Finding a good dentist in Red Bluff, CA starts with a short, honest list: 26 dental practices operate here, 13 of them carry a star rating, and those rated offices average 4.22 stars across 1,344 combined reviews. This guide ranks the highest-rated names and shows you exactly where the strongest choices sit today.
Red Bluff is the seat of Tehama County, sitting on the Sacramento River where Interstate 5 runs north toward Redding and south toward Corning. Its dental market is compact enough to read end to end in one sitting, which is what this guide is built to do. Instead of pointing you at a phone book, it uses the measured record for all 26 practices, then narrows to the offices with the strongest public review records.
What the Red Bluff dental market actually looks like
Of the 26 dental practices on record in Red Bluff, 13 currently carry a published star rating and 13 do not yet have enough scored activity to rank. That split matters: a rating is only meaningful once a practice has accumulated real feedback, so the 13 rated offices are the ones you can compare on solid footing. Across those rated practices the average sits at 4.22 stars, and together the full directory holds 1,344 reviews. When you strip out the unrated half, the rated group breaks cleanly into tiers.
That distribution is the reason the average of 4.22 is a little misleading if you read it alone. The city is not uniformly mid-tier; it is polarized. Five practices sit at 4.8 stars or higher, another four land in the strong 4.5 to 4.79 range, and then a tail of three practices under 4.0 drags the arithmetic mean down. In practical terms, nine of the 13 rated offices clear 4.5 stars, which is a genuinely deep bench of highly rated offices. Your job is not to settle for the average, it is to start at the top of that band.
The highest-rated dentists in Red Bluff
The table below ranks the top rated practices in Red Bluff by star rating, with review volume breaking any ties. Rating tells you how satisfied people were; review count tells you how much weight that rating carries. A 5.0 built on 355 reviews is a different signal from a 5.0 built on a handful, so read the two columns together.
| Practice | Rating | Reviews | Profile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alfred Phen DDS PC | 5.0 | 355 | View profile |
| Donald Shoff | 5.0 | 220 | View profile |
| William J. Moore DMD and Associates | 4.9 | 428 | View profile |
| Stroing and White Dental | 4.8 | 36 | View profile |
| Willem Van Opijnen | 4.8 | 26 | View profile |
| Noura Elloway RDH / Randal Elloway DDS Corp | 4.7 | 93 | View profile |
Three practices anchor the top of the list. Alfred Phen DDS PC holds a perfect 5.0 across 355 reviews, a rare combination of a spotless score and heavy volume. William J. Moore DMD and Associates carries the single largest review count in the city at 428, paired with a 4.9, which puts it at the top of the list on review depth. And Donald Shoff matches the perfect 5.0 across 220 reviews. Between just those three names, reviewers have logged more than 1,000 reviews.
Reading review volume, not just the star
Star ratings compress a lot of experience into one number, so it helps to see how unevenly the underlying reviews are distributed. The chart below plots the review count behind each of the six top practices. Notice how the totals fall off a cliff after the leaders: the same 5.0 badge sits on top of very different amounts of evidence.
This is why Stroing and White Dental (4.8 on 36 reviews) and Willem Van Opijnen (4.8 on 26 reviews) belong on your shortlist but deserve a second look before you commit: their scores are excellent, but the sample behind them is thin, so a single new visit can move the number more than it would at a heavily reviewed office. Noura Elloway RDH / Randal Elloway DDS Corp sits in a comfortable middle at 4.7 on 93 reviews. None of this makes a less-reviewed office worse; it simply changes how much certainty the rating buys you.
Website coverage and how you’ll book
Of the 26 practices in Red Bluff, 14 have a website URL on file and 12 do not. That is a slim majority with a website on file, so expect that roughly half of the offices you research will have a site to check, while the rest you will confirm by phone. A missing website URL is a record-keeping fact about the directory, not a verdict on the office, and several strong practices sit on either side of that line.
A practical approach: use the Red Bluff dentist directory to open the profile for any office you like, check whether a website is listed, and if it is not, keep the practice on your list and call to confirm hours and new-patient availability. The rating and review history travel with the profile either way, so you are never choosing blind just because a site is absent.
Cosmetic dentistry and whitening in Red Bluff
If you are searching for a specific service rather than a general checkup, the two categories with the deepest coverage in Red Bluff are cosmetic dentistry and teeth whitening. Seven practices list cosmetic dentistry and seven list teeth whitening, so a quarter or more of the city’s offices touch elective and appearance-focused work. That is a healthy number of options, and it means you can weigh several rated practices against each other rather than accepting the first one you find.
Browse the full lists on the Red Bluff cosmetic dentists page and the Red Bluff teeth whitening page, then cross-reference the names against the rating table above. Several of the city’s top-scored offices appear in both categories, which lets you get elective work done at a practice that already holds a high overall rating rather than choosing between the two.
Looking just beyond the city limits
A handful of neighboring communities have their own directories worth checking, especially if you live on the edge of town or commute along I-5. To the south sits Corning, and closer in you will find Los Molinos to the east along Highway 99E and the Cottonwood and Anderson area to the north toward Redding.
If the Red Bluff shortlist does not fit your schedule or insurance, widen the search to the Corning dentist directory, the Los Molinos dentist directory, or the Cottonwood dentist directory. Each carries the same rating and review record as the Red Bluff hub, so you can compare a practice one town over on identical terms. For most residents, though, the depth of the Red Bluff list, nine rated practices at 4.5 stars or better, means the strongest option is usually already inside the city.
How to choose, and how the Dental.me Score works
Put the pieces together in order. Start with the rating band chart to see who clears 4.5 stars, use the review-volume chart to judge how much evidence sits behind each score, and confirm booking through the profile and, where needed, a phone call. The Dental.me Score that ranks these practices is earned, never sold: it weighs star rating, review volume, and whether an office’s details are confirmed, so a practice cannot buy its way up the list. Only Featured placement can be paid for, and it is labeled as such wherever it appears. That separation is what lets a small, high-rated office like Stroing and White stand on the same page as the most-reviewed practice in town.
For a city with 26 practices and 1,344 reviews on record, Red Bluff gives you more than enough signal to choose well. Begin with the full Red Bluff directory, work down from the 4.8-plus tier, and you will have a dentist chosen on the record rather than on guesswork.
Frequently asked questions
How many dentists are there in Red Bluff, CA?
There are 26 dental practices on record in Red Bluff. Of those, 13 currently carry a published star rating and 13 do not yet have enough scored activity to rank, so 13 offices can be compared directly on their ratings.
Who is the highest-rated dentist in Red Bluff?
Alfred Phen DDS PC holds a perfect 5.0 rating across 355 reviews, the strongest combination of score and volume in the city. Donald Shoff also holds a 5.0 across 220 reviews, and William J. Moore DMD and Associates carries a 4.9 on the city’s largest review count of 428.
What is the average dental rating in Red Bluff?
Across the 13 rated practices in Red Bluff, the average is 4.22 stars. That figure is pulled down by a tail of three practices under 4.0; in fact nine of the 13 rated offices clear 4.5 stars, so the top of the market is much stronger than the average alone suggests.
Which Red Bluff practice has the most reviews?
William J. Moore DMD and Associates has the most reviews in Red Bluff at 428, paired with a 4.9 rating. Alfred Phen DDS PC follows with 355 reviews at a 5.0. In total, the city’s rated practices hold 1,344 reviews.
Can I find cosmetic dentistry or teeth whitening in Red Bluff?
Yes. Seven Red Bluff practices list cosmetic dentistry and seven list teeth whitening. You can browse both categories on the Red Bluff cosmetic dentists and teeth whitening pages, then cross-check the names against the rating table to pick a well-reviewed office.
Do all Red Bluff dentists have a website?
No. Of the 26 practices, 14 have a website URL on file and 12 do not. A missing website URL is a directory record, not a judgment on the office; for those practices, you can open the profile for ratings and reviews and confirm hours and availability by phone.
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