Does ChatGPT recommend dentists?
When patients ask ChatGPT to recommend a dentist, it names specific businesses. We asked the questions patients really use, city by city, and recorded which dentists it names and where it gets its answers. Each city below has its own page with the full list, and the AI visibility directory covers every trade and city we scan.
Dentists by city
What our scans show for dentists
6 cities, 84 answers across ChatGPT and Gemini, recorded between 3 September 2026 (ChatGPT) and 15 October 2026 (Gemini). For how to read these numbers against other trades, see AI visibility metrics and benchmarks; for how the same trade differs from one city to the next, see local AI visibility, city by city.
| City | Answers | Dentists named | Most-named dentist | Named in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| London | 14 | 37 | Smilepod Soho | 2 of 14 (14%) |
| Dubai | 14 | 43 | Dr. Joy Dental Clinics | 5 of 14 (36%) |
| New York | 14 | 46 | 209 NYC Dental | 2 of 14 (14%) |
| Los Angeles | 14 | 43 | Comprehensive Community Health Centers (CCHC) | 2 of 14 (14%) |
| Chicago | 14 | 58 | First Dental Chicago | 3 of 14 (21%) |
| Miami | 14 | 63 | Miami Dental Sedation Spa | 3 of 14 (21%) |
Across 6 cities and 84 answers, the assistants named 290 different dentists, counted city by city, about 3.5 names per answer. That makes this a fragmented market: on average the most-named business appears in only 20% of a city's answers, so no single name dominates and the short list changes from question to question. The spread between cities is wide: in Dubai the leader was named in 36% of answers, in Los Angeles in 14%. A fragmented market is the easiest to enter and the hardest to hold: with no fixed leader, whichever dentists are best represented on the sources below get named that week.
ChatGPT and Gemini agreed on at least one dentist in 3 of 6 cities and handed out entirely different names in the other 3. For dentists the assistants leaned first on individual business websites and then booking platforms and marketplaces, with doctify.com and zocdoc.com cited most. One business site, opencare.com, was cited 5 times on its own, the kind of exception that happens when a chain has many locations or a page answers one question very well. Before spending anything else, a dentist who wants to be named should be complete and consistent on those two.
Dentistry is the trade where official registers carry the most weight. The American Dental Association's find-a-dentist directory sits among the top sources alongside review platforms, and a national chain with hundreds of locations gets cited on its own site simply because it has a page for every city. For an independent practice the practical gap is usually not reviews, which most already have, but a complete, consistent entry on the professional register and on the two review directories the assistants read.
Where AI gets its dentists recommendations
The websites the assistants cited most often when naming dentists, added up across the 6 cities.
| Website | Kind of source | Times cited |
|---|---|---|
| doctify.com | directories and review sites | 9 |
| zocdoc.com | booking platforms and marketplaces | 7 |
| practo.com | booking platforms and marketplaces | 5 |
| opencare.com | individual business websites | 5 |
| findadentist.ada.org | official and professional bodies | 5 |
| cqc.org.uk | official and professional bodies | 4 |
For the kinds of websites AI cites across trades and countries, see which websites AI trusts; for what the assistants do with these sources once they have them, how AI decides which businesses to recommend.
Common questions about dentists and AI
How many dentists does AI name in a typical answer?
Do ChatGPT and Gemini recommend the same dentists?
Which websites does AI use to recommend dentists?
How dentists get recommended by AI
AI assistants recommend the dentists they can find and trust. For dentists that means being listed and well reviewed on doctify.com and zocdoc.com before anything else, and having pages that state plainly what you do and who you help. A dentist an assistant cannot find is one it cannot name (why your business might be invisible to AI); one it finds but ranks behind others is a different problem, covered in why AI recommends your competitors instead of you. For the owner's side of this trade, read AI search for dentists.
Prefer one assistant at a time? The ChatGPT visibility checker, the Gemini visibility checker and the Claude visibility checker explain what each one reads before it names a dentist.