Dentists in Brooklyn, NY: Local Guide

Quick answer: Brooklyn, NY has 1,787 dental practices in the Dental.me directory. 748 are rated on Google, averaging 4.33★ across 113,181 reviews. Top by independent Dental.me Score: Williamsburg Dental Works, Corey Black, WELLSPRING DENTAL PLLC. Compare them below and shortlist two or three near you to call.

Brooklyn is the hardest dental market in America to shop blind. Not because there are too few dentists — there are 1,787 practices across the borough, more than almost anywhere in the country — but because the quality spread is enormous. Of those 1,787 offices, only 748 have collected enough Google review data to carry a rating, and those rated practices average 4.33 stars — the lowest average of any major city Dental.me covers. Behind that modest average sits something more useful than the number itself: a barbell. Brooklyn has a large cluster of highly rated, heavily-reviewed offices at one end, and an unusually thick tail of underperformers at the other. Learning to tell them apart is the whole job here.

That is why this guide is built around discernment rather than a ranked list. In a small town, the average dentist is a safe bet. In Brooklyn, the average is a trap — you have to actively sort. Start with the borough overview at the Brooklyn dentist directory, then use the reasoning below to narrow it down.

Read the barbell before you read the average

The 4.33 figure hides the real shape of the market. Of the 748 rated Brooklyn practices, 349 — about 47% — sit at 4.8 stars or higher. That is a deep bench of top-tier offices. But 173 practices, nearly one in four rated offices, fall below 4.0. That sub-4.0 tail is the largest we see in any comparable city, and it is what drags the borough average down. Sitting in the middle are roughly 226 practices in the 4.0–4.79 range — competent, unremarkable, and easy to over-weight if you only glance at a star count.

The practical takeaway: in Brooklyn, a 4.1-star office is not “a little above average” — it is squarely mid-pack, and there are hundreds of better-reviewed alternatives a few subway stops away. Set your floor at 4.5 and you have already skipped the entire bottom third of the market.

The website gap changes how you research

Here is a Brooklyn-specific wrinkle that trips up out-of-town research habits: only 533 of the 1,787 practices — about 30% — list a working website. In most markets you can vet a dentist by reading their site: services, financing, staff bios, before-and-after galleries. In Brooklyn, seven in ten offices give you nothing to read. Many are excellent neighborhood practices that never bothered with a web presence, so “no website” is not itself a red flag — but it does mean the Google reviews record and the practice’s response history become your primary evidence. Lean on the aggregated profiles rather than a Google search that may turn up nothing.

When a website does exist, treat it as a bonus signal, not the deciding one. The strongest-rated offices in the borough earned that standing through thousands of Google reviews, not through polished marketing pages.

Which specialties are genuinely well-covered

Brooklyn’s size means almost every specialty is available at real depth — you rarely have to leave the borough for care. The catalog is deepest in the areas Brooklynites search for most: dental implants (248 practices), teeth whitening (232), cosmetic dentistry (223), and orthodontics and Invisalign (192 each). Families are well-served too, with 169 pediatric dentists. Where the bench thins is the surgical and lab-heavy specialties: only 68 oral surgeons, 76 endodontists, and just 21 prosthodontists borough-wide. For those, expect a shorter shortlist and be ready to book further out.

The proven top of the market

These are among the most-reviewed, highest-rated practices in Brooklyn — offices that have earned their standing across hundreds or thousands of Google reviews. They are a sensible starting shortlist:

• Williamsburg Dental Works — a perfect 5.0 across 961 reviews, and a strong anchor for north Brooklyn.
• Yoo Sun Kate Chung — 4.9 stars over an extraordinary 3,270 reviews, the deepest review record on this list.
• Little Tooth Pediatric Dentistry — 4.9 stars across 2,207 reviews, a go-to for families.
• Avenue U Orthodontics — 4.9 stars over 2,114 reviews for braces and aligners.
• Corey Black — a clean 5.0 across 852 reviews.
• Wellspring Dental — 5.0 stars over 680 reviews.

Notice the pattern: the offices that top Brooklyn combine a near-perfect rating with a large review volume. In a barbell market, that combination — not a bare 5.0 on a handful of reviews — is the signal that separates the reliably excellent from the merely lucky.

How to actually choose — a four-filter shortlist

Because the borough is so uneven, a simple mechanical filter beats browsing. Run every candidate through these four gates in order and your list shrinks fast.

On the fourth filter — access — remember that Brooklyn borders a dense ring of neighborhoods, and the nearest excellent dentist may technically sit just over a line. Widen your search to greater Brooklyn, Ridgewood, Glendale, Glendale (Queens), Belle Harbor, and Breezy Point if your immediate blocks come up thin. And before you commit to any treatment plan, sanity-check the numbers against our national dental cost guide so you know what a fair quote looks like.

Brooklyn rewards the patient who sorts. Start from the full Brooklyn directory, hold your rating floor, weigh review depth, and you can turn the borough’s messy 4.33 average into a shortlist of offices that genuinely belong at the top.

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