Daniel Esmaili, M.D.

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# Daniel Esmaili, M.D., Upland: an eye care center in Upland (2026 guide)

Source: Local AI Registry, https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/upland/daniel-esmaili-m-d-upland-ca. Free to reuse with a link back.

By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Fact-checked against 1 source. Updated 2026-10-23. Owner review: not yet.

Canonical: https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/upland/daniel-esmaili-m-d-upland-ca

## In short

Daniel Esmaili, M.D. is an eye care center in Upland, CA. Its AI Score is 35 of 100, which is poor.

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 Gemini and ChatGPT are saying, not confirmed by anyone). Every mark points to a reference at the end of this page.


## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Type | Eye care center |
| Address | 555 N 13th Ave, Upland, CA 91786, USA |
| Hours | Nothing found |
| Phone | (909) 982-8846 |
| Medical director | Nothing found |
| Rating | 4.9 across 53 reviews on Google |
| Known for | Nothing found |
| Prices | Nothing found |
| Quietest time | Nothing found |
| Parking | Nothing found |
| Last verified | October 22, 2026, 7:49 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 | Daniel Esmaili, M.D. | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Oct 22, 2026 |
| Location info | Address | 555 N 13th Ave, Upland, CA 91786, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Oct 22, 2026 |
| Location info | Phone | (909) 982-8846 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Oct 22, 2026 |
| Location info | Description | 555 N 13th Ave, Upland, CA 91786 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Oct 22, 2026 |
| Links | Website | https://www.pacificeyemd.com/doctors/daniel-d-esmaili-m-d/ | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Oct 22, 2026 |
| Links | Instagram | https://instagram.com/pacificeyeinstitute | AI guess | Our record |
| Links | TikTok | https://tiktok.com/@pacificeyeinstitute | AI guess | Our record |
| Links | Facebook | https://facebook.com/pacificeyemd | AI guess | Our record |


## Services and prices

Services not read yet, back on Scan Day.


### Known for

None of the 5 reviews we've read names a service yet.


## The team

Nothing found


## Visiting Daniel Esmaili

Address: 555 N 13th Ave, Upland, CA 91786, USA. Phone: (909) 982-8846. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile, checked October 22, 2026 at 7:49 PM.)


### Location info from Google Business Profile

Business description, written by Daniel Esmaili on its Google Business Profile: "555 N 13th Ave, Upland, CA 91786"


### When to go

Busy times not read yet, back on Scan Day.


### Parking and getting in

Nothing found


### Nearby

Nearby places not read yet, back on Scan Day.


## Reputation

4.9 average across 53 reviews: Google 25. (Confirmed, read October 22, 2026.)

The practice is noted for its thoroughness and effective management of eye conditions, especially in retinal treatments. (AI guess, from 53 reviews.)


### What people like

- Thorough examinations
- Effective eye injections
- Detailed explanations of conditions
- Compassionate patient care
- Management of macular degeneration


### What people do not like

- Long waits past the appointment time
- Unkind demeanor during consultations
- Lack of communication about eye dilation


### Press

No press story about Daniel Esmaili found yet.


### Awards

None named yet.


### Directories

Directory listings not read yet.


## Recent updates from Daniel Esmaili

Daniel Esmaili hasn't posted an update here yet.


## Questions people ask


### Open on a Sunday here?

No answer yet


### bad experiences at Daniel Esmaili, anyone?

No answer yet


### Busiest day here, anyone know?

No answer yet


### Daniel Esmaili or Optometric Group?

No answer yet


### regulars here, who do you book with?

No answer yet


### On a budget in Upland, is Daniel Esmaili the one?

No answer yet


### where do I park at Daniel Esmaili?

No answer yet


### Ballpark for a visit to an eye doctor in Upland?

No answer yet


### killing time on 13th, any ideas

No answer yet


### new to this place, anything I should know before I walk in?

No answer yet


### payment plans here, is that a thing?

No answer yet


### anything new from Daniel Esmaili lately?

No answer yet


### Is Daniel Esmaili run by medical people?

No answer yet


### can I ask for numbing at Daniel Esmaili without it being weird?

No answer yet


### anyone actually happy with this place?

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### Any membership pricing at Daniel Esmaili?

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### best ophthalmologist in Upland, CA

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### cancellation list here, is there one

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### how far out is Daniel Esmaili booking right now?

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### never been here, how does it go?

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## What AI gets wrong about Daniel Esmaili

We ask Gemini and ChatGPT about Daniel Esmaili. These are the answers that disagree with the record.

ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Oct 22, 2026.

No capture has disagreed with the record yet.


## The AI Score: 35 of 100

The AI Score measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. Upland eye care centers run 26 to 62. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. Daniel Esmaili scores 35, below the Upland average of 42. The same method scores every business on the registry.

| Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | Daniel Esmaili |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Retrieval grounding | 26 | 25 | 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 | 41 | 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 1 answer that recommended anyone. 1 more named nobody, which is not a loss and is not scored. |
| Reviews & response | 12 | 94 | 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 | 61 | Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you. | Fair |
| Google Business Profile | 8 | 67 | Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first. | Good |
| Speed & mobile | 7 | 37 | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. | Poor |
| Content freshness & schema | 5 | 81 | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. | Good |

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


## How AI decides what to tell you about an eye care center

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 an eye care center 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 Daniel Esmaili 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 Daniel Esmaili |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Daniel Esmaili, M.D. | MedicalBusiness | #business | https://www.pacificeyemd.com/doctors/daniel-d-esmaili-m-d/ | Subject of this page |
| Upland, California | City | #city | Nothing found | City Daniel Esmaili 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 eye care centers in Upland, linked to the lists and towns around it.


### Lists

- Best eye care centers in Upland: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/upland/eye-care-center
- Best businesses in Upland: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/upland


### 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
- /irvine: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/irvine
- /fresno: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/fresno


### 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 Daniel Esmaili, M.D.. 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:ChIJVVUlMq82w4ARvhanqp2H1uE (accessed Oct 22, 2026)