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Dr. Ross Bennett resides in Cape Girardeau and enjoys spending time with his wife, Jocey, and their five children. Dr. Ross Bennett graduated dental school from the University of Missouri Kansas City and graduated with his MBA from William Woods University. After graduating from Cape Central High School, Dr. Ross was drafted by the Montreal Expos (now the Washington Nationals) to play professional baseball. He turned down the offer and was later honored to be named 1st Team Academic All-American as well as 1st Team All Big XII Conference while playing baseball at Baylor University in the Big XII Conference. In 2004, Dr. Ross was inducted into the Cape Central High School Hall of Fame.
Dr. Ross is one of two dentists in Missouri to win the Golden Apple Award from the American Dental Association. The American Dental Association flew Dr. Bennett to Washington DC to speak to new dentists about leadership and community involvement. Dr. Bennett was also named Top New Dental Leader by the Missouri Dental Association as well. Dr. Ross Bennett was recognized by Invisalign for achieving Platinum status in 2020. He is the first general dentist in Southeast Missouri to achieve this level of expertise. Dr. Ross Bennett also became the first SomnoDent sleep apnea provider in the Southeast Missouri region in 2010.
Bennett Family Dentistry was named Small Business of the Year by the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce. Additionally, residents of the area have voted Bennett Family Dentistry #1 Dental Office in the Southeast Missourians Peoples Choice Awards every year beginning in 2009. Dr. Ross added, The Peoples Choice Award is our favorite award to win. The award is voted on by residents from all over Southeast Missouri and Southern Illinois. We love to care for others and we appreciate our community recognizing our service.
Dr. Ross Bennett is a proud member of the American Dental Association, Missouri Dental Association, and Southeast Dental Society. He has served as President of both the Southeast Dental Society and the Cape Girardeau Dental Study Club. Additionally, Dr. Ross Bennett also teaches courses to other dental professionals for the Missouri Dental Association.
Dr. Ashley Blattner, a native of Kansas City, Missouri, moved to Cape Girardeau in 2013, with her husband, Trevor and their three daughters, Kate, Nora, and Lenna. She enjoys weekends at Kentucky Lake, cooking, traveling, fitness, and volunteer work. Dr. Ashley Blattner graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Dental Hygiene in 2004. She worked as a hygienist for two years in a busy general practice in North Kansas City. Her love for learning and expanding her knowledge in the dental field led her to begin dental school in 2006, at the University of Missouri Kansas City. She was a teaching assistant in her dental operative and local anesthesia courses and was selected to participate in a periodontal honors program during her time at UMKC. She was published in the American Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics her fourth year of dental school, highlighting research she had completed on Cone- beam tomography and intraoral digital radiography for assessment of tooth root lesions.
Upon completion of her doctorate degree, Dr. Ashley Blattner and her husband moved to Baltimore, Maryland where she worked as a general dentist in several different private practices while her husband completed a residency in Endodontics. During her three years in Baltimore, she invested in extensive training at the Spear Education Center on treatment planning, occlusion, full mouth rehab cases, and esthetic dentistry. She strives to bring these areas of expertise into her daily practice by merging function and esthetics to provide the best possible outcome for patients.
Dr. Ashley Blattner enjoys serving the people of Southeast Missouri through her passion for dentistry and her desire to provide a caring environment. She continued her training in esthetic dentistry, and was published in a dental esthetics journal in 2017, highlighting a full mouth rehab case that she completed. She saw a need to extend her treatment to include Botox. In 2018, she became certified through the American Association of Facial Esthetics. She now offers Botox therapy for TMJ Syndrome, headaches, facial pain, hyperplastic lip lines, and total facial esthetics to compliment an attractive smile.
Dr. Blake Essner was born and raised in Kelso, Missouri. After graduating from Notre Dame Regional High School in 2005, he attended Southeast Missouri State University where he received a Bachelors Degree in Biomedical Science with a minor in Chemistry. He then moved on to receive his Doctor of Dental Surgery (DDS) degree from the University of Missouri-Kansas City in 2014. After dental school, Dr. Blake and his wife Christina moved back to Southeast Missouri where he practiced Dentistry at a Federally Qualified Health Center for a year before joining Bennett Family Dentistry in April of 2015.
Dr. Blake was excited to join Bennett Family Dentistry where he has been a patient himself for over 20 years. He is very passionate about both preventative and cosmetic dentistry, and his favorite part about his job is synergizing dentistry, artistry, and modern technology to give patients the smile theyve always wanted. He strives to do high quality work while maximizing patient comfort and promoting a positive dental experience.