Dentist · Kansas City, MO
Best dentists in Kansas City, MO ranked by Google reviews.
We pulled the top-ranked dentists in Kansas City, MO from Google’s own
listings. Here’s the leaderboard, what the leaders share in common, and how
a branded biglove.to link helps yours close the gap.
Data refreshed from Google Places.
The 10 leaders here average 4.9 ★ across 6,551 cumulative Google reviews. The top three (NKC Dental, Fountain City Dental Group, River Market Dental) account for roughly 51% of that total — a typical signature of how Google review momentum concentrates among the best-known names in Kansas City.
Leaderboard · top 9
Who’s winning the review race in Kansas City.
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NKC Dental
2000 Swift St, North Kansas City, MO 64116
4.9 ★ · 2,336 reviews
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Fountain City Dental Group
4546 Main St, Kansas City, MO 64111
4.9 ★ · 533 reviews
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River Market Dental
317 Delaware St, Kansas City, MO 64105
4.9 ★ · 484 reviews
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Cosmetic & Implant Dentistry Kansas City
2101 Charlotte St #330, Kansas City, MO 64108
4.9 ★ · 450 reviews
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Westport Plaza Dental Associates
801 W 47th St #408, Kansas City, MO 64112
4.9 ★ · 246 reviews
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John P. Goodman DDS
2700 Clay Edwards Dr Ste 570, Kansas City, MO 64116
4.9 ★ · 245 reviews
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Westwood Dental
4527 Rainbow Blvd, Kansas City, KS 66103
4.8 ★ · 739 reviews
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Crossroads Dentistry - Fleming J Daniel Dr
1819 Wyandotte St A, Kansas City, MO 64108
4.8 ★ · 311 reviews
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Comfort Dental Midtown - Kansas City
3215 Main St #100, Kansas City, MO 64111
4.7 ★ · 1,207 reviews
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What the leaders share
Patterns from the top of the leaderboard.
Choosing a dentist is a trust decision, and patients read reviews before they book. The practices at the top of this list have made the ask part of every checkout.
- They ask every customer, every visit. Not just the obvious fans. The compounded effect of asking 100% of customers — even shyly, even with friction — beats asking 10% of customers enthusiastically.
- They make the link short enough to say out loud. The dentists at the top of the Kansas City leaderboard print a memorable URL on receipts, table tents, or cards. Long Google review URLs don’t survive the trip from till to phone.
- They don’t gate. No "rate us 5 stars first" forms. No satisfaction filters that route happy customers one way and frustrated customers another. Google’s 2026 review policy and the FTC’s 2024 Consumer Reviews Rule both prohibit gating, and the leaderboard reflects it — the top Kansas City dentists are clean.
- They follow up once, never twice. The polite single ask converts. The pushy second ask annoys.
How to climb the Kansas City dentist leaderboard
Five steps that move the needle in 90 days.
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Claim a memorable review URL.
Pick a slug that customers can read off your receipt.
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Print the QR somewhere your customers see it twice.
Receipt and door sticker is the highest-conversion combo. The customer sees the QR when they pay, again when they leave, and again at home if they keep the receipt. Three impressions beats one impression by a wide margin.
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Make the ask part of the script.
Train staff to mention the QR card during natural pauses ("If you enjoyed this, our Google review code is right here on the receipt"). Don’t script a 5-star pitch — that’s gating. Just point at the QR.
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Reply to every review within 48 hours.
Public replies signal an active, accountable dentist — both to future customers reading the reviews AND to Google’s ranking signals. A short, sincere thanks is enough; engagement matters more than length.
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Track which ask path works.
Pro tier on biglove.to gives you click analytics — country, hour, device, referrer — so you can tell whether the receipt QR or the email signature is actually driving the reviews. Optimize what you can measure.
Common questions
About the Kansas City dentist leaderboard.
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How are dentists in Kansas City ranked on this leaderboard?
We pull the top dentists for Kansas City from Google Places using a "top dentists in Kansas City" text search biased to the city centroid, keep the top 10 results, then sort by Google star rating (descending) with a tie-break of total review count (descending). Entries without a numeric rating sort last. The full dataset is also published as open data under CC-BY-4.0 at biglove.to/hyperlocal-summary.json.
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How often is this leaderboard updated?
We refresh the underlying Google Places data quarterly. Significant changes in a business's review count or average rating usually appear here within roughly three months. For real-time data, the public Google Maps listing of each business is always the canonical source — the leaderboard is a snapshot, not a live feed.
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What can my dentist do to climb the Kansas City leaderboard?
Ask every customer for a Google review, not just the obvious fans. Make the link short enough to print on a receipt or say out loud — a branded biglove.to short link works for that. Never ask for "5 stars first" — that's review gating, prohibited by Google's review policy (Help article 9273900) and the FTC Consumer Reviews Rule (16 CFR Part 465, max penalty $53,088). Reply publicly to every review within 48 hours. Track which ask path actually converts. The five-step playbook on this page goes deeper.
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Why isn't a particular dentist I expected on this list?
This list shows only the top 10 results Google Places returned for "top dentists in Kansas City" at the time of the scrape. Google's relevance ranking weighs review count, average rating, distance from the city centroid, and a number of private signals — so a well-loved spot with fewer reviews can rank lower than a high-volume one nearby. If a business you'd expect is missing, it usually means it lives in a different Google category, has fewer reviews than the visible top 10, or sits outside Google's city-centroid bias for Kansas City.
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Does this include reviews from Trustpilot, Yelp, or Facebook?
No. The star rating and review count shown here come exclusively from Google reviews — the primary "find a place" signal in USA. BigLove supports branded short links for Google Reviews and Trustpilot, but this particular leaderboard is Google-only because Google has by far the highest local-business review volume across our target markets (US, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand).
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