Quick answer: Port St Lucie, FL has 79 dental practices in the Dental.me directory. 37 are rated on Google, averaging 4.52★ across 7,611 reviews. Top by independent Dental.me Score: GOLDTREE ENDO, Ronald Cusato, TREASURE COAST ORAL & MAXILLOFACIAL SURG & DENTAL IMPLANT SURG INC. Compare them below and shortlist two or three near you to call.
| # | Practice | Google rating | Reviews |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GOLDTREE ENDO | 5★ | 173 |
| 2 | Ronald Cusato | 5★ | 12 |
| 3 | TREASURE COAST ORAL & MAXILLOFACIAL SURG & DENTAL IMPLANT SURG INC | 5★ | 11 |
| 4 | Francisco Arias | 5★ | 9 |
| 5 | Richard Matheny | 5★ | 6 |
Port St Lucie is one of Florida’s fastest-growing cities, and its dental market reads exactly like a place that is building faster than it is documenting. There are 79 dental practices operating across the city, but only 41 of them have a working website and only 37 carry a public patient rating. That gap — nearly half the market you cannot easily look up online — is the single most important thing to understand before you pick a dentist here.
Most city dental guides open by telling you the local average rating and calling it a day. That would mislead you in Port St Lucie. The citywide average across rated offices is 4.52, which sounds merely good — but the average hides a market that is unusually top-heavy. Of the 37 practices with enough reviews to be rated, 21 sit at 4.8 or higher. When more than half of every reviewed office in a city clears a near-perfect bar, the real skill is not finding a “good” dentist. It is telling the highly rated apart from the merely well-reviewed, and knowing that dozens of practices simply aren’t in the online conversation yet.
Read the rating bands, not the average
Here is how those 37 rated offices actually distribute. The shape matters: a fat cluster at the top, a thin middle, and a small but real tail of offices scoring under 4.0. Those bottom five are not hard to avoid once you know to look.
The practical takeaway is that a 4.5 rating — which would be a headline number in many cities — is a below-median result in Port St Lucie’s rated tier. When you compare two offices here, don’t stop at the star count. Look at how many reviews built that score. A 4.9 average across 1,200 reviews is a fundamentally different signal than a 4.9 across 30.
It’s also worth sitting with the 42 practices that aren’t rated at all. In a slower, more established market you might read an absent rating as something worth a closer look. In Port St Lucie it’s more likely a symptom of growth: new offices opening to serve incoming residents faster than review histories can accumulate, and older practices that never built a digital habit. Some of those 42 are almost certainly fine. The problem is you have no efficient way to know from your couch — and that’s precisely why the rated, documented offices carry extra weight here. They’ve given you something to verify.
Why review volume is the local tiebreaker
Across the whole city there are 7,611 reviews spread over the rated practices, and they are not evenly distributed. The most-reviewed office alone holds nearly one in six of every review written about a Port St Lucie dentist. That concentration is useful information: it tells you which practices have been tested at scale, through thousands of routine cleanings, crowns, extractions, and the occasional bad day. A perfect rating on a small sample can evaporate after one difficult month; a 4.9 averaged over a thousand reviews already includes months like that, and one more barely moves it. When two offices tie on stars, the one with the deeper review base is almost always the safer bet.
The names that anchor the market
A handful of practices carry a disproportionate share of the city’s 7,611 total reviews — together the six most-reviewed offices account for well over a third of them. These are the practices whose ratings rest on the most reviews:
- Amir Ardalan — 4.9 stars across 1,206 reviews, the most-reviewed dentist in the entire city and effectively its reputational anchor.
- TDC Port St. Lucie — 4.9 stars over 705 reviews, a high-volume, high-consistency office.
- Kamin Talati — 4.9 stars across 393 reviews.
- Michelle Sarasola — 4.9 stars over 216 reviews.
- Rachel Squier — 4.9 stars across 181 reviews.
- Goldtree Endo — a perfect 5.0 across 173 reviews, and notably a specialist root-canal practice rather than a general office.
That last distinction matters. Goldtree’s perfect score comes from a narrow, high-stakes specialty where patients arrive in pain and leave relieved — a different kind of five-star than a family practice earns. Match the office to the job, which brings us to what’s actually available in town.
What you can get treated without leaving the city
Port St Lucie is deep in the services most households need and thin in a few you might have to plan around. The cosmetic, implant and whitening benches are the widest — fifteen offices each — while true surgical and denture-focused care is more concentrated.
Use those numbers to set expectations. If you need a cosmetic dentist, dental implants, or teeth whitening, you have real choice and can afford to be picky. For a dental emergency you have ten options to work through, though whether any of them can see you today is a question for the phone. But if you’re weighing oral surgery or full dentures, only five practices each handle that work, so book early and don’t assume walk-in flexibility. Families should note the nine pediatric dentists and nine orthodontists — a solid bench for a city this size — plus nine Invisalign providers for clear-aligner cases.
How to choose here specifically
Because roughly half of Port St Lucie’s offices have no website and no rating, the ordinary “just Google it” approach quietly filters out a large chunk of the market — some of which may be perfectly good practices that simply haven’t built an online presence. That cuts both ways. It means the rated, on-the-map offices are easier to vet, but it also means you should treat a strong online reputation as a genuine differentiator rather than a baseline everyone shares.
Our recommended order of checks for this market: (1) match the specialty to your actual need using the availability chart above; (2) weigh rating and review volume together rather than chasing the highest star count; (3) confirm the office is genuinely findable — a current address, hours, and a working phone line — which in this half-online city saves you a wasted trip; and (4) confirm your insurance before the first visit. The listings on the Port St Lucie dentist hub are built from Google Business Profile data, so you can read each office’s rating and review count before you call.
One more Port St Lucie-specific note on emergencies. With ten offices offering emergency care, same-day help is realistically available — but only if you call rather than assume. Because so many practices here lack a website, their after-hours and walk-in policies often aren’t posted anywhere online. Keep two or three emergency numbers saved before you actually need them, and don’t rely on a Google search at 9 p.m. to surface an option that may not have a page to find.
If Port St Lucie doesn’t have your match
The Treasure Coast is compact, and a short drive opens up the rest of the region. If your specialty bench is thin locally or you simply want more options, neighboring markets are close: Jensen Beach, Palm City, Fort Pierce, Stuart, Hobe Sound, and Indiantown are all within an easy trip. For treatment budgeting before you book, our national dental cost guide breaks down what common procedures actually run.
Start with the rated, on-the-map offices on the Port St Lucie dentist directory, use the page for the specialty you need, and weigh review volume as well as stars. In a market where nearly half the practices carry no public rating at all, that disciplined approach is what keeps your shortlist to offices you can actually check before you call.
How many dentists are in Port St Lucie, FL?
Dental.me tracks 79 dental practices in Port St Lucie, FL — 37 carry a public star rating that averages 4.5 stars, and 41 list a website. Compare the full ranked list on the Port St Lucie dentists page.
Which is the top-rated dentist in Port St Lucie?
By Dental.me Score, Amir Ardalan currently leads the Port St Lucie list (4.9 stars, 1,206 reviews). Rankings update as ratings and profile data change, so compare a few offices before deciding.
How do I choose a good dentist in Port St Lucie?
Compare the Dental.me Score alongside review volume, location, office hours, provider names, and website details, then shortlist three to five Port St Lucie offices that fit your schedule, budget, and the care you need.
How does Dental.me rank Port St Lucie dentists?
By an independent Dental.me Score built from each practice's Google star rating out of 100, held to a confidence level by its review volume, with exact review counts breaking ties and a verification lift that lets confirmed practices reach a perfect 100. Featured placements are paid, clearly labeled, and never change the organic order.
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.