Dentists in Sherman Oaks, CA: Local Guide

Quick answer: Sherman Oaks, CA has 139 dental practices in the Dental.me directory. 65 are rated on Google, averaging 4.73★ across 5,410 reviews. Top by independent Dental.me Score: Corazon Rabonza, Sherman Oaks Dental – Mark J. Fotovat DDS, SADIGHIM SOLEYMANI DENTAL PROFESSIONAL CORPORATION. Compare them below and shortlist two or three near you to call.

Sherman Oaks is not a big-city dental market pretending to be small — it is a genuinely dense one packed into a few walkable stretches of Ventura Boulevard. Our data counts 139 practices inside this single San Fernando Valley neighborhood, yet only 65 of them have accumulated enough Google reviews to be rated at all. That gap is the whole story here. In most towns the challenge is that there are too few dentists; in Sherman Oaks the challenge is telling the established offices apart from the dozens of quiet, low-profile suites that share the same block.

Everything below is drawn from what we have across those practices: 5,410 Google reviews, an average rating of 4.73, and a specialty mix that leans unmistakably toward appearance-driven care. Use this as a filter, not a phone book. The Sherman Oaks dentist hub holds the full ranked list — this guide explains how to read it.

What the numbers actually say about this neighborhood

Two figures define Sherman Oaks and set it apart from almost every other Valley community we track. First, fewer than half of the local practices carry a rating — 65 of 139. Second, only 55 practices publish a working website. Put those together and roughly six in ten offices here give a prospective patient almost nothing to evaluate before they walk in. When discovery is that thin, a directory earns its keep by surfacing the practices that have actually built a track record.

Why is coverage so thin in a neighborhood this affluent? Density is the answer. Sherman Oaks packs its dental supply into a narrow commercial spine along Ventura Boulevard and the streets feeding it, where general practices, single-operator suites, and specialist offices sit door to door. That crowding creates a lot of small, competing practices — and small practices accumulate reviews slowly. The result is a market where headcount is high but public reputation is unevenly built, so two offices on the same block can look identical from the sidewalk while one has a decade of documented review history and the other has almost none. The directory’s job is to make that invisible difference visible.

The counter-intuitive takeaway: a low review total in Sherman Oaks is normal, not a warning. With 5,410 reviews spread across 65 rated practices, the typical office here has a modest but real footprint. A handful of standouts — led by Corazon Rabonza with more than 1,100 reviews at a perfect 5.0 — carry an outsized share of the neighborhood’s feedback. Everyone else is judged on smaller, more personal sample sizes, which is exactly how a neighborhood practice earns its reputation.

Quality is concentrated, not spread thin

Here is the encouraging half of the picture. Of the 65 rated practices, 48 sit at 4.8 stars or higher. That is nearly three-quarters of the rated field clustered at the top of the scale. Sherman Oaks does not have a long tail of mediocre offices dragging the average down; it has a small group of underperformers and a large, tight band of excellent ones.

What does that mean when you are choosing? It means the star rating alone will not separate the field — too many practices share the same 4.9 or 5.0. In Sherman Oaks the tie-breakers are review volume (how many reviews back that rating) and specialty fit (whether the office actually does the procedure you need). Two offices at 5.0 stars are not equal when one has 1,148 reviews and the other has 40.

A cosmetic-leaning market — and where that leaves everyone else

Look at what Sherman Oaks dentists advertise and a clear personality emerges. The most common capabilities across the neighborhood are teeth whitening (27 practices), dental implants (26), and cosmetic dentistry (25). This is a market shaped by an appearance-conscious, camera-adjacent clientele — roughly one in five local offices positions itself around smile aesthetics.

The flip side matters just as much. Emergency dentists number only nine, pediatric dentists eleven, and oral surgeons just six. If your need is urgent, family-oriented, or surgical rather than cosmetic, the field narrows sharply — and you should plan around that scarcity rather than assume a whitening-heavy neighborhood will have same-day emergency capacity on demand. Parents and anyone facing an extraction will want to confirm coverage before they need it, not after.

The practices that have earned the most trust

These are the Sherman Oaks offices with the deepest track records in our data. Every name and number below is real — ratings and review counts pulled directly from Google reviews, not editorial opinion.

• Corazon Rabonza — 5.0 stars across 1,148 reviews, by a wide margin the most-reviewed practice in the neighborhood.
• Ron Nourian, DDS — 4.9 stars, 494 reviews.
• Sherman Oaks Dental — Mark J. Fotovat DDS — a perfect 5.0 across 455 reviews.
• Harold Perlaza, DDS — 4.9 stars, 281 reviews.
• Sadighim Soleymani Dental — 5.0 stars, 256 reviews.
• Raffi Barsam — 4.9 stars, 202 reviews.

Notice the spread of review counts — from Rabonza’s 1,148 down to the low 200s. In a market this compact that range is your single most useful signal. A 5.0 rating tells you no one has been badly let down; the review count tells you how many people have tested that promise. It is worth stressing that even the smallest number on this list, Raffi Barsam’s 202 reviews, would be a strong showing in most towns. These six practices are not merely the best of a weak field — they are genuinely well-established offices that happen to sit at the top of an already high-scoring neighborhood. When four of the six carry a perfect or near-perfect rating across hundreds of reviews each, the safe move is to shortlist from this group first and only look wider if none of them offers the specific procedure or scheduling you need.

How to actually choose here

Because star ratings bunch at the top in Sherman Oaks, a simple three-filter approach works better than scanning stars. Run every candidate through these in order.

Filter one, specialty fit. Start from the service you need, not the nearest office. If you want implants, begin with the 26 practices that do them; for a child’s first visit, start with the eleven pediatric offices. Sherman Oaks rewards this because its strengths (cosmetic, implants, whitening) and its scarcities (emergency, surgical, pediatric) are so unevenly distributed.

Filter two, review depth. With so many practices tied on stars, use volume to break the tie. A 4.9 backed by 494 reviews is a far stronger signal than a 5.0 backed by a dozen. Weight the number of voices, not just the average.

Filter three, access. Since only 55 local offices publish a website, a practice that lists real hours, an emergency policy, and online booking has already cleared a bar most of its neighbors have not. Confirm the practical details before you commit — and for cost expectations across procedures, read our national guide to dental costs so the estimate you get in the chair has context.

Looking just beyond Sherman Oaks

Sherman Oaks sits in the heart of the San Fernando Valley, which means several strong dental markets are only a short drive away. If your specialty is one of the scarce ones here — emergency, oral surgery, pediatric — widening the search by a few miles often pays off. Compare nearby coverage in Encino, Van Nuys, Reseda, Lake Balboa, North Hills, and Panorama City. Each has its own ranked directory built the same way this one is.

When you are ready to see the full, sortable list of every rated practice — filtered by specialty, review depth, and rating — the Sherman Oaks dentist directory is the place to start. And if you want to understand exactly how we score and order these practices, our ranking methodology lays out every input.

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