One number shapes everything below: 26 of those 32 listings are on Wilshire Blvd. This is a corridor of general dental practices rather than a spread of different specialties, and knowing that changes how you search.
What is listed in Miracle Mile
Twenty-eight of the 32 listings report general dentistry as their primary specialty. Beyond that there are 3 registered under orofacial pain, 1 dental clinic and 1 pediatric dentist. That is the whole picture. No other dental specialty has a listing with a Miracle Mile address.
The concentration on Wilshire Blvd is unusual even by Los Angeles standards. Twenty-six practices share that one street. S Detroit St has 2, and S Cochran Ave, S Curson Ave and W 8th St have one apiece. If you work or live near Wilshire, you can compare a dozen options without changing streets.
Twenty-one listings are registered to an individual dentist and 11 to an organization, so named practices outnumber groups here roughly two to one. Seventeen of the 32 were registered before 2010, and the oldest registration in the neighborhood dates to 2005.
How to choose between them
Since almost everything listed here is a general dental practice, your choice is about fit rather than specialty. General dentists handle checkups, cleanings, fillings, crowns, many extractions and often root canals, and they are the route to a specialist when one is needed.
The 3 orofacial pain listings are the exception worth noting. That specialty deals with persistent jaw pain, facial pain and temporomandibular joint problems, and it is not something most neighborhoods have at all. If that is your problem, you have local options.
For anything else specialist, assume a referral out of the neighborhood, and ask about that referral route before you commit to a practice. A dentist who already works with specific endodontists or oral surgeons nearby will make that step easier than one who leaves you to find your own.
- Ask whether the practice does root canals in house or refers them.
- Ask whether you will see the same dentist at each visit.
- Check the block number on Wilshire Blvd, since the street runs a long way.
If you need something Miracle Mile does not have
Five specialties have no listing in Miracle Mile at all: orthodontics, endodontics, periodontics, oral and maxillofacial surgery and prosthodontics. In every case the nearest listings are elsewhere in Los Angeles, about 1.5 miles away, and the wider city is deep in all of them: 150 orthodontic listings, 119 in oral and maxillofacial surgery, 104 in periodontics, 81 in endodontics and 68 in prosthodontics.
Adjacent neighborhoods are close. Carthay, Mid-Wilshire and Park La Brea are each 0.7 miles away with 75, 3 and 6 listings. Fairfax has 5 and Mid-City 11 at 1.3 miles, and South Carthay has 20 at 1.5 miles. Carthay in particular is a short distance for a much longer list.
Insurance and paying
Ask whether a practice is in network with your exact plan, not just whether it accepts your insurance company. Out of network treatment can still be billed to your insurer, but your share is generally larger.
For anything beyond an exam and cleaning, ask for a written estimate showing each procedure code, the practice's fee, what your plan is expected to cover and what you owe. That is a reasonable request and a practice used to insurance work will handle it routinely.
Our listings come from the national provider registry, which holds a practice's name, address and reported specialty and nothing else. There are no fees, no opening hours and no insurance details in it. In Miracle Mile, none of the 32 listings has a published website or published hours. That is why claimed listings matter: claiming a page is how a practice adds the information the registry never held.
If it is urgent
For a broken tooth, a lost crown or filling, or pain that is keeping you awake, call the general practices nearest you and ask directly whether they keep same day emergency slots. With 28 general dentists listed and 26 of all listings on one street, you can try a run of them in a short time.
Some symptoms are for an emergency room, not a dentist. Go to the ER if swelling is spreading toward your eye or down into your neck, if you have any trouble breathing or swallowing, if you have a fever alongside facial swelling, or if bleeding from the mouth will not stop under steady pressure.
If nowhere on Wilshire can take you, search by distance from where you are at dentist directory.
Questions patients ask
How many dentists are listed in Miracle Mile?
There are 32 dental practices in our directory with Miracle Mile addresses, all in ZIP code 90036. Twenty-eight of them report general dentistry as their primary specialty, with 3 in orofacial pain, 1 dental clinic and 1 pediatric dentist making up the rest of the list.
Are there dental specialists in Miracle Mile?
Only orofacial pain, with 3 listings, and pediatric dentistry with 1. Orthodontics, endodontics, periodontics, oral and maxillofacial surgery and prosthodontics have no listing in the neighborhood. All five are available elsewhere in Los Angeles, about 1.5 miles away, in large numbers.
Why are so many Miracle Mile dentists on Wilshire Blvd?
We can only report what the registry shows, which is that 26 of the 32 dental practices listed in Miracle Mile have Wilshire Blvd addresses. The remaining six are spread across S Detroit St, S Cochran Ave, S Curson Ave and W 8th St. When comparing practices, check the block number as well as the street.