Which dental practices does AI recommend in Tampa?
We asked ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and Perplexity to recommend dental practices in Tampa, FL — 6 hiring questions, 18 recorded answers, every one saved. They named 57 different businesses. These are the 11 that came up more than once.
Recommendations were widely spread. The name that came up most, South Tampa Dentistry, still appeared in only 2 of 18 answers.
Definition: openness measures how spread out the business names were in these 18 answers. Higher means more dispersed; lower means more concentrated. It is not market saturation, demand, or a quality score.
The 11 dental practices that came up more than once.
Ordered by how many of the 18 answers named them. This is not a ranking of quality and none of these are our clients — it is a record of who three assistants named for Tampa, FL on July 26, 2026. If you are one of the dental practices in this market and you are not on this list, the scan did not observe your business among the repeat names.
- South Tampa Dentistry
- McIlwain / McIlwain Dental Specialists
- Seminole Heights Family Dentistry
- Friendly Smiles Dental Care
- Rasmussen Periodontics & Implant Dentistry
- Tampa Implant Clinic
- The Dental Walk-In Clinic of Tampa Bay
- Emergency Dental Care USA (Linebaugh)
- Torres Orthodontics
- Farina Orthodontic Specialists
- Goodnight Orthodontics
Even South Tampa Dentistry does not win everything here. It was never named when we asked about dental implants, a cracked tooth in pain, best patient reviews or Invisalign and orthodontics. Those question types returned different names in our sample.
Not one business was named by all three
Every business above was named by one or two assistants, never all three. In this sample, the shortlist changed depending on which assistant answered.
89.0% insured: Tampa dentistry runs on coverage.
Tampa has one of the higher coverage rates in this study — 89.0% of 393,389 residents — which makes demand steady, insurer-routed, and heavily comparison-shopped. 148,962 residents sit in the 35–64 bracket where restorative work concentrates. Hillsborough County answers with 664 employer dental offices, one per 2,243 county residents; the 57 practices the assistants named for Tampa are a sliver of that field, which is precisely what makes the sliver valuable.
City figures: American Community Survey 2019-2023 5-year estimates, Tampa city, Florida. County figures: County Business Patterns 2023, Hillsborough County; establishment counts include only businesses with paid employees. The two boundaries are different sizes and are never divided into each other.
In Tampa, the evidence sits on tampamagazines.com.
This is a record of observed answers, not a paid ranking. In Tampa they read tampamagazines.com and yelp.com when forming their answers. The industry page explains how we address website and third-party evidence: what we build for dental practices.
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For Tampa, the source cited most was tampamagazines.com.
All three assistants searched the web before answering and cited what they read. Across the Tampa, FL answers they cited 169 sources. These were the most frequently cited sources behind the dental practices named here:
- tampamagazines.com6
- yelp.com5
- reddit.com4
- zocdoc.com4
- friendlysmilesdentalcare.com4
- dentisttampa.com4
- facebook.com3
- advancedoralsurgerytampa.com3
- implantcentertampa.com3
- trustanalytica.org3
- tampadentalwellness.net3
- torresorthodontics.com3
- goodnightortho.com3
- southtampadentistry.com2
- 247localdentist.com2
- healthgrades.com2
- ws-dentist.com2
- sh-dentist.com2
- ismiletampa.com2
- coastdental.com2
Directories accounted for only 11.8% of the Tampa citations; the rest came from businesses' own sites and local coverage. Much of that evidence can be updated directly on the business website.
Additional results from the Tampa scan.
46 more were named exactly once
These came up in a single answer, from a single assistant, and never again across the other 17. The sample contains a small group named repeatedly and a longer list named once. A single mention may not repeat in the next run.
- Eden Dental Aesthetics
- Kernagis Dental Excellence
- South Tampa Dental Krewe
- TERSA Oral and Facial Surgery
- Tampa Bay Endodontics
- Generations Cosmetic and Family Dentistry
- Westshore Family Dentistry
- iSmile Dentistry
- West Waters Family Dentistry
- New Tampa Smiles
- The Family Dentist / Ron O’Neal, DMD
- Amberly Family Dentistry
- Coast Dental Hyde Park
- North Tampa Family Dental
- Coastal Jaw Surgery / Pikos Institute
- Tampa Bay Dental Implants / Perio & Oral Surgery
- Modern Day Smiles (Tampa/St. Pete)
- Abdoney Periodontics & Implant Dentistry
- Advanced Oral Surgery of Tampa
- South Tampa Oral Surgery
- Tampa Bay Periodontics
- Michaud Periodontics & Dental Implants
- Westchase Smiles Institute
- Tampa Palms Dentistry
- Susan D. King, DDS / Tampa 24-Hour Emergency Dental Service
- After Hours Dental
- Tomlinson Dental
- Tampa Dentistry
- Agoka Dental PLLC
- Playa Family Dentistry
- Ferrara Dental
- Weninger Dentistry
- Tampa Dental Wellness
- Advanced Dental Associates of Tampa Palms
- Tampa Dental
- Terrace Oaks Dental
- Flex Dental
- Best Value Dentures and Implants
- Miller Orthodontics
- Rushing Orthodontics
- Busciglio Smiles
- Blue Wave Orthodontics
- Dau Orthodontics
- Bivens Orthodontics
- Abdoney Orthodontics
- GO Orthodontics
How many each assistant would name
- Google Gemini 28 dental practices named in Tampa
- Perplexity 19 dental practices named in Tampa
- ChatGPT 18 dental practices named in Tampa
The assistants disagreed on 6 of 6 questions
Asked the identical question about Tampa, 6 of 6 comparisons produced no shared business at all — three assistants, three separate shortlists. There is no single "AI answer" for this market to optimize against, which is why being named by one assistant tells a Tampa 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 Tampa business won anything.
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
- Las Vegas, NV 60 named · most cited: Summerlin Dental Solutions
- 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 Tampa
- Law firms 48 named · 43.2% from directories
- Roofing companies 55 named · 16.5% from directories
- HVAC companies 50 named · 26.9% from directories
- Plumbing companies 48 named · 24.3% from directories
- Med spas 49 named · 7.8% from directories
Exactly what we asked in Tampa.
- Who is the best dentist in Tampa, FL? commercial
- I just moved to Tampa, FL 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 Tampa, FL? commercial
- I cracked a tooth in Tampa, FL and I am in pain. Which local dentist should I call today? situational
- Which dental practice in Tampa, FL has the best patient reviews? commercial
- Who is the best orthodontist for Invisalign in Tampa, FL? commercial
Method. 6 questions × 3 assistants = 18 answers for Tampa, FL 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.
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