Last updated June 16, 2026.
dental.me lists dental practices and is honest about how much of each profile has been checked. This page explains our data sources and what each verification level does — and does not — mean. A profile is not an endorsement.
Profiles are built from: the federal NPPES provider registry and other provider records; public business data (e.g., Google/Maps) where available; practice websites where available; owner-submitted updates on claimed profiles; user corrections; and direct office confirmation when our staff actually completes it. Each profile indicates its sources and, where applicable, the date of last update or confirmation.
No level is a clinical endorsement, a quality guarantee, or confirmation that a practice performs a specific procedure. Specialty associations come from public taxonomy and business categories, not clinical verification. We do not use “Auto-Verified,” and we do not present automated cross-checking as if a human confirmed it with the office.
Accuracy is a process. Anyone can request a correction, and practice teams can claim a profile to keep it current. We review every request before changing public profile data; changes are never applied automatically. To understand how this feeds ranking, see how we rank and our advertising policy. For what our data covers statewide, see the Florida Dental Access Report.
No. Dental.me organizes practice profiles for comparison. Organic ranking uses Dental.me Score, while paid Featured placement is labeled separately and never changes organic rank.
It means core identity details such as name, address, phone, website, categories, ratings, and review signals are compared across structured provider records, business-profile data, practice websites, owner updates, corrections, and Dental.me review workflows.
Practice teams can claim a free profile, and anyone can submit a correction for review. Dental.me reviews profile claims and correction requests before changing public profile data.
Dental.me uses a layered data model so a dental profile can improve over time without losing its original identity. The backbone begins with structured provider, practice, and location records. Enrichment then adds business-profile signals such as website, rating, review count, hours, Google/Maps identifiers, categories, photos, and map links when available. Practice websites, owner submissions, VA reviews, corrections, and direct office confirmation can strengthen the profile further.
The source hierarchy protects higher-trust data. Owner-submitted and Dental.me-reviewed updates sit above VA confirmation, practice website evidence, business-profile enrichment, and baseline provider records. Lower-trust data should enrich missing fields, not overwrite stronger confirmed fields.
When two sources disagree, Dental.me does not simply publish the loudest result. The profile keeps a stable practice identity while the conflicting field moves into review. A verified owner update, a VA-confirmed phone call, or a practice website can carry more weight than older provider records. Business-profile enrichment is valuable for ratings, review count, hours, categories, maps, and website signals, but it should not erase stronger confirmed information.
Duplicates, moved offices, closed locations, changed phone numbers, and multi-location dental groups are handled as operational review items. Dental.me can keep the profile visible, attach a correction request, route the record to a VA queue, and update the public profile after review. That lets the directory stay broad while giving high-confidence fields the strongest public presentation.
Patients need fast comparison pages with real practice names, cities, addresses, phone numbers, websites, ratings, hours, categories, maps, and provider context. Dentists need a profile they can correct, strengthen, and promote without buying organic rank. Search engines and AI systems need consistent visible facts, schema that matches the page, canonical URLs, and clean internal links. The verification process exists to make all three audiences trust the same profile.
Dental.me does not need to overstate unsupported claims to be useful. Appointment availability, insurance participation, financing, languages, emergency availability, and treatment-specific services should come from supported website, owner, VA, or direct source evidence. That keeps the directory confident without drifting into made-up claims.