Meet The Doctors


Robert Cohen, DDS

Dentist

drcohen@cohendentalcare.com

 Known throughout the neighborhood as “Dr. Bob”,  Robert L. Cohen, DDS, has served the Sherman Oaks community for over thirty-seven years at his state-of the-art private dental practice.  The practice offers comprehensive general dental care, smile makeovers, high-tech dental implants, painless laser dentistry, TMJ disorders and dental sleep medicine in an atmosphere of personalized, compassionate care.

Dr. Cohen is committed to delivering the most advanced dental care while treating each patient as if he or she were a guest in his home.  His goal is to provide informed, educated options for patients to receive the dental care and attain the smile that they want for themselves, without imposing a complex treatment plan.

Born in Los Angeles and raised in the San Fernando Valley, Dr. Cohen graduated from UCLA, obtained a Master of Public Health in Nutrition from the UCLA School of Public Health, earned his Doctor of Dental Surgery from the New York University College of Dentistry, and completed his residency with a specialty on TMJ at UCLA. He has taught at the USC School of Dentistry as an Assistant Professor, and has been a Visiting Lecturer at the UCLA School of Dentistry.  Opening his Sherman Oaks dental practice, Dr. Cohen has always considered himself extremely blessed to be able to help his patients enhance their smiles and oral health with every passing year.

He has a long history of involvement  in the local community, where he has held numerous civic offices, including President of the Sherman Oaks Chamber of Commerce and Founding Board Member of the Sherman Oaks Neighborhood Council.  Over the years, he has been recognized with several awards for both his business and volunteer efforts, including: “Best Dentist” in the Los Angeles Daily News Readers’ Choice Awards, the California 46th Assembly District’s “Small Business of the Year Award” and the United Chambers of Commerce “Small Business of the Year Award”.

Dr. Cohen and his wife Diane live in the Greater Sherman Oaks area with their Golden Labrador Retriever, Riley. They are very proud of their twins, Caitlin and Ryan, recent college graduates.  In his free time, Dr. Cohen enjoys sports, music, traveling, photography and family time.

 


Golara Khandan

Dentist

Dr. Golara Khandan obtained her Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from Loyola University Chicago before relocating to Los Angeles for her dental education in 2019. She is a graduate of Western University of Health Sciences where she received her Doctorate of Dental Medicine in 2023. Following graduation, she continued her academic and clinical training by completing a year long residency program at the Advanced Education in General Dentistry Program at UCLA.

Dr. Khandan is passionate about dentistry and engages in continuing education courses to keep up with the rapidly advancing techniques and technologies.

Outside of dentistry, she enjoys hiking, cooking, and spending quality time with her husband and fur baby, Echo. She enjoys working with Dr. Cohen and our team to improve our patients' oral health by providing high quality and patient centered dental care.