Dentists in Beverly, MA: Local Guide

Quick answer: Beverly, MA has 48 dental practices in the Dental.me directory. 28 are rated on Google, averaging 4.76★ across 3,669 reviews. Top by independent Dental.me Score: Donald E. Kowalski, DDS, Maisie Tolzmann, Paulina Yarmarkovich. Compare them below and shortlist two or three near you to call.

Here is the single most useful fact about dentistry in Beverly, Massachusetts: of the 28 practices with enough Google reviews to rate, not one sits below 4.0 stars. Across most American cities that band is where a quarter of the market lives — the offices with billing surprises, no-show front desks, and rushed cleanings. In Beverly it is empty. The floor under this North Shore market is unusually high, and it changes how you should shop for a dentist here. The question is not “who do I avoid?” It is “who is the right fit among a field of genuinely good options?”

Let’s start with the shape of the market, because the numbers tell a specific story about this city of roughly forty thousand people wedged between Salem and the Cape Ann towns.

What 3,669 reviews across 48 offices actually mean

Beverly carries 48 dental practices, and 28 of them have accumulated enough Google feedback to earn a reliable rating. That is a healthy ratio — it means the roster isn’t padded with ghost listings and brand-new shingles. Those 28 offices have collected 3,669 reviews between them, and the weighted average lands at 4.76. To put that in plain terms: the typical Beverly dentist is rated where a top-decile practice sits in most towns. Twenty-five of the 48 practices maintain their own website, so most established offices here are reachable online for booking and new-patient paperwork before you ever pick up the phone.

But an average can hide the distribution, and the distribution is the real headline. Look at how the rated practices break down.

Seventy-five percent of the rated field — 21 of 28 — sits at 4.8 stars or higher. Only two practices land in the middling 4.5–4.79 band, five are solidly in the 4.0s, and the bottom is genuinely vacant. This is what a mature, competitive suburban market looks like when nobody can afford to coast. For you as a patient, the practical takeaway is liberating: you can shortlist on fit — location, specialty, insurance, chairside manner — rather than spending your energy screening out duds. In Beverly, screening out duds is mostly a solved problem.

It also reframes what those five practices in the 4.0–4.49 band mean. In a city where a quarter of the market usually drags along the bottom, a solid low-4 rating in Beverly is not a red flag — it is often a busy, high-volume office where a handful of billing or scheduling gripes have pulled a genuinely competent clinical operation down half a star. Read the actual reviews on those before you rule them out; the complaint pattern usually tells you whether the issue is the dentistry (rare here) or the front desk (more common, and easier to live with).

One more structural point worth knowing before you dial: 25 of Beverly’s 48 practices run their own website. That’s just over half, and it skews heavily toward the higher-rated offices. In practice it means the dentists you’re most likely to shortlist can usually be booked, and their new-patient forms filled out, online — a small convenience that separates the modern practices from the phone-only holdouts.

The practices patients rank highest

A few offices have pulled far ahead on review volume, which is the closest thing to a track record you get without walking in the door. Donald E. Kowalski, DDS leads the city outright: a 4.9-star rating built on 962 reviews, more than any other practice in Beverly by a wide margin. That volume matters — a 4.9 across nearly a thousand reviews is a far stronger signal than a perfect 5.0 across a dozen.

Behind that anchor sits a cluster of highly rated general and specialty offices. Maisie Tolzmann holds a clean 5.0 across 336 reviews, and Paulina Yarmarkovich carries 4.9 stars on 333 — two providers with nearly identical footprints if you want a smaller, high-touch practice. Beverly Dental Group (4.9, 226 reviews) is the recognizable group-practice option, while Cabot Dental Associates (4.8, 198) and Anabel Curiel Franciskato, DMD (4.9, 151) round out the top tier. You can compare all of them side by side, with hours and specialty tags, on the Beverly dentist directory.

A specialist bench that punches above the city’s size

Here is where Beverly quietly over-delivers. For a city this size, the depth of specialty care is striking — you rarely need to drive into Boston or even down to Peabody for advanced work.

Eighteen practices place dental implants — more than a third of the entire market — and fourteen offer periodontal care, the gum-and-bone foundation implants depend on. That pairing is unusual density for a town this size and means implant patients can often get their surgical and restorative phases coordinated close to home. On the aesthetic side, sixteen offices do cosmetic work and the same number offer whitening. Straightening is well covered too, with thirteen practices providing Invisalign and a matching thirteen orthodontists.

The one number to keep in mind: emergency dental care is available at nine practices, and pediatric dentistry is the thinnest specialty at just five offices. Families with young kids should call ahead rather than assume any general office takes toddlers — the pediatric bench, while present, fills up.

How to choose, given that almost everyone here is good

When the quality floor is high, the decision comes down to fit. Work through it in this order.

Start with the need, not the name. If you’re pursuing implants, filter to the eighteen offices that place them and favor one that also has a periodontist in-house. If it’s a routine cleaning and you value continuity, the high-volume anchors like Kowalski or Beverly Dental Group give you a big, stable schedule. Second, weigh review depth over a flawless average — a 4.9 across 900 reviews is a more durable promise than a 5.0 across 30. Third, insurance is the step people skip and regret; call and confirm your plan before you book, because network participation changes independently of quality. Finally, book a cleaning before you commit to anything expensive. A hygiene visit is a low-stakes way to test the front desk, the wait time, and the chairside manner before you’re deep into a treatment plan. For a sense of what any of that should cost, our national dental cost guide breaks down typical prices for cleanings, crowns, implants, and more.

Looking just beyond Beverly

Beverly sits at the center of a dense North Shore cluster, so if your ideal specialist or your insurance network points elsewhere, several strong markets are a short drive away. Salem and Danvers border the city directly, with Peabody just past them. To the coast and the Cape Ann side you’ll find Marblehead, Wenham, and South Hamilton. Between them and Beverly itself, almost no North Shore resident is more than fifteen minutes from a well-rated dentist.

The bottom line for Beverly: this is a rare market where the hard part of the search — avoiding a bad experience — is largely handled by the field itself. Browse the full, filterable roster on the Beverly dentist directory, decide on the two or three that fit your specialty and insurance, and book the one that answers the phone the way you’d want your dentist to.

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