Dentists in Lees Summit, MO: Local Guide

Quick answer: Lees Summit, MO has 112 dental practices in the Dental.me directory. 66 are rated on Google, averaging 4.72★ across 14,607 reviews. Top by independent Dental.me Score: Periodontal Care Lee's Summit, LLC, Flucke & Associates DDS PC, Matlock Dental Care. Compare them below and shortlist two or three near you to call.

Lee’s Summit is an unusual dental market on one measure: a periodontal practice — not a family practice — holds the most Google reviews in town. Periodontal Care Lee’s Summit has logged 1,077 reviews at 4.9 stars, and two general offices, Raintree Family Dental Care and Summit Fair Dental Care, sit close behind it at 1,044 and 958. It sets the tone for a market that is large enough to compare properly and whose rated offices cluster near the top of the scale.

Across the city we track 112 dental practices. Of those, 66 carry a public Google rating, and together they hold 14,607 reviews at a citywide average of 4.72 stars. That average is not the story, though — the distribution is. Roughly three in four rated offices in Lee’s Summit (49 of 66) sit at 4.8 stars or higher. When a market clusters that tightly at the top, the usual advice (“just pick a highly-rated one”) stops being useful, because almost all of them are highly rated. The real work becomes finding the office that is right for you.

This guide walks through what the numbers actually say about finding care here, which practices anchor the market, how specialty coverage breaks down, and a practical method for choosing. Everything below is drawn from our live Lee’s Summit dental directory.

What “highly rated” really means here

The single most important number for a Lee’s Summit patient is not the 4.72 average — it’s how the 66 rated practices split across rating tiers. Forty-nine of them sit at 4.8 stars or above. Only four rated offices fall below 4.0. In plainer terms: if you pick a random rated dentist in this city, you have roughly a 74% chance of landing in the top tier and about a 6% chance of landing on a rating below 4.0.

The takeaway is counterintuitive. In a weaker market, a 4.7-star dentist is a standout. In Lee’s Summit, 4.7 is roughly average — a strong score that still leaves dozens of higher-rated options on the table. So we recommend treating 4.8 as your practical floor, not your ceiling, and using the tie-breakers further down this page (review volume, specialty depth, and what a call to the office tells you about new-patient openings) to make the final call.

There is a second signal hiding in the data worth naming outright. The 17 rated practices that sit below the top tier are not evenly spread — eight land in the 4.5–4.79 band, five in the 4.0–4.49 band, and four below 4.0. In a city with 112 total offices and 66 rated, that also means 46 practices, roughly two in five, carry no public rating yet. Those unrated offices aren’t necessarily worse; some may simply be newer or smaller. But without a review history to lean on, they carry more uncertainty, so it’s fair to ask them a few more questions before your first visit.

The practices that anchor the market

Six offices carry the deepest review histories in Lee’s Summit. The leader is Periodontal Care Lee’s Summit, LLC at 4.9 stars across 1,077 reviews — a periodontal practice at the top of the volume list, which is worth a look if gum care or implants are what you need.

Right behind it are Raintree Family Dental Care (4.8, 1,044 reviews) and Summit Fair Dental Care (4.8, 958 reviews), followed by Gargano Dental Enterprise LLC (4.2, 803 reviews), Flucke & Associates DDS PC (4.9, 793 reviews), and Alex Sharifian DDS Summit Modern Dentistry PC (4.7, 629 reviews). Volume and rating do not always travel together: Gargano’s 803 reviews average 4.2. For a five-star record on a deep base, Jacob A. Laudie DDS LLC holds a perfect 5.0 across 407 reviews and Luff Dental a 5.0 across 386; 25 Lee’s Summit offices show a 5.0, but 14 of those rest on 50 or fewer reviews.

One thing worth noticing: these six alone account for 5,304 of the city’s 14,607 reviews, about 36%. Review volume in Lee’s Summit is concentrated. That is useful for a new patient — the most-reviewed offices have the deepest feedback files — but a deep review history says nothing about how far out a practice books. The full roster of all 112 offices, including practices still building their review base, lives on the Lee’s Summit hub.

Specialty coverage: what you can and can’t get in town

For a suburb of its size, Lee’s Summit is well-equipped. Cosmetic and preventive-adjacent services are everywhere, while the more surgical specialties are present but thinner — exactly the pattern you’d expect, and worth knowing before you assume any given procedure is available locally.

If you need cosmetic dentistry, teeth whitening, or dental implants, you have 19–24 listed offices to choose from — a real field to compare on rating, review depth, and price. Braces and clear-aligner care is well covered too, with 19 orthodontists; the Invisalign providers page covers the same orthodontic group. For gum care, 13 practices are listed as periodontists.

The thinner categories deserve a heads-up. Emergency dentistry is listed by 10 offices, and only 5 practices are listed for oral surgery. If you have a dental emergency at night or on a weekend, do not assume same-day availability — call ahead, and keep a backup in a neighboring town. Speaking of which: the market does not end at the city line.

Looking just beyond Lee’s Summit

Lee’s Summit sits inside the dense southeast Kansas City metro, so a slightly wider search radius multiplies your options — especially useful for the thinner specialties above or if the busiest offices are booked out. Neighboring Blue Springs and Independence both carry substantial directories of their own, and Raymore, Grandview, Raytown, and Grain Valley are all within a reasonable drive for a specialist appointment. For anything surgical or urgent, casting this wider net is often what gets you a second and third office to call.

How to actually choose — a Lee’s Summit method

Because so many local offices are excellent on paper, use a filtering sequence rather than a single ranking. Here’s the order we’d work through:

Step three carries the most weight in a market this good. When dozens of offices share a 4.8-plus rating, review volume becomes your confidence signal: a 4.9 built on 500 or 1,000 reviews is a far more settled average than a perfect 5.0 built on a handful. That is why leaders like Periodontal Care Lee’s Summit and Flucke & Associates stand out — not because their star ratings are unmatched, but because those ratings are averaged over hundreds of reviews. To understand how we weight ratings, volume, and other signals, see how we rank dentists.

A quick word on price. Star ratings don’t tell you what a cleaning, crown, or implant will cost, and that varies more between offices than most patients expect — so once you’ve shortlisted two or three practices, ask each for a written estimate on the specific procedure you need and compare like for like. Dental.me does not publish prices, and our national guide to dental costs gives no price ranges either; it lists what a quote depends on (the procedure, exam findings, insurance and materials), so ask each office for a written, itemised estimate.

One practical caveat before you book: only 61 of the 112 practices we track have a website on file, so for the other 51, a phone call is still the fastest way to confirm hours, insurance, and new-patient availability. Ready to start? Browse every rated office, filter by specialty, and compare side by side on the Lee’s Summit dentist directory.

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