The Glisten Dental Mesa team is built around one idea: every patient deserves the kind of attention, honesty, and skill that dental offices used to deliver before insurance codes and 10-minute appointments rewrote the industry.
We’re a small team on purpose. Our front desk knows you by name. Our hygienists remember your cleaning preferences. Our dentists sit down, explain options, answer questions, and don’t rush you out the door. When you book with Glisten, you’re choosing a practice that still treats dentistry like a relationship — not a transaction.
Our dentists
Our hygienists & support team
Our hygienists do the majority of the cleaning, periodontal care, and one-on-one patient education at Glisten Dental Mesa. Our front-desk team verifies insurance, walks you through financing options, and helps you understand every line of your treatment estimate. We hire for warmth as aggressively as we hire for skill — ask for your hygienist by name.
Full bios and photos for our Glisten Dental Mesa hygienists and office staff coming soon. In the meantime — schedule a visit and meet the full team in person.
Dr. Dawood’s approach
Patients come to the Mesa office after leaving another dentist for a short list of reasons, and Dr. Dawood names them without softening: over-diagnosis, treatment priced higher than it should be, a plan built around what the practice needs instead of what the patient needs — and, as often as any of those, simply not feeling any compassion or connection from the person across the chair. In the East Valley that last one comes up a lot from patients who were never spoken to in the language they think in, and from people who’d been quoted a number with no coverage behind it and no one willing to sit with them on it.
Her practice is the answer to that list. Care is unhurried — “we will go at your pace, we are in no rush” is the instruction the team runs on, not a tagline. Plans are limited to what you actually need. Cost is walked through line by line, with insurance benefits open on the screen, before anything is scheduled — and for the many Mesa patients without that cushion, the cash conversation gets the same line-by-line honesty. In Spanish, Dr. Carlos Rogel has that conversation directly, no interpreter in the middle. Nothing clinical begins until you’re numb, comfortable, and tested-numb.
The same standard runs at all three Glisten offices. It started in Gilbert, where Dr. Revan Dawood, DMD, founded the practice; Mesa carries that standard into the East Valley, with the language and the cost honesty this community actually needs.
What you can expect at every Glisten Dental visit
Time to explain
Your dentist sits down, explains what they see, walks through your options, and answers every question. No lecturing. No condescension. No hurry.
Honest treatment planning
When there’s more than one right answer, we tell you. When something can wait, we say so. When you need a specialist, we refer out — even if we could do it ourselves.
Transparent pricing
Written estimates before any treatment starts. No surprise charges, no hidden fees. If insurance doesn’t cover something, we tell you upfront — not at checkout.
Modern technology
Digital X-rays, 3D iTero scanners, same-day crowns (where clinically appropriate), intraoral cameras, and IV/oral sedation options for anxious patients.
Same-day emergencies
If you call before noon and you’re in pain, we’ll do everything possible to see you the same day. Severe toothache, broken tooth, abscess — we don’t make emergencies wait.
Insurance + financing
Most PPO plans accepted, including Delta Dental of Arizona, Cigna, Aetna, BCBS of AZ, and UnitedHealthcare. CareCredit and in-house payment plans for larger cases. Membership plan for uninsured patients.