Dentists in Niagara Falls, NY: Local Guide

Quick answer: Niagara Falls, NY has 42 dental practices in the Dental.me directory. 20 are rated on Google, averaging 4.26★ across 2,290 reviews. Top by independent Dental.me Score: EMPIRE STATE ORTHODONTICS, P.C., SCHWARTZ & GEDEON, DDS,PC, Michael Marrone Dentistry. Compare them below and shortlist two or three near you to call.

Of the 42 dental practices Dental.me tracks inside Niagara Falls, New York, only 14 have a website URL on file. That is one office in three. Before you read a single star rating, that number reframes the search: most offices here have no website on file to compare. Dental.me holds a phone number for all 42 practices and posted opening hours for 14 of them, so the profile and a phone call are the main sources you have.

The website gap sits mostly among the unrated: 13 of the 20 rated practices list a website, against 1 of the 22 unrated ones. Those 20 rated practices hold 2,290 Google reviews between them.

What the 4.26 average hides

Taken at face value, a citywide average of 4.26 stars looks middling, and the spread behind it is wide. Eight offices sit at 4.8 stars or better, three between 4.5 and 4.79, five between 4.0 and 4.49 and four below 4.0. That is not a split into two camps: eight practices sit between 4.0 and 4.79, including the second-most-reviewed office in town (4.5 on 610 reviews). The four ratings below 4.0 pull the mean down, and two of them rest on real samples: a 3.9 on 268 reviews (the third-most-reviewed practice in town) and a 3.1 on 76. The other two rest on two reviews each; one of them, a 1.0, is a second listing for Preferred Dental of Niagara, whose other listing shows a 5.0 on five reviews. The 22 unrated practices split into 14 that show zero reviews and 8 with no review count. The 16 practices rated 4.0 or higher average 4.64.

The practical takeaway: the average tells you little on its own. Eight offices sit at 4.8 or higher, but four of those eight ratings rest on fewer than 50 reviews (39, 5, 1 and 1). Sort by rating and review count together, then read the review text.

The most-reviewed practices

Start with the office that leads the city on sheer number of reviews. Empire State Orthodontics, P.C. holds a perfect 5.0 across 684 reviews, the most reviews of any practice in town. Among the 4.9 ratings, Schwartz & Gedeon, DDS, PC pairs a 4.9 rating with 250 reviews, while Michael Marrone Dentistry (4.9, 132 reviews) and Advanced Dental PC (4.9, 125 reviews) complete the four practices rated 4.9 or higher on more than 100 reviews. Those two hold the same Dental.me Score, so third and fourth in the table above is a tie. The Score 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. Paid placements are clearly labeled as Featured and never change the organic order.

Two names deserve a closer read. Stacy Hoffman holds a 4.8 on 39 reviews, a high rating on a thinner sample. And then there is the city’s most instructive listing: William Blanford, DDS, PLLC, with 610 reviews at 4.5 stars. That is the second-largest review base in Niagara Falls, and it shows the most useful habit for this market — read the count alongside the star. A 4.5 across 610 reviews rests on far more ratings than a 5.0 drawn from a handful.

There is one more pattern worth naming. Of the 2,290 reviews in the city, more than half sit with just two offices — Empire State Orthodontics’ 684 and William Blanford’s 610, 1,294 reviews (57%) between them. The six most-reviewed practices hold 2,069 (90%). That concentration means the “long tail” of Niagara Falls practices is thinly reviewed: 11 of the 20 rated practices have fewer than 20 reviews, which makes each individual review louder and a single bad experience more distorting. When an office has fewer than 40 or 50 reviews, read them one by one rather than trusting the aggregate score. Dental.me holds no review dates, so it cannot tell you how recent a rating is.

The website gap is your search strategy

Return to that opening statistic, because it should shape how you actually look. With two-thirds of the city’s practices without a website on file, the usual funnel — search, skim the site, book online — breaks down. Reviews become your primary source, and the phone becomes your intake form. Don’t discount an office simply because it has no homepage: 7 of the 20 rated practices have no website on file, and the rating is recorded either way. A practical routine works well here: pull up the office on Dental.me, read its reviews for anything about billing or how emergencies are handled, then call and ask the two questions a website would normally answer — whether they are taking new patients and whether they accept your insurance. Dental.me does not record which insurance an office accepts. Two minutes on the phone will tell you more than a homepage would in a city where most offices have none on file.

Specialty care: short lists

Niagara Falls’ specialty lists are short. The longest are cosmetic dentistry and teeth whitening, five practices each, then dental implants at four. Pediatric dentistry, endodontics, oral surgery and dentures have two each, and orthodontics, Invisalign, periodontics, prosthodontics and emergency care one each. For a smile makeover or whitening, ask each office to show you before-and-after cases from their own patients; for anything on the one- and two-practice lists, it is worth widening the map. Three of the five offices in the table are on at least one list (Empire State Orthodontics on four, Schwartz & Gedeon and Michael Marrone Dentistry on two each); Advanced Dental PC and Stacy Hoffman are on none, so a list-first search would skip them. A list entry reflects the services a practice lists, not a specialist credential, so ask an office about its training.

Look just beyond the city line

Nearby directories list their own practices: Lockport 42 (17 rated), Tonawanda 28 (14 rated), North Tonawanda 21 (14 rated), Lewiston 6 (4 rated), Grand Island 5 (4 rated) and Youngstown 3 (2 rated). Lockport lists the same number of practices as Niagara Falls; the others list fewer. Dental.me does not measure drive times, so check each address against your route.

Putting it together

Finding a dentist in Niagara Falls rewards a specific discipline: ignore the citywide average, weight review volume as heavily as the star, and treat the phone as a first-class tool in a market where most offices have no website on file. Eight practices sit at 4.8 or higher, and four of them rest on more than 100 reviews. Start from high ratings on many reviews, match the office to your actual need, and confirm with a call.

When you are ready to compare them side by side — ratings, review counts, specialties, and contact details in one place — the Niagara Falls dentist directory on Dental.me lays out all 42 practices without the noise. And if you want to understand how these listings are scored, read our national guide on how we rank practices; our guide to dental costs publishes no prices, so ask each office for a written, itemised estimate 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.