Pacifica Dental

They are four separately operated practices that belong to one group, Complete Dental Centers, founded by Dr. Sameer Aljanedi, DDS.

Each office keeps its own name, its own phone line, its own team, and, importantly for your wallet, its own membership plan, financing partners, and insurance arrangements. Those details genuinely differ between offices, which is why this site describes them per office rather than as one blended policy.

This site's job is to help you understand the group and choose the right office. Once you've chosen, that office is your practice — see all four locations or request an appointment and pick your office on the form.

Start with geography. The four offices sit in three different parts of Southern California, and for most patients the nearest one is the right one.

• Beachside Dental Group and Pacifica Dental both serve Huntington Beach and coastal Orange County — they share one building at 18800 Main St, each in its own suite.
• Marina Dentistry serves Marina del Rey and the Westside of Los Angeles — Venice, Playa Vista, Santa Monica, Culver City.
• Rio Hondo Dental Group serves Downey and southeast LA County — Pico Rivera, Bellflower, Norwalk, South Gate, and is the group's office for Denti-Cal and Medi-Cal patients.

Two useful tie-breakers: the treatment menus differ by office (each location page lists what that office offers), and Rio Hondo is the group's office for Denti-Cal and Medi-Cal patients. If you're still unsure, call whichever office is closest — the front desk will tell you plainly whether another office is a better fit.

Not automatically. Each practice operates independently and keeps its own patient records, so being a patient at one office does not put your chart in front of another.

If you want records sent to a sister office, or to any dentist, call the office that treated you and ask. You have a right to copies of your own dental records, and the front desk handles transfer requests routinely.

All four office phone numbers are on the contact page.

Expect an exam and a conversation, not a hard sell. A typical first visit includes a review of your health history, a full examination, X-rays where they're needed, and a plain-language discussion of what the dentist found and what, if anything, to do about it.

Whether a cleaning happens the same day depends on your gum health: a routine cleaning often fits into the first visit, while gum disease may call for a different kind of cleaning scheduled separately. The office will tell you which applies to you before anything starts.

More detail, including per-office forms, is on the new patients page.