Arroyo Grande Dental Care

What Arroyo Grande Dental Care does

Arroyo Grande Dental Care is a single-location general dental practice operating in Arroyo Grande, California, on the state's Central Coast. Founded in 1989 by Dr. Steven L. Flood DDS — a UCSF-trained dentist born and raised in Arroyo Grande — the practice is structured as a sole proprietorship (legal name: Steven L. Flood DDS) and serves individuals and families with a comprehensive range of general, preventive, cosmetic, emergency, and restorative dental services. The service mix includes dental examinations, professional cleaning and hygiene, dental implants, crowns, veneers, bonding, tooth-colored composite fillings, root canals, periodontal treatment, tooth extractions, dentures, sealants, custom mouthguards, and emergency care, delivered through one physical office at 1124 East Grand Avenue.

The practice's underlying clinical technology stack centers on conventional dental equipment augmented by the Odyssey Diode soft-tissue dental laser (enabling less invasive procedures with reduced anesthesia and faster healing), intra-oral cameras providing 20-30x magnification for examination and patient education, and the ZOOM in-office professional teeth whitening system. The website provides online appointment request capability in addition to phone scheduling, and the practice holds HIPAA-aligned privacy practices and memberships in the American Dental Association, California Dental Association, and Central Coast Dental Society. Staffing is approximately 9-10 people, including the owner-dentist, three dental assistants, three hygienists, and two front-office administrators, with unusually long tenure (some staff 20+ years), which materially supports continuity of care.

The business model is direct-to-consumer fee-for-service dental care, with revenue collected from direct patient payment and third-party insurance billing for covered procedures. Go-to-market is community-oriented and locally driven: brand awareness and new patient flow rely on the practice's 35+ year operating history, word-of-mouth referrals, professional affiliations, and the website, rather than paid digital acquisition. The customer base is a long tail of households in the Central Coast catchment, with no enterprise or institutional customers, no public pricing, and no disclosed financials.

Name

Arroyo Grande Dental Care

Legal name

Steven L. Flood DDS

Website

https://agdentalcare.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1989

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Arroyo Grande Dental Care is a single-location general dental practice in Arroyo Grande, California, founded in 1989 by Dr. Steven L. Flood DDS, serving individuals and families on the Central Coast with family, cosmetic, emergency, and preventive dental services.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

General Dentistry

NAICS

Offices of Dentists (6212)

SIC

Services-Health Services (8000)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYHLABAAAE

Comprehensive Family Dentistry (Multi-Disciplinary In-Office General Care)

Healthcare & Life Sciences/Dental Care Services/General & Family Dentistry

SECONDARYHLABALAD

Urgent Dental Care Centers (Non-Hospital)

Healthcare & Life Sciences/Dental Care Services/Emergency & After-Hours Dental Clinics

Keywords

• General dentistry services
• Family dental care
• Cosmetic dentistry
• Preventive dental hygiene
• Emergency dental care

Headquarters

HQ city

Arroyo Grande

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Supply Chain

Revenue model

1. Patient Service Fees: Fee-for-service dental care including examinations, cleanings, cosmetic procedures, restorative treatments, and emergency services. Revenue collected through direct patient payment and insurance billing.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Arroyo Grande Dental Care is a private dental practice founded in 1989 by Dr. Steven L. Flood, DDS, that delivers comprehensive dental services to individuals and families in Arroyo Grande, California. The practice offers general dentistry, cosmetic dentistry, preventive hygiene, restorative procedures, dental implants, emergency dental care, and laser-assisted dental treatments. Services are delivered through a single physical office by an in-house team of dentists, hygienists, and dental assistants.

Product overview

Arroyo Grande Dental Care is a general dental practice offering a comprehensive range of dental services. The practice operates as a single-location dental office with Dr. Steven L. Flood DDS as the owner/practitioner. The service portfolio includes core general dentistry (prevention, diagnosis, treatment of oral conditions), cosmetic dentistry (veneers, bonding, tooth-colored fillings), preventative dental hygiene services, emergency dental care, dental implants, and specialized procedures including ZOOM Teeth Whitening, root canals, dental crowns, extractions, periodontal treatment, and laser dentistry using the Odyssey Diode dental laser. The practice also provides supporting services such as intra-oral cameras for examination, custom mouthguards for sports, and dental sealants for cavity prevention.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• General Dentistry

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights2 records

Broad incumbents

• Heartland Dental: Heartland Dental is the largest US DSO supporting general dentistry practices; comparable in offering a comprehensive mix of family, cosmetic, and preventative services, but operating at vastly greater scale with hundreds of supported offices.
• Smile Brands: Smile Brands operates affiliated general and multi-specialty dental practices with similar hygiene, cosmetic, and emergency offerings; business-model peer via DSO structure even though scale differs dramatically.
• Aspen Dental: Aspen Dental operates a national network of full-service dental offices providing general, cosmetic, implant, and emergency dentistry; comparable service portfolio to Arroyo Grande Dental Care but multi-site and heavily marketed at the brand level.
• Pacific Dental Services: Pacific Dental Services supports multi-specialty dental practices with general dentistry, periodontics, endodontics, and implants; overlaps closely with the broad service menu offered at this practice.
• Western Dental & Orthodontics: Western Dental operates one of the largest dental service organizations in California, offering general dentistry, orthodontics, implants and emergency services; particularly relevant as a California-based broad incumbent covering overlapping geographies.
• Great Expressions Dental Centers: Great Expressions Dental Centers is a multi-location dental group providing general dentistry, endodontics, periodontics, and cosmetic services; comparable in offering comprehensive general dentistry across an extended menu.
• Affordable Dentures & Implants: Affordable Dentures & Implants is a national chain focused on dentures, extractions, and implants; partial overlap with the implant and denture services offered by Arroyo Grande Dental Care.
• Gentle Dental: Gentle Dental (InterDent) operates multi-location family and specialty dental practices with general dentistry, cosmetic, and emergency services; serves as a regional California DSO peer with overlapping service offerings.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/steven-l-flood-dds

Compliance3 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles9 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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