Emergency dentists in Palo Alto, CA
Emergency dentists in Palo Alto, 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.
- 10 practices that say they take dental emergencies in Palo Alto have a profile; 4 pass all four verified fields.
- For 6 of the 10, 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.
Branimir Vatavuk DDS
Dr. Denise M. Henderson, DDS
Dr. Shachi Bahl, DMD
K. Scheel, DDS Inc
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 Palo Alto: 10 practices have a SmilesAtlas profile; for scale, the NPI registry lists 163 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, 6 say on their own website that they offer emergency or same-day care, and 3 do both.
Pediatric dentistry practices on this list: Dr. Christian K. Lee, DDS, Ms.
10 post hours on Google. Saturday hours: none listed. 0 stay open until 6pm or later on at least one weekday.
1 names accepted insurance on its own website; none names Medicaid or CHIP.
Languages other than English named by these practices: Spanish (1).
ZIP codes covered: 94301, 94306.
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 | 163 |
| Practices with a SmilesAtlas profile | 10 |
| Practices passing all four verified fields | 4 |
| Matched dentist's license listed as active by the board | 6 |
| Matched dentist's license listed with another status | 2 |
| No dentist matched by license number | 2 |
| Practice ZIP matches its Google listing | 8 |
| Hours posted on the Google listing | 10 |
| Saturday hours posted | 0 |
| Sunday hours posted | 0 |
| Open until 6pm or later on a weekday | 0 |
| Name accepted insurance on their own website | 1 |
| Name Medicaid or CHIP on their own website | 0 |
| Say they accept new patients | 0 |
| Name a language other than English | 1 |
| No DSO or group signal found | 10 |
| DSO or corporate-affiliation signal | 0 |
| Group-affiliation signal | 0 |
| ZIP codes with a profiled practice | 2 |
| Say on their own website they offer emergency or same-day care | 6 |
| Google listing carries the category “Emergency dental service” | 7 |
| Both: own website and Google category | 3 |
| 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) | 1 |
Our data
Contribution: derived analysis, downloadable dataset
- Collected: 10 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.