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Gema Higuera, DDS

  • General practice
  • Independent practice
  • NPI-verified

General-practice dentist practicing in San Diego, California — one of 1,436 active dentists in the city’s federal registry roster, 3 of them sharing the 92139 ZIP code. Every fact below is from the public record, with its source shown.

Registry profile

Practice address

2939 Alta View Dr, San Diego, CA 92139

Phone

(619) 267-8772

Specialty (primary taxonomy)

General Practice

Taxonomy code 122300000X

License state

CA

In the federal registry since

2025

Registry record last updated

2025-12-15

NPI number

1518821479

View the authoritative record at NPPES

CMS National Plan & Provider Enumeration System (NPPES) NPI Registry, live registry (individual providers, county). Retrieved 2026-07-23. Providers self-report NPPES records, so an address or phone number can lag a practice move — confirm details directly with the office. An NPI is a federal enumeration, not a license status, quality rating, or endorsement.

The market around this practice

San Diego County runs 59.2 dentist offices per 100,000 residents — about 2% more than California overall (58.1). That is the competitive backdrop this practice operates in. Full county detail is on the San Diego County market page.

Where this practice sits in San Diego

The 120 practices nearest this one, of 1,310 geocoded citywide. Hover a dot for the name; click through to the profile.

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Lilian Dominguez, DDS — General Practice, 2939 Alta View Dr Ste ADorman Malone, DDS — General Practice, 6919 Paradise Valley Rd Ste 1aBernie Manasan, DDS — General Practice, 2463 Calle AguadulceKevin Adams, DDS — General Practice, 950 S Euclid AveAndrew Nguyen, DDS — General Practice, 950 S Euclid AveMichael Crawford, DDS — General Practice, 5060 Logan AveDiana Kim, DDS — General Practice, 5060 Logan AveAgnes Stockell, DMD — General Practice, 5060 Logan AveJulian Wade, DDS — General Practice, 5060 Logan AveAlice Houston — General Practice, 250 Euclid Ave Apt BGhassan Jayyar, DMD — General Practice, 286 Euclid Ave Ste 201Gene Moore, DDS — General Practice, 286 Euclid Ave Ste 201Hasan Mustafa — General Practice, 286 Euclid Ave Ste 201Xiaochen Yin, DDS — General Practice, 286 Euclid Ave Ste 201Thanh-Ha Le, DDS — General Practice, 4725 Market StLaura Plue, DDS — General Practice, 4725 Market StVictor Crawford, DDS — General Practice, 5106 Federal BlvdCathy Williams, DMD — General Practice, 5106 Federal Blvd Ste 209Bryan Do, DDS — Endodontics, 3408 College AveShafak Yousif — General Practice, 3408 College AveMark Bellisario — General Practice, 823 Gateway Center WayShushila Shaw, DDS — General Practice, 823 Gateway Center WayChristina Tsang, DDS — General Practice, 823 Gateway Center WayKeith Aguilera, DDS — General Practice, 995 Gateway Center WayEduardo Lugo, DDS — General Practice, 995 Gateway Center WayJose Ruiz, DDS — General Practice, 995 Gateway Center WayAdesuwa Bello, DDS — General Practice, 3177 Ocean View BlvdSaif Issac — General Practice, 3177 Ocean View BlvdSamantha Melzer, DMD — General Practice, 3177 Ocean View BlvdMaximo Meza-Crespo, DDS — General Practice, 3177 Ocean View BlvdSam Zijoudi — General Practice, 5807 University Ave Ste 3Allan Patch, DMD — General Practice, 6324 University AveLieu Nguyen, DDS — General Practice, 5296 University AveRitesh Shah, DDS — General Practice, 5296 University AveHuy Ho, DMD — General Practice, 4276 54th PlTyler Kuwamoto, DMD — General Practice, 4276 54th PlRoy Vegter, DDS — General Practice, 4276 54th Pl Ste DAfsaneh Zokaei, DDS — General Practice, 4276 54th Pl. #ARabie Hanna, DDS — General Practice, 4844 University Ave Ste BDhafir Petros — General Practice, 4844 University AveHung Quan, DDS — Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, 4748 University Ave Ste DShini Reddy, DDS — General Practice, 4533 College AveLynn Hudak, DDS — General Practice, 4541 College AveTuyet Mai Nguyen, DDS — General Practice, 4703 University AveRobert Cheung, DDS — General Practice, 4546 College AveEsther Ong, DDS — General Practice, 4546 College AveMohammed Lakhani, DDS — General Practice, 4619 University AveKiana Brumand, DDS — General Practice, 4585 College Ave Ste BVincent Le, DDS — General Practice, 5507 El Cajon BlvdLee Heid, DMD — General Practice, 5454 El Cajon BlvdPhillip Johnson — General Practice, 5454 El Cajon BlvdBruce Thompson, DDS — General Practice, 5454 El Cajon BlvdTin Maung, DDS — General Practice, 1540 Fern StThi Phan — General Practice, 1540 Fern StThong Duong, DDS — General Practice, 4448 University AveLong Tran, DDS — General Practice, 4448 University AvePhilip Lepor, DDS — General Practice, 6161 El Cajon Blvd # B-465Mohammed Al Tekreeti, DMD — General Practice, 6175 El Cajon BlvdHusam Aldairi, DDS — General Practice, 6175 El Cajon BlvdDonald Anderson, DDS — General Practice, 6244 El Cajon BlvdMegan Clarke, DDS — General Practice, 6244 El Cajon Blvd Ste 8Dan Dobbs, DMD — General Practice, 6244 El Cajon BlvdAaron Fiddelke, DDS — General Practice, 6244 El Cajon BlvdMark Haeger, DDS — General Practice, 6244 El Cajon Blvd Ste 6Mordecai Lightman, DDS — General Practice, 6244 El Cajon BlvdRobert Santoro, DDS — General Practice, 6244 El Cajon BlvdRona Bodman, DDS — General Practice, 4305 University AveKai Liu, DDS — General Practice, 4305 University Ave Ste 150Bryan Nghiem, DDS — General Practice, 4305 University AveMary Ann Sanvictores, DDS — General Practice, 4305 University Ave Ste 120Catherine Tan — General Practice, 4305 University AveLuis Calixto, DDS — General Practice, 6368 El Cajon BlvdGiovanna Garcia, DDS — General Practice, 6368 El Cajon BlvdFay Ahmadpour, DDS — General Practice, 4060 Fairmount AvePejman Behin, DDS — General Practice, 4060 Fairmount Ave 3rd FloorJessica Camacho, DMD — General Practice, 4060 Fairmount AveNina Chachad — General Practice, 4060 Fairmount AveRomi Chua, DDS — General Practice, 4060 Fairmount AveNashwa Gebri — General Practice, 4060 Fairmount AveMorteza Khatibzadeh — General Practice, 4060 Fairmount AveDonald Kieu, DDS — General Practice, 4060 Fairmount AveEmilia Kodiath, DDS — General Practice, 4060 Fairmount AveMarie Joy Lazaro, DDS — General Practice, 4060 Fairmount AveChristine Lin, DDS — General Practice, 4060 Fairmount AveFina Madrid, DDS — General Practice, 4060 Fairmount AveVanessa Mahrou, DMD — General Practice, 4060 Fairmount AveMarina Markova, DMD — General Practice, 4060 Fairmount AveElaine Nguyen, DDS — General Practice, 4060 Fairmount AveKellie Ramsey, DDS — General Practice, 4060 Fairmount AvePauline Tran, DDS — General Practice, 4060 Fairmount AveDung Nguyen, DDS — General Practice, 4310 Euclid AveSierra Zarate, DMD — Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics, 4074 Fairmount Ave Ste BHung Nguyen, DDS — General Practice, 4712 El Cajon BlvdItzel Garcia Oscos, DDS — General Practice, 3079 Kaanapali WayGrettel Delgadillo Esparza, DDS — General Practice, 2225 Mabuhay WayJerome Bannister, DDS — General Practice, 4370 Palm AveHamit Aras, DDS-PHD — General Practice, 6544 El Cajon BlvdRonald Mccleave, DDS — General Practice, 6544 El Cajon BlvdHector Suarez, DMD — General Practice, 6544 El Cajon BlvdKourosh Kashani, DDS — General Practice, 6585 El Cajon BlvdNathan Le, DMD — General Practice, 4170 Fairmount AveDi Vo, DDS — General Practice, 4170 Fairmount AveDonald Tran, DDS — General Practice, 4132 University AvePhuong Tran, DDS — General Practice, 4132 University AveHenry Tran, DDS — General Practice, 4616 El Cajon Blvd Ste 8Jonathan Nguyen, DDS — General Practice, 4575 El Cajon Blvd Ste ARagheed Gabro — General Practice, 4123 University AveRoderick Pangilinan — General Practice, 4123 University AveJulita Tinamisan — General Practice, 4123 University AveDavid Wang, DDS — General Practice, 4123 University AveRobert Gandola, DDS — General Practice, 7125 El Cajon BlvdVinh Tran, DDS — General Practice, 4205 Fairmount AveRand Ali Nihad, DMD — General Practice, 6663 El Cajon BlvdHuan-Tony Ngo, DDS — General Practice, 6663 El Cajon BlvdJose Lopez, DDS — General Practice, 3490 Palm AveHammad Afif, DDS — General Practice, 1809 National AveMarco Alegria, DDS — General Practice, 1809 National AveRossana Aravena, DDS — General Practice, 1809 National AveOlivia Chow, DMD — General Practice, 1809 National AveGema Higuera, DDS — 2939 Alta View Dr
Positions from the U.S. Census Bureau geocoder (public domain) applied to NPPES practice addresses; grid lines are 0.02° of latitude/longitude. Not a routing map — a market map. Showing the nearest 120 practices; the full city is on the San Diego roster page.

How long San Diego’s dentists have been in the registry

1,436 dentists by years since NPI enumeration — a lower bound on time in practice.

03697370–4 years: 176 dentists0–4this practice’s bin5–9 years: 202 dentists5–910–14 years: 191 dentists10–1415–19 years: 737 dentists15–1920–24 years: 130 dentists20–2425+ years: 0 dentists25+
Source: NPI enumeration dates, CMS NPPES. Dentists licensed before the NPI system launched in 2006 all enumerated around then, so the top bins understate long careers.

Dentist offices per 100,000 residents

The competitive backdrop: establishment density, county vs state vs nation.

San Diego County: 59.2 offices per 100k residentsSan Diego County59.2California: 58.1 offices per 100k residentsCalifornia58.1United States: 40.6 offices per 100k residentsUnited States40.6
Derived from U.S. Census County Business Patterns (NAICS 621210 establishments) and ACS population. Establishments are business locations, not individual dentists.

San Diego County — the numbers

Dentist offices (NAICS 621210 establishments)

1,943

U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, 2022 (establishments, county). Retrieved 2026-07-22. Source

Population

3,282,782

U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, 2023 (population, county). Retrieved 2026-07-22. Source

Offices per 100,000 residents

59.2

Derived from U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, 2022 (establishments, county). Retrieved 2026-07-22. and ACS population. Establishments, not dentists.

General dentist mean annual wage

Not available in the cached dataset for this geography.

Paid employment (dentist offices)

12,576

U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, 2022 (employees, county). Retrieved 2026-07-22. Source

Every figure counts establishments (business locations) or wage-and-salary workers — not individual dentists, and not licenses. Suppressed values reflect real source disclosure limits, never zero. See our methodology.

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This is a data profile assembled from public sources — the CMS NPPES NPI Registry and U.S. Census market data — not the practice’s own website, and not a ranking. Inclusion is automatic for every active registered dentist in a covered city; no practice can pay to appear, disappear, or rank. Patients should verify hours, availability, and insurance participation directly with the office. See our methodology.

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