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.
United States32 doctors
Ecuador1 doctor
Russia1 doctor
Puerto Rico1 doctor
Argentina1 doctor
Peru1 doctor
India1 doctor
Ethiopia1 doctor
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 identify; 1 more name a school we could not match, and 19 record none. How we build this list.