Our Team

Together with their highly qualified staff, facial plastic surgeon Dr. Matthew Kienstra and nurse practitioner Melissa Belk provide refined, natural-looking results and patient-focused care to every patient who visits their Springfield office.

Matthew Kienstra, MD, FACS

Dr. Kienstra’s extremely engaging personality and years of extensive training and experience in facial plastic surgery promote a comfortable physician-patient partnership. Voted 417 land’s Top Facial Plastic Surgeon year after year by his colleagues, Dr. Kienstra has over 20 years of experience specializing exclusively in Facial Plastic Surgery.

His extensive facial plastic surgery background includes a prestigious internship and residency at Mayo Clinic and a facial plastic surgery fellowship at the University of Michigan. Dr. Kienstra has been a leader in his community since 2008 and currently serves as Department Chair of Surgical Services at Mercy Hospital.

Dr. Kienstra is a devoted family man. He and his wife reside in Springfield, Missouri and have two beautiful children who they enjoy immensely. “They’re my best work yet,” says Dr. Kienstra. In his free time, Dr. Kienstra enjoys music, travel, and hunting.

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Melissa Belk, NP

Gifted with an aesthetic eye, Missy is a perfectionist with attention for detail - an attribute that her patients appreciate immensely. Raised the daughter of a physician in northern Arkansas, Missy began her nursing career in 1997 and then in 1998 graduated magna cum laude from Missouri State University with a Bachelor’s of Science in Nursing. In 2001 she completed her Master’s of Science in Nursing as a Family Nurse Practitioner earning a perfect 4.0 grade average in her graduate academic career.

Missy began her advanced practice nursing career in Interventional Cardiology at Mercy Hospital in 2001 and continued through 2008 when she joined Dr. Matthew Kienstra and retired physician Dr. Keith LaFerriere in practice.

Missy is married with three children. She is a competitive runner, tri-athlete, and enjoys everything outdoors.

Becca

Medical Aesthetician

Beth

Practice Administrator

Cindy

Surgical Technologist

Danielle

Marketing Director

Jen

Medical Aesthetician

Rikki

RN

Samantha

Patient Consultant

Sarah

RN

Shelley

Certified Medical Assistant

Stacy

Patient Consultant

Suzie

Patient Consultant

Veronica

RN, Nurse Supervisor

We’re here to make your beautiful, happen.