Dentists in Kingsport, TN: Local Guide

Quick answer: Kingsport, TN has 67 dental practices in the Dental.me directory. 43 are rated on Google, averaging 4.5★ across 7,914 reviews. Top by independent Dental.me Score: MARTIN DENTISTRY PC, Richard Bateman, BROOKSTONE DENTAL, PLLC. Compare them below and shortlist two or three near you to call.

Kingsport’s dental market is top-heavy, and that single fact should shape how you search. Across the 67 practices we track in this corner of Tennessee’s Tri-Cities, 43 have earned a public rating, and together they hold 7,914 Google reviews. But those reviews are not spread evenly. Just six practices hold roughly two-thirds of those reviews. One office alone — Martin Dentistry PC — carries 1,790 of them, more than a fifth of the total. When reviews concentrate like this, the biggest name is not automatically the right one. Decide whether you want one of the heavily reviewed offices or a lighter-reviewed office with a similar rating.

This guide is built specifically for that decision. Everything below comes from Kingsport’s real directory numbers — ratings, review counts, and the specialties actually staffed here — not from a template. Use it to find the best dentist in Kingsport for your particular situation, whether that is a routine cleaning, an emergency, or a full implant case.

Consider the scale for a moment. Kingsport’s 43 rated practices average about 184 reviews each, but that average hides the real shape of things: the top six offices carry more than 5,100 reviews between them, leaving the remaining thirty-seven to split what is left. That is the signature of a market with a few heavily reviewed offices and a long tail of less-reviewed practices. Neither end is inherently better. It simply means your search needs a filter beyond popularity, because plenty of the less-reviewed offices carry the same 4.9 and 5.0 ratings as the most-reviewed ones.

The number that matters most: 63% score 4.8 or higher

Kingsport’s ratings skew high. Of the 43 rated practices, 27 hold a rating of 4.8 or better — that is 63% of the rated field sitting in the top band. Another six land in the 4.5–4.79 range. Only ten practices fall below 4.5, and just five sit under 4.0. That changes the math of your search. Of the 27 offices at 4.8 or higher, 15 have 50 or more reviews and 12 have fewer, so you are choosing among a good number of highly rated offices, and secondary factors — location, hours, whether they take your insurance, and whether they offer the specialty you need — become the real deciding lines.

Browse the full field, ranked by Dental.me Score, on the Kingsport dentist hub. It is the fastest way to see all 67 practices in one place and filter down to the ones that fit.

The most-reviewed top-rated offices, and how to read them

The chart below shows the six most-reviewed Kingsport listings rated 4.9 or 5.0. Two offices rated 4.8 have more reviews than the last three of them: Associated Oral & Implant Surgeons and Family Dental Center Tricities, with 539 reviews each.

How to read this without being misled: a four-figure review count like Martin Dentistry PC’s 1,790 or Richard Bateman’s 1,294 tells you a large number of people have rated that office. But a 5.0 built on a few hundred reviews is not a lesser signal; it is a different one. Marshall Dentistry (5.0, 456 reviews) and Leighton W. Wood, DDS, MS (5.0, 394 reviews) hold a 5.0 across hundreds of reviews, which is harder to reach by chance than a 5.0 on a handful. Brookstone Dental (4.9, 767) and John Barnes (4.9, 452) sit right in between. The takeaway: match the practice’s profile to your needs — heavily reviewed or smaller — because in Kingsport the ratings are high across all of them.

What Kingsport is actually staffed for

A city’s specialty mix tells you what it can handle in-town versus what might send you toward Johnson City. Kingsport lists the most practices for cosmetic and elective work, and fewer for urgent and surgical care.

The pattern here is worth reading closely. Teeth whitening (19 practices) and cosmetic dentistry (18) top the list, and implant providers follow at 16. There are 11 pediatric dentists and 12 listings for orthodontics and Invisalign. The counts are lowest at the urgent and surgical end: only six emergency dentists and five endodontists (root-canal specialists). That is a reason to note an emergency-tagged office before you need one and ask what hours it covers; Dental.me holds no appointment availability. Periodontists (8) and denture providers (6) round out the middle of the field.

A Kingsport-specific way to choose

Because so many rated offices here sit at 4.8 or higher, the usual advice (“just pick the highest rating”) does not narrow anything down. Here is a sequence tuned to this specific market.

One practical note on step four: only 34 of Kingsport’s 67 practices maintain a website, so for roughly half the market a quick call is still the fastest way to confirm insurance and availability. Don’t read a missing website as a red flag; Dental.me does not record why an office has no website on file. For the deeper mechanics of what a rating actually represents and how we compile these numbers, see how we rank practices, and if you are weighing the cost of a procedure, our national dental cost guide lists what a quote depends on.

For first-timers and new arrivals

If you have just moved to the Tri-Cities and are starting from zero, begin with a general-dentistry office rather than a specialist: a routine cleaning and exam is your chance to test the front desk, the hygiene team, and the chairside manner before you ever commit to bigger work. The six listings in the chart have the longest review records among 4.9 and 5.0 offices, and you will see more 4.8-plus practices once you sort the hub by rating. When you call, ask three things that the directory can’t answer for you: whether they are accepting new patients, whether they are in-network for your specific insurance plan, and how they handle after-hours emergencies given that only six offices in town are tagged for emergency care. Those three answers, combined with the rating data here, will help you narrow the list.

A note on sources: every rating and review count in this guide comes from Google reviews, not paid placement. A practice cannot buy its way up this page.

If Kingsport doesn’t have your match, look next door

Kingsport sits at the center of a tight cluster of Northeast Tennessee towns, and for a specialist — especially an endodontist or a specific emergency slot — it is completely normal to cross a town line. Johnson City is the largest neighbor. Closer in, Gray, Blountville, and Church Hill are all short drives, with Bluff City and Piney Flats rounding out the reachable radius. Treat the whole cluster as one dental market when your need is specialized.

Ready to choose? Start at the Kingsport dentist directory, filter to what you need, and shortlist two or three top-rated practices, and confirm insurance and hours with each office before you book.

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.