Dentists in Temecula, CA: Local Guide

Quick answer: Temecula, CA has 180 dental practices in the Dental.me directory. 96 are rated on Google, averaging 4.70★ across 23,461 reviews. Top by independent Dental.me Score: Ethos Advanced Dental Care, Jonathan Rucker, K PAT BROWN DDS INC. Compare them below and shortlist two or three near you to call.

Dental.me records 180 dental practices under Temecula, CA — grouped by the city and state stored on each record, not by a municipal boundary this directory does not hold — and 96 of them carry a Google star rating. Those 96 stored ratings average 4.70, and 66 of them — about seven in ten — sit at 4.8 or higher, with 30 at exactly 5.0. Thirteen of those 66 ratings rest on ten or fewer reviews. That is the shape of the problem here: the list is long, most of the rated part of it is bunched at the top of the scale, and the star figure alone will not narrow it for you.

180 listings is a lot to work through, and the directory records the count without recording a reason for it. What it does record for each practice is a name, an address and a phone number, a website URL where one is on file, a set of opening hours for 96 of them, and a Google rating with its review count wherever this directory holds one. Those fields are what this page is built from.

Just over half the listings carry a stored rating

Before comparing offices, be precise about the split: 96 of the 180 practices have a Google rating stored and 84 do not, and a website URL is on file for 91. An empty field is a gap in this record, not a mark against a practice, and it does not establish that no website or no other information exists. A shortlist drawn only from the rated 96 therefore covers just over half the listings. Our full Temecula directory carries every practice on record, rated or not, and a phone number is stored for all 180.

The distribution matters more than the mean. With 66 of the 96 rated practices at 4.8 or above, 12 between 4.5 and 4.79, 12 between 4.0 and 4.49 and 6 below 4.0, a rating of 4.2 is higher than only eight of the 96, even though it would look unremarkable in the abstract. Three of the six ratings below 4.0 rest on six or fewer reviews, so they say little on their own. It also means the star number will not separate your finalists: once a shortlist is all at 4.8-plus, what still varies is the review count behind each average, which category pages a practice appears on, and the practical details — appointment openings, insurance, price — that this directory does not record for any Temecula practice.

The 23,461 reviews spread across those 96 rated listings work out to roughly 244 each, and 53 of the 96 carry at least 100. An average built on 20 or 30 reviews moves noticeably with every new one; an average built on hundreds barely moves. That is measurement precision rather than a ranking of the dentistry, and a Google average does not tell you what your own visit will be like. Dental.me stores the rating and the count but not the review text, so reading what people actually wrote — the themes, the repeated complaints, the specific names — happens on Google itself.

The six largest stored review counts

Review volume is concentrated. The six practices below hold 7,335 Google reviews between them, about 31% of every review recorded in the city, across six of 180 listings. They appear here because their averages rest on the largest samples on this page, not because of anything they paid for:

• F Davis Perry DDS Inc — 4.9 stars across 1,542 reviews, the largest review count stored for any Temecula practice.
• Ethos Advanced Dental Care — a stored 5.0 over 1,534 reviews, the second-largest count, and the practice that currently leads the Dental.me Score list.
• Jonathan Rucker — 5.0 stars over 1,487 reviews.
• Anthem Dental – Temecula — 4.9 stars across 1,332 reviews.
• Emmanuel Angeles, D.D.S., Inc. — 4.9 stars across 741 reviews.
• K Pat Brown DDS Inc. — 5.0 stars over 699 reviews.

Three of those six hold a stored 5.0 — and so do 30 Temecula practices in total, 12 of them on ten or fewer reviews, which is why the count beside the star does more work than the star. Each of these six averages rests on 699 reviews or more rather than a dozen, so each is measured tightly. That is all the comparison the data supports: it is not a claim about which office is better, and the stored count is a count of Google reviews rather than of patients.

What each Temecula category page lists

Each category page publishes how many Temecula practices it lists. The longest are the cosmetic ones: teeth whitening and cosmetic dentistry list 52 practices each, with dental implants at 49. Orthodontics lists 35 and periodontics 29. Appearing on one of those pages means a practice is associated with that category in this directory — not that it performs, schedules or prices the treatment.

There is a practical consequence in those lengths. Whitening and cosmetic dentistry are the two lists that run to 52 names, with implants at 49 and orthodontics at 35, so for that work there are many offices to ring and it is worth booking two or three consultations and asking each what it can show you of its own past work. Where a list runs to 7, as dentures does, or around 20, as oral surgery and endodontics do, the shortlist is short and the calls are worth starting early. The length of a list says how many names that page carries and nothing about capacity, waiting times or quality.

So check the short lists first if they apply to you: 21 practices are listed under oral surgery, 18 under endodontics and 7 under dentures. Separately, 31 practices appear on the emergency dental care page — worth bookmarking, though Dental.me stores opening hours for 96 of the city’s 180 practices and none for the other 84, and it stores no after-hours coverage and no current availability for any of them, so those are phone questions to settle before you need them rather than facts this page can give you.

How to work through 180 listings

With a list this long, work the stored fields in a fixed order. Open the category page for the procedure you need first, because a 5.0 general practice is beside the point if your case needs a periodontist. Then read each rating together with the count underneath it, since a 4.9 over 700 reviews is a much larger sample than a 5.0 over twelve. Note whether a website URL is stored — it is for 91 of the 180 — and then call, because insurance, appointment openings and price are recorded here for no practice, and a provider name stored on a profile does not tell you who would treat you on the day.

Temecula sits among neighbouring communities that each publish their own count: Murrieta lists 112 practices, Wildomar 12 and Menifee 37, while Fallbrook lists 33, Sun City 16 and Canyon Lake 8. If a Temecula category list is short for what you need, those are the next pages to open. Dental.me stores no distances or drive times, so how far each one is from you is a question for a map.

One last note on cost. A rating and a review count say nothing about price, and Dental.me stores no prices or plan participation for any practice. Before you agree to a crown, an implant or a course of orthodontics, read our national guide to dental costs so you know what typical figures look like, then go back to the Temecula directory and line up two or three offices to call.

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