Which practices AI assistants name for dental implants in Austin
This report shows which Austin practices ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity name when patients ask them about dental implants. We asked each assistant five patient questions, six times each, and collected 90 answers. The answers named 65 practices, and the three assistants agreed on only 5 of them.
Practices named most often
The table lists the 13 practices named in 11 or more of the 90 answers. Each assistant gave 30 answers. The Perplexity answers come from its API, the version developers use, not from the app. In a spot check, three of the four practices the Perplexity app named also appeared in these answers.
This table counts how often AI assistants named each practice in one day’s sample. It is not a rating of clinical quality or a recommendation.
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| Practice | Named in (of 90 answers) | ChatGPT | Gemini | Perplexity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| South Austin Dental Implant Studio | 38/90 | 15/30 | 0/30 | 23/30 |
| Austin Periodontal Associates | 27/90 | 16/30 | 11/30 | 0/30 |
| ClearChoice Dental Implant Center | 24/90 | 9/30 | 11/30 | 4/30 |
| 38th Street Dental | 19/90 | 4/30 | 0/30 | 15/30 |
| 3D Dental | 15/90 | 0/30 | 3/30 | 12/30 |
| Widner Elite Oral Surgery | 15/90 | 5/30 | 4/30 | 6/30 |
| myDental (Austin locations) | 15/90 | 5/30 | 0/30 | 10/30 |
| Union Dental Implant Center | 13/90 | 4/30 | 3/30 | 6/30 |
| Austin Implants & Periodontics | 12/90 | 0/30 | 0/30 | 12/30 |
| Anchor Dental Implant Center | 12/90 | 2/30 | 5/30 | 5/30 |
| Periodontal Surgical Arts | 11/90 | 7/30 | 4/30 | 0/30 |
| Affordable Dentures & Implants | 11/90 | 5/30 | 6/30 | 0/30 |
| Eggleston Oral and Facial Surgery | 11/90 | 3/30 | 2/30 | 6/30 |
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Four things we noticed in the answers
The three assistants named mostly different practices
Only 5 of the 65 practices appeared in answers from all three assistants. 40 were named by only one of them. South Austin Dental Implant Studio, the practice named most often overall, appeared in 23 of 30 Perplexity answers and 15 of 30 ChatGPT answers. Gemini did not name it in any of its 30 answers. In this sample, a strong result on one assistant said little about the others.
Different patient questions brought up different practices
When we asked about implants with sedation for nervous patients, 14 of the 18 answers named Widner Elite Oral Surgery. In answers to the other four questions, it appeared once. When we asked about a single implant near downtown, Perplexity named Treaty Oak Dental in all six of its answers. Treaty Oak Dental did not appear in answers to any other question. In this sample, patients with different needs were shown different practices.
A cited website did not always lead to a mention
All 90 answers cited at least one dental practice’s website as a source. In at least 33 of them, a practice’s own website was among the sources, but the answer did not name the practice.
Naming a suburb in the question changed the answers
We found 47 periodontal, oral surgery and prosthodontic practices on Google Maps in the Austin area. The 90 Austin answers named 20 of them. We then asked the first question about 11 parts of the area, such as Round Rock and Pflugerville, and collected 18 answers for each. Eight of the 27 specialist practices missing from the Austin answers appeared in answers about their own area. Jovan Prosthodontics appeared in 17 of 18 Round Rock answers, and Capital Oral & Maxillo Facial in 11 of 18 Pflugerville answers. A practice outside central Austin can still be named when the patient mentions its part of town.
Sites the assistants cited most often
Apart from practice websites, these review, directory and ranking sites were cited most often. The number shows how many of the 90 answers cited each site.
Five free steps you can take this week
You can do most of these yourself, without paid tools.
Ask the assistants yourself
Open ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity in a private browser window. Ask them the five questions listed at the end of this report. Write down which practices they name and, if they name yours, how they describe it. Then ask the first question again with the name of your own part of town, such as Round Rock or South Austin. Repeat this a few days later, because the answers change from one run to the next.
Answer patients' questions on your implant page
Our five questions asked about full-arch treatment, single implants, price and sedation. Your implant page should answer each of these in plain sentences. Say who places the implants and what their specialty is. List your sedation options, your price range or financing, and the parts of Austin you serve. Our guide to marketing dental implants covers how to build that page.
Complete your Google Business Profile
Add dental implants, full-arch implants and sedation as services, and choose your specialty as a category. Your profile feeds Google Search and Google Maps, which Gemini can draw on. See what a complete profile includes on our local SEO for dentists page.
Check the sites the assistants cite
Search for your practice on the sites listed above, starting with RankMyDentist, DentistsRanked, Yelp and Opencare. If your listing is missing, outdated or wrong, correct it where the site allows it.
Check that AI search tools can read your site
Ask your web developer to confirm that your robots.txt file does not block OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User or PerplexityBot. If it blocks them, those assistants cannot read your pages. The same file can also block Google. Our website audit checklist covers that check.
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How we measured
We asked ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity five questions that a patient might ask. We asked each question 6 times on each assistant, every time in a fresh session:
- “Who is the best dentist for dental implants in Austin, TX?”
- “I'm missing several teeth and I'm considering full-arch implants (like All-on-4). Which practices in Austin, Texas would you recommend?”
- “Where can I get affordable dental implants near Austin, TX? I want a practice with good reviews.”
- “I need a single tooth implant. Which dentist near downtown Austin, Texas would you recommend?”
- “I'm nervous about dental work. Which Austin, TX dentists are best for dental implants with sedation?”
- Date and source. We collected the answers on October 29, 2026, through DataForSEO, a data provider for search and AI results.
- Settings. The ChatGPT and Gemini answers were collected from the same chat interface that patients use. Gemini was set to an Austin location and ChatGPT to the United States.
- Perplexity. The answers come from its developer API with US search results. In a spot check, we asked the first question three times in the Perplexity app. Three of the four practices the app named also appeared in the API answers to the same question. The emphasis differed: two practices were named in all six API answers to this question, and one of them did not appear in the app.
- Area. The Austin area in this report includes nearby cities such as Round Rock and Cedar Park.
- Suburbs. For the suburb comparison, we asked "Who is the best dentist for dental implants in [area], TX?" about 11 areas on the same day. We collected six answers per assistant for each area, 198 in total, and set Gemini to each area’s location. These answers are not included in the table or the totals above.
- Counting. We checked every practice name against public listings and left out names we could not verify. When an answer only cited a practice’s website as a source, we did not count it as naming the practice. Where an assistant used several versions of a practice’s name, we combined them under one name.
Read this as a sample, not a ranking. AI assistants often give a different list each time they are asked, and their answers can vary by device, account and location. The most reliable signal is how often a practice appears across many answers. That is what this report counts.
No practice paid to appear in this report, and none was a client when the answers were collected. Dental Rank Lab sells SEO and AI visibility services to dental practices. Every report in this series follows the same method. You can find all of them on the AI visibility reports page.
Think a number about your practice is wrong? Email balazs@dentalranklab.com and we’ll check the raw answers and correct it.
ChatGPT is a trademark of OpenAI, Gemini of Google LLC and Perplexity of Perplexity AI, Inc. Dental Rank Lab is not affiliated with or endorsed by them.
Balazs Monos runs Dental Rank Lab. He has 18 years of professional copywriting behind him, including work for healthcare brands such as Sanofi, and measures how AI assistants name dental practices.