Dentists in Huntington, NY: Local Guide

Quick answer: Huntington, NY has 107 dental practices in the Dental.me directory. 65 are rated on Google, averaging 4.72★ across 5,026 reviews. Top by independent Dental.me Score: Kalmar Family Dentistry LLP, Gellerman Orthodontics,PC, Soundview Dental. Compare them below and shortlist two or three near you to call.

Huntington is one of the quietest dental markets on the North Shore — not because it lacks dentists, but because its patients rarely leave reviews. Across 107 practices the town has gathered just 5,026 Google reviews, roughly 77 for every rated office. Compare that to comparable Long Island suburbs pulling three and four times the volume and a pattern emerges: in Huntington, the loudest number on a listing is often the least reliable one. If you choose a dentist here the way most people do — by scanning for the biggest review count — you will systematically overlook the town’s best small practices. This guide is built to help you read Huntington the way the data actually reads.

A market where “most reviewed” and “best” are not the same thing

Of Huntington’s 107 listed practices, 65 carry a public rating and 42 do not. That is a large silent minority — four in ten offices have so few reviews that Google shows no meaningful score at all. In a high-volume city you can treat an unrated office as a red flag. Here you cannot. What puts an office in that unrated pool is the review count alone, and we hold nothing that explains it. The unrated column in Huntington is a mix of genuinely untested offices and quietly excellent ones, and the only way to tell them apart is to ask directly how long the current dentist has owned the practice.

The average rating across the 65 scored offices is 4.72, which is strong but not the near-perfect number you see in image-conscious markets. That slightly lower average is honest — it reflects a real spread rather than a wall of five stars, and it means the rating bands below carry actual signal.

Read the bands, not the badges

Because review counts run thin here, the single most useful lens is how the 65 rated practices distribute across quality tiers. And this is where Huntington gets interesting: it is not a uniform sea of excellence, nor a race to the bottom. It splits into a clear top tier and a real middle.

• 44 practices sit at 4.8 or higher — the elite band, two-thirds of everything rated.
• 7 land between 4.5 and 4.79 — very good, usually a single stray complaint away from the top tier.
• 10 fall between 4.0 and 4.49 — a genuinely large middle band by Long Island standards, worth a closer read before you book.
• 4 sit below 4.0 — a small but real group to approach with caution.

That middle band of ten is the tell. In most affluent suburbs the 4.0–4.49 group is almost empty; in Huntington it is the second-largest tier. With low review counts, a couple of bad visits can drag an otherwise fine office down into that band and keep it there for a year. So a 4.3 here is worth reading the reviews on rather than dismissing — it may be one loud complaint, or it may be a pattern. The bands tell you where to spend your reading time.

The shortlist: practices that earned volume the hard way

In a low-review town, the handful of offices that have nonetheless piled up hundreds of reviews and held their rating are the safest starting points — they have been tested at scale and stayed strong. Six stand out on the Huntington directory:

• Kalmar Family Dentistry LLP — 4.9 across 947 reviews, by far the most-reviewed office in town and the clearest example of scale meeting consistency. A strong default for general and family care.
• Gellerman Orthodontics, PC — 4.9 over 554 reviews, the town’s standout for braces and Invisalign.
• Soundview Dental — a perfect 5.0 across 431 reviews, an unusually clean record at that volume.
• William Schneider — 4.9 over 371 reviews.
• Alan Gibbs — a flawless 5.0 across 227 reviews.
• Randy Kay — 5.0 over 202 reviews, rounding out the town’s cluster of perfectly-rated, well-tested dentists.

Notice that three of these six hold a spotless 5.0. That is the upside of a quiet market — when a Huntington office does attract reviews, they skew overwhelmingly positive, so a perfect score backed by 200-plus reviews here is a genuinely strong signal rather than a fluke of small numbers.

What you can actually get done in town

Depth of specialty care is where Huntington quietly over-delivers for its size. You are not limited to general dentists who refer everything out. The directory maps how many local practices handle each type of work:

The standouts are dental implants, offered by 22 practices — the deepest specialty in town — and a strong cosmetic dentistry and teeth-whitening bench. Families are well covered too: 16 offices provide orthodontics. The thinner categories are worth knowing in advance: only 11 offices flag themselves as emergency dentists, and just 7 as pediatric specialists, so if you have a child or a chipped tooth at 6pm, line those up before you need them rather than after.

The website gap — and why it matters here

Only 53 of 107 practices — under half — have a working website on file. In a review-thin market that gap compounds the problem: with few reviews to read and no site to check, some Huntington offices give you almost nothing to evaluate before you call. Flip that around and it becomes an advantage. When a practice here does maintain a real website listing its services, insurances, and hours, it has handed you the exact due-diligence material the rest of the market withholds. Prioritize the offices that make themselves easy to research; the effort they put into being findable usually mirrors the effort they put into the chair.

Looking just beyond the village

Huntington sits at the center of a tight cluster of North Shore communities, so if the right specialist or the right opening is not in the village itself, you rarely have to drive far. It is worth checking neighboring directories in the same breath: Huntington Station and East Northport immediately to the south and east, the harbor villages of Centerport, Northport, and Cold Spring Harbor, and Fort Salonga to the northeast. For big-ticket work — implants, full orthodontic cases, oral surgery — widening your search across two or three of these towns is often what turns a two-name shortlist into a real one.

Before you book

Costs are the one thing no directory rating captures, and they vary more between Huntington offices than the star scores suggest. Read our national guide to dental costs so you know what a crown, an implant, or a cleaning should run before you sit down — then confirm the number in writing at the practice. When you are ready to compare offices side by side, start from the full Huntington dentist directory, which keeps every practice, rating, and specialty in this guide up to date.

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