Dentists in Spokane, WA: Local Guide

Quick answer: Spokane, WA has 265 dental practices in the Dental.me directory. 154 are rated on Google, averaging 4.75★ across 33,935 reviews. Top by independent Dental.me Score: James Breeden, Bates Dental PS, JASON R. SCOTT DDS, PLLC. Compare them below and shortlist two or three near you to call.

Spokane runs its own rules. It is the largest city in the Inland Northwest. Dental.me tracks 265 practices inside the city, and the numbers tell a clear story: this is a mature, well-reviewed, digitally visible market where the top of the field is genuinely crowded. Three of the six most-reviewed practices in Spokane hold a 4.9, and the other three run from 4.5 down to 3.9. Volume and rating do not travel together at the top here. It means the hard part here is not finding a competent dentist — it is choosing between several excellent ones.

The wall of fives

Start with the leaderboard, because it shapes everything else. In Spokane, the top of the table is a clean sweep. James Breeden holds the deepest review file of any 5.0-rated practice in the city, 724 reviews. Right behind sit Bates Dental PS (702 reviews, 5.0) and Jason R. Scott DDS, PLLC (667 reviews, 5.0). McKennon Plaster Lemone PLLC, Richard D. Weigand, DDS, and Smile More Spokane Family Dentistry round out the six, each holding 5.0 across 600-plus reviews. A perfect score on 50 reviews is easy to dismiss; a perfect score across 600, 700, 724 reviews is a real signal. These are the six practices Dental.me scores highest in Spokane.

What the whole market looks like

Behind that leaderboard is a full field. Of the 265 practices we track, 154 have collected enough Google reviews to carry a rating, and together they hold 33,935 reviews — an average of roughly 220 reviews per rated practice. That is a well-worn market, not a thin one. The average rating across those 154 practices is 4.75, comfortably above the 4.5 line most patients treat as the cutoff for “worth booking.”

Read that split carefully, because it is the first filter any Spokane patient should apply. The gap between 265 and 154 is not a quality problem — it is a visibility one. Around 111 practices have too few reviews for us to rate confidently. What they share is a review count too low to rate confidently; the directory records nothing else about them. None of that makes them bad. It does mean you have less public evidence to lean on, so you should weight your own consultation more heavily when you consider one.

Reading the ratings honestly

A high average can hide a wide spread, so look at the distribution rather than the headline. Among Spokane’s 154 rated practices, the shape is heavily top-loaded — but there is a real tail you should know about.

Three quarters of rated Spokane practices — 115 of them — sit at 4.8 or higher. That is a strong ceiling and it is why the leaderboard is all fives. But notice the bottom two rows: 19 practices fall below 4.5, and 10 of those sit under 4.0. In a market this good, a sub-4.0 score is a genuine outlier and worth taking seriously. When four out of five practices clear 4.5, the ones that do not are telling you something. Use the rating floor as a hard filter here, not a soft preference.

The practical upshot is that Spokane rewards a patient who is a little bit picky. In a weaker market you might settle for the first 4.3 you find with an open slot; here, a 4.3 puts you in the bottom quarter of the field when a 4.8 is a short scroll away. The abundance means you almost never have to compromise on rating to get a convenient location or your insurance accepted — you can hold all three requirements at once and still have a shortlist.

A market you can actually vet online

Here is Spokane’s quietest advantage. Of the 154 rated practices, 153 have a website — that is 99.4%. In Spokane you can do nearly all of your homework from a browser: check hours, insurance, technology, staff bios, and new-patient forms before you ever pick up the phone. That changes the smart search strategy. Instead of casting a wide net and calling, you can shortlist three or four practices from their sites, read their reviews on the Spokane directory, and walk into a consultation already informed.

Specialty depth: strong on emergencies, deep on cosmetic

Spokane’s role as a regional medical hub shows up directly in its specialty coverage. Two figures stand out.

First, 50 practices offer emergency dental care — among the highest counts we see anywhere. A cracked tooth or an abscess at 6 p.m. is a solvable problem in this city, not a drive to the ER. Browse the full list of Spokane emergency dentists before you need one and save two numbers to your phone; the time to find a same-day appointment is not while you are in pain. Second, cosmetic and restorative capacity is deep: 69 practices place dental implants, 66 offer teeth whitening, and 61 do cosmetic work. If you are planning a smile makeover or a full implant restoration, you have real bargaining power — get more than one treatment plan, because the market can support the comparison.

Families are well served too, with 35 pediatric dentists and 30 orthodontic practices offering Invisalign. For gum health, there are 36 periodontists — a strong specialist bench. What is worth flagging is how evenly that depth is spread: this is not a market where one category is oversupplied and the rest are threadbare. From routine cleanings to complex restorative surgery, there is meaningful choice at every level, which is exactly why a structured filter beats a gut pick here.

How to choose, given all of this

Spokane’s abundance is a good problem, but it is still a problem: too many strong options can stall a decision. Here is a filter sequence built for this specific market.

That last point matters in Spokane, because perfect scores are common. When several practices show 5.0, the review count becomes the tiebreaker: a rating averaged across hundreds of reviews is a far stronger signal than the same number on a handful. It is also worth reading how Dental.me ranks practices so you know what each score is built from, and asking for a written, itemised estimate before you agree to a treatment plan; our guide to dental costs publishes no prices, but it lists what a quote depends on.

Beyond the city line

Spokane anchors a cluster of communities, and crossing a boundary can shorten your drive or widen your options. Spokane Valley to the east has its own substantial roster of practices; Liberty Lake sits farther out toward the Idaho line. To the west and southwest, Airway Heights, Medical Lake and the college town of Cheney are all within a routine commute, and Mead covers the north side. If your first-choice Spokane practice has a long new-patient wait, one of these is often the faster path to a chair.

The bottom line for Spokane: this is a deep, digitally visible dental market, top-heavy with highly rated practices. Start your search on the Spokane dentist directory, set your filters, and let the numbers narrow a crowded field down to the two or three practices worth a consultation.

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.