Chevy Chase's most decorated orthodontist — a perennial Washingtonian/Bethesda Top Doc and Diamond+ Top 1% Invisalign provider, with the area's only dedicated adult treatment center.
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Best Doctors in Bethesda, MD (2026)
The medical heart of Montgomery County, home to NIH, Walter Reed, and Johns Hopkins and MedStar outpatient practices. Below are 59 top-rated physicians serving Bethesda, ranked by our editorial team on credentials, peer recognition, and verified patient reviews.
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One of the few board-certified prosthodontists serving the Bethesda–Chevy Chase corridor — the specialist other dentists refer to for veneers, implant crowns, and full-mouth reconstruction.
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A husband-and-wife, board-certified orthodontic team in Potomac's Cabin John Village — Invisalign Platinum Plus providers who personally handle every step of treatment.
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The area’s strongest endocrinology pick: Medical Director of JHCP Endocrinology in Bethesda, with deep Hopkins credentials and very strong ratings.
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A fellowship-trained aesthetic and reconstructive surgeon named a Washingtonian Top Doctor five years running, known for natural-looking breast and body work at her own Chevy Chase practice.
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A newer-patient-friendly Johns Hopkins internist with a lifestyle-medicine orientation and trilingual care; reviews highlight unhurried, clear visits.
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A modern Pike District practice with late-evening and Saturday hours — Dr. Nikkhah pairs cosmetic and general dentistry with state-of-the-art technology right off Rockville Pike.
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Director of Complex Cardiac Ablations for the Johns Hopkins National Capital Region, an excellent fit for arrhythmia and electrophysiology care.
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A high-volume, high-rating Johns Hopkins primary-care option with long clinical experience and Washingtonian Top Doctor recognition.
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A Master of the Academy of General Dentistry who has run the same Old Georgetown Road practice since 1991 — the continuing-education credential that separates career-long learners from the rest.
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A double board-certified plastic surgeon with three decades of experience and repeat Washingtonian recognition, known for breast and body contouring at his Rockville practice.
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A downtown Bethesda cosmetic dentist who builds each case around smile design — Dr. Asante is known for previewing the result before a single tooth is prepared.
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Rockville's go-to for dental implants and full-arch restoration — an Army-trained, FAGD-credentialed dentist with 25+ years placing All-on-4 and full-mouth reconstruction cases using 3D cone-beam planning.
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A very strong electrophysiology choice with unusually high review volume and a 4.9 rating on the Johns Hopkins system.
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A board-certified, fellowship-trained Mohs micrographic surgeon focused on skin cancer and laser treatments, serving Bethesda and Chevy Chase for more than two decades.
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A board-certified, sports-medicine fellowship-trained orthopedic surgeon and co-founder of Maryland Orthopedic Specialists, specializing in arthroscopic knee and shoulder surgery and knee replacement.
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A personable, BU-trained orthodontist with offices in Bethesda and Potomac — strong Google ratings and flexible options from full braces to remote-friendly Smile Express.
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The prosthodontist inside a downtown Bethesda cosmetic practice — patients praise his implant surgery, and having the specialist in-house keeps complex smile cases under one roof.
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A co-founder of Maryland Orthopedic Specialists, board-certified in orthopedic surgery and sports medicine with fellowship training in advanced shoulder and knee arthroscopy.
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A double board-certified facial plastic surgeon and Georgetown clinical professor with 27+ years of experience, especially sought out for primary and revision rhinoplasty.
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Medical Director of Maternal-Fetal Medicine at Johns Hopkins Sibley and a Johns Hopkins associate professor, a former Navy MFM chief who cares for the highest-risk pregnancies.
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A Bethesda Magazine Top Dentist in the Wildwood shopping center — Dr. Chang is the friendly, thorough family-and-cosmetic dentist patients recommend for kind, honest care.
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The general dentist patients name when they describe a cosmetic visit that felt calm — Dr. Willis works alongside an in-house prosthodontist, so complex cases never have to leave the building.
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A Checkbook- and Arlington Magazine–recognized dentist in the Pike District who offers composite and Bioclear options — the conservative alternatives most veneer-first practices skip.
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A fellowship-trained, board-certified plastic surgeon named a Washingtonian and Bethesda Top Doctor in 2024 and 2025, known for artistic precision in breast and body surgery.
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A Harvard-trained, sports-medicine fellowship-trained orthopedic surgeon at OrthoBethesda, specializing in arthroscopic knee and shoulder surgery and joint replacement.
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A Johns Hopkins thoracic surgeon and assistant professor specializing in minimally invasive surgery for lung and esophageal cancer as part of a multidisciplinary thoracic-oncology team.
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A concierge MDVIP internist in Bethesda with 20+ years of experience, blending preventive and integrative medicine, women's health, and nutrition in an unhurried, relationship-based practice.
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A Bethesda fixture since the mid-1980s — Dr. Tabb graduated in the top 5% of her class and has spent four decades delivering advanced general and cosmetic care at a reasonable cost.
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A Fellow of the American College of Rheumatology and GW clinical associate professor who has practiced in Washington since 1986 — and one of very few Russian-speaking internists in the Bethesda–Chevy Chase corridor.
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A board-certified family physician and GW leader in primary care, caring for the whole family in English and Spanish with a deep commitment to access and health equity.
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A board-certified orthopedic and sports-medicine surgeon at Maryland Orthopedic Specialists in Bethesda, treating athletic injuries and joint conditions of the shoulder and knee.
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A Yale-trained maternal-fetal medicine specialist and repeat Castle Connolly Top Doctor with over 25 years of experience in prenatal ultrasound diagnosis and high-risk pregnancy.
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A Rockville native running a small independent practice in Chevy Chase, named a Washingtonian Top Doctor three years running, with unusual depth in type 1 diabetes and pump and CGM management.
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Director of radiation oncology at Suburban Hospital in Bethesda, a Johns Hopkins physician known for prostate cancer treatment and prostate seed implantation.
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A Harvard- and Memorial Sloan Kettering-trained Johns Hopkins radiation oncologist and repeat Washingtonian Top Doctor, specializing in breast, gastrointestinal, and gynecologic cancers.
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A Johns Hopkins radiation oncologist in Bethesda and expert in proton therapy, specializing in genitourinary and thoracic cancers including prostate, bladder, and lung.
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Bethesda Row's neighborhood dentist — early-morning appointments right on Bethesda Avenue, and a restorative-first approach to cosmetic requests.
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A Spanish-speaking family physician with an extra fellowship year in obstetrics — she can carry a family from prenatal care through the children's checkups without a handoff.
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Director of the OB/GYN residency program at George Washington University and a NAMS Certified Menopause Practitioner, seeing patients at GW's Bethesda office.
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A bilingual MedStar internist in Bethesda offering full-range adult primary care — and one of the area's most highly rated primary-care physicians.
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A board-certified urologist and director of the DuPont Center in Chevy Chase, fellowship-trained in female pelvic medicine and reconstructive surgery for prolapse, incontinence, and pelvic floor disorders.
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A strong conventional internal-medicine option inside MedStar’s Bethesda primary-care practice, with consistently high patient-experience scores.
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A Georgetown-trained internist who founded Spring Valley Internal Medicine in 1999 — known for unhurried, relationship-based adult primary care and repeated Top Doctor recognition.
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A Johns Hopkins radiation oncologist and assistant professor specializing in genitourinary and gastrointestinal cancers, treating patients at Suburban and Sibley hospitals.
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A well-reviewed private-practice internist serving Bethesda, Potomac, Rockville and Chevy Chase, with a perfect Zocdoc score across verified reviews.
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An osteopathic family physician offering both virtual and in-person visits in Chevy Chase — patients describe a notably unhurried, whole-person approach to routine care.
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Johns Hopkins endocrinologist in downtown Bethesda with a thyroid-forward practice — nodules, thyroid cancer surveillance, and the metabolic overlap of obesity, diabetes, and PCOS.
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A board-certified family physician at CloseKnit Bethesda caring for patients of every age — from infants to seniors — with individualized treatment plans and lifestyle counseling.
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A credential-strong GI pick, Chair of Gastroenterology at Holy Cross and Suburban, especially for colon cancer prevention, IBD, and advanced endoscopy.
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A bilingual internist with more than four decades of experience, providing adult primary care in Bethesda and affiliated with George Washington University Hospital.
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A patient-centered CloseKnit physician assistant offering same- and next-day primary, preventive, and women's health care in Bethesda — in person and by telehealth across Maryland.
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A board-certified family physician at CloseKnit's North Bethesda office, caring for patients and families of all backgrounds in English, Hindi, and Urdu.
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A certified PA with a nutrition degree and an emergency-medicine background — the combination that makes her unusually good at triaging what needs urgent attention and what needs a diet-and-habits conversation.
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General endocrinologist at Johns Hopkins in Bethesda who covers the full endocrine map — thyroid, diabetes, PCOS, pituitary and adrenal disease, hypogonadism, and osteoporosis — in one practice.
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An NCCPA-certified physician assistant at CloseKnit Bethesda treating everyday illness, chronic conditions, and minor injuries — caring for diverse patients in English and Igbo.
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A retired Army Lieutenant Colonel who ran the pain clinics at Walter Reed and Landstuhl before entering private practice — and one of the first four physicians in the country certified in interventional headache medicine.
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A Johns Hopkins interventional pain physician with a Mass General fellowship who sees patients in Bethesda — one of the few pain specialists in the county who consults in Yoruba as well as English.
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An Amharic-speaking internist and hospital-medicine physician with more than 20 years of experience, trained at Addis Ababa University and affiliated with Adventist HealthCare Shady Grove Medical Center.
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By the numbers
- 59
- doctors serving Bethesda in our registry — 42% of all 139
- 8
- countries of medical training across 33 schools
- 28%
- did residency in the DC–Baltimore area (of 36 whose residency we record)
- 18
- confirmed accepting new patients (of 18 we checked)
Figures describe the 139 providers currently in the MyBethesdaDoctor registry as of August 2026 — a curated directory, not a census of every doctor in Montgomery County. Training figures cover the 40 of 59 profiles that record a medical school. How we build this list.
Where they trained
The 39 doctors serving Bethesda whose medical school we could place studied at 33 institutions in 8 countries — 7 (18%) trained outside the United States.
- 32United States
- 1Ecuador
- 1Russia
- 1Puerto Rico
- 1Argentina
- 1Peru
All 33 schools
- Georgetown University School of Medicine — Washington, DC (5 doctors)
- New York University College of Dentistry — New York, NY (2 doctors)
- University of Maryland School of Dentistry — Baltimore, MD (2 doctors)
- Addis Ababa University College of Health Sciences — Addis Ababa, Addis Ababa
- Boston University Goldman School of Dental Medicine — Boston, MA
- Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University — Greenville, NC
- Deccan College of Medical Sciences — Hyderabad, Telangana
- Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth — Hanover, NH
- George Washington University School of Medicine — Washington, DC
- Harvard Medical School — Boston, MA
- Howard University College of Dentistry — Washington, DC
- Howard University College of Medicine — Washington, DC
- Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine — Baltimore, MD
- Kansas City University — Kansas City, MO
- LSU School of Medicine — New Orleans, LA
- Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine — Chicago, IL
- Ohio State University College of Medicine — Columbus, OH
- Penn Dental Medicine — Philadelphia, PA
- Ponce Health Sciences University — Ponce, Puerto Rico
- Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University — Moscow, Moscow
- SUNY Upstate Medical University — Syracuse, NY
- Tulane University School of Medicine — New Orleans, LA
- Universidad Central del Ecuador — Quito, Pichincha
- Universidad de Buenos Aires, Facultad de Medicina — Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires
- Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos — Lima, Lima
- University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix — Phoenix, AZ
- University of Missouri School of Medicine — Columbia, MO
- University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine — Pittsburgh, PA
- University of Tennessee Health Science Center — Memphis, TN
- VCU School of Medicine — Richmond, VA
- Wake Forest University School of Medicine — Winston-Salem, NC
- West Virginia University School of Medicine — Morgantown, WV
- Yale School of Medicine — New Haven, CT
Figures describe the 139 providers currently in the MyBethesdaDoctor registry as of August 2026 — a curated directory, not a census of every doctor in Montgomery County. Based on the 39 of 59 profiles whose medical school we could place on the map; 1 more name a school we could not match, and 19 record none. How we build this list.