Which dental practices does AI recommend in Tampa?

The market behind the answers

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.

What we would do about it

In Tampa, the evidence sits on tampamagazines.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 Tampa they read tampamagazines.com and yelp.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 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 are the ones they leaned on most — the pages actually deciding which dental practices get 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. 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 Tampa scan turned up.

46 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 Tampa: 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.

• 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 optimise 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.

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

• 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

Method

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.