Research
Reno, NV — Open past 6pm on a weekday: 0%, below the 18% elsewhere
We measured 91 dental practices in Reno serving 268,959 residents, and 4 findings stood out against the other markets we measure.
What we set out to measure
Who takes your plan, and who can see you outside working hours?
Every dental practice below comes from public licensing and business records, counted whether or not it appears in this site’s directory. The findings are what the numbers came back with, not a view we formed first and then looked for support for.
Open past 6pm on a weekday: 0%
That is 18 points below the 18% typical of the 4 other Nevada markets we measure.
Share of dental practices whose published hours run past 6pm on at least one weekday, out of the dental practices whose hours we have on record. Measured over 0 of 87. We could check 96% of Reno dental practices for this.
Open Saturday or Sunday: 9%
That is 16 points below the 25% typical of the 4 other Nevada markets we measure.
Share of dental practices whose published hours include Saturday or Sunday, out of the dental practices whose hours we have on record. Measured over 8 of 87. We could check 96% of Reno dental practices for this.
Median Google reviews: 140
That is 80.5 lower than the 220.5 typical of the 4 other Nevada markets we measure.
The middle number of Google reviews among dental practices that have any. A low median usually means a market of smaller or newer dental practices. We could check 92% of Reno dental practices for this.
Half of all dental practices sit in 3 of 9 ZIP codes
25 of them are in 89509 alone, out of the 91 we could place.
What this does not tell you
- Insurance figures describe what offices publish, not what they will accept. Confirm your own plan with the office before you book.
- Counts say nothing about price, wait time, or whether an office is taking new patients.
- A group practice with six dentists and a solo office each count as one.
How this was measured
- What was counted
- 91 dental practices with a Reno address in public licensing and business records. 91 of them meet this site’s bar to appear in the directory; the findings above are measured over all of them.
- Residents
- 268,959, US Census Bureau acs5-2023.
- Measured
- August 30, 2026. We keep every earlier measurement rather than overwriting it, so a later report can say what changed.
- How complete this is
- 83% of the measures this vertical tracks had enough coverage to report here. The rest are withheld rather than estimated, and are listed on the data page.
- Method version
- 1.0
Where the records come from
- American Dentists practice directory (production migration export) — 576 records, retrieved August 26, 2026.
- NPPES / NPI Registry — oral and maxillofacial surgery organizations — 33 records, retrieved August 26, 2026.