Dentists in Long Beach, CA: Local Guide

Quick answer: Long Beach, CA has 371 dental practices in the Dental.me directory. 229 are rated on Google, averaging 4.54★ across 26,378 reviews. Top by independent Dental.me Score: Abedi Alnatour & Bagheri Dental Corporation, Good Kids Dental, Robert Emigh. Compare them below and shortlist two or three near you to call.

Long Beach carries one of the deepest dental benches in Los Angeles County: 371 practices serving the harbor, the East Side, Bixby Knolls, and Cambodia Town, backed by more than 26,000 aggregated Google reviews. That is a lot of choice for a city of roughly half a million people — and it is exactly why “just pick the closest office” is the wrong move here. The volume hides a real spread in quality, and the coastal, appearance-conscious character of the market shows up plainly in the data: whitening and cosmetic dentistry are the two most widely offered services in town.

This guide reads the actual Long Beach numbers on Dental.me’s Long Beach directory and turns them into a way to shortlist. No fluff, no invented “top 10” — just what the ratings, review counts, and specialty coverage tell you about finding the right dentist here.

The visibility gap you should know about first

Here is the first thing the raw count doesn’t tell you. Of the 371 practices in Long Beach, only 229 carry enough public reviews to show a rating at all, and just 170 maintain a working website. In other words, roughly four in ten offices in this city are essentially invisible online — no ratings signal, and often no way to see hours, services, or new-patient policy before you call.

That is not automatically a red flag. Long Beach has plenty of small, word-of-mouth practices that never bothered with digital presence. But it does mean that a smart search leans on the offices that do leave a public track record, because that is where you can actually verify quality before booking. When you filter the Long Beach hub to rated, reviewed practices, you’re working with a cleaner, more accountable pool of about 229 offices.

What the rating landscape really looks like

The citywide average lands at 4.54 stars, which sounds uniformly excellent until you look at the distribution. It isn’t flat.

Nearly six in ten rated Long Beach offices (133 of them) sit at 4.8 stars or higher — a genuinely strong top tier. But the tail matters: 34 practices land in the 4.0–4.49 band and another 27 fall below 4.0. That’s 61 offices, roughly a quarter of everything rated, where patient sentiment is noticeably mixed. In a city this size the difference between the top and bottom quartile is real, so treat 4.5 stars as your floor rather than the average and you’ve already screened out the weakest cohort.

The practices with the deepest track records

Star ratings are easy to inflate on a handful of reviews. What separates Long Beach’s most-trusted offices is volume of consistent feedback — hundreds of reviewers saying the same thing. A few names stand out on that measure:

• Abedi Alnatour & Bagheri Dental Corporation — a perfect 5.0 across 980 reviews, the single most-reviewed 5-star practice in the city.
• Good Kids Dental — 5.0 stars over 946 reviews, a standout in the family/pediatric lane.
• John Cho DDS — 4.9 stars across 892 reviews, one of the highest review counts in town.
• Robert Emigh — a clean 5.0 over 827 reviews.
• Joon Hee Lee — 4.9 stars across 689 reviews.
• Heartwell Dental — a perfect 5.0 over 434 reviews, in the Heartwell Park area.

Notice the pattern: these are offices where the rating holds up across many hundreds of reviews, not a lucky streak of ten. When two practices show the same star rating, the one with three or four times the review count is the safer bet — that consistency is the strongest signal a directory can give you. You can sort the full Long Beach practice list by exactly this.

Specialty depth: a cosmetic-leaning market

Long Beach’s service mix has a clear personality. Whitening and cosmetic work top the chart, which tracks for a beach city where appearance-driven dentistry is in demand — but the restorative and orthodontic depth is just as useful to know before you search.

If you’re after a smile makeover, you have room to be picky: 84 offices offer teeth whitening and 81 list cosmetic dentistry. Browse cosmetic dentists in Long Beach or teeth-whitening providers and you’re choosing among the largest specialty pools in the city. Restorative and alignment care are also well covered — 74 offices place dental implants and 61 offer both orthodontics and Invisalign. Start at implant providers, orthodontists, or Invisalign providers depending on your goal.

The scarcer categories are worth planning around. Only 35 offices list emergency dentistry, 34 focus on pediatric care, and 23 do oral surgery — so if you need a same-day toothache visit or a kid-friendly practice, filter first at emergency dentists or pediatric dentists rather than scrolling the general list and hoping.

Gum and root care sit in a comfortable middle: 48 offices offer periodontal treatment and 37 handle endodontics (root canals). That’s meaningful depth for a city this size — you can usually find a specialist for advanced work without leaving Long Beach, though the choice narrows enough that reading review histories carefully pays off. It’s also worth noting the community texture behind these numbers. Long Beach is one of the most diverse cities in the country, home to a large Cambodian community and a mix of neighborhoods from the harbor to the East Side, and the roster of top-reviewed practices reflects that range. If language, cultural fit, or a specific neighborhood matters to you, that context is part of a good search — not an afterthought.

How to actually narrow 371 down to one

With this much supply, a sequence beats browsing. Here’s the filter that works for Long Beach’s specific market:

1. Lead with the specialty, not the map. A general “dentist near me” search buries the person who does exactly what you need. If it’s implants, a whitening consult, or a kid’s first cleaning, start from that specialty page.

2. Read review count alongside stars. In a city averaging 4.56, a 4.9 rating is common — the tiebreaker is how many reviews stand behind it. Prioritize the deep, consistent track records.

3. Confirm the money side early. Long Beach spans a wide range of practice types and price points; verify insurance and payment plans before the first visit. Our national guide to dental costs explains what typical procedures run and how to read an estimate.

4. Then, and only then, weigh location. With 371 practices the geographic net is dense, so proximity should be your final filter, not your first — you rarely have to compromise on quality to stay close.

Just outside the city limits

Long Beach sits inside a tight cluster of communities, and the right dentist for you might be one exit away. If you live near the edges of the city or want to widen the search, these neighboring markets each have their own Dental.me directory:

• Signal Hill — landlocked inside Long Beach, often the shortest drive.
• Lakewood — a large residential neighbor to the north.
• Seal Beach — just across the Orange County line to the south.
• Bellflower — north of Lakewood, an easy 405/605 hop.
• Los Alamitos — small, close, and quick to reach from East Long Beach.
• Hawaiian Gardens — the compact city on Long Beach’s northeast edge.

How we rank these practices

Every rating and review count in this guide comes from public Google reviews, aggregated and updated — not paid placement. If you want to see the methodology behind the numbers, read how we rank dentists. And when you’re ready to shortlist, the Long Beach directory lets you apply every filter above in one place.

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.