Dentistry for Aliso Viejo

We are about nine minutes from Aliso Viejo, up Aliso Creek Road and Aliso Viejo Parkway, then Laguna Hills Drive. No freeway at any point. For most people in Aliso Viejo the obstacle to seeing a dentist was never the drive. It is finding an hour that does not cost half a working day.

Appointments that fit around work

Aliso Viejo is the youngest city in this part of the county and one of the most employed. If your day starts at one of the offices on Pacific Park or Enterprise, at MicroVention, Glaukos or UPS, a midday dental appointment means telling someone you will be gone for two hours.

One trip for the whole family

Aliso Viejo has the highest share of children of any city near us, close to a quarter of the population. Almost nobody books one appointment. They book three and try to fit them into an afternoon.

• Cleanings and checkups for everyone in the same visit, in consecutive chairs where we can
• Sealants and preventive care for children, which is the cheapest dentistry you will ever pay for
• Orthodontic assessment for teenagers, and treatment when the timing is right rather than as early as possible
• Same-day help when someone breaks a tooth, which never happens at a convenient hour

Cosmetic work, honestly assessed

A lot of what we are asked for from Aliso Viejo is cosmetic, and a lot of it turns out not to need what the patient came in asking for. Someone arrives wanting veneers and actually needs whitening and one composite repair, at a fraction of the cost and with none of the tooth removed.

• Professional whitening, which is where most people should start
• Composite bonding and reshaping, which is reversible and far less invasive than veneers
• Porcelain veneers when they are genuinely the right answer
• Clear aligners for adults who were never treated as teenagers, or whose teeth have shifted since

You will get told plainly which of those you actually need. There is more on our cosmetic dentistry, orthodontics and general dentistry pages.

If you have just moved here

More than four in ten homes in Aliso Viejo are rented, which means a lot of people arrive without a dentist and only start looking when something hurts. Come in for an ordinary first visit instead. We will take a full set of records, tell you what needs attention now and what does not, and then you have somewhere to call before it becomes an emergency on a Saturday.

Insurance and cost

We accept most PPO dental plans. For anything beyond a routine visit you get a written estimate first, itemized, showing what your plan is expected to pay and what it leaves you. That applies to cosmetic work too, where the gap between plans is widest.