At Palencia Dental, our dental offices top priorty is your smile. Our team is led by Dr. Stephanie Kinsey who has been practicing dentistry for more than 20 years. Our dentist office, conveniently located at Palencia in St Augustine has the technology and expertise to perform a wide range of dental treatments and procedures. Our patient-centered philosophy earned us the placement in the Top Dentists for Best of Jacksonville 2014.

While there might be competent dentists in the local area, Palencia Dental is the cosmetic dental office that is dedicated to providing you with a thoughtful and safe environment. Our dentist and office staff is committed to making sure that receive a personalized level of dental care that meets our high standards of excellence.

Good dental health is about the overall well-being and we believe in a holistic approach to dental care. Our team of experienced professionals will work together to create a road map for your long term dental health that includes not just what you need, but also takes into consideration what you want. The treatment you will receive at our dentist office is probably not like any experience you have had in the past.

There are many people who cannot begin to fathom having an experience at a dental office that isnt dreadful. At Palencia Dental, our qualified team of experienced professionals are focused on treating you as an individual. This can allow us to better understand how to help put you at ease and to help you reach your dental goals for the specific procedure. To learn about how our team can help you have a positive experience, you canmeet Dr. Kinseyandmeet the Palencia Dental team. We are here to serve you with compassionate and highly skilled dental services.

Cosmetic Dentist Dr. Stephanie Kinsey knew she wanted to be a dentist since the age of 6. Thats when she saw Hermey the Elfs heroism in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. A precocious child, she didnt wait until dental school to start practicingshe helped classmates pull their loose teeth!

In dentistry, as in many professions, there are some lessons that only practice can teach. Dr. Kinsey has learned many of these lessons through her 20 years of practice. Since 2005, she has been serving patients in Florida, and shes built Palencia Dental into one of the most recognized and respected practices in the state. From Jacksonville to St. Augustine, Dr. Kinsey has been recognized for the quality of dentistry she offers.

Cosmetic Dentist Dr. Kinsey also understands that dentistry is an art, especially cosmetic dentistry. She has trained with some of the top talents in the nation, attending ongoing education at the Las Vegas Institute for Advanced Dental Studies, the leading institution for cosmetic and neuromuscular dentistry in the country. Due to her extensive training here, she was named an LVI Fellow, an honor few dentists achieve.

She has learned how to achieve smiles that are not only beautiful, theyre functional as well, creating balanced bites to resolve temporomandibular joint disorders (TMJ) and related symptoms like headaches. She has also learned how to treat sleep apnea and snoring so that patients and their families can enjoy deep, restorative sleep at night.

She has also learned how interconnected the appearance of the smile and the rest of the face are, and has expanded her dental practice to offer complementary aesthetic treatments like injectables, laser therapy, scar removal, and more.

Dr. Kinsey remains active in the professional organizations that establish and promote the highest standards of dental practice. She also seeks ongoing training to continue improving her dental expertise. The organizations and institutions where she maintains associations include:

Carestream is a cone-beam CT scanner. This dental technology allows us to construct 3D digital models of your teeth and jaw for precise planning of procedures like dental implants. The machine delivers just a tiny fraction of the radiation that a medical CT scanner uses, and the open design makes it more comfortable for you to use. Plus, it can provide even more detailed images of the small areas we focus on.

Invisalign is a computerized alternative to traditional braces. Instead of metal brackets and wires, it uses a computer-designed sequence of clear plastic aligners to move your teeth into place. Based on the data from previous patients, Invisalign is constantly being refined, and the process is faster, more accurate, and more reliable than ever.

T-Scan is a detailed digital bite measurement dental technology. It can precisely track not only how much force each of your teeth experiences when you bite down, but can track it in realtime, allowing us to see if any of your teeth experience elevated transient force. This helps us track the health of your bite and ensure that all our restorations promote a healthy, balanced bite.

One potential cause of sleep apnea is that you have an airway which is narrow and prone to collapse. Your airway and jaw form together, so reshaping your jaw can expand your airway, which will improve your ability to breathe. This is what the DNA (Daytime Nighttime Appliance) does: it encourages expansion of your jaw and therefore your airway. It can reduce or eliminate your sleep apnea. That means freedom not just from CPAP, but even from oral appliances in the future.

MicrO2 is an advanced oral appliance for treating sleep apnea. It is designed for comfort, with its low profile, easy adjustment, and contoured borders. It even offers more room for your tongue so your mouth wont feel so crowded. Plus, the digital design protocols improve the accuracy of the appliance for a more precise, comfortable fit.

Gum disease is a threat not just to your teeth, but also to your overall health, increasing your risk of many serious health conditions. PerioProtect is a treatment that supplements your normal oral hygiene to target persistent gum disease and help you fight back this chronic inflammatory condition. Fitted trays similar to teeth whitening trays deliver medication just where you need it, to your gums.

Dental implants are very similar to natural teeth roots, but theyre stronger, so we dont need a full set of dental implants to replace your teeth. Thanks to advanced engineering, All-on-4 can replace an entire arch of teeth with just four dental implants. This not only saves money and makes for a more streamlined procedure, it means you can get a full set of teeth in just one day.

Traditional dentures are made in a way that can worsen and accelerate the impact of aging on your face. New You Dentures use neuromuscular principles to improve denture fit. Not only are these dentures secure and comfortable, they rejuvenate your facial appearance, taking as much as a decade off your appearance.

Another cause of snoring and sleep apnea is loose, saggy tissue in your mouth and throat. Nightlases uses a low-powered laser to encourage your body to grow more supportive fibrous tissue. With just 1-3 30 minute sessions, you could see a permanent reduction or even elimination of snoring.

Fotona is a versatile laser. Not only is it the laser we use for Nightlase, its also capable of performing many skin treatments to smooth and rejuvenate your appearance. It can even remove tattoos and reduce the appearance of scars.

Myotronics is an essential complement to T-Scan. While the T-Scan dental technology tells us precisely what bite forces your teeth create, the K-7 lets us see how your body is creating those forces. It tracks the sound of your jaw joint, the precise path followed by your jaw as it opens and closes, and the tension in your muscles. This helps us treat bite conditions like TMJ, but also helps us ensure each restoration is precisely fitted from its cusp all the way back to your jaw joint and muscles.

This is an injectionless anesthesia system for dentistry. It lets us deliver anesthesia precisely between your teeth and gums to anesthetize just the tooth or teeth were working on. No more dealing with sagging lips, loose cheeks, and an unresponsive tongue. We will only numb the areas we want to treat.