Very happy with this Pediatric Dentist. My two girls went here for a few years before our recent move. Everyone is so kind and friendly, and Dr. Scoma is the best! Worked closely with me to put together a plan of care for my daughter who needed dental surgery. Highly recommend this pediatric dentist!

I took my two daughters here fir the first time. My 5 year old never has been to the dentist and they made her absolutely LOVE going! Dr scoma and the whole team at the office are incredible!!

This place is a poorly run dental practice. They lack follow up and responsibility. I brought my daughter in for a consult for a procedure and prepaid a deposit before COVID happened. I found another practice that works better with our insurance and decided to go that route instead.I called to get my deposit back once they reopened from COVID. They stated they would send the check out. 3 weeks later and 4 phone calls later, I finally had to escalate my temper in order to get my money back. I shouldn’t have to be an angry person to get my own money back.Poor business practice

Its always a good experience here. The staff are super friendly and know how to work with kids. The environment is welcoming and clean!! Highly recommend!!

I go to Seaside Pediatric Dentistry with my 2 siblings and we all like it. Not only is the waiting room fun with the video games and photo booth, but we get to watch tv and movies while they work on our teeth. Everyone is super nice and gentle there and my teeth were crooked when I started but now they are straight!! I would highly recommend my friends coming here. My mom likes that the parking is super easy in the big lot too.

We had no wait time. The technician was a gem. Dr. Scoma was so gentle, kind and caring, as he always is. The 2 of them worked like clockwork, always treating my son like a little boy, encouraging him, and me too. After care very well explained. The front office ladies are always professional lovely. Thank you all!

My experience is similar to another reviewer. My daughter always had a high level of oral bacteria since newborn. Imagine 3 mo with bad breath. My kids were terrified of dentists no thanks to Finding Nemo. And I had moved the kids from Dr O Connor ‘s practice to a Family dental practice so they can see mama getting her teeth done too. After learning of my daughters cavities, I looked around to find a Dentist who may be able to “put her put” during to procedure as it will only be more traumatizing. I found out Dr. Scoma is a regularly scheduled dentist at Rady’s children hospital and that is the only way to have the kids go under covered by Denti-Cal. Dr. Scoma was kind and quick and he said he could take care of it all. I was relieved. He never discussed what he was going to do, I assumed fillings. He did 4 root canals of my girls front teeth, that were not necessary. And silver capped 4 more teeth, that did not look necessary either. It was “over-precautious” or over-worked in my opinion. The teeth did look nice, however. The caps were made larger to fit her growing face for the next 3 years. Unfortunately 1 broke off the following day, and I was told she had fallen on it though this was not the case as I was with her the whole time. There was already a dark vein on the tooth near the gum line where the split took place when we left the hospital. Her other cap did eventually get knocked off a year later, however, though her baby teeth remained intact. Now her permanent tooth has decided 5 was a good age to break through as it has grown behind the root canals instead of pushing them out like a normal teeth would. Also the cemented root has broken off from the rest of the cemented tooth. This can’t be expected, I understand. I am a little more than weary that an excessive amount of dental work was done without informing the parent what was going to happen. It’s hard when you are in the OR to ask for consent for 4 root canals, but still...I just don’t like it one bit. Dr. Scoma works hard but independently. This just makes me feel uneasy about the practice. In hindsight, I would not recommend going to this dentist, unless more effort was put into communicating clearly recommended procedures and what is too be expected.Edit: Thank you Office for reaching out to me. I appreciate that you took this review seriously. Unfortunately the issue has not been resolved as you only stood behind the fact that it was unavoidable and this review was damaging to Dr. Scoma’s reputation. I had asked for the x-rays to be sent to me for personal record and review in which you promised promptness and it never showed up. After a lengthy conversation with Lisa I believe (it’s been awhile), I am sure that you understand my requests as we had spoke in length and repeatedly asked for those x-rays performed while under anesthesia at Rady’s Children’s hospital. There are only 2 dentists who are residents and have access to the anesthesia to go unconscious, Dr. Scoma and Dr. Mary O’Connor. A few days after the phone call received from the office in response to this post, I visited a new Pediatric Dentist that also accepts Denti-Cal to deal with the broken roots and her teeth growing above “on top” of her front teeth that wouldn’t come out because of the artificial roots. There my husband and I now learned that there was a total of 12 root canals and 12 crowns performed on my daughter. 12!! She only has 16 baby teeth! What happened to fillings? I agree with another reviewer, not only is this unnecessary, this is bordering unethical. I understand each dentist has different approaches, and I have tried to be more than understanding, as I have moderated a mother’s reaction, a former employee of an endodontist (root canal specialist) Office, and the inaccessibility of being in the OR room. I have only delayed a complaint to the denti-Cal ombudsman because we were in the middle of moving cross country and had no time to deal with this fiasco. If you need a good dentist who will listen...Hit my character limit so had to add photos. I also removed 1 star.

Appreciate the email reminder. Dr. Scoma & staff are always super friendly and great with my kids. My kids love to come to the dentist, as a result! Thanks for making the dentist a fun place.

Definitely NOT a HONEST provider with billing department. They are a bait and hook practice to say they accept your insurance then when services are rendered tell you they are out-of-network for expenses.I have to agree with several reviews about their billing practices are deceptive. Long story short we scheduled my daughters appt back in Nov 2016 and was verified they were Im network then to find out at her appt in Mar 2017 they were out-of-network.The office manager called and they clearly do not know how to verify and provide logistical customer service. She kept going on circles that they are not a clinic and do not have the time to verify co-pays and such. She was not willing to address the out-of-network pocket expense.The dental hygienist my daughter enjoyed, however the office staff is under-educated in how to check-in and verify patients.

Dr. Scoma is great. He is patient, professional and always very kind. Love the staff, very pleasant on the phone, knowledgeable and on time visitation is great. Thank you for everything!

I love the whole ambiance from the way things are set up to the personalities of each staff member. i have and will continue to recommend this establishment to others

My family was charged numerous times for services that were not approved by us or covered by our insurance. They explained it as that they can do what they want and we will be charged. I dont agree to that. So my family will go somewhere else.

We had some billing issues, but after speaking to Kaylee, we were able to figure out that there was an issue with the insurance receiving the paperwork Seaside submitted. Frustrating initially but glad that Kaylee was there to help me work through the issue and her help to reach out to insurance company to resolve it.

Dr. Scoma needlessly drilled out the root nerve and then put crowns on two of our four year old daughters front teeth, in order to make extra money from California Medi-Cal. We also feel that he preformed fast, but not careful, or considerate pediatric dentistry; which may lead to continued inflammation and infection in the future. We feel Dr. Scoma used his professional position to pressure us into trusting him, taking advantage of us and our four year old daughter, as well as California Medi-Cal system, for his own extra profit. We feel no dentist should be allowed to needlessly preform abusive root canals on children, or on any one for that matter and then fraudulently charge for what was an unnecessary and a painful procedure. We demand that Dr. Scomas actions be addressed by the California Dental Board, and appropriate legal and licensing measures are taken to prevent this abuse of his professional position.

Thank you for your detailed explanations and great care given!

Always have a great experience here.

Nice place