6 min read • By Dr. Kevin Baharvand, DMD, MS • Updated August 2026
The short answer
Living Magazine readers voted us Best Family Dentist in Frisco and Plano for 2026. Being precise about what that is: it is a public vote, so it measures how many people liked us enough to fill in a ballot. That is a real signal about patient experience and no signal at all about clinical standards. We are still pleased about it.
Official Living Magazine Best of Readers’ Choice 2026 award presented to Tribute Family Dentistry.
FRISCO, TEXAS, Tribute Family Dentistry, a general and family dental practice located at the intersection of Frisco, The Tribute, and The Colony along the FM 423 corridor, has been named the Best Family Dentist in Frisco & Plano in Living Magazine’s 2026 Best of Readers’ Choice Awards. The honor is determined entirely by reader vote, with thousands of residents across the publication’s Frisco and Plano coverage zones submitting nominations and ballots over a multi-month voting period.
The recognition comes less than two years after the practice opened its doors in 2024, and reflects what co-founders Dr. Kevin Baharvand DMD MS and Dr. Julia Kang DMD MS describe as a deliberate decision to build a family-focused dental home for the rapidly growing residential corridor between Frisco and Lewisville Lake.
2026 Recognition
D Magazine Top Dentist DFW 2026
Benchmark BusinessRate Top 3 Dentist Frisco 2026
200+ Google Reviews
Frisco Chamber
The Colony Chamber
Little Elm Chamber
About the Living Magazine Best of Readers’ Choice Awards
Living Magazine is a regional lifestyle publication serving North Texas communities including Frisco, Plano, Allen, McKinney, Prosper, and the surrounding areas. The magazine’s annual Best of Readers’ Choice program is one of the longest-running consumer-voted award programs in the region, and is structured as a peer-driven recognition rather than a juried or sponsored award.
Winners are selected entirely by Living Magazine’s reader base. The voting process spans multiple rounds and is open to residents within the publication’s geographic distribution zones, which include both Denton County (Frisco, The Colony, Little Elm) and Collin County (Plano, Allen). For 2026, Tribute Family Dentistry was selected as the top family dentistry practice within the combined Frisco and Plano voting region.
A reader-voted award means something different than an industry award. It means the families who actually sit in our chairs took the time to fill out a ballot. We opened this practice in 2024 with a specific idea about what a neighborhood dental office should feel like for kids and parents who live along FM 423, and this recognition tells us we’re on the right track. I want to thank every single patient who voted, and every member of our team who earned it.
, Dr. Kevin Baharvand DMD MS, Co-Founder, Tribute Family Dentistry
A Family Dental Home for the FM 423 Corridor
Tribute Family Dentistry occupies a deliberately chosen location at 5605 FM 423, Suite 600-B, Frisco, TX 75036. The address is technically within Frisco city limits, but the building sits within walking distance of the boundary with The Colony and a short drive from the southern edge of Little Elm. The Tribute peninsula, a narrow strip of master-planned residential community jutting south into Lewisville Lake, begins less than a mile to the south.
This placement was intentional. When Dr. Baharvand and Dr. Kang began planning the practice in 2023, the FM 423 corridor was the fastest-growing residential zone in southern Denton County, with new neighborhoods coming online across Phillips Creek Ranch, Lone Star Ranch, Frisco Lakes, and the Tribute peninsula. The corridor’s family demographics, young couples, growing families, school-age children, aligned naturally with the practice’s family-first model.
Patient Service Area
Tribute Family Dentistry serves families across the following neighborhoods and communities:
The Tribute
The Colony
Little Elm
Phillips Creek Ranch
Lone Star Ranch
Frisco Lakes
Stewart Peninsula
About the Doctors
Dr. Kevin Baharvand DMD MS
Co-founder of Tribute Family Dentistry. ABO Diplomate, AJO-DO cover clinician, Orthotown editorial board member, and D Magazine Best Dentist 2026 honoree. Speaker at the 2026 Angel Aligner Ascend conference in New York on artificial intelligence and dental practice efficiency. More than 1,000 five-star patient reviews across affiliated practices.
Dr. Julia Kang DMD MS
Co-founder of Tribute Family Dentistry. DDS from Seoul National University, DMD from Boston University, Harvard externship completion. JCO Resident of the Year finalist and Omicron Kappa Upsilon dental honor society member.
Drs. Baharvand and Kang co-founded Tribute Family Dentistry in 2024 as a companion practice to Elate Orthodontics, which they opened in 2019. The general dentistry team at TFD is led by additional clinicians who see day-to-day general and family patients.
Why Readers Voted
The practice operates on a model that emphasizes accessibility for working families along the FM 423 corridor:
Same-Family Scheduling
Parents and children can be seen back-to-back or in the same time block, reducing the number of trips families make.
Modern Technology
Intraoral scanners and in-office 3D printing reduce turnaround times for appliances and improve impression accuracy for restorative work.
Smile Savings Plan
An in-house membership plan priced at $360 per year per adult, designed for families without traditional dental insurance.
Specialist Continuity
Direct referral pathway to Elate Orthodontics, an affiliated specialty practice, when patients require orthodontic care.
A Year of Recognition
The Living Magazine honor caps a notable twelve months for the practice. Tribute Family Dentistry was also named to D Magazine’s Top Dentist DFW list for 2026, a peer-reviewed award determined by surveys sent to licensed dentists across Dallas-Fort Worth. The practice additionally earned a top-three placement in the Benchmark BusinessRate Best Dentists in Frisco ranking for 2026, surpassed 200 verified Google Reviews, and recently joined The Colony Chamber of Commerce as its third area chamber affiliation, alongside existing memberships in the Frisco Chamber of Commerce and the Little Elm Chamber of Commerce.
The combination of three distinct recognition mechanisms, consumer-voted (Living Magazine), peer-voted (D Magazine), and data-driven ranking (Benchmark BusinessRate), represents an unusual cross-section of validation for a practice in its second year of operation.
About Tribute Family Dentistry
Tribute Family Dentistry is a general and family dental practice founded in 2024 by Dr. Kevin Baharvand DMD MS and Dr. Julia Kang DMD MS. The practice serves patients of all ages, from toddlers through grandparents, with a focus on children’s dentistry, complete adult dentistry, cosmetic dentistry, and restorative care. The office is located at 5605 FM 423, Suite 600-B, Frisco, TX 75036, serving families across Frisco, The Tribute, The Colony, Little Elm, and the surrounding FM 423 corridor. For more information, visit dentistfriscotx.com or call (469) 598-1021.
Media inquiries: info@tributedentistry.com
Become Part of the Reason We Won
We’re now accepting new family patients across Frisco, The Tribute, The Colony, Little Elm, and the FM 423 corridor.
Common questions
What is the Living Magazine Readers Choice award?
A public vote run by the magazine in which readers nominate and vote for local businesses. It reflects popularity and patient experience rather than any clinical evaluation.
Does an award like this mean the dentistry is better?
No, and we would rather say so. A readers choice award means people voted. The credential that reflects examination of clinical work is board certification, which in orthodontics is Diplomate of the American Board of Orthodontics.
What other recognition does the practice have?
Dr. Kevin Baharvand was named a D Magazine Best Dentist for 2026, which is peer nominated by other dentists. The practice also has over 200 five star Google reviews at a single location.
How should I evaluate a dental practice then?
Look at the three star reviews and how the office replies to them, ask who owns the practice, ask for the treatment estimate in writing, and check the license on the Texas State Board of Dental Examiners public search.
Come see whether the votes were right
Book an exam and cleaning at 5605 FM 423. Written estimate before anything is scheduled, and a straight answer about what is urgent and what can wait.
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About Tribute Family Dentistry
200+ five-star Google reviews • Family owned and independent • D Magazine Best Dentist 2026 • Living Magazine Readers' Choice 2026 • Se habla espanol
Tribute is a family owned, independent practice on FM 423 in Frisco. I own it with my wife, Dr. Julia Kang, DMD, MS. We both trained at Boston University and we are both members of the Omicron Kappa Upsilon national honor society. I am a Diplomate of the American Board of Orthodontics. Day to day, most patients and their kids see Dr. Christina Pham, DMD, our general and family dentist, and oral surgery is handled by Dr. David Roberts, DDS, who has been doing it for more than 35 years.
We handle the whole family in one place: cleanings and preventive care, fillings, crowns, bridges, implants, root canals, extractions and wisdom teeth, whitening, night guards, and emergency visits. Open Monday through Friday, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM.
If you need braces or clear aligners, that is the other side of what we do. Elate Orthodontics, our sister practice, treats kids, teens, and adults out of three offices in Frisco and The Colony.
Tribute Family Dentistry
5605 FM 423, Suite 600-B, Frisco, TX 75036
Book an appointment: (469) 598-1021
About the author: Dr. Kevin Baharvand, DMD, MS is a Diplomate of the American Board of Orthodontics and a national speaker on clear aligner treatment. His clinical work was selected for the cover of the American Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics. He and his wife, Dr. Julia Kang, own Tribute Family Dentistry and Elate Orthodontics in Frisco, Texas.
