Your routine dental care will be at the hands of a general dentist. But there are times when a specialist may be called for-braces, root canal therapy, or treatment of badly diseased gums, for instance. We surveyed dentists in the area and asked which dental specialists they would choose for care of a loved one. We give you a list of those mentioned most often.

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Sample Subscriber Comments/Reviews About Dentists

CHECKBOOK provides subscriber comments on their experiences with the firms they use. Please remember that individual subscriber comments are informal. Subscriber comments may give you insight into the types of features and problems that exist in a service field, but are not the best basis for selecting or rejecting a specific firm. To assess the quality of a firm's performance, we recommend that you give more weight to the percentages of favorable ratings. Those percentages are generally based on much larger numbers of consumers' ratings (the number of consumer ratings is noted above).

As You Can See Below, Some Dentists Get High Praise from Their Customers. Some Others Don't. So Choose Carefully.
Here Are a Few Samples of the Thousands of Comments CHECKBOOK Has Collected on Hundreds of Different Dentists.