Dental care that explains itself before it treats you
Riverside has been the neighbourhood practice on the waterfront for eighteen years — three chairs, a small team that doesn't rotate, and a habit of walking you through what we're seeing before we touch a drill. Routine cleanings, cosmetic work and same-week emergency slots, all billed direct to most major insurers.
In numbers
From first call to finished treatment
Riverside opened in 2007 with two chairs and a lease on the ground floor of a converted boathouse, and has grown to three dentists and a hygiene team without ever moving off the waterfront. The approach hasn't changed: a treatment plan you can read before you agree to it, and a team small enough that whoever answers the phone can actually tell you what happens next. We still see patients whose parents were patients.
What we do
What Riverside Dental offers
Routine Check-ups & Cleaning
Six-monthly exams, scale and polish, and a plaque report you can actually understand.
How it works
From first call to finished treatment
Book online or by phone
Pick a chair and a time — most new patients are seen within the week.
Meet your dentist first
A full exam and a conversation before anything is scheduled or billed.
Get a written plan
Costed treatment options, sent home with you, not decided on the spot.
Treatment on your schedule
Single visits or a staged plan — whichever fits how you actually book time off.
Why teams choose us
Why patients choose Riverside
Four things that come up in almost every new-patient call, answered before you have to ask.
Same-week appointments
Most requests get a chair within five working days, including new patients.
Direct insurance billing
We bill your provider directly for covered treatment, so you're not the one chasing a claim.
Sedation options
Nitrous, oral and IV sedation available for anxious patients or longer procedures.
Multilingual team
Appointments run in English, French or Mandarin depending on who's in the chair.
Selected work
Recent work
Client words
What clients say
“I'd put off a proper check-up for years and expected a lecture. Instead Dr. Anand walked me through exactly what she was seeing on the scan and what could wait versus what couldn't, in that order. The plan she sent home was itemised enough that I could actually budget for it, which is the part every other clinic has skipped.”
“Two implants over five months, staged so I never had more than a day or two off work at a time. Dr. Okoye showed me the mock-up before touching anything, which meant no surprises at the reveal — the finished teeth looked like the photo he'd shown me, not like a slightly different set someone else picked.”
“My son used to cry in the car on the way there. Marisol spent the whole first visit just letting him hold the tools and count his own teeth in the mirror, no treatment at all. Eighteen months later he asks when his next cleaning is, which is not a sentence I expected to type about a dentist.”
Recognition
Awards & achievements
Good to know
Frequently asked questions
For most major Canadian providers, yes — we submit the claim and you pay only the difference at checkout, if there is one. It's worth calling ahead of a first visit so we can confirm your plan's specifics before you're sitting in the chair, but the billing itself happens on our end, not yours.
Yes — new patients are welcome and usually seen within the week for a routine booking, sooner for anything urgent. The first visit is a full exam and a conversation about what you actually want from the practice, not just a cleaning.
Call the practice line and follow the recorded instructions — it routes to the on-call dentist for anything that can't wait until morning. During business hours we hold back same-day slots specifically for this, so you're not competing with routine bookings.
Let's talk
Get in touch with Riverside Dental
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