Dentists in Highland, CA: Local Guide

Finding a good dentist in Highland, California starts with the numbers: Dental.me lists 23 dental practices across the city, 13 of them carrying a public rating that averages a strong 4.83 stars. This guide ranks the highest-scoring offices, maps which specialties are covered locally, and shows you exactly how to compare them with confidence.

How Highland’s dental landscape breaks down

Highland is a mid-sized San Bernardino County city tucked against the foothills of the San Bernardino Mountains, where State Route 210 and State Route 330 meet the eastern edge of the Inland Empire valley floor. For a city its size, the dental directory is compact and unusually top-heavy on quality. Of the 23 practices Dental.me tracks here, 13 have accumulated enough public feedback to carry a star rating, and every single one of those 13 sits at 4.5 stars or above. There is not one rated office in Highland below the 4.5 line, a distribution you will see spelled out in the chart below.

That 4.83 citywide average is not the product of one or two standout offices dragging up a weak field. It reflects a genuinely tight cluster: ten practices rated 4.8 or higher, and three more in the 4.5-to-4.79 band. Nobody rated is trailing the pack, because the pack has no tail. That is a meaningfully different starting point than most searches assume, where a shopper expects to sort a wide spread of good, average, and poor offices. In Highland the spread is narrow and the floor is high, so the exercise is less about avoiding a weak choice and more about matching a strong one to your specific needs.

The remaining ten practices in the directory simply have not gathered a public rating yet. An unrated listing is not a warning sign; it is common for a newer office, a recently relisted one, or a practice whose patients have not left much feedback online. It only means there is no star average to compare it on today, so if you are drawn to one of the unrated ten, you will be judging it on a call and a first visit rather than on an accumulated score. The practical implication of all this is that the star rating alone will not separate the rated field for you, because almost everyone rated is rated well. The real tie-breakers become review volume, specialty fit, and how easily you can reach the office.

The highest-rated dental practices in Highland

The table below ranks the six Highland practices with the strongest public profiles, sorted by star rating and then by review count. Heather Houston tops the list on rating with a perfect 5.0, while Jongyeob Choi carries 264 ratings behind a 4.8. Each name links to its full profile on Dental.me, where you can see the office’s rating, review count, and whether a website URL is on file.

Walking down the list tells a clear story about how close this field is. Heather Houston holds the only flawless 5.0 among the leaders, earned across 116 ratings. Highland Dental Arts, Abude Dental Corporation, and Greenspot Crossings Dentistry each post an identical 4.9, and they are separated only by review depth: 178, 162, and 158 ratings respectively. Then come Jongyeob Choi at 4.8 on 264 ratings and Wayne Shyh Chiu Dental Corp. at 4.8 on 201, the deepest records among the names ranked here. Notice that the deepest review counts in this table belong to the two practices a tenth of a star behind the leaders, which is exactly the trade-off worth thinking about.

A note on reading this ranking: the rating column is compressed by design, because Highland’s rated field is compressed. Five of these six practices are separated by a single tenth of a star. When ratings sit this close together, the more useful signal is often the reviews column, which tells you how many reviews stand behind each number. A 4.8 built on 264 ratings has been stress-tested far more thoroughly than a 4.9 built on a few dozen, and both are genuinely worth a call. Do not treat the top row as automatically the best fit and the bottom row as the weakest; treat all six as a shortlist and let specialty and location break the tie. You can browse the complete field, including practices not shown here, on the Highland dentist directory.

Website coverage and reaching a Highland office

Of Highland’s 23 practices, 13 have a website URL on file with Dental.me, and 10 do not. That works out to roughly 57 percent with a listed web presence, a gap worth knowing about before you start comparing. A missing website URL does not mean the office is hard to reach or lower in quality; it only means Dental.me does not have a web address recorded for it, so you may need to reach that practice by phone rather than by browsing an online booking page. The chart below shows the split at a glance.

In practice, this affects how you research rather than whether an office is worth considering. For the 13 with a URL on file, you can usually confirm services, hours, and new-patient forms online before you ever pick up the phone. For the 10 without, budget a few minutes to call and ask the same questions directly. It is a small extra step, and it should not push a well-rated office down your list. Some of the strongest names in a small directory like Highland’s are long-established practices that simply never added a web address to their listing.

The review volume behind the ratings

Across the 13 rated practices, people in Highland have left 2,194 ratings in total, a solid base of feedback for a city this size. But that volume is not spread evenly across the field. The six offices in the table above account for 1,079 of those ratings, just under half, and the depth varies widely even among those leaders. Jongyeob Choi’s 264 ratings and Wayne Shyh Chiu Dental Corp.’s 201 are the deepest records in this table, while Heather Houston’s perfect 5.0 rests on a still-substantial 116 ratings. The chart below plots the leaders side by side so you can weigh each rating against the volume standing behind it.

Why does volume matter so much here? Because in a city where every rated office clears 4.5 stars, the star number has very little room left to distinguish offices, so the size of the sample does most of the distinguishing. A perfect score on a handful of ratings can move if a single visit goes poorly; the same score on several hundred is far more durable. When two Highland practices look identical on stars, let the reviews column be your deciding factor, and lean toward the office whose number is built on the deeper history unless something specific about the smaller-sample office fits you better.

What Highland’s Dental.me Scores reflect

Every rated office in this guide carries an independent Dental.me Score, and it is worth understanding what that badge is and is not. The Score is earned, never bought. It weighs a practice’s star rating, its review volume, and whether the office has confirmed its own information, among other signals, into a single measure you can compare across the city. The only thing a practice can pay for on Dental.me is a Featured placement, which is labeled as such and does not change how the Score itself is calculated. So when you see one Highland office edge out another, you are reading a computed signal built from public feedback and confirmation, not an advertising slot. That is exactly why the reviews column deserves the weight this guide keeps giving it: volume is one of the ingredients the Score already respects.

Specialty care available in Highland

Highland’s directory is not just general dentistry. Several practices list specialty and cosmetic services, so you can often stay in town for treatment well beyond a routine cleaning. Cosmetic dentistry and teeth whitening are the most widely available, each listed by eight practices, while orthodontics and Invisalign are each offered by six offices, and dental implants by five. The chart below shows how the specialties stack up against one another.

The overlap is the useful part. Cosmetic dentistry and whitening travel together, and the six orthodontic providers and six Invisalign providers point to strong local coverage for straightening, whether you want traditional braces or clear aligners. Implants are the narrowest specialty at five practices, which is still a reasonable choice for a city this size but the one area where your shortlist will be shortest. Because several offices appear on more than one of these lists, it is worth checking whether a single practice can cover several of your needs before you split care across multiple offices. If you already know what you are after, you can jump straight to Highland’s cosmetic dentists, compare the city’s orthodontists, or see which offices offer dental implants, then cross-reference those names against the ratings table above.

Looking just beyond Highland

Highland sits shoulder-to-shoulder with several other San Bernardino County communities, so if the right fit is not on the Highland list, the neighboring directories are only a short distance away. The Patton district lies immediately to the west, the city of San Bernardino wraps around Highland’s western and southern edges, and Redlands, Loma Linda, and Grand Terrace are just to the south and southwest along the valley floor. Each has its own directory of rated practices. Compare dentists in nearby San Bernardino, Redlands, and Loma Linda if you want to widen your search radius without traveling far from Highland.

How to choose your Highland dentist, step by step

Start by narrowing to the service you need. If it is a routine checkup, any of the six leaders in the table is a strong starting point. If it is cosmetic work, orthodontics, or implants, filter to the specialty lists first, since only a subset of the 23 practices offer each. Next, weigh rating against review depth: in a field this tight, an office with a slightly lower star average but far more ratings behind it can be the safer, better-tested choice. Then confirm reachability. Check whether a website URL is on file, and if not, plan to call the office directly to ask about availability, insurance, and new-patient scheduling. Finally, read a handful of the most recent write-ups on each profile to get a feel for the office’s communication style and how it handles the specific procedure you are considering. Every rated practice in Highland clears a high bar on the numbers, so the real decision is about fit, and a focused short list of two or three offices from this guide will get you there quickly.

Frequently asked questions

How many dentists are in Highland, CA?

Dental.me lists 23 dental practices in Highland. Thirteen of them carry a public star rating, which averages 4.83 stars, and every rated office sits at 4.5 stars or higher.

Which Highland dentist has the highest rating?

Heather Houston holds the only perfect 5.0 among Highland’s rated practices, earned across 116 ratings. Three offices follow at 4.9: Highland Dental Arts, Abude Dental Corporation, and Greenspot Crossings Dentistry.

Which Highland practice has the most reviews?

Jefferson and Chokka Professional Dental Corporation has the deepest review history in Highland at 593 ratings, ahead of Jongyeob Choi on 264 and Wayne Shyh Chiu Dental Corp. on 201. Across all 13 rated practices, people have left 2,194 ratings in total.

Can I get braces or Invisalign in Highland?

Yes. Six Highland practices list orthodontics and six offer Invisalign, so both traditional braces and clear aligners are well covered locally. Dental implants are available at five practices.

Do all Highland dentists have a website?

No. Thirteen of the 23 practices have a website URL on file with Dental.me, about 57 percent. For the ten without a listed URL, you may need to call the office directly to confirm details.

How does Dental.me rank Highland dentists?

The independent Dental.me Score weighs each practice’s rating, review volume, and office-confirmation, among other signals. It is earned, not bought; only Featured placement can be paid for, and it is clearly labeled as such.

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.