Dr Emily Zhang

Dr. Emily Zhang is caring and honest with her approach to her patients. She has personally gone through having her impacted wisdom teeth extracted, two stages of braces, and a gum graft surgery to top it off, so she understands what it’s like sitting in the chair! She is meticulous and thorough, and believes that treatment is secondary to prevention. She finds it rewarding to educate her patients on the importance of oral health and the necessity behind each procedure. Dr. Zhang received her Bachelor of Arts in Behavioral Biology at Johns Hopkins University where she graduated with high honors. She spent a year helping patients with drug resistant epilepsy through coordinating clinical trials at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. She then matriculated to University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) for her Doctorate of Dental Surgery. She has published multiple papers in journals including Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the California Dental Association. She was also previously a lecturer at UCLA, teaching preclinical dentistry courses to UCLA undergraduates. She is an active member of American Dental Association (ADA) and California Dental Association (CDA). She routinely takes continuing education courses to stay up to date on the latest technological advances in dentistry. Dr. Zhang is a Bay Area native, having grown up in the suburbs of Walnut Creek. You can find her getting lost on hiking trails, hitting balls at the driving range, and trying to find the best donut in the Bay Area. Dr. Zhang is bilingual in Mandarin Chinese/Shanghainese and English.