Dental.me builds verified dental contact data by structured cross-checking, so patients reach the right office and practices control accurate details across 249,344 profiles nationwide.
Dental.me turns scattered dental office data into structured profile fields, review queues, correction workflows, and claim paths for practice teams.
Dental.me builds one profile per dental office by structured cross-checking of multiple sources: the federal NPPES provider registry and other provider records, business-profile data, practice websites, owner-submitted updates, correction requests, and Dental.me review workflows. Verification improves contact and profile accuracy; practice teams can claim or correct any profile. Paid Featured placement is labeled and never changes the organic Dental.me Score.
Learn more: Verification Methodology · For dentists — claim your profile
Download the verified contact data summary (CSV)
It means core contact details (name, address, phone, website) were cross-checked across multiple sources — provider records, business-profile data, practice websites, owner updates, correction requests, and Dental.me review workflows.
A practice team can claim its free profile or submit a correction; both are reviewed before any public change.
Dental.me market data is built for practical comparison, not empty vanity metrics. Each report connects statewide and city-level coverage back to real directory pages, practice profiles, specialty paths, ranking methodology, and profile-improvement workflows. Patients can use the data to understand where dental options are concentrated. Practice teams can use it to see how their market is represented. Search engines and AI answer systems can use the visible facts, schema, and internal links to understand how Dental.me organizes dental offices across the United States.
The directory keeps the backbone broad while the profile data becomes richer over time. A practice can begin with structured identity and location data, then gain stronger signals such as website, phone, rating, review count, hours, categories, Google/Maps identifiers, provider names, photos, owner-submitted details, correction history, and Dental.me review activity. That lets Dental.me show the full market while making enriched profiles easier to compare. Stronger data improves comparison quality; baseline profiles remain discoverable and can be improved by the office team or VA workflow.
For ranking, Dental.me separates organic comparison from paid visibility. Organic lists use Dental.me Score and related quality signals. Featured placements are clearly labeled and sit apart from the organic order. That structure protects patient trust while still giving dentists a premium visibility product. A practice can buy Featured placement, but it cannot buy a higher organic Dental.me Score.
For data quality, Dental.me treats source hierarchy seriously. Owner-confirmed data, VA-confirmed data, practice website evidence, business-profile enrichment, provider records, and correction submissions do not all carry the same weight. When sources disagree, Dental.me can keep the practice profile visible while routing the conflict into review. That is how a national directory can move quickly without deleting offices simply because one vendor did not return them.
For local SEO and AI citation, the most valuable pages are not isolated reports. The value comes from the graph: state hubs link to city pages, city pages link to practice profiles and supported specialty pages, specialty pages link back to parent cities and related specialties, and data studies link back to the methodology, ranking, advertising, correction, and dentist-claim pages. The result is a crawlable system where each page explains its role and passes authority to the pages patients actually use.
These reports describe Dental.me directory coverage. Counts can change as new enrichment runs finish, practice teams submit updates, VAs review conflicts, closed or moved offices are corrected, and Google/Maps or other business-profile data is cross-referenced. The public pages are designed to update with the database, so the same facts can support patients, dentists, internal QA, Search Console work, and future state-by-state expansion.
A high practice count tells you Dental.me has broad local coverage. A high website count tells you more offices have direct booking or research paths. A high rating and review count tells you patients can compare stronger public reputation signals. A high specialty count tells you the local graph has enough category context to support more detailed city and specialty pages. None of those numbers alone is the whole story; together they show whether a market is ready for stronger public indexing, deeper local guide content, more specialty pages, and dentist outreach.
For a patient, the best use of this data is to move from the market report into a city directory, then compare individual profiles. For a practice team, the best use is to find the profile, review the visible facts, and claim or correct anything that should be stronger. For Dental.me operations, the best use is prioritization: markets with many profiles but weak websites, missing hours, missing ratings, or unresolved duplicates become VA queues and enrichment targets.
Every state can follow the same operating model: maintain the full provider-and-practice backbone, enrich business-profile fields where available, preserve raw vendor data, create candidate records for Google-only or business-only offices, keep unmatched backbone offices visible, rank stronger profiles higher, and activate sitemaps only for pages that meet Dental.me quality rules. This lets Dental.me scale quickly without pretending vendor data is perfect or discarding real offices simply because a single source missed them.
The long-term advantage is compounding structure. A state hub strengthens its city pages; city pages strengthen practice profiles; practice profiles strengthen nearby alternatives and specialty paths; guides and data studies strengthen the topical authority around those cities and specialties. That is how Dental.me moves from a raw directory into a durable dental search and citation asset.
Each market report points to concrete work: keep the state and city URLs canonical, preserve the full practice backbone, enrich offices with business-profile data, attach provider names and specialties, keep unsupported claims out of schema, label Featured placements, keep organic ranking independent, create VA queues for conflicts, and use Search Console data to decide which city and specialty pages deserve the next content pass. That operating checklist turns a static report into a management page for the directory.
When a state expands, the same checklist should be repeated. First, verify that all cities resolve. Second, confirm that practice profiles render with safe baseline facts. Third, enrich offices with websites, ratings, reviews, hours, categories, maps, and photos when available. Fourth, build strong city pages using actual counts and internal links. Fifth, publish only supported specialty pages. Sixth, submit clean sitemaps for indexable URLs. Seventh, audit schema, internal links, and visible content after deployment.
Explore: Florida directory · Texas directory · How we rank · Verification methodology · Advertising policy · For dentists