Which dentist does AI say is the best in Los Angeles?
We asked ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini the same question 15 times: “Who is the best dentist in Los Angeles?” Here is exactly who they named, and how often.
Who AI names in Los Angeles (29 businesses named)
10 of 15 questions got a real answer, so every count below is out of 10. No company was named in 8 answers, our bar for calling one the consensus pick, so three businesses share the lead on 4 of 10 each. Below that is everyone else AI named too, because in a market this open, showing up even once is worth knowing.
| # | Company | Standing | Named in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dr. Bill Dorfman, DDS | Leader | 4 of 10 |
| 2 | Dr. Kevin Sands, DDS | Leader | 4 of 10 |
| 3 | Smile L.A. Downtown Modern Dentistry | Leader | 4 of 10 |
| 4 | Dr. Anthony Mobasser, DDS | Also named | 3 of 10 |
| 5 | UCLA Faculty Group Dental Practice | Also named | 3 of 10 |
Don’t see your business on the list? You’re not alone — most Los Angeles dentists aren’t. That’s exactly why this market is worth checking.
For the business owner
If you run a dentist business in Los Angeles
When a homeowner here asks an AI assistant who to call, they don’t get a page of search results back. They get three or four names, sometimes just one. If your business isn’t one of them, that’s a customer who never saw you and called somebody else.
The market is still open
We found 29 different companies named across just 10 answers, and 19 of those were named only once. Nobody has locked this up.
But the gap compounds
Three names already show up more than the rest. The businesses AI already prefers get reinforced every time someone asks again.
Where AI is getting its information
AI doesn’t make these names up. When it recommends a dentist, it’s reading from somewhere else first — a directory, a review site, or the company’s own website. We counted 40 of these source mentions across 22 different websites, and sorted them by what kind of site they are.
- Company websites
- Forums, video and news
- Directories and listing sites
The takeaway: a dentist’s own website is part of what AI reads, and nowhere near all of it. Most of what it repeats about a business here was written somewhere that business does not control.
The sources AI reads here
These are the pages worth being on, in the order AI leaned on them.
- 1billdorfmandds.com5 mentions · company site
- 2beverlyhillscosmeticdentist.com4 mentions · other
- 3celebritydentist.com3 mentions · other
- 4dbc.ca.gov3 mentions · editorial
- 5dentistry.ucla.edu3 mentions · company site
- 6nexunom.com3 mentions · other
- 7findadentist.ada.org2 mentions · other
- 8reddit.com2 mentions · forum
plus 12 more websites accounting for 12 mentions.