Dentists in Burke, VA: Local Guide

Quick answer: Burke, VA has 69 dental practices in the Dental.me directory. 44 are rated on Google, averaging 4.67★ across 8,428 reviews. Top by independent Dental.me Score: Burke Dental Center – Dr. Nabeel Khan, Sara Bunin, DDS, EARL E. KLIOZE DDS. AND JEFFREY I. KLIOZE, DDS.,LTD. Compare them below and shortlist two or three near you to call.

Burke, Virginia presents a problem most towns would envy. With 69 dental practices packed into this Fairfax County suburb and 44 of them carrying enough Google reviews to earn a public rating, the town’s dentists have collectively banked 8,428 Google reviews — and the average score across the rated field is a formidable 4.67 out of 5. In most cities the hard part is finding one good dentist. In Burke, the hard part is choosing among a bench where nearly everyone is highly rated. This guide is built to help you do exactly that.

The single most striking fact about Burke’s dental market isn’t the number of offices — it’s how tightly they cluster at the top. Of the 44 rated practices, 33 hold ratings of 4.8 stars or higher. That is three out of every four rated offices in the elite tier. Only three rated practices fall below 4.0. When 75% of a town’s dentists are performing at the highest level, a five-star review stops being a differentiator and starts being the price of admission. You need sharper tools to tell the great apart from the merely very good.

How Burke’s ratings actually break down

Star averages hide as much as they reveal. Here is the honest distribution of the 44 rated practices in Burke — the shape of the market you’re actually shopping in.

What this chart tells a Burke resident is blunt: the pool of top-tier offices is so large that you can afford to be picky about fit rather than settling for whoever is merely competent. The right question here isn’t “which dentist is good?” but “which excellent dentist is right for my mouth, my budget, and my schedule?” That reframing matters, because it changes how you should read reviews. In a weak market you scan for red flags. In Burke you scan for strengths — who is known for gentle hygiene visits, who genuinely excels at implants, who runs on time.

The market at a glance

A few numbers are worth pausing on. First, 41 of Burke’s 69 practices maintain a working website — roughly six in ten — which is high for a suburb this size and means most offices publish their hours, insurance list, and new-patient forms online before you ever call. Second, the review volume is deep: 8,428 reviews across 44 rated offices works out to nearly 190 reviews per practice on average, so the ratings you see rest on a deep base of opinion, not a handful of friendly regulars. That depth is why Burke’s scores are trustworthy in a way a 12-review town’s never are.

It’s also worth being honest about the gap between 69 practices and 44 rated ones. Twenty-five Burke offices don’t yet carry enough public reviews to earn a rating — that’s not a mark against them, but it does mean the crowd-sourced signal is thinner. If you’re considering an unrated office, lean harder on the fundamentals: verify the dentist’s Virginia license, ask how long they’ve practiced in the area, and treat the first visit as a trial. And note the three practices sitting below 4.0 stars: in a town where 4.8 is ordinary, a sub-4.0 score is a genuine outlier worth reading the reviews behind before you book.

Where Burke is unusually deep: specialties

For a bedroom community, Burke carries a surprisingly complete specialty roster. You don’t have to drive into Fairfax or across to Springfield for advanced care — the town supports its own bench of implant surgeons, periodontists, orthodontists, and cosmetic specialists.

The cosmetic and elective side is the deepest layer: 24 practices offer cosmetic dentistry and 25 offer teeth whitening, which tells you Burke’s patients spend on their smiles, not just their cavities. But the restorative depth is what should reassure anyone facing bigger work: 20 practices place dental implants and a remarkable 18 offer periodontal (gum) care — gum-disease density that most suburbs simply don’t have. Families are covered too, with 11 pediatric options, and orthodontic choice is wide: 20 practices handle braces. If you have a broken tooth tonight, 17 practices list emergency dentistry.

That periodontal number deserves a second look. Eighteen practices offering gum-disease care in a single suburb is exceptional — many towns twice Burke’s size can’t field more than a handful. For residents, it means that if a routine cleaning ever turns up early gum disease or you’re weighing an implant that needs a bone or gum foundation first, you can get specialist care without a referral hike into D.C. or Arlington. The same logic applies to the 8 root-canal specialists: Burke lets you keep even complex work local. When you’re comparing offices, this depth is a quiet advantage — a general dentist who works alongside in-town specialists can coordinate your care far more smoothly than one who has to send you across the region.

Burke’s highest-rated, most-reviewed names

Because the top of this market is so crowded, the practices below stand out not just for their scores but for the weight behind them — hundreds of reviews each, sustained over years. These are the offices Burke residents most consistently recommend, drawn straight from rating data.

• Bita Ellis — 4.9 stars across 639 reviews, the most-reviewed name in town and a reliable general-care starting point.
• Cosmetic Dental Associates of Burke — 4.9 stars over 609 reviews; the name signals the focus, and the volume backs it up.
• Burke Dental, PLLC — 4.9 stars across 609 reviews, another general practice with a high Google review count.
• Burke Dental Center – Dr. Nabeel Khan — a perfect 5.0 rating over 544 reviews, a rare combination of flawless score and real depth.
• Sara Bunin, DDS — 5.0 stars across 366 reviews.
• Earl E. Klioze DDS & Jeffrey I. Klioze, DDS — a two-dentist practice holding 5.0 stars over 317 reviews.

Notice the pattern: several of these carry perfect 5.0 ratings, but what separates them from a lucky new office is the review count. A 5.0 on 544 or 366 reviews is a far stronger signal than a 5.0 on a dozen. When you browse the full Burke dentist directory, sort with that in mind — score first, then volume.

A method for choosing in a top-heavy market

When most of your options are excellent, a checklist beats a gut feeling. Here is the sequence that works in a market like Burke’s.

Start by naming what you actually need — a routine cleaning, a nervous kid’s first visit, an implant consult, or emergency relief tonight — because that instantly narrows 44 practices to a workable shortlist. Then filter by the specialty pages above rather than scrolling the whole directory. From your shortlist, read reviews for specifics: mentions of wait times, how billing surprises were handled, whether the dentist explained options rather than upselling. Confirm your insurance directly with the office — a website list can lag behind reality. Finally, book a first cleaning or consult and treat it as an audition; in a town this deep, if the fit is wrong, your second choice is likely just as good. For help reading the numbers themselves, our national explainer on how Dental.me rates practices shows exactly what goes into a score.

Neighboring options within a short drive

Burke sits at the center of a dense Northern Virginia dental corridor, so if your ideal specialist or a particular insurance match sits just over the line, you’re rarely more than ten minutes away. Explore West Springfield, Springfield, Annandale, Fairfax, Fairfax Station, and Oakton to widen the field. But for most Burke residents, the honest advice is that you likely don’t need to leave town — start with the Burke directory and let the ratings do the sorting.

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