Dentists in Huntington, WV: Local Guide

Quick answer: Huntington, WV has 71 dental practices in the Dental.me directory. 35 are rated on Google, averaging 4.4★ across 3,388 reviews. Top by independent Dental.me Score: Drs. David M. Eller & Reginald S. Opimo, DDS Inc; Drs. Martin Kirk & Holmes; Eric D. Ford, D.D.S. Compare them below, then call the offices to confirm what this record does not hold.

Huntington is a half-lit dental market — and once you understand that, finding a dentist here gets easier. The city has 71 dental practices in the Dental.me directory, but only 35 of them carry a Google rating on file. The other 36 are listed with no rating stored, which is a gap in this record and not a mark against the office. About a third — 24 of the 71 — have a website on file. So the real work in Huntington isn’t comparing a long menu of well-documented options. It’s separating the practices with a public record you can read from the ones you will need to vet by phone.

That gap shapes everything below. Across the 35 rated practices, Dental.me holds 3,388 Google reviews, and the mean rating is 4.4 stars. That average is not a verdict on Huntington’s dentists. The rated pool is split: 17 ratings at 4.8 or higher sit alongside 6 below 4.0. Averages hide that. This guide won’t.

How the 35 stored ratings are spread

If you only remember one thing about Huntington, make it this: the middle of the pack is thin, and the extremes are crowded. Of the 35 rated practices, 17 — just under half — hold 4.8 stars or higher. Behind them the field drops rather than tapering: 5 practices land in the 4.5–4.79 range, 7 sit between 4.0 and 4.49, and 6 are below 4.0. Ten of the 17 are exactly 5.0, and seven of those ten rest on three or fewer reviews; the largest review count behind a Huntington 5.0 is 11. The six ratings below 4.0 rest on 4, 5, 19, 38, 88 and 167 reviews.

The practical takeaway: in Huntington, a 4.4 average is a floor to clear, not a target to celebrate. When nearly half the rated field is at 4.8 or above, there’s little reason to start below it unless a specific practice offers something the top band doesn’t — a location or an accepted insurance plan. Start your shortlist from the top band and only drop down for a concrete reason.

There’s a second pattern worth naming, because it changes how much weight you should put on any single score. Huntington’s review supply is concentrated: the six practices profiled later in this guide hold 1,152 of the city’s 3,388 reviews — 34 percent, and Affordable Dentures & Implants holds another 990 on its own. The remaining 28 rated practices split the other 1,246, and the median rated practice here has 19 reviews. A 5.0 rating built on 11 reviews is a very different signal from a 4.9 built on 438. In a market this concentrated, review depth is the tie-breaker: prefer the practice whose rating rests on hundreds of reviews over one whose score a handful of new reviews could move. The names below are listed by Dental.me Score, with each review count shown.

The website gap, and how to vet a practice that has no site

Here’s the uncomfortable part. With only 24 of 71 practices showing a website on file, about two-thirds of Huntington’s listings can’t be researched the usual way — there is no site to check for photos, an insurance page, or online booking. Dental.me stores a phone number for all 71, opening hours for 29, and insurance for none. A missing website doesn’t make an office bad; Dental.me does not record why a practice has none. But it does mean you’re doing more of the checking yourself.

When a practice has no website, lean on three things instead: its Dental.me profile and review volume (in Huntington the deepest record among offices with no website is 41 reviews), a direct call asking two questions — “Do you take my insurance?” and “What’s the wait for a new-patient exam?” — and whether the office will text or email you a written estimate before treatment. A practice that puts numbers in writing is telling you something a homepage never could. For a plain-English walkthrough of what goes into those numbers, our national guide to dental costs lists what a quote for a cleaning, filling, or crown depends on.

Which specialists you can actually get in town

Huntington covers the essentials but isn’t deep in every specialty — worth knowing before you assume a referral stays local. Dental.me counts 10 practices offering dental implants, the single most available specialty in town, followed by a modest but real bench of pediatric, orthodontic, Invisalign, and periodontal care.

If you need one of these, browse the town’s dedicated lists: Huntington implant dentists, pediatric dentists, orthodontists, Invisalign providers, and periodontists. Two more lists are worth knowing: when we re-checked in October, five Huntington practices were associated with oral surgery and two with endodontics (root canal care). For complex extractions or a root canal, compare those, ask whether your general dentist handles it in-house, or look toward the Charleston corridor.

The names that carry the market

A handful of practices account for a large share of those 3,388 reviews, and they’re the best-documented starting point for a new patient. Drs. David M. Eller & Reginald S. Opimo, DDS Inc is the most-reviewed office in Huntington rated 4.8 or higher, with a 4.9 rating across 438 reviews. Close behind, Drs. Martin Kirk & Holmes holds a 4.9 over 367 reviews, and Eric D. Ford, D.D.S. posts a 4.8 across 212. These three carry the deepest review records in the city’s top rating band. Huntington’s single largest review count belongs to Affordable Dentures & Implants, at 990 reviews and 4.5 stars.

For a smaller, high-scoring option, Joseph Thompson (4.9, 66 reviews) and Hall James T DDS (4.9, 32 reviews) both carry 4.9 ratings on lighter volume — the kind of profile that suits patients comfortable choosing on a smaller review sample. Frederick H. Sammons, D.D.S., LTD rounds out the shortlist at 4.7 across 37 reviews. Every one of these is on the Huntington directory hub, where you can filter the full field by rating, specialty, and review count.

How to choose in this market

Because so much of Huntington’s supply has no website on file, a repeatable process beats browsing. Here’s the sequence that works in a market like this one.

The logic is simple: let the review data do the first cut (step 1 eliminates the entire under-4.0 tail), let a phone call handle what the missing websites can’t tell you (steps 2 and 3), and treat the first exam as the real interview (step 4). If a practice can’t give you a straight answer on cost or coverage before you’re in the chair, that’s your answer. Curious how Dental.me decides which practices rise to the top? Our ranking methodology lays out exactly what the scores weigh.

If Huntington doesn’t have what you need

Huntington sits in the Tri-State area, and the towns around it have their own Dental.me listings. It’s worth checking nearby Barboursville and Lavalette, along with Ceredo, Kenova, Wayne, and West Hamlin. For a specialty Huntington is thin on, the same filters on those town pages add more offices to compare. When you’re ready to compare the full field side by side, the Huntington dentist directory is the fastest way to filter all 71 practices down to the offices worth calling.

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.