Dr Anne S Kim, a University of Michigan School of Dentistry graduate with more than 20 years in general practice, operates Village Hillcrest Dental in Hillcrest's 92103, the brand she retained after taking over Dr Chester Banaag's nearly 30-year practice in 2016. Dr Kim's general-practice scope is amalgam-free and conservative, prioritizing tooth preservation and minimally invasive composite work over crown-first restorative plans, with endodontic cases routing to Cameron M Stout DDS MS at Mission Hills Endodontics for microscope-assisted root canal therapy. In 2021 the practice absorbed the patient base of Dr Robert Adler, a 50-year Hillcrest dentist whose converted-house office Dr Kim took over, consolidating two long-tenured neighborhood ledgers under one roof. General-practice services span hygiene recall, composite restorations, crown-and-bridge fabrication, cosmetic whitening and fixed-implant restoration on titanium fixtures placed by surgical partners. CBCT and panoramic imaging required for implant treatment planning, third-molar localization and TMJ evaluation are referred to Imaging Healthcare Specialists - Hillcrest when in-house intraoral radiography is insufficient. Inheriting and continuing the recall ledgers of two retiring Hillcrest dentists under a single conservative amalgam-free protocol is the long-arc case-management challenge Dr Kim took on at Village Hillcrest Dental.