Finding a good dentist in Paragould starts with the numbers: Dental.me tracks 18 dental practices across this Greene County seat, 13 of them carrying a public star rating that averages 4.29 out of 5. This guide lists the offices with the highest Dental.me Score, shows how the ratings are distributed, and covers what to confirm by phone before you book.
The Paragould dental landscape at a glance
Paragould is the seat of Greene County in northeast Arkansas. Dental.me’s directory records 18 dental practices in the city. Of those, 13 carry a public star rating, their scores average 4.29 out of 5, and together the rated offices hold 2,133 published reviews. Nine of the 18 practices have a website URL on file, which is the address you would use to check services, and whether the office books online, before you call. All 18 have a phone number on file, and 9 have posted hours stored.
Five of the 18 offices have no Google rating on file. Dental.me does not record why, and it is not a judgment about the care itself. For those, the practice profile page is still the starting point — it collects the name and details in one place so you can call and ask directly. For the 13 rated offices, the picture is more complete, and it is where this guide focuses. The chart below shows how those 13 break down by score band.
It helps to see that rated share on its own, too. Thirteen of the eighteen listed practices — about 72 percent — have a Google rating on file, while five do not, so most of the offices you come across here have a rating and reviews you can check. A missing rating says nothing about how long an office has been open, so treat the five unrated listings as a phone call to make rather than a dead end to avoid. The donut below shows that split at a glance.
The highest-rated dental practices in Paragould
The table below lists the six practices with the highest Dental.me Score, sorted by star rating and then by review count. Two of them carry by far the most reviews: Higginbotham Dental Group holds a 4.9 built on 1,133 reviews — 53% of every review in the city — and Butch E. Hamlett, DDS, PA a 5.0 across 498. Hamlett is one of four Paragould offices at 5.0; each of the other three rests on a single review.
| Practice | Rating | Reviews | Profile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Butch E. Hamlett, DDS, PA | 5.0 | 498 | View profile |
| Higginbotham Dental Group, PLLC | 4.9 | 1,133 | View profile |
| Paragould Smile Doctors | 4.9 | 93 | View profile |
| Ridge Kids Dental | 4.8 | 332 | View profile |
| Kevin Mann | 4.7 | 31 | View profile |
| David Watson | 4.3 | 16 | View profile |
Rating and review count answer two different questions. Google rounds to one decimal, so a 5.0 means an average of at least 4.95 among the people who rated the office, while a four-figure review count like Higginbotham’s means the average rests on far more ratings. When you compare Butch E. Hamlett’s profile against Higginbotham Dental Group’s profile, you are weighing a 5.0 on 498 reviews against a 4.9 on 1,133. Neither is the “wrong” pick on the numbers; by Dental.me Score, Higginbotham is first and Hamlett second.
Matching a Paragould office to what you need
Because the leaders are clustered so tightly, fit matters as much as raw score in Paragould. Ridge Kids Dental carries a 4.8 across 332 reviews — the third-most reviews in the city — and its name points to children's care, though it is not on the city's two-office pediatric list and has no website URL on file, so call to ask what ages it sees. Paragould Smile Doctors sits at 4.9 on 93 reviews. Further down, Kevin Mann holds a 4.7 across 31 reviews and David Watson a 4.3 across 16 — smaller samples, so each individual review moves the average more.
The takeaway for Paragould: the six offices in the table are the Score top six, four of them rate 4.8 or higher, and the two with the most reviews hold the top two Score places. Seven Paragould offices rate 4.8 or higher in all, but three of those seven rest on a single review each. Shortlist by the practical things — where the office sits relative to your home or your child's school, whether it takes your insurance, how soon it can see you — and confirm each by phone, because Dental.me holds no insurance or availability data.
How Paragould’s ratings are distributed
The band chart above makes one thing clear: the top of the Paragould market is crowded. Seven of the 13 rated offices sit at 4.8 or higher — more than half the rated field — a single practice lands in the 4.5–4.79 band, three fall between 4.0 and 4.49, and two score below 4.0. Three of the seven top-band offices rest on one review each, so the band is thinner than its size suggests; the four with 93 or more reviews are the four in the table.
It also explains why the citywide average of 4.29 sits lower than most of the leaders. That average is pulled down by the two sub-4.0 offices (a 3.0 on two reviews and a 1.0 on one) and the three in the 4.0–4.49 band. If you book from the highest-rated tier — the two 4.9-and-5.0 review leaders, plus Ridge Kids Dental at 4.8 and Paragould Smile Doctors at 4.9 — you are choosing from offices rated well above the city mean.
Website coverage and how to reach a practice
Half of Paragould’s directory — 9 of the 18 practices — has a website URL on file with Dental.me. Where a URL exists, the site may list services, insurance plans and booking options, but confirm them by phone. For the other nine, no website URL is on file, so a phone call is the direct route to reach the office and ask what you need to know.
A missing website URL is not a mark against the office — Ridge Kids Dental, with 332 reviews, is one of the nine with no URL on file. It only tells you which door to knock on first. Because exactly half of Paragould’s listings have no URL on file, expect the phone to do real work here: keep the office’s number handy and have your insurance card and a couple of scheduling questions ready before you dial.
Reading review volume in a small market
Paragould’s 2,133 reviews are not spread evenly. One office, Higginbotham Dental Group, accounts for more than half of every review in the city, and the top three practices together hold 1,963 of them (92%). That concentration is worth understanding: an office with a high score and a modest review count, such as Kevin Mann at 4.7 across 31 reviews, has a high rating on a shorter record, while the review leaders have been rated at a much larger scale.
Use volume as a confidence dial, not a ranking. A 4.9 across 1,133 reviews and a 4.9 across 93 reviews are both high ratings; the first is simply harder to move, because it would take a great many new reviews to shift it. When you are down to two Paragould offices you like equally, the deeper review base is the better-documented default — but a high score on a smaller record, like Paragould Smile Doctors’ 4.9 on 93, is still a high score worth weighing.
Looking just beyond Paragould
If the Paragould offices do not fit or you want a second opinion, look at the neighbouring directories, though only one is large. Jonesboro to the southwest lists 81 practices (45 with a Google rating), and Brookland, between the two, lists 1. Monette and Leachville list one practice each (Leachville's has no Google rating on file), and Rector in Clay County lists 3. Comparing across the region is useful if you are new to the area or willing to drive for a specific dentist, and it gives you more offices to call when the one you want cannot see you soon.
How to choose, and how the Dental.me Score works
The practical path in Paragould is short. Start from the ranked table, shortlist two or three offices from the 4.8-and-above tier, open each profile from the Paragould dentist directory to confirm the details, and call the ones without a website URL to ask about availability and insurance. Because the top band is crowded here, you can afford to prioritize practical fit — location, hours, whether they treat children — without giving up on a high score.
The Dental.me Score that orders the Paragould directory is earned, never sold. It weighs a practice’s star rating, the volume of reviews behind that rating, and whether the office’s details are confirmed, so that a well-reviewed office is not out-ranked by a thinly-rated one. The only element any practice can pay for is a Featured placement, which is labeled as such; it never changes the underlying score or where an office falls in the directory. The table above lists the Score top six sorted by star rating; by Score itself, Higginbotham comes first — the data, not a bid, decides that order.
Frequently asked questions
How many dentists are in Paragould, AR?
Dental.me’s directory lists 18 dental practices in Paragould. Thirteen of them carry a public star rating that averages 4.29 out of 5, and together those rated offices hold 2,133 reviews.
Which Paragould dentist has the highest rating?
Four Paragould offices hold a 5.0: Butch E. Hamlett, DDS, PA has 498 reviews behind its 5.0, and each of the other three has a single review. Higginbotham Dental Group and Paragould Smile Doctors both carry a 4.9, with Higginbotham backed by the city’s largest review base of 1,133.
Which Paragould practice has the most reviews?
Higginbotham Dental Group, with 1,133 reviews and a 4.9 rating. That is more than half of all 2,133 reviews across Paragould’s rated practices, the deepest review count in the city.
Is a higher rating always the better choice in Paragould?
Not necessarily. Seven of the 13 rated offices score 4.8 or above, though three of them rest on a single review each. Once you have a shortlist from that tier, fit — location, insurance, and availability — usually matters more than a 0.1 difference in stars.
Do all Paragould dental offices have a website?
No. Nine of the 18 listed practices have a website URL on file with Dental.me; the other nine do not, so calling is the most direct way to reach them and confirm services or scheduling.
What if I can't get an appointment in Paragould?
Nearby directories help, though only one is large: Jonesboro to the southwest lists 81 practices, while Brookland, Monette and Leachville list one each and Rector three.
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