillis to Bernie Williams, an internationally recognized lecturer in TMJ and occlusion, whose Overland Park practice he joined and eventually took over. A porcelain veneer cement that dentists now use worldwide was beta-tested in this practice. Between the two of them, the practice has served Overland Park for around fifty years.
He opened his own practice in July 2004 and has treated complex restorative cases in Johnson County ever since. He has lectured to other dentists for more than twenty years, today for Seattle Study Club, and he built a course for Seattle Study Club called Dentistry 316 that covers the business and personal side of running a practice as well as the clinical work.
General dentists and specialists across Kansas City refer patients here when a case falls outside what they want to take on. Some of those patients are dentists themselves.
Away from the practice, he trains, skis, and spends part of every year in Steamboat Springs. He and his wife Shannon have two children in college. He leaves the office around four most days, and he considers that a sign the practice is structured properly.
- 13
Waxing and casting in his grandfather's laboratory
- 1998
Doctor of Dental Surgery, Creighton, after a BS from Marquette
- 2002 to 2004
Two-year AEGD residency, UMKC
- 2004
Opens the practice in Overland Park
- 20+
Years lecturing, now for Seattle Study Club
The same team for two decades
Dentistry has spent fifteen years consolidating into larger groups with more chairs, more locations, and more associates. This practice stayed at four operatories and one dentist, with a hygienist who worked alongside Bernie Williams and has been full-time here for more than twenty years, and an assistant who has been here more than fifteen. When you call, the person who answers knows you, and when you come in, you see Dr. Lillis.
Complex restorative work depends on one person having watched your teeth for years and knowing what has already been tried. That is hard to do at scale, so this practice stays small.
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What patients say
5.0 on Google · 32 reviews
My whole family has been seeing this dentist for years. The staff is very friendly and knowledgeable, great with kids. They don't recommend unnecessary work or try to sell you on anything. Just a good trustworthy dental practice.
I've been to a number of dentists over the years. This past year I had to have some major work done. Since it affected my smile, I really wanted a top-level dentist on the job. I also have extreme anxiety about having impressions made like when you need a crown.
First let me say that all the staff at Overland Park Dental Design. are friendly and helpful. Dr. Lillas is truly a top-tier highly skilled dentist with a support team to match. They also have some type of 3d scanning software that means I didn't have to have traditional impressions which was incredible.
My teeth look perfect and the process was super smooth and painless!
I highly recommend Overland Park Dental Design!
I was sent to Dr. Lillis by referral to fix a crown that I was told was not fixable. Not only did Dr. Lillis listen to all of my concerns but he was able to fix what others could not in a timely manner and with the utmost regard to detail and perfection. I honestly CANNOT say enough good things about this office. Every single staff member as well as Dr. Lillis himself have exceeded my expectations in all areas of care!!!! I highly recommend Dr. Lillis for all your dental needs.
Everyone at OP Dental Design is so sincere, and truly listen to what your goals are. I spent a majority of my childhood seeing Dr. Lillis due to the fact that I was born without 8 permanent molars. It’s incredible to see how far we’ve come as a team - he made the outcomes look flawless. There’s a reason I continue to see Dr. Lillis and his team for all my regular check ins today. I’ll always recommend Dr. Lillis to family and friends in Kansas City who are looking for a dentist who truly cares!
Their team is detail oriented. You don't leave their office unless everything is perfect. I had major dental work performed. Since then I've received numerous compliments from family, friends & strangers about my new smile.
Everyone at Dr, Lillis's office are very pleasant and helpful. Shanda Overbeck is the best Dental Hygienist. She is personable, friendly, and professional. She is very good at her work and determined. I highly recommend her.
Dr. Lillis and his team are beyond amazing! From my first consultation to the end result I couldn't have asked for a better experience. They take care of you from the moment you walk in the door. Truly impressed with their concierge approach to dental care. Can't thank them enough!
Dr. Lillis and his staff are always so friendly and professional! My daughter had a dental emergency after 5 on a weeknight and Dr. Lillis met us at the office and made sure we were taken care of thru the whole process.
I have been going to Overland Park Dental Design for over ten years and can't recommend them high enough. Everyone on the team is super friendly and goes out of their way to make sure the experience is comfortable. Both my hygienist, Shanda, and Dr. Lillis are extremely knowledgeable and perfectionists when it comes to the work they do.
Shanda and Dr. Lillis are the absolute best. My whole family has gone to Overland Park Dental Design for decades. When Patrick Lillis took over the practice, it was a great transition. Patrick and his staff always great you the second you walk in and treat you like friends and family. They take the time to give you the best service you could ask for.
Shanda is great at her medical care, a great communicator to help you understand your dental health, and always professional and thorough. Dr. Lillis is great an patient care, clear dental communication for the patient, personal care and interest and he has developed a very positive office culture. Visiting the dentist is something to look forward to!!
I look forward to going to OPDD! The staff is always friendly, professional, and ALWAYS on time...I have never had to wait.
A very professional doctor and staff. They also deliver very caring and compassionate care. I highly recommend this great cosmetic doctor with his great team!😀
I’m always happy with the outstanding care I receive. Everyone is friendly and efficient. Dr Lillis is incredible at what he does….top notch practice!
As is always the case, my appointment went great from start to finish and I really appreciated the proactive approach they take to ensure things stay on track!
This office is the best!! Dr.Lillis and the staff are very professional and I wouldn’t have anyone else do my dental work! They are very kind and compassionate!
Common questions
Is Overland Park Dental Design privately owned?
Yes. Dr. Patrick Lillis owns the practice outright. There is no corporate parent, no dental service organization and no private equity group involved, and there is one location with one dentist.
Is Dr. Lillis a prosthodontist?
No. Dr. Lillis is a general dentist who completed a two-year Advanced Education in General Dentistry residency at the UMKC School of Dentistry, focused on implant, cosmetic, and complex restorative treatment. He has treated full mouth reconstructions and complex implant cases full time since 2004, teaches full mouth and full arch treatment planning to other dentists through Seattle Study Club, and takes referrals from general dentists and specialists across Kansas City. He refers out the cases that need a specialist.
What is longevity dentistry?
Longevity dentistry treats the mouth as part of a patient's overall health. In practice that means hygiene visits built around measurement and prevention, including saliva testing and scans tracked over time, and restorative treatment planned around how the bite functions so that chewing and digestion work properly, with the cosmetic result following from that.
What happens at a hygiene appointment here?
A hygiene visit runs a full hour with the same hygienist every time. It includes a cleaning, an intraoral scan that is stored and compared against previous visits, saliva testing where it is useful, and an exam that looks at the whole system. Where nutrition is relevant, the practice carries Thorne supplements.
Do you remove silver amalgam fillings?
Yes, and the practice has for more than twenty years. An intact silver filling over a sound tooth is usually better left alone, because removing it means drilling away healthy tooth structure. A filling that is cracked, leaking or has decay underneath is replaced with ceramic or composite.
What is full mouth reconstruction?
Full mouth reconstruction rebuilds most or all of the teeth in both arches, usually because years of wear, grinding, decay, or failed dental work have changed how the bite functions. It combines crowns, veneers, implants and bite correction into one planned sequence.
How long does a full mouth reconstruction take?
It depends on how much needs rebuilding and whether implants or other providers are involved. Most cases run over several months, with a planning phase, a period in temporary restorations, and then the final restorations. You get a timeline specific to your case at the consultation.
How much does full mouth reconstruction cost in Overland Park?
Cost depends on how many teeth need treatment, whether implants are involved, and the materials used, so there is no single figure. You get a written treatment plan with costs after the diagnostic appointment, and usually more than one option at different price points.
Can you fix veneers or crowns done at another office?
Yes. Correcting cosmetic and restorative work done elsewhere is a regular part of the practice. It starts with a fresh diagnosis, because the restoration usually failed for a reason the first plan missed.
Do you take new patients for cleanings and checkups?
Yes. The practice takes new patients for routine hygiene, exams, and preventive care as well as complex treatment.
Where are you located?
The office is at 4601 West 109th Street, Suite 318, in the Foxhill Medical Building at 109th and Roe, on the Overland Park and Leawood border in Johnson County, Kansas.
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Address
Overland Park Dental Design
Patrick B. Lillis, DDS
4601 West 109th Street, Suite 318
Overland Park, KS 66211
(913) 451-7330
Patrick B. Lillis, DDS
4601 West 109th Street, Suite 318
Overland Park, KS 66211
(913) 451-7330
Hours
Monday to Wednesday, 8:00 to 5:00
Thursday, 8:00 to 3:00
Friday to Sunday, closed
The office sits in the Foxhill Medical Building at 109th and Roe, right on the Overland Park and Leawood line. Patients come from Overland Park, Leawood, Prairie Village, Mission Hills, Olathe, Lenexa and across the Kansas City metro. Roughly five minutes from Leawood, ten from Prairie Village, and fifteen from Olathe.