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Best Dentists in Bethesda & Montgomery County (2026)

General and cosmetic dentists for cleanings, restorative work, and smile design — honest dentists who explain your options and earn trust before recommending treatment. Our editorial team ranks these 19 dentists on credentials, training, peer recognition, and verified patient-review data.

  1. Dentistry Chevy Chase

    Chevy Chase's marquee cosmetic dentist — a Washingtonian Top Dentist known for smile makeovers, porcelain veneers, and a famously unrushed, trust-first chair-side manner.

    Washingtonian Top Dentist (2021, 2023)
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  2. Dentistry Chevy Chase · Bethesda · Silver Spring

    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.

    Board certified
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  3. Dentistry North Potomac · Potomac

    Owner of Potomac Crown Dentistry and a Top 1% Invisalign Diamond provider in North America, delivering clear-aligner, implant, and cosmetic care in a service-first family practice in North Potomac.

    Top 1% Invisalign Diamond Provider in North America
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  4. Samia Nikkhah, DDS

    4.8 (511)

    Dentistry North Bethesda · Bethesda

    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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  5. Dentistry Bethesda · North Bethesda

    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.

    Master, Academy of General Dentistry (MAGD)
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  6. Dentistry Bethesda · Chevy Chase

    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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  7. Dentistry Rockville · Bethesda · Potomac

    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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  8. Dentistry Bethesda · Chevy Chase

    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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  9. Susan Chang, DDS

    4.8 (136)

    Dentistry Bethesda

    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.

    Bethesda Magazine Top Dentist
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  10. Dentistry Bethesda · Chevy Chase

    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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  11. David Pinsky, DDS

    4.6 (470)

    Dentistry Rockville

    A long-running Rockville group practice with hundreds of five-star reviews — Dr. Pinsky's team pairs modern technology with the kind of clear communication patients keep coming back for.

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  12. Dentistry North Bethesda · Bethesda · Rockville

    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.

    Washington Consumers' Checkbook Top Dentist
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  13. Dentistry Bethesda

    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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  14. Dentistry Bethesda · Chevy Chase

    Bethesda Row's neighborhood dentist — early-morning appointments right on Bethesda Avenue, and a restorative-first approach to cosmetic requests.

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  15. Dentistry Potomac

    A Potomac general dentist with a University of Maryland pedigree and a calm, low-pressure chair-side style — known for quality restorative work in a relaxed setting on Falls Road.

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  16. Maria Wood, DDS, MS

    4.9 (124)

    Dentistry Chevy Chase

    A Chevy Chase family-and-implant dentist patients praise above all for honesty — straight feedback on what you do and don't need, paired with University of Maryland training and NYU implant work.

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  17. Dentistry Rockville · Potomac

    A board-certified pediatric dentist who was born in Saigon and grew up in Rockville — she is the local kid who came back, and her office speaks Vietnamese, Korean, Spanish, and Chinese.

    Board certified Accepting patients Diplomate, American Board of Pediatric Dentistry
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  18. Dentistry Rockville · North Bethesda

    A Vietnamese-born, Vietnamese-speaking Rockville dentist who graduated at the top of his class at Maryland and served as chief resident in advanced general dentistry — an extra hospital year most general dentists never do.

    Accepting patients Harry W. Dressel Jr. Award for clinical proficiency and total patient care
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  19. Dentistry Silver Spring

    A downtown Silver Spring dentist for more than 30 years and a retired Navy Dental Corps commander, repeatedly named a Top Dentist by Washingtonian and Bethesda Magazine.

    Washingtonian Top Dentist
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By the numbers

19
dentists in our registry — 14% of all 139
4.81
average rating across 2,506 reviews on 10 profiles

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 they trained

The 13 dentists whose medical school we could place studied at 4 institutions, all in the United States.

  • 13United States
All 4 schools
  • University of Maryland School of Dentistry — Baltimore, MD (7 doctors)
  • Howard University College of Dentistry — Washington, DC (3 doctors)
  • New York University College of Dentistry — New York, NY (2 doctors)
  • VCU School of Medicine — Richmond, VA

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 13 of 19 profiles whose medical school we could place on the map; 1 more name a school we could not match, and 5 record none. How we build this list.