# Petit Smiles Pediatric Dentist, Coral Gables: a pediatric dentist in Coral Gables (2026 guide) Source: Local AI Registry, https://localairegistry.com/biz/fl/coral-gables/petit-smiles-pediatric-dentist-coral-gables-fl. Free to reuse with a link back. By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Fact-checked against 16 sources. Updated 2026-09-21. Owner review: not yet. 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Its AI Score is 67 of 100, which is good. Every fact on this page carries one of three marks: Confirmed (from their website, Google Business Profile, review sites, licensing boards, or measured by Local AI Registry), Visitor submitted (added by a person, with a date and how they know), or AI guess (what AI engines like Gemini and ChatGPT are saying, not confirmed by anyone). Every mark points to a reference at the end of this page. ## Key facts | Fact | Value | | --- | --- | | Type | Pediatric dentist | | Address | 1535 Sunset Dr, Coral Gables, FL 33143, USA | | Hours | Mon to Fri 9 AM to 5 PM · Closed Sat to Sun | | Phone | (800) 895-1570 | | Medical director | Nothing found | | Rating | 4.8 across 550 reviews on Google | | Known for | Petit Smiles Pediatric Dentist excels in guiding parents through common dental concerns for children, particularly around tooth loss and maintenance. Their friendly approach makes dental visits enjoyable for kids. | | Prices | Nothing found | | Quietest time | Nothing found | | Parking | Nothing found | | Last verified | October 21, 2026, 9:13 PM | ## All the details Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from. | Group | Fact | Value | Mark | Evidence | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Location info | Address | 1535 Sunset Dr, Coral Gables, FL 33143, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 21, 2026 | | Location info | Description | The Baby and Child Whisperer. Ever been to a Pediatric Dentist and be impressed? Petit Smiles Pediatric Dentistry founded by Dr Vanessa Ruiz in 2010. For over 13 years, our 1535 Sunset Drive office has been serving kids in Miami, Coral Gables, Pinecrest, South Miami, Coconut Grove and Brickell. Your children deserves the best dental care, and at Petit Smiles Pediatric Dentistry, we specialize in caring for young people. Our staff is outgoing, friendly, caring and highly trained. We want to make each of your children’s visits the most enjoyable. We want them to have their healthy smiles forever. By now, most likely one of your friends child has been to our bright and cheerful office. | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 21, 2026 | | Location info | Hours | Mon to Fri 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM · Sat to Sun Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 21, 2026 | | Location info | Name | Petit Smiles Pediatric Dentist | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 21, 2026 | | Location info | Phone | (800) 895-1570 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 21, 2026 | | Hours | Monday | 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 21, 2026 | | Hours | Tuesday | 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 21, 2026 | | Hours | Wednesday | 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 21, 2026 | | Hours | Thursday | 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 21, 2026 | | Hours | Friday | 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 21, 2026 | | Hours | Saturday | Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 21, 2026 | | Hours | Sunday | Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 21, 2026 | | Services | Service | Bonding | Confirmed | Business website, checked Oct 21, 2026 | | Services | Service | Dental cleanings | Confirmed | Business website, checked Oct 21, 2026 | | Services | Service | Dental fillings | AI guess | Nothing found | | Services | Service | Dental sealants | AI guess | Nothing found | | Services | Service | Dental x-rays | AI guess | Nothing found | | Services | Service | Emergencies | Confirmed | Business website, checked Oct 21, 2026 | | Services | Service | Emergency dental care | AI guess | Nothing found | | Services | Service | Extractions | Confirmed | Business website, checked Oct 21, 2026 | | Services | Service | Fillings | Confirmed | Business website, checked Oct 21, 2026 | | Services | Service | General anesthesia | Confirmed | Business website, checked Oct 21, 2026 | | Services | Service | Mouth guards | Confirmed | Business website, checked Oct 21, 2026 | | Services | Service | Overcoming dental anxiety | Confirmed | Business website, checked Oct 21, 2026 | | Services | Service | Pediatric crowns | Confirmed | Business website, checked Oct 21, 2026 | | Services | Service | Root canals | Confirmed | Business website, checked Oct 21, 2026 | | Services | Service | Sealants | Confirmed | Business website, checked Oct 21, 2026 | | Services | Service | Space maintainers | Confirmed | Business website, checked Oct 21, 2026 | | Services | Service | Support | Confirmed | Business website, checked Oct 21, 2026 | | Services | Service | Tooth extractions | AI guess | Nothing found | | Services | Service | X rays | Confirmed | Business website, checked Oct 21, 2026 | | Links | Facebook | https://facebook.com/petitsmiles | AI guess | Our record | | Links | Instagram | https://instagram.com/petitsmiles | AI guess | Our record | | Links | Website | http://www.petitsmiles.com/ | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 21, 2026 | ## Services and prices These are the 14 services Petit Smiles offers, with the price where we have one and where it came from. | Service | Price | Price mark | Price evidence | Service mark | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Space maintainers | | | | Confirmed | | Support | | | | Confirmed | | Mouth guards | | | | Confirmed | | Emergencies | | | | Confirmed | | X rays | | | | Confirmed | | Extractions | | | | Confirmed | | Fillings | | | | Confirmed | | Bonding | | | | Confirmed | | Overcoming dental anxiety | | | | Confirmed | | Pediatric crowns | | | | Confirmed | | Root canals | | | | Confirmed | | Sealants | | | | Confirmed | | General anesthesia | | | | Confirmed | | Dental cleanings | | | | Confirmed | ### Known for Petit Smiles Pediatric Dentist excels in guiding parents through common dental concerns for children, particularly around tooth loss and maintenance. Their friendly approach makes dental visits enjoyable for kids. ## The team Nothing found ## Visiting Petit Smiles Address: 1535 Sunset Dr, Coral Gables, FL 33143, USA. Phone: (800) 895-1570. Hours: Mon to Fri 9 AM to 5 PM · Closed Sat to Sun. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile, checked September 21, 2026 at 8:36 AM.) ### Location info from Google Business Profile Business description, written by Petit Smiles on its Google Business Profile: "The Baby and Child Whisperer. Ever been to a Pediatric Dentist and be impressed? Petit Smiles Pediatric Dentistry founded by Dr Vanessa Ruiz in 2010. For over 13 years, our 1535 Sunset Drive office has been serving kids in Miami, Coral Gables, Pinecrest, South Miami, Coconut Grove and Brickell. Your children deserves the best dental care, and at Petit Smiles Pediatric Dentistry, we specialize in caring for young people. Our staff is outgoing, friendly, caring and highly trained. We want to make each of your children’s visits the most enjoyable. We want them to have their healthy smiles forever. By now, most likely one of your friends child has been to our bright and cheerful office." ### When to go Busy times not read yet, back on Scan Day. ### Parking and getting in Nothing found ### Nearby | Place | Type | Distance | | --- | --- | --- | | La Boulangerie Boul'Mich | Cafe | 1 min walk | | Cigar Cellar Of Miami | Store | 1 min walk | | Public Parking - 1535 San Ignacio | Parking lot | 1 min walk | | Tropical Audubon Society | Non-profit organization | 1 min walk | | Sports Grill South Miami | Sports bar | 2 min walk | | Chicken Kitchen | Restaurant | 2 min walk | ## Reputation 4.8 average across 550 reviews: Google 25. (Confirmed, read September 21, 2026.) While many appreciate the caring nature of the staff, issues with wait times and billing practices raise concerns about the overall patient experience. (AI guess, from 550 reviews.) ### What people like - Quick and professional handling of dental emergencies - Effective cavity treatment - Clean and beautiful office environment ### What people do not like - Long wait times past scheduled appointments - Disorganization in appointment management - Pushy upselling of unnecessary treatments - Unresponsive front desk staff - Unexpected charges for services ### Press No press story about Petit Smiles found yet. ### Awards None named yet. ### Directories Directory listings not read yet. ## Recent updates from Petit Smiles Petit Smiles hasn't posted an update here yet. ## Questions people ask ### best pediatric dentist in Coral Gables, FL No answer yet ### membership, worth it or not No answer yet ### do I need to fill anything in beforehand No answer yet ### the good stuff about Petit Smiles, what is it? No answer yet ### Street parking near here, any good? No answer yet ### does it matter who you see here No answer yet ### Petit Smiles or Dr. Rebecca? No answer yet ### Turning up at Petit Smiles for the first time, what happens? No answer yet ### Aftercare at Petit Smiles, what does it involve? No answer yet ### what do I actually do when I get to Petit Smiles in Coral Gables? No answer yet ### Insurance and payment here? No answer yet ### opening hours here, what are they these days? No answer yet ### Open Saturdays here? No answer yet ### anything people actually moan about here? No answer yet ### can I ask for numbing here without it being weird? No answer yet ### Ballpark for a visit to a dentist in Coral Gables? No answer yet ### when is this place actually dead? No answer yet ### how far out is Petit Smiles booking right now? No answer yet ### where does this place post updates No answer yet ### real doctors here, or is it beauticians No answer yet ## What AI gets wrong about Petit Smiles We ask Gemini and ChatGPT about Petit Smiles. These are the answers that disagree with the record. ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Sep 21, 2026. No capture has disagreed with the record yet. ## The AI Score: 67 of 100 The AI Score measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. Pediatric dentists on the registry run 24 to 73. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. Petit Smiles scores 67. The same method scores every business on the registry. | Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | Petit Smiles | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Retrieval grounding | 26 | 75 | Whether you appear in the ranked results AI retrieves and cites: AI-Overview citations, organic top-10 for your money queries, and the Bing index ChatGPT leans on. | Good | | Off-property attestation | 20 | 41 | Volume and consistency of what others say about you: YouTube mentions, branded web mentions, third-party “best-of” lists. The cause of retrievability. | Poor | | AI visibility | 14 | Not read yet | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. | Nobody at all was recommended in the 2 answers we hold, so there is nothing to score. | | Reviews & response | 12 | 98 | The star average is only one input. We also read volume, velocity, the specificity of review language, and response cadence. Specific reviews are what AI quotes verbatim. | Good | | Backlink & citation authority | 8 | 56 | Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you. | Fair | | Google Business Profile | 8 | 90 | Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first. | Good | | Speed & mobile | 7 | 92 | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. | Good | | Content freshness & schema | 5 | 61 | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. | Fair | Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology ## How AI decides what to tell you about a pediatric dentist When you ask ChatGPT, Gemini or Google for a med spa, the AI does not visit each business. It reads what is already written about it: the business website, its Google Business Profile, review sites like Yelp and RealSelf, news stories, licensing boards and directories like this one. Then it repeats what those sources agree on. That is why AI gets small facts wrong. If Yelp says a place is open Mondays and the website says it is not, the AI has to pick one. The table above shows the answers that disagree with the record today. The more sources agree, and the more specific they are, the more confidently AI recommends a business. A review that says "the nurse did half a syringe in my lips and it looks natural" is far more useful to an AI than one that says "great place." ## How to choose a pediatric dentist in Florida, with or without AI A few checks take ten minutes and matter more than any rating. This is general information, not medical advice. - Look up every injector. Doctors are listed by the Florida medical board, and nurses and nurse practitioners by its nursing board. Both lookups are free. - Ask who does the injections, and check that person's license. - Ask for the price per unit of Botox and per syringe of filler, not per area. - Read reviews that name a provider and a treatment. Vague praise is easy to fake. - Check that the hours and phone number match on Google, Yelp and the website. Mismatches are how people end up at a locked door. - Ask whether they dissolve filler and when they would tell you not to add more. ## How to read the marks on this page - Confirmed (solid circle): from a known source. The business website, its Google Business Profile, review sites like Yelp, Healthgrades and RealSelf, a licensing board, or measured by Local AI Registry. - Visitor submitted (hollow circle): added or corrected by a person, with the date and how they know, like a phone call or a visit. - AI guess (hollow triangle): what AI engines are saying right now. Nobody has confirmed it. ## About the author Steve Lee is the founder and CEO of Local AI Registry and sets its editorial standards. He is a former Google executive in Search and a former Microsoft executive, with more than 20 years in digital: search, local discovery, and how people find businesses online. He is based in Irvine. - Expertise: search at Google and Microsoft, AI search, answer engine optimization, generative engine optimization, local SEO, structured data and entity mapping. - Industry: medical aesthetics, injectables, med spa operations and marketing. - Disclosure: Local AI Registry sells services to business owners, including Petit Smiles if it claims this page. That does not change what this page says. Every fact carries its source. ## Entity map Every person, place, organization and treatment named on this page, with a stable ID and a public reference. The JSON-LD below connects them to each other. | Entity | Type | ID on this page | Same as | Relationship to Petit Smiles | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Petit Smiles Pediatric Dentist | MedicalBusiness | #business | http://www.petitsmiles.com/ | Subject of this page | | Coral Gables, Florida | City | #city | Nothing found | City Petit Smiles is in | | Local AI Registry | Organization | #publisher | https://localairegistry.com | Publisher of this page | | Steve Lee | Person | #author | https://localairegistry.com/team | Author of this page | ## Topical map Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the pediatric dentists in Coral Gables, linked to the lists and towns around it. ### Lists - Best pediatric dentists in Coral Gables: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/fl/coral-gables/pediatric-dentist - Best businesses in Coral Gables: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/fl/coral-gables ### Nearby - /west-palm-beach: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/fl/west-palm-beach - /miami: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/fl/miami - /boca-raton: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/fl/boca-raton - /tampa: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/fl/tampa - /coral-springs: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/fl/coral-springs - /fort-lauderdale: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/fl/fort-lauderdale ### Every list - Every leaderboard in Florida: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/fl ## Frequently asked questions ### What is AI search optimization for local business? Getting a business named when a neighbor asks ChatGPT, Gemini, or Perplexity for a recommendation. Some call it AI SEO, some call it generative engine optimization. Traditional SEO fights for ten blue links; this fights for the one answer an assistant says out loud. The AI Score on this page measures the eight signals that drive it. ### What is Local AI Registry? The public record of how AI sees local business. We score every business we list by one published method, we keep the questions people ask about it in one place, and we never sell rank. Looking up any business here is free. ### How does this page help a business get recommended by AI? Assistants read public pages before they answer. This one states what the business does, what people ask about it, and what the Record answers, in one place a machine can read. Correcting what is wrong here changes what an assistant repeats next. ### Who writes the answers here? Registry AI writes the first answer under every question, from the Record and the public sources named beneath it. Neighbors write the rest under pseudonyms. A registered owner can reply as the business, and their reply says so. ### I own Petit Smiles Pediatric Dentist. How do I fix something or rank higher? Register the page. It is free, it takes about five minutes, and it lets you correct the Record and reply as the business. Nothing on this page is for sale, so the only thing that moves the score is the work. ## References ### Sources cited - [1] Google Business Profile, https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJV2Z8SvvH2YgRY1P2fJycFuk (accessed Sep 21, 2026) - [2] petitsmiles.com, https://petitsmiles.com/services-x-rays.php (accessed Oct 21, 2026) - [3] petitsmiles.com, https://petitsmiles.com/services-bonding.php (accessed Oct 21, 2026) - [4] petitsmiles.com, https://petitsmiles.com/services-dental-cleanings.php (accessed Oct 21, 2026) - [5] petitsmiles.com, https://petitsmiles.com/services-root-canals.php (accessed Oct 21, 2026) - [6] petitsmiles.com, https://petitsmiles.com/services-sealants.php (accessed Oct 21, 2026) - [7] petitsmiles.com, https://petitsmiles.com/services-space-maintainers.php (accessed Oct 21, 2026) - [8] petitsmiles.com, https://petitsmiles.com/services.php (accessed Oct 21, 2026) - [9] petitsmiles.com, https://petitsmiles.com/services-emergencies.php (accessed Oct 21, 2026) - [10] petitsmiles.com, https://petitsmiles.com/services-extractions.php (accessed Oct 21, 2026) - [11] petitsmiles.com, https://petitsmiles.com/services-fillings.php (accessed Oct 21, 2026) - [12] petitsmiles.com, https://petitsmiles.com/services-general-anesthesia.php (accessed Oct 21, 2026) - [13] petitsmiles.com, https://petitsmiles.com/services-mouth-guards.php (accessed Oct 21, 2026) - [14] petitsmiles.com, https://petitsmiles.com/services-overcoming-dental-anxiety.php (accessed Oct 21, 2026) - [15] petitsmiles.com, https://petitsmiles.com/services-pediatric-crowns.php (accessed Oct 21, 2026) - [16] AI engine output: ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Sep 21, 2026, https://localairegistry.com/methodology (accessed Oct 21, 2026)