The same faces every visit. That is the whole point of a small practice, and it is why the booking page lets you ask for a person by name rather than just a slot.
These portraits are AI-generated and these seven people do not exist. Nobody real is pictured here. Putting a made-up license and career on a real person's face is not something a design exercise gets to do — and on a medical site the invention would be a credential.
Both do general dentistry; between them they cover everything this practice does in-house.
General and children's dentistry · 14 years in practice
Did her residency in a hospital pediatric clinic, which is where she learned that the appointment starts in the waiting room, not the chair. Sees most of the practice's under-tens and is the person who will get on the floor to do it.
Will absolutely let a nervous six-year-old count her teeth first.
Restorative work, crowns and bridges · 31 years in practice
Opened the practice on Tulip Street in 1995 and has replaced roughly nine thousand fillings since. Slow, extremely thorough, and will always tell you when something can safely be watched for another year rather than drilled today.
Has never once used the phrase 'while we're in there'.
Where most of your appointments actually happen. All three place sealants and all three are gentle — ask for whoever you got on with.
Periodontal care and anxious adults · 12 years in practice
Specializes in the patients who have not been to a dentist in a decade and are braced for a lecture. Does not give the lecture. Books longer appointments on purpose so nobody has to feel hurried.
Keeps a hand-signal agreement with every patient: raise a hand and she stops.
Cleanings, sealants and whitening · 8 years in practice
Fastest gentle hands in the building. Also the one who redesigned the practice's recall reminders so they say what the appointment is for rather than just 'you are due'.
Genuinely enthusiastic about floss picks for anyone who will not use string.
Children's cleanings and sealants · 5 years in practice
Came to hygiene from teaching, which shows: he explains what every instrument does before it goes anywhere near a mouth, and children stop being frightened of the little mirror about four seconds later.
Has a running competition with himself for most sealants placed without a wiggle.
The two who make the rest of it work: insurance, scheduling, and the cancellation list.
Insurance, billing and the schedule · 17 years in practice
Knows every plan in west Michigan and what it actually covers, as opposed to what the card says. If a treatment plan is going to cost more than you expected, she will tell you before it happens, not after.
Will fight your insurer on the phone so you do not have to.
Scheduling and new patients · 4 years in practice
The voice on the phone. Holds the cancellation list, which is how most people get in sooner than the website says, and is unreasonably good at remembering which patients hate morning appointments.
Keeps the good stickers behind the desk. Adults may also have one.
The booking page starts with the reason you are coming and then shows you the people who can help with it — a toothache goes to a dentist, a clean goes to a hygienist. You will not be offered an appointment we would have to ring you back to undo.