Dr. Steven Chan

Need root-canal therapy without the usual theatrics? Dr. Steven Chan cleans out canals like clockwork, handling cracked molars with X-ray precision and gentle anesthesia. Crowns, bridges, and implant restorations at that corner space will keep your bite intact; even quicker: bonding chips back onto your central incisors the same afternoon so you walk out with a functional grin. Flip open your lower left molar still bothering you? They take walk-ins on Wednesday afternoons.

The clinic shuffles patients every half hour off Telegraph’s south slope between Dwight Way and Parker. Expect to find them tucked inside the Forest Glen building at 3031 Telegraph Ave Ste 136, Berkeley, CA 94705, a block south of the shuttered Bank of America with the vintage mural and before you hit BK Dessertron.

Teeth cleaning and four-handed hygiene visits include one-on-one instruction on your next seven-bristle routine, plus digital bite-wing images they shoot while you chew on a rectangular sensor that looks like a fortune-cookie wafer. Wisdom-tooth extractions—soft-tissue or full bony—come with post-op packs of salt packets and gauze picks you use at home without a cab ride.

Maps drop you at the curb in two blocks from Ashby BART; take the elevator up to level P2 if the sky’s unfriendly. Point your phone to this listing for curb-to-chair directions.