Dentists in University Place, WA: Local Guide

Quick answer: University Place, WA has 45 dental practices in the Dental.me directory. 26 are rated on Google, averaging 4.38★ across 3,596 reviews. Top by independent Dental.me Score: Bridgeport Dental Arts, Seok W. Nichols I, DDS, PS, Steven S. Broughton D.D.S. Dental of University Place PLLC. Compare them below and shortlist two or three near you to call.

University Place, Washington has 45 dental listings in the Dental.me directory, and 26 of them carry a Google rating, with 3,596 reviews between them. The plain average is 4.38 stars, or 4.75 weighted by reviews. Three ratings below 4.0 pull the plain average down, and each rests on one review (2.0, 1.0 and 1.0); the other 23 average 4.78. The other 19 listings show no rating, and Dental.me does not record why.

This guide reads each rating beside the review count behind it, shows what a rating line would remove from the 12 service lists, and shows which listings may be one office. Dental.me holds no review text, no review dates, no appointment-availability data and no insurance data, so it cannot say how recent a rating is or what reviewers wrote; the dates are on each office’s Google profile. To browse every listing now, the University Place dentist directory holds all 45.

University Place dentist ratings: what a 4.8 line removes

By listings the 26 ratings look spread out. By reviews they are not: the three below 4.0 hold three reviews between them out of 3,596, and the two between 4.0 and 4.49 hold 129 (4%).

14 of the 26 ratings are 4.8 or higher, and they hold 55% of the reviews. Seven sit between 4.5 and 4.79 and hold 42%, including the largest record and the fourth largest. Four of the 14 at the top rest on 10 reviews or fewer.

So a 4.8 line is not a neutral first step. It removes the two listings on the emergency list, leaves one of three on the endodontist list and two of six on the periodontist list, and gives up 45% of the reviews. A 4.8 line and a 100-review line together leave five listings, none of them on the emergency, endodontist or orthodontist list. A rating cannot say whether a removed listing is better or worse.

Website URLs, hours and shared addresses in University Place

A website URL is on file for 21 of the 45: 20 of the 26 rated listings and one unrated row, Washington Dental Laboratory, whose URL is a doh.wa.gov licensing address. That records what Dental.me holds, not whether an office has a site, and it says nothing about the care. All 45 have a phone number, and hours are on file for 22.

Those 3,596 reviews are not spread evenly. The six largest records hold 2,775 of them (77%), and the largest, Kongkiat Ratanatharathorn (4.5 on 883 reviews), holds about a quarter on its own. Eight of the 26 ratings rest on 100 reviews or more and eight on 10 or fewer. A 4.9 on 501 and a 5.0 on one review are both averages on very different samples, and neither establishes the quality of care.

Read the address and the phone. The 45 listings carry 34 distinct phone numbers. Five rows give 3838 Bridgeport Way W: Kongkiat Ratanatharathorn, Junkyung Lee, Dr. Hanbit Chi, Moro Byun and Albert Lim, all with an upsmilesdental.com URL, and together they hold 978 reviews (27%). The last four give one phone and the first gives another. Seok W. Nichols I, DDS, PS (4.9 on 501, second on the Score) and Triumph Dental (4.9 on 143, fifth) give one suite at 2607 Bridgeport Way W with different phones; with a Seok Whan Nichols row they hold 645 reviews (18%). Nobody has confirmed how these listings relate, and one street address can hold separate offices, so call before you count them as separate choices.

The three lowest ratings each share a phone or a street with another row. Seok Whan Nichols (1.0 on one review) gives Triumph Dental’s phone and suite. South Sound Dental Implant Centre (1.0 on one review) gives the phone and street of Randal Swanlund DDS (4.7 on 68). Larkin Dacia H DDS (2.0 on one review) gives the street number of an unrated Jay Hyuck Sung row, which has Kongkiat Ratanatharathorn’s phone. Those three ratings are the difference between the plain 4.38 and 4.78, and this guide does not establish that they are separate offices.

Others read the same way. Family Care Dentistry (4.6 on 65) and Kelly A Butler DDS (4.6 on 7) give one phone, street and URL. University Dental (5.0 on 4) and Dr. Hong H. Lu, DDS (5.0 on one review) give one phone. Five rows give 7120 40th St W. Steven S. Broughton’s row shares a phone with a Melanie Jenkins row at another address, and its street number with an Osborne Robert a DDS row.

A few rows need a question before anything else. Washington Dental Laboratory and University Park Dental Lab are counted among the 45, and their names read as dental labs; one row is named only Dentist. Some URLs do not settle who a row describes: Michael Martin’s has pitzenfamilydentistry.com, Steven S. Broughton’s has lightdentalstudios.com and Dr Rodney Alles Chartered PLLC’s has myidealdental.com. Nobody has confirmed how a listing relates to its URL, so ask the office who would treat you.

Top University Place dentists by Dental.me Score

These six hold the highest Dental.me Scores in our University Place directory. The Score is built mainly from a practice’s Google rating and the depth of reviews behind it, with a small lift for an office that verifies its listing.

• Bridgeport Dental Arts — 5.0★ on 475 reviews, the highest Score and the only 5.0 in the city on more than 28 reviews.
• Seok W. Nichols I, DDS, PS — 4.9★ on 501 reviews, the second-highest Score.
• Steven S. Broughton, D.D.S. — Dental of University Place — 4.9★ on 351 reviews, third.
• Little Sprouts Kids Dentistry — 4.9★ on 212 reviews, fourth, and on the pediatric dentist list.
• Triumph Dental — 4.9★ on 143 reviews, fifth.
• Michael Martin — 4.9★ on 92 reviews, sixth.

Five of the six hold a 4.9, and among those five the Score follows the review count. They are not the largest records, though: Kongkiat Ratanatharathorn (4.5 on 883, the largest, 16th in the Score order) out-reviews all six, and Dr Rodney Alles Chartered PLLC (4.7 on 353, ninth in the Score order) out-reviews four of them.

The six differ in what they list. Little Sprouts Kids Dentistry is on the pediatric dentist list only; Bridgeport Dental Arts is on the teeth whitening, cosmetic and pediatric lists; Michael Martin is on none of the 12 service lists. A place on a list shows what an office lists, not how often it does that work, so ask whether the office does your procedure itself.

Dental specialists in University Place: what the 12 service lists hold

The longest University Place lists are cosmetic dentists and teeth whitening, which hold the same 10 listings, then dental implants (7) and periodontists (6). All six on the periodontist list are also on the implant list. The chart shows all 12; the prosthodontist list is empty.

Browse the University Place cosmetic dentist, teeth whitening, dental implant, periodontist and pediatric dentist lists. The pediatric list holds 5 listings, dentures 4, endodontists 3, orthodontists and Invisalign the same 3, emergency dentists 2 and oral surgeons 1. A place on a list shows what an office lists, not how often it does that work, so ask whether the office does your procedure itself.

Read the short lists by name. Triumph Dental is the only row on the oral surgeon list. The emergency list is Kongkiat Ratanatharathorn and Dr Rodney Alles Chartered PLLC, and neither a name nor a place on it shows when an office can see you. The endodontist list is Dr Rodney Alles Chartered PLLC, JY Dental Group (5.0 on 28) and Loubna Pla DDS MSD PLLC, which is unrated with no URL on file. Dr Rodney Alles Chartered PLLC is on nine of the 12 lists and JY Dental Group on eight. Larkin Dacia H DDS, a 2.0 on one review, is on five, including pediatric and implants, so a place on a list says nothing about the sample behind a rating.

Fourteen of the 26 rated listings are on no list, and they hold 11% of the reviews. They include Michael Martin and Junkyung Lee, DMD, sixth and seventh on the Score. A list search will not show them, so read the directory as well.

Dentists near University Place

Nearby towns have their own Dental.me directories, which use the same rating and review data as this page.

Dental.me holds no drive-time data, so check the distance from where you live. It lists Tacoma with 260 practices (142 rated), Federal Way 134 (82 rated), Puyallup 105 (63 rated), Gig Harbor 68 (35 rated), Lakewood 66 (35 rated), DuPont 11 (7 rated), Fircrest 10 (6 rated), Ruston 3 (1 rated) and Steilacoom 1 (rated). The last four list fewer practices than University Place.

For a prosthodontist, where the University Place list is empty, Federal Way holds six, Tacoma five, and Puyallup, Gig Harbor and Lakewood one each; the other four hold none. For oral surgery, Tacoma holds 16, Puyallup six, Federal Way five, Gig Harbor four and Lakewood two. For endodontics, Tacoma holds 22, Puyallup 16, Federal Way eight, and Gig Harbor and Lakewood four each. For an emergency list longer than two rows, Tacoma holds 26, Puyallup 17, Federal Way 16, Gig Harbor eight and Lakewood seven.

Use the in-town lists as your baseline, and check a nearby directory for the services where University Place’s own lists are short.

How to choose a dentist in University Place

The highest star number alone can mislead here, and so can a rating line applied first. Start from the service instead:

Read the whole list for the service you need before any rating line. Then read each rating beside its count, and then the address and the phone, because several rows here may be one office. Last, call: Dental.me holds no fee or insurance data, so confirm pricing and insurance, and that the practice is accepting new patients, before you book. 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, itemized estimate.

The University Place dentist directory lists all 45 over three pages, with no sort control. It opens with four cards marked Featured, out of Score order, and after those it follows the Dental.me Score.

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.