New Patients · Orange County, CA
Your first visit, without the unknowns.
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First visit
90 minutes
Care without pressure.
Continuity of care
Same dentist
every visit
Your first visit at Dr. Marta Rudat DDS in Tustin, CA is a full 90-minute appointment: a review of your history, digital X-rays, a complete exam of your teeth, gums, and bite, an oral cancer screening, and a cleaning when your gum health allows.
You leave with a clear picture and a plan, never a lecture.
New Here? Welcome.
From reaching out to your first visit.
We make it easy.
01
Getting started is simple
Call us or schedule online and tell us what brings you in, whether it’s a routine visit, a tooth that’s bothering you, or your first dental visit in a while.
02
Complete your forms at home
We’ll send your new-patient forms digitally so you can take care of the paperwork before you arrive.
03
Know your benefits ahead of time
Send us your insurance information before your visit and our team will verify your benefits for you.
04
Bring the basics
A photo ID, insurance card, medication list, and any recent dental X-rays you have. If you don’t have everything, come anyway. We’ll help with the rest.
The Visit
What you first visit looks like.
01
A real welcome.
The front desk knows you're coming and greets you by name. No number-in-a-queue feeling, no stack of forms if you did them at home.
02
Your story first.
Before anyone reclines a chair, Dr. Marta or her team asks what matters to you: what hurts, what you're avoiding, what you want your smile to do. Dental history includes the reasons you stayed away, and you can say those out loud here.
03
Digital X-rays.
Low-radiation images that show what an exam alone can't: decay between teeth, bone health, and anything brewing under old dental work.
04
The full exam.
Teeth, gums, bite, jaw joints, and an oral cancer screening. Dr. Marta explains what she sees in plain language as she goes, on the screen in front of you.
05
A cleaning, when your gums are ready.
Most new patients get their cleaning the same visit. If your gum health needs a deeper cleaning first, she'll explain why rushing it would be a disservice, and what the right sequence looks like.
06
Your plan, with numbers.
You finish with an honest rundown: what's healthy, what needs watching, what needs treatment, and what each option costs before anything is scheduled. Sometimes the plan is "everything looks great, see you in six months." She'll say that too.
Anxious patients
Nervous? You're in good company.
A large share of Dr. Marta's new patients arrive anxious, and plenty of them
open with an apology about how long it's been. The years don't get a lecture
here. Her pace is unhurried, she explains before she touches anything, and
stopping is always allowed: raise a hand and everything pauses.
Patients who came in white-knuckled tend to say the same thing in their reviews
afterward, some version of
"I don't dread this anymore."
That change usually happens on the first visit, and it's the reason this page exists.
Cost & Insurance
What a first visit costs.
Typical range
$200–$400
Orange County practices, new-patient exam with X-rays and a cleaning.
A new-patient exam with X-rays and a cleaning typically runs
$200–$400 at Orange County practices, and most PPO
dental plans cover preventive visits at or near 100%, which often
brings your out-of-pocket to little or nothing. The front desk verifies
your specific benefits before your visit and tells you what, if anything,
you'll owe, so the number never arrives as a surprise.
No insurance? Ask about payment options when you book. For treatment
beyond the first visit, every recommendation comes with an itemized
cost before you commit to anything.
Why patients stay
The first visit is the audition. Here's why patients stay.
Dr. Marta Rudat has practiced
general and preventive dentistry in Tustin, CA
for more than 15 years, and many patients from her first years are still in her chair.
You see the same dentist every visit, one who knows your history without re-reading a
chart, and who tells you when the smarter move is to watch and wait rather than drill.
Whatever brings you in later, from
cosmetic work
to
restorative treatment
,
it starts from this same first visit and the record it builds.
Dr. Marta Rudat, DDS
frequently asked
First visit
questions answered.
How long does a new-patient-first-appoinment-take?
Plan for about 90 minutes. That covers your history, digital X-rays, a complete exam with oral cancer screening, a cleaning when gum health allows, and time to actually talk through what Dr. Marta found. It’s intentionally longer than a routine recall visit.
Will I get a cleaning at my first visit?
Usually, yes. If the exam shows gum inflammation or tartar below the gumline, a standard cleaning would gloss over the real problem, so Dr. Marta will schedule the right type of cleaning instead and explain exactly why.
What if I haven’t been to a dentist in years?
Come exactly as you are. A long gap changes nothing about how you’re treated; the first visit simply establishes where things stand today and what order to fix anything in. No lectures, no guilt, just a starting point.
Do you take my insurance?
The office works with most PPO dental plans and verifies your benefits before your visit so you know your coverage in advance. Call (714) 665-4200 with your plan details and the front desk will check for you the same day.
Can my whole family come to the same practice?
Yes. Dr. Marta sees patients of all ages, including kids, and families often stack appointments together. One practice, one dentist who knows everyone’s history, one place to call.
How soon can I get my first appointment?
New patients are typically seen within a week. If something hurts, say so when you call; urgent problems are triaged ahead of routine visits, same-day when the schedule allows.
By private consultation only
Ready for a dentist
you'll stay with?
The hardest part of coming back to the dentist is the first phone call, and it takes about two minutes. Everything after that is our job.
