What is the average Google rating for a dentist?

Across 63 dental practices and 11,196 Google reviews in ProsperQR's data, the average rating is 4.9 stars and 95% of all reviews are 5-star. Dentists earn among the highest ratings of any local business.

How many Google reviews does a dental practice get per month?

The median dental practice in ProsperQR's data collects about 2 new Google reviews a month, and the busiest 10% collect 9 a month.

Do dentists reply to their Google reviews?

Not often. Dentists reply to only about 36% of their reviews — well below the 66% reply rate across the broader medical and health segment. Roughly two of every three dental reviews get no owner response.

How Many Google Reviews Does a Dentist Need? (2026 Data)

Q: How many Google reviews does a dentist need?

There is no fixed number, but the data shows dentists collect fewer than almost any other local business — a median of about 2 new Google reviews a month, with the busiest 10% collecting 9 a month. Since patients rate dentists 4.9 stars on average, the real goal is volume: ask every patient and the reviews will be overwhelmingly positive.

Quick answer

There's no magic number — but the data is clear on what dentists actually earn and collect. Across 63 dental practices and 11,196 reviews in ProsperQR's data, the average dentist rates 4.9 stars with 95% of reviews at 5 stars, yet collects only about 2 new Google reviews a month. The happiest patients, the least asked.

Most "how many reviews does a dentist need" answers online are round-number guesses. This one isn't. It comes from 63 real dental practices and 11,196 Google reviews inside ProsperQR — part of a corpus of 816,307 reviews across 3,739 US local businesses, as of July 2026. Here's what dentists actually earn, what they collect, and the gap sitting in between.

Dentists earn the highest ratings of almost anyone

Start with the good news, because for dentists it's very good. The average dental practice rates 4.9 stars, and 95% of every review is 5-star. That's about as high as local-business ratings go — dentists sit at the top of the industry breakdown alongside home and field-service pros.

What that number really says is simple: dental patients are genuinely happy. When they leave a review, it's almost always glowing. There's no reputation problem to fix here, no wave of angry reviews to get ahead of. The reviews a dentist collects are an asset working in their favor.

The short version

The ratings are excellent. 4.9 stars on average, 95% of reviews at 5 stars. Dental patients who review are overwhelmingly happy.
The volume is tiny. A median of just 2 new reviews a month; even the busiest 10% only reach 9 a month. The happiest patients are the least asked.
Almost nobody replies. Dentists respond to just 36% of their reviews — far below the 66% reply rate across the wider medical and health segment.

The happiest patients, the least asked

Here's the catch. For all that goodwill, the median dental practice collects only about 2 new Google reviews a month — and even the busiest tenth of practices reach just 9 a month. Dentists earn among the highest ratings of any local business on some of the lowest volume.

That's the whole story in one line: the happiest patients, the least asked. A practice sitting at 4.9 stars with a few dozen reviews has proven its patients love it — it just hasn't asked enough of them to say so. At 2 a month, it takes years to build the kind of volume that makes a rating impossible to ignore. The practices in the top 10% aren't better dentists; they simply ask every patient, every visit.

Think about the traffic a dental office sees: cleanings, checkups, whitening, a steady book of appointments where the patient walks out having just spent focused time with the person who reviewed their teeth. Almost every one of those visits is a review that never got asked for.

Dentists reply less than their medical peers

The second gap is engagement. Dentists reply to only 36% of their reviews — roughly two of every three go unanswered. And this isn't an "everyone's too busy" excuse: across the broader medical and health segment, businesses reply to 66% of their reviews. Dentists reply to barely half as many as their medical peers.

Replying is free, it takes seconds, and Google itself recommends it. In a category where two-thirds of reviews sit with no owner response, the practice that replies to every one — thanking the happy patients, addressing the rare critical one — stands out to both patients reading the profile and to Google. If the front desk doesn't have time to write them, replies can go out automatically.

The opportunity is just asking

Put the three numbers together and the takeaway writes itself. Dentists have the ratings (4.9), the 5-star share (95%), and the happy patients. What they don't have is velocity — a steady stream of recent reviews — or the reply habit. Both gaps are entirely gaps in effort, not in how much patients like the practice.

Closing it doesn't take a campaign. It takes asking every patient while they're happiest — right at checkout — and making it effortless to follow through. That's the whole idea behind ProsperQR: a tap card your front desk hands over, or a stand on the counter, that takes a patient straight to your Google review form in one tap. See the full Google review statistics, read the full industry breakdown, or find the step-by-step playbook in how to get more Google reviews.

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Methodology

Figures are aggregated from 11,196 Google reviews (excluding deleted) across 63 US dental practices using ProsperQR, as of July 2026, drawn from a wider corpus of 816,307 reviews across 3,739 businesses. Practices are grouped by their primary Google Business Profile category. "Reply rate" is the share of reviews with an owner response; "reviews per month" is the distribution of reviews collected per practice per month, reported as the median and the top 10%. Figures refresh quarterly.