Dentists in Collierville, TN: Local Guide

Quick answer: Collierville, TN has 41 dental practices in the Dental.me directory. 28 are rated on Google, averaging 4.65★ across 4,986 reviews. Top by independent Dental.me Score: Southern Orthodontic Specialists, William Burriss, Jessica Wang, DDS. Compare them below and shortlist two or three near you to call.

Collierville’s rated practices are packed into the top of the Google scale. Of the 41 dental practices we track inside this Memphis suburb, 28 carry enough Google reviews to be rated — and 22 of those 28 sit at 4.8 stars or higher. That is roughly four out of five rated offices in a single band. It changes the shape of the decision here: when the rating puts almost everyone in the same place, it stops being the thing that tells offices apart. The questions that do the work are which practices are listed for what you need and which ones you can actually get to.

Two other numbers tell you what kind of dental town this is. First, the specialty mix leans hard toward straightening teeth: 11 orthodontists — the same eleven the Invisalign listing returns — outnumber every other category, with 8 pediatric, 8 implant and 8 teeth-whitening offices right behind them. Second, all 28 rated practices maintain a working website. This is a market built for households with kids, retainers, and a decade-long relationship with the same front desk — not a transient, price-shopping crowd. Read this guide with that in mind.

The market at a glance

Across those 41 practices, Google carries 4,986 reviews, and the town-wide average lands at 4.65 stars. That average sits below where most of the field does: six of the 28 rated offices are under 4.8 and they pull the mean down, so the citywide figure understates where the bulk of the ratings actually sit.

Nearly 5,000 reviews spread across 28 rated offices works out to about 178 reviews apiece — a large enough sample that a score moves very little on any single new review, unlike a town where each office has a dozen. When you see a Collierville practice sitting at 4.9 stars, hundreds of Google ratings sit behind that number. You can browse the full roster on the Collierville dentist hub.

One quiet signal is easy to miss but worth weighing: every single one of the 28 rated practices maintains a working website. That is not true of most towns, where a good many offices have never built one. A hundred-percent web presence tells you every rated practice in town publishes a page you can check before you call. It says nothing about the dentistry itself, which is what the review record is for. In practical terms, it also means you can vet almost any Collierville office online — services, team bios, insurance, and hours — before you ever pick up the phone.

Why the rating spread matters more than the average

A 4.65 town average hides the real story. When you break the 28 rated offices into rating bands, the picture is barbell-shaped: a large cluster of excellence at the top, and a small but real group at the bottom you should actively steer around.

The practical takeaway: in Collierville you can afford to be picky at the top and still have twenty-plus strong choices. But the four offices in the bottom two bands are worth avoiding for anything beyond a basic cleaning — in a town this good, there is no reason to settle for a below-average chair. Our ranking methodology explains exactly how these bands are built and why the low performers stay visible rather than hidden.

The town’s specialty: teeth-straightening

If Collierville has a dental identity, it is orthodontics. Straightening teeth — whether traditional braces or clear aligners — is by a clear margin the most available service in town.

What this means for you depends on what you need. Families planning braces or clear aligners have an unusually deep bench — eleven Collierville orthodontists to compare, and the Invisalign listing returns that same eleven, so you can shop on price, timeline, and chairside manner rather than taking whoever has an opening. Parents of young kids get the same luxury across eight pediatric offices. The one place the market thins out is urgent care: with just five emergency dentists, a same-day toothache is worth planning for before it happens — know which nearby office takes walk-ins in advance. Restorative patients are well covered, with eight implant providers and seven periodontists in town.

The practices with the highest Google ratings

Six offices rise to the top on the combination that actually matters — a high star rating and a large enough review count to trust it. These are not our picks; they are the practices Collierville patients themselves have ranked, by volume, over years.

• Dental Designs on Poplar — 4.9 stars across 849 reviews, the most-reviewed practice in the entire Collierville market. When one office collects that many Google reviews and holds 4.9, it is the closest thing to a town consensus.
• Dental Implant Aesthetic Center — 4.9 stars over 684 reviews; a natural first stop if implants or a full-mouth restoration is on your mind.
• Terry Hayes — 4.9 stars from 384 reviews, a general-dentistry name in town.
• Southern Orthodontic Specialists — a perfect 5.0 across 198 reviews, and a strong lead in Collierville’s deepest specialty.
• William Burriss — 5.0 stars over 184 reviews, another spotless record in a town full of them.
• Comfort Home Sleep Test Corp — 4.9 stars from 307 reviews, useful if dental sleep or airway concerns are part of the picture.

See how each of these stacks up side by side, with current ratings and review counts, on the Collierville directory.

How to choose in a town with this many good options

When four out of five offices are excellent, the deciding factors move away from raw quality and toward fit. Here is the sequence we’d use.

Start with the specialty, not the general list. Collierville’s listings are uneven — 11 practices for orthodontics and 8 for pediatric care, against 5 for emergency dentistry — so the first move is to open the specialty page you actually need rather than the town-wide list. Then read down to the 4.8-and-up offices, which is still most of the rated market. Use review volume as your tiebreaker: a 4.9 built on 800 reviews is a more precisely measured score than a 5.0 built on 15. Finally, confirm the practical details — insurance acceptance, whether they are taking new patients, and evening or Saturday hours — since the rating speaks to none of them. If cost is your gating factor, our national dental cost guide gives you the price ranges to check each quote against.

Looking just beyond Collierville

Collierville sits in the eastern arc of Memphis’s suburbs, and several neighboring communities have their own strong rosters worth a look — especially if you’re closer to one border of town or want to widen an orthodontics or implant search. Affluent Germantown sits directly west and shares much of Collierville’s family-dentistry character. To the northwest you’ll find Cordova and Bartlett, both larger markets with more offices; Lakeland sits just north; and rural Oakland and Eads lie to the east if you prefer a quieter, closer-to-home option. Any of these is a short drive, which effectively multiplies the choices already available inside Collierville itself.

The bottom line: in Collierville the Google ratings will not narrow the field much, because most of the rated market already sits at 4.8 or better. Start from the Collierville dentist hub, work from the specialty you need, and use the practical details to choose between offices the ratings cannot separate.

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.