Children's Choice Dental Care
Registered legal name: Jacobson Dental CORP
60 W Olive Ave, Merced, CA 95348
The registry record
- NPI
- 1497357198
- Registered as
- Type-2 organization (not an individual dentist's personal NPI)
- Dental categories
- General, Orthodontics
- Taxonomy codes
- 122300000X (Dentist); 1223X0400X (Orthodontics and dentofacial orthopedics)
- Practice location
- 60 W Olive Ave, Merced, CA 95348
- Telephone
- (209) 877-5437
- NPI issued
- 9 November 2020 (5 years ago)
- Record updated
- 6 March 2024 (2 years ago)
- Certified by the practice
- 6 March 2024
- NPI status
- NPI active as reported by CMS 2026-08
- Metro area
- Merced, CA (metropolitan area, Merced County)
- State
- California (18,604 registered practices)
- Operator size
- 34 addresses registered under this organization name nationally
- Sibling NPIs
- Children's Choice Dental Care (1750984415)
- Former names on file
- Jacobson Dental Corp
- Map position
- Census address match at street level
- Snapshot
- NPPES data dissemination file, 10 August 2026
What the record tells you
Children's Choice Dental Care, the trading name of Jacobson Dental CORP, is an NPI registry record for a dental organization at 60 W Olive Ave in Merced, California 95348. CMS issued NPI 1497357198 on 9 November 2020, and the practice last updated its own entry on 6 March 2024. That was 2 years ago; the details are probably current, but confirm the address when you book.
It is registered under 2 dental taxonomy codes: Dentist (122300000X), Orthodontics and dentofacial orthopedics (1223X0400X). That puts it in 2 categories on this site, led by general dentistry. A practice that registers more than one category is telling CMS it does more than one kind of dental work at this address, which is why it has a page here rather than a row. The same registered name appears at 34 distinct addresses nationally. That is either a group practice or a name common enough that unrelated offices share it, so ask whether pricing is set locally or by a parent company. One further NPI is registered to what looks like the same business at this address (Children's Choice Dental Care, NPI 1750984415); it is covered by this page rather than given a page of their own.
Merced holds 51 registered dental practices inside the Merced, CA area, which has 75 in total on the California side and ranks 19th in the state. 33 of the Merced records also register general dentistry, so this is one of several local options in that category. Across the metro the mix runs general dentistry 68%, dental clinic or center 17.3%, orthodontics 10.7%. The closest other registered practices are Olive Dental Care (0.2 miles, Merced), Sumeet Pannu DDS INC (0.2 miles, Merced) and Dudley M. Pang, DDS, INC. (0.2 miles, Merced), with 2 more inside 0.4 miles.
On our figures a routine adult cleaning in California runs $130 to $200 cash and scaling and root planing $200 to $330 per quadrant, against a US average of $125. This practice's own prices are not in the registry and never will be: NPPES holds identifiers, not fees. Call (209) 877-5437 and ask for the cash price on code D1110, whether the exam and X-rays are included, and whether they run a membership plan if you have no insurance.
Nearest alternatives
The 5 closest registered dental practices to 60 W Olive Ave, straight-line distance. Rows without a link are listed on their metro page rather than having one of their own.
| Practice | City | Distance | Categories | Phone on the record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Olive Dental Care | Merced, CA | 0.2 mi | General | (209) 722-7789 |
| Sumeet Pannu DDS INC | Merced, CA | 0.2 mi | General | (209) 722-7789 |
| Dudley M. Pang, DDS, INC. | Merced, CA | 0.2 mi | General | (209) 722-3907 |
| Trujillo, DDS, A Professional Dental Corporation | Merced, CA | 0.4 mi | Periodontics | (209) 383-3816 |
| Miller and Skinner Dental Group Corporation of North Merced | Merced, CA | 0.4 mi | Dental clinic | (209) 722-3961 |
The benchmark to hold a quote from Children's Choice Dental Care against. California cost guide.
What to ask when you call
- The cash price for D1110, a routine adult cleaning, and whether the exam (D0120) and X-rays (D0274) are inside or outside that number.
- Whether you need scaling and root planing before a routine clean, and the per-quadrant price for D4341 or D4342 if so.
- Whether they run an in-house membership plan, and what it covers against what it costs a year.
- Whether they are taking new patients and how far out the next hygiene appointment is.
- The practice license, with your state dental board. An NPI is a billing identifier and proves nothing about licensing.
CMS NPPES NPI data file, August 2026, snapshot 10 August 2026. US federal public data (FOIA-disclosable, no charge). CMS NPI files. NPI registry records, status as reported by CMS in the August 2026 data dissemination file. NPPES is an identifier registry, not a license register: an NPI does not validate that a practice is licensed, accredited or currently open. Practices maintain their own NPPES entries. Every page shows the date the record was last updated; addresses and phone numbers are as self-reported and are not verified by us. This page describes a registry record. It is not a review, an endorsement or a check on Children's Choice Dental Care.
Price figures are our own, last verified April 2026. State averages are our estimates compiled from FAIR Health regional cost data and CMS Medicare fee schedules; the ADA discontinued its national Survey of Dental Fees in 2023, so no national fee survey exists. Treat them as a starting point and call two or three offices for an actual quote.