Dental.me lists 19 dental practices in this East Baton Rouge Parish city, 14 of them with a Google rating, and those rated offices average 4.84 out of 5. This guide lists the practices with the highest Dental.me Score, the largest review counts and every specialty list in town.
The Zachary dental landscape at a glance
Zachary sits at the northern edge of East Baton Rouge Parish, along US Highway 61 and Louisiana Highway 19 north of Baton Rouge. Its dental options are concentrated at the top of the rating scale. Of the 19 practices on file, 14 have a Google rating, and together those offices hold 2,941 reviews. The largest count belongs to E Edward Hood Jr DDS – Zachary PLLC (600) and the second-largest to Zachary Dental Associates (4.8 on 540).
Most of the ratings sit near the top: 11 of the 14 rated practices score 4.8 or higher, one lands in the 4.5 to 4.79 range, two sit between 4.0 and 4.49, and none fall below 4.0. Four of the 11 at 4.8 or higher rest on 5 or fewer reviews, and the two at 4.4 rest on 7 each, so read each rating with its review count. Beyond that, your decision comes down to matching a specific practice to your family’s needs, your location, and the kind of care you want.
The 4.84 city average is an unweighted mean of the 14 ratings, so a practice with 2 reviews counts toward it as much as one with 600. The Zachary dentist directory lists every one of these practices with its current Dental.me Score, which weighs rating, review volume, and office confirmation, a score that is earned from those three inputs and never purchased.
The highest-scoring practices in Zachary
The table below lists the six Zachary practices with the highest Dental.me Score, shown by rating, with review count breaking ties. Zachary Dental Associates (4.8 on 540 reviews), which holds the second-largest review count in the city, sits seventh on the Score and is not in the table. Each name links to its full Dental.me profile, where you can see the office’s specialties and current score in detail. Read the two columns together: a rating averages what reviewers posted, and the review count tells you how many of them weighed in.
| Practice | Rating | Reviews | Profile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jason Simms | 5.0 | 409 | View profile |
| E Edward Hood Jr DDS – Zachary PLLC | 4.9 | 600 | View profile |
| Smile Studio: Family Dentistry and Orthodontics | 4.9 | 471 | View profile |
| E Edward Hood Jr DDS Zachary-Ridgeway LLC | 4.9 | 387 | View profile |
| Martin Morris | 4.9 | 237 | View profile |
| Dr. Lance E. Fallin, Apdc | 4.9 | 183 | View profile |
Jason Simms holds the only perfect 5.0 in the table, built on 409 reviews; Zachary’s four other 5.0 ratings rest on 5, 4, 2 and 2 reviews. But the two E Edward Hood Jr DDS locations, the Zachary PLLC office with 600 reviews and the Zachary-Ridgeway LLC office with 387, hold the largest and fifth-largest review counts in the city, 987 between them. Smile Studio, at 4.9 across 471 reviews, holds the third-largest count, and Martin Morris and Dr. Lance E. Fallin round out the table with 237 and 183 reviews. The chart puts those review totals side by side so you can see where the depth of local feedback actually sits.
How Zachary’s ratings stack up
A citywide average only tells you so much; the shape of the distribution tells you the rest. In Zachary, that shape is heavily top-loaded. Eleven of the 14 rated practices clear 4.8. The single practice in the 4.5 to 4.79 band is Jacob Zeiler (4.7 on 87 reviews); the two in the 4.0 to 4.49 band, Gregory Nassif and Parish Pediatric Dental Krewe, rest on 7 reviews each. No rated practice is under 4.0.
A rating does not prove clinical quality, and in Zachary it separates few offices, so weigh other factors too: whether a practice offers the specialty you need, whether it is close to home or your child’s school, and how easy it is to reach the office by phone or online before you commit to a first visit.
Website access and how to reach an office
Before you call, it helps to know how much information each office publishes online. Of the 19 practices in Zachary, 13 have a website URL on file, while six do not, meaning that for roughly a third of the market your first point of contact will likely be a phone call rather than an online form or booking page. That is worth planning around if you prefer to compare services, hours, or accepted insurance on a website before reaching out to a new dentist.
When a website is on file, use it to confirm the essentials in advance: which insurance plans are accepted, whether the office sees children, and what to expect at a first appointment. When there is no URL listed, the practice profile on Dental.me shows what we hold (five of the six offices without a URL also have no Google rating), and a phone call remains the direct route to booking. Either way, treat the online listing as a starting point and confirm the specifics with the office itself before your visit.
Specialty care available in and around Zachary
Zachary’s specialty lists mostly repeat the same group of practices. Across the city, teeth-whitening providers are the most common specialty listing at nine offices, followed by cosmetic dentistry at eight. Seven practices list dental implants, and seven are on the orthodontics list (the same seven as the Invisalign list). Five are on the pediatric list (one, Parish Pediatric Dental Krewe, has a pediatric name) and six on the emergency list; Dental.me holds no availability data. The periodontics and dentures lists hold the same five practices, the endodontics list holds 3, and the oral-surgery and prosthodontics lists hold none.
If you are weighing a specific treatment, start with the specialty page that fits. For cosmetic work, browse the Zachary cosmetic dentists to compare the offices that list it. For braces and aligners, the Zachary orthodontists page gathers the seven practices on that list in one place. And because urgent problems rarely happen at a convenient hour, it is worth knowing the Zachary emergency dentists before you ever need one.
Looking beyond Zachary’s city limits
Zachary is closely ringed by other communities in and around East Baton Rouge and the Feliciana parishes, and widening your search by a few miles can add options, particularly for a specialty that has fewer local providers or simply for an office closer to your daily route. Directly south, dentists in Baker sit between Zachary and Baton Rouge proper. To the northwest, dentists in St Francisville serve the West Feliciana area along the Mississippi River bluffs, and to the north, dentists in Jackson round out the East Feliciana options. Those three towns are small: Baker lists 7 practices (4 rated), St Francisville 7 (3) and Jackson 2 (1), 16 in all. Baton Rouge, to the south, lists 375 (193 rated).
Zachary’s own list is larger than any of those three towns’, so it makes sense to compare it first. But if you are relocating, changing insurance networks, or seeking a very specific procedure, treat these neighboring directories as a natural extension of your shortlist rather than a fallback, and let the ratings and review counts guide you the same way they do at home.
Why review volume matters as much as the score
In a city where 11 of the 14 rated offices score 4.8 or higher, the rating alone stops being a tiebreaker, and review count becomes the sharper tool. A 4.9 built on 600 reviews, like the Hood Zachary PLLC office, reflects a deep sample that is hard to reach by chance; a similar score built on a few dozen reviews is encouraging but rests on a thinner base. Neither is inherently better, but they answer different questions. If you want the comfort of a larger review sample, lean toward the practices with the deepest review histories at the top of the table. If you are drawn to an office with fewer reviews, read those reviews closely and weigh them against the specialty match.
Zachary’s 2,941 total reviews are concentrated: the seven largest counts hold 2,827 of them. When you compare two offices that both clear 4.8, let the volume, the specialty fit, and the drive time decide, rather than a tenth of a rating point. The Dental.me Score already folds review volume in alongside the rating, so a higher score reflects both the rating and a broader base of reviews; neither proves clinical quality.
How to choose your dentist in Zachary
With the data in hand, a sensible approach looks like this. Start from the table above and note two or three offices; Jason Simms, the Hood practices and Smile Studio all bring hundreds of reviews, as does Zachary Dental Associates (540). Next, match a practice to the care you actually need: if it is orthodontics or implants, confirm the office appears on the relevant specialty page rather than assuming a general dentist covers it. Then check whether a website URL is on file so you can review hours and insurance ahead of time, and keep the six offices without a listed URL on your radar, expecting to start with a phone call.
Finally, weigh location against everything else. In a city built along Highway 61 and Highway 19, a few minutes’ difference in drive time can matter more than a tenth of a rating point, especially for a family scheduling around the Zachary Community School District calendar. Use the full Zachary directory to see every practice, its Dental.me Score, and its specialties in one view, then make the call. Zachary’s 14 rated offices average 4.84, and none is below 4.0.
Frequently asked questions
How many dentists are in Zachary, LA?
Dental.me tracks 19 dental practices in Zachary, 14 of which currently have a Google rating. Those rated offices average 4.84 out of 5 across 2,941 total reviews, with 11 of them scoring 4.8 or higher.
Which Zachary dentist has the highest rating?
Jason Simms holds a perfect 5.0 rating from 409 reviews, the only 5.0 among the practices with more than 100 reviews; Zachary’s four other 5.0 ratings rest on 5, 4, 2 and 2 reviews. Five others hold 4.9, including both E Edward Hood Jr DDS locations, Smile Studio, Martin Morris, and Dr. Lance E. Fallin.
Which Zachary practice has the most reviews?
The E Edward Hood Jr DDS – Zachary PLLC office has the deepest review history in the city at 600, with Zachary Dental Associates second on 540 and Smile Studio third on 471. A larger count means the rating rests on more reviews.
What dental specialties are available in Zachary?
Nine offices list teeth whitening and eight list cosmetic dentistry. Seven list dental implants, and the same seven are on both the orthodontics and Invisalign lists. Five are on the pediatric list, six on the emergency list, and the same five on both the periodontics and dentures lists; none is on the oral-surgery list.
How many Zachary dental offices have a website?
Of the 19 practices in Zachary, 13 have a website URL on file and six do not. For those six, a phone call is usually the most direct way to reach the office; five of them also have no Google rating.
What cities near Zachary also have dentists listed?
Baker sits just south toward Baton Rouge, with St Francisville to the northwest and Jackson to the north; Greenwell Springs (2 practices, 1 rated) and Clinton (6, none rated) also have Dental.me lists.
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