One trip out from Ave Maria, one really good dental day.

Ave Maria plans its trips. So do we.

Ave Maria sits out on its own, east of the rest of Collier County, off Oil Well Road and past Camp Keais Road. Nothing out here is a quick errand. A trip west is a trip you plan, not one you make twice in a week without a reason.

Families who live this way already think in batches: the supply run, the errand, the appointment that has to happen while everyone is already in the car. Your child's dental care can fit the same rhythm. One well-planned visit, with everything lined up ahead of time, beats two half-planned ones. That is the whole idea behind this page.

Your office from Ave Maria

Your office is the Naples location at 1035 Piper Blvd, Suite 103, just off Immokalee Road near I-75. However your family makes its way in from Ave Maria, Immokalee Road is the road that finishes the trip and brings you to our door.

We like to think of the office as the reward at the end of that road. A sixteen-foot whale shark hangs over the treatment bay, a blue whale watches over the lobby, and the S.S. Flossy pirate ship sits ready to board. Take a look at the office before you go, and let your child know what is waiting at the other end of Immokalee Road.

Batch the whole family into one trip

If you are already making the trip in from Ave Maria, make it count for everyone in the car. Booking by phone is built for exactly this kind of planning, and the call is where it happens.

• Ask for back-to-back times. Tell the front desk how many children are coming and their ages, and ask to line up brothers and sisters one after another, so one drive covers the whole family instead of two or three separate trips.
• Fill out forms before you leave home. New patient forms arrive ahead of time, so there is no clipboard scramble at check-in. That piece of the visit is finished before you are back on Immokalee Road.
• Say what each child needs. First visit, routine checkup, a follow-up. Naming it on the phone lets the team build a schedule around your family's actual day, not a generic one.
• Mention anything that helps the day go smoothly. First visit ever, a nervous kid, sensory sensitivities, special healthcare needs, wanting to stay in the room, or that you prefer Spanish. Dr. Torres speaks fluent English and Spanish, and the team prepares before your family arrives.

Your child's health details stay in a conversation with our front desk this way, never typed into a website. It also happens to be the best planning tool a family driving in from out east could ask for.

What the visit itself is like

We keep the play-by-play of an actual visit, from check-in to the last high five, on our what to expect page. It is worth a quick read with your child before the day arrives, especially if this is a first visit or it has been a while.

The short version: gentle, unhurried, and paced to your child, not the clock. That does not change no matter which road brought you in.

The care available, all under one roof

The Naples office provides the full range of pediatric dental care, from first checkups through gentle repairs to the comfort menu for kids who need extra help. Growth and alignment get checked at every routine visit, so if orthodontics ever enters the picture, your family will already know where things stand.

If one of the appointments on your family's day is a first visit for a baby or toddler, infant dental care and the first-birthday visit walks through exactly what a lap exam looks like, so you know what to expect before you are in the room. It is built to sit on the same schedule as an older sibling's cleaning, which is the whole point of batching the day in the first place.

When to start planning

The American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry recommends a first visit by a child's first birthday, or within six months of the first tooth coming in, whichever comes first. For a family already thinking a few weeks ahead, that recommendation is easy to fold into your next planned trip west rather than something to schedule in a hurry later.

Checkups every six months keep little problems little, and once your family has a rhythm with us, that six-month call becomes as routine as the trip itself. One phone number reaches both of our offices, Monday to Friday, 8 to 5, and a real human answers: (239) 482-2722. Tell them you are calling from Ave Maria and ready to plan the whole family's day.