Dentists in High Point, NC: Local Guide

Quick answer: High Point, NC has 78 dental practices in the Dental.me directory. 51 are rated on Google, averaging 4.52★ across 12,608 reviews. Top by independent Dental.me Score: Loveland Dental Group – High Point (Penny Rd), Victoria Brotzman, Jennifer a. Loveland DMD II PLLC. Compare them below and shortlist two or three near you to call.

High Point built its name on showrooms. Twice a year the world’s furniture buyers pour into the Furniture Capital of the World to judge finish, form and the small details that separate a good piece from a great one. It is fitting, then, that the city’s dental market rewards the same instinct. Of the 78 practices Dental.me tracks in High Point, the specialties that appear most often are not the humdrum ones — they are cosmetic dentistry, teeth whitening and implants, each represented at more than twenty practices. This is a town that cares how a smile is finished.

But a crowded showroom is not the same as an easy choice. Only 51 of those 78 practices carry enough Google review data to rate, and the quality spread underneath that number is wider than most Piedmont Triad towns. This guide walks you through the real High Point market — who the standouts are, where the ratings actually cluster, and how to shortlist a dentist without guessing. Start with the full, filterable roster on the High Point dentist directory.

The High Point market, by the numbers

Across 51 rated practices, patients have left 12,608 reviews — an average of roughly 247 per rated office, which is a healthy signal that feedback here is deep, not thin. The city’s composite rating lands at 4.52 stars, comfortably above the national midpoint but well short of the 4.8-plus averages you see in smaller, self-selecting suburbs. High Point is a real market with real variance, and that is exactly why the numbers below are worth reading before you book.

One number deserves a flag: only 43 of 78 practices — about 55% — maintain a working website. In a city this size that gap matters. A missing website usually means missing online booking, no visible fee guidance, and no easy way to confirm which insurance plans an office takes before you call. When two practices look comparable on paper, the one that publishes its hours, its team and its services online has already told you something about how it runs.

Reading the ratings before you read the reviews

Averages hide as much as they reveal, so here is how the 51 rated High Point practices actually distribute. More than half sit in the top tier at 4.8 stars or higher — but a meaningful tail sits below 4.5, and seven practices fall under 4.0 outright. That bottom band is the reason a blanket “dentists in High Point are good” assumption will let you down.

The practical takeaway: treat 4.8+ as your default filter and only drop below it for a specific reason — a specialist you were referred to, a location that is genuinely closer, or an office that takes your plan when the higher-rated ones do not. With 29 practices clearing the top bar, you rarely need to compromise in High Point.

Volume matters as much as the star number. A 4.7 built on 900 reviews is a far more settled number than a 5.0 built on a dozen, because in a sample that large a single unhappy rating changes almost nothing. When you scan the roster, read the two figures together: the rating tells you the ceiling, the review count tells you how much to trust it. In a market averaging roughly 247 reviews per rated office, High Point gives you plenty of practices where both numbers are strong at once.

The practices with the highest Google ratings

These six offices combine strong ratings with the review volume that makes those ratings trustworthy — the difference between a 4.9 built on 700 patients and a 5.0 built on nine.

• Loveland Dental Group – High Point (Penny Rd) — 4.9 stars across 767 reviews, the deepest review base of any general office in the city.
• Victoria Brotzman — 4.9 stars, 718 reviews.
• Jennifer A. Loveland, DMD II PLLC — 4.9 stars, 562 reviews.
• Modlin & Londry XVII, DDS PLLC — 4.9 stars, 518 reviews.
• Basil Orthodontics — a perfect 5.0 across 354 reviews, the city’s standout for braces and aligners.
• S. Cody Fielden, DMD PLLC — 5.0 stars, 324 reviews.

Notice the pattern: the two perfect-5.0 offices are more specialized, while the highest review counts belong to the general-dentistry names. That is the normal shape of a mid-size market — the family practices see the most patients, so they accumulate the most feedback, while a focused specialist can hold a spotless record on a smaller, more predictable caseload.

A cosmetic-leaning specialty map

Here is where High Point diverges from the average American dental town. Sort its 78 practices by what they offer and the top of the list is unmistakably aesthetic: teeth whitening at 23 practices, cosmetic dentistry at 22, and dental implants at 22 lead the field. Function is well covered too — but the sheer density of smile-focused care is unusual for a city this size.

That aesthetic tilt has a practical side effect worth knowing: because so many High Point offices invest in cosmetic and implant work, general dentists here are more likely to offer whitening, veneers or same-day crowns in house rather than referring you elsewhere. It can mean fewer appointments and one relationship instead of three. Just confirm the office does the specific procedure routinely, not occasionally, before you commit to a treatment plan.

Families are well served as well: pediatric dentists appear at 17 practices, and periodontists at 13 give the city solid gum-health depth. If you have a genuine after-hours problem, emergency dental care is listed at nine offices — call ahead, because same-day capacity moves fast. The upshot: whatever you came for, High Point almost certainly has more than one qualified option, which means you get to be selective.

How to actually choose — a four-filter shortlist

With 78 options, the trap is analysis paralysis. The fix is a repeatable filter that takes about fifteen minutes and works for any type of care.

Run those four filters against the High Point directory and you will typically land on two or three practices worth calling. When you do call, ask two questions most people forget: whether the office is in-network for your specific plan (not just “do you take my insurance”), and what a first visit including X-rays and a cleaning runs before insurance. If those answers feel evasive, that is data too. For a plain-English breakdown of what dental work should cost and how to read a treatment estimate, see our national guide to dental costs.

Care just beyond the city line

High Point sits at the southern point of the Piedmont Triad, so widening your search by a few miles opens real options — useful if a specialist you need is booked out or a nearby town takes your plan. Worth a look: Jamestown and Archdale sit right on the edge of town, while Thomasville, Kernersville, Colfax and the much larger Greensboro market are all a short drive away. Greensboro in particular expands your specialist pool considerably if High Point’s roster does not have what you need.

However you narrow it down, do the fifteen minutes of homework first. High Point gives you the rare luxury of choice — 29 top-tier practices and a genuinely deep bench of cosmetic and family care — and the only way to waste that is to book the first name you find. Browse the roster on the High Point dentist directory and start your shortlist there.

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.