Coastal Dental Arts
According to our open methodology, this clinic scored 45/100 for transparency, reputation, service accessibility, and digital visibility.
Overall rank: #7 of 12 ranked clinics · Last checked: 12 July 2026
Positions by Rating Profile
- Overall Transparency & Trust#745/100
- Best for Expats#742.5/100
- Best for Dental Implants#538.5/100
- Best for Emergency Dental Carenot ranked
- Best Price Transparency#726.2/100
- Best English-speaking Clinics#746.8/100
- Best for Families / Childrennot ranked
Summary
Downtown San Diego multi-dentist practice offering cosmetic dentistry, Invisalign, implants and All-on-4, oral surgery and periodontal treatment, using digital (iTero) impressions. Four named dentists.
Strengths
- Information Transparency: 18 of 20 points.
Weaknesses
- Price Transparency: 0 of 15 verifiable points (missing: prices or price ranges published; cleaning price listed; filling price listed; crown price listed; implant price listed; consultation price listed; x-ray / imaging price listed)
Score Breakdown
Every criterion below is scored from public sources. ✓ verified yes · ✗ verified no / not found · ◐ partial · ? unverified (scores 0, not a negative finding).
Information Transparency
Whether basic facts about the clinic - its team, premises, services, and location - are publicly verifiable.
| ✓ | Has a working website [s-coastal-web] | 4/4 |
| ✓ | Dentist names listed Drs. David Chotiner, Frank Mac, Bowen Zhou, Ariana Wetzstein. [s-coastal-web] | 3/3 |
| ✗ | Dentist specializations listed Names listed; individual specializations not detailed. [s-coastal-web] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Real clinic photos [s-coastal-web] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Service list published [s-coastal-web] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Clear contact details [s-coastal-web] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | English website version [s-coastal-web] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Address and map published [s-coastal-web] | 2/2 |
Price Transparency
Whether patients can estimate costs before visiting. Published price ranges count; exact prices are not required.
| ✗ | Prices or price ranges published [s-coastal-web] | 0/3 |
| ✗ | Cleaning price listed [s-coastal-web] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Filling price listed [s-coastal-web] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Crown price listed [s-coastal-web] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Implant price listed [s-coastal-web] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Consultation price listed [s-coastal-web] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | X-ray / imaging price listed [s-coastal-web] | 0/2 |
Reputation & Reviews
Public review signals. The Google rating is adjusted with a Bayesian prior (rating 4.0, weight 25) so a 5.0 from a handful of reviews does not outrank a 4.8 from hundreds.
| ✓ | Google rating (Bayesian-adjusted) ~4.8 across ~312 Google reviews per aggregators. [s-coastal-rev] | 6/6 |
| ◐ | Google review volume Approximate; aggregator-reported. [s-coastal-rev] | 2.5/3 |
| ✓ | Review recency [s-coastal-rev] | 3/3 |
| ? | Clinic responds to reviews | 0/2 |
| ? | No recurring complaints | 0/2 |
| ? | No suspicious review patterns | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Active Facebook presence [s-coastal-web] | 1/1 |
| ? | TripAdvisor presence | 0/0.5 |
| ✓ | Other review platforms Yelp, Birdeye, BBB (accredited since 2006). [s-coastal-rev] | 0.5/0.5 |
Medical Infrastructure
The range of publicly documented equipment and services. This measures documented availability, not clinical quality.
| ✓ | On-site X-ray Digital iTero scanning; imaging in-office. [s-coastal-web] | 2/2 |
| ? | CBCT (3D imaging) | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Implantology Implants and All-on-4. [s-coastal-web] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Orthodontics Invisalign. [s-coastal-web] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Oral surgery Oral surgery, periodontal treatment. [s-coastal-web] | 2/2 |
| ? | Pediatric dentistry | 0/1.5 |
| ? | Emergency care | 0/1.5 |
| ? | Works with international patients | 0/2 |
Communication & Service
How easy it is to contact the clinic, get answers, and book - especially for non-Thai speakers.
| ✗ | WhatsApp / LINE available [s-coastal-web] | 0/2 |
| ? | Response speed | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | English spoken [s-coastal-web] | 2.5/2.5 |
| ? | Pre-visit consultation possible | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | Clear service explanations [s-coastal-web] | 1/1 |
| ✓ | Convenient opening hours Mon-Fri, opens as early as 7am some days. [s-coastal-web] | 1.5/1.5 |
AI & Search Visibility
Whether the clinic is discoverable when patients search - including via AI assistants. Checked with fixed queries: "best dentist San Diego", "English speaking dentist San Diego", "dental implants San Diego", "emergency dentist San Diego", "San Diego dental clinic for expats".
| ✓ | Mentioned for: best dentist San Diego [sq] | 1/1 |
| ? | Mentioned for: English speaking dentist San Diego | 0/1 |
| ✓ | Mentioned for: dental implants San Diego [sq] | 1/1 |
| ? | Mentioned for: emergency dentist San Diego | 0/1 |
| ? | Mentioned for: San Diego dental clinic for expats | 0/1 |
| ? | Structured data on website | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | Google indexing quality [sq] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Dedicated service pages [s-coastal-web] | 1.5/1.5 |
Licensing & Credentials
Whether the clinic publishes its operating licence and the dentists working there together with their professional licence numbers. Missing items are penalised.
Clinic operating licence: not published on the clinic’s website — penalty applied
Dentists & professional licences
| Dentist | Specialization | Licence No. |
|---|---|---|
| Dr. David Chotiner, DDS [s-coastal-web] | — | not published |
| Dr. Frank Mac, DDS [s-coastal-web] | — | not published |
| Dr. Bowen Zhou [s-coastal-web] | — | not published |
| Dr. Ariana Wetzstein [s-coastal-web] | — | not published |
Dentists are named, but their professional licence numbers are not published — penalty applied.
Red Flags
- medium Clinic operating licence not published (-4 pts) — The clinic does not publish its operating licence or registration number (derived from data).
- medium Dentists / their licences not listed (-4 pts) — The clinic does not publish its dentists with their professional licence numbers (derived from data).
- low Opaque or bait pricing (-2 pts) — No procedure prices published on the site. [s-coastal-web]
Red-flag penalty applied: -10 points (capped at -20).
Data We Could Not Verify
- Reputation & Reviews: Clinic responds to reviews
- Reputation & Reviews: No recurring complaints
- Reputation & Reviews: No suspicious review patterns
- Reputation & Reviews: TripAdvisor presence
- Medical Infrastructure: CBCT (3D imaging)
- Medical Infrastructure: Pediatric dentistry
- Medical Infrastructure: Emergency care
- Medical Infrastructure: Works with international patients
- Communication & Service: Response speed
- Communication & Service: Pre-visit consultation possible
- AI & Search Visibility: Mentioned for: English speaking dentist San Diego
- AI & Search Visibility: Mentioned for: emergency dentist San Diego
- AI & Search Visibility: Mentioned for: San Diego dental clinic for expats
- AI & Search Visibility: Structured data on website
Unverified items score 0 points but are not treated as negative findings. If you can document any of them, please send a correction.
Contact Information
| Website | https://www.coastaldentalarts.com/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +1-619-858-8080 |
| https://www.facebook.com/ | |
| Address | 1230 Columbia St, Suite 870, San Diego, CA 92101 |
Contact details are provided for identification only and may change; verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s-coastal-web | https://www.coastaldentalarts.com/ | Name, address, phone, dentist names, services, hours, photos. | 2026-07-12 |
| s-coastal-rev | https://www.yelp.com/biz/coastal-dental-arts-san-diego | Rating and review count. | 2026-07-12 |
| sq | search:dentist San Diego | AI/search visibility scout 2026-07-12 | 2026-07-12 |
Change History
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 2026-07-12 | Initial data collection. |
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