My greatest passion is helping patients feel confident in their smile. Having a healthy and beautiful smile really affects how you interact with the world and plays a role in the way you feel about yourself. I love to enhance smiles while keeping a natural appearance. Its important to me that cosmetic work doesnt look like work, but rather, an improved version of your own smile, with natural contours and translucency. Little details make a big difference in cosmetic dentistry.
I also place great importance on pediatric jaw development. The growth of our jaws and face is not 100% genetic; rather, our jaws and face also grow in response to external factors such as diet and breathing habits. I enjoy working with children in order to maximize proper growth and reduce the need for future extensive orthodontic treatment.
Dr. Mary Karvounis was raised in Montgomery County, Maryland, and attended the University of Maryland, College Park for her undergraduate studies, where she majored in Biology. She then attended the University of Maryland, Baltimore School of Dentistry where she completed her Doctorate of Dental Surgery.
While in dental school, she completed the Albert Schweitzer Fellowship, a community service-based leadership project. During this fellowship, she worked with the House of Ruth in Baltimore, MD, a womens shelter, to help educate the House of Ruths residents in oral care and provide dental examinations.
She enjoys transforming smiles while maintaining a natural appearance and a functional bite. She is trained in facial injectables such as Botox and dermal fillers, and strives to give patients a healthy and natural-looking result.
Dr. Karvounis is Invisalign certified and has completed a multitude of orthodontic cases. She also has a passion for working with children to establish healthy airways and jaws, and maintain healthy oral habits that lead to proper facial and jaw growth and well-aligned adult teeth.