Quick answer: Floral Park, NY has 44 dental practices in the Dental.me directory. 29 are rated on Google, averaging 4.43★ across 2,941 reviews. Top by independent Dental.me Score: Jay Piskin, Alan Spector, Smile Starters Pediatric Dentistry of Floral Park. Compare them below and shortlist two or three near you to call.
| # | Practice | Google rating | Reviews |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jay Piskin | 5★ | 384 |
| 2 | Alan Spector | 4.9★ | 451 |
| 3 | Smile Starters Pediatric Dentistry of Floral Park | 4.9★ | 378 |
| 4 | Barton Fingerman | 5★ | 226 |
| 5 | M Naser Sharifi | 5★ | 154 |
Floral Park is a small village where the dental map is split. Across the 44 practices we track inside the village and its immediate border blocks, the rating gap between the best and the worst is wide. Of the 29 practices with enough Google reviews to score, 15 hold a rating of 4.8 or higher — highly rated, top-decile care. But 8 sit below 4.0. There is very little middle. In Floral Park you are not choosing along a smooth curve from good to great; you are choosing which half of a barbell you end up in.
That single fact should change how you search. In a town where nearly every office was fine, picking a dentist by proximity would be a reasonable shortcut. Here it is a coin flip with real downside. This guide walks the actual numbers behind Floral Park’s market so you land in the top half on purpose, not by luck. Everything below is drawn from live directory data on our Floral Park dentist hub — ratings, review counts, specialty coverage, and one quiet signal worth noticing.
The signal hiding in plain sight: most offices have no website
Start with the number that surprises people. Of 44 practices, only 17 have a website — about 39 percent. In much of suburban America that figure runs past 70 percent. Dental.me records which offices have a site, not why the others do not. So do not judge an office here by its marketing.
This cuts two ways for you. First, a slick website means almost nothing about clinical quality in this town — 12 rated offices have no website on file. Second, it means a shortlist built from practice websites shows you only part of the market: 17 practices have a website on file, and the other 27 do not. That gap is exactly the work a directory does. We have already scored all 29 rated practices whether or not they ever built a homepage.
Reading the barbell before you book
Return to that split. The chart below is the shape of Floral Park’s dentistry — and it is the single most useful picture in this guide. Notice how the town clusters at the extremes: a tall column of 4.8-and-up practices, a smaller cluster in the low-4s and mid-4s, and then a stubborn tail of eight offices rated under 4.0. A village average of 4.43 makes the town sound merely average. It isn’t. That 4.43 is an arithmetic mix of excellent and poor, not a description of a typical office. Almost no practice here actually sits at 4.43.
The practical reading: a 4.8+ rating is not a nice-to-have in Floral Park, it is the line that separates the two halves of the market. Fifteen offices clear it, so you have plenty of choice without ever dipping toward the tail. Treat anything under 4.5 here as a reason to read the reviews closely before you commit — not because a 4.3 is disqualifying everywhere, but because in this town you have plenty of higher-rated alternatives.
There is a second layer to the numbers worth understanding. The village’s 2,941 Google reviews spread across 29 rated offices work out to roughly 100 reviews apiece — a modest sample by big-city standards. In a market this size, review depth becomes the tie-breaker. A handful of offices carry review counts several times the town average, and those deep bases are the largest samples you have: they represent hundreds of individual reviews, not a chance dozen glowing ones. When two practices both show a 4.9, the one with 400 reviews behind it has been stress-tested in a way the one with 40 simply hasn’t.
Top-rated names with deep review counts
Review counts, when you actually read them, point to a clear top tier. These are six of the village’s highest-rated practices with deep review records:
- Alan Spector — 4.9 across 451 reviews, the deepest review base in town.
- Jay Piskin — a spotless 5.0 over 384 reviews.
- Smile Starters Pediatric Dentistry — 4.9 over 378 reviews, a pediatric practice.
- Barton Fingerman — 5.0 across 226 reviews.
- M. Naser Sharifi — 5.0 over 154 reviews.
- Michael Squire — 5.0 over 114 reviews.
One nuance worth holding onto: a perfect 5.0 over 114 reviews and a 4.9 over 451 are both outstanding, but they answer slightly different questions. The two rest on different sample sizes. Both belong on your shortlist — the full, ranked roster with hours and specialties lives on the Floral Park hub.
What you can — and can’t — get treated locally
Floral Park’s specialty coverage is narrower than its 44-practice count implies, and knowing the shape of it saves you a wasted appointment. General and cosmetic dentistry are well covered; complex surgical work thins out fast.
If you want a brighter smile or a cosmetic consult, you are spoiled for choice — browse the cosmetic dentists and teeth whitening pages, each listing ten local options. For tooth replacement, the pool tightens to six dental implant providers, so comparing them side by side matters more. And note how thin the rest of the map is: the directory tags just four practices for orthodontics, four for periodontics and one for endodontics, and no oral surgeon at all. For oral surgery in particular, plan to cross a border block into a neighboring town — which, in Floral Park, is a very short drive.
A four-step method for a split market
Put the pieces together and a simple routine falls out — one built specifically for a town where quality is polarized and websites are scarce.
Follow those four steps and the eight practices in the low tail simply never enter your consideration set. That is the whole game in a split market: not finding a great dentist — there are fifteen — but reliably avoiding the poor ones. Curious how we grade every practice? Our ranking methodology lays out exactly what goes into a score.
Just over the border
Floral Park sits on the Queens–Nassau line, and its border is porous — several neighboring communities are a shorter drive than crossing the village itself. When you need a specialty Floral Park doesn’t carry, or simply want to widen the pool of 4.8+ options, these adjacent towns are the natural next look: Glen Oaks, Bellerose, New Hyde Park, Stewart Manor, Little Neck, and Bellerose Village. For anything cosmetic or routine, though, start at home — the listings are right here. Start with the full, ranked roster on the Floral Park dentist hub.
How many dentists are in Floral Park, NY?
Dental.me tracks 44 dental practices in Floral Park, NY — 29 carry a public star rating that averages 4.4 stars, and 16 list a website. Compare the full ranked list on the Floral Park dentists page.
Which is the top-rated dentist in Floral Park?
By Dental.me Score, Jay Piskin currently leads the Floral Park list (5.0 stars, 384 reviews). Rankings update as ratings and profile data change, so compare a few offices before deciding.
How do I choose a good dentist in Floral Park?
Compare the Dental.me Score alongside review volume, location, office hours, provider names, and website details, then shortlist three to five Floral Park offices that fit your schedule, budget, and the care you need.
How does Dental.me rank Floral Park dentists?
By an independent Dental.me Score built from each practice's Google star rating out of 100, held to a confidence level by its review volume, with exact review counts breaking ties and a verification lift that lets confirmed practices reach a perfect 100. Featured placements are paid, clearly labeled, and never change the organic order.
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.