Pediatric Dentistry of San Diego

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Pediatric Dentistry of San Diego is a board-certified pediatric dental practice in Grantville at 6495 Alvarado Rd, Suite 102, San Diego, CA 92120. The practice treats infants through adolescents — including patients with special healthcare needs — offering sealants, fluoride treatments, restorative care, emergency intervention, and cosmetic pediatric dentistry in a bilingual English and Spanish environment. Families in the 92120 ZIP who enroll children at nearby Grantville programs such as Little Sprouts / Learning Jungle Mission Gorge establish first dental visits at the Alvarado Road office around age one, aligning preventive dental care with the early-childhood developmental timeline. The clinical team is led by Truska Mahmood, DDS, a board-certified pediatric dentist, alongside Eunice Hwang, DDS, who graduated Magna Cum Laude from Loma Linda University School of Dentistry and completed her pediatric residency at UCLA. Hwang was inducted into the Omicron Kappa Upsilon Dental Honor Society and trained at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center and Mattel Children's Hospital, with rotations covering child behavior management, craniofacial development, and hospital dentistry. Sedation and anesthesia cases are managed by Shannon Granger, MD, a dual board-certified pediatric anesthesiologist who completed her fellowship at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center after serving as chief resident at Riverside County Regional Medical Center. The Alvarado Road location sits east of SDSU off Interstate 8, and the practice serves families across Grantville, Allied Gardens, and the broader east San Diego corridor. Complex pediatric cases requiring surgical intervention — impacted teeth, supernumerary extractions, or frenectomies — route to the oral surgery team at The Oral Surgery & Dental Implant Specialists of San Diego on Alvarado Court. The clinical team holds memberships in the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry, the American Dental Association, the California Dental Association, and the San Diego County Dental Society. The office's pediatric anesthesia capability — with a fellowship-trained anesthesiologist on staff rather than on referral — allows the practice to complete sedation cases for complex or anxiety-driven treatment plans entirely in-house.