Dentists in Bronx, NY: Local Guide

Quick answer: Bronx, NY has 760 dental practices in the Dental.me directory. 291 are rated on Google, averaging 3.92★ across 39,932 reviews. Top by independent Dental.me Score: SOUTH BRONX ORTHODONTICS, BEENAKUMARI VIJU DDS PC, Maryann Vlahos. Compare them below and shortlist two or three near you to call.

The Bronx is a study in contrasts. With 760 dental practices on record, it posts a citywide average rating of 3.9 stars. That single number hides the real story. The borough is not short on highly rated offices; it has 103 practices rated 4.8 or higher. What it has instead is a wide range of ratings, where a five-star orthodontist and a low-rated storefront office can sit three blocks apart. Choosing well here is less about luck than about knowing how to read the spread.

A market shaped like a barbell

Across the 291 Bronx practices that carry public ratings, the rating curve does not bulge in the middle. It splits at the ends. The two largest groups are the very best and the clearly weak: 103 practices earn 4.8–5.0 stars, while 109 sit below 4.0. Only a thin band lands in between. Statisticians would call this a bimodal distribution; for a Bronx resident it means the average is close to meaningless. You are not going to a “3.9-star city.” You are choosing between two very different tiers, and the whole game is landing in the top one.

Notice what the shape tells you: the single biggest group in the Bronx is the bottom one. More than a third of rated practices — 109 of 291 — fall short of four stars. That is why a lazy search here fails so often; drop a pin on a map, walk into the nearest office, and the odds are uncomfortably high you have landed in the weak tier. But the top group is nearly as large, and it is deep enough that no Bronx neighborhood is more than a short trip from a highly rated dentist. The lesson is not “the Bronx is a bad place to get dental care.” It is “the Bronx punishes guessing and rewards filtering.” With more than a third of rated practices under four stars, a few extra minutes of screening is time well spent here.

The reviews back this up in sheer volume. Those 291 rated practices carry 39,932 Google reviews between them — an average of roughly 140 per office, and far more for the leaders. That is a large, opinionated body of feedback, and it is the raw material that makes filtering reliable. When tens of thousands of Bronx reviews have already done the field testing for you, the smart move is to read the pattern they left behind rather than start from scratch.

The average lies because most of the market has no website on file

There is a second reason not to trust that 3.9. Of the 760 practices we have on file, only 291 carry any public rating at all, and just 207 — roughly one in four — maintain a website. The Bronx is a heavily under-documented dental market. Hundreds of offices have no website on file, which means the ratings you can see are skewed toward the practices that patients felt strongly enough about to review, in both directions. When you search the Bronx, you are looking at the tip of a much larger iceberg — so the practices with a visible, well-reviewed record deserve extra weight.

The deepest review records skew orthodontic

One quirk jumps out of the Bronx’s highest-rated roster: the borough’s most-reviewed standouts are heavily weighted toward braces and bite correction. The single most-reviewed practice in our top tier is South Bronx Orthodontics, holding a 4.9 across more than 1,600 reviews — an enormous review count for any single office. Alongside it sit Schimmel Orthodontic Associates (a perfect 5.0) and Smile Savers Orthodontics (4.9). If you are researching Bronx orthodontists or Invisalign providers — each a 73-practice category here — the borough is genuinely deep.

General and restorative care is well represented at the top too. Beenakumari Viju DDS PC (4.9, 1,000+ reviews), Dr. Maryann Vlahos (4.9), and Dr. Victor Oelbaum (4.9) round out a top tier that is broad enough to cover most families’ needs. Every one of these is on the Bronx dentist hub, where you can filter the full roster by rating, specialty, and neighborhood.

Why does the orthodontic skew matter for everyday patients? Because it shows which kinds of practices carry the most reviews in this borough. Orthodontic offices are prominent among the Bronx’s most-reviewed practices; Dental.me holds the counts, not the reasons behind them. It is a reminder that in a market this large, a large review count is the clearest sign of how many patients have rated a practice, whatever the specialty.

Which specialties are actually available

Depth varies sharply by procedure. Dental implants lead the specialty landscape with 86 providers, and cosmetic dentistry, whitening, orthodontics, and Invisalign all clear 60 practices apiece. At the other end, some high-complexity work is genuinely scarce: only 7 prosthodontists and 21 denture providers serve the whole borough. If you know you need niche restorative care, start early — the shortlist is short.

Two categories deserve a special note. Emergency dentists number just 27 across the Bronx, so it pays to identify one before a cracked tooth or abscess forces the decision at 9 p.m. And pediatric dentists, at 63 practices, give families real choice — enough that you can and should hold out for a top-rated one rather than settling for whoever is closest. Because the low-rated tier is so large borough-wide, applying your rating filter to these narrower specialty lists matters even more: a short list with a wide quality range is exactly where a bad guess does the most damage.

How to choose in a wide-range market

Because the Bronx spread is so wide, the method matters more here than in a uniformly strong city. The goal is simple: filter fast from the full 760 down to the top tier, then verify. Think of it as a funnel — each step throws out noise.

In practice that means three habits. First, screen on rating before anything else — in a market where 109 practices sit below four stars, a hard cutoff at 4.5 does most of the work for you. Second, weight review volume: a 4.9 across 1,600 reviews (like South Bronx Orthodontics) is a far stronger signal than a 5.0 across a dozen. Third, match the specialty to the need — a superb general dentist is not automatically the right choice for implants or a pediatric visit. 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. And whenever you want the current list, the Bronx dentist directory keeps every rating and specialty tag up to date.

Looking just beyond the borough

Bronx residents routinely cross into neighboring communities for care, and several sit within an easy trip. To the north, Riverdale and Mount Vernon add options, as do Pelham and Pelham Manor just over the Westchester line. Heading toward Queens, College Point is a common stop, and Garden City Park extends the search onto Long Island. Widening the map by a few miles can turn a thin specialty shortlist into a real choice.

The Bronx rewards patients who do a little homework. The low-rated practices are real, but so are the 103 rated 4.8 or higher — and once you know to filter for them, this large, under-documented market opens up fast. Start with the Bronx dentist hub and work down from the top.

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