Winston-Salem, NC Dentists

Finding a dentist in Winston-Salem starts with one unusually concentrated dental corridor

Quick answer: Dental.me currently has 180 indexable dental profiles in Winston-Salem, and 100 of them are in ZIP 27103. That western and southwest concentration is the city's broadest comparison pool, but it should not be mistaken for 100 independent practices or a quality ranking. The other 80 profiles are distributed across seven ZIP groups with different review depth, public-data completeness, travel patterns, and access options. Begin with the part of the city that works for repeat visits, then verify the exact office or clinician, requested service, North Carolina license, current payer participation, language or accessibility needs, and written treatment estimate.

ZIP 27103 contains 56% of Winston-Salem's current profile evidence

ZIP 27103 contains 100 of the city's 180 indexable profiles. Forty-nine are rated, averaging 4.63 stars across 10,445 reviews. Forty-seven publish a website, 48 publish hours, 74 contain a Google or Maps identity, and 19 have a Dental.me Score of 96 or higher. Addresses span Silas Creek Parkway, Maplewood Avenue, Westbrook Plaza, Lyndhurst Avenue, Healy Drive, Westgate Center, Hawthorne Road, and nearby medical-office corridors.

This concentration makes 27103 a useful starting pool for patients traveling from western, southwest, or medical-center areas. It does not mean the ZIP contains 100 separate operating offices, 100 licensed dentists, or more appointment capacity than every other part of the city. Dental.me profiles can represent organizations, individual professionals, facilities, or related records. The address and entity must be resolved before a rating, specialty, or service claim is carried from one record to another.

Shared buildings are especially important here. Six profiles normalize to 201 Charlois Boulevard, four to 1551 Westbrook Plaza Drive #201, three to #203 in the same complex, and three to 275 Executive Park Boulevard #602. Those clusters may represent distinct clinicians, suites, related organizations, historical records, or records requiring reconciliation. Match the business or clinician name, suite, phone, website, and map identity before booking.

Northwest and west Winston-Salem have smaller but review-rich pools

ZIP 27106 contains 26 profiles. Fourteen are rated at an average of 4.71 stars across 3,505 reviews; 13 publish websites, 12 publish hours, 16 contain a Google or Maps identity, and five have a Score of 96 or higher. Addresses include Briarcliffe Road, Robinhood Road and Robinhood Village, University Parkway, Coliseum Drive, Polo Road, and Whitaker Road.

ZIP 27104 has 19 profiles, 13 of them rated at an average of 4.56 stars across 5,675 reviews. Eleven publish websites, 10 publish hours, 17 have a Google or Maps identity, and five have a Score of 96 or higher. Its review total is unusually large relative to its profile count because a few heavily reviewed records contribute a substantial share. Four records normalize to 4550 Country Club Road, while other addresses run along Country Club Road, Peace Haven Road, Southpark Boulevard, and Piccadilly Drive.

A higher ZIP-level average or review total cannot decide which clinician is appropriate. It does not measure credentials, clinical outcomes, payer participation, new-patient access, language support, or whether a requested procedure is currently offered. Keep every star value attached to its exact entity, address, and review count.

Central, east, south, and medical-campus ZIPs are much thinner evidence groups

The remaining 35 profiles are spread across five ZIPs. ZIP 27101 has eight profiles, four rated at 4.13 across 651 reviews. ZIP 27127 also has eight, three rated at 3.87 across 623 reviews. ZIP 27105 has seven profiles, four rated at 4.20 across 2,816 reviews. ZIP 27157 has seven profiles but no rated records, and ZIP 27107 has five profiles, two rated at 4.10 across 61 reviews.

These smaller groups require more direct verification because a single highly reviewed entity can dominate an average and several profiles provide limited comparison evidence. ZIP 27157, for example, has only one website, no published hours, and two Google identities among seven profiles. That pattern does not prove that its clinicians are inactive or provide poor care. It means Dental.me does not yet have enough evidence for a confident directory-only comparison.

Mailing ZIPs are used here as orientation aids. They are not neighborhoods, city boundaries, official planning areas, or measures of dental need. Winston-Salem's area-planning system separately identifies Downtown, East-Northeast, North Central, Northwest, South Central, Southeast, and Southwest planning areas. A postal group may cross how residents actually describe or travel through the city, so compare the street location and trip rather than relying on the ZIP label alone.

Six live-checked profiles illustrate different parts of the city

Rafael Rivera, Jr., DDS, PLLC is listed at 2041 Silas Creek Parkway in 27103 with 4.6 stars from 1,190 Google reviews and a Dental.me Score of 92. Drs. Robert Kulp and Sharon Reid is listed at 4303 Country Club Road in 27104 with 4.8 stars from 1,637 reviews and a Score of 96.

Alterman & Dhillon Piedmont, PPLC is listed at 336 East Hanes Mill Road in 27105 with 4.5 stars from 1,307 reviews and a Score of 90. Twin Oaks Dentistry is listed at 2905 Briarcliffe Road in 27106 with 4.9 stars from 935 reviews and a Score of 98.

David Woods is listed at 1063 West Northwest Boulevard in 27101 with 4.8 stars from 457 reviews and a Score of 96. Yen T Nguyen DMD PLLC is listed at 2375 Brewer Road in 27127 with 4.4 stars from 381 reviews and a Score of 88.

These are geographically varied public-evidence examples, not endorsements, clinical recommendations, or a ranking of Winston-Salem's best dentists. Their names, addresses, ratings, review counts, scores, canonical pages, and indexable status were checked against Dental.me's production data and live pages on October 13, 2026. Five other Winston-Salem entities were deliberately excluded because they belong to separate indexing controls or prior controlled repairs. Confirm the current treating professional, service, credential, insurance, hours, accessibility, and new-patient status directly.

Half the city's profiles are unrated, which means unknown rather than poor

Eighty-nine of Winston-Salem's 180 indexable profiles have a published rating. Their average is 4.56 stars across 23,776 reviews. Forty-one profiles fall from 4.9 to 5.0 and account for 13,379 reviews. Twenty-two are rated from 4.5 to 4.8 with 7,504 reviews. Twenty-six fall below 4.5 and account for 2,893 reviews. The other 91 profiles are unrated.

An unrated profile may be an individual clinician record, an organization, a hospital or medical-campus entity, a recently created listing, or a record whose identity needs work. It is not evidence of poor clinical care. Likewise, a high rating does not establish an active license, successful outcome, appointment availability, or fit for a complex diagnosis. Compare the number of reviews, recency on the source platform, exact location, and entity identity before using ratings as one input.

Eighty-seven profiles publish a website, 83 publish hours, 128 contain a Google or Maps identity, 43 connect to at least one named-provider record, and 31 have a Score of 96 or higher. Those are public-data completeness signals, not proof that a provider is active, retired, sold, accepting patients, in network, or available for a particular procedure. A missing website or rating should trigger verification, not automatic removal.

Specialty pages are overlapping candidate sets, not local workforce counts

Strong-source relationships connect 128 Winston-Salem profiles to general dentistry, 33 to cosmetic dentistry, 33 to dental implants, 26 to pediatric dentistry, and 24 to emergency dentistry. Other supported sets include 22 profiles connected to periodontics, 19 to teeth whitening, 18 to endodontics, 17 to orthodontics, 11 to dentures, and five each to oral surgery and prosthodontics.

Weak name-only, inference, import, and baseline relationships were excluded from those figures. A profile can appear in several categories, so the counts cannot be added into a dentist total. They are candidate relationships supported by stronger source types, not licensed-specialist headcounts, procedure volumes, full-time-equivalent workforce, appointment inventory, or guarantees that a service is currently available.

For implants, orthodontics, root-canal care, periodontal treatment, dentures, pediatric care, or oral surgery, ask who diagnoses, who performs each stage, what license or specialty credential applies, where imaging and treatment occur, whether an outside laboratory or referral is involved, and who handles complications and maintenance. The North Carolina State Board of Dental Examiners' public verification portal is the primary-source place to check an individual license. The Board says its search is not a referral or endorsement.

Current search demand favors named entities, implants, family care, and whitening

The settled 90-day Search Analytics extract contains 55 impressions across 35 query-page rows in the Winston-Salem URL family. The observed queries include named dentists and practices, dental implants in Winston-Salem, family-dentist variants, and teeth-whitening searches. The city hub itself had no query-page row in that extract.

This demand mix explains why a useful city page must do more than repeat a ranked list. It should help a patient resolve names and shared buildings, understand where the evidence is concentrated, and reach service pages whose relationships have stronger support. Search demand is not proof that every linked profile offers the queried service now, and it should not be used to attach implants, whitening, or another procedure to a profile without exact evidence.

Winston-Salem's population context makes cost and language access material comparison questions

U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts estimates Winston-Salem's July 1, 2025 population at 257,271 across 132.68 square miles. It reports that 19.5% of people age five or older speak a language other than English at home, 11.2% of residents are foreign-born, 17.7% live in poverty, and 13.0% of people under age 65 lack health insurance.

Those measures do not identify any individual's language, dental coverage, eligibility, oral-health need, or ability to pay. The health-insurance figure is not a dental-insurance rate. They do show why interpretation, accessible consent, payer verification, written costs, payment options, and safety-net access belong in a Winston-Salem comparison. Ask whether qualified interpretation is available for diagnosis, consent, postoperative instructions, and billing, not only whether someone at the front desk speaks a language.

Do not divide the resident population by 180 profiles to claim a dentist-to-resident ratio or shortage. Profiles can represent organizations, clinicians, facilities, and overlapping entities. A defensible workforce ratio would require a deduplicated active-license roster, current practice location, clinical full-time-equivalent data, and a defined service area. This research found no exact current official dental-shortage designation that should be asserted for the entire city.

Cleveland Avenue Dental Center offers a separate public-access pathway

Forsyth County's Cleveland Avenue Dental Center is at 501 North Cleveland Avenue, Suite 1, in 27101. The county states that it serves children and adults, accepts NC Medicaid and Ameritas, offers self-pay, and uses an income-based sliding fee for eligible patients. Its published services include exams and X-rays, cleanings, debridement, scaling and root planing, sealants, fluoride, fillings, crowns, partial and complete dentures, extractions, root canals, and nitrous oxide.

That public-clinic information is not a guarantee of eligibility, coverage, a new-patient appointment, a same-day procedure, or the suitability of a treatment. Contact the center for current hours, required documents, age or residency rules, payer participation, referral requirements, emergency policy, and scheduling. Forsyth County also publishes a preventive dental program that performs non-clinical oral-health assessment, education, and referral for children and adults who influence children's health; it is not a substitute for a clinical examination.

Transportation should be checked for the complete treatment series

Winston-Salem Transit Authority operates fixed-route bus service and paratransit, with the Clark Campbell Transportation Center at 100 West Fifth Street in 27101. The city also points to Piedmont Authority for Regional Transportation connections serving the wider Triad, including High Point and Greensboro. Those systems can expand a patient's search, but a route map or nearby corridor does not establish office-level accessibility.

Check the current route, stop, transfer, walking segment, return schedule, mobility needs, and appointment time for the exact address. For sedation, surgery, or treatment likely to limit driving, confirm escort and transportation requirements with the office in advance. For orthodontics, implants, dentures, periodontal therapy, or any multi-visit plan, compare every expected trip rather than only the initial consultation.

Nearby cities can widen the search without treating mileage as travel time

Clemmons has 18 profiles and is about six miles from Winston-Salem's stored city point. Lewisville has four profiles about seven miles away, Kernersville has 29 about 12 miles away, High Point has 78 about 18 miles away, and Lexington has 33 about 18 miles away.

These are rounded straight-line distances between stored city points, not driving or transit times. Clemmons may widen a southwest or 27103 search, Lewisville a northwest search, Kernersville an eastern search, and High Point or Lexington a regional procedure-specific search. Congestion, work or school location, parking, transfers, and visit frequency may make a farther office more practical than a closer one.

A Winston-Salem-specific comparison sequence

1. Choose the workable corridor. Decide whether repeated visits fit 27103, the northwest 27106 area, Country Club and Peace Haven in 27104, central or east Winston-Salem, or a nearby city.
2. Define the care request. Preventive care, urgent pain, pediatric care, orthodontics, implants, periodontal therapy, root-canal care, dentures, and surgery require different evidence.
3. Resolve the entity. Match the organization or clinician, street, suite, phone, website, and map identity before attaching reviews or services.
4. Verify the professional. Use the North Carolina Board's public license search for the individual expected to diagnose or treat, and ask who performs each stage.
5. Keep ratings in context. Compare exact review counts and locations; treat 91 unrated profiles as unknown and shared-address clusters as identity questions.
6. Confirm access. Check language support, physical accessibility, insurance or Medicaid participation, authorizations, hours, emergency coverage, and new-patient capacity.
7. Compare written plans. Review diagnosis, alternatives, procedure codes, treating providers, imaging, anesthesia and laboratory charges, timeline, maintenance, and expected patient balance.

Research notes: Dental.me profile, ZIP, rating, review, completeness, address-cluster, specialty, nearby-city, Search Analytics, and named-profile facts were checked October 13, 2026. Population and household context comes from U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts. Planning geography comes from Winston-Salem's Forward 2045 plan and area-planning program. Public dental access comes from Forsyth County's Cleveland Avenue Dental Center and preventive dental program. Transit details come from Winston-Salem Transit Authority. License verification comes from the North Carolina State Board of Dental Examiners. See Dental.me's verification methodology for sourcing and corrections.