Understanding the importance of maintaining healthy teeth and gums, Dr. Ralph Zotovich provides a great start to your child’s dental health. Pediatric dentist Dr. Zotovich instills good oral habits in his patients, while treating them in the most comfortable atmosphere possible. Practicing for more than 30 years, Dr. Zotovich has showed his patients that going to the dentist can be fun as well as crucial to one’s overall health.

Since opening his practice in 1977, Dr. Ralph Zotovich has established himself as a leading pediatric dentist. Dr. Z’s assisting staff members are licensed as Registered Dental Assistants (RDAs) in California. All of Dr. Zotovich’s RDAs and front office staff have worked with him for 16 years or more. His practice boasts professionals who speak English, Tagalog, Vietnamese, Hindi, and Spanish. Dr. Zotovich and his assistants draw from their own experiences as parents when providing dental care to children.

Known for his kind, professional care and unparalleled patient easing techniques, Dr. Zotovich offers dental hygiene demonstrations, teeth cleanings, general check-ups, repair work, and pit and fissure sealants. Ralph Zotovich establishes a high level of comfort and trust with his young patients by using show-and-tell methods, non-verbal communication, positive reinforcement, and the option of conscious sedation nitrous oxide, or anesthesiology. For dental or intravenous anesthesiology, Dr. Zotovich employs expert health care providers who make your child’s safety their top priority.

Ralph Zotovich graduated with his Bachelor of Science from California State University, Los Angeles. Awarded with the Willard B. Fleming Scholarship, Dr. Zotovich attended the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center and achieved a Bachelor of Science and Doctor of Dental Surgery. Dr. Ralph Zotovich earned his Board Trained and Qualified certificate in pediatric dentistry and became a 1992 Fellow of American Society of Dentistry for Children.

In addition to managing his private practice, Dr. Zotovich has volunteered his pediatric dentistry expertise with several aid efforts. Dr. Zotovich treated underprivileged youth at a not-for-profit summer camp outside of Athens, Greece as part of his post-graduate education. In addition, Ralph Zotovich assisted in building a mobile dental clinic, which was transferred to Split, Yugoslavia. In Split, Zotovich provided dental services to needy children. Stateside, Dr. Ralph Zotovich took care of children of migrant workers in Central California and Apache children on their Globe, Arizona reservation. Dr. Zotovich’s experiences with helping children all over the world are major highlights in his professional dental career.