Dentists in Whittier, CA: Local Guide

Quick answer: Whittier, CA has 144 dental practices in the Dental.me directory. 99 are rated on Google, averaging 4.62★ across 10,531 reviews. Top by independent Dental.me Score: Little Kids Dentistry SF, MRUGESH V. DALAL DDS,INC., JIMMY C.S. WANG DDS, INC. Compare them below and shortlist two or three near you to call.

Whittier’s stored Google ratings lean high, and many rest on very few reviews. Of the 99 Whittier practices with a Google rating on Dental.me, the mean is 4.62 out of 5 and 63 of them (64%) carry 4.8 or higher; 49 of those hold exactly 5.0, and 25 of the 49 rest on ten or fewer reviews. That is a description of what Google reviewers chose to post. It is not a measure of clinical quality, and it does not say why any single office is rated the way it is.

This guide uses only what the directory stores and what its Whittier dental directory publishes: the practice count, Google star ratings, Google review counts, the address and phone number held for every practice, whether a website and a set of opening hours are on file, and how many practices each service page lists. Prices, insurance networks, wait times, appointment availability and treatment outcomes are not recorded here, so this page treats every one of them as a question to put to the office rather than a fact to assert.

The Whittier record in one look

Of the 144 practices Dental.me groups under Whittier, CA — grouped by the city and state stored on each record, not by a municipal boundary or neighbourhood this directory does not hold — 99 carry a public Google rating, and those rated offices account for 10,531 Google reviews between them, about 106 per rated practice; 27 of the 99 carry 100 or more. Dental.me stores a website URL for 74 of the 144 (71 of the rated practices and 3 of the unrated ones), opening hours for 89, and an address and phone number for all 144 — so a phone number is the one field on file for every practice on the list, and whether a given one still reaches the office is something the call settles.

Read the missing fields precisely, because they are easy to over-read. 45 of the 144 practices carry no Google rating on Dental.me, and the directory holds no website URL for 70. It records no reason for either gap. A blank field is a gap in this database — not evidence that an office is offline, new, weak or hard to reach — and those practices still carry an address, a phone number and their service listings.

How the ratings spread

Here is the distribution behind the 4.62 average: 63 practices at 4.8 or higher, 49 of them at exactly 5.0; 15 between 4.5 and 4.79; 10 between 4.0 and 4.49; and 11 below 4.0.

Many of the ratings at both ends rest on very little. Of the 49 Whittier listings holding a stored 5.0, 25 rest on ten or fewer reviews, seven of them on a single review, and 7 of the 11 ratings below 4.0 rest on seven or fewer. A handful of new reviews can move any of those a long way, so a low rating on two reviews is thin evidence against an office, just as a 5.0 on one is thin evidence for one. The other four sub-4.0 ratings rest on 22, 33, 69 and 86 reviews; the directory stores the average and the count, not what the reviews say, so read those reviews on Google before drawing a conclusion. Dental.me does not store review dates either, so check there how recent they are.

The field that keeps varying after the star sort is the review count behind each rating. A 5.0 held across 1,028 reviews rests on a far larger sample than a 5.0 held across one. That is a statement about how precisely the average is measured and nothing else: a bigger sample does not make one practice better than another, a review count does not say how long an office has been open, and Google reviewers are not a verified patient list.

The largest Google review samples in Whittier

The largest review count stored for any Whittier practice is 1,028, at Little Kids Dentistry SF (5.0), just under 10% of the 10,531 reviews recorded across the city’s rated practices; it also holds the highest Dental.me Score and appears on the pediatric dentistry page. M ABRAMOVICI & S NOURIAN D.D.S. INC. is next at 974 (4.7) and sits 31st by Score, then MRUGESH V. DALAL DDS,INC. at 647 (4.9), #2 by Score. The rest of the table and the two practices that follow it:

• JIMMY C.S. WANG DDS, INC — 5.0 across 500 reviews, third by Score.
• John Sudick (5.0, 400 reviews) and THEODORE A TANABE DDS A PROFESSIONAL CORPORATION (5.0, 355 reviews) — fourth and fifth on the same Score, placed in review-count order.
• Stephen Flanders (5.0, 236 reviews) and Diane Conly (5.0, 221) — sixth and seventh, sharing a Score just below the table.

Read each pair together: the star figure is a third-party average and the review count is the sample it rests on. Neither field records what treatment an office provides or how it treats patients, and a review count is not a measure of how busy a practice is. For how rating and review depth combine into one Score, see how Dental.me ranks practices.

What the service pages list

Each Dental.me service page publishes how many Whittier practice profiles it covers, and that published number is the only service count this guide uses. The three longest are teeth whitening (41 practices), cosmetic dentistry (40) and dental implants (39). Orthodontics lists 34, the same 34 the Invisalign page lists.

The other lists are shorter: 26 practices under periodontics, 23 under pediatric dentistry, 18 under oral surgery and 13 under endodontics; dentures lists 10 and prosthodontics 3. Another 18 appear on the emergency dentists list. Dental.me stores opening hours for 89 of the 144 practices in the city and none for the other 55, and it stores no same-day capacity and no current availability for any of them — so that list is a set of numbers to call, and the answer about tonight comes from the office.

Those counts describe how the directory’s service pages are populated and nothing further. A service-page listing is not a specialist credential: the 26 on the periodontics page are practices listed for gum care, not 26 periodontists, and a listing is not a board certification. None of the numbers measures how often a practice performs a procedure, how experienced its dentists are, what it charges, or whether it is taking new patients this week. Ask the office to confirm the procedure before you treat a listing as settled.

A method for choosing here

A star sort alone hides the sample behind each rating, so a sequence of questions works better than a sort.

Start from the service page for the procedure you actually need — an implant, a root canal, a child’s check-up and a clear-aligner course each sit on a different Whittier list. Read every star rating together with the review count under it. Browse the full Whittier directory rather than only the practices with a website on file, since 70 of the 144 have none stored here and still carry a phone number. Then call: insurance, who would treat you, whether the office takes new patients and what the procedure costs are stored for none of the 144, and a stored set of opening hours is a record of usual opening times rather than of this week’s appointments. 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.

Neighbouring directories

The city line is not the edge of your options, and each neighbouring directory publishes its own count: La Habra lists 81 practices, Norwalk 74, Hacienda Heights 62, Pico Rivera 45, La Mirada 40 and Santa Fe Springs 10. If a Whittier list is short for what you need — endodontics lists 13 — those are the next pages to open. Dental.me stores no travel times, so how far any of them is from you is a question for a map.

When you are ready, the complete Whittier dentist directory lists all 144 practices with the rating, review count and service listings recorded for each.

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.