Dentists in Cleveland, TN: Local Guide

Quick answer: Cleveland, TN has 57 dental practices in the Dental.me directory. 34 are rated on Google, averaging 4.75★ across 11,940 reviews. Top by independent Dental.me Score: Samuel Tedford, William R. May, DDS.,PC, Sviatoslav Bouz. Compare them below and shortlist two or three near you to call.

The most striking thing about dentistry in Cleveland, Tennessee, isn’t the number of offices — it’s how much this town talks about them. Fifty-seven practices operate inside a city of roughly 47,000 people, but the story is in the paper trail: patients here have left 11,940 Google reviews, an average of about 351 per rated office. That is an unusually loud, unusually confident dental market for a city this size, and it changes how you should shop for a dentist. When almost every chair in town has hundreds of first-hand accounts attached to it, the winning strategy isn’t hunting for a hidden gem — it’s reading the crowd correctly.

Cleveland sits at the northern edge of the Chattanooga metro, and its dental scene has the polish you’d expect from a mid-size Southern city with a strong small-business core. Of the 34 practices we’ve rated so far, the average score is 4.75 out of 5, and 26 of them clear a 4.8. That is a remarkably top-heavy distribution. In most towns the ratings spread out into a long tail of mediocre offices; in Cleveland the tail barely exists. Below we’ll show you exactly how the reviews cluster, which specialties are genuinely covered here, and how to turn all that data into one confident choice.

The Cleveland dental market, in one snapshot

Before you compare individual offices, it helps to see the shape of the whole market. Here’s Cleveland by the numbers — every figure below is pulled from live listing data on the Cleveland dentist directory.

Two of those numbers deserve a second look. First, 29 of 57 practices maintain a working website — just over half. In a town this review-rich, a practice with no web presence isn’t necessarily worse, but it does mean you’ll be leaning on Google reviews and a phone call rather than online booking or a published fee schedule. Second, the review-per-office figure of ~351 is roughly triple what a typical small city produces. Cleveland patients review their dentists, and that gives you an unusually reliable signal to work with.

There’s a practical reason the numbers run so high here. Cleveland is the seat of Bradley County and the retail-and-medical hub for a wide rural catchment that reaches up into the Ocoee and Hiwassee river country, so its practices draw patients from far beyond the city limits. A single well-run office ends up serving several surrounding towns, which is how a handful of Cleveland dentists have accumulated review counts you’d normally only expect in a much larger metro. When you read those reviews, then, you’re effectively reading the verdict of an entire region — not just one neighborhood.

Why the ratings cluster at the top

A 4.75 city average sounds almost too good until you break it apart. The rating bands below show where all 34 rated practices actually land. The takeaway: this is a market where 4.8 is the norm, not the exception, so a 4.5 that would look excellent elsewhere is merely middle-of-the-pack here.

What this means in practice: when you’re comparing two Cleveland offices, don’t be dazzled by a high star rating on its own. Nearly everyone here has one. The differentiators become review count (depth of track record), specialty focus, and whether the practice actually does the specific procedure you need. That’s where the next two sections come in.

The offices with the deepest track records

Star ratings tell you sentiment; review counts tell you volume of evidence. A 4.9 backed by 2,000 reviews is a far stronger signal than a 5.0 backed by 40. By that measure, a handful of Cleveland practices stand well above the crowd. These are the six most-reviewed, highest-rated offices in the city right now — each links to its full profile with hours, services, and the complete review feed.

• Sviatoslav Bouz — 4.9 stars across 2,132 reviews. This single practice accounts for roughly one in every six dental reviews written in Cleveland, making it the most-vetted office in the city by a wide margin.
• Kids Dental Center, GP — 4.9 stars, 1,135 reviews. The busiest dedicated children’s practice in town by review volume.
• Scenic City Smiles PLLC — 4.9 stars, 888 reviews.
• Elizabeth Robbins — 4.9 stars, 752 reviews.
• Samuel Tedford — a perfect 5.0 across 631 reviews, one of only a few offices in the city holding a flawless score at that volume.
• William R. May, DDS, PC — 5.0 stars, 624 reviews.

Notice the pattern: the top of Cleveland’s market is highly rated, with two 5.0 offices at 600-plus reviews and a 2,000-review anchor practice. If you want the safest possible starting point, begin with these six and narrow by location and the specific service you need.

It’s also worth reading what those six practices are known for, because Cleveland’s leaders aren’t clones of one another. The two flawless-rated offices — Samuel Tedford and William R. May — are classic general and family practices holding a perfect score across a substantial body of reviews. Kids Dental Center is a dedicated pediatric practice, so families with young children have a purpose-built option near the top of the list rather than a general office that merely tolerates kids. And Bouz’s outsized review count means its rating rests on the largest sample in the city — worth weighing if you want the average you are reading to be the best-evidenced one. Scheduling and service hours are not in our data, so confirm those on the phone.

Which specialties Cleveland actually covers

A dense general-dentistry market doesn’t automatically mean specialists are easy to find. Here’s the honest picture of specialty depth in Cleveland — each bar is the number of listed practices offering that service, and each label links to the full filtered list.

The cosmetic and family end of the market is deep: 13 practices offer teeth whitening, 12 handle cosmetic work, and Cleveland is genuinely strong on kids — 11 pediatric options is well above what most cities this size manage. If you’re restoring teeth, there are 8 implant providers, and straightening options split evenly between 7 orthodontists and 7 Invisalign providers.

The thinner categories are the ones to plan around. With only 5 emergency dentists and 5 periodontists listed, same-day urgent care and gum-disease treatment are the two areas where you shouldn’t assume walk-in availability. Save an emergency office in your phone before you need it.

How to choose, given all this data

In a market this top-heavy, the usual advice (“find a highly rated dentist”) is nearly useless — almost everyone qualifies. Here’s a sharper, Cleveland-specific way to narrow the field.

One more Cleveland-specific note on cost and insurance: because only about half the city’s practices publish a website, fee transparency varies widely. Always confirm your plan is in-network and ask for a written treatment estimate before major work — our national guide to what dental care actually costs explains the line items to check. And if you want to understand how we score and order the practices you see, our ranking methodology lays it out.

Looking just outside Cleveland

Cleveland anchors the northern Chattanooga metro, so if the exact specialist or appointment slot you need isn’t open in town, several neighboring communities are a short drive away. Browse dentists in Ooltewah, Harrison, and Hixson to the southwest, the larger market of Chattanooga itself, or head north toward Dayton and Decatur. For everything in one place, though, start with the full Cleveland dentist directory — it’s the fastest way to filter all 57 practices by rating, service, and location.

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.