Dentists in Scranton, PA: Local Guide

Quick answer: Scranton, PA has 70 dental practices in the Dental.me directory. 35 are rated on Google, averaging 4.55★ across 5,691 reviews. Top by independent Dental.me Score: Joellen Drosinski, Joyce Perih, Maria Mackarey. Compare them below and shortlist two or three near you to call.

Scranton keeps a secret that never made it online: of the 70 dental practices we’ve mapped across the Electric City, only about 36% run a website. Two out of three offices here are found the old-fashioned way — a neighbor’s recommendation, a sign on a Green Ridge storefront, a name passed around at the parish hall. That makes Scranton one of the harder markets in Pennsylvania to research from your couch, and it’s exactly why this guide exists.

The good news buried in the same data: when Scranton patients do leave a review, they leave a lot of them — 5,691 reviews across just 35 rated offices, an average of over 160 per practice. That’s a dense, opinionated record for a mid-sized market. The average rating sits at 4.55★, and more than half the rated field clears the 4.8★ mark. Below, we turn that record into a shortlist you can actually call.

Why Scranton doesn’t rank like other towns online

Elsewhere, a weak website is easy to read as a weak practice. Scranton flips that assumption. Some practices in the city with hundreds of reviews still don’t have a homepage. The signal here isn’t the website; it’s the review record and the phone conversation. Reputation is earned block by block in Lackawanna County, and it’s the review count, not the web design, that tells you who’s trusted.

The flip side is a wider quality spread than you’ll find in glossier suburbs. As the chart below shows, Scranton has a genuinely elite top tier, but it also carries a low-scoring tail that a shiny listing might otherwise hide. Vetting isn’t optional here — it’s the whole game.

Read the tail honestly. Six of the 35 rated Scranton practices sit below 4.0★, and another six land in the 4.0–4.49★ band. That’s more than a third of the rated field you’ll probably want to pass over. A low star average is worth a closer look before you book.

What 5,691 reviews actually tell you

A market with only 35 rated offices but nearly six thousand reviews has a deep written record — and that volume is your best substitute for the missing websites. When you read a Scranton practice’s reviews, weight three things heavily: how recent the newest reviews are, whether the same clinician’s name keeps coming up, and how the practice handles the occasional one-star. An office that replies to criticism plainly, without defensiveness, is telling you how it will treat you when a crown doesn’t seat right the first time. Volume plus recency plus a level-headed response is the closest thing to a guarantee you’ll get before you sit in the chair.

The names locals actually trust

If you want a starting shortlist, start with the practices that have earned the deepest review records in the city. Leading the entire market is Dr. Mary Grace Rizzo-Fryzel Dental Group, whose 1,533 reviews at 4.9★ make it the most-reviewed office in Scranton by a wide margin.

Close behind on rating and depth are Dr. Joellen Drosinski (5.0★, 541 reviews) and Dr. Joyce Perih (5.0★, 429 reviews), two perfect-rated dentists with the kind of review volume that’s hard to accumulate. Amskrobola PLLC (4.9★, 343 reviews) and Dr. Gary G. Wadsworth (4.9★) round out a strong family-dentistry bench. For a perfect-rated option, Dr. Maria Mackarey (5.0★) is worth a call. You can see the full roster on the Scranton dentist directory.

Matching a specialist to your problem

Scranton’s specialty coverage is practical rather than deep — this is a general-dentistry town first. If you need a specific procedure, here’s what the market supports:

Dental implants are the best-covered specialty, with 11 practices offering them — the surest bet if you’re replacing a tooth. Teeth whitening (8 offices), cosmetic dentistry (7), and oral surgery (7) all have a working bench. For straightening, both orthodontics and Invisalign are available at 5 practices each — a smaller field, so book consultations early. One honest caveat from the data: we didn’t surface dedicated pediatric, endodontic, or periodontic listings inside Scranton proper. For a root canal specialist, a gum specialist, or a kids-only office, plan to look just outside the city (the nearby list below is your map).

How to choose — a Scranton-specific playbook

Because so many offices have no website on file, your vetting order matters. Work it in this sequence:

First, let the review record do the heavy lifting — aim for 4.8★ or better with a triple-digit review count, which most of the names above clear easily. Second, confirm the service before you fall in love with a practice; a 5-star general dentist can’t place your implant if implants aren’t on their menu. Third — and this is the Scranton part — pick up the phone rather than hunting for a website that may not exist. A five-minute call tells you about availability, new-patient openings, and emergency policy faster than any homepage would. Fourth, talk money up front: ask which insurance they take and whether they offer payment plans before your first cleaning. If you want to know how we score and rank every practice, read how we rank dentists; our guide to dental costs lists what a quote depends on.

Emergencies and after-hours care

One more quirk worth planning for before you have a throbbing molar at 9 p.m.: Scranton’s data doesn’t surface a set of dedicated emergency-dental listings the way larger cities do. In practice, that means an emergency here usually starts with a call to a general office, so ask how each one handles urgent calls. This is the strongest argument for choosing a regular dentist before you need one. Ask any practice you’re considering a single question up front: “If I’m in pain, how fast can you see me?” The answer separates the offices that treat you as a name from the ones that treat you as a slot. If you’re new to the area and hit a genuine emergency tonight, call the highest-reviewed general practices on your shortlist first; the directory records which offices list emergency dentistry, not who has room on a given day.

Paying for it: insurance and cost

Before larger work like implants or crowns, ask each office which PPO plans it works with and whether it offers in-house payment arrangements. Because so few practices publish fees online, get your number by phone: ask for the cost of a new-patient exam, X-rays, and cleaning as a bundle, confirm whether they’re in-network for your specific plan (not just “we take insurance”), and for anything major, ask for a written treatment estimate before you commit. 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.

Looking just beyond the city line

Scranton sits at the center of a tight cluster of Lackawanna County boroughs, and crossing a town line often opens up the specialists the city itself is thin on. It’s a short drive to Dunmore, Dickson City, Throop, Old Forge, Blakely, and Clarks Summit — each with its own set of practices worth comparing, especially for pediatric or endodontic care. When you’re ready to compare the full field side by side, the Scranton dentist hub lets you filter every mapped practice by rating, review count, and service.

Scranton rewards the patient researcher. The offices that matter are here and well-reviewed — they just don’t always show up on the first page of a search. Use the review record, make the call, and you’ll land a chair you’ll keep for years.

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.