
Dr. Makaela Manner
University of Florida, 2009. Naples High School before that. She spent nine years as an associate and opened Harbor Dental in 2018, in the town she grew up in.

However long it has been since the last visit, that is where the conversation starts and it is not where it stays.
A tide clock asks one question — how long until the water is back. It has no way to record how long the water was gone. That is the whole idea of this practice, in the practice’s own words: a no judgement zone.


Harbor Dental has been dentist-owned since it opened in 2018. The person treating you owns the practice, so the plan you are given is the plan she thinks you need. That is the whole of it.
Dr. Makaela Manner, DMD · licensed 2009
Dr. Kendra Cruz, DDS · licensed 2024
Both numbers were checked against the Florida register on 2026-09-05 rather than taken from the practice’s own biography. A dentist-owned practice can put its registration on the page.

University of Florida, 2009. Naples High School before that. She spent nine years as an associate and opened Harbor Dental in 2018, in the town she grew up in.

University of Tennessee Health Science Center. Raised in Sarasota, Cuban-American, and she sees patients in English and Spanish.
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“No judgement zone”
However long it has been since the last visit, that is where the conversation starts and it is not where it stays.
“Pain-free and comfortable”
The practice states this as its aim in its own words, on its own site.
“Every smile is unique like a fingerprint”
Which is their way of saying there is no standard plan waiting for you before you walk in.
Dr. Cruz sees patients in English and Spanish. She was raised in Sarasota and is Cuban-American; she trained at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center.
