Orthodontics
Atefeh Boroun, DDS, MS
Fallsgrove Orthodontics
Dr. Atefeh Boroun runs Fallsgrove Orthodontics on Shady Grove Road in Rockville. She completed dental school at Howard University, earned double master’s degrees, graduated first in her dental class, and trained in orthodontics at the University of Maryland. She is a diplomate of the American Board of Orthodontics — a distinction earned by fewer than 30% of U.S. orthodontists.
Why patients choose Dr. Boroun
Her practice holds a 4.9 rating across more than 150 Google reviews, with patients describing her as creative, brilliant, and immediately reassuring. Board certification signals a voluntary, rigorous standard of clinical excellence beyond licensure.
Practice focus
Invisalign, braces, and early interceptive treatment for children, teens, and adults.
Profile last fact-checked June 26, 2026. Information reflects publicly available sources and may change. Confirm details directly with the practice before booking.
How Dr. Boroun compares
Context from the 139 providers we track across Bethesda and Montgomery County.
The only provider we list offering early/interceptive orthodontics
1 of the 130 providers who list their focus areas name early/interceptive orthodontics.
We list 2 orthodontics providers serving Rockville.
4 of the 139 providers in our registry (3%) practise in Farsi, across 3 specialties.
1 of 4 from Howard University College of Dentistry
4 of the 107 doctors whose medical school we record studied at Howard University College of Dentistry.
Most recently qualified of our 5 orthodontics providers
Qualified in 2017. The median for the 5 orthodontics providers whose year we record is 2004.
Trained in the DC–Baltimore area
Completed residency locally, like 32% of the 87 doctors whose residency we record.
Medical school: Howard University College of Dentistry — Washington, DC, United States.
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. How we build this list.
Where Dr. Boroun sits by experience
Dr. Boroun finished dental school in 2017, 9 years ago. Of the 135 providers in our registry whose graduation year we could verify, 130 finished earlier, 3 finished later, and 1 finished the same year.
1965–69
1 provider finished 1965–19691970–74
2 providers finished 1970–19741975–79
4 providers finished 1975–19791980–84
13 providers finished 1980–19841985–89
12 providers finished 1985–19891990–94
14 providers finished 1990–19941995–99
27 providers finished 1995–19992000–04
20 providers finished 2000–20042005–09
19 providers finished 2005–20092010–14
17 providers finished 2010–2014Dr. Boroun2017
2015–19
4 providers finished 2015–20192020–24
2 providers finished 2020–2024Among the 21 dentists we list, 19 finished dental school earlier — the median for that group is 2004.
All 12 bands
| Graduated | Providers |
|---|---|
| 1965–1969 | 1 |
| 1970–1974 | 2 |
| 1975–1979 | 4 |
| 1980–1984 | 13 |
| 1985–1989 | 12 |
| 1990–1994 | 14 |
| 1995–1999 | 27 |
| 2000–2004 | 20 |
| 2005–2009 | 19 |
| 2010–2014 | 17 |
| 2015–2019 — Dr. Boroun | 4 |
| 2020–2024 | 2 |
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 135 of 139 profiles with a graduation year we could verify against a primary source; the remaining 4 are left out rather than estimated. How we build this list.
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