Dr. Jon L. Montague, DDS

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About

La Costa Dental Group in Encinitas is a multi-specialty family dental practice founded in 1975 on North El Camino Real, now operating as La Costa Dental Group by Espire with a nine-provider clinical team spanning general dentistry, orthodontics, and oral surgery. The half-century-old practice consolidates comprehensive examinations, Invisalign orthodontics, root canal therapy, and surgical extractions under one roof, maintaining whole-family care coordination with providers along El Camino Real including Beyond Vision Center Optometry. Conservative treatment philosophy prioritizes minimally invasive interventions, performing restorative work only when diagnostic imaging and clinical findings confirm necessity rather than prophylactic over-treatment. The original La Costa Plaza location relocated to the current North El Camino Real suite after the plaza's closure, maintaining uninterrupted patient care through the transition. Pediatric through geriatric patient populations access emergency dental care, traditional bracket orthodontics, and implant-supported prosthetics within a single practice, integrating naturopathic wellness perspectives through referral coordination with Gaia Naturopathic and Acupuncture Clinic for whole-body health assessment. Multi-unit implant-supported bridgework cases combine CT-guided fixture placement, custom-milled titanium abutments, and layered lithium-disilicate restorations to reconstruct posterior occlusal function.