With that many options the useful question is how to filter, not where to look. Everything here comes from the registry records: counts, specialties, streets and the ZIP code. Fees, hours and insurance networks are not recorded anywhere in that data.
What is listed in the Mission
General dentistry is recorded against 98 listings. The specialty counts run to 6 in pediatric dentistry, 5 each in orthodontics, oral and maxillofacial surgery and periodontics, 4 dental clinics, 4 in endodontics, 2 in dental public health, 2 in oral radiology, 2 in dental anesthesiology and one in oral pathology. Some practices hold more than one registration, so those figures total more than 123.
Mission St itself carries 76 practices, and another 4 are recorded as Mission Street, the same road spelled differently, so 80 of the 123 sit on one street. Capp St has 12, and 20th St and 24th St have 6 and 4. Every listing falls in a single ZIP code, 94110.
Ninety-four are registered as individual practitioners and 29 as organizations. Sixty-five have been registered since before 2010, and the earliest registration in the Mission dates to 2005.
- 123 practices, 98 recorded as general dentistry
- 80 listings on Mission St, across two spellings
- One ZIP code, 94110
- 94 individual practitioners against 29 organizations
How to choose between them
When 80 practices share one street and the whole neighborhood shares one ZIP code, distance will not narrow much. Start with what you actually need. If it is a checkup or a filling, the 98 general dentists are all candidates and availability is the sensible filter.
If you need a specialist, the Mission is better provided than most neighborhoods its size. Pediatric dentistry has 6 listings, orthodontics, oral surgery and periodontics have 5 each, and endodontics has 4. That is enough that you can compare rather than take whoever is free.
The dental anesthesiology and oral radiology listings are worth knowing about. Anesthesiology matters if you or a child needs sedation for treatment, and radiology is usually somewhere your dentist sends images rather than somewhere you book yourself. With 94 of the 123 registered as individual practitioners, most of these are small practices.
If you need something the Mission does not have
Only one specialty is missing: prosthodontics, which covers complex crown, bridge and denture work. The nearest listings are elsewhere in San Francisco, about 1.4 miles away, where 57 prosthodontics practices are recorded. That is a short trip and a large pool.
For everything else you can stay put. If a particular practice cannot take you, the nearby neighborhoods are small by comparison. Duboce Triangle is 1.0 miles away with 18 practices, Noe Valley is 0.9 miles away with 16, Potrero Hill has 8 at 0.7 miles, the Castro District has 7 at 0.9 miles, Bernal Heights has 7 at 0.8 miles and Potrero Terrace has 6 at 0.8 miles.
Added together those six neighborhoods hold 62 listings, half what the Mission holds on its own, so widening the search does less for you here than staying and calling more numbers.
Insurance and paying
In network versus out of network decides most of your bill. In network means agreed rates between the practice and your insurer, and a share you can predict. Out of network means the practice charges its own fee and your plan pays some of it, or nothing.
Confirm network status with your insurer, not just with the practice, then ask for a written estimate listing the procedure codes, the fee for each, what the plan is expected to pay and your balance on the day.
Our listings are built from public registry data, which holds no fees, no opening hours and no insurance information at all. In the Mission, one of the 123 practices has a published website, none has published hours on record, and none has been claimed by its owner. Claiming a listing is how a practice supplies what the registry was never designed to hold.
If it is urgent
For a cracked tooth, a lost crown or pain that will not settle, call several general dentists on Mission St and ask plainly for a same day appointment. With 98 general practices in the neighborhood, persistence usually beats waiting for one to reply.
Certain symptoms are past the point where a dentist is the right answer. Go to a hospital emergency room if swelling is spreading toward your eye or down into your neck, if you are having trouble breathing or swallowing, if you have a fever alongside facial swelling, or if bleeding will not stop.
To search purely by how far a practice is from you, use dentist directory.
Questions patients ask
How many dentists are in the Mission, San Francisco?
Our directory records 123 dental practices in the Mission, out of 1,886 across San Francisco. Ninety-eight are recorded under general dentistry. The others cover pediatric dentistry, orthodontics, oral surgery, periodontics, endodontics, dental clinics, dental public health, oral radiology, dental anesthesiology and oral pathology.
Are most Mission dentists on Mission St?
Yes. Mission St has 76 listings and another 4 are recorded as Mission Street, the same road under a different spelling, so 80 of the 123 share one street. Capp St has 12, 20th St has 6 and 24th St has 4. The whole neighborhood sits in ZIP code 94110.
Which dental specialty is missing from the Mission?
Prosthodontics is the only one. It covers complex crowns, bridges, implant restorations and dentures. The nearest listings are elsewhere in San Francisco, roughly 1.4 miles away, where the directory records 57 prosthodontics practices. Every other specialty we track has at least one Mission listing.