Emergency dentists in Chico, CA
Emergency dentists in Chico, California: general and pediatric practices whose own website or Google listing says they take emergency, same-day or walk-in patients, checked against the Dental Board of California license roster, the NPI registry, their Google listing and their own website.
- 8 practices that say they take dental emergencies in Chico have a profile; 6 pass all four verified fields.
- For 7 of the 8, 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 Sunday hours: 0. Practices naming a payment plan or financing on their own website: 0.
Verified practices
All four verified fields pass. Listed A to Z; the order is not a ranking.
Kremer Dental Care -- Philadelphia Square
Kremer Dental Care Glenbrook
Steven C. Crowson, DMD
Tk Nguyen Dental Corporation
Western Dental & Orthodontics
What the records show
This page counts general and pediatric dental practices whose own website or Google listing says they take emergency, same-day or walk-in patients, with a practice address in Chico: 8 practices have a SmilesAtlas profile; for scale, the NPI registry lists 133 general and pediatric dentist NPI records in the city.
Where the emergency signal comes from: 7 carry Google's “Emergency dental service” category on their listing, 2 say on their own website that they offer emergency or same-day care, and 1 does both.
8 post hours on Google. Saturday hours: Western Dental & Orthodontics. 3 stay open until 6pm or later on at least one weekday.
0 name accepted insurance on their own websites; none names Medicaid or CHIP. That usually means the practice websites do not list plans, not that the practices take none.
ZIP codes covered: 95926, 95928, 95973.
A listing category or a line on a practice's website says the practice takes emergencies; it does not say it has an opening today, so call before you go.
| Figure | Count |
|---|---|
| General and pediatric dentist NPI records in the city | 133 |
| Practices with a SmilesAtlas profile | 8 |
| Practices passing all four verified fields | 6 |
| Matched dentist's license listed as active by the board | 7 |
| Matched dentist's license listed with another status | 0 |
| No dentist matched by license number | 1 |
| Practice ZIP matches its Google listing | 7 |
| Hours posted on the Google listing | 8 |
| Saturday hours posted | 1 |
| Sunday hours posted | 0 |
| Open until 6pm or later on a weekday | 3 |
| Name accepted insurance on their own website | 0 |
| Name Medicaid or CHIP on their own website | 0 |
| Say they accept new patients | 0 |
| Name a language other than English | 0 |
| No DSO or group signal found | 6 |
| DSO or corporate-affiliation signal | 2 |
| Group-affiliation signal | 0 |
| ZIP codes with a profiled practice | 3 |
| Say on their own website they offer emergency or same-day care | 2 |
| Google listing carries the category “Emergency dental service” | 7 |
| Both: own website and Google category | 1 |
| Name walk-in visits (own website or Google category “Walk-in clinic”) | 0 |
| Google hours read “Open 24 hours” on at least one day | 0 |
| Name a payment plan or financing on their own website | 0 |
| Pediatric dentistry practices (NPPES taxonomy 1223P0221X) | 0 |
Our data
Contribution: derived analysis, downloadable dataset
- Collected: 8 practices with a SmilesAtlas profile (general and pediatric dental practices whose own website or Google listing says they take emergency, same-day or walk-in patients), 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: 26 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. A practice is listed here when its own website says it takes emergency, same-day or walk-in patients, or its Google listing carries the category “Emergency dental service” or “Walk-in clinic”; either says the practice takes emergencies, not that it has an opening today. A website that names only same-day crowns, implants or appointments does not count. How we verify.
- Reproduce it: download the data as JSON (30 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.