Dentists in Plantation, FL: Local Guide

Quick answer: Plantation, FL has 117 dental practices in the Dental.me directory. 63 are rated on Google, averaging 4.56★ across 10,187 reviews. Top by independent Dental.me Score: SMILE EVERYDAY PLANTATION LLC, SPRINGS DENTAL OF PLANTATION, Scott Barr. Compare them below and shortlist two or three near you to call.

Most cities its size make you settle. Plantation does the opposite. Sitting in west Broward between Fort Lauderdale and the Everglades buffer, this city of roughly 90,000 supports 117 dental practices — and, more tellingly, an unusually deep bench of specialists. Thirty-nine of those offices place dental implants. Thirty-two offer periodontal care. Thirty-five market themselves as cosmetic practices. For a suburb, that is a referral network you would normally have to drive downtown to find.

That density is the story of dentistry in Plantation, and it changes how you should shop for care here. In a thin market you pick the one good general dentist and hope they can handle everything. In Plantation you can — and should — match the specialist to the problem. This guide walks the real numbers behind that choice: who the highest-reviewed offices are, where the depth actually sits, and the two places the market quietly asks more diligence from you.

Why does a mid-sized Broward suburb carry this much specialty capacity? Geography and demographics. Plantation anchors a stretch of west Broward that pulls patients from half a dozen surrounding communities, and its established, older-skewing population drives steady demand for restorative and elective work — implants, crowns, gum treatment, cosmetic corrections. Practices follow that demand, which is why the specialty counts here run well ahead of what a headcount of 90,000 residents would predict on its own.

Start with the headline figures. Across the 63 practices with public ratings, people have left 10,187 reviews, and the citywide average lands at 4.56 stars. Divide it out and the typical rated office carries around 162 reviews — a healthy sample size that means a Plantation rating usually reflects well over a hundred separate opinions, not a handful of friends. When you see a four-and-a-half-star office here, that number has weight behind it.

A specialist market, not a general-dentistry one

What makes Plantation distinctive is not the count of dentists but the mix. Whitening, cosmetic work, implants and periodontics are the four services with the most providers in the city — the profile of a place where patients pursue restorative and elective care, not just cleanings. If you have been putting off implant work, weighing veneers, or you have been referred to a gum specialist, you have more genuine choice in Plantation than the map suggests at first glance.

The practical upshot: lead your search with the procedure, not the pin drop. If you need an implant consult, the implant directory narrows 117 offices to the 39 that actually do the work. Same logic for whitening or a pediatric visit. For a broken tooth on a Saturday, 18 offices flag themselves for emergency care. Filtering by specialty first is the single biggest time-saver in a market this deep.

The depth keeps going past the top four. Twenty-five offices offer orthodontics and the same number provide Invisalign, so families weighing braces against clear aligners have real side-by-side choice. Twenty practices list endodontic (root canal) services and 19 handle oral surgery — meaning the two procedures patients most dread getting bounced across town for are both well covered locally. Even dentures, often the thinnest category in a suburb, show 13 providers. The through-line is that Plantation rarely forces an out-of-city referral; whatever the treatment, there is almost always a local specialist for it.

For families, that breadth matters more than it looks. Twenty-two Plantation offices provide pediatric care, which means you can often keep a child’s dentist, a parent’s implant surgeon and a teenager’s orthodontist inside the same few square miles — and sometimes under one roof. When you are comparing offices, it is worth asking which services are delivered in-house versus referred out, because a practice that handles more of the family’s needs itself saves you the coordination tax of managing three separate charts.

Where Plantation asks more of you

Depth comes with two caveats worth naming plainly. First, transparency is uneven: only 55 of the 117 practices list a working website, so for nearly half the market your first move is a phone call, not a click. Second, the quality tail is real. Of the 63 rated offices, nine sit below 4.0 stars — a larger low-rated group than you will find in a lot of comparable suburbs. Plantation rewards patients who filter deliberately and punishes those who just pick the nearest sign.

The reassuring half of that chart: 40 of the 63 rated practices — almost two-thirds — clear 4.8 stars. The excellence is there in volume. The job is simply to stay in the top two bands and route around the bottom one, and a rating band does that far more reliably than a storefront ever will.

Do not read the missing-website half as a warning, though. Plenty of excellent, long-established Plantation practices simply never built much of an online presence — and have never needed to. The right response is not to skip them but to shift your due diligence to the phone: confirm hours, ask which insurance plans they take, and ask directly how they handle after-hours emergencies. Two minutes on a call tells you more about how an office actually runs than a polished homepage ever will.

The highest-reviewed dentists in Plantation

These six practices combine top ratings with the deepest review counts in the city — the clearest signal of consistent, repeatable care:

• Smile Everyday Plantation — a perfect 5.0 across 1,003 reviews, the most-reviewed five-star office in town.
• Uttma S. Dham, DMD PA — 4.9 stars over 777 reviews.
• Springs Dental of Plantation — a 5.0 rating across 682 reviews.
• Dr. Scott Barr — 5.0 stars over 678 reviews.
• Michael D. Williams, DDS PA — 4.9 stars across 523 reviews.
• Plantation Dental Associates — 4.9 stars over 409 reviews.

Note what these have in common: not one is coasting on a thin score. Every one pairs a near-perfect rating with several hundred reviews. That is the pattern to hunt for anywhere in the Plantation directory — a high star average is only as trustworthy as the number of reviews standing behind it. A brand-new office at a flawless 5.0 with a dozen reviews is a maybe; a practice holding 4.9 across 700-plus reviews has proven it can deliver the same experience over and over. In a market where the typical rated office already carries 162 reviews, hold the bar high on volume.

How to actually choose

Cost is the other half of the decision, and it varies more by procedure than by ZIP code. Before you book implant or cosmetic work — two of the services Plantation has the most of — it is worth understanding what drives the price. Our national guide to dental costs breaks down what you should expect to pay and where insurance typically lands.

Looking just outside Plantation

Plantation sits in one of the densest dental corridors in Florida, so widening your radius by a few minutes multiplies your options. Neighboring Sunrise and Davie both border the city directly, while Fort Lauderdale-Davie, Lauderhill, Lauderdale Lakes and Cooper City are all short drives. If your preferred Plantation specialist is booked out, these hubs are the natural next look.

However you narrow it, start from the full, rating-sorted list rather than a search-engine guess. The Plantation dentist directory lets you filter the 117 offices by specialty and rating band in a couple of clicks — the fastest way to turn this city’s unusual depth into the right single appointment.

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.