Dentists in Columbia, TN: Local Guide

Quick answer: Columbia, TN has 42 dental practices in the Dental.me directory. 28 are rated on Google, averaging 4.33★ across 6,178 reviews. Top by independent Dental.me Score: Beck Dental Care, The Art of Dentistry – Brian Fann, DDS, Columbia Dental Group PLLC. Compare them below and shortlist two or three near you to call.

Columbia’s 4.33 average does not show where the reviews are. Dental.me lists 42 dental practices in this Maury County city, and 28 of them carry a Google rating. Those 28 average 4.33 stars, but the median is 4.8. Six ratings below 4.0 pull the average down, and none of the six rests on more than 53 reviews. Of the 6,178 Google reviews, 73% sit with offices rated 4.8 or higher and 2% sit with offices rated below 4.0. The sections below separate the large records from the thin ones and show which service lists are short, so 42 names can become two or three offices to phone.

Of the 42 practices, 28 carry a Google rating and 14 have none on file. Dental.me does not record why, so that gap says nothing about those offices, good or bad. The rated offices hold 6,178 Google reviews between them, but half of them hold 29 reviews or more and half hold 27 or fewer, so the total says more about a few large records than about a typical office. The snapshot below shows the city’s figures as of November 2026.

Where the ratings and the reviews sit

Of the 28 rated practices, 15 show 4.8 stars or above, 3 fall between 4.5 and 4.79, 4 land between 4.0 and 4.49, and 6 are below 4.0. Counting offices makes this look like two camps with little between them, but the reviews say otherwise. The 4.8-and-up band holds 4,487 Google reviews. The two middle bands hold 800 and 777, and one office supplies most of each: Carol Nixon, at 4.7 on 694, and Faiza Mahfooz, at 4.1 on 748. The six offices below 4.0 hold 114 between them, and three of those six hold three reviews or fewer. Thin records sit at the top as well: all five of the city’s 5.0 ratings rest on 50 reviews or fewer.

So the low end of Columbia’s ratings is mostly small samples, not a second group of large records. A 2.0 on one review and a 1.5 on two are real figures, and a 5.0 on one review is just as small a sample. None of them tells you how a visit will go. Read the review count beside every star rating before you use the rating to cut the list.

The six largest review records

These six offices hold the most Google reviews in Columbia. Together they hold 5,134 of the city’s 6,178, or 83%, and the other 22 rated offices share 1,044. A larger count means a larger sample behind the average. It does not measure clinical quality, and Dental.me holds no review dates, so it does not say how recent the feedback is.

• Beck Dental Care — 4.9 stars on 1,325 Google reviews, the largest record in the city and first on the Dental.me Score, on the whitening, cosmetic, implant, periodontist, emergency and denture lists.
• The Art of Dentistry – Brian Fann, DDS — 4.9 stars on 1,170 reviews, second on the Score, and on ten of the 12 service lists, more than any other office.
• Columbia Dental Group PLLC — 4.9 stars on 843 reviews, third on the Score, and on the whitening and cosmetic lists.
• Faiza Mahfooz — 4.1 stars on 748 reviews, 20th on the Score, and on eight lists.
• Carol Nixon — 4.7 stars on 694 reviews, tenth on the Score, and on the pediatric, orthodontist and Invisalign lists.
• Hill Family Dental Columbia — 4.9 stars on 354 reviews, fourth on the Score, and on nine lists.

The Score order in the table at the top of this page and this list are not the same. Faiza Mahfooz holds the fourth-largest record and ranks 20th, and Carol Nixon holds the fifth-largest and ranks tenth, while Hunter Oral & Implant Surgery, at 4.9 on 309, holds the seventh-largest and ranks fifth. The Dental.me Score is built mainly from a practice’s Google rating and the depth of reviews behind it, with a small lift for an office that verifies its listing. Paid placements are clearly labeled as Featured and never change the organic order. You can browse every practice, rated and unrated, on the Columbia dentist hub.

Service lists in Columbia

Dental.me’s 12 service lists show which Columbia offices are associated with each service. A list is a directory association, so it does not confirm what an office offers today, whether it is taking new patients or when it can see you. Implants hold nine listings. Whitening and cosmetic hold eight each and name the same eight offices. Orthodontics and Invisalign also hold eight each, and those two lists match each other. Pediatric and periodontics hold six each, endodontics, emergency and oral surgery hold five each, and dentures hold three. The prosthodontist list is empty. Twenty of the 42 practices are on at least one list.

If you know your need, start with the service list: implant dentists, cosmetic dentists, orthodontists, Invisalign providers, pediatric dentists, or emergency dentists. Read the counts there too. The orthodontist list runs from a 4.9 on 1,170 reviews to a 1.5 on 2, and it holds two separate Wellspring Orthodontics listings, at 3.7 on 3 and 1.5 on 2. The oral surgeon list names five offices, including Hunter Oral & Implant Surgery and William Hunter DDS (4.5 on 82), and Paul Cullum has no rating on file. A place on the emergency list does not tell you an office can see you today, so call first.

A three-step way to choose in Columbia

These three steps use only figures on this page, and the last one is a phone call.

First, read the star rating and the review count together. A 4.9 on 1,325 and a 5.0 on one review are very different sample sizes, and so are a 4.1 on 748 and a 2.0 on one. Second, match the service you need to the list that names it. Third, confirm the practical details by phone. A website URL is on file for 24 of the 42 practices (57%). The 18 with no URL include 13 with no rating and five rated offices holding 26 reviews or fewer, and a missing URL is a note about our records, not a statement about the office. A phone number is on file for 41 of the 42. Dental.me holds posted hours for 23 of the 42 and no appointment availability at all, so confirm hours, insurance and new-patient status when you call. How the Score is built is explained on how we rank practices, and our national dental cost guide publishes no prices, so ask each office for a written, itemised estimate.

Nearby directories

The nearby directories named here differ a lot in size. Franklin lists 113 practices, 67 of them rated, and Spring Hill lists 33, 21 rated. Lewisburg lists seven. Mount Pleasant, Chapel Hill and Eagleville list one practice each, with no listing on the nine specialty lists read for this page. Columbia’s empty prosthodontist list is the gap to plan around: Franklin holds two listings, and Spring Hill and Lewisburg hold none. Franklin also holds 24 implant, 21 orthodontist and 7 endodontist listings, against 9, 8 and 5 in Columbia. No list says who is open, so call before you travel. To compare Columbia’s practices side by side, start at the Columbia dentist directory.

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.