New Patients · Tustin, CA
Here's exactly what happens when you become a patient at Dr. Marta Rudat DDS in Tustin, from the first call to the moment you leave with a plan.
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.
Written by the Dr. Marta Rudat DDS team · Medically reviewed by Marta Rudat, DDS, practicing in Tustin for 15+ years. Last reviewed July 2026.
Before you arrive
The Visit
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.
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.
Low-radiation images that show what an exam alone can't: decay between teeth, bone health, and anything brewing under old dental work.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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.
Frequently asked
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Your next step
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.
Dr. Marta Rudat DDS · 1076 E First Street, Suite D, Tustin, CA 92780
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Tell us a bit about what's bringing you in and we'll get back to you to schedule your 90-minute first visit.
