Dentists in San Francisco that AI assistants recommend
We asked ChatGPT and Claude 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 24 answers.
Names are printed as the assistants wrote them. We have not checked that any of them is good, open, or real.
- Answers
- 24
- Businesses named
- 41
- Named only once
- 28
- Named by 2+ assistants
- 12 of 13
- Named again on a rerun
- 28%
Edition September 2026. Download the data
Asked for dentists in San Francisco, ChatGPT and Claude most often named Pacific Heights Dental Studio (42% of answers), UCSF Dental Center (38%) and Union Square Dental Group (38%). Across 24 answers they named 41 different businesses, 28 of them only once. Each of four buyer questions was asked three times, in English, in September 2026.
The ranking
Share is the fraction of the 24 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 | Share | ChatGPT | Claude | Questions | Avg. position |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pacific Heights Dental Studio | 95%: 25 to 61% | 25% | 58% | 4 of 4 | 3.2 |
| 2 | UCSF Dental Center | 95%: 21 to 57% | 33% | 42% | 4 of 4 | 2.6 |
| 3 | Union Square Dental Group | 95%: 21 to 57% | 50% | 25% | 4 of 4 | 3.1 |
| 4 | San Francisco Dental Group | 95%: 15 to 49% | 25% | 33% | 4 of 4 | 1.9 |
| 5 | San Francisco Dental Implant Center | 95%: 7 to 36% | 8% | 25% | 1 of 4 | 1.3 |
| 6 | Emergency Dental Care USA – San Francisco | 95%: 4 to 31% | 17% | 8% | 1 of 4 | 2 |
| 7 | Union Square Dental | 95%: 4 to 31% | 17% | 8% | 3 of 4 | 2 |
| 8 | SoMa Dental ArtsAlso written SOMA Dental Arts | 95%: 4 to 31% | 17% | 8% | 1 of 4 | 2.3 |
| 9 | Noe Valley Dental | 95%: 4 to 31% | 17% | 8% | 1 of 4 | 3 |
| 10 | Emergency Dental Care USA | 95%: 2 to 26% | 0% | 17% | 1 of 4 | 1 |
| 11 | Sutter Dental Collective | 95%: 2 to 26% | 8% | 8% | 2 of 4 | 1.5 |
| 12 | Dr. Alex Schrott Dentistry | 95%: 2 to 26% | 8% | 8% | 2 of 4 | 2 |
| 13 | San Francisco Dental Studio | 95%: 2 to 26% | 8% | 8% | 2 of 4 | 2.5 |
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. 28 more names came up in a single answer and are counted above but not listed.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Union Square Dental Group50% | Pacific Heights Dental Studio58% |
| 2 | UCSF Dental Center33% | UCSF Dental Center42% |
| 3 | Pacific Heights Dental Studio25% | San Francisco Dental Group33% |
| 4 | San Francisco Dental Group25% | Union Square Dental Group25% |
| 5 | Emergency Dental Care USA – San Francisco17% | San Francisco Dental Implant Center25% |
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/2026-09/dentists/san-francisco.svg" width="312" height="100" alt="Named by AI assistants: Dentists in San Francisco, AIGROW AI Visibility Index, September 2026"></a>The questions
Asked word for word, three times each, to every assistant through its API. 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?
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
- 24 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.
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Edition September 2026 · data under CC BY 4.0