I Audited 30 Miami Dental Practices for AI Search Visibility. 27 Were Invisible.

I picked 30 Miami-area dental practices at random from Google Maps — 6 each in Coral Gables, Brickell, Aventura, Doral, and Miami Beach. Then I ran the same 8 queries in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, and Gemini: "best dentist in [neighborhood]," "invisalign near me [neighborhood]," "emergency dentist [neighborhood] Miami," and 5 variations. Total: 240 queries.

The scoreboard

• 27 of 30 practices — zero citations across all 4 AI engines. Invisible.
• 3 of 30 practices — cited by at least one AI engine on multiple queries.
• Of those 3: two use Seal Global's AEO/GEO program. The third has an in-house SEO who quietly implemented schema and FAQPage content in Q1 2026.

What the 27 invisible practices had in common

1. No Dentist schema. 26 of 27 had zero structured data. AI engines couldn't classify them as a dental practice, let alone a Coral Gables or Brickell one.
2. No LLMs.txt. 30 of 30 — including the winners — hadn't published /llms.txt. This is now standard on every Seal Global client site by week 1.
3. No FAQPage schema. 25 of 27 had a "FAQ" page but zero FAQPage markup, so AI engines could not extract the answers.
4. No neighborhood pages. 24 of 27 had one generic "Locations" page for all 3–6 offices, not one URL per neighborhood.
5. Weak Healthgrades / Zocdoc. Half had incomplete or unclaimed profiles on the two directories AI engines cite most.

What the 3 winners did differently

• Individual URLs per neighborhood: /dentist-brickell, /dentist-coral-gables, /dentist-aventura.
• Dentist + LocalBusiness + FAQPage + BreadcrumbList schema on every page.
• An LLMs.txt file listing services, hours, insurance accepted, and neighborhood keywords.
• 15–25 FAQPage-schemaed questions per neighborhood page, written in patient language.
• Complete profiles with 5+ photos on Healthgrades, Zocdoc, RealSelf, and Google Business Profile.
• Fresh reviews — at least 5 new Google reviews per month per location.

Neighborhood difficulty ranking

Not all Miami neighborhoods are equally competitive for dental AI search. Based on the audit:

• Coral Gables — hardest. 42 practices, 3 AI slots.
• Brickell — very hard. 38 practices, 3 slots, heavy investor-backed groups.
• Aventura — hard. 31 practices.
• Miami Beach — moderate. 24 practices, some AI slots still unfilled.
• Doral — winnable in 60 days. 18 practices, 2/3 AI slots empty most days.
• Kendall — very winnable. Fewer AI-aware competitors.

If you run a Miami dental practice and this describes you, the fix is not "more Google Ads." The fix is the six-part playbook the three winners already run. Seal Global implements it on a 90-day roadmap for $750–$2,500/month depending on locations.