Dentists in Woodmere, NY: Local Guide

Quick answer: Woodmere, NY has 45 dental practices in the Dental.me directory. 21 are rated on Google, averaging 4.57★ across 1,694 reviews. Top by independent Dental.me Score: Schiffman Oral Surgery, Julio Novello, Neil Berman. Compare them below and shortlist two or three near you to call.

Woodmere is a small place to be shopping for a dentist, and the numbers make that plain: 45 practices operate inside this Five Towns hamlet, but only 1,694 Google reviews exist across all of them combined. What Woodmere lacks in review count, though, it makes up for in a revealing pattern — when you sort every rated office by score, the market splits almost cleanly into two camps, with almost nothing in between. Understanding that split is the fastest route to a good chair here.

It helps to set expectations about scale first. A total of 1,694 reviews across 45 offices averages out to well under 40 per practice, and in reality it is far more lopsided than that — a few offices carry most of the feedback while roughly half the market has never accumulated enough ratings to appear on the public radar at all. That is not a sign of a weak dental community; Woodmere is a compact, residential hamlet, and a small market simply produces a smaller public record. It does mean, though, that you have to read the data a little more carefully than you would in a big city, because a single strong or weak review can move a small office’s average more than it should.

We track 45 dental practices across Woodmere and the surrounding Nassau County South Shore. Twenty-one of them carry enough public rating history to judge, and among those the picture is stark. Seventeen sit at 4.8 stars or higher. Then the market falls off a cliff: not a single practice lands in the 4.5–4.79 range, one sits in the 4.0–4.49 band, and three fall below 4.0. There is no comfortable middle to settle for. In Woodmere you are choosing between clearly excellent and clearly troubled — and the good news is that the excellent tier is deep.

The missing middle: how Woodmere’s ratings actually stack up

Picture a gentle bell curve — a big cluster of good-but-not-great offices with tails of excellence and trouble on either side. Woodmere’s ratings do not look like that. Its rated practices form a barbell. The chart below plots every rated office by star band, and the empty column in the center is the whole story: there is no 4.5-to-4.7 tier to compromise on. If a Woodmere practice has earned enough reviews to be judged at all, it has almost certainly landed in the top band.

What does that mean for you in practical terms? Two things. First, a high star rating alone will not distinguish the good offices from one another here — when 17 practices all sit at 4.8-plus, the tie-breaker becomes review depth, specialty fit, and how recent the feedback is. Second, the handful of low-scoring practices are genuine outliers, not just middling; in a market this polarized, a sub-4.0 score is a real signal worth heeding. Start your search from the Woodmere dentist directory, which lists every practice with its live rating so you can see which camp each falls into.

Reviews cluster around a few names

Woodmere’s review volume is not spread evenly — it pools around a small group of offices. The six most-reviewed practices account for roughly 90% of every review in the hamlet, and a single office, Schiffman Oral Surgery, holds 667 reviews on its own — nearly two of every five in the entire market, at a perfect 5.0. That concentration tells you where the community’s dental traffic actually flows.

Volume is not everything, but in a low-review market it is meaningful — a practice with hundreds of ratings is averaging hundreds of separate entries, and a 5.0 held across that many is rare on this list. Alongside Schiffman, Julio Novello carries 430 reviews at 5.0, and Neil Berman holds a 4.9 across 167. Families with children have a clear anchor in Dr. Denise Cohen’s pediatric practice (5.0, 137 reviews), and braces or aligner cases point toward Wieder Orthodontics (4.9). These are not our picks — they are simply where Woodmere patients have voted with their feedback.

What Woodmere is — and isn’t — equipped for

This is a general and cosmetic-leaning market rather than a specialty hub. Across the 45 practices we track a narrow band of services: six offices offer dental implants, five focus on cosmetic dentistry, and five provide teeth whitening. Notably, the market’s single most-reviewed office is an oral surgery practice — so while dedicated specialty listings are thin on the ground, the surgical and restorative side of the market is where its deepest reputation sits.

The thinness of the specialty roster carries a practical lesson: for a routine cleaning, a filling, a cosmetic consult, or an implant, Woodmere itself has strong options. For a rarer procedure — complex endodontics, periodontal surgery, or specialized pediatric sedation — you may find a broader menu a few minutes away in the neighboring Five Towns and South Shore communities, which share the same dentist pool.

There is a second implication worth naming. Because implants, cosmetic work, and whitening are the services with the most local supply, they are also the services where you can most easily comparison-shop within Woodmere — several practices offer each, so you can weigh two or three consultations without leaving the hamlet. Elective cosmetic and restorative treatment is exactly the kind of care where a second opinion pays off, both on the treatment plan and on the price, and Woodmere gives you enough choice to get one. For anything urgent, remember that our directory flags each office’s services and contact details so you are not calling blind when you are in pain.

How to choose in a market like this

When almost every worthwhile practice is clustered at the top of the rating scale, the usual advice — “pick the highest star rating” — stops being useful. Here is a sequence that works better for Woodmere specifically.

One quirk to keep in mind: only 16 of Woodmere’s 45 practices maintain a website, so an office having no website on file tells you little about the quality of care. Call directly, or use each practice’s profile in the Woodmere directory to check hours and contact details before you decide. 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 Woodmere

Woodmere shares the Five Towns and southwest Nassau dentist pool with several immediate neighbors, so widening your search by even a few blocks can multiply your options. It is worth comparing the directories for Cedarhurst, Lawrence, and Hewlett next door, along with Inwood, Rosedale, and Laurelton just over the Queens line. Many patients here cross those boundaries without a second thought, and the same barbell dynamic — a strong top tier worth seeking out — holds across the area.

Woodmere rewards a shopper who reads past the star rating. The excellent practices are highly rated and well-documented; the weak ones are clearly flagged; and the deep middle that muddies most markets simply is not here to slow you down. Begin with the full list on the Woodmere dentist directory, and you will have narrowed 45 practices to a shortlist in minutes.

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