San Diego, CA · October 2026
Which dentists in San Diego do AI assistants recommend?
We asked ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Claude Who is the best dentist in San Diego, CA?
3 times each and counted every dentist they named.
Last updated · 12 answers
- 24dentists named
- 0named by 3 or more engines
- 13/100answer stability
What the answers show
- AI assistants named 24 dentists in San Diego, and none came up on more than two engines: each assistant keeps its own short list.
- The same question, asked three times, rarely got the same list here (stability 13/100). One check of an assistant is a sample, not a verdict. ChatGPT varied most, at 0/100.
- Mesa Dental was named most often: in 4 of 12 answers, on 2 of 4 engines.
- doctor.webmd.com was the listing site AI assistants cited most often for dentists in San Diego (3 of 12 answers), so a listing there matters.
Dentists AI assistants named in San Diego
| Dentist | ChatGPT | Gemini | Perplexity | Claude | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Mesa Dental | 0/3 | 2/3 | 0/3 | 2/3 | 4/12 |
| 2Scripps Center for Dental Care | 0/3 | 3/3 | 0/3 | 0/3 | 3/12 |
| 3Sutra Dental Spa | 0/3 | 3/3 | 0/3 | 0/3 | 3/12 |
| 4San Diego Smile Dentistry | 1/3 | 0/3 | 0/3 | 1/3 | 2/12 |
| 5Dean Van Nguyen, DDS | 0/3 | 0/3 | 0/3 | 2/3 | 2/12 |
| 6Dr. George Georgaklis, DDS | 0/3 | 2/3 | 0/3 | 0/3 | 2/12 |
| 7Linda Vista Dentistry | 0/3 | 0/3 | 0/3 | 2/3 | 2/12 |
| 8Marcos Ortega, DDS | 0/3 | 2/3 | 0/3 | 0/3 | 2/12 |
| 9Pomerado Cosmetic & Family Dentistry | 0/3 | 2/3 | 0/3 | 0/3 | 2/12 |
| 10True Design Dentistry of San Diego | 0/3 | 0/3 | 0/3 | 2/3 | 2/12 |
Also named: A+ Family Dentistry (1), Center for Dental Restorations (1), Dixon Dental Services (1), Dr. David Freeman, DDS (1), Fifth Avenue Dental Arts (1), Hornbrook Center for Dentistry (1), Libby Dental (1), Mission Boulevard Dental Group (1), Nuvia Dental Implant Center (1), Rancho Bernardo Dental Arts (1), San Diego Dental Implants & Periodontics (1), San Diego Periodontics / Implantology (1), Smile San Diego (1), Urban Dental (1).
Sources AI assistants cited
The websites the engines linked to most often in these answers.
- drgeorgedds.com4 of 12 answers
- dental.me3 of 12 answers
- doctor.webmd.com3 of 12 answers
- findadentist.ada.org3 of 12 answers
- scrippsdentalcare.com a named business’s website3 of 12 answers
Is your practice in these answers?
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Why some dentists show up and others don’t
Assistants recommend what they can find and cross-check. What tends to help:
- List the practice and each dentist the same way on Google, Healthgrades, Zocdoc and Yelp: one practice name, one address, one phone number, current hours.
- Put the facts patients ask assistants about on your own site in plain text: insurance plans accepted, new-patient openings, emergency visits, sedation options, languages spoken and weekend hours.
- Give each service its own page (implants, clear aligners, pediatric, emergency dentistry) so an assistant can match a specific question to your practice.
- Check what assistants say about you, not only whether they name you. A wrong insurance list or old hours sends a patient elsewhere even when you are recommended.
Questions
Which dentists in San Diego do AI assistants recommend most often?
In October 2026, Mesa Dental was named in 4 of 12 answers from ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Claude, followed by Scripps Center for Dental Care (3) and Sutra Dental Spa (3). The table above has the full count.
What is the best dentist in San Diego, according to AI?
The assistants do not settle on one. Asked Who is the best dentist in San Diego, CA?
3 times each, they named 24 different dentists, and none came up on three or more engines. Which one an assistant suggests can change from one ask to the next.
Do AI assistants give the same answer every time?
No. Each assistant was asked the same question 3 times. On a 0–100 scale, where 100 means the same names every time, their answers scored 13 on average: ChatGPT 0, Gemini 36, Perplexity 0, Claude 15.
Where do AI assistants get their recommendations for dentists in San Diego?
From the sources they search and cite. The most-cited here were drgeorgedds.com (4 answers), dental.me (3 answers), doctor.webmd.com (3 answers), along with the businesses’ own websites. A business's own website and listings on those sites are what the assistants read.
Does Leolens rank or endorse these businesses?
No. The table counts how often AI assistants named each business. Leolens did not rate, review or rank them, and no business paid to appear.
How we collected this
In October 2026 we asked ChatGPT (gpt-5.6-terra), Gemini (gemini-3.8-flash), Perplexity (perplexity/sonar) and Claude (claude-sonnet-5) the question Who is the best dentist in San Diego, CA?
3 times each, through each provider’s API with web search turned on, as a new conversation with no account, history or location. A separate model listed the businesses each answer named; we checked every name against the answer’s own text and merged different spellings of the same business. Sources are the sites the engines linked to.
The apps use your location and history, so what you see there can differ. Nothing on this page is a rating or review by Leolens, and no business paid to appear. For how this market compares with the rest, see the October 2026 study.
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