Dentists in Tarzana, CA: Local Guide

Quick answer: Tarzana, CA has 111 dental practices in the Dental.me directory. 56 are rated on Google, averaging 4.6★ across 4,176 reviews. Top by independent Dental.me Score: NOOSHI AKAVAN DDS A PROFESSIONAL CORP, Kahan Orthodontics, Nargiz I. Zadeh, DMD. Compare them below and shortlist two or three near you to call.

Most neighborhood dental markets are built around general family practices, with a specialist or two on the edges. Tarzana is not that market. Of the 111 dental practices mapped inside this Tarzana pocket of the San Fernando Valley, 31 offer dental implants and 22 are periodontists — gum and bone specialists. That is a strikingly high concentration of surgical and restorative expertise for a single Valley neighborhood, and it changes how you should shop for a dentist here. Before you book anything, it helps to understand what kind of dental economy you are walking into.

Here is the shape of it. Across those 111 practices, 56 carry enough Google reviews for us to rate them, and those 56 hold a combined 4,176 reviews at an average rating of 4.6 out of 5. Do that division and something jumps out: roughly 75 reviews per rated practice. Compare that to a big-box suburban market where the leaders each carry a thousand-plus reviews, and Tarzana reads as what it is — a boutique, single-doctor market. Many of the names below are individual dentists, not chains, and several reflect the deep Persian-American professional community that has made Tarzana one of the Valley’s densest clusters of privately owned specialty practices.

One more number is worth sitting with before you start dialing: only 42 of the 111 practices — about 38% — have a website we could verify. In most neighborhoods a missing website is just a mild inconvenience. In a boutique, single-doctor market like this one, it is a real filter. An office with no website is simply harder to research, and you will spend more time on the phone to learn their hours, insurance, and whether they even take new patients. If your time is tight, weighting your shortlist toward the practices with a full online profile is a reasonable shortcut — and it is exactly why a directory that compiles each listing saves you the legwork.

What the specialist density actually means for you

When nearly a third of a neighborhood’s practices do implants and a fifth are dedicated periodontists, it tells you two things. First, if your need is complex — a failing tooth, bone loss, a full-arch restoration, gum disease — Tarzana is an unusually strong place to be, because you can find deep specialty experience within a few blocks rather than being referred across the Valley. Second, and this is the part people miss, a specialist-dense market can push you toward surgical solutions faster than a general-practice-dominated one would. That is not a knock on the dentists here; it is a structural feature of the market. The move is to get a general-dentistry opinion first for routine care, then lean on the specialist depth only when the diagnosis genuinely calls for it.

The specialty breakdown below is worth reading closely, because it is the single most distinctive thing about dentistry in Tarzana.

Notice the gold bars: implants, periodontists, endodontists, oral surgeons. Stacked together, they describe a market oriented toward saving, replacing, and restoring teeth — not just cleaning them. If that is your situation, start with the Tarzana dental implants directory or the Tarzana periodontists page. If you are shopping for cosmetics or straightening, the cosmetic dentists and Invisalign providers lists are the faster route. Families with young kids should note the thinner supply — only 10 pediatric dentists — which means booking further ahead.

Reading the ratings without being fooled by them

A 4.6 neighborhood average sounds uniformly excellent, but averages hide the spread. Here is how Tarzana’s 56 rated practices actually distribute across rating tiers.

The headline: 34 of the 56 rated practices — more than 60% — sit at 4.8 or above. That top tier is where you should concentrate your shortlist. The 5 practices under 4.0 are not automatically disqualified, but they are the ones to read the actual review text on before booking, not just the star number. And remember the 55 practices with too few reviews to rate at all: a brand-new specialist can be excellent, but you are trading a track record for a gamble, so weigh that against your risk tolerance and how complex your treatment is.

The practices with the highest Google ratings in Tarzana

These are the review leaders on Dental.me right now — real practices, real counts, no ranking-for-pay games. They span exactly the specialties the market is known for: endodontics, orthodontics, implants, and restorative general care. Note the pattern in the review counts — the top six range from roughly 250 to under 400 reviews, none of them in the four-figure territory you would see from a chain. That is the boutique market showing up again: in Tarzana, a practice with 300 glowing reviews is a genuine local heavyweight, and the quality of the individual dentist tends to matter more than the size of the office behind them.

• Nooshi Akavan DDS, A Professional Corp — 5.0 stars across 373 reviews, the highest-rated volume leader in the neighborhood.
• Kahan Orthodontics — a 5.0 rating over 330 reviews, the standout for braces and aligners.
• LA Endodontics – Dr. Gabreal Shamtoub DDS — 4.9 stars over 326 reviews; the go-to name here for root canal work.
• Nargiz I. Zadeh, DMD — 5.0 stars across 293 reviews.
• Sooferi & Sooferian Dental Practice Inc — 4.9 stars over 273 reviews.
• Anoosheh Shahkarami DDS Inc — 4.9 stars across 258 reviews.

See the full ranked list, with hours, specialties, and every Google reviews, on the Tarzana dentist hub.

When it’s an emergency

Tarzana lists 13 emergency dentists — a middling number for a neighborhood this size, and one that matters at 9pm on a Sunday when a crown pops off or a molar starts throbbing. The practical reality of a same-day appointment is that availability beats reputation: the 4.9-star office three miles away does you no good if it cannot see you today. Keep a two-name backup ready from the Tarzana emergency dentists list, and know that the neighboring Valley pockets below widen the pool considerably if nothing local is open. For a cracked tooth or knocked-out tooth, call ahead rather than driving over — a good emergency office will tell you what to do in the meantime, and whether they can actually treat what you are describing.

A simple way to choose, given this market

That last step matters more in a surgical market than a routine one. Implant and periodontal work carries the widest price spread in dentistry, so before you commit, understand what drives the number — our national guide to dental costs breaks down what implants, gum surgery, and crowns should actually run and where the hidden line items hide.

If Tarzana doesn’t have your match

Tarzana sits in the heart of the Valley, so your options do not stop at the neighborhood line. Reseda and Encino are immediate neighbors, and Woodland Hills and Sherman Oaks add sizable practice pools within a short drive. Browse nearby: Reseda, Encino, Winnetka, Woodland Hills, Lake Balboa, and Sherman Oaks. When you are ready to commit, come back to the Tarzana directory and filter by the specialty you need — it is the fastest way to turn 111 practices into a shortlist of three. Curious how we score and rank every practice? Read how we rank.

Dental.me organizes dental directory data so patients can compare offices with confidence. Use each practice profile and its available website, map, and phone details for current appointment, payment, and care decisions.