Relaxation Dentistry holds 602 Google reviews and answered 2 of its last 10. Shakopee Dental holds 498 and answered 2 of its last 10. Chaska Family Dental holds 504 and answered 1 of its last 10. Those are the three answering the most of their recent reviews among the 20 dentists we read. The review files run to the hundreds; the reply counts sit at 2, 2 and 1 of the last ten.
Among the 20 orthodontists we read, Ovation Orthodontics answered 9 of its last 10 and holds 382 reviews. Veil & Wild Orthodontics answered 7 of its last 10 and holds 251. RiverRock Dental answered 4 of its last 10 and holds 276. Two different windows are at work in those sentences and they should not be run together: the reply counts are drawn from each business's most recent reviews, while the review totals are the whole listing.
On depth, the median listing among the 20 dentists we read carries 169.5 reviews, and the three most-reviewed carry 602, 504 and 498. Among the 20 orthodontists the median is 112, with the three most-reviewed at 433, 382 and 375. The median rating is 4.9 in both. A median is one figure for a whole set: it does not tell you which listing is which, and nothing on this page is ordered by stars in any case.
One figure for scale. Across the 48 businesses we measured in the set someone searching around Shakopee is shown, a typical one answered 78% of its recent reviews. That set is a catchment rather than a register of what sits inside the city limits, and the figure belongs to those 48 businesses together, not to any single trade in this group.
What to do about it
If a listing holds several hundred reviews, the work in front of you is smaller than the number suggests, and it does not mean going back through the whole file. The counts on this page are drawn from each business's most recent reviews, so the sensible place to start is the top of the list: work down the last ten, then answer each new one as it turns up.
What goes in a reply matters more than how many you post. Name the specific thing the person wrote about, use your own words rather than a stock paragraph, and answer the warm ones as well as the difficult ones. Catching up once and keeping up afterwards are two different jobs, and the second is much the smaller of them. Ovation Orthodontics, at 9 of its last 10 on a listing of 382 reviews, is what the second job looks like once it is running.
Dentists
| # | Business | Answered | Reviews | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Relaxation Dentistry | 2 of 10 | 602 | 4.9 |
| 2 | Shakopee Dental | 2 of 10 | 498 | 4.9 |
| 3 | Chaska Family Dental | 1 of 10 | 504 | 4.9 |
Orthodontists
| # | Business | Answered | Reviews | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ovation Orthodontics | 9 of 10 | 382 | 4.9 |
| 2 | Veil & Wild Orthodontics | 7 of 10 | 251 | 4.9 |
| 3 | RiverRock Dental | 4 of 10 | 276 | 4.9 |