Dentist ads in Los Angeles: US$15.04 a click

What a booked appointment costs in clicks

At a lead rate of 10.67% of clicks (calls and forms; US benchmark, LocaliQ 2026, Dentists & Dental Services) and a booking rate of 57.1% of calls (US/Canada benchmark, Liine Dentistry Marketing Benchmark Report 2024), a booked appointment costs about US$247 in clicks at US$15.04 a click.

Cost per booked appointment in Los Angeles is the click price divided by the lead rate times the booking rate. The rates are national benchmarks, not Los Angeles figures; the planner below starts from them and you can change both.

Each row uses the same two rates as the sentence above, so the order follows click price.

Where the dentist searches are in Los Angeles

Searches split by what the searcher typed. The two tags rank the groups on this page by click price; they are rankings, not verdicts.

Near me are the largest share of counted search volume in Los Angeles, at 42.8%.

In Los Angeles, specific jobs has the highest click price among the counted intent groups, at US$15.76 a click.

Plan a month of dentist ads in Los Angeles

Put in your own value per appointment and margin. The call and booking rates start at the benchmarks named under each box; change them to your own.

Every dentist keyword tracked in Los Angeles

Monthly searches are the average of the last 12 months. Related keywords are shown for context and are not counted in any total on this page.

The most-searched dentist keywords in Los Angeles are “dentist near me” (27,283 searches a month at US$14.37 a click), “dentist” (17,983 searches a month at US$16.48 a click), and “invisalign” (6,975 searches a month at US$8.66 a click).

In Los Angeles, “dental implants” is the keyword furthest from the country median: US$35.82 a click, 150.0% above the US$14.33 median click price for dentist across this country's tracked cities.

In Los Angeles, “bulk billing dentist” is the least-searched of the counted keywords tracked here, at 5 searches a month.

In Los Angeles, 8 of the 12 counted dentist keywords tracked here have a recorded Google click price.

How Los Angeles compares in the United States

Over the 48 months tracked, dentists searches in Los Angeles peaked in February 2025 at 93,700 and were lowest in November 2025 at 48,820. Los Angeles's single latest tracked month is up 26.5% on the same month a year ago and up 14.7% on the same month two years ago (a one-month comparison, not the rolling 12-month year-on-year figure above). In Los Angeles, the keyword changing fastest year on year is "bulk billing dentist", up 50.0%.

• Los Angeles is 30th of 50 United States cities by click price, mid-table.
• Los Angeles is 3rd of 50 United States cities by monthly searches, among the three highest.
• Los Angeles is 4th of 6 California cities by click price, among the three highest.
• Los Angeles is 1st of 6 California cities by monthly searches, the highest.
• For this service, Los Angeles sits in California, which is 31st of 31 states by businesses per 10,000 people, the highest (an average of 6.1 businesses per 10,000 people across California).
• Los Angeles's 496.1 searches a month per 100,000 people is below the country-wide rate of 524.6 for this service.
• Los Angeles's median dentist click price of US$15.04 is 5.0% above the country median of US$14.33.
• Counted searches over the last 12 months are down 11.6% on the 12 months before.
• In Los Angeles, searches are fairly even through the year; the busiest month, March, is not a strong peak.

Dentist businesses in Los Angeles

The US Census Bureau counts 9,296 businesses in this industry in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA (2023), about 7.2 for every 10,000 people.

What is counted: employer establishments.

Counts cover businesses with employees; most sole traders are not included.

Population: 12,844,441 (Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA). Source: US Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP), MSA/micropolitan estimates, vintage 2023.

Business counts are never compared across countries on this site: each country's statistics agency counts a different set of businesses.

Dentist click prices in 6 countries

United States is 6th of 6 countries by median dentist click price (lowest first), all in US$ at the Federal Reserve H.10 September 2026 average.

Medians across each country's tracked cities, same pull month. Each country uses its own keyword set and its own name for the service. Only click prices and searches are compared across borders; business counts are not.

Rules for dentists in the United States

Licensing is set by each state.

Questions people ask about dentist ads in Los Angeles

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Data and sources

Search data pulled October 13, 2026. Google Keyword Planner estimates via DataForSEO, not what you will pay at auction; your own Google Ads account shows your real price.