Everything here comes from the registry itself: counts by specialty, street addresses, whether a listing is an individual or an organization, and how long it has been registered. The registry holds no prices, no opening hours and no insurance information, so this page is for narrowing your options, not for finalizing them.
What is listed in Eureka Lemon
42 of the 67 listings are general dentistry. Alongside them are 6 dental clinics, 6 periodontics, 5 endodontics, 3 orthodontics, 2 oral and maxillofacial surgery, 2 pediatric dentistry and 1 dental anesthesiology listing.
The addresses cluster hard on one street. Moraga Ave has 34 listings, half the neighborhood. Clairemont Dr has 15, with 3 more recorded as Clairemont Drive. Bunker Hill St has 7 and Mission Bay Dr has 4. If you want to compare practices without much travel, Moraga Ave is where to look first.
46 listings are registered as individual practitioners and 21 as organizations. 41 of the 67 have been on the register since before 2010, which is a high proportion, and the oldest registration in the neighborhood dates to 2005.
How to choose between them
With 42 general dentistry listings and 6 dental clinics, routine care is easy to find here and the choice comes down to convenience and availability. Since two thirds of listings belong to individual practitioners, you will often be registering with a specific dentist rather than a group.
The specialist coverage is better than most neighborhoods this size. Six periodontics and five endodontics listings means gum treatment and root canals can usually be handled locally, and two oral surgery listings cover extractions. That is worth knowing when you compare general dentists, because it makes a local referral more likely than a cross town trip.
Things worth establishing on the first call:
- Are you taking new patients, and how soon is the first available exam?
- Do you do root canals and extractions here, or refer them?
- Do you treat children, or refer to a pediatric practice?
- Are you on Moraga Ave, Clairemont Dr or elsewhere, and is there parking on site?
If you need something Eureka Lemon does not have
Prosthodontics is the one specialty with no listing in the neighborhood. The nearest recorded prosthodontists are about 3.6 miles away elsewhere in San Diego, where 37 practices are listed, so there is plenty of choice once you make that trip. Dentures, complex crown and bridge work and full mouth restoration are the usual reasons to go.
For more options generally, the neighbors are close. Clairemont has 36 listings about 1.8 miles away, and at roughly 1.2 miles you have Bay Ho with 6 and Sunset with 12. Bay Park has 12 at 1.4 miles, North Mount Estates has 5 at 1.6 miles and Westridge has 5 at 1.7 miles. San Diego as a whole holds 2,181 listings if you need to widen further.
Insurance and paying
None of the 67 listings in Eureka Lemon has been claimed by its practice. One publishes a website through us and none publishes hours. The registry holds no fees and no insurance participation for any listing, which is exactly the gap claimed listings are meant to fill, since claiming lets a practice add hours, services and accepted plans to its page.
That means asking. Check whether the practice is in network with your particular plan, not just whether they deal with your insurer. In network usually means agreed fees and a smaller bill; out of network usually means you pay more and may have to file the claim. Ask for a written estimate before treatment beyond an exam and x-rays, and ask what happens if more work is found once treatment starts.
If it is urgent
For a broken tooth, a lost crown or pain that painkillers are not controlling, call and ask directly for a same day appointment. With 34 listings on Moraga Ave alone, a short run of calls covers a lot of the neighborhood, and the local endodontics listings help if the problem turns out to need a root canal quickly.
Go to an emergency room rather than a dentist if swelling is spreading toward your eye or down your neck, if breathing or swallowing has become difficult, if you have a fever alongside facial swelling, or if bleeding in the mouth will not stop. Those need urgent medical care.
If nothing here can fit you in, search by distance at dentist directory and widen out through Bay Park, Sunset and Clairemont.
Questions patients ask
How many dentists are in Eureka Lemon?
The registry lists 67 dental practices in Eureka Lemon, out of 2,181 across San Diego. 42 are general dentistry listings, with 6 dental clinics, 6 periodontics, 5 endodontics, 3 orthodontics, 2 oral and maxillofacial surgery, 2 pediatric dentistry and 1 dental anesthesiology listing. Most sit on Moraga Ave.
Where are the dentists concentrated in Eureka Lemon?
Moraga Ave carries 34 of the 67 listings, about half the neighborhood. Clairemont Dr has 15, with 3 more recorded as Clairemont Drive, Bunker Hill St has 7 and Mission Bay Dr has 4. The listings sit in ZIP codes 92117 and 92109, roughly 3.8 miles from the center of San Diego.
Can I get a root canal without leaving the neighborhood?
Usually. Eureka Lemon has 5 endodontics listings, which is more than most neighborhoods of this size, and many general dentists handle straightforward root canals themselves. Ask your own dentist first. Prosthodontics is the specialty missing here, with the nearest 3.6 miles away in San Diego, where 37 practices are recorded.