Dr. Don Nguyen, or Dr. “Don” as his patients know him was born in Ames, Iowa and spent his childhood growing up and traveling overseas, having previously lived in Cameroon, Indonesia & Malawi. His father worked in the U.S. Foreign services department, which provided their family the opportunity to live abroad and travel internationally. He would ultimately return to the U.S. for High School and settle in the Southern California area, graduating from the University of California, Irvine with a BS Degree in Biological Science and earning his Dental Degree from the University Of Southern California School Of Dentistry

Dr. Don is committed to excellence in dentistry and well known for educating his patients and involving them in the diagnosis and treatment planning process. He has a caring manner and a light touch with patients. He strives to be a personal health care advocate in addition to being your dentist. Along with continuing his postgraduate education and advancing his understanding of dentistry, he has been for the last 10 years an active member of the American Dental Association, California Dental Association, and Orange County Dental Society.

Aside from dentistry, Dr. Don enjoys traveling and has visited over twenty countries on six different continents. He believes it is important to continually give back; while at USC he participated in the school’s first dental externship to Vietnam, providing pediatric dental care to underserved children. Dr. Don also enjoys college football (USC Trojans & Iowa State Cyclones), golf, photography and spending time with his wife Dr. Vivienne, their daughter Sofie-Rose, and son Bennett-James. They married at Our Lady Queen of Angels Catholic Church in Newport Beach with a dream to one day work together and establish a practice that would serve their community with excellent dentistry from caring and family-friendly professionals.