Children's Dentist Near Walnut, CA: All Three of Your Kids, One Trip

You have a four-year-old who has never had an X-ray, a fourth grader who needs sealants, and a fifteen-year-old whose wisdom teeth are starting to show up on a film. In most of Walnut that's three offices, three sets of intake paperwork, and three separate drives. Here it's one morning.

Kids Dental Castle & Orthodontics is in Pomona, nine miles and about fifteen minutes from Walnut. Dr. Nima Javan is a general and children's dentist whose practice is entirely children, teens, and patients with special healthcare needs. A board-certified orthodontist and a board-certified oral and maxillofacial surgeon work in this same building, and four board-certified dental anesthesiologists are on staff. Weekdays 9 to 6, Saturdays 8 to 2. Medi-Cal Dental and PPO accepted; uninsured children get a free exam and X-rays. Se habla español.

Three Kids, Three Appointments, One Morning

Siblings don't need identical appointments. They need different ones, scheduled to overlap.

A typical Saturday block runs like this. The toddler goes first, because a three-year-old at 8:10 is a completely different person than a three-year-old at 11:40 — twenty minutes for a cleaning, fluoride varnish, and a conversation with you. The fourth grader takes longer: full cleaning, sealants on the permanent molars, a look at how the bite is arriving. The teenager goes last and would like to leave immediately — cleaning, a check for decay between teeth nobody has flossed since August, and eventually the panoramic X-ray that starts the wisdom teeth conversation.

Three children usually clears in under two hours. Two, closer to one. That's a single trip instead of three afternoons of pulling kids out of school in shifts.

Saturday 8 to 2 and weekday evenings to 6 are what make the stacking possible, and Saturday fills first. Ask three weeks out, not three days.

What Each Age Actually Needs

The visit isn't the same thing repeated with a different-sized bib.

Two to five. Short appointments, twice a year. Fluoride varnish every time — twenty seconds with a small brush, and it hardens enamel that has begun to soften before it ever becomes a hole. Most of the visit is habits: what's in the cup and for how long, who is actually holding the toothbrush, whether a thumb still goes in at bedtime. X-rays wait until the back teeth touch tightly enough that a mirror can't see between them, often around four or five.

Six to ten. The first permanent molars push in at the very back, behind everything else, and no baby tooth is lost to announce them — which is why almost no parent notices the day they appear. Their chewing surfaces are grooved deeper than a bristle reaches, and sealing them is the highest-return twenty minutes in a childhood. This age also brings the first orthodontic look, around seven — not because braces go on then, but because a crossbite or a narrow arch costs far less to correct while the jaw is still growing (early orthodontics). If a sport with a ball or a helmet has started, this is when a mouthguard begins paying for itself.

Eleven to thirteen. The mixed years: baby and permanent teeth in one mouth, a bite that shifts every few months, and the part that ambushes parents — a kid who has just taken over their own brushing and is measurably worse at it than you were. Cavity rates climb for that reason alone. Twelve-year molars get sealed as they arrive.

Fourteen to eighteen. Cleanings get quicker; two new questions show up. Whitening — wait until the permanent teeth are all in, and never while brackets are on, or the result comes out striped. And wisdom teeth, below. Mouthguards still matter: most of the chipped front teeth we repair came off a court or a field, not a fall at home.

One Building, Three Specialties

This works because the specialists are on staff, not visiting two days a month.

• Children's dentistry — Dr. Nima Javan, cleanings through crowns, infants through teenagers and patients with special healthcare needs.

• Orthodontics — Dr. Lyndon Tran, board-certified by the American Board of Orthodontics, dental school and orthodontic residency at NYU, where he was recognized as a top student in the orthodontic honors program.

• Oral and maxillofacial surgery — Dr. Sean Moghadam, board-certified. UCLA with honors, a General Practice Residency at Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center, a surgical internship and clinical instructor role at The Ohio State University, and his OMS residency at Cook County Hospital in Chicago.

What that buys you is concrete. When your fifteen-year-old needs four wisdom teeth out, nobody hands you a name on a card and sends you to a surgeon in another city who has never met your child and doesn't have the X-ray. You book down the hall, and the surgeon can walk over and ask the dentist who took the film.

Full bios: Meet the Doctors. The range of children's services: pediatric dentistry.

Braces

When it's time, every case is planned and treated by Dr. Tran in this building. Timing, Invisalign versus brackets, insurance benefits and payment plans are covered properly on our Walnut orthodontics and Invisalign page — start there if braces are the actual reason you're reading this.

The Chart Doesn't Start Over

The dentist who watched your daughter's six-year molars come in rotated is the one looking at her panoramic film at fourteen. He knows which baby tooth was pulled early and which permanent tooth drifted into the space it left. He knows she gets a cavity every time the gap between cleanings stretches to eight months. So when the surgeon down the hall weighs whether her lower wisdom teeth can safely wait another year, none of that has to be reconstructed from a fresh intake form and a parent's memory.

Split one child across three practices and each gets a snapshot. Keep her in one and you get the whole strip.

Wisdom Teeth, Starting at Thirteen

The first evaluation belongs at 13 or 14, which sounds early and isn't. The point is not to remove anything. It's one X-ray showing which direction the third molars are pointed and whether there's room — years before anything hurts, while you can still choose the timing instead of reacting to an emergency. Plenty of teenagers need nothing for a long while.

When they do come out: $300 per tooth, and $1,200 flat for IV sedation or general anesthesia, one price whether it's one tooth or all four. Both are given in this office by our own board-certified dental anesthesiologists, not at a surgical center across the county. Recovery is a few days of swelling and soft food, which is why most Walnut families book it against a school break. Detail: wisdom tooth extraction.

If One of Them Is the Scared One

In a family of three, it's usually one child who makes the whole trip hard. Four board-certified dental anesthesiologists are on staff here — Dr. Charles Lee, Dr. Albert Kang, Dr. Ji Yoon Choi, and Dr. Andrew Elmasri — so the options run from talking a nervous kid through it, to nitrous oxide, to full sedation, all under this roof, and a sleep appointment is usually weeks out rather than months. The sedation page explains each step; if fear is the entire reason you're searching, our San Dimas children's dentist page is written for that.

When the Explaining Has to Happen in Another Language

Roughly two-thirds of Walnut residents are Asian American — 67% at the 2020 census — and in a great many of those households the language real decisions get made in is not English. You can be entirely fluent and still not want to approve a treatment plan in your second language while a four-year-old climbs out of the chair.

Spanish is spoken here, front desk through treatment room.

Past that, here is the part worth knowing. Our dental anesthesiologists speak Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean, and Vietnamese — Dr. Charles Lee, Mandarin and Cantonese; Dr. Albert Kang and Dr. Ji Yoon Choi, Korean; Dr. Vy, Vietnamese.

That is not the same as promising a Mandarin speaker at the front desk on a Tuesday, and we are not going to pretend it is. It matters at one specific moment and matters enormously there: if your child needs sedation or general anesthesia, the conversation beforehand covers medical history, what the drug does, the actual risks, and what to watch for overnight — and that is the conversation no parent should be having in their second language. Those doctors are here on sedation days. Say which language you speak when you call, and we will tell you what we can arrange.

For an ordinary cleaning or filling, the visit runs in English or Spanish. So, for everything else:

• Your translator comes in with you. A spouse, a parent, an older child, someone you hired — into the treatment room, not left in the lobby.

• Say at booking that you want time. We'll put you in a longer slot. Rushed consent isn't consent.

• The plan leaves with you on paper — tooth by tooth, price by price, what changes if you wait — so you can read it at home, in whatever language you read in.

Nobody here needs an answer while you're still standing in the room.

If Something Breaks Today

A tooth through a lip at Suzanne Middle, a front tooth chipped on a scooter off Amar Road, a back tooth that was mildly sensitive on Thursday and has swelled the side of a face by Friday — call 909-741-7052. A person answers from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m., seven days a week, and same-day slots are held open Monday through Saturday. If a permanent tooth comes out whole, keep it wet and get here inside the hour. First steps, injury by injury: emergencies.

What It Costs, in One Paragraph

Uninsured children get a free exam and X-rays, and there's a $100 new-patient special. Medi-Cal Dental is accepted, and because Walnut sits in Los Angeles County the benefit is administered straight through Medi-Cal Dental — no Inland Empire health plan is involved at all. PPO benefits are verified before the appointment rather than billed as a surprise after it; there's no HMO. Any treatment gets a written price before it begins. The full breakdown, with and without insurance, lives on our Chino Hills cost page.

Para Familias de Walnut con Varios Hijos

No hace falta una cita distinta, en un día distinto, para cada hijo. Podemos atender al de tres años, al de nueve y al adolescente en la misma mañana: limpieza y barniz de flúor para el pequeño, selladores para el de primaria, y para el mayor la radiografía que empieza la conversación de las muelas del juicio. Tres niños salen en menos de dos horas, en un solo viaje.

Hay personal que habla español: quien contesta el teléfono, quien lo recibe, y el dentista que examina a su hijo. Si prefiere que le expliquemos todo sin prisa, dígalo al hacer la cita y le damos más tiempo. El plan se lo lleva impreso, con el precio de cada cosa.

Como Walnut pertenece al condado de Los Ángeles, el beneficio dental se tramita directamente con Medi-Cal Dental; no se necesita un plan del Inland Empire. Si su hijo no tiene seguro, el examen y las radiografías son gratis, y el especial para pacientes nuevos cuesta $100. Llame al 909-741-7052; contestamos de 6 de la mañana a 9 de la noche, todos los días.

Getting Here From Walnut

Kids Dental Castle & Orthodontics

1532 San Bernardino Ave #A1

Pomona, CA 91767

909-741-7052

Monday–Friday 9–6 · Saturday 8–2

Nine miles, about fifteen minutes. From the Grand Avenue side of town, take the 57 north and then the 10 east. From Valley Boulevard or Lemon Avenue, the 60 east to the 57 north gets you to the same interchange. Exit at Garey and go a few blocks north — San Bernardino Avenue runs parallel to the freeway. Mt. SAC sits at the Pomona edge of Walnut, so from campus you're under ten minutes from our door.

We also see children from Diamond Bar, Rowland Heights, West Covina, and Phillips Ranch. Questions before you book: contact us or call 909-741-7052.

Schedule Your Child’s Dental Visit Near Walnut

Whether your child needs preventive care, cavity treatment, an emergency evaluation, orthodontic assessment, or additional support during dental visits, our team is here to help.