Almost all of it sits on one road. Thirty five of the 37 listings give an E Alvin Dr address in one spelling or another, and everything else in this guide comes from the same listings.
What is listed in Gabilan Creek
Twenty five of the 37 listings include general dentistry and 11 include pediatric dentistry. Two list orthodontics, two list oral and maxillofacial surgery and one is a dental clinic. Practices can carry more than one specialty, so the counts overlap.
The street data is almost entirely one road. Twenty six listings are recorded as E Alvin Dr, with another seven as E Alvin Drive, one as E. Alvin Drive and one as East Alvin Drive. E Boronda Rd has a single listing. The neighborhood covers ZIP codes 93906 and 93096.
Twenty nine listings are individual practitioners and eight are organizations. Twenty three were registered before 2010, and the oldest registration in the neighborhood dates to 2006.
How to choose between them
If you are looking for a children's dentist, this is an easy neighborhood to search: 11 pediatric listings on effectively one street means you can call several and pick on availability and manner rather than on distance.
For adults, the choice is among 25 general listings. The things that actually separate them are not on the page. Ask what a new patient exam and x-rays cost, how quickly they see existing patients in pain, and which procedures they send elsewhere.
With 29 of 37 registered as individual practitioners, most of these are small practices. Ask about languages spoken and about early or late appointments, both of which are common practical constraints and neither of which appears in a listing.
When you need something that is not here
Two specialties have no listing in Gabilan Creek: endodontics and prosthodontics. For both, the nearest listed concentration is in Monterey, about 16.1 miles away, where ten endodontic and seven prosthodontic practices appear.
That is a long trip for a root canal, so it is worth asking any general dentist you register with whether they carry out root canal treatment themselves. Many general practices do straightforward cases in house and only refer the complicated ones.
For more general dentistry closer by, North Salinas is 1.2 miles away with 19 listings, Northridge is 1.6 miles with 11 and Laurel West is 1.8 miles with 11 as well. Harden Ranch has eight at 1.3 miles, Santa Rita has seven at 1.8 miles, and Creekbridge, the nearest at 0.8 miles, has only three.
Insurance and paying
None of the 37 listings in Gabilan Creek has been claimed, and none publishes a website or opening hours through us. The register these entries come from holds no fees, no hours and no insurance information of any kind. That is a hard limit on what this page can tell you, and it is why claimed listings, where a practice fills in its own details, are worth more.
Ask on the phone instead. Give the full name of your plan and ask whether they are in network with that plan specifically. If they are out of network they may still file the claim, but the balance is yours. For children's treatment, ask separately whether they take new patients under your plan.
Before any large treatment, ask for a written estimate with the procedure codes on it. That single sheet is what lets another practice quote on exactly the same work.
If it is urgent
Call early and describe the problem in one sentence. With most of the neighborhood on E Alvin Dr, if the first practice cannot help, the next one is a short distance away rather than across town.
Some symptoms mean an emergency room rather than a dental appointment. Go to hospital straight away if swelling is spreading toward your eye or down into your neck, if you are having difficulty breathing or swallowing, if you have a fever alongside facial swelling, or if bleeding from your mouth will not stop.
If nothing local can see you today, dentist directory searches by distance rather than by neighborhood, which will pull in North Salinas and Harden Ranch alongside Gabilan Creek.
Questions patients ask
Is there a children's dentist in Gabilan Creek?
Yes, and more than most neighborhoods. Eleven of the 37 listings include pediatric dentistry, nearly all of them on E Alvin Dr. That gives you a real choice rather than a single option, so you can select on appointment availability and on how the practice handles nervous children.
How many dentists are listed in Gabilan Creek?
Thirty seven practices, out of 210 across Salinas. Twenty five include general dentistry, 11 pediatric dentistry, two orthodontics and two oral surgery. Thirty five of the 37 give an E Alvin Dr address, and the neighborhood spans ZIP codes 93906 and 93096.
Where do I go for a root canal near Gabilan Creek?
No endodontic practice is listed in the neighborhood. The nearest listed group is in Monterey, about 16.1 miles away, with ten practices. Many general dentists handle simpler root canals themselves, so ask before you assume a referral is necessary. Prosthodontics is missing from the neighborhood too, and is also nearest in Monterey.