The Glisten Dental Gilbert 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 cleaning, periodontal care, and one-on-one patient education at Glisten Dental Gilbert. 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.
Schedule a visit to meet the full team in person. Full staff biographies are being added as our team members contribute their backgrounds and specific areas of focus.
Dr. Dawood’s approach
Patients come to Glisten after leaving another dentist for a short list of reasons, and Dr. Dawood names them plainly: over-diagnosis, treatment that costs more than it should, a plan built around what’s necessary for the practice instead of what’s necessary for you — and, as often as any of those, simply not feeling any compassion or connection from the person across the chair.
Her practice is built as the answer to that list. Care is unhurried — “we will go at your pace, we are in no rush” is not marketing copy here, it’s the instruction the team operates on. Treatment plans are limited to what you actually need. Cost is walked through line by line, with your insurance benefits open on the screen, before anything is scheduled. And nothing clinical begins until you’re numb, comfortable, and tested-numb.
Gilbert is where this started. Dr. Revan Dawood, DMD, founded Glisten Dental here; the same standard now runs at the Mesa and Glendale practices, but this is the original chair.
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.