Dentists in Houston, TX: Local Guide

Quick answer: Houston, TX has 2,184 dental practices in the Dental.me directory. 1,124 are rated on Google, averaging 4.63★ across 257,869 reviews. Top by independent Dental.me Score: Smile4Ever Family Dentistry; PERIO HEALTH PROFESSIONALS, PLLC; Mina Antoun. Compare them below and shortlist two or three near you to call.

Dental.me lists 2,184 dental practices in Houston, and the 1,124 of them with a stored Google rating account for 257,869 Google reviews. With a list that long, the hard part is rarely finding an office near you; it is deciding which few to call.

This guide works through the directory’s own numbers — ratings, review counts, websites on file and service pages — and says plainly what each one can and cannot tell you. Start with the shape of the list.

Each of those numbers means something narrower than it first appears. The 257,869 reviews belong to the rated offices only — about 229 per rated practice on average, and 548 of the 1,124 carry 100 or more — so a rating here often rests on a substantial record, but not always. A website is on file for 922 of the 2,184 practices (42%): 899 of the 1,124 rated practices, but only 23 of the 1,060 unrated ones. A missing website in our records does not mean the office has none, and a website is not a measure of the care inside.

What the ratings say, and what they don’t

Houston’s rated practices average 4.63 stars, and the average hides a spread. Of the 1,124 rated practices, 694 (62%) hold 4.8 stars or higher. Below that, 199 (18%) sit between 4.5 and 4.79 and 133 (12%) between 4.0 and 4.49, and 98 (9%) sit below 4.0.

Many ratings at both ends rest on very little. Of the 279 Houston listings holding a stored 5.0, 130 rest on ten or fewer reviews, and 5 other ratings of 4.8 or higher rest on so few. At the other end, 47 of the 98 ratings below 4.0, and 30 of the 133 between 4.0 and 4.49, rest on ten or fewer reviews. A handful of new reviews can move any of those ratings a long way, so read each rating together with the number of reviews behind it.

That cuts both ways. A 4.5 on several hundred reviews is a steadier record than a 5.0 on six, and a low rating on three reviews is thin evidence against an office. Neither end of the scale is a reason on its own to rule an office in or out; what reviewers actually wrote tells you more than the star count. Dental.me does not store review dates, so check on Google how recent the reviews are.

Rated and unrated practices

Of the 2,184 practices Dental.me lists in Houston, 1,124 have a Google rating stored. The other 1,060 have no stored rating. Dental.me does not record why a rating is missing, so a blank rating says nothing about the quality of care in either direction; it only means there is less to compare before you call.

The practical takeaway: an unrated Houston listing is a question mark, not a red flag. A recommendation from someone you trust is worth weighing alongside any online rating. If you are choosing with nothing but a search bar, the rated listings give you more to read before you call — and that is where the comparisons in this guide come from.

Where the review volume sits

The five most-reviewed offices together hold 12,705 of Houston’s 257,869 Google reviews (5%): ANGELA DENTAL CENTER, P.L.L.C (4.7 stars, 3,202 reviews), Chitshakti Bendre (4.8, 2,614), Aventura Dental (4.9, 2,386), THO PLLC (4.9, 2,289) and Nu Dentistry (4.9, 2,214). Volume is spread thinly across a long list: the most-reviewed office holds about 1.2% of the city’s reviews.

Among the 85 Houston offices holding a stored 5.0 on 100 or more reviews, these six carry the most reviews — 5,370 between them:

• Perio Health Professionals, PLLC — 5.0 stars across 1,384 reviews, the most-reviewed of Houston’s 5.0 listings.
• Mina Antoun — 5.0 stars, 915 reviews.
• Hyunso Park, DMD, PLLC — 5.0 stars, 897 reviews.
• Bailey Orthodontics — 5.0 stars, 754 reviews.
• Robert Councill — 5.0 stars, 718 reviews.
• Bryan Ritchey — 5.0 stars, 702 reviews.

Smile4Ever Family Dentistry (4.9 stars, 418 reviews) holds the highest Dental.me Score and Perio Health Professionals the second. Seven offices share the third-highest Score and are ordered by review count: Mina Antoun, Hyunso Park and Bailey Orthodontics fill places three to five, and Robert Councill, Bryan Ritchey, Thompson Dental Group and Brad Eller hold the same Score just below them. Going by their names, Perio Health Professionals is a periodontal practice and Bailey Orthodontics an orthodontic one, a reminder that the right office depends on what you need done: a gum or orthodontic practice is not where most people go for a routine cleaning. A rating and review count are a record of what Google reviewers posted, not a measure of clinical quality; they are a reasonable way to narrow a list. For how rating and review depth combine into one Score, see how Dental.me ranks practices.

What Houston’s service pages list

Dental.me groups each city’s practices into service pages. A listing on a service page means the practice’s profile is associated with that service; it is not a board certification, and it does not tell you how much of that work an office does. In Houston the longest pages are dental implants (562 practices), teeth whitening (540) and cosmetic dentistry (521). The orthodontics and Invisalign pages each list 402, periodontics 370 and pediatric dentistry 359.

The emergency page lists 311 practices, endodontics (root canals) 221, oral surgery 207, dentures 191 and prosthodontics 64. These counts are practice profiles, not a headcount of specialists. Dental.me does not hold appointment availability, after-hours coverage or insurance participation, so call to confirm that an office performs the specific procedure you need, is taking new patients and works with your plan. To browse by service, start from the Houston emergency dental page (save an emergency-listed office’s number and confirm its hours before you need it), the dental implant page, the orthodontics and Invisalign pages, or pediatric dentistry. For a smile makeover, the cosmetic dentistry and teeth whitening pages are the place to start.

The shortest page is prosthodontics, with 64 profiles, and the oral surgery page lists 207. For complex reconstructive work — full-arch restorations, jaw surgery, advanced dentures — ask the office directly about its experience with that procedure, since a service listing does not show it. For everyday care, the general and cosmetic pages give you the longest lists to compare.

A way to narrow the list

With a list this long, it helps to work in layers. First, narrow by need, not by proximity — pick the service page that matches the job. Second, weigh depth: inside that list, read each rating together with its review count, and read a sample of the reviews themselves. Third, check location and how easy the office is for you to reach at the times you would go. Finally, confirm insurance participation and whether the office is taking new patients, and ask for a written estimate before major work; Dental.me does not hold fee schedules for Houston offices, and our national dental cost guide gives no price ranges either.

Just outside Houston

If you live near the city line, a neighbouring list may be closer to home. Sugar Land (195 practices) lies to the southwest, Pasadena (119) to the southeast, and Bellaire (82) sits within Houston’s southwest side. Stafford (22) is southwest as well. The Meadows Place, Jersey Village (northwest) and Galena Park (east) pages list only a few practices each, so check them alongside Houston’s rather than instead of it.

When you are ready to build your own shortlist, the full Houston dentist directory lists all 2,184 practices, ordered by Dental.me Score, with a page for each service — the same data this guide is built on.

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.