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- Every business page has a markdown copy at its own address with `.md` on the end. The copy holds the same facts, marks and sources as the page, in the page's order: the photos with their captions, the team and their licenses, the reviews summary, and the questions locals asked with the replies. The page names it in its head and its HTTP `Link` header.

# OC Lakes Dental, Irvine: a dentist in Irvine (2026 guide)

Source: Local AI Registry, https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/irvine/oc-lakes-dental-irvine-ca. Free to reuse with a link back.

By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Fact-checked against 7 sources. Updated 2026-08-12. Owner review: not yet.

Canonical: https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/irvine/oc-lakes-dental-irvine-ca

## Photos

- ![Photo 1](https://localairegistry.com/api/photo?src=https%3A%2F%2Fseoaesthetic-assets.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com%2Fphotos%2Fcmspdii7c03i8yei5huaz7e02%2F0.jpg)
- ![Photo 2](https://localairegistry.com/api/photo?src=https%3A%2F%2Fseoaesthetic-assets.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com%2Fphotos%2Fcmspdii7c03i8yei5huaz7e02%2F1.jpg)
- ![Photo 3](https://localairegistry.com/api/photo?src=https%3A%2F%2Fseoaesthetic-assets.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com%2Fphotos%2Fcmspdii7c03i8yei5huaz7e02%2F2.jpg)
- ![Photo 4](https://localairegistry.com/api/photo?src=https%3A%2F%2Fseoaesthetic-assets.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com%2Fphotos%2Fcmspdii7c03i8yei5huaz7e02%2F3.jpg)
- ![Photo 5](https://localairegistry.com/api/photo?src=https%3A%2F%2Fseoaesthetic-assets.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com%2Fphotos%2Fcmspdii7c03i8yei5huaz7e02%2F4.jpg)


## In short

OC Lakes Dental, located at 2 Osborn #150 in Irvine, California, has garnered a reputation for its welcoming atmosphere and attentive staff. With a perfect rating of 5 stars from 192 reviews, patients often express their appreciation for the kindness and professionalism of Dr. Aaron and his team. Many have noted the thoroughness of their treatments and the comfort they feel during visits. While some have raised concerns about scheduling issues, the overall sentiment reflects a commitment to patient care and satisfaction, making it a valued choice for dental services in the community.

Every fact on this page carries one of three marks: Confirmed (from their website, Google Business Profile, review sites, licensing boards, or measured by Local AI Registry), Visitor submitted (added by a person, with a date and how they know), or AI guess (what AI engines like ChatGPT and Gemini are saying, not confirmed by anyone). Every mark points to a reference at the end of this page.


## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Type | Dentist |
| Address | 2 Osborn #150, Irvine, CA 92604, USA |
| Hours | Mon to Thu 8 AM to 5 PM · Fri to Sat 8:30 AM to 2:30 PM · Closed Sun |
| Phone | (949) 333-5285 |
| Medical director | Nothing found |
| Rating | 5.0 across 192 reviews on Google |
| Known for | Nothing found |
| Prices | Nothing found |
| Quietest time | Nothing found |
| Parking | Nothing found |
| Last verified | October 8, 2026, 3:37 PM |


## All the details

Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from.

| Group | Fact | Value | Mark | Evidence |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Location info | Name | OC Lakes Dental | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 11, 2026 |
| Location info | Address | 2 Osborn #150, Irvine, CA 92604, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 11, 2026 |
| Location info | Phone | (949) 333-5285 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 11, 2026 |
| Location info | Hours | Mon to Thu 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM · Fri to Sat 8:30 AM to 2:30 PM · Sun Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 11, 2026 |
| Location info | Description | At O.C. Lakes Dental, we strive to give you the best quality service possible. From regular checkups to a full-mouth restoration, we will give you the smile that you have always wanted! | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 11, 2026 |
| Hours | Monday | 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 11, 2026 |
| Hours | Tuesday | 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 11, 2026 |
| Hours | Wednesday | 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 11, 2026 |
| Hours | Thursday | 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 11, 2026 |
| Hours | Friday | 8:30 AM to 2:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 11, 2026 |
| Hours | Saturday | 8:30 AM to 2:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 11, 2026 |
| Hours | Sunday | Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 11, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Dental emergencies | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 18, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Live blogs | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 18, 2026 |
| Services | Service | New patient forms | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 18, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Porcelain veneers | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 18, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Dental checkups | AI guess | Nothing found |
| Services | Service | Full-mouth restoration | AI guess | Nothing found |
| Links | Website | http://www.oclakesdental.com/ | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 11, 2026 |
| Links | Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/oclakesdental | Confirmed | Business website, checked Oct 8, 2026 |
| Links | Facebook | https://www.facebook.com/oclakesdental | Confirmed | Business website, checked Oct 8, 2026 |
| Links | Yelp | https://www.yelp.com/biz/aaron-takigawa-dds-oc-lakes-dental-irvine | Confirmed | Business website, checked Oct 8, 2026 |


## Services and prices

These are the 6 services OC Lakes offers, with the price where we have one and where it came from.

| Service | Price | Price mark | Price evidence | Service mark |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Dental emergencies | Nothing found | Nothing found | Nothing found | Confirmed |
| Live blogs | Nothing found | Nothing found | Nothing found | Confirmed |
| New patient forms | Nothing found | Nothing found | Nothing found | Confirmed |
| Porcelain veneers | Nothing found | Nothing found | Nothing found | Confirmed |
| Dental checkups | Nothing found | Nothing found | Nothing found | AI guess |
| Full-mouth restoration | Nothing found | Nothing found | Nothing found | AI guess |


### Known for

Nothing found


## The team

Nothing found


## Visiting OC Lakes

Address: 2 Osborn #150, Irvine, CA 92604, USA. Phone: (949) 333-5285. Hours: Mon to Thu 8 AM to 5 PM · Fri to Sat 8:30 AM to 2:30 PM · Closed Sun. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile, checked August 11, 2026 at 5:51 PM.)


### Location info from Google Business Profile

Business description, written by OC Lakes on its Google Business Profile: "At O.C. Lakes Dental, we strive to give you the best quality service possible. From regular checkups to a full-mouth restoration, we will give you the smile that you have always wanted!"


### When to go

Busy times not read yet, back on Scan Day.


### Parking and getting in

Nothing found


### Nearby

| Place | Type | Distance |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Barranca Pkwy @ Lyon IB | Bus stop | 1 min walk |
| Barranca Pkwy @ Lyon OB | Bus stop | 1 min walk |
| Courtenay buhler | Parking lot | 4 min walk |
| Barranca Pkwy @ E Yale Loop OB | Bus stop | 4 min walk |
| Firwood Park | Park | 4 min walk |
| Carl's Jr. | Fast food restaurant | 4 min walk |


## Reputation

5.0 average across 192 reviews: Google 25. (Confirmed, read August 11, 2026.)

OC Lakes Dental is known for its thorough care and gentle approach, but scheduling issues have impacted patient experiences. (AI guess, from 192 reviews.)


### What people like

- Gentle cleanings by hygienists
- Friendly and caring staff


### What people do not like

- Frequent appointment cancellations
- Last-minute notice for cancellations


### Press

No press story about OC Lakes found yet.


### Awards

None named yet.


### Directories

Directory listings not read yet.


## Recent updates from OC Lakes

OC Lakes hasn't posted an update here yet.


## Questions people ask


### anyone actually happy with this place?

No answer yet


### Are there any special features of this place?

No answer yet


### opening hours at OC Lakes in Irvine, what are they these days?

No answer yet


### Booking here, how does it work?

No answer yet


### anything people actually moan about here?

No answer yet


### Worth the hype at OC Lakes?

No answer yet


### parking at OC Lakes, where does everyone put the car?

No answer yet


### consult at OC Lakes, what do I need to bring?

No answer yet


### Open Sundays here?

No answer yet


### Do they post anywhere?

No answer yet


### payment plans at OC Lakes, is that a thing?

No answer yet


### what do people actually pay at dentists around Irvine

No answer yet


### best dentist in Irvine

No answer yet


### walk ins, or is it booked solid

No answer yet


### medical staff at OC Lakes, or is it techs?

No answer yet


### numbing here, do you have to ask for it?

No answer yet


### torn between OC Lakes and Dentists of Irvine?

No answer yet


## What AI gets wrong about OC Lakes

We ask ChatGPT and Gemini about OC Lakes. These are the answers that disagree with the record.

ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Oct 11, 2026.

No capture has disagreed with the record yet.


## The AI Score: 25 of 100

The AI Score measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. Irvine dentists run 25 to 67. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. OC Lakes scores 25, below the Irvine average of 32. The same method scores every business on the registry.

| Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | OC Lakes |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Retrieval grounding | 26 | 0 | Whether you appear in the ranked results AI retrieves and cites: AI-Overview citations, organic top-10 for your money queries, and the Bing index ChatGPT leans on. | Poor |
| Off-property attestation | 20 | 30 | Volume and consistency of what others say about you: YouTube mentions, branded web mentions, third-party “best-of” lists. The cause of retrievability. | Poor |
| AI visibility | 14 | 0 | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. | Named in 0 of 23 answers that recommended anyone. 5 more named nobody, which is not a loss and is not scored. |
| Reviews & response | 12 | 100 | The star average is only one input. We also read volume, velocity, the specificity of review language, and response cadence. Specific reviews are what AI quotes verbatim. | Good |
| Backlink & citation authority | 8 | 54 | Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you. | Fair |
| Google Business Profile | 8 | 90 | Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first. | Good |
| Speed & mobile | 7 | 63 | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. | Fair |
| Content freshness & schema | 5 | 57 | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. | Fair |

Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology


## How AI decides what to tell you about a dentist

When you ask ChatGPT, Gemini or Google for a med spa, the AI does not visit each business. It reads what is already written about it: the business website, its Google Business Profile, review sites like Yelp and RealSelf, news stories, licensing boards and directories like this one. Then it repeats what those sources agree on.

That is why AI gets small facts wrong. If Yelp says a place is open Mondays and the website says it is not, the AI has to pick one. The table above shows the answers that disagree with the record today.

The more sources agree, and the more specific they are, the more confidently AI recommends a business. A review that says "the nurse did half a syringe in my lips and it looks natural" is far more useful to an AI than one that says "great place."


## How to choose a dentist in California, with or without AI

A few checks take ten minutes and matter more than any rating. This is general information, not medical advice.

- Look up every injector. Doctors are listed by the California medical board, and nurses and nurse practitioners by its nursing board. Both lookups are free.
- Ask who does the injections, and check that person's license.
- Ask for the price per unit of Botox and per syringe of filler, not per area.
- Read reviews that name a provider and a treatment. Vague praise is easy to fake.
- Check that the hours and phone number match on Google, Yelp and the website. Mismatches are how people end up at a locked door.
- Ask whether they dissolve filler and when they would tell you not to add more.


## How to read the marks on this page

- Confirmed (solid circle): from a known source. The business website, its Google Business Profile, review sites like Yelp, Healthgrades and RealSelf, a licensing board, or measured by Local AI Registry.
- Visitor submitted (hollow circle): added or corrected by a person, with the date and how they know, like a phone call or a visit.
- AI guess (hollow triangle): what AI engines are saying right now. Nobody has confirmed it.


## About the author

Steve Lee is the founder and CEO of Local AI Registry and sets its editorial standards. He is a former Google executive in Search and a former Microsoft executive, with more than 20 years in digital: search, local discovery, and how people find businesses online. He is based in Irvine.

- Expertise: search at Google and Microsoft, AI search, answer engine optimization, generative engine optimization, local SEO, structured data and entity mapping.
- Industry: medical aesthetics, injectables, med spa operations and marketing.
- Disclosure: Local AI Registry sells services to business owners, including OC Lakes if it claims this page. That does not change what this page says. Every fact carries its source.


## Entity map

Every person, place, organization and treatment named on this page, with a stable ID and a public reference. The JSON-LD below connects them to each other.

| Entity | Type | ID on this page | Same as | Relationship to OC Lakes |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| OC Lakes Dental | MedicalBusiness | #business | http://www.oclakesdental.com/ | Subject of this page |
| Irvine, California | City | #city | Nothing found | City OC Lakes is in |
| Local AI Registry | Organization | #publisher | https://localairegistry.com | Publisher of this page |
| Steve Lee | Person | #author | https://localairegistry.com/team | Author of this page |


## Topical map

Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the dentists in Irvine, linked to the lists and towns around it.


### Lists

- Best dentists in Irvine: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/irvine/dentist
- Best businesses in Irvine: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/irvine


### Nearby

- /los-angeles: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/los-angeles
- /san-francisco: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-francisco
- /san-jose: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-jose
- /san-diego: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-diego
- /fresno: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/fresno
- /palo-alto: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/palo-alto


### Every list

- Every leaderboard in California: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca


## Frequently asked questions


### What is AI search optimization for local business?

Getting a business named when a neighbor asks ChatGPT, Gemini, or Perplexity for a recommendation. Some call it AI SEO, some call it generative engine optimization. Traditional SEO fights for ten blue links; this fights for the one answer an assistant says out loud. The AI Score on this page measures the eight signals that drive it.


### What is Local AI Registry?

The public record of how AI sees local business. We score every business we list by one published method, we keep the questions people ask about it in one place, and we never sell rank. Looking up any business here is free.


### How does this page help a business get recommended by AI?

Assistants read public pages before they answer. This one states what the business does, what people ask about it, and what the Record answers, in one place a machine can read. Correcting what is wrong here changes what an assistant repeats next.


### Who writes the answers here?

Registry AI writes the first answer under every question, from the Record and the public sources named beneath it. Neighbors write the rest under pseudonyms. A registered owner can reply as the business, and their reply says so.


### I own OC Lakes Dental. How do I fix something or rank higher?

Register the page. It is free, it takes about five minutes, and it lets you correct the Record and reply as the business. Nothing on this page is for sale, so the only thing that moves the score is the work.


## References


### Sources cited

- [1] Google Business Profile, https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJdzYr9qXd3IARToMsBtxyLpQ (accessed Aug 11, 2026)
- [2] oclakesdental.com, https://www.oclakesdental.com/dental-emergencies.html (accessed Sep 18, 2026)
- [3] oclakesdental.com, https://www.oclakesdental.com/live-blogs.html (accessed Sep 18, 2026)
- [4] oclakesdental.com, https://www.oclakesdental.com/new-patient-forms.html (accessed Sep 18, 2026)
- [5] oclakesdental.com, https://www.oclakesdental.com/porcelain-veneers.html (accessed Sep 18, 2026)
- [6] AI engine output: ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Oct 11, 2026, https://localairegistry.com/methodology (accessed Sep 18, 2026)
- [7] oclakesdental.com, http://www.oclakesdental.com/ (accessed Oct 8, 2026)