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.
In Tampa, the name that came up most was South Tampa Dentistry.
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 surfaced 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, that is the gap.
- 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 are separate questions with separate winners, and in Tampa they are open.
Not one business was named by all three
Every business above was named by one or two assistants, never all three. In Tampa the consensus pick does not exist yet, which means the position is open rather than taken — a materially different situation from a market with an established favourite.
And 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.
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.
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.
Same questions, other markets.
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. Want it for your own business? The free AI visibility report runs it against your market.
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