Kids’ dentistry for families who schedule around hospital shifts, not around dentists.
San Marco raises kids on a compressed clock. A lot of the neighborhood works at Baptist or downtown, trades shifts, and plans family logistics in whatever windows survive — early mornings before the Square wakes up, odd weekday gaps, Sundays. The classic dental office, open 8-to-4 Monday through Thursday, is almost comically misaligned with that life: it asks the one parent whose day off finally landed to spend it in a waiting room on Hendricks Avenue.
Our studio inverts the arrangement. Hours run 7am to 7pm, all seven days, and walk-in is the primary path — you check the live wait time, come when your shift pattern allows, and your child is in a chair minutes after tapping the kiosk. The visit itself is choreographed to about 31 minutes: cleaning and fluoride by the hygienist, X-rays only when actually due, the dentist arriving at the staged moment for the exam. Clinical families tend to appreciate the design logic — it’s bed management applied to dentistry, with the dentist treated as the constrained resource.
Pricing follows the same discipline: the founding fee schedule is public before we open — $79 child cleaning, $60 exam, $45 fluoride, fillings $175–$295 quoted in writing first — and the $25/month child plan covers the routine year entirely. We open September 2026 in the Ponte Vedra–Nocatee corridor, a straight highway run south from San Marco; the Founding 500 waitlist gets the address first.
Why this works from here
- A single southbound highway run from the San Marco Square area — I-95 to the 9B/CR-210 corridor, against most morning traffic
- True 7am and Sunday availability — built for Baptist-side shift schedules, not banker’s hours
- The visit design will read familiar to clinical households: staged prep, a protected provider window, throughput measured and published
Questions, answered plainly
Both parents work shifts at Baptist. Are 7am kids’ visits actually real?
Real and fully staffed — 7am is a working clinical hour every day of the week, not a soft open. Post-night-shift drop-off on the way home, or pre-day-shift at 7 sharp: either direction works, and early mornings historically carry the shortest walk-in waits.
How far is the studio from San Marco, honestly?
It’s a genuine drive — we’ll be in the Ponte Vedra–Nocatee corridor, reached by a straight I-95-to-9B run south. No one from Hendricks Avenue will stumble onto us by accident. The trade: a ~31-minute visit, seven-day access, and published prices, which for most families beats a closer office with a waiting room and a quote-later policy.
Why not just use a pediatric office downtown or by the hospital?
If its hours fit your shifts, do — proximity is worth a lot with kids. Our different offer is structural: walk-in-first flow, weekend and 7am access, fluoride included at every child-member visit, and a fee schedule you can read tonight. It’s a model choice, not a quality claim about anyone else.
What does the $25/month child plan cover, in concrete terms?
Every cleaning and exam including the quick ~90-day recalls, all routine X-rays, fluoride varnish at every single visit, and 15–25% off anything else on the schedule — sealants at $44 a tooth instead of $55, fillings $140–$236 instead of $175–$295. The pay-per-visit equivalent of a routine year is about $433; the plan is $300.
Can a checkup really stay inside 31 minutes with an anxious kid?
The 31 minutes is our published average target, not a stopwatch on your child. The structure is what calms most kids — no waiting room, the same sequence every time, treatment never sprung mid-visit. A child who needs more time gets it; a child who needs sedation-level care gets a straight referral to a pediatric specialist instead of a forced fit.
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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.