If your week already takes you along Lakeland Drive between the Interstate 55 interchange and the Rankin County line, this practice is barely a detour. Lakeland Dental Care sits at 11 Lakeland Circle in Jackson's 39216 ZIP, a turn off the main road near LeFleur's Bluff, which puts it within easy reach of the medical district and Fondren as well as anyone driving in from Flowood or Brandon on the same route. What it does not suit is a Friday problem, because the office runs Monday through Thursday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., and then closes for a three-day weekend.
The implant program is the reason to look closely. Dr. Brad Malley places implants in-house rather than sending the surgical stage to a specialist, and planning starts from a cone beam scan instead of a flat film. That distinction matters more than it sounds. A cone beam produces a volumetric image, so bone height and width, the path of the nerve canal and the floor of the maxillary sinus can all be measured before anything is drilled, and the fixture's angle is chosen on data rather than judgment. Keeping surgery and restoration under one roof also removes a handoff between offices and keeps one set of records. It does not compress the biology, though. Bone still needs several months to integrate with the fixture before it can carry a chewing load, and if the scan shows thin bone, grafting comes first and pushes the timeline further out.
Alongside that sits a full general practice: checkups and cleanings, gum disease treatment, fillings, CEREC same-day crowns milled on site, digital impressions in place of putty trays, dentures, veneers, whitening, Invisalign and TMJ therapy. Dr. Alex Abernathy shares the general caseload, so there are two dentists to schedule around rather than one.
For adults who have avoided dentistry long enough that the avoidance itself became the problem, sedation is on offer here, and the surgical and restorative sides of the practice both work around it. Emergency space is protected inside the four-day week too. Call early in the day for those, since same-day slots are finite and a Thursday afternoon call is a gamble.
