Meet The Team

Dr. Alex Chaney

Dr. Alex Chaney approaches dentistry with the mindset of an engineer. With a background in mechanical engineering and advanced post-graduate training, they bring a thoughtful, analytical approach to every case, seeing challenges as opportunities to collaborate with patients and design solutions that honor functional, aesthetic, and financial realities.

Alex is deeply committed to minimally invasive, ethical dentistry. Their philosophy is simple: all the dentistry you need and want — that’s it. They focus on preserving teeth whenever possible, carefully evaluating whether treatment is necessary, beneficial, and truly in the patient’s best interest. Through a co-diagnostic approach rooted in education and transparency, Alex ensures patients feel informed, supported, and confident in their decisions. Their broad clinical skill set also allows many patients to complete complex care in one place, without expensive and unnecessary referrals.

Above all, Alex understands that walking through the door is often the hardest step. They create a calm, judgment-free environment where fear and shame are replaced with clarity, respect, and trust. Every treatment plan includes a focus on prevention and long-term health, addressing not just symptoms, but the underlying factors that led there in the first place.

Dr. Chaney earned their dental degree from the University of the Pacific Dugoni School of Dentistry and has completed extensive post-graduate training in restorative and functional dentistry, including implants, occlusion, endodontics, extractions, soft tissue grafting, and migraine treatment. Outside the office, Alex enjoys time with their wife and young daughter, and tending to their bonsai trees.

Dr. Victor Chaney

Dr. Chaney graduated from Dental School at the University of California, San Francisco, School of Dentistry in 1977, receiving the Doctor of Dental Surgery degree. For his undergraduate training, he attended the University of California at Riverside, and received his bachelor’s degree in Physics.

Dr. Chaney is strongly committed to education. He continues his dental education with regular attendance at post-graduate courses, so that he may stay abreast of current developments in dentistry.

He is a member of the California Dental Association, and the American Dental Association.

If dentistry does not keep him busy enough, then he has plenty of other interests to keep him out of trouble as well.

He enjoys his family, with his wife Sharon, and his two boys Alex and Neil. The family enjoys hiking, camping, boating and scouting together. Everyone enjoys making things, as you can see on the art web site.

He is an Assistant Scoutmaster of Boy Scout troop 77, and loves to spend time with the scouts. With the scouts he enjoys hiking, backpacking, canoeing, and many other activities.

He also plays music in a country band called The Desert Moon Band. He applies his artistic talents, assisted by some of the skills he learned in dentistry, to some unusual creations. His interests in electronics, computers, metalworking and woodworking are mostly self-taught. He likes making things so much, that when he first learned about what dentists do and how much creating things with his hands was involved, he said “This looks like the profession for me!”.