Mador report · November 2026
Dentists in France: who AI assistants recommend
We asked 4 AI assistants where to find dentists in 20 cities in France, with 5 questions per city written the way a resident would ask them. That makes 400 answers, collected between 3 November 2026 and 4 November 2026.
81% of answers recommend at least one business
322 of 400 answers give at least one name to call. With the same method, the true share sits between 76% and 84%; the other answers explain how to choose and name nobody.
Perplexity names the most, Claude the fewest
Perplexity recommends a business in 95% of its answers, Claude in 63%. Showing up in one assistant does not mean showing up in another.
Dentego is recommended in 18 of 20 cities
43% of answers name at least one national network or chain. The other recommended businesses are independent, and they change from city to city.
Portals make up 16% of the sites read, business websites 12%
59% of answers link to a portal, 37% to the website of a named business. A site the assistant reads is a site it takes names from.
City by city
| City | Answers | With a business | Most recommended |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paris | 20 | 70% | Cabinet Frimouth, Dentego, SOS Dentaire |
| Marseille | 20 | 75% | Clinadent, Cabinet Valdent, Dentego |
| Lyon | 20 | 90% | Dentego, Docali, Cabinet Dentaire du Parc |
| Toulouse | 20 | 75% | Dentylis, Docali, Dentego |
| Nice | 20 | 65% | Dentego, Cabinet dentaire Rossini, Clinadent |
| Nantes | 20 | 85% | Le Cabinet Dentaire Guist'hau, CHU de Nantes, Le Cabinet Dentaire Monselet |
| Montpellier | 20 | 80% | Dentego, Clinadent, DentalCo+ |
| Strasbourg | 20 | 80% | Dentego, Cabinet Dentaire de la Paix, Centre de santé dentaire UGECAM |
| Bordeaux | 20 | 85% | Dentego, Cabinet Dentaire Le 72, Clinique Dentaire Bordeaux Nord |
| Lille | 20 | 75% | Dentego, Dentylis, Place Dentaire |
| Rennes | 20 | 85% | Dentego, Docali, Centre de Soins Dentaires du CHU de Rennes |
| Toulon | 20 | 85% | Clinadent, Dentego, Centre Dentaire Toulon |
| Reims | 20 | 90% | Dentego, Centre dentaire Reims Vesle, Centre dentaire Reims Cernay |
| Saint-Étienne | 20 | 75% | Le Centre Dentaire Mutualiste AÉSIO Santé |
| Le Havre | 20 | 80% | Centre dentaire Le Havre - République, Centre dentaire Le Havre Caucriauville, Dentego |
| Villeurbanne | 20 | 70% | Dentego, Clinic Tête d'Or, Dentylis |
| Dijon | 20 | 90% | Dentego, CHU Dijon, Institut Universitaire de Soins Dentaires |
| Angers | 20 | 85% | Centre Dentaire Angers Delaage, Dentego, Centre Dentaire Angers Montesquieu |
| Grenoble | 20 | 95% | Le Centre dentaire Maréchal Foch, Le Cabinet Dentaire de l'Obiou, Le Centre dentaire Libération |
| Nîmes | 20 | 75% | Dentego, Clinadent, Place Dentaire |
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Method
Cities: the 20 most populous municipalities in metropolitan France, INSEE legal populations at 1 January 2023. Each city has its own 5 questions, in the language spoken there, the same for every assistant.
Assistants: ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, with the models of Mador's free scan and web search on. For each question and assistant the most recent answer counts.
An answer "recommends a business" when it names at least one real business in the category: headings, neighbourhoods, portals and public bodies do not count. The interval accounts for assistants answering the same questions (the same method as the Mador Index).
Since 4 November 2026, the order counts the answers that recommend first, then the mentions.
Names appear only where the assistants recommend them, never if an answer advises against them: national networks in the cities where at least one answer recommends them, independent businesses recommended in at least 2 answers in their city.
This data comes from the same work Mador does every day for businesses: it sees where assistants recommend them, writes and publishes the missing pages and measures again to see what changed.
See where your business shows upMador, "Dentists in France: who AI assistants recommend", November 2026, mador.ai.