Which dental practices does AI recommend in Las Vegas?

The market behind the answers

964 dental offices, and a seventh of Las Vegas uninsured.

Coverage in Las Vegas runs at 86.8%, lower than the study's insured-heavy markets, so a larger share of dentistry here is cash-pay and elective — the segment where patients ask an assistant rather than an insurer's directory. The demand base is 254,769 residents aged 35–64 on a median household income of $70,723; the supply is 964 employer dental offices in Clark County, one per 2,379 residents. The assistants named 60 of them for Las Vegas.

City figures: American Community Survey 2019-2023 5-year estimates, Las Vegas city, Nevada. County figures: County Business Patterns 2023, Clark County; establishment counts include only businesses with paid employees. The two boundaries are different sizes and are never divided into each other.

What we would do about it

In Las Vegas, the evidence sits on yelp.com.

None of this is a ranking you can buy into. The assistants named whoever was easiest to verify and safest to repeat, and in Las Vegas they read yelp.com and healthgrades.com to decide it. Fixing that is the same work in every market, so it is written up once: what we build for dental practices.

Where the answers came from

For Las Vegas, the source cited most was yelp.com.

All three assistants searched the web before answering and cited what they read. Across the Las Vegas, NV answers they cited 155 sources. These are the ones they leaned on most — the pages actually deciding which dental practices get named here:

• yelp.com12
• healthgrades.com6
• smilegeneration.com5
• dentalsolutionslv.com5
• lasvegasdentalgroup.com5
• absolutedental.com5
• deltadental.com4
• youtube.com4
• 247localdentist.com3
• aloha-orthodontics.com3
• nationalorthodonticregistry.com3
• pgorthodontics.com3
• wagnerdentist.com2
• mostdental.com2
• reddit.com2
• aspiringsmileslasvegas.com2
• toprateddentist.com2
• vegasdentalexpertsnevada.com2
• discoverydentalnv.com2
• lvharmonydental.com2

Directories accounted for only 15.5% of the Las Vegas citations; the rest came from businesses' own sites and local coverage. That is the better position to be in, because the page deciding the answer is one you control rather than one you have to petition to update.

The full record

Everything else the Las Vegas scan turned up.

48 more were named exactly once

These came up in a single answer, from a single assistant, and never again across the other 17. That is the honest shape of Las Vegas: a handful of businesses named repeatedly, and a long tail mentioned once by chance. Visibility that appears here and nowhere above will not survive the next re-run.

• Highlands Modern Dentistry & Orthodontics
• Grand Canyon Modern Dentistry
• Durango Dental Group
• Dr. James B. Polley
• Wagner Dental
• Supreme Dental
• Hillcrest Dental
• Affordable Dental at Ann & Willis
• Hyer Quality Dental
• Vegas Kids Dental
• Green Valley Dentistry
• Henderson Family Dental
• Flores Family Dental
• Allay Dental
• Canyon Family Dentistry & Orthodontics
• Dentistry for Families & Orthodontics
• The Tooth Family Dental
• Kikuchi Oral Surgery & Dental Implant Center
• Significance Dental Specialists
• Swenson Periodontics & Implant Dentistry
• Las Vegas Prosthodontics
• UNLV School of Dental Medicine faculty practice
• Reveal Smiles
• Las Vegas Implant Clinic
• Discovery Dental & Implants
• ClearChoice Las Vegas
• Lasting Smiles
• Harmony Dental
• Vegas Smiles
• Vegas Dental Experts
• High End Dental
• Red Rock Dental
• Smile Vegas Dental
• Sun Dental (S. Jones Blvd)
• Summer Dental & Orthodontics
• Providence Dental
• Hi-Tech Dental Care
• Today's Dental & Oral Surgery
• Summerlin Dental Solutions (Dr. Marianne Cohan)
• Las Vegas Dental Group (LVDG)
• Boca Dental & Braces
• Precision Dental
• Siena Hills Family Dental
• Las Vegas Orthodontics
• Hansen Miller Orthodontics
• Braces Las Vegas
• Pure Orthodontics
• Mai Orthodontics

How many each assistant would name

• Google Gemini 29 dental practices named in Las Vegas
• Perplexity 23 dental practices named in Las Vegas
• ChatGPT 21 dental practices named in Las Vegas

The assistants disagreed on 4 of 6 questions

Asked the identical question about Las Vegas, 4 of 6 comparisons produced no shared business at all — three assistants, three separate shortlists. There is no single "AI answer" for this market to optimise against, which is why being named by one assistant tells a Las Vegas owner very little about the other two.

11.1% of answers named nobody at all

In 2 of 18 answers the assistant declined to recommend anyone and pointed the buyer at a directory or a list of things to check instead. Those are answers where no Las Vegas business won anything.

The rest of the study

Same questions, other markets.

The dental practices study puts all five cities side by side — which brands cross city lines, and which sources decide the answer trade-wide.

Dental practices in the other cities we measured

• Tampa, FL 57 named · most cited: South Tampa Dentistry
• Denver, CO 43 named · most cited: OG Dental
• Phoenix, AZ 55 named · most cited: Bright Now! Dental in North Central Phoenix
• Austin, TX 59 named · most cited: Forest Family Dentistry

Other trades in Las Vegas

• Law firms 45 named · 30.1% from directories
• Roofing companies 37 named · 25.8% from directories
• HVAC companies 45 named · 20.3% from directories
• Plumbing companies 42 named · 21.2% from directories
• Med spas 36 named · 15.1% from directories

Method

Exactly what we asked in Las Vegas.

• Who is the best dentist in Las Vegas, NV? commercial
• I just moved to Las Vegas, NV and need a family dentist who takes my insurance. Which local practice should I choose? situational
• Who is the best dentist for dental implants in Las Vegas, NV? commercial
• I cracked a tooth in Las Vegas, NV and I am in pain. Which local dentist should I call today? situational
• Which dental practice in Las Vegas, NV has the best patient reviews? commercial
• Who is the best orthodontist for Invisalign in Las Vegas, NV? commercial

Method. 6 questions × 3 assistants = 18 answers for Las Vegas, NV alone, collected July 26, 2026 from ChatGPT (gpt-5-mini), Google Gemini (gemini-flash-latest), Perplexity (sonar), with web search enabled because that is what a buyer's app does. Names were resolved across spelling variants first, so one company spelled three ways counts once. Assistants are non-deterministic; this is one dated run, not a standing ranking. The full methodology gives the prompts, the scoring formula, and what these numbers cannot support. Want it for your own business? The free AI visibility report runs it against your market.