Dentists in Daytona Beach, FL: Local Guide

Quick answer: Daytona Beach, FL has 49 dental practices in the Dental.me directory. 25 are rated on Google, averaging 4.62★ across 7,944 reviews. Top by independent Dental.me Score: Jean Chang-Lowe, Roger Scott, Michele Mccall. Compare them below and shortlist two or three near you to call.

Daytona Beach is a town of arrivals — race weekends, bike weeks, spring crowds, and a steady stream of retirees trading a northern winter for the Atlantic. Its dental market reads the same way: 49 practices line the corridor from the mainland to the beachside, but only 25 of them have earned a public rating. That single fact — barely half the offices carry a Google reviews record — is the most useful thing to know before you book a chair here. It means the difference between a rated and unrated office isn’t a rounding error in this city; it’s the whole game.

So this guide starts where the evidence is thickest. Across those 25 rated practices, people have left 7,944 reviews and pushed the citywide average to 4.62 stars. That’s a high bar for a market this size, and it isn’t evenly spread. One practice alone — Gladston Silva, at 4.9 stars — carries 1,583 reviews, roughly one in five of every review written about a Daytona Beach dentist. When a market concentrates like that, the smart move isn’t to chase the loudest name; it’s to understand why the volume clusters, and where the quieter, equally-rated offices sit.

The shape of the market, in four numbers

Before any names, look at the proportions. Half the offices are rated; fewer than half have a working website. Here’s what that looks like against the full field of 49.

Read that last line twice. The 24 unrated offices aren’t necessarily bad — many are new, or simply never asked patients to review them — but they give you nothing to go on. In a city where the rated practices average 4.62 stars, choosing blind means walking past a well-documented field to gamble on a blank one. Our full Daytona Beach directory flags which is which.

The website gap deserves its own note, because it’s wider than most cities. Only 22 of the 49 offices maintain a working website — fewer than half. For a patient, that’s not a judgment on clinical skill, but it is a practical hurdle: no site usually means no online booking, no visible hours, no insurance list, and a phone call to confirm the basics. If you value being able to research and schedule from your couch at 10pm, the 22 web-present practices are your realistic shortlist, and several of them overlap with the top-rated names below.

Quality is high — but it isn’t uniform

Here’s the part that surprises people. When a market averages 4.62, you’d expect a gentle slope from good to great. Daytona Beach is more polarized than that. Of the 25 rated offices, 13 sit at 4.8 stars or higher — highly rated — while 2 fall below 4.0, and a middle group of 7 lands in the 4.0–4.49 range that usually signals inconsistent front-desk or scheduling experiences rather than bad dentistry. The distribution looks like this:

The practical takeaway: in Daytona Beach you can afford to be picky. A 4.8-plus office isn’t rare here — there are 13 of them — so there’s little reason to settle for one in the 4.0–4.49 band without first reading why it landed there. Sometimes it’s billing. Sometimes it’s a single bad hire at the front desk. The stars tell you where to look; the written reviews tell you whether the problem touches the actual dentistry. We explain the full scoring method in how we rank practices.

The names with the most Google reviews

Volume and rating together are what separate a genuinely trusted office from a lucky streak of five-star reviews. On both measures, a handful of Daytona Beach practices stand out:

• Gladston Silva — 4.9★ across 1,583 reviews. The most-reviewed dentist in the city by a wide margin; a volume record that’s hard to accumulate.
• David Lloyd — 4.9★ over 478 reviews. The clearest “second opinion” candidate if you want a top rating from an office with a smaller review record than the city’s largest.
• Jean Chang-Lowe — a perfect 5.0★ across 189 reviews, the highest average in the rated field.
• Litowitz Orthodontist, D.M.D. — 4.9★ over 230 reviews; the specialist name to know if you’re weighing braces or Invisalign.
• Can Community Health — 4.8★ over 214 reviews; a strong option if cost and access matter as much as the star count.
• Florida Oral & Facial Surgical Associates — 4.8★ over 163 reviews; the surgical referral for extractions and implants beyond a general office’s scope.

Notice the pattern: five of these six sit at 4.8 or higher, and their review counts range from 163 to 1,583. That spread is your friend. A practice with 1,583 reviews has an average more than eight times as heavily sampled; one with 189 perfect-score reviews is still excellent but earlier in its public review history. Match the depth of evidence to how much certainty you need.

There’s a second lesson buried in these numbers. Gladston Silva’s 1,583 reviews and David Lloyd’s 478 together account for more than a quarter of every review in the city — a reminder that in Daytona Beach, review volume pools around a few well-run offices rather than spreading evenly. That concentration is why a bare star rating can mislead here: a brand-new practice can post a 5.0 on a dozen reviews and sit, on paper, above a 4.8 office with a thousand. When two practices tie on stars, let the review count break the tie, and read the most recent twenty entries to confirm the experience is holding steady, not coasting on old goodwill.

What you can actually get treated for here

A beach city with a large retiree base tilts its specialty mix toward restoration and replacement, and Daytona Beach fits the profile. The two deepest benches are dental implants (13 practices) and a tie among cosmetic dentistry, periodontics, and teeth whitening (10 each). Here’s the full availability map:

The one line worth acting on: pediatric dentists are the thinnest specialty at just 6 offices, so families should book earlier and expect a short list. On the other end, if you need emergency care, eight practices advertise it — but call first, because “emergency” availability swings with the season in a tourist town. For anyone weighing the price of implants, crowns, or ortho against what’s normal nationally, our dental cost guide is the reference to open in a second tab.

A five-step way to choose, tuned to this city

Daytona Beach rewards a specific search order. Because half the market is unrated and quality is polarized, the sequence below gets you to a defensible choice faster than browsing by proximity.

Looking just beyond the city line

Daytona Beach sits at the center of a tight cluster of Volusia and Flagler communities, and the surrounding towns often solve a scheduling or specialty gap the city itself can’t. If your top pick is booked out, or you live on the north or south end, it’s worth checking Ormond Beach, Port Orange, Holly Hill, South Daytona, Daytona Beach Shores, and Bunnell — all within a short drive and all covered in our directory.

When you’re ready to compare specific offices side by side — ratings, review counts, specialties, and websites in one view — the complete Daytona Beach dentist directory is the place to do it. Start with the rated 25, set your floor at 4.8, and let the evidence do the narrowing.

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.