Dr. Elizabeth D. Shelly

Thank you for your loving compassion as you use those dedicated hands of yours to provide the dental care each of us needs. My husband and I are so grateful that we have such a gracious and caring dentist!! Your kindness, your care and warmth have been wonderful. Your staff is terrific too! You lead by example.
  -- Fran

Growing up in the suburbs of Chicago, Dr. Elizabeth Shelly developed an early interest in dentistry, stemming from her strong math and science skills, combined with an interest in medicine and desire to help people. Declaring her career choice in the sixth grade, she never wavered.

After Marquette University in Milwaukee, Dr. Shelly went on to study dentistry at Northwestern University Dental School in Chicago, graduating in 1986 and opening her dental practice on Hilton Head Island in 1987.

Since that time, Dr. Shelly has pursued extensive post-graduate education at the prestigious Dawson Academy in St. Petersburg, FL, where the emphasis is on comprehensive dentistry. Calling herself “more than just a tooth doctor,” Dr. Shelly believes that quality, predictable dentistry begins with the complete masticatory system, including the gums, jaw joints, muscles and teeth. “The advantage of that kind of dentistry is that we are building inside the framework of the function, so it’s going to last," she said.

Dr. Shelly's emphasis is on restorative dentistry, including veneers, dentures, crowns (including CEREC single-visit ceramic crowns when appropriate)-everything from a simple filling to full mouth rehabilitation. Working with many TMJ (Temporomandibular joint disorder) patients, Dr. Shelly offers relief through corrective dental therapy and/or appropriate restorations.

With a chair-side manner that is calm and unhurried, she takes pride in providing the highest level of care along with the highest level of caring. In other words, she takes time to listen, to evaluate and to offer the very best options to each patient based on his or her unique dental needs.

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Palmetto Dental Arts, P.A.

347 Red Cedar Street
Building 400
Bluffton, SC 29910