Pegah S. Salami, Dmd, Fagd

San Diego has 195 general dentistry listings on this page, and they're not spread evenly across the city. ZIPs 92117 and 92128 each hold 11 practices, the most of any area, followed by 92103 with 9 and 92121 and 92130 with 8 apiece. If you live near one of those ZIPs, you've got more nearby options to call than someone in a smaller pocket like 92126, which lists 6. Use that cluster to narrow your search by drive time before you start dialing.

Most listings are easy to act on: 194 have a phone number and 155 list a website, so calling ahead to check hours or insurance is realistic for nearly everyone on the page. Paid placements are labeled Sponsored so you can tell which practices paid for visibility, and none currently carry that tag in this category. If you run one of these offices and the address or website looks stale, you can claim the listing and fix it yourself, which saves a patient from dialing a dead number. Call two or three in your ZIP and compare directly rather than relying on order alone.