Dental Art Specialists
Registered legal name: Melvin and Jazmine Dillard DDS, PC
1964 Dempster St, Evanston, IL 60202
The registry record
- NPI
- 1649657255
- Registered as
- Type-2 organization (not an individual dentist's personal NPI)
- Dental categories
- Orthodontics, General
- Taxonomy codes
- 122300000X (Dentist); 1223X0400X (Orthodontics and dentofacial orthopedics)
- Practice location
- 1964 Dempster St, Evanston, IL 60202
- Telephone
- (312) 600-8119
- NPI issued
- 4 May 2015 (11 years ago)
- Record updated
- 28 February 2023 (3 years ago)
- Certified by the practice
- 28 February 2023
- NPI status
- NPI active as reported by CMS 2026-08
- Metro area
- Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN (metropolitan area, Cook County)
- State
- Illinois (5,631 registered practices)
- Map position
- Census address match at street level
- Snapshot
- NPPES data dissemination file, 10 August 2026
What the record tells you
Dental Art Specialists, the trading name of Melvin and Jazmine Dillard DDS, PC, is an NPI registry record for a dental organization at 1964 Dempster St in Evanston, Illinois 60202. CMS issued NPI 1649657255 on 4 May 2015, and the practice last updated its own entry on 28 February 2023. That was 3 years ago; the details are probably current, but confirm the address when you book.
It is registered under 2 dental taxonomy codes: Dentist (122300000X), Orthodontics and dentofacial orthopedics (1223X0400X). That puts it in 2 categories on this site, led by orthodontics. A practice that registers more than one category is telling CMS it does more than one kind of dental work at this address, which is why it has a page here rather than a row. No other address in the registry carries this name, though a practice trading under a chain brand often registers each office under its own legal name, so check the brand as well.
Evanston holds 53 registered dental practices inside the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN area, which has 4,610 in total on the Illinois side and ranks 1st in the state. 3 of the Evanston records also register orthodontics, so this is one of only a handful of local options in that category. Across the metro the mix runs general dentistry 69.1%, dental clinic or center 19.2%, orthodontics 6.2%. The closest other registered practices are Dr Carl L Cheeks DDS PC (0.5 miles, Evanston), Smile Suite Orthodontics (0.6 miles, Evanston) and Skokie New Age Detnal (0.7 miles, Skokie), with 2 more inside 0.9 miles.
On our figures a routine adult cleaning in Illinois runs $110 to $165 cash and scaling and root planing $180 to $285 per quadrant, against a US average of $125. This practice's own prices are not in the registry and never will be: NPPES holds identifiers, not fees. Call (312) 600-8119 and ask for the cash price on code D1110, whether the exam and X-rays are included, and whether they run a membership plan if you have no insurance.
Nearest alternatives
The 5 closest registered dental practices to 1964 Dempster St, straight-line distance. Rows without a link are listed on their metro page rather than having one of their own.
| Practice | City | Distance | Categories | Phone on the record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dr Carl L Cheeks DDS PC | Evanston, IL | 0.5 mi | General | (847) 869-9708 |
| Smile Suite Orthodontics | Evanston, IL | 0.6 mi | Orthodontics, Dental clinic | (847) 264-9330 |
| Skokie New Age Detnal | Skokie, IL | 0.7 mi | General | (847) 568-1337 |
| The Art of A Smile Dental Studio, PC | Skokie, IL | 0.9 mi | General | (847) 329-7901 |
| The Radiant Smile, PC | Evanston, IL | 0.9 mi | General | (847) 328-3573 |
The benchmark to hold a quote from Dental Art Specialists against. Illinois cost guide.
What to ask when you call
- The cash price for D1110, a routine adult cleaning, and whether the exam (D0120) and X-rays (D0274) are inside or outside that number.
- Whether you need scaling and root planing before a routine clean, and the per-quadrant price for D4341 or D4342 if so.
- Whether they run an in-house membership plan, and what it covers against what it costs a year.
- Whether they are taking new patients and how far out the next hygiene appointment is.
- The practice license, with your state dental board. An NPI is a billing identifier and proves nothing about licensing.
CMS NPPES NPI data file, August 2026, snapshot 10 August 2026. US federal public data (FOIA-disclosable, no charge). CMS NPI files. NPI registry records, status as reported by CMS in the August 2026 data dissemination file. NPPES is an identifier registry, not a license register: an NPI does not validate that a practice is licensed, accredited or currently open. Practices maintain their own NPPES entries. Every page shows the date the record was last updated; addresses and phone numbers are as self-reported and are not verified by us. This page describes a registry record. It is not a review, an endorsement or a check on Dental Art Specialists.
Price figures are our own, last verified April 2026. State averages are our estimates compiled from FAIR Health regional cost data and CMS Medicare fee schedules; the ADA discontinued its national Survey of Dental Fees in 2023, so no national fee survey exists. Treat them as a starting point and call two or three offices for an actual quote.