We love serving patients in South Pasadena and surrounding communities, and take pride in having the highest quality service from the moment you walk through our doors to when you leave with a smile. Meet the doctors and staff which make it all possible!
Dr. Gin Goei
Dr. Gin Goei has been a practicing dentist for nearly thirty-five years in the San Gabriel Valley. She grew up in Germany and the Netherlands, and graduated dental school from the renowned University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands in 1986.
Dr. Goei later moved to Los Angeles, California where she started practicing with Drs. Lionel and Linda Goei. She continued her education by obtaining an Advanced Cosmetic Dentistry Certificate at UCLA, and a fellowship in Neuromuscular Dentistry at the Las Vegas Institute for Advanced Dental Studies. LVI is one of the most premier post graduate teaching centers for cosmetic and neuromuscular dentistry in the world. She continued her studies in G-neuromuscular dentistry with Dr. Clayton Chan to greatly improve care to patients with TMJ/TMD symptoms. Dr. Goei combines her dental expertise with modern procedures and cutting-edge technology to treat TMJ and facial pain. She uses her education to design beautiful and healthy smiles for her patients.
Dr. Goei volunteers for yearly medical/dental mission trips with IMAHELPS (imahelps.org). IMAHelps organizes medical humanitarian missions that provide some of the world’s most under-served people with everything from general medical and dental care to life-changing surgeries, prosthetics and other specialized services. Her most recent mission trips were to Nicaragua and Paraguay. She currently serves as the dental director for IMA HELPS missions.
Dr. Goei is a member of:
- The American Dental Association
- The California Dental Association
- San Gabriel Valley Dental Society
- American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry
- American Academy of Implant Dentistry
- Academy of General Dentistry
- The International Association of Comprehensive Aesthetics
- The International College of Cranio-Mandibular Orthopedics
- Occlusion Connections Academy
- San Gabriel Valley Dental Implant Study Club
- IMA Helps Missions Dental Director
To keep abreast with the latest in dentistry, Dr. Goei regularly attends association meetings and continuing education classes, both locally and abroad.
Dr. Goei is married to Dr. Stephen Goei, an oral surgeon in South Pasadena, CA. Together they have three college age children.
Dr. Gin Goei
Dr. Sharon Gabriel
Dr. Sharon Gabriel was born, raised and educated in Southern California. Having practiced over fifteen years, she has received both her Bachelors Degree in Dental Hygiene and her Doctorate in Dental Surgery respectively at the University of Southern California. She continued on to do residency training at the University of California at San Francisco and received her advanced training in general dentistry certification while she continued on in private practice in the Bay Area. Dr. Gabriel dually holds her California and Hawaii Dental Licensure and practiced for several years on the Big Island of Hawaii. There she expanded her facets in multiple areas of dentistry where there was not access to as many specialties in dentistry readily available to the population. Here she was able to put much of her talents to work in restorative, endodontic, oral surgery, and pediatric dentistry.
She returned to Southern California with the emphasis on maintaining high clinical aspirations and staying technologically astute in her field. Dr. Gabriel strives to embody the best advances in dentistry, as well as maintaining a comfortable, inviting setting for her patients. She brings her expertise in her years of experience both to the team as well as her patients. Her goal is to keep current in as many aspects of general dentistry as possible including endodontics, cosmetic dentistry, and most recently neuromuscular dentistry.
She enjoys traveling, keeping physically fit through cross training and sports. Dr. Gabriel spends most of her time keeping up with her son Cole.
Dr. Sharon Gabriel
Dr. Nathan Nguyen
Dr. Nathan Francesco Nguyen grew up in Laguna Niguel, California. He received all of his professional schooling at the University of Southern California. He graduated cum laude with a degree in Biological Sciences from USC. Immediately after that, he earned his Doctor of Dental Surgery (DDS) degree from the Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry of USC.
During his studies, Dr. Nathan researched various subjects, including genetics, molecular biology, and bioinformatics, and worked in the periodontology and microbiology lab under the renowned periodontist Dr. Jorgen Slots. He learned cosmetic dentistry from biomimetic masters, Drs. Pascal Magne and Matt Nejad. He later met Sargon Lazarof, the Ultratooth immediate tooth-replacement system inventor, and has been mentored by Dr. Lazarof for the past few years.
He enjoys giving back to his community while interacting with his patients! His interest in the art and science of dentistry began when he was 16 when he started interning for a dentist. He is committed to offering the best aesthetic and implant dentistry available.
“I want to help people gain confidence in their smile. Dentistry is an amalgamation of science, medicine, technology, and art. I use all these tools to restore your smile to the beauty that nature intended it to be in the most relaxing and comfortable way possible.”
Dr. Nathan may be found at the hottest new restaurants, traveling the world, or spending time with his son, Legend Francesco, when he is not practicing dentistry.
