The unusual part is how concentrated it is. Every listing here uses an Avocado Ave address, written variously as Avocado Ave, Avocado Ave. and Avocado Avenue. In practice that means the entire neighborhood's dentistry sits on a single street inside ZIP code 92660.
What is listed in Broadmoor
Thirty five of the 59 listings include general dentistry. The specialist coverage is broad for a single street: six endodontics, four periodontics, four pediatric dentistry, three orthodontics, three dental clinics, two prosthodontics and two oral and maxillofacial surgery. Some practices carry more than one specialty, so the counts overlap.
Fifty six listings give their address as Avocado Ave, with two more as Avocado Ave. and one as Avocado Avenue. There is no second cluster. Everything falls in ZIP code 92660.
Forty listings are registered as individual practitioners and 19 as organizations. Twenty nine were registered before 2010 and the oldest registration dates to 2006. One listing publishes a website through us and one publishes opening hours.
How to choose between them
The geography does you a favor. Because every practice is on the same street, comparing them costs you almost nothing in travel. You can visit three in an hour, ask each for a price list, and see who answers plainly.
Start by narrowing on specialty. If you need routine care, you are choosing among 35 general listings. If you need a root canal, six endodontic listings on one street is a genuine choice rather than a default, and the same is true of periodontics with four and pediatric dentistry with four.
Two thirds of the listings are individual practitioners. That generally means a smaller team and the same dentist each visit. Ask about cover during vacations and about how quickly an existing patient in pain can be seen, because those are the weak points of a solo diary.
When you need something that is not here
Broadmoor has no obvious specialty gap. Every major dental specialty in our data has at least one listing on Avocado Ave, which is rare even for much larger neighborhoods.
The reason to look elsewhere is choice rather than absence. Prosthodontics and oral and maxillofacial surgery have two listings each, so a second opinion may mean leaving. Granville is the nearest option at 0.2 miles with 34 listings, and Big Canyon is 0.4 miles away though it has only four.
Further out, Balboa Island has four listings at 1.2 miles, One Ford Road has six at 1.8 miles, Eastbluff has nine at 1.9 miles and Cliff Haven has 37 at 2.3 miles. Granville and Cliff Haven are the two nearby pools large enough to give a real alternative.
Insurance and paying
None of the 59 listings in Broadmoor has been claimed. One publishes a website and one publishes opening hours, and that is all the extra detail there is. The registry behind these pages records who a provider is and what they practice. It holds no fees, no opening hours and no insurance information, which is why a claimed listing, filled in by the practice itself, is worth far more than an unclaimed one.
That leaves the phone call. Ask whether they are in network with your plan by its full name, not just with the insurer. A practice that is out of network may still submit your claim, but the difference between their fee and the allowed amount falls to you.
For crowns, implants, orthodontics or anything surgical, ask for a written estimate with the procedure codes. On a street with 59 practices, taking that estimate two doors down is the easiest second opinion you will ever get.
If it is urgent
Call at opening and say clearly that you need to be seen today. Because everything is on Avocado Ave, if the practice that can fit you in is not the one you usually use, getting there is not a problem.
Certain symptoms are hospital problems rather than dental ones. Go to an emergency room if swelling is spreading toward your eye or down into your neck, if breathing or swallowing has become difficult, if you have a fever alongside facial swelling, or if bleeding from your mouth will not stop.
If Avocado Ave is fully booked, dentist directory searches by distance rather than by neighborhood and will pick up Granville, only 0.2 miles away, in the same results.
Questions patients ask
How many dentists are there in Broadmoor, Newport Beach?
Fifty nine practices are listed, out of 264 across Newport Beach. Thirty five include general dentistry and the rest cover endodontics, periodontics, pediatric dentistry, orthodontics, prosthodontics and oral surgery. All of them use an Avocado Ave address in ZIP code 92660.
Are all the Broadmoor dentists really on one street?
Yes, according to the listings. Fifty six give Avocado Ave as their address, two write it as Avocado Ave. and one as Avocado Avenue. There is no second cluster in the neighborhood. That makes comparing several practices in person unusually easy.
Do I need to leave Broadmoor for specialist dental care?
Usually not. Endodontics, periodontics, pediatric dentistry, orthodontics, prosthodontics and oral surgery all have listings here. Prosthodontics and oral surgery have only two each, so for a second opinion look at Granville, 0.2 miles away with 34 listings, or Cliff Haven, 2.3 miles with 37.