Dentists in Lafayette, CA: Local Guide

Quick answer: Lafayette, CA has 49 dental practices in the Dental.me directory. 32 are rated on Google, averaging 4.62★ across 1,861 reviews. Top by independent Dental.me Score: Douglas Cowden; Ron Wake, DDS, Inc; Rajeev Talwar. Compare them below and shortlist two or three near you to call.

Dental.me lists 49 dental practices in Lafayette, CA as of November 2026. 32 have a Google rating on file, and 23 of those 32 are rated 4.8 stars or higher. The other 17 have no rating on file, and Dental.me does not record why. All 49 have a phone number on file and 26 have posted hours. With that many offices in one band, the star figure does little of the sorting here. The useful work is reading how many reviews stand behind each rating.

Across the town the rated offices hold 1,861 Google reviews, unevenly. The largest record is 220 reviews and the median office has about 22. Fourteen offices hold a 5.0, on anywhere from 220 reviews down to one. Seven of the 23 offices in the top band rest on 11 reviews or fewer. That changes how you read the numbers: a larger count is a larger sample, though it does not establish clinical quality.

One thing this guide cannot tell you is price: Dental.me holds no prices for Lafayette offices, so nothing in this guide tells you whether a practice is expensive or cheap. The questions worth asking are about fit and continuity of care, and a treatment plan that surprises you is a reason to ask for an itemised estimate and a second opinion.

Why so many high ratings change your search

When 72 percent of a town’s rated practices sit at 4.8 and up, a rating cutoff trims very little, and that band is not one kind of evidence. It runs from a 5.0 on 220 reviews to a 5.0 on a single review. So the deciding factors move elsewhere — to fit, proximity, the specific procedure you need, and to how many reviews sit behind a rating. The 4.62 average is a plain mean, with each rated office counted once. Without the three offices under 4.0, which hold nine reviews between them, it would be 4.83.

The Dental.me Score top six, and the records behind them

The Dental.me Score, which orders the Lafayette directory, is built mainly from a practice’s Google rating and the depth of reviews behind it, with a small lift for an office that verifies its listing. These are its top six, with Google ratings and review counts. Cowden and Wake share the top Score, and so do Talwar and Cobain; review counts break each tie. Paid placements are clearly labeled as Featured and never change the organic order.

• Douglas Cowden — 5.0 across 220 reviews, the largest review count in town.
• Ron Wake, DDS, Inc — 5.0 across 217 reviews, the second-largest count.
• Rajeev Talwar — 4.9 across 171 reviews, the third-largest count.
• Leif Cobain — 4.9 across 152 reviews.
• Ronald D. Henson, D.D.S., Inc. — 5.0 across 114 reviews.
• John Kim — 5.0 across 107 reviews.

Two offices outside that six hold more reviews than Henson and Kim: Lamorinda Smiles Dental (4.9 on 135) and Brett Cole (4.9 on 131). With the first four above, they make up the six largest records in town, which hold 1,026 of the 1,861 reviews, or 55 percent. Little Cloud Pediatric Dentistry ties Kim on the Score with a 5.0 on 97. No Lafayette office has a four-figure review count. You can browse every one of these, plus the rest of the field, on the Lafayette dentist hub.

A word on how to read this list. Six Lafayette offices hold a 5.0 on 74 or more reviews, and the other eight 5.0s rest on 32 or fewer, seven of them on 11 or fewer. A larger count is a larger sample, not proof of clinical quality, and a Google rating does not tell you an office’s style, its location or how it handles a first visit. Those are questions for a phone call and a first appointment, not a spreadsheet.

What the Lafayette service lists hold

Dental.me keeps 12 service lists for Lafayette, and 10 hold at least one practice. The same ten offices are on the cosmetic and whitening lists. Implants hold eight, pediatric and oral surgery six each, and orthodontics and Invisalign five each, the same five on both. Periodontics holds three, and endodontics and emergency two each. The dentures and prosthodontist lists are empty. These are directory categories, not a certified-specialist count.

If you know the service you need, start from its list: cosmetic dentists, teeth-whitening providers, implant practices, pediatric dentists, oral surgeons, orthodontists, Invisalign providers or endodontists. Being on many lists is not a rating: LALA Dental is on 6 of the 12, the most of any office, while Henson and Kim from the Score top six are on none. YASS Endodontics, whose name points to root canal work, is not on the endodontist list, which holds Brett Cole and Rajeev Talwar, so ask the office directly. Confirm the procedure and credentials with any office before you book.

How to actually choose here

Because so many ratings sit in one band, use a sequence that starts with the service and the review count, and leaves the drive and the schedule for last.

One data point deserves its own line in that method: 31 of Lafayette’s 49 practices have a website URL on file, leaving 18 without one, and 14 of those 18 also have no rating on file. A missing URL is a practical constraint rather than a verdict on the dentistry, and it means only that we hold no site for that office. For those offices you will confirm booking, new-patient forms and insurance plans by phone. Either way, ask on your first call which insurance networks the office is in, since a rating cannot tell you that.

Don’t forget the neighbors

If your Lafayette shortlist comes up short on a service, or you want a wider second opinion, nearby towns have their own Dental.me lists, and they differ in size. Walnut Creek holds 193 practices (108 rated on Google), Pleasant Hill 55 (40 rated), Orinda 20 (12 rated), Alamo 16 (7 rated), Moraga 13 (6 rated) and Pacheco 1. Read each list the same way, rating beside review count, and check the drive yourself, since we hold no travel times.

Whatever you decide, get a written, itemised estimate before treatment. Dental.me does not publish prices, and our national dental cost guide gives no price ranges either, but it lists what a Lafayette quote will depend on — and when you’re ready to compare practices side by side, the full Lafayette directory lists every practice in Dental.me Score order.

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.