Dentists in Richardson, TX: Local Guide

Quick answer: Richardson, TX has 139 dental practices in the Dental.me directory. 49 are rated on Google, averaging 4.79★ across 13,443 reviews. Top by independent Dental.me Score: Nishit Kapadia, Thu Thao Phan, NORTH RICHARDSON DENTISTRY ASSOCIATES, PC. Compare them below and shortlist two or three near you to call.

Richardson’s dental market turns on a single ratio. The city has 139 dental practices, but only 49 of them carry a Google rating on Dental.me’s Richardson directory. That is roughly one in three. The 49 rated practices carry a combined 13,443 reviews and average a 4.79 star rating — with exactly one practice sitting below 4.0 stars (a 2.9 on 15 reviews).

So Richardson is not a big, noisy market where you have to sift high ratings from low. It is a minority market: a smaller pool of practices that carry a rating, and 39 of those 49 sit at 4.8 stars or higher. That changes how you should search: the star rating alone will not separate most of them. This guide walks through the numbers behind Richardson’s listings.

What the 4.79 average does and does not tell you

Across the 49 rated practices, the review count works out to an average of about 274 reviews each, but that average hides a wide spread: the four most-reviewed listings hold 38 percent of all 13,443 reviews, and five of the 39 at 4.8 or higher rest on 10 reviews or fewer. When you spread the 49 practices across rating bands, the concentration at the top is striking: 39 practices sit at 4.8 stars or higher, five land in the 4.5–4.79 range, four in the 4.0–4.49 band, and just one below 4.0.

Practically, this means the star rating alone separates few of Richardson’s rated listings, and a rating does not by itself prove clinical quality. The more useful question is which practice fits your specific need — a straightforward cleaning, a complex implant case, braces for a teenager, or an urgent problem.

Richardson’s largest specialty categories

On Richardson’s live category pages, the largest specialty categories are orthodontists and dental implants, tied at 28 listings each; the Invisalign page also lists 28. A practice can appear in more than one category.

Close behind sit teeth whitening at 26 listings and cosmetic dentistry at 24, then periodontists 19, emergency dentists 16, pediatric dentists and dentures 14 each, oral surgeons 9 and endodontists 7. A listing in a category does not tell you about wait times or whether an office is taking new patients.

The hub’s top six by Dental.me Score

These six lead the organic list on the Richardson hub, in Dental.me Score order. They are not the six most-reviewed listings.

• Thu Thao Phan holds 1,155 reviews at a 4.9 rating.
• Nishit Kapadia holds a perfect 5.0 across 719 reviews.
• North Richardson Dentistry Associates, PC pairs a 5.0 rating with 425 reviews.
• Andre Carvalho also carries a 5.0 across 419 reviews.
• Wylie Orthodontic Specialists, an orthodontic office, is at 5.0 with 414 reviews.
• Synergy Dental, PLLC is sixth, at 5.0 with 331 reviews.

Five of these six sit at 5.0, on 331 to 719 reviews; Thu Thao Phan is at 4.9 on 1,155. By review count, the city’s two most-reviewed listings are BRECKINRIDGE DENTAL AND ORTHODONTICS (4.8 on 1,577) and George Haney (4.8 on 1,402), and the fourth is Srujani Reddy Gadusu (4.5 on 992); none of the three is in the top six. A rating on more than a thousand reviews rests on a larger sample than one on a few hundred.

How to actually choose, given all this

Because only one rated listing in Richardson sits below 4.0, the usual advice — “avoid the low-rated ones” — barely applies. Instead, use a sequence that matches the treatment you need to the review count behind a rating.

Step one is to name the treatment before you look at anyone. “I need a routine cleaning” and “I need a single-tooth implant” lead to completely different shortlists. Step two is to enter through the matching specialty page rather than the general list — if you need braces or aligners, start on the orthodontists or Invisalign pages; for a toothache that cannot wait, go straight to emergency dentists (the category lists 16 practices in Richardson). Step three: when two practices are both at 4.9 or 5.0, let review volume break the tie. Step four is the practical filter — insurance acceptance and appointment availability — which no rating can tell you and which you confirm with a quick call. If you want to understand what the star scores actually measure before you lean on them, our ranking methodology explains it.

A note on practices with no website on file

One more Richardson quirk is worth flagging. Only 44 of the 139 practices — under a third — have a website URL on file, and six of the 95 without one carry a Google rating. A listing with no website and no rating gives the directory little to show you; it says nothing about the practice itself. The full Richardson directory lists all 139.

If Richardson does not have your match

Richardson sits in the middle of a dense cluster of North Dallas suburbs, so crossing a city line rarely means driving far. If you want to widen the net — for a specific specialist, a particular insurance network, or simply a closer office — the neighboring markets are all within easy reach: Plano and Garland to the north and east, plus Addison, Farmers Branch, Murphy, and Sachse. Dental.me does not publish prices, and our national guide to dental costs gives no price ranges either; it lists what a quote depends on (the procedure, exam findings, insurance and materials), so ask each office for a written, itemised estimate.

The bottom line for Richardson: 39 of the 49 rated listings sit at 4.8 or higher and one sits below 4.0, so the rating alone separates few of them. Your task is to match a practice to the exact care you need. Start on the Richardson hub, pick the specialty, and let the review depth guide the final call.

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