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San Francisco, CA · October 2026

Which dentists in San Francisco do AI assistants recommend?

We asked ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Claude Who is the best dentist in San Francisco, CA? 3 times each and counted every dentist they named.

Last updated · 12 answers

  • 27dentists named
  • 0named by 3 or more engines
  • 18/100answer stability

What the answers show

  • No dentist in San Francisco came up on three or more engines. Between them, the assistants named 27.
  • Answers here are unstable. Asking the same assistant the same question three times often produced a different list (stability 18/100), so a single check of your visibility can mislead. ChatGPT varied most, at 0/100.
  • The most-named dentist was San Francisco Dental Partners, in 3 of 12 answers across 2 of 4 engines.
  • zocdoc.com was the listing site AI assistants cited most often for dentists in San Francisco (4 of 12 answers), so a listing there matters.

Dentists AI assistants named in San Francisco

How many of each engine’s 3 answers named the dentist, and the total out of 12. October 2026.
Dentist ChatGPT Gemini Perplexity Claude Total
1San Francisco Dental Partners 1/3 2/3 0/3 0/3 3/12
2UCSF Dental Center 1/3 1/3 0/3 0/3 2/12
3Advanced Dentistry 0/3 1/3 0/3 0/3 1/12
4All Smiles Dental 0/3 0/3 0/3 1/3 1/12
5Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry 0/3 1/3 0/3 0/3 1/12
6Better Living Through Dentistry 1/3 0/3 0/3 0/3 1/12
7Claude Sidi, DMD 0/3 0/3 0/3 1/3 1/12
8Dentistry of San Francisco 0/3 1/3 0/3 0/3 1/12
9DJ Park DMD Inc. 0/3 0/3 1/3 0/3 1/12
10Dr. Katherine T. Vo, DDS 1/3 0/3 0/3 0/3 1/12

Also named: Fuller Smiles – San Francisco (1), G Dental Group (1), Glen Park Dental (1), Jeremy J. Velasco, DDS (1), Marina Grins Dental (1), Marina Park Dental (1), Mary Anne Baysac, DDS – San Francisco Dental Care (1), Noe Valley Family Dentistry (1), Sea Cliff Dental (1), Setia Dental Corporation (1), SF Dental (1), South Beach Dental (1), UCSF General Dentistry Clinic (1), UCSF School of Dentistry Clinics (1), Union Square Dental (1), Union Square Dental Arts (1), Young Dental SF / Post Street Dental Group (1).

Sources AI assistants cited

The websites the engines linked to most often in these answers.

  1. zocdoc.com4 of 12 answers
  2. doctor.webmd.com3 of 12 answers
  3. healthgrades.com3 of 12 answers
  4. opencare.com3 of 12 answers
  5. reddit.com3 of 12 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 Francisco do AI assistants recommend most often?

In October 2026, San Francisco Dental Partners was named in 3 of 12 answers from ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Claude, followed by UCSF Dental Center (2) and Advanced Dentistry (1). The table above has the full count.

What is the best dentist in San Francisco, according to AI?

The assistants do not settle on one. Asked Who is the best dentist in San Francisco, CA? 3 times each, they named 27 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 18 on average: ChatGPT 0, Gemini 4, Perplexity 33, Claude 33.

Where do AI assistants get their recommendations for dentists in San Francisco?

From the sources they search and cite. The most-cited here were zocdoc.com (4 answers), doctor.webmd.com (3 answers), healthgrades.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 Francisco, 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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