About the practice
A pediatric office that actually likes kids.
Two pediatric dentists, four hygienists, six chairs, and a waiting room with books your kid will actually read. Same office on Maple since 2011, roughly 4,200 active patients between newborns and 17-year-olds.
How a visit runs
Three rules we don’t bend.
The dentist comes into the room at the start, not the end. The hygienist explains every tool to the kid before it touches their teeth. Parents stay in the room unless the kid prefers otherwise.
Dentist first, not last
Dr. Chen or Dr. Reid is in the room before the cleaning starts. No surprise faces at the end.
Every tool, explained
The hygienist shows the kid the suction, the mirror, and the polisher before they touch a tooth.
Breaks are normal
If your kid needs to stop, we stop. We don’t push through and we don’t pretend it didn’t happen.
What we won’t do
No upgrades. No upsells.
We don’t sell whitening to ten-year-olds. We don’t recommend treatment we wouldn’t recommend for our own kids. We don’t keep a kid in the chair past the point of usefulness. First visits get a 45-minute slot on purpose — they don’t run through a 30-minute window.
If the cavity is small and the tooth is going to fall out in eight months, we’ll usually tell you to watch it instead of drilling it. That’s the call we’d make for our own kids.
The neighborhood
Where to find us.
248 Maple Street, Suite 2B. Free parking in the back lot, bus route 14 stops a block north, and a playground two doors down for the after-visit reward.
Inside the office
Six chairs, two dentists, one quiet room.
The waiting area has actual books, low lighting, and no TV. The treatment rooms are sized for a parent plus a kid plus a hygienist without anyone feeling boxed in. We rebuilt the space in 2019 and have kept it the same since — kids who came in at five recognize it when they come back at twelve.