Changelog
Every data update, correction, and methodology change is logged here and in each clinic's own change history. The rating updates whenever the underlying public data changes.
| Date | Subject | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-16 | Methodology v1.4.2 | Clarified when dentist names count: a name published by the clinic counts when it lets a patient find the dentist in a professional register; a first name alone is not enough, nor is a first name with a patronymic where surnames are in use. Applied the same day to the clinics whose own channels name their dentists by first name only, which lose the points for dentist names. No other score changes. |
| 2026-10-07 | Methodology v1.4.1 | Added a limit on re-checks made at a clinic's request: the next request from the same clinic about its own page is taken up no sooner than one month after the last re-check made at its request, which is dated in the clinic's change history; requests sent earlier are not processed. Corrections reported by anyone else are handled as before. No score changes. |
| 2026-10-05 | Charlestown Dental Centre | Presence on review platforms checked on 2026-10-05: only an unclaimed Doctify entry with no reviews; no profile on WhatClinic or Trustpilot. |
| 2026-10-05 | Galway Dental Group | Presence on review platforms checked on 2026-10-05: only an unclaimed Doctify entry with no reviews; no profile on WhatClinic or Trustpilot. |
| 2026-10-05 | Galway Dental Group | Read 14 of the clinic's Google reviews on 2026-10-02: no owner replies seen. |
| 2026-10-05 | Shandon Dental | Read 13 of the clinic's Google reviews on 2026-10-02: no owner replies seen. |
| 2026-10-02 | 3Dental Limerick | Presence on review platforms checked 2026-10-02: no TripAdvisor listing; Doctify profile with 208 reviews; an active Facebook page. |
| 2026-10-02 | Alexandra Dental Limerick | Presence on review platforms checked 2026-10-02: no TripAdvisor listing. |
| 2026-10-02 | Barrington Dental Clinic | Presence on review platforms checked 2026-10-02: no TripAdvisor listing; no profile on WhatClinic, Doctify or Trustpilot. |
| 2026-10-02 | Beacon Dental Clinic | Presence on review platforms checked 2026-10-02: no TripAdvisor listing; no profile on WhatClinic, Doctify or Trustpilot. |
| 2026-10-02 | Charlestown Dental Centre | Presence on review platforms checked 2026-10-02: no TripAdvisor listing. |
| 2026-10-02 | Charlestown Dental Centre | Other review platforms changed to not established: Doctify does have a profile for the practice (its earlier check had read search pages, not profiles), with no reviews and no sign the practice keeps it (checked 2026-10-02). |
| 2026-10-02 | Citygate Specialist Dental Clinic | Presence on review platforms checked 2026-10-02: no TripAdvisor listing; no profile on WhatClinic, Doctify or Trustpilot. |
| 2026-10-02 | Cork Dental Smiles | Presence on review platforms checked 2026-10-02: no TripAdvisor listing. |
| 2026-10-02 | Dental Care Ireland Limerick | Presence on review platforms checked 2026-10-02: no TripAdvisor listing; WhatClinic profile at Dooradoyle House. |
| 2026-10-02 | Elmwood Dental & Facial Aesthetics | Presence on review platforms checked 2026-10-02: no TripAdvisor listing; WhatClinic profile at Elmwood Medical Centre, Douglas. |
| 2026-10-02 | Eyre Square Dental | Presence on review platforms checked 2026-10-02: no TripAdvisor listing; WhatClinic profile with 14 reviews; an active Facebook page. |
| 2026-10-02 | Eyre Square Dental | Website structure read on 2026-10-02: separate treatment pages found. |
| 2026-10-02 | Galway Dental Group | Presence on review platforms checked 2026-10-02: no TripAdvisor listing. |
| 2026-10-02 | Galway Dental Group | Other review platforms changed to not established: Doctify does have a profile for the practice (its earlier check had read search pages, not profiles), with no reviews and no sign the practice keeps it (checked 2026-10-02). |
| 2026-10-02 | Galway Dental Specialists (O’Brien, Molloy & Delaney Periodontics) | Presence on review platforms checked 2026-10-02: no TripAdvisor listing; no profile on WhatClinic, Doctify or Trustpilot. |
| 2026-10-02 | Gate Dental Clinic Galway | Presence on review platforms checked 2026-10-02: no TripAdvisor listing. |
| 2026-10-02 | Murphy Dental Care | Presence on review platforms checked 2026-10-02: no TripAdvisor listing. |
| 2026-10-02 | Portobello Dental Clinic | Presence on review platforms checked 2026-10-02: no TripAdvisor listing; no profile on WhatClinic, Doctify or Trustpilot. |
| 2026-10-02 | Renmore Dental | Presence on review platforms checked 2026-10-02: no TripAdvisor listing. |
| 2026-10-02 | Renmore Dental | Website structure read on 2026-10-02: separate treatment pages found. |
| 2026-10-02 | Shandon Dental | Presence on review platforms checked 2026-10-02: no TripAdvisor listing. |
| 2026-10-02 | Shandon Dental | Website structure read on 2026-10-02: separate treatment pages found. |
| 2026-10-02 | Shelbourne Dental Clinic | Presence on review platforms checked 2026-10-02: no TripAdvisor listing; an active Facebook page. |
| 2026-10-02 | Smile Store | Presence on review platforms checked 2026-10-02: no TripAdvisor listing; no profile on WhatClinic, Doctify or Trustpilot; an active Facebook page. |
| 2026-10-02 | SmileHub Dentistry | Presence on review platforms checked 2026-10-02: no TripAdvisor listing. |
| 2026-10-01 | Alexandra Dental Limerick | Other review platforms re-checked on 2026-10-01: WhatClinic (rating 4.8 from 8 reviews). |
| 2026-10-01 | Charlestown Dental Centre | Other review platforms re-checked on 2026-10-01: no profile on WhatClinic, Trustpilot or Doctify; onOtherPlatforms set to false. |
| 2026-10-01 | Cork Dental Smiles | Other review platforms re-checked on 2026-10-01: WhatClinic (rating 5.0 from 1 review); Trustpilot (TrustScore 2.5 from 5 reviews). |
| 2026-10-01 | Galway Dental Group | Other review platforms re-checked on 2026-10-01: no profile on WhatClinic, Trustpilot or Doctify; onOtherPlatforms set to false. |
| 2026-10-01 | Gate Dental Clinic Galway | Other review platforms re-checked on 2026-10-01: WhatClinic (rating 4.8 from 25 reviews). |
| 2026-10-01 | Murphy Dental Care | Other review platforms re-checked on 2026-10-01: no profile on WhatClinic, Trustpilot or Doctify; onOtherPlatforms set to false. |
| 2026-10-01 | Renmore Dental | Other review platforms re-checked on 2026-10-01: WhatClinic (rating 4.8 from 8 reviews). |
| 2026-10-01 | Shandon Dental | Other review platforms re-checked on 2026-10-01: no profile on WhatClinic, Trustpilot or Doctify; onOtherPlatforms set to false. |
| 2026-10-01 | Shelbourne Dental Clinic | Other review platforms re-checked on 2026-10-01: no profile on WhatClinic, Trustpilot or Doctify; onOtherPlatforms set to false. |
| 2026-10-01 | SmileHub Dentistry | Other review platforms re-checked on 2026-10-01: WhatClinic (rating 4.7 from 15 reviews); Trustpilot (TrustScore 4.7 from 384 reviews). |
| 2026-09-29 | Barrington Dental Clinic | Corrected 2026-09-29: clinic responds to reviews now unverified: only 8 reviews were checked for owner replies; active Facebook presence now unverified: no Facebook search is on record, so the absence of a page is not established. |
| 2026-09-29 | Beacon Dental Clinic | Corrected 2026-09-29: active Facebook presence now unverified: no Facebook search is on record, so the absence of a page is not established. |
| 2026-09-29 | Cork Dental Smiles | Corrected 2026-09-29: no recurring complaints now unverified: 1–2★ ratings are 5 of 39 and the low reviews themselves were not read; review recency within 3 months (newest review dated 2026-09-23). |
| 2026-09-29 | Elmwood Dental & Facial Aesthetics | Corrected 2026-09-29: clinic responds to reviews now unverified: with 9 Google reviews a missing owner reply shows nothing yet; review recency within a year (newest review dated 2026-06-07). |
| 2026-09-29 | Eyre Square Dental | Corrected 2026-09-29: clinic responds to reviews now unverified: only 8 reviews were checked for owner replies. |
| 2026-09-29 | Galway Dental Group | Corrected 2026-09-29: clinic responds to reviews now unverified: only 8 reviews were checked for owner replies. |
| 2026-09-29 | Galway Dental Specialists (O’Brien, Molloy & Delaney Periodontics) | Corrected 2026-09-29: active Facebook presence now unverified: no Facebook search is on record, so the absence of a page is not established; review recency within a year (newest review dated 2026-06-09). |
| 2026-09-29 | Shandon Dental | Corrected 2026-09-29: clinic responds to reviews now unverified: only 8 reviews were checked for owner replies. |
| 2026-09-29 | Shelbourne Dental Clinic | Corrected 2026-09-29: active Facebook presence now unverified: no Facebook search is on record, so the absence of a page is not established. |
| 2026-09-29 | Smile Store | Corrected 2026-09-29: Google rating 4.7 (was 4.6) and review count 199 (was 173) from the Google listing on 2026-09-26. |
| 2026-09-10 | Beacon Dental Clinic | Name-verification write-back 2026-09-10: 1 dentist (Sylvia/Silvia Gonzalez/Gonzales) confirmed via the clinic's own about page, which itself uses both spellings noted on the card; source added. |
| 2026-09-10 | Dental Care Ireland Limerick | Name-verification pass 2026-09-10: both dentists confirmed via a previously-unfetched own-site 'Dental Team Limerick' bio page; Sheila Giz's site-published IDC number cross-checks exactly against the existing registry-sourced licence. |
| 2026-09-10 | Eyre Square Dental | Name-verification write-back 2026-09-10: 3 dentists confirmed on the clinic's own about page https://www.eyresquaredental.ie/about.html (full surnames recovered from photo alt attributes: Fleetwood, Meaney, Flood); sources added. |
| 2026-09-10 | Eyre Square Dental | Name-verification pass 2026-09-10: all three dentists confirmed via own-site About page staff-photo alt text (Eoin Fleetwood, Hilary Meaney, James Flood), which an automated token match missed because the card's name field carries the parenthetical 'surname not published' annotation as part of the searched string. |
| 2026-09-10 | Galway Dental Group | Name-verification pass 2026-09-10: Dr. Idoia Fuentes confirmed via own-site Team page (short form of the registered name). |
| 2026-09-10 | Gate Dental Clinic Galway | Name-verification write-back 2026-09-10: 1 dentist (Lauren McHugh, spelled on-site as "Lauren Mc Hugh") confirmed via the clinic's own team page; source added. |
| 2026-09-10 | Portobello Dental Clinic | Name-verification write-back 2026-09-10: 2 dentists confirmed via the clinic's own dentists roster page https://www.portobellodental.ie/dentists/ (not previously fetched -- earlier attempts reached only the home page and treatment subpages); sources added. |
| 2026-09-08 | 3Dental Limerick | Checked by hand in a browser: the clinic’s Google Maps place page was opened in a real browser and read on both its Reviews and Overview tabs. Recorded from it: the rating re-verified against the star histogram, the review count, the histogram itself (385/8/1/2/18 = 414, weighted mean 4.787), review recency, the owner-reply state, the complaint reading and the manipulation reading from the eight most-relevant reviews, the lead owner photograph and the full published opening week. Fields this pass did not measure are untouched. |
| 2026-09-08 | Alexandra Dental Limerick | Checked by hand in a browser: the clinic’s Google Maps place page was opened in a real browser and read on both its Reviews and Overview tabs. Recorded from it: the rating re-verified against the star histogram, the review count (previously unknown — the automated map method never returned it), the histogram itself (2198/82/5/5/25 = 2315, weighted mean 4.911), review recency, the owner-reply state, the complaint reading and the manipulation reading from the eight most-relevant reviews, the lead owner photograph and the full published opening week. Fields this pass did not measure are untouched. |
| 2026-09-08 | Barrington Dental Clinic | Checked by hand in a browser: the clinic’s Google Maps place page was opened in a real browser and read on both its Reviews and Overview tabs. Recorded from it: the rating re-verified against the star histogram, the review count, the histogram itself (15/0/0/0/1 = 16, weighted mean 4.750), review recency, the owner-reply state, the complaint reading and the manipulation reading from the eight most-relevant reviews, the lead owner photograph and the full published opening week. Fields this pass did not measure are untouched. |
| 2026-09-08 | Beacon Dental Clinic | Checked by hand in a browser: the clinic’s Google Maps place page was opened in a real browser and read on both its Reviews and Overview tabs. Recorded from it: the rating re-verified against the star histogram, the review count, the histogram itself (17/0/0/0/3 = 20, weighted mean 4.400), review recency, the owner-reply state, the complaint reading and the manipulation reading from the eight most-relevant reviews, the lead owner photograph and the full published opening week. Fields this pass did not measure are untouched. |
| 2026-09-08 | Charlestown Dental Centre | Checked by hand in a browser: the clinic’s Google Maps place page was opened in a real browser and read on both its Reviews and Overview tabs. Recorded from it: the rating re-verified against the star histogram, the review count, the histogram itself (157/1/1/1/9 = 169, weighted mean 4.751), review recency, the owner-reply state, the complaint reading and the manipulation reading from the eight most-relevant reviews, the lead owner photograph and the full published opening week. Fields this pass did not measure are untouched. |
| 2026-09-08 | Citygate Specialist Dental Clinic | Checked by hand in a browser: the clinic’s Google Maps place page was opened in a real browser and read on both its Reviews and Overview tabs. Recorded from it: the rating re-verified against the star histogram, the review count, the histogram itself (61/4/0/0/2 = 67, weighted mean 4.821), review recency, the owner-reply state, the complaint reading and the manipulation reading from the eight most-relevant reviews, the lead owner photograph and the full published opening week. Fields this pass did not measure are untouched. |
| 2026-09-08 | Cork Dental Smiles | Checked by hand in a browser: the clinic’s Google Maps place page was opened in a real browser and read on both its Reviews and Overview tabs. Recorded from it: the rating re-verified against the star histogram, the review count, the histogram itself (32/1/1/1/4 = 39, weighted mean 4.436), review recency, the owner-reply state, the complaint reading and the manipulation reading from the eight most-relevant reviews, the lead owner photograph and the full published opening week. Fields this pass did not measure are untouched. |
| 2026-09-08 | Dental Care Ireland Limerick | Checked by hand in a browser: the clinic’s Google Maps place page was opened in a real browser and read on both its Reviews and Overview tabs. Recorded from it: the rating re-verified against the star histogram, the review count, the histogram itself (264/8/1/0/8 = 281, weighted mean 4.851), review recency, the owner-reply state, the complaint reading and the manipulation reading from the eight most-relevant reviews, the lead owner photograph and the full published opening week. Fields this pass did not measure are untouched. |
| 2026-09-08 | Elmwood Dental & Facial Aesthetics | Checked by hand in a browser: the clinic’s Google Maps place page was opened in a real browser and read on both its Reviews and Overview tabs. Recorded from it: the rating re-verified against the star histogram, the review count, the histogram itself (7/0/1/0/1 = 9, weighted mean 4.333), review recency, the owner-reply state, the complaint reading and the manipulation reading from the eight most-relevant reviews, the lead owner photograph and the full published opening week. Fields this pass did not measure are untouched. |
| 2026-09-08 | Eyre Square Dental | Checked by hand in a browser: the clinic’s Google Maps place page was opened in a real browser and read on both its Reviews and Overview tabs. Recorded from it: the rating re-verified against the star histogram, the review count, the histogram itself (135/1/0/2/8 = 146, weighted mean 4.733), review recency, the owner-reply state, the complaint reading and the manipulation reading from the eight most-relevant reviews, the lead owner photograph and the full published opening week. Fields this pass did not measure are untouched. |
| 2026-09-08 | Galway Dental Group | Checked by hand in a browser: the clinic’s Google Maps place page was opened in a real browser and read on both its Reviews and Overview tabs. Recorded from it: the rating re-verified against the star histogram, the review count, the histogram itself (134/0/1/2/5 = 142, weighted mean 4.803), review recency, the owner-reply state, the complaint reading and the manipulation reading from the eight most-relevant reviews, the lead owner photograph and the full published opening week. Fields this pass did not measure are untouched. |
| 2026-09-08 | Galway Dental Specialists (O’Brien, Molloy & Delaney Periodontics) | Checked by hand in a browser: the clinic’s Google Maps place page was opened in a real browser and read on both its Reviews and Overview tabs. Recorded from it: the rating re-verified against the star histogram, the review count, the histogram itself (14/0/0/0/1 = 15, weighted mean 4.733), review recency, the owner-reply state, the complaint reading and the manipulation reading from the eight most-relevant reviews, the lead owner photograph and the full published opening week. Fields this pass did not measure are untouched. |
| 2026-09-08 | Gate Dental Clinic Galway | Checked by hand in a browser: the clinic’s Google Maps place page was opened in a real browser and read on both its Reviews and Overview tabs. Recorded from it: the rating re-verified against the star histogram, the review count, the histogram itself (147/6/0/2/3 = 158, weighted mean 4.848), review recency, the owner-reply state, the complaint reading and the manipulation reading from the eight most-relevant reviews, the lead owner photograph and the full published opening week. Fields this pass did not measure are untouched. |
| 2026-09-08 | Murphy Dental Care | Checked by hand in a browser: the clinic’s Google Maps place page was opened in a real browser and read on both its Reviews and Overview tabs. Recorded from it: the rating re-verified against the star histogram, the review count, the histogram itself (113/2/0/1/4 = 120, weighted mean 4.825), review recency, the owner-reply state, the complaint reading and the manipulation reading from the eight most-relevant reviews, the lead owner photograph and the full published opening week. Fields this pass did not measure are untouched. |
| 2026-09-08 | Portobello Dental Clinic | Checked by hand in a browser: the clinic’s Google Maps place page was opened in a real browser and read on both its Reviews and Overview tabs. Recorded from it: the rating re-verified against the star histogram, the review count, the histogram itself (304/8/0/6/7 = 325, weighted mean 4.834), review recency, the owner-reply state, the complaint reading and the manipulation reading from the eight most-relevant reviews and the full published opening week. Fields this pass did not measure are untouched. |
| 2026-09-08 | Renmore Dental | Checked by hand in a browser: the clinic’s Google Maps place page was opened in a real browser and read on both its Reviews and Overview tabs. Recorded from it: the rating re-verified against the star histogram, the review count, the histogram itself (318/5/2/1/2 = 328, weighted mean 4.939), review recency, the owner-reply state, the complaint reading and the manipulation reading from the eight most-relevant reviews, the lead owner photograph and the full published opening week. Fields this pass did not measure are untouched. |
| 2026-09-08 | Shandon Dental | Checked by hand in a browser: the clinic’s Google Maps place page was opened in a real browser and read on both its Reviews and Overview tabs. Recorded from it: the rating re-verified against the star histogram, the review count, the histogram itself (181/2/0/0/5 = 188, weighted mean 4.883), review recency, the owner-reply state, the complaint reading and the manipulation reading from the eight most-relevant reviews, the lead owner photograph and the full published opening week. Fields this pass did not measure are untouched. |
| 2026-09-08 | Shelbourne Dental Clinic | Checked by hand in a browser: the clinic’s Google Maps place page was opened in a real browser and read on both its Reviews and Overview tabs. Recorded from it: the rating re-verified against the star histogram, the review count, the histogram itself (218/1/1/1/1 = 222, weighted mean 4.955), review recency, the owner-reply state, the complaint reading and the manipulation reading from the eight most-relevant reviews, the lead owner photograph and the full published opening week. Fields this pass did not measure are untouched. |
| 2026-09-08 | Smile Store | Checked by hand in a browser: the clinic’s Google Maps place page was opened in a real browser and read on both its Reviews and Overview tabs. Recorded from it: the rating re-verified against the star histogram, the review count, the histogram itself (154/2/0/1/16 = 173, weighted mean 4.601), review recency, the owner-reply state, the complaint reading and the manipulation reading from the eight most-relevant reviews, the lead owner photograph and the full published opening week. Fields this pass did not measure are untouched. |
| 2026-09-08 | SmileHub Dentistry | Checked by hand in a browser: the clinic’s Google Maps place page was opened in a real browser and read on both its Reviews and Overview tabs. Recorded from it: the rating re-verified against the star histogram, the review count, the histogram itself (2857/166/42/44/222 = 3331, weighted mean 4.619), review recency, the owner-reply state, the complaint reading and the manipulation reading from the eight most-relevant reviews, the lead owner photograph and the full published opening week. Fields this pass did not measure are untouched. |
| 2026-09-07 | 3Dental Limerick | Initial data collection: location website (home, location-filtered team page), Google Maps automated lookup, AI-visibility pass canonical-query file. Team roster and fee schedule queued for a manual browser check (JavaScript-rendered, chain site). |
| 2026-09-07 | 3Dental Limerick | Adversarial verification: the initial data collection conclusion that this chain’s team page and pricing are JavaScript-rendered was wrong — the pages are server-rendered and were unreadable only because the response content encoding had not been negotiated. Re-fetched with decoding: the branch-attributed roster (seven Limerick dentists) and the full chain price list were read. dentistNamesListed false → true, specializationsListed null → true, all seven price criteria null → true, hasXray/hasCBCT/offersImplantology/offersSurgery/offersPediatric/offersEmergency null → true, offersSedation null → false, convenientHours null → true; googleReviewCount read live (413). Six of the seven Limerick dentists found in a full download of the Register of Dentists; Dr Paul O’Connell left null as an unresolvable same-name pair. |
| 2026-09-07 | Alexandra Dental Limerick | Initial data collection: chain homepage and Limerick-specific fee page, Google Maps automated lookup, AI-visibility pass canonical-query file. No individual dentist named for this branch — not queued to the register. |
| 2026-09-07 | Alexandra Dental Limerick | Adversarial verification: the clinic’s own Limerick branch page (added as s3) publishes a street address, branch hours and four named dentists with qualifications, none of which the initial data collection had read — address corrected from the placeholder "Limerick, Ireland", dentistNamesListed and specializationsListed false → true, convenientHours null → true, four dentists added and all four found in a full download of the Register of Dentists (Sharafeldin also on the Register of Orthodontists). Display name given its city per the network-branch naming rule. hasStructuredData settled null → false. googleReviewCount could not be read from any response variant and is queued for a manual browser check. |
| 2026-09-07 | Barrington Dental Clinic | Initial data collection: clinic website (home, about, fees), Dental Council of Ireland Register of Dentists (both named dentists checked and found), Google Maps automated lookup, AI-visibility pass canonical-query file. |
| 2026-09-07 | Barrington Dental Clinic | Adversarial verification: address corrected from the placeholder "Limerick, Ireland" to the street address published on the clinic’s Google listing (18 Barrington Street, V94 XE2N); googleReviewCount read live (16); both named dentists re-confirmed in a full download of the Register of Dentists. |
| 2026-09-07 | Beacon Dental Clinic | Initial data collection: clinic website (home, team, digital dentistry, costs), Dental Council of Ireland Register of Dentists (two named dentists checked and found; four more named on-site but not individually checked), Google Maps automated lookup, AI-visibility pass canonical-query file. |
| 2026-09-07 | Beacon Dental Clinic | Adversarial verification: contacts.googleMapsUrl corrected — the recorded place id belonged to another Dublin card (a four-card rotation found in this batch); the listing that carries this clinic’s address, phone and 4.4 rating is ChIJ2QpUyAsJZ0gRuBNlC6menpI. googleReviewCount read live (20). All six named dentists checked against a full download of the Register of Dentists: Owens and Norris re-confirmed, Brendan O’Connor and Silvia Gonzalez found, Abhilash Sahadevan and Evelyn Rioja recorded as licenseNotFound. |
| 2026-09-07 | Charlestown Dental Centre | Initial data collection: clinic website (home, team, price list), Dental Council of Ireland Register of Dentists (two of five named dentists checked and found), Google Maps automated lookup, AI-visibility pass canonical-query file. |
| 2026-09-07 | Charlestown Dental Centre | Adversarial verification: contacts.googleMapsUrl corrected (the recorded place id belonged to another Dublin card — four-card rotation); googleReviewCount read live (169); hasStructuredData settled null → false after checking three pages; the three previously unchecked dentists (Ghidanac, Henriksen, Lara) found in a full download of the Register of Dentists. |
| 2026-09-07 | Citygate Specialist Dental Clinic | Initial data collection: clinic website (home, team, sedation dentistry), Dental Council of Ireland Register of Dentists and Register of Oral Surgeons (three of seven named specialists checked and found, matching the clinic’s own published IDC numbers), Google Maps automated lookup, AI-visibility pass canonical-query file. |
| 2026-09-07 | Citygate Specialist Dental Clinic | Adversarial verification: the site nav item "Pricing" leads to a standing "Fee Guide and Financing" list of fifteen procedures ("Fees correct as of January 2025") on why-choose-us.html, which the initial data collection had not read — pricesPublished and all six itemised price criteria corrected false → true, hasXray and hasCBCT null → true (added as s4). offersImplantology re-sourced from a search-position pseudo-source to the clinic’s own pages; offersOrthodontics and offersEmergency settled null → false after checking the full nav and the fee guide. googleReviewCount read live (67). All seven named specialists checked against a full download of the Dental Council registers — all seven found, the four previously unchecked IDC numbers matching the clinic’s own published numbers. |
| 2026-09-07 | Cork Dental Smiles | Initial data collection: clinic website (home, about, price list), Dental Council of Ireland Register of Dentists checked for "Byrne" (too many same-surname results to match with confidence, not the honest "checked, not found" state so left unchecked), Google Maps automated lookup (re-queried with full address), AI-visibility pass canonical-query file. |
| 2026-09-07 | Cork Dental Smiles | Adversarial verification: googleReviewCount read live (39); hasStructuredData settled null → false after checking three pages; both dentists found in a full download of the Register of Dentists — the initial data collection conclusion that "Byrne" could not be matched with confidence is disproven, exactly one Maria Byrne exists in the 4,003-row register. |
| 2026-09-07 | Dental Care Ireland Limerick | Initial data collection: practice website (home, team, network fees page, one treatment page), Dental Council of Ireland Register of Dentists (Sheila Giz found; Cathal O’Donoghue checked and not found — recorded as licenseNotFound, not false), Google Maps automated lookup, AI-visibility pass canonical-query file. |
| 2026-09-07 | Dental Care Ireland Limerick | Adversarial verification: googleReviewCount read live (281); the Cathal O’Donoghue licenseNotFound re-tested against a full register download including Irish-language and spacing variants and confirmed; Sheila Giz re-confirmed under her registered double surname "Giz Castelao". |
| 2026-09-07 | Elmwood Dental & Facial Aesthetics | Initial data collection: clinic website (home, treatments), Dental Council of Ireland Register of Dentists (both named dentists checked and found), Google Maps automated lookup, AI-visibility pass canonical-query file. |
| 2026-09-07 | Elmwood Dental & Facial Aesthetics | Adversarial verification: googleReviewCount read live (9 — a small base, disclosed alongside the 4.3 rating); both named dentists re-confirmed in a full download of the Register of Dentists. |
| 2026-09-07 | Eyre Square Dental | Initial data collection: clinic website (home, about, fees), Dental Council of Ireland Register of Dentists not queried (only first names published for staff, no reliable surname to search), Google Maps automated lookup, AI-visibility pass canonical-query file. |
| 2026-09-07 | Eyre Square Dental | Adversarial verification: googleReviewCount read live (146); hasStructuredData settled null → false after checking three pages; the first-name-only roster (Eoin, Hilary, James) was re-read on the live site and confirmed — no surname is published anywhere, so the three licences honestly stay null. |
| 2026-09-07 | Galway Dental Group | Initial data collection: clinic website (home, team, pricing, hygiene, sedation clinic), Dental Council of Ireland Register of Dentists and Register of Orthodontists (three of nine named dentists checked and found), Google Maps automated lookup, AI-visibility pass canonical-query file. |
| 2026-09-07 | Galway Dental Group | Adversarial verification: the Google listing does carry a rating — 4.8 over 142 reviews — where the initial data collection recorded none; offersEmergency re-sourced from a search-position pseudo-source to the clinic’s own Emergency Treatment page (added as s6). All nine named dentists checked against a full download of the three Dental Council registers: Amorim (also on the Register of Orthodontists), Cronin and Ye found, Fuentes’ main-register number added, and Tai, Parekh and Vasant recorded as licenseNotFound. |
| 2026-09-07 | Galway Dental Specialists (O’Brien, Molloy & Delaney Periodontics) | Initial data collection: clinic website (home, team, fees), Dental Council of Ireland Register of Dentists (two of five named specialists checked and found, matching the practice’s own trading name), Google Maps automated lookup, AI-visibility pass canonical-query file. |
| 2026-09-07 | Galway Dental Specialists (O’Brien, Molloy & Delaney Periodontics) | Adversarial verification: googleReviewCount read live (15 — a small base, disclosed); offersEmergency re-sourced from a search-position pseudo-source to the practice’s own pages; hasStructuredData settled null → false; the three previously unchecked specialists found in a full download of the Register of Dentists, which also resolves the Paul Moore namesake question. |
| 2026-09-07 | Gate Dental Clinic Galway | Initial data collection: clinic website (home, team, price list), Dental Council of Ireland Register of Dentists (two of seven named dentists checked and found), Google Maps automated lookup, AI-visibility pass canonical-query file. |
| 2026-09-07 | Gate Dental Clinic Galway | Adversarial verification: googleReviewCount read live (158); offersEmergency re-sourced from a search-position pseudo-source to the clinic’s own contact page (added as s4), where the "Emergencies" triage block is published, and the initial data collection claim about the price list corrected; the aiMention_emergency rank corrected from "8 of 8" to 8 of 9. All seven named dentists checked against a full download of the Register of Dentists — six found, Gerry Meehan recorded as licenseNotFound. |
| 2026-09-07 | Methodology v1.4.0 | Narrowed the "Opaque or bait pricing" red flag to what its published definition describes. Until now the flag was applied automatically to every clinic that does not publish a price list — a harsher statement than the evidence supports, since the catalogue defines the flag as complaints about final bills materially exceeding quoted prices, or advertised prices that are not honoured. Not publishing prices is already scored: it costs the clinic points in the price transparency category, and it is not, on its own, evidence of bait pricing. The automatic rule is removed, so the flag and its 2-point penalty come off about 1,300 clinic pages across the index; no clinic gains a flag, and no weight, severity or other scoring rule changed. The flag can still be recorded against a clinic by hand with cited sources, and about 210 clinics carry such an entry today; we are reviewing those entries in a follow-up pass, because some of them were also written for nothing more than an unpublished price list. |
| 2026-09-07 | Murphy Dental Care | Initial data collection: clinic website (home, about-us), Dental Council of Ireland Register of Dentists (both named dentists checked and found), Google Maps automated lookup, AI-visibility pass canonical-query file. Fees page queued for a manual browser check (Wix client-rendered price table). |
| 2026-09-07 | Murphy Dental Care | Adversarial verification: googleReviewCount read live (120); hasStructuredData settled null → false; the Wix fee table was re-fetched with content-encoding negotiated and still contains no price figures in the served HTML, so the manual browser check row stands and the seven price criteria honestly stay null; both dentists re-confirmed in a full download of the Register of Dentists. |
| 2026-09-07 | Portobello Dental Clinic | Initial data collection: clinic website (home, price list, dentists page), Dental Council of Ireland Register of Dentists (five named dentists, all found), Google Maps automated lookup for rating/geo/address/phone, AI-visibility pass canonical-query file. |
| 2026-09-07 | Portobello Dental Clinic | Adversarial verification: googleReviewCount read live (323); offersSedation resolved null → false against the clinic’s own Conscious Sedation page (added as s4); Google rating 4.8, geo and place id re-read live and confirmed unchanged; all five registered dentists re-checked against a full download of the Register of Dentists (4,003 rows) and confirmed. |
| 2026-09-07 | Renmore Dental | Initial data collection: clinic website (home, about-us, fees), Dental Council of Ireland Register of Dentists (two of five named dentists checked and found, one requiring a surname-spacing retry: "Mc Loughlin"), Google Maps automated lookup, AI-visibility pass canonical-query file. |
| 2026-09-07 | Renmore Dental | Adversarial verification: googleReviewCount read live (328); the three previously unchecked dentists resolved against a full download of the Register of Dentists — Burke and Dragoi found, Sidelsky recorded as licenseNotFound; the "Mc Loughlin, Anthony" spacing match re-confirmed. |
| 2026-09-07 | Shandon Dental | Initial data collection: clinic website (home, people, price list, treatments), Dental Council of Ireland Register of Dentists (one named dentist checked and found), Google Maps automated lookup, AI-visibility pass canonical-query file. |
| 2026-09-07 | Shandon Dental | Adversarial verification: googleReviewCount read live (188); offersImplantology corrected false → true against the clinic’s own Our Treatments page already cited as s4; Dr Neil Tully re-confirmed in a full download of the Register of Dentists. |
| 2026-09-07 | Shelbourne Dental Clinic | Initial data collection: clinic website (home, fees, about-us, digital dentistry), Dental Council of Ireland Register of Dentists (testimonial-only name checked, two same-name registrants found and disclosed), Google Maps automated lookup, AI-visibility pass canonical-query file. |
| 2026-09-07 | Shelbourne Dental Clinic | Adversarial verification: contacts.googleMapsUrl corrected (the recorded place id belonged to another Dublin card — four-card rotation); with the right listing the clinic does carry a rating, 5.0 over 222 reviews, where the initial data collection recorded none. offersPediatric and offersEmergency corrected false → true against priced line items on the fees page already cited as s2. |
| 2026-09-07 | Smile Store | Initial data collection: clinic website (home, about-us, fees), Dental Council of Ireland Register of Dentists (two of four named dentists checked and found), Google Maps automated lookup, AI-visibility pass canonical-query file. |
| 2026-09-07 | Smile Store | Adversarial verification: googleReviewCount read live (172); offersPediatric corrected false → true against the "Orthodontics for Children" section of the fee schedule already cited as s3; the two previously unchecked dentists (Németh, Hubenova) found in a full download of the Register of Dentists. The *PROMOTION* implant line and the resulting implantPriceListed: false were re-read and confirmed correct under the methodology's rule on promotional prices. |
| 2026-09-07 | SmileHub Dentistry | Initial data collection: clinic website (home, team, adult/children price lists, orthodontic fees), Dental Council of Ireland Register of Dentists (two of ~13 named dentists checked and found), Google Maps automated lookup, AI-visibility pass canonical-query file. |
| 2026-09-07 | SmileHub Dentistry | Adversarial verification: contacts.googleMapsUrl corrected (the recorded place id belonged to another Dublin card — four-card rotation); googleReviewCount read live (3,328). Six dentists named on the clinic’s own team page but absent from licensing.doctors were added (Hluvynska, Umeh, Kanakina, Watters, Elseisy, "Dr Eleni"); every named dentist was checked against a full download of the Register of Dentists — fourteen found, Noel Hayes recorded as licenseNotFound, "Dr Eleni" left null because the clinic publishes no surname. |
| 2026-09-03 | Methodology v1.3.1 | Clarified that the publication criteria refer to the clinic’s own channels: a service list, the names of the dentists and a price list count when the clinic itself publishes them (its website, its social profiles or its own Google Business profile) — registers, directories and review sites do not, and a time-limited promotional offer is not a price list. Added a third state for a dentist’s licence, "checked, not found in the public register": a dentist we searched for in the national register and did not find is now recorded as checked-but-unverified with the date of the check, instead of being shown either as "not checked yet" or as the "not published" red flag. Neither change alters any weight or penalty; the red-flag rule still fires only on a verified negative. Also corrected the wording of the penalty note under the ranking table, which rendered as "20−" in right-to-left dictionaries. |
| 2026-08-25 | Methodology v1.3.0 | Corrected how the two licensing red flags are applied ("Clinic operating licence not published" and "Dentists / their licences not listed"). Previously they were applied whenever licensing data was absent from our records, which treated unchecked data as a negative finding — contrary to the methodology's own rule that unverified data is a fact about our coverage, not about the clinic. Both flags now apply only where we have verified that the information is not published. Manual licensing flags that rested on unverified data were removed from the affected clinics. No other scoring rules changed; most scores rise because the incorrect penalty is removed. |
| 2026-08-23 | Methodology v1.2.0 | Added an informational "Sedation & general anaesthesia" availability field to every clinic and a new "Sleep Dentistry (Sedation / GA)" list, for patients who cannot tolerate — or would rather not be awake for — treatment. This field is informational and does not change any transparency score. |
| 2026-07-08 | Methodology v1.1.0 | Added licensing transparency: clinics are now penalised when they do not publish their operating licence, or do not list their dentists together with their professional licence numbers. Each clinic page now shows a Licensing & Credentials section. |
| 2026-07-03 | Methodology v1.0.0 | Initial public methodology. |