About

Last reviewed June 17, 2026.

Dental.me is an independent dentist directory built to help people find and compare dental practices using clear, factual, sourced information. We are currently focused on Florida — our fully-built flagship state — with nationwide expansion planned over time.

What Dental.me is

We organize dental practices by city and specialty so you can compare them on the details that matter — location, services, hours, public ratings, and how complete each profile is — and then confirm specifics with the office. We are a directory and information service, not a dental provider, and nothing here is medical advice.

Where our data comes from

Profiles are assembled from the federal NPPES provider registry, public business data (such as Google/Maps) where available, practice websites, owner-submitted updates on claimed profiles, user corrections, and direct office confirmation when our staff completes it. County is derived from ZIP using the U.S. Census ZCTA-to-county relationship file. Each profile reflects what is known and, where applicable, when it was last updated. See our verification methodology for the full picture and the Florida Dental Access Report for statewide coverage.

How profiles are assembled and ranked

Practices are organized into city and city-specialty pages and ordered by an independent Dental.me Score (rating, review volume, profile completeness, and verification). Ranking cannot be bought. Read how we rank.

Free profiles vs. paid placement

Most profiles are free and built from Dental.me data; practices can also claim their profile for free to keep it current. Some practices purchase a Featured placement, which is always labeled “Featured · Ad” or “Paid placement,” kept separate from organic results, and never changes organic ranking. See our advertising policy.

Editorial independence

Our rankings and editorial content are produced independently of advertising. We do not invent services, insurance acceptance, availability, or reviews, and we do not publish our own aggregate ratings from third-party data. Where authorship is shown, content is maintained by the Dental.me Editorial Team; we do not claim individual medical credentials we do not have. See our editorial policy.

Corrections, claims, and contact

Accuracy is a process. If a profile is wrong or you want it removed, request a correction; practice owners can claim a profile to update it. Every request is reviewed before a public change is made.

Frequently asked questions

What is Dental.me?

Dental.me is an independent online directory that helps people find and compare dentists. It is currently focused on Florida, with nationwide expansion planned. Profiles are built from practice, provider, and business data.

Does Dental.me cover the whole U.S.?

Not yet. Florida is the live, fully-built market. Other states will launch over time. We only publish indexable directory pages for markets we have actually built.

Is a Dental.me profile an endorsement?

No. A profile means we hold practice, provider, and business data about a practice. It is not an endorsement, a guarantee of quality, or medical advice. Always confirm details directly with the office.

How do I correct or claim a profile?

Anyone can request a correction via the data-corrections page, and a practice owner can claim a profile to update it. Every request is reviewed before a public change is made.

How this page supports the Dental.me directory

Dental.me organizes 249,344 dental practice profiles across 13,146 U.S. city directories and 56 state directories. Pages like About support that system by explaining how patients compare dentists, how practice teams improve profiles, how corrections move through review, how Featured placement stays separate from organic ranking, and how Dental.me keeps structured profile data useful for search engines and AI answer systems.

The public directory is built around a clear flow: state pages connect to city pages, city pages connect to ranked practice profiles and supported specialty paths, practice profiles connect back to parent cities, nearby alternatives, claim forms, correction forms, guide content, and methodology pages. That internal-link structure helps patients move from broad searches to specific dental offices, while giving dentists a direct path to strengthen the information patients see.

Dental.me keeps the broad national backbone visible while enrichment improves profile quality over time. Provider, practice, location, website, business-profile, rating, review, hours, map, category, owner-submitted, VA-reviewed, and correction data can all strengthen a profile. When a practice has stronger source-supported signals, those signals improve comparison quality and ranking context. When a practice has fewer public signals, it remains discoverable and can be improved through the claim, correction, and verification workflow.

Organic Dental.me rankings are independent. A dentist cannot buy a better organic rank or a better Dental.me Score. Paid Featured placements are premium visibility products, labeled separately, and kept apart from the organic list. This gives practice teams a real advertising path without weakening the trust patients expect from an independent directory.

For patients, the practical goal is simple: compare offices by city, specialty path, phone, address, website, provider names, ratings, review volume, hours, profile completeness, nearby alternatives, and Dental.me Score. For dentists, the practical goal is profile control: claim the profile, correct outdated information, add stronger details, and request paid visibility where appropriate. For search engines and LLMs, the practical goal is clean structure: visible facts, matching schema, canonical URLs, indexable sitemaps, and crawlable internal links.

Use the links below to move through the authority layer that supports the directory: Dental market data, dental guides, how Dental.me ranks dentists, verification methodology, advertising policy, claim your profile, and suggest a correction.

What happens after a patient or practice team uses this page

Patients usually move from this trust layer into a state hub, a city directory, a city-specialty page, or a specific practice profile. Those pages are where the practical comparison happens: office name, phone number, address, website, map links, rating and review count, hours, provider names, categories, nearby alternatives, Dental.me Score, and claim or correction paths. The trust layer explains why the comparison system is structured the way it is.

Practice teams usually move in the other direction. They search for the office profile, check the details patients see, submit a claim or correction, and then strengthen the profile with better phone, website, provider, category, hours, photo, FAQ, and business information. The more complete the profile becomes, the easier it is for patients to compare and the easier it is for Dental.me to keep the profile organized across city pages, specialty pages, guides, data studies, and schema.

How Dental.me keeps authority and monetization separate

Dental.me can be aggressive about visibility without confusing advertising with ranking. Organic results are built around independent comparison signals. Featured placements are commercial inventory and are labeled as Featured. Corrections and accuracy updates are not paywalled. A dentist can improve profile completeness by correcting or claiming the profile, and a dentist can buy additional visibility through Featured placement, but payment does not rewrite the organic order.

This is important for SEO, AEO, GEO, LLM citation, and trust. Search engines need to see that the same facts appear visibly on the page and in schema. Patients need to know when a result is organic versus sponsored. Dentists need a path to update their profile without paying for basic accuracy. Dental.me needs a scalable operating system that keeps those responsibilities distinct while the directory grows state by state.

What Dental.me checks before sending authority to a page

A page is strongest when the visible content, schema, canonical URL, sitemap status, and internal links all tell the same story. That means the public text should match the structured data, the page should link to the right state and city hubs, the profile or policy should explain the next action clearly, and old or ambiguous URLs should not compete with canonical routes. Dental.me uses those checks across city pages, profile pages, specialty pages, guides, market-data pages, and trust pages.

The same standard applies to back-office work. A correction request should create a review trail. A claim should connect to the right practice profile. A VA review should preserve notes and field-level evidence. A paid placement should be labeled without touching organic score. A profile update should improve the public page only when the supporting data is reviewable. That operating discipline is what lets Dental.me move fast without looking thin, messy, or pay-to-rank.

That is why these support pages matter. They are not side pages floating outside the product; they explain how Dental.me earns confidence while expanding quickly. The directory can be broad, commercial, and aggressive about visibility while still keeping profile accuracy, source support, ranking integrity, and patient usefulness at the center of the system.

For a national dental directory, this foundation matters at scale. A patient in a major metro and a patient in a smaller city both need the same clean path: find the city, compare the offices, review the profile, call or visit the website, and correct anything that looks off. The support layer makes that path explicit.

That same clarity is what helps Dental.me earn trust from dentists, patients, search engines, and AI systems while the directory expands.

Clear policy pages also reduce confusion before a practice team claims, corrects, advertises, or updates a profile.