General dentists in Santa Cruz, CA
General dentists with a practice address in Santa Cruz, California, checked against the Dental Board of California license roster, the NPI registry, their Google listing and their own website.
- 27 general dentistry practices in Santa Cruz have a profile; 20 pass all four verified fields.
- For 21 of the 27, the dentist matched by license number is listed as active by the Dental Board of California; the board roster we use does not include disciplinary actions, so check each dentist with the board's license lookup.
- Practices posting Saturday hours: 2. Practices naming accepted insurance on their own website: 1.
Verified practices
All four verified fields pass. Listed A to Z; the order is not a ranking.
Alana K. Thompson DDS Inc.
Angela Kuo Choy DDS Inc
Brent J. Porter, D.D.S., M.S., A P.D.C.
Christie Family Dentistry
Dientes Community Dental Care.
Dr. Randall Medefesser, DDS
E. John Baron, DDS, Inc.
Harbor Dental | Melanie Vandenberg DDS
Larson Don W DDS
Mission Hill Dental -- Flavio Cheng D.M.D
Mohana Awasthi,DDS, Inc.
New Street Dental
Phillip S Zeip DDS
Rick K Smith DDS Inc
Santa Cruz Dental Artists: M. Catalina Payne, DMD
Santa Cruz Dental Care
Santa Cruz Dental Group
Singh Dental Group
Western Dental & Orthodontics
What the records show
This page counts dentists registered under NPPES taxonomy codes 1223G0001X, General Practice, and 122300000X, Dentist, with a practice address in Santa Cruz: 27 practices have a SmilesAtlas profile; for scale, the NPI registry lists 95 NPI records for the same specialty and city.
27 post hours on Google. Saturday hours: Dientes Community Dental Care. and Ismilespa, Inc.. 4 stay open until 6pm or later on at least one weekday.
1 names accepted insurance on its own website; 1 names Medicaid or CHIP: Western Dental & Orthodontics.
Say on their own site that they accept new patients: Santa Cruz Dental Group and Western Dental & Orthodontics.
Languages other than English named by these practices: Spanish (1), Español (1).
ZIP codes covered: 95060, 95062, 95065.
| Figure | Count |
|---|---|
| NPI records with this specialty in the city | 95 |
| Practices with a SmilesAtlas profile | 27 |
| Practices passing all four verified fields | 20 |
| Matched dentist's license listed as active by the board | 21 |
| Matched dentist's license listed with another status | 2 |
| No dentist matched by license number | 4 |
| Practice ZIP matches its Google listing | 26 |
| Hours posted on the Google listing | 27 |
| Saturday hours posted | 2 |
| Sunday hours posted | 0 |
| Open until 6pm or later on a weekday | 4 |
| Name accepted insurance on their own website | 1 |
| Name Medicaid or CHIP on their own website | 1 |
| Say they accept new patients | 2 |
| Name a language other than English | 2 |
| No DSO or group signal found | 25 |
| DSO or corporate-affiliation signal | 1 |
| Group-affiliation signal | 1 |
| ZIP codes with a profiled practice | 3 |
Our data
Contribution: derived analysis, downloadable dataset
- Collected: 27 practices with a SmilesAtlas profile (dentists registered under NPPES taxonomy codes 1223G0001X, General Practice, and 122300000X, Dentist), joined to the NPPES registry, the Dental Board of California license roster, their Google listing and their own website. Observed: NPPES registry file 2026-09-27; Dental Board of California roster 2026-06-10; Google listings 2026-06-07; practice websites read 2026-08-24.
- Published: 19 counts for this page; practice-level facts stay on each practice's profile and on the official sources.
- Computed: 4 derived shares, each with its formula and arithmetic in the dataset.
- Method: a practice is verified when all four fields pass: a dentist at the practice matched by license number and listed as active by the board, an NPI, a practice ZIP matching its Google listing, and one fact the practice publishes itself. Verified means the records match; it is not a rating. How we verify.
- Reproduce it: download the data as JSON (23 rows; license CC BY 4.0).
Other practices on record
These practices have a profile but miss at least one verified field; the tag names the first gap.