Top Rated Dentists
Ranked by official U.S. government quality data

How this ranking is measured

These clinicians are ranked using the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS), a program run by the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). MIPS gives each participating clinician one final score from 0 to 100, built from four standardized categories that CMS applies the same way to every provider: the quality of care they deliver (clinical processes, patient outcomes, and patient experience), the cost efficiency of that care, the improvement activities they undertake to make care safer and better coordinated, and their use of certified health information technology (promoting interoperability).

CMS scores every clinician against the same national performance threshold. We list only providers who scored 75 or higher out of 100, meaning they performed at or above that national benchmark on these measured indicators, not on patient reviews, popularity, or paid placement. Because the scores come from objective, government-collected data that CMS publishes for public reporting, they give patients a consistent and transparent way to see which providers are outperforming their peers.