Last reviewed July 8, 2026.
Dental.me is a national dentist directory that helps patients compare dental offices by city, specialty, contact details, provider information, ratings, review volume, profile details, and Dental.me Score. This page explains how organic ranking works and how paid Featured placements stay separate from the ranked list.
Dental.me orders the organic results on city and specialty pages with an independent Dental.me Score. The score cannot be bought. Paid visibility can appear in clearly labeled Featured placements above the organic list, but it does not change a practice’s Dental.me Score or organic rank.
Dental.me Score is a 0–100 organic comparison score built entirely from non-paid signals. In plain terms: your score is your Google star rating out of 100 — held back only until you have enough reviews to prove it, and unlocked to a perfect 100 once your practice is verified.
A score of 97 or higher is reserved for practices rated 4.9 or 5.0 on Google with the review depth to prove it, so top scores stay meaningful. A perfect 100 marks an excellent, well-reviewed practice that has also verified its information with Dental.me.
Dental.me helps patients compare the available practice information. The dental office handles appointment availability, insurance participation, clinical fit, and treatment-specific questions.
Some practices purchase Featured placement on a city or city-specialty page. Featured placements are labeled separately and sit above the organic ranking list. Buying Featured visibility does not change a practice’s Dental.me Score, does not change the organic order, and does not buy verification. See our Advertising Policy.
Dental.me organizes practice, provider, location, business-profile, website, owner-submitted, correction, and office-confirmation data. Higher-trust sources protect lower-trust fields from overwriting them. Owner-submitted and Dental.me-reviewed updates sit above VA confirmation, practice website evidence, business-profile enrichment, and baseline provider records.
If a profile needs to be updated, use the Suggest a correction link on the profile or visit data corrections. Practice teams can claim a free profile through For Dentists to update contact details, providers, hours, categories, photos, and patient FAQs. Corrections are reviewed before public changes are applied.
Dental.me may update this methodology as the directory grows, as source coverage improves, and as scoring signals become more robust. The core rule stays the same: organic rank is earned by profile signals, not purchased.
No. Organic ranking and Dental.me Score cannot be bought. Paid Featured placements are separate promotional spots and are labeled as Featured.
The public Dental.me Score has three inputs. The Google star rating sets the score, the Google review count caps how high a small sample can score, and Dental.me office confirmation adds up to a 3-point lift and is the only way to reach a perfect 100. Exact review count breaks ties in the private ordering rank. Profile completeness is not part of the score and only helps break close comparisons after it.
Review count is the size of the sample behind a rating, not a measure of clinical quality. Dental.me holds a score to a confidence ceiling until the practice has the review volume to support its rating, so a 5.0 built on a handful of reviews does not automatically outrank a 4.9 built on hundreds.
Yes. Featured placement creates paid visibility in a separate labeled section. The same practice can still appear in the organic list according to its Dental.me Score.
A practice team can claim a free profile through For Dentists and request updates to contact details, providers, hours, categories, photos, and patient FAQs. Anyone can submit a correction. Dental.me reviews profile claims and correction requests before public profile data changes.
Dental.me Score is a 0-100 organic comparison score used across city, state, and specialty directories. The model starts with the visible Google star rating and translates it directly into a rating component: 5.0 stars equals 100 for the rating component, 4.9 equals 98, 4.5 equals 90, and so on. That keeps the rating math easy to understand.
Review volume acts as a confidence cap. A practice needs enough reviews to support a higher public score, so a five-star office with one or two reviews does not outrank a deeply reviewed office with a nearly perfect rating.
The final public Dental.me Score uses star-rating strength constrained by review-count confidence caps, with exact review-count decimals used for tie-breaking. Dental.me verification can add up to a 3-point trust lift when office information has been reviewed, but it does not overpower rating quality or review volume. Unverified profiles cap at 99, while 100 is reserved for Dental.me Verified practices. Dental.me also keeps a private decimal rank score so two practices that both display 98 can still be ordered correctly when one has stronger review volume. Profile completeness can help break close comparisons after the score.
Organic order cannot be purchased. Paid Featured placements are separate promotional spots that sit above the organic list, carry Featured labeling, and do not change a practice’s Dental.me Score. This separation lets dentists buy visibility without damaging the trust patients need from the ranked directory.
A 99 should be rare and reserved for practices with exceptional rating strength, exceptional review-count strength, and high-confidence directory signals. A 100 is reserved for Dental.me Verified practices. That keeps the score meaningful instead of handing out perfect marks too casually.
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