About Rooted Dental Wellness

Rooted Dental Wellness is a functional and biological dental practice on West Grand Avenue in Grover Beach, treating the oral cavity as an organ rather than a collection of individual teeth. The practice describes its approach as rejecting symptom-by-symptom intervention in favour of investigating the underlying systemic condition — a gum or tooth infection is worked back to the infection driving it rather than managed at the surface. The office states it is 100% mercury-free, latex-free, places no metal-containing crowns, and coordinates care with a patient's wider medical team.

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Credentialed Clinician

Estevan Tinoco

IAOMT member

IAOMT recordverified 22 October 2026

Procedures

Biocompatible Materials Ozone Therapy SMART Amalgam Removal Ceramic Crowns Sleep & Airway Dentistry TMJ / TMD Therapy Veneers

Clinic Details

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Common Questions

What does it mean that this practice treats the mouth as an organ?

The practice's stated philosophy is that the oral cavity is one of few organs with direct noninvasive access, and that it displays signs about immune status, organ function and active or chronic infection. Rather than treating each tooth's issue in isolation, the clinicians investigate the underlying systemic condition and coordinate with a patient's medical team, describing the alternative as a Whac-A-Mole pattern of repeated short-term repairs.

Does the office use mercury or metal-containing restorations?

No. The practice states it is 100% mercury-free, places no crowns containing metal, and uses tooth-coloured fillings that are BPA-free. The office is also latex-free.

Should existing amalgam fillings be removed?

The practice states this depends on the individual patient and that the same recommendation is not made to everyone. The option is available to every patient, and recommendations combine the patient's own stated goals and philosophy with their risk factors, health history and the condition of the tooth. Removal is carried out following the SMART protocol for mercury removal.

What airway and sleep-related treatment is offered?

The practice describes itself as airway-centric and sleep-medicine trained. Services listed include at-home sleep studies with ENT report and analysis, mandibular advancement device therapy for sleep apnoea and sleep-disordered breathing, anti-snoring appliance fabrication, MARPE jaw expansion, functional frenuloplasty for tongue-tie, tongue-thrust evaluation, oral myofunctional therapy and TMJ/TMD therapies.

How often are dental radiographs taken here?

Imaging frequency is individualised and tracked in cloud-based software according to each patient's risk factors for dental disease. A comprehensive set is taken when a patient is established as new and repeated three to five years later, with yearly check-up images evaluating for interproximal cavities in molar and pre-molar teeth. Intervals are extended for patients without dental disease and with little or no risk.

Does the practice see children?

As of 2025 the office has reached capacity for new patients under age ten and states it is not a pediatric dental office. Children under ten needing fillings, crowns or similar restorative or surgical work are generally referred to a pediatric specialist. The practice does continue to see children from around age two for oral myofunctional concerns, mouth breathing, crowded teeth and early signs of airway dysfunction.