About Us
As you navigate through the twists and turns of owning your own practice, we are here to help you achieve success and growth while maintaining your clinical autonomy.
Scott H. Dahlquist, D.D.S.
Dr. Scott Holbrook Dahlquist was raised in Arcadia, California the youngest of six children of Carlyle and Helen Dahlquist. Scott’s father was a dentist, a graduate of USC Dental School and the owner of a private dental practice in Alhambra, California. Scott’s older brother, Carl, is also a practicing dentist in Blue Springs, Missouri. Dr. Scott Dahlquist graduated, like his brother, from the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Dentistry. After having returned to California to practice for a short time in the Coachella Valley, he bought a dental practice in Salt Lake City, Utah. He successfully merged another practice with his own and ran a solo private dental practice in the affluent Holladay area of Salt Lake City for eighteen years. When the opportunity presented itself to join up with his former classmate from UMKC in a group practice in Kern County and to move back to his California roots, he moved his family to Bakersfield in 2007 and became a partner shortly after at Capital Dental Group. In 2017, he had a special opportunity to move to the central coast of California and purchased a solo dental practice in Lompoc, California now named Ocean Dental.
DR. PERRY PATEL
Dr. Patel spent his early childhood in London, England before his family relocated to San Luis Obispo in 1984. He graduated from San Luis Obispo High School in 1990 and went on to earn a bachelor’s degree in biochemistry from UCLA in 1994, followed by a doctorate in dental surgery in 1998.
Returning to the central coast, he gained extensive experience in pediatric dentistry while working in several offices. In 2002, he established his own practice in Grover Beach, later moving to a new office at the Pismo Medical Campus in Pismo Beach in 2006. Due to continued growth, Dr. Patel acquired and redesigned a larger building to accommodate his growing needs.
