Dentists in San Francisco that AI assistants recommend
We asked ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini the four questions a buyer asks when looking for dentists in San Francisco, three times each, in English, and counted who they named. These are the businesses named in two or more of the 36 answers.
Names are printed as the assistants wrote them. We have not checked that any of them is good, open, or real.
- Answers
- 36
- Businesses named
- 41
- Named only once
- 21
- Named by 2+ assistants
- 4 of 20
- Named again on a rerun
- 43%
Edition October 2026. Download the data
Asked for dentists in San Francisco, ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini most often named Union Square Dental (28% of answers), Nob Hill Dental Care (25%) and San Francisco Dental Implant Center (22%). Across 36 answers they named 41 different businesses, 21 of them only once. Each of four buyer questions was asked three times, in English, in October 2026.
The ranking
The AI Recommendation Rate is the fraction of the 36 answers that named a business. The range under it is a 95% confidence interval: where two ranges overlap, the gap between those businesses could be chance.
| # | Business | AI Recommendation Rate | ChatGPT | Claude | Gemini | Questions | Avg. position | With search |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Union Square DentalAlso written Union Square Dental Care, Union Square Dental Group, Union Square Dental StudioIs this your business? | 95%: 16 to 44% | 0% | 8% | 75% | 4 of 4 | 1.9 | 0% |
| 2 | Nob Hill Dental CareAlso written Nob Hill Dental CenterIs this your business? | 95%: 14 to 41% | 0% | 0% | 75% | 4 of 4 | 3.4 | 0% |
| 3 | San Francisco Dental Implant CenterAlso written SF Dental Implant Center, The Dental Implant Center of San FranciscoIs this your business? | 95%: 12 to 38% | 25% | 17% | 25% | 1 of 4 | 1.5 | 0% |
| 4 | Post Street DentalAlso written Post Street Dental GroupIs this your business? | 95%: 12 to 38% | 0% | 0% | 67% | 4 of 4 | 3.5 | 0% |
| 5 | UCSF Dental CenterIs this your business? | 95%: 8 to 32% | 50% | 0% | 0% | 3 of 4 | 1.5 | 0% |
| 6 | San Francisco Dental WellnessIs this your business? | 95%: 8 to 32% | 0% | 0% | 50% | 2 of 4 | 1.8 | 0% |
| 7 | University of the Pacific Arthur A. Dugoni School of DentistryAlso written University of the Pacific, Arthur A. Dugoni School of DentistryIs this your business? | 95%: 6 to 29% | 42% | 0% | 0% | 3 of 4 | 1.8 | 0% |
| 8 | Luma DentistryIs this your business? | 95%: 4 to 25% | 0% | 0% | 33% | 2 of 4 | 4.3 | 0% |
| 9 | Pacific Heights Dental StudioIs this your business? | 95%: 4 to 25% | 0% | 0% | 33% | 3 of 4 | 5 | 0% |
| 10 | Union Square Dental Implant CenterIs this your business? | 95%: 3 to 22% | 0% | 0% | 25% | 1 of 4 | 2.7 | 0% |
| 11 | SF DentalIs this your business? | 95%: 3 to 22% | 17% | 0% | 8% | 3 of 4 | 3 | 0% |
| 12 | Castro Dental GroupIs this your business? | 95%: 3 to 22% | 0% | 0% | 25% | 2 of 4 | 5.7 | 0% |
| 13 | San Francisco Emergency Dental CareIs this your business? | 95%: 2 to 18% | 0% | 0% | 17% | 1 of 4 | 1 | 0% |
| 14 | Washington Square Park DentalIs this your business? | 95%: 2 to 18% | 17% | 0% | 0% | 2 of 4 | 1.5 | 0% |
| 15 | San Francisco Dental Implants & PeriodonticsAlso written SF Dental Implant & PeriodonticsIs this your business? | 95%: 2 to 18% | 0% | 8% | 8% | 1 of 4 | 2.5 | 0% |
| 16 | SF Oral Surgery & ImplantologyIs this your business? | 95%: 2 to 18% | 17% | 0% | 0% | 1 of 4 | 2.5 | 0% |
| 17 | Union Square Dental Implants & PeriodonticsIs this your business? | 95%: 2 to 18% | 0% | 17% | 0% | 1 of 4 | 2.5 | 0% |
| 18 | SF Dental SpaIs this your business? | 95%: 2 to 18% | 0% | 0% | 17% | 1 of 4 | 3.5 | 0% |
| 19 | Marina Dental CareIs this your business? | 95%: 2 to 18% | 0% | 0% | 17% | 2 of 4 | 4.5 | 0% |
| 20 | Lumina Dental SFIs this your business? | 95%: 2 to 18% | 0% | 0% | 17% | 2 of 4 | 5 | 0% |
Each assistant column is the share of that assistant's own answers. Questions counts how many of the four produced the name at least once; position is where it came in the answer's list, 1 being first. 21 more names came up in a single answer and are counted above but not listed.
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What each assistant said
The same questions, the same number of times, and often different names. Each column is one assistant's top five from the ranking above, with the share of its own answers that named them.
| # | ChatGPT | Claude | Gemini |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | UCSF Dental Center50% | San Francisco Dental Implant Center17% | Union Square Dental75% |
| 2 | University of the Pacific Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry42% | Union Square Dental Implants & Periodontics17% | Nob Hill Dental Care75% |
| 3 | San Francisco Dental Implant Center25% | Union Square Dental8% | Post Street Dental67% |
| 4 | SF Dental17% | San Francisco Dental Implants & Periodontics8% | San Francisco Dental Wellness50% |
| 5 | Washington Square Park Dental17% | No other name twice | Luma Dentistry33% |
Claude named no business in 9 of its 12 answers.
Named here? Put it on your site
Every business in the ranking was named in two or more answers. The badge says that and nothing more: no position, because the ranges above do not support one. It links back to this page, so anyone can check.
<a href="https://aigrow.gg/index/dentists/san-francisco"><img src="https://aigrow.gg/badges/index/2026-10/dentists/san-francisco.svg" width="312" height="100" alt="Named by AI assistants: Dentists in San Francisco, AIGROW AI Visibility Index, October 2026"></a>The questions
Asked word for word, three times each, to every assistant. The prompt is the one the free scan uses. No web search, no location and no chat history, so every answer starts from the same place.
- 1Who is the best dentist in San Francisco?
- 2I need a dentist in San Francisco for a check-up and a cleaning. Which practices would you recommend?
- 3Which dental clinic in San Francisco is good for dental implants?
- 4I have a toothache and need an emergency dentist in San Francisco. Who should I call?
On this page the same questions were also asked with web search on, 1 answers. 0% of the businesses named with search were also named without it; the With search column above is each business's share of those answers.
How to read this page
- What it measures
- Which names these models produce when asked cold, from what they learned in training. It is not a review, a rating or our recommendation, and a business missing here may simply be one the models were never shown.
- Why the ranges matter
- 36 answers is a sample. Asked again next month, most shares will move by a few points; the ranges say how far they could move by chance alone.
- One business, several spellings
- Branches, legal suffixes and spellings of one business are merged, and the other spellings are printed under its name. Names that might be two businesses are kept apart.
- A name is wrong
- If a business here is closed, misnamed or yours and you want it removed, tell us. We correct or remove it when the page is next published.
Where the assistants look
The sites read most often, with web search on, before the assistants answer about this category in the United States. From the AI Source Map: 11 answers.
- reddit.com
- Read in 91% of the answers
- toprateddentist.com
- Read in 82% of the answers
- wikipedia.org
- Read in 73% of the answers
AI Visibility Index
Elsewhere in the Index
- Also in San Francisco
- LawyersAccountantsPlumbersGymsReal estate agenciesRestaurants
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Edition October 2026 · published by Guglielmo Paesano, founder of AIGROW · data under CC BY 4.0