McKenna Family Dentistry
Suite 300, 1691, El Camino Real, Southgate, Palo Alto, California
Closed · Opens today at 8 AM
Documented for invisalign in Palo Alto, with 16 services including Dental Bridges and Dental Cleaning.

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Best overall
McKenna Family Dentistry
Best for Invisalign.
Tradeoff: Weekend availability is not highlighted
Highest review signal
Blue Turtle Dental: Palo Alto Dentists
The deepest documented patient-feedback history on this page across available portals.
Useful when social proof matters more than pure proximity.
Weekend availability
Zahra Hakim,DDS.inc
A stronger first look if you can only book outside standard weekday hours.
Useful when weekday hours don't fit your schedule.
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Approximate price ranges — may vary by provider and insurance plan
Prices sourced from CareCredit dental costs, Bauer Dental Center, Coast Dental fee schedules, and regional California averages. Ranges reflect Palo Alto, California pricing as of 2026 in USD. Insurance coverage and payment plans may significantly reduce out-of-pocket costs.
Prices verified Aug 2, 2026
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Smyleee 81.1
A strong all-around pick if you want a reliable local choice for invisalign.
183 reviews
Useful if you want the option with the deepest visible review signal before narrowing further.
Open weekends
Worth a look if you can only book outside standard weekday hours.
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Suite 300, 1691, El Camino Real, Southgate, Palo Alto, California
Closed · Opens today at 8 AM
Documented for invisalign in Palo Alto, with 16 services including Dental Bridges and Dental Cleaning.
Suite A, 2290, Birch Street, Evergreen Park, Palo Alto, California
Closed · Opens today at 8 AM
Orthodontics focus on this Palo Alto profile — lists Comprehensive Dental Care and Crowns & Bridges among 23 documented services.
435, Middlefield Road, Crescent Park, Palo Alto, California
Closed · Opens today at 9 AM
Palo Alto clinic with a invisalign specialty across 18 documented services including Bone Grafting and Dental Crowns.
100, 1795, El Camino Real, Southgate, Palo Alto, California
Closed · Opens today at 7:30 AM
Orthodontics is the profile focus in Palo Alto; covers Gum Disease Treatment and Invisalign among 13 documented services.
Suite D-200, 117, California Avenue, Evergreen Park, Palo Alto, California
Closed · Opens today at 9 AM
Profile in Palo Alto flags invisalign, covering Crowns & Bridges and Dental Cleaning across 13 documented services.
826, Bryant Street, University South, Palo Alto, California
Closed · Opens today at 8 AM
Palo Alto practice known for porcelain veneers, with Dental Crowns and Affordable Dental Care among 11 documented procedures.
202, 1805, El Camino Real, Evergreen Park, Palo Alto, California
Closed · Opens today at 7 AM
Documented for invisalign in Palo Alto, with 14 services including Dental Crowns and Affordable Dental Care.
1, 2875, Middlefield Road, Midtown, Palo Alto, California
Closed · Opens today at 8 AM
Pediatric Dentistry focus on this Palo Alto profile — lists Bruxism and Affordable Dental Care among 22 documented services.
Hard signals for every clinic on this list — no opinions, just verifiable data.
| # | Clinic | Smyleee | Wknd | Ins. | Fin. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | McKenna Family Dentistry | 81 | 4.8★(359) | — | — | — |
| 2 | Blue Turtle Dental: Palo Alto Dentists | 83 | 4.9★(183) | — | — | — |
| 3 | Zahra Hakim,DDS.inc | 73 | 4.9★(148) | ✓ | — | — |
| 4 | Bjelajac Dental Practice, Inc | 72 | 4.9★(130) | — | — | — |
| 5 | Palo Alto Central Dental | 68 | 4.5★(71) | — | — | — |
| 6 | Heritage Park Dental | 66 | 5.0★(25) | — | — | — |
| 7 | Stanford Smile Design | 66 | 4.5★(13) | — | — | — |
| 8 | Palo Alto Oral Health | 63 | 4.7★(27) | — | — | — |
Smyleee Rating bands: 90+ Outstanding · 84–89 Excellent · 71–83 Very Good · 61–70 Good · below 61 Rated.
1 additional providers ranked below the Top 10 using the same algorithm. Updated monthly.
| # | Clinic | City | Smyleee | Reviews | Action | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #11 | Rastakhiz Family Dental | Palo Alto | 41.1 | — | — | View → |
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The best dental clinics in Palo Alto, California serve a patient community that represents the apex of the American professional demographic — the Stanford faculty member, the venture capital partner, the Google and Apple senior engineer, and the biotech founder whose household income, health literacy, and research-informed approach to healthcare make the Palo Alto dental patient among the most technically sophisticated and expectation-calibrated in the United States. The proximity of Stanford University School of Medicine's research infrastructure — whose dental, oral, and craniofacial science programmes inform the evidence base that the Palo Alto dental community applies — and the UCSF School of Dentistry's continuing education programmes that the best Peninsula dental practices draw on creates a technical floor for Palo Alto dentistry that is among the highest in California. The Palo Alto dental patient who arrives for the examination with their dental records on their iPhone's health app, who has already researched the CBCT cone beam imaging protocol they want before their implant consultation, and who expects the same digital-era communication from their dental practice that their engineering employer applies to their product development process is the patient type that the best Palo Alto dental practices have calibrated their entire clinical workflow to serve.
Smyleee evaluated Palo Alto dental clinics on examination protocol completeness, digital clinical technology adoption including intraoral scanning and CBCT imaging, full-scope general and specialist referral capability, implant and cosmetic dental quality, multilingual team capability for the significant Chinese-American and Indian-American professional patient community, and patient outcome consistency across the full preventive, restorative, and specialist dental scope. These ten Palo Alto practices are the dental clinics the data confirmed as most reliably delivering the research-informed, technology-current, and specialist-quality dental care that Palo Alto's exceptionally sophisticated patient community requires as a baseline expectation.
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