McEntire Dental

A perfect 5.0 on Google doesn’t come lightly—especially not from 121 reviews. That’s the quiet signal hanging over McEntire Dental, a practice tucked into the Southgate complex in Pendleton, where the Umatilla River’s slow bend shapes the town’s southern edge. Dentists here handle everything from routine cleanings to crowns, but the real story isn’t the services list. It’s the fact that not a single reviewer has left less than five stars, which, in an era of online gripe-fests, reads like a minor miracle.

The address—1100 Southgate #4, just off SE Court Avenue—sits in that stretch of Pendleton where the commercial thins into residential, where pickup trucks park beside sedans and the sidewalks feel wider than downtown. It’s the kind of location that assumes you already know where Southgate is, or that you’ll find it without fuss. No flashy signage, no promises of painless anything. Just a steady stream of patients who, judging by the reviews, seem to leave happier than they arrived.

Booking an appointment means calling (541) 276-5272, a number that’s answered by someone who’s fielded the same call a hundred times before. First visits, emergencies, second opinions—they’re all routed through that line. For those mapping it out, the directions are straightforward once you spot the low-slung brick building. Around here, a perfect rating doesn’t just mean good dentistry; it means no one’s bothered to complain, and that might be the highest praise there is.