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66.7%
of US adults had a dental exam or cleaning in the past year (2025)
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Vendor dataUpdated 23 Oct 2026
45%of US consumers use ChatGPT or other AI tools for local business recommendations, up from 6% a year earlier
45% of US consumers use ChatGPT or other AI tools for local business recommendations, up from 6% a year earlier (2026 survey, BrightLocal, Local Consumer Review Survey)
Vendor dataChecked at source, 23 Oct 2026All sizesUSADental marketing · Patient search
In plain words
What this number really says
45% of US consumers use ChatGPT or other AI tools for local business recommendations, up from 6% a year earlier (2026 survey).
45%
the latest figure (2026 survey)
Vendor data
type of source
Why you can trust it. BrightLocal, Local Consumer Review Survey: vendor data, a company measuring its own customers or panel. Representative panel of 1,002 US adult consumers via SurveyMonkey
Key facts
- Period 2026 survey
- Region USA
- Company size All sizes
- Next data Yearly
Source: BrightLocal, Local Consumer Review Survey, 2026 survey
Method and use
How it was measured, and how to use it
How it was measured
- Publisher
- BrightLocal, Local Consumer Review Survey
- Source type
- Vendor data: A company measuring its own customers or panel
- What it measures
- 45% of US consumers use ChatGPT or other AI tools for local business recommendations, up from 6% a year earlier
- Data period
- 2026 survey
- Published by the source
- 11 Feb 2026
- Who is counted
- Representative panel of 1,002 US adult consumers via SurveyMonkey
- In the source's words
Use of ChatGPT and other generative AI tools for local recommendations has grown rapidly, rising from 6% last year to 45% and becoming the third most popular source of business recommendations.
- Checked at source
- 23 Oct 2026: Read on brightlocal.com Local Consumer Review Survey 2026 (11 Feb 2026). Vendor survey about local businesses in general, not dentists only.
- Reuse
- Copyright BrightLocal; short quotes with attribution. Vendor survey of about 1,000 US adults; covers all local business types, not one industry.
- Next expected update
- Yearly (BrightLocal, yearly (February))
- Original page
- www.brightlocal.com: Local Consumer Review Survey
- Data files
- CSV · JSON (stable links)
Full change log
No changes recorded yet. First checked at the source on 23 Oct 2026.
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BrightLocal. (2026). 45% of US consumers use ChatGPT or other AI tools for local business recommendations, up from 6% a year earlier. Via digitaltreed, https://digitaltreed.com/statistics/dental-marketing/consumers-ai-local-recommendations
MLA
"45% of US consumers use ChatGPT or other AI tools for local business recommendations, up from 6% a year earlier." BrightLocal, Local Consumer Review Survey, 2026 survey. digitaltreed, https://digitaltreed.com/statistics/dental-marketing/consumers-ai-local-recommendations.
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45% of US consumers use ChatGPT or other AI tools for local business recommendations, up from 6% a year earlier, for 2026 survey, according to BrightLocal, Local Consumer Review Survey. We checked it at the source on 23 Oct 2026.
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