Kids’ dentistry, sized to a kid’s attention span.
Most kids don’t fear the dentist — they fear the wait. The waiting room is where dread gets its twenty minutes to build: old magazines, clinic smell, muffled sounds from down the hall. So we removed it. Your child checks in at the iPad kiosk (siblings argue over whose turn it is to tap), gets routed straight to an open chair, and the visit is underway before the nerves are. About 31 minutes, check-in to door.
We see kids from the first tooth through the last checkup before college: cleanings, exams, fluoride varnish, sealants when the permanent molars arrive, white fillings when they’re needed, and a straight-talk aligner conversation when the teen years demand one. One honest boundary: we’re a family studio, not a pediatric hospital service. A child who needs sedation or specialist pediatric care gets a direct referral and a plain explanation of why.
The schedule is built for people who run school mornings: 7am to 7pm, seven days a week, walk-in as the default. A checkup fits before first bell, after practice, or on a Sunday. And because we recall on a ~90-day rhythm — quick oral-health visits instead of one annual marathon — the dentist turns into a routine errand your child stops thinking about.
The child membership is $25 a month and covers what kids actually use: every cleaning and exam, routine X-rays, and fluoride varnish at every visit, plus 15–25% off the rest of the founding fee schedule. Every price is published before we open. If a filling is ever needed, you see the number in writing before we start — and the filling gets its own short visit rather than being crammed onto the end of a checkup. Two 30-minute visits beat one 75-minute ordeal at every age.
The 31-minute choreography
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Kiosk check-in
Your child taps in at the iPad — most insist on doing it themselves. The system already knows their age, last visit, and whether X-rays or sealants are due.
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Straight to a chair
No waiting room means no window for nerves to build. The hygienist meets you at the chair with the visit plan already on screen.
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Cleaning and count
Cleaning, polish, and a tooth count narrated out loud — kids like the inventory. Fluoride varnish finishes the block; for child members it’s included at every visit.
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X-rays only if due
Bitewings run on a schedule based on age and risk, not by default. If they’re not due, this time goes to sealant checks and brushing coaching pitched at your kid, not at you.
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Dentist window
The dentist steps in once everything is staged: full exam, findings explained in plain terms, and if anything needs treatment you get the exact fee in writing before anyone commits to anything.
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Out the door
The visit summary lands in a text. If sealants or a filling come next, they get their own short visit on a day that suits you — deliberately, because short visits are how kids stay easy patients.
Fees
There’s no separate “kids’ menu” — child cleanings, exams, fluoride, sealants, and fillings are line items on the same public founding fee schedule as everything else.
Questions, answered plainly
What ages do you see?
From around the first birthday — the standard “first tooth, first visit” guidance — through the teen years. Baby teeth, mixed dentition, sealant windows, aligner-age questions: all of it happens here. Children who need sedation, hospital dentistry, or specialist pediatric care get a direct referral, and we tell you why.
My child is anxious at the dentist. What’s actually different here?
Two structural things, not a mural and a toy box: there is no waiting room to sit in, and the whole visit runs about 31 minutes. Most dental anxiety in kids is anticipation, and a short, predictable, identical-every-time visit gives anticipation nowhere to grow. We also never spring treatment on a child mid-visit — anything beyond the checkup is priced, explained, and scheduled first.
What does the $25/month child membership include?
Every cleaning and exam — including the quick ~90-day visits the studio is built around — all routine X-rays, fluoride varnish at every visit, and 15–25% off everything else on the founding fee schedule. A typical year of kids’ prevention runs about $430 at published fees; the plan is $300 a year and includes all of it.
What happens if you find a cavity?
You hear it from the dentist the same visit, in plain language, with the written price: white fillings run $175–$295 depending on the tooth and surfaces, $140–$236 for members. Then the filling gets its own short visit. We don’t extend a checkup into treatment a child didn’t walk in expecting.
Can we come after school or on a weekend?
That’s the core of the model: 7am–7pm, seven days, walk-in first. Check the live wait time and come when the family calendar allows. We open September 2026 in the Ponte Vedra–Nocatee corridor — the waitlist gets first access and hears the address first.
Do you take dental insurance for kids?
We open fee-for-service with the membership as the engine, and we file out-of-network claims for you where your plan allows. Credentialing with Delta Dental FL, Cigna, MetLife, and Humana is filed the day our lease signs and typically takes 90–150 days. For most kids’ prevention, the $25/month plan beats typical PPO math anyway — no deductibles, no waiting periods, no claim denials.
Kids dentistry near you
Come in when it works for you.
We open September 2026 in the Ponte Vedra–Nocatee corridor. Founding members lock $29/month for life — cleanings, exams, X-rays, and a whitening touch-up with every visit.