Dentists in Salisbury, MD: Local Guide

Quick answer: Salisbury, MD has 68 dental practices in the Dental.me directory. 32 are rated on Google, averaging 4.37★ across 5,734 reviews. Top by independent Dental.me Score: Myorthos Maryland Orthodontics – Labbe PC, Dr. Maria E. Cruz, DDS, Bartley Quillin. Compare them below and shortlist two or three near you to call.

Salisbury does not have a comfortable middle. Of the 68 dental practices we track across the largest city on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, 32 have a Google rating on file — and among those 32, the scores fall into two camps with a canyon between them. Twenty practices sit at 4.8 stars or higher. Below them, the next tier down — the 4.5-to-4.79 range — is completely empty. Not one practice lands there. Then you drop straight to five offices in the 4.0–4.49 band and seven rated below 4.0; four of those seven rest on 15 or fewer reviews.

That shape changes how you should shop for a dentist here. In Salisbury there is no middle band of ratings to settle for, but a rating is not a measure of clinical quality. This guide reads the numbers behind that split, names the six highest-ranked offices, and gives you a way to sort the 68 into a shortlist. Everything below is drawn from our Salisbury dentist directory — no invented names, no filler.

The market at a glance

Salisbury is the Wicomico County seat and home to Salisbury University. In the dental data, the practical constraint on researching this market from a screen is that fewer than half the offices have a website on file, and posted hours are on file for 26 of the 68.

Two numbers deserve a second look. First, 5,734 reviews sounds like a lot, but they are concentrated: the six most-reviewed offices hold 4,423 of them (77%), and the median rated office has 26. Second, only 29 of 68 practices have a website. If you rule out every office without a website on file, you’ll set aside more than half the town (39 of 68), including six rated offices. All 68 have a phone number on file.

The missing middle, visualized

When we bin every rated practice by score, the 4.5-to-4.79 tier has nobody in it.

What does an empty 4.5–4.79 band actually mean for you? It means no rated office sits just below the top band. It does not mean the 20 at the top are equally well documented: 8 of them rest on 14 or fewer reviews, while Lieschen Auchey has 1,044. Of the 12 below the top band, 5 are in the 4.0–4.49 band and 7 are below 4.0. Start by working out which of the top 20 fits your specific need, and read the review count beside each rating. Every listed office, rated or not, is on the Salisbury hub.

The six highest-ranked practices by Dental.me Score

These are the six offices at the top of the Dental.me Score order, each rated 4.8 or higher on more than 100 reviews. They are not the six most-reviewed: SG Dental Services (4.3, 1,178 reviews) and Affordable Dentures & Implants (4.2, 862) have more reviews than five of them.

• Lieschen Auchey — 4.8 stars across 1,044 reviews. The most reviews of any Salisbury office rated 4.8 or higher.
• Myorthos Maryland Orthodontics (Labbe PC) — a 5.0 over 623 reviews, the most of any Salisbury office rated 5.0.
• Dr. Maria E. Cruz, DDS — 4.9 stars, 329 reviews.
• Bartley Quillin — 4.9 stars over 233 reviews.
• Gerald Krause, DDS, PA — 4.9 stars, 184 reviews.
• Dyer Dental — a 5.0, 124 reviews, the smallest review count of the six.

A useful rule when you compare them: a 4.8 across 1,044 reviews (Auchey) is a steadier average than a 5.0 across 124 (Dyer Dental), even though the raw number is lower. Volume smooths out luck. Both rate highly; the first simply carries more reviews.

It’s also worth naming who isn’t on this list: the 36 practices in the city with no Google rating on file. Dental.me does not record why an office has no rating, and no rating does not make an office worse; it means you will learn about it by phone or by referral rather than from a rating.

What Salisbury is deep in — and where it’s thin

Here is how many Salisbury offices are on each service list.

The longest lists are dental implants (14 practices) and pediatric dentistry (11). Cosmetic dentistry (10) and teeth whitening (12) follow. Where you’ll have fewer choices is emergency care and oral surgery (6 each). Dental.me holds no appointment-availability data, so call ahead to ask when an office can see you. For orthodontics, the 7-office orthodontist list includes Myorthos (5.0, 623 reviews), the one orthodontic practice by name, and Lieschen Auchey (4.8, 1,044).

How to choose, given this market

Because Salisbury’s ratings are split this way, one approach is to narrow first, then compare a short list carefully.

Step one is quick: because nothing sits between 4.5 and 4.8 here, a line at 4.8 narrows 68 practices to 20, though 8 of those 20 rest on 14 or fewer reviews. Step two, sort those 20 by how many reviews back the score — a practice like Lieschen Auchey, with over a thousand, is a steadier average than one resting on a handful. Step three, filter to your actual need: a family can start from the 11-office pediatric list; someone weighing implants has 14 options; an ortho case can start from the 7-office orthodontist list. Step four, before you book, call to confirm they take your plan and ask when they can see you; Dental.me holds no appointment-availability data. For the wider context on how ratings, review counts, and verification feed a score, see how Dental.me ranks practices.

Looking just outside the city

Salisbury’s list is far longer than its neighbors’, so they help most if you live on the edge of the county. Nearby directories: Delmar (1 practice) straddling the Delaware line, Princess Anne (6, 1 rated; home to UMES), Snow Hill (3, 2 rated) and Pocomoke City (2, 1 rated) to the south, and Berlin (16, 10 rated) and Ocean Pines (2, 2 rated) out toward the coast. If you’re on the coastal side of the county, the Berlin and Ocean Pines lists may be more convenient than driving into Salisbury proper.

The bottom line for Salisbury

Salisbury’s ratings have no middle band: 20 offices sit at 4.8 or higher and 12 sit below 4.5. A handful of the top 20 rest on hundreds or more than a thousand Google reviews, and 8 rest on 14 or fewer; none of those ratings measures clinical quality. Draw your line at 4.8, weight by volume, match your specialty, and confirm the logistics. Start your shortlist on the Salisbury dentist directory, where each rated practice’s score and review count are listed.

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