Dr. Wortman and his colleagues are THE BEST if you have a need for emergency dental work. They came highly recommended by a police officer who overheard me in distress at a local emergency room when I broke a tooth during the night -- before an important court hearing I was to deliver in DC. His colleague took my 3 a.m. call and, had it been truly urgent, would have seen me immediately. Dr. Wortman's office opened earlier than anyone's in the yellow pages under "emergency dentist" and my wee-hours call was returned by a real dentist not just an answering service. These guys do a HUGE public service and should be rewarded for it. If I didn't live in CA they would be my dentists!!