Dentists in Ames, IA: Local Guide

Quick answer: Ames, IA has 40 dental practices in the Dental.me directory. 24 are rated on Google, averaging 4.74★ across 4,412 reviews. Top by independent Dental.me Score: Dillon Schloerb, Dentistry At Somerset, Brandon M. Patten, DDS, PC. Compare them below and shortlist two or three near you to call.

Ames has 40 dental practices in the Dental.me directory. This guide walks through what the data shows about them.

Here is the headline for Ames. Of the 40 practices Dental.me tracks, 27 have a website on file and 24 have a Google rating; together the 24 hold 4,412 Google reviews and average 4.74 stars. The other 16 hold no Google reviews in Dental.me’s data. Most rated offices score high, so the work in Ames is choosing among them by review depth, services and fit.

The website figure deserves a second look, because it shapes how much you can check before you call. 27 of 40 practices have a website on file, roughly two in three, and 23 of the 24 rated offices are among them. Hours are posted for 24 of the 40 listings. Where a site exists you can check services and insurance before you pick up the phone.

Read the rating spread before you read any single review

Averages hide the shape of a market, so look at how the rated practices spread. Of the 24 rated practices, 18 sit at 4.8 stars or higher, three-quarters of the rated field; six of those 18 rest on 14 reviews or fewer. Two sit between 4.5 and 4.79, three between 4.0 and 4.49, and one below 4.0.

The single office below 4.0, Periodontal Services of Ames, PLC, holds 3.0 on 10 reviews, a small record. The 4.0–4.49 band is not all small records: it includes Dr. Fatah, D.D.S., P.C., 4.1 on 623 reviews, the third-largest record in the city. Read each office’s rating beside its review count rather than relying on the spread alone.

The largest review records in Ames

Depth of feedback matters when you read a rating. A 4.9 built on 1,435 reviews is a steadier number than a 5.0 built on nine. Three Ames records run past 600 reviews. Dentistry At Somerset holds a 4.9 across 1,435 reviews, the largest record in the city. Dillon Schloerb holds a 5.0 on 845 reviews and is first in the Dental.me Score order. Dr. Fatah, D.D.S., P.C. holds a 4.1 on 623.

The next records are Brandon M. Patten, DDS, PC (4.9, 290 reviews), Ames Oral Surgeons (4.8, 276), Ames Center For Cosmetic & Family Dentistry (4.9, 265) and Stark Smiles (4.9, 166). Together the six largest records hold 3,734 of the city’s 4,412 reviews (85%). Ames Oral Surgeons is on the oral-surgeon, implant and periodontist lists. You can see all of them, with live ratings, on the Ames dentist directory.

What the Ames service lists hold

Eleven of Dental.me’s 12 service lists hold at least one Ames practice. Dental implants is the longest at 11 practices, followed by 10 on teeth whitening and 9 cosmetic listings. The pediatric list holds 8, the orthodontist and Invisalign lists 7 each, and the emergency list 6. The oral-surgeon list holds 4, periodontists 3, endodontists and dentures 2 each, and the prosthodontist list is empty. Dental.me holds no availability data, so call to ask how soon an office can see you.

That breadth means most service categories have local listings. A place on a list shows what an office lists, not how often it does that work, so ask whether the office does your procedure itself.

Practically, that means you can filter Ames by the care you actually need. Browse the Ames implant dentists, the orthodontists or Invisalign providers for a teen or adult straightening case, the pediatric dentists for the youngest patients, or the emergency dentists for an urgent problem. If cosmetic work is the goal, the cosmetic dentists and teeth-whitening lists are the fastest way in.

How to actually choose — an Ames-specific method

Because most rated offices score high here, the usual advice (“avoid the low-rated ones”) barely narrows the field. A better filter for Ames works in four passes.

First, match the service. A general-family office and an oral surgeon are not interchangeable, so start from the procedure and the matching list. Second, weight reviews by volume: lean toward ratings built on hundreds of reviews rather than a handful, because one new review moves a large record far less. Third, confirm insurance with each office before you book. Fourth, use the first phone call to ask how soon the office can see you as a new patient and what it needs from you. Dental.me does not publish prices, and our national guide to dental costs gives no price ranges either; it lists what a quote depends on (the procedure, exam findings, insurance and materials), so ask each office for a written, itemised estimate.

Looking just outside Ames

Six nearby places have their own Dental.me directories: Story City (5 practices, 4 rated), Boone (5 practices, 3 rated), Nevada (5 practices, 1 rated), Polk City (2 practices, 1 rated), Huxley (1 practice, 1 rated), Madrid (1 practice, 1 rated). Together they list 19 practices, and each lists fewer than Ames’s 40. Dental.me holds no drive-time data, so check the distance from where you live.

When you are ready to compare the full field side by side — ratings, review counts, specialties and websites in one view — the Ames dentist directory is where to start. Curious how these rankings are built? Our ranking methodology lays it out.

Dental.me organizes dental directory data so patients can compare offices with confidence. Use each practice profile and its available website, map, and phone details for current appointment, payment, and care decisions.