Dr. Robbins, practicing in Los Angeles, CA, is a highly experienced, board-certified specialist in pediatric dentistry. She received her DMD degree from the University Of Pennsylvania School Of Dental Medicine, in Philadelphia, PA; conducted research at the NIDCR in Bethesda, MD, and completed a two-year fellowship in pediatric dentistry at the world-renowned Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia. She completed her specialty residency at the UCLA School of Dentistry and the UCLA Center for Health Sciences in Los Angeles, CA.
Dr. Hila Robbins is an internationally recognized and award-winning thought leader in multidisciplinary and integrative pediatric dental and oral health care. By integrating peer-reviewed scientific and evidence-based clinical knowledge and best practices from the broad community of clinical and academic specialists in pediatric healthcare, physical and occupational health, functional movement, and speech, throughout the U.S. and worldwide. Dr. Robbins is on the forefront of integrating cranioosteopathy, breathing re-education, oral myofunctional therapy, lip & tongue tie assessment and treatment (frenectomy), infant breastfeeding support and cranial nerve sequencing, as well as functional movement and posture (using GYROTONIC and GYROKINESIS), into the practice of pediatric dentistry. Dr. Robbins is certified in the use of laser dentistry in her practice.
Dr. Robbins is a Diplomate of the American Board of Pediatric Dentistry, a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry, and is a member of the American Dental Association, the California Dental Association, the California Society of Pediatric Dentistry, the Southern California Society of Pediatric Dentistry, the Academy of Applied Myofunctional Sciences and the American Academy of Physiological Medicine & Dentistry. She is an Advisory Board Member of the Academy of Orofacial Myofunctional Therapy, a Section Leader of the American Academy of Physiological Medicine & Dentistry, a Fellow of the Buteyko Professionals International. She is a past president of the Southern California Society of Dentistry for Children.
Dr. Robbins has co-authored or served as a contributing editor on numerous research publications, clinical case reports, and textbooks in pediatric dentistry and childhood development. Dr. Robbins is a Senior Clinical Instructor in the TMJ/Craniofacial Pain Clinic of the Audiology Foundation at White Memorial Medical Center, Los Angeles, and is a former Adjunct Assistant Professor at UCLA School of Dentistry Center for Health Sciences.
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9 years ago
My daughter has been seeing Dr. Robbins for about a year and a half. We have seen three other dentists in west L.A. previously. Dr. Robbins is by far the most careful and gentle provider in my informed but non-expert opinion. She and her staff use technologies and little extras that make dental visits palatable to my girl: there is an antibacterial ozone probe that can bathe a single tooth in a tight stream of antimicrobial air (this tool seems to have reduced our first first cavity to one filling, while a previous dentist said we would need a baby root canal there at that same spot); they take these bright, totally high-res, single-tooth digital photos for hard-to-see cavities, using a teeny tiny camera on a teeny tiny probe for teeny tiny mouths; their X-ray films come in the smallest size, especially for very small mouths (a previous dentist found X-rays impossible - they blamed my kid, I blame their big film cartridges and their intimidating old behemoth X-ray machine); my girl has needed the nitrous oxide, and here they have a strawberry-scented soft little thingummy to dispense it for her (otherwise she woulda been terrified, and me too). Dr. Robbins is not a fill 'em and bill-'em dentist, like two of the three others that we have seen. Instead, Dr. Robbins takes time to consider exactly what is going in my kid's mouth, and I can tell that it's like a complicated ecosystem in there microscopically. To me, this subtlety in the doc's decision-making process seems to result in fewer fillings, a less invasive dental session, a happier patient (my kid), and a happier payer (me). Now about paying, Michelle on the doc's staff is very nice to us, even though my paperwork is more voluminous than other patients'. We have two dental insurances for the one kid. The doc does not bill insurance here at all, but Michelle kindly provides the paperwork that I just mail to my insurance. The insurance check comes to me as a reimbursement, not to the dentist. Yeah, that's a little weird, but Michelle's help makes it easy handle. Now, about the toys. There are lots of toys here in the waiting room. My girl calls Dr. Robbins the "Toy Dentist". Book your appt well in advance. They are busy here, for good reason.
Glen Chung
9 years ago
My daughter has been seeing Dr. Robbins for about a year and a half. We have seen three other dentists in west L.A. previously. Dr. Robbins is by far the most careful and gentle provider in my informed but non-expert opinion. She and her staff use technologies and little extras that make dental visits palatable to my girl: there is an antibacterial ozone probe that can bathe a single tooth in a tight stream of antimicrobial air (this tool seems to have reduced our first first cavity to one filling, while a previous dentist said we would need a baby root canal there at that same spot); they take these bright, totally high-res, single-tooth digital photos for hard-to-see cavities, using a teeny tiny camera on a teeny tiny probe for teeny tiny mouths; their X-ray films come in the smallest size, especially for very small mouths (a previous dentist found X-rays impossible - they blamed my kid, I blame their big film cartridges and their intimidating old behemoth X-ray machine); my girl has needed the nitrous oxide, and here they have a strawberry-scented soft little thingummy to dispense it for her (otherwise she woulda been terrified, and me too). Dr. Robbins is not a fill 'em and bill-'em dentist, like two of the three others that we have seen. Instead, Dr. Robbins takes time to consider exactly what is going in my kid's mouth, and I can tell that it's like a complicated ecosystem in there microscopically. To me, this subtlety in the doc's decision-making process seems to result in fewer fillings, a less invasive dental session, a happier patient (my kid), and a happier payer (me). Now about paying, Michelle on the doc's staff is very nice to us, even though my paperwork is more voluminous than other patients'. We have two dental insurances for the one kid. The doc does not bill insurance here at all, but Michelle kindly provides the paperwork that I just mail to my insurance. The insurance check comes to me as a reimbursement, not to the dentist. Yeah, that's a little weird, but Michelle's help makes it easy handle. Now, about the toys. There are lots of toys here in the waiting room. My girl calls Dr. Robbins the "Toy Dentist". Book your appt well in advance. They are busy here, for good reason.
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