City's Edge Dental Care answered 10 of its last 10 reviews, on a Google listing that carries 644 of them. Woodbury Smiles Dentistry answered 4 of its last 10, with 506 reviews on the listing. Eagle Valley Dental answered 3 of its last 10, with 468. Those are the three answering the most of the 20 dentists we read in the set someone searching around Woodbury is shown, and they say nothing about the rest of the twenty either way.
Among the 20 orthodontists we read, Horton Orthodontics answered 10 of its last 10, on 644 reviews. Dunn Orthodontics also answered 10 of its last 10, on 381. Summit Orthopedics with Urgent Care Woodbury answered 8 of its last 10, and its listing holds 2728 reviews, the largest of the three most-reviewed orthodontic listings in this catchment, which carry 2728, 1084 and 644.
On the surface numbers, the two trades are hard to tell apart. The median review count is 195 across the 20 dentists and 194.5 across the 20 orthodontists. The median rating is 4.9 for one and 4.85 for the other. A trade median is a single figure for a whole set; it does not tell you which listing is which, or how far apart the listings underneath it sit. The three most-reviewed dental listings we read hold 1934, 1082 and 644 reviews.
Two different windows are in play above, and they are not the same window. The reply counts are drawn from each business's most recent reviews. The review counts are the whole listing, every review it has ever collected. Across the 56 businesses we measured in what someone searching in Woodbury is shown, a typical one answered 78% of its recent reviews; that figure describes the 56 we measured and is not a reading of any one trade. In all, we read 440 businesses across every trade in this catchment.
What to do about it
A listing sitting at 644 or 506 reviews is not something anyone answers from the beginning, and nothing here suggests that is the work. The counts on this page come from each business's most recent reviews, ten of them. Start at the newest and go backwards through that same stretch. Answer the warm ones as well as the awkward ones, and write each reply to the visit it belongs to, because a line that could sit under any review on any listing is doing less than it looks.
The second thing worth taking from these figures is what they cannot settle. The median rating across the 20 dentists we read is 4.9, and across the 20 orthodontists 4.85. A median is one number for a whole set, so it distinguishes no individual practice from another. The written replies underneath are the part of the listing that is yours alone, and the only part of it you author.
Dentists
| # | Business | Answered | Reviews | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | City's Edge Dental Care | 10 of 10 | 644 | 4.9 |
| 2 | Woodbury Smiles Dentistry | 4 of 10 | 506 | 4.5 |
| 3 | Eagle Valley Dental | 3 of 10 | 468 | 4.9 |
Orthodontists
| # | Business | Answered | Reviews | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Horton Orthodontics | 10 of 10 | 644 | 4.9 |
| 2 | Dunn Orthodontics | 10 of 10 | 381 | 4.9 |
| 3 | Summit Orthopedics with Urgent Care Woodbury | 8 of 10 | 2728 | 4.8 |