Dentistry for Lake Forest

We are four minutes from western Lake Forest, straight up El Toro Road. For a lot of Lake Forest families we are closer than the practice they are currently driving to, and that turns out to matter more than anything else on this page.

Why the drive is the point

Lake Forest households are the largest in this part of Orange County, averaging 2.81 people. That is rarely one person booking one appointment. It is a parent trying to get two or three people seen without losing a whole day, usually in the narrow gap between school pick-up and dinner.

Children and teenagers

Roughly a fifth of Lake Forest is under eighteen, and the whole city sits in one school district, so the calendar is the same for everybody. We work around it rather than against it.

• 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
• Wisdom teeth, assessed properly before anyone suggests removing them
• Knocked-out and broken teeth. A city with a 62,000 square foot skatepark and an 86 acre sports park generates dental emergencies. If a tooth is knocked out, keep it in milk and call us immediately, because the first hour genuinely decides the outcome

Parents, and grandparents

Lake Forest is not only young. Around one in seven residents is over sixty-five, which is a larger number of older adults than several neighbouring cities have in total. That work is a real part of what we do.

• Dental implants, including All-on-4 and full-arch treatment
• Dentures, relines and implant-secured dentures
• Periodontal care, which is what decides whether teeth are kept into later life
• Repairing crowns, bridges and fillings placed decades ago that are failing at the edges

Dr. Nojan Jahedmanesh holds a certificate in prosthodontics from UCLA, the area of dentistry concerned with replacing missing teeth. It is the training that matters most for implant and denture work, and most general dentists do not have it.

There is fuller detail on our general dentistry, orthodontics and dental implants pages.

New to Lake Forest

If you have just moved into The Meadows or Baker Ranch and have not found a dentist yet, come in for a proper first visit rather than an emergency one. We will take a full set of records, tell you honestly what needs attention now and what does not, and you will have somewhere to call before something goes wrong at nine o’clock on a Sunday.

Insurance and cost

We accept most PPO dental plans. Before any treatment beyond a routine visit you will get a written estimate showing what your plan is expected to pay and what it leaves you. Nobody in your family should be starting treatment without seeing that first.