Let X be a rim compact
dendritic space. It is shown that the unique dendritic compactification of X is the
same as the Freudenthal compactification of X. This compactification is
characterized in terms of monotone maps from X into the closed unit interval, and is
shown to be a GA compactification. An example is given to show that X
need not have a convex cut point partial order, in order to have a dendritic
compactification.