Dentists in Placerville, CA: Local Guide

Quick answer: Placerville, CA has 46 dental practices in the Dental.me directory. 27 are rated on Google, averaging 4.51★ across 2,980 reviews. Top by independent Dental.me Score: Golden Grove Dental Placerville, Mountain Dental, GUGALE & AZOUZ DENTAL GROUP OF PLACERVILLE, INC. Compare them below and shortlist two or three near you to call.

There are 46 dental practices inside the Placerville city limits, but that number tells you almost nothing useful on its own. The figure that actually matters in this Gold Rush foothills town is a quieter one: of the 27 Placerville practices with a Google rating on file, 17 sit at 4.8 stars or higher. The other 19 of the 46 have no rating on file. With that many ratings at the top, the star number alone separates few offices; the real work is figuring out which office fits your treatment, your schedule, and your budget.

This guide is built entirely from Placerville’s own directory data on Dental.me: 2,980 Google reviews across the rated practices, an average rating of 4.51 stars, and a specialty map that shows which lists are long and which are short. If you want to skip straight to the full list, the Placerville dentist hub ranks every practice with its live rating and review count.

Reading Placerville’s market in one glance

Before you compare individual offices, it helps to see the shape of the whole market. Here is Placerville by the numbers — the total field, how many have been reviewed enough to score, how many maintain a website, and the review volume behind those scores.

Two of those numbers deserve a flag. First, only 18 of 46 practices maintain a website — fewer than four in ten. The other 28 have no website on file, so a missing site is not by itself a reason to rule an office out; a directory listing shows offices a web search may not. Second, the 2,980 reviews are not spread evenly. The median rated office has 73, and 7 of the 27 rated offices have 9 or fewer reviews, including three 5.0s on 7, 1 and 1. The six largest counts hold 1,833 of the 2,980 reviews (62%).

Why the rating curve is the story here

Most city guides would bury the rating distribution in a footnote. In Placerville it is the headline. Of the 27 practices with a Google rating, here is how they break down by star band.

Sixty-three percent of rated offices land in the highest band. But notice the tail: three ratings sit below 4.0. Injoo Han holds 2.3 on 73 reviews and Brookside Dental 2.9 on 28; the third, Brookside Dental Care: Ngo Andy DDS, is a 1.0 on a single review. A rating shows how reviewers scored an office, not why, so read the reviews behind a low number before you rule an office in or out.

The middle is not empty. Four offices sit between 4.5 and 4.79 and three between 4.0 and 4.49, and two of those three carry large counts: STOUT DENTAL CORPORATION (4.3 on 195) and Placerville Dental Group (4.4 on 176) hold the fifth- and seventh-largest review counts in town. The top band is not uniformly deep either: 4 of the 17 ratings at 4.8 or higher rest on 8 or fewer reviews.

Highly rated offices with large review counts

Six of the eight largest review counts in Placerville belong to offices rated 4.9 or 5.0. These are the six, by review count:

• Golden Grove Dental Placerville — a perfect 5.0 rating across 591 reviews, the largest review count in town. It is on the whitening, cosmetic, implant, periodontist and emergency lists.
• Mountain Dental — 5.0 stars over 337 reviews. It is on the pediatric, orthodontist and Invisalign lists.
• Ike Rahimi — 4.9 stars across 299 reviews, the third-largest count. It is on 9 of the 11 Placerville lists that hold at least one office.
• Minh-Khang Eric Ngo Dental Corporation — 4.9 stars over 218 reviews.
• Gugale & Azouz Dental Group of Placerville — a perfect 5.0 across 193 reviews.
• Robert E. Anderson, DDS — 5.0 stars over 150 reviews. It is on none of the Placerville specialty lists.

Four of those six hold a 5.0. A rating and a review count say how reviewers scored an office and how many reviews stand behind it, not whether it does the work you need, so check the specialty lists below. You can see all of them, side by side with live scores, on the Placerville dentist hub.

What Placerville offers — and where it is thin

A high average rating is only half the picture. The other half is whether the town actually has the kind of dentist you need. Here is Placerville’s specialty coverage, counted from the practices offering each service.

The pattern is clear and it is worth internalizing before you book. Placerville’s longest lists are restorative and cosmetic — eleven practices each are listed for dental implants, cosmetic dentistry, periodontal care, and teeth whitening. Not every office on those lists is highly rated: Injoo Han (2.3 on 73) is on the implant and periodontist lists, and STOUT DENTAL CORPORATION (4.3) and Placerville Dental Group (4.4) are on the cosmetic and whitening lists. Check the rating next to each name.

The town is thinner on the pointed specialties. Only five practices list orthodontics or Invisalign, and just five handle endodontic (root canal) work. The orthodontist and Invisalign lists hold the same five offices. Seven offices are on the emergency list; a listing does not tell you when an office can see you, so call before you go. The chart leaves out four shorter lists: pediatric dentists (4), dentures (4), oral surgeons (3) and prosthodontists (none listed).

How to actually choose, in four moves

Because Placerville’s top tier is so crowded, the decision is less “who is good” and more “who is right for this specific visit.” Use this sequence.

Step three is the one not to skip. A 5.0 on 7 reviews and a 4.9 on 299 (Ike Rahimi) are not the same signal: one more review can move the first, and it would take many to move the second. In Placerville nine offices rated 4.9 or 5.0 carry 100 or more reviews. And step four matters everywhere: dental pricing varies, so read our national guide to dental costs before you assume the fanciest office is out of reach or that the cheapest quote is the best deal.

If Placerville does not have your match

If your specialty is one of the shorter lists, most nearby communities are small too. Diamond Springs just to the south lists 5 practices (3 rated) and El Dorado lists 1. Down Highway 50 toward Sacramento, Shingle Springs lists 3 (none rated), Cameron Park 17 (11 rated) and El Dorado Hills 71 (42 rated), the largest list nearby. To the north, Lotus lists 3 and Georgetown 1.

Wherever you land, the method is the same one this whole guide is built on: start from ratings and real review volume, match the office to the care you actually need, and confirm the money before you sit in the chair. Curious how we score every practice? Our ranking methodology lays it out. When you are ready, the Placerville dentist directory has the full, up-to-date list.

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.