Beacon Dental Clinic
According to our open methodology, this clinic scored 65/100 for transparency, reputation, service accessibility, and digital visibility.
Overall rank: #13 of 20 ranked clinics · Last checked: 8 September 2026
65/100
Positions by Rating Profile
- Overall Transparency & Trust#1365/100
- Best for Expats#1357.8/100
- Best for Dental Implants#1363.3/100
- Best for Emergency Dental Care#857.2/100
- Best Price Transparency#1473.7/100
- Best English-speaking Clinics#1456/100
- Best for Families / Childrennot ranked
- Sleep Dentistry (GA / deep sedation)not ranked
General Anaesthesia & Deep Sedation
Whether the clinic documents treatment under general anaesthesia or deep / twilight sedation — "sleep dentistry", where the patient is asleep and unaware (does not feel, see, or hear the procedure). Ordinary conscious sedation, where the patient stays awake and responsive, does not count here. This is informational and does not affect the transparency score.
- ✗ General anaesthesia / deep sedation (sleep dentistry) — No general anaesthesia or deep sedation documented Checked services nav and costs page: no IV/general-anaesthesia sedation service found. "Dental Sleep Medicine" on this site is treatment for snoring/sleep apnoea with an oral appliance, not procedural sedation — not conflated with the sedation criterion. [s1] [s4]
Summary
Prosthodontics-led practice in the Beacon Consultants Clinic, Sandyford, opened 2003 by Dr Edward Owens; focuses on restorative dentistry, implants and dental sleep medicine, with a published cost list and on-site 3D CBCT imaging.
Strengths
- Information Transparency: 18 of 20 points.
- Price Transparency: 13 of 15 points.
- No red flags identified in public sources.
Weaknesses
- AI & Search Visibility: 2.5 of 7 verifiable points (missing: mentioned for: best dentist Ireland; mentioned for: English speaking dentist Ireland; mentioned for: Ireland dental clinic for expats; structured data on website)
Score Breakdown
Every criterion below is scored from public sources. ✓ verified yes · ✗ verified no / not found · ◐ partial · ? unverified (scores 0, not a negative finding).
Information Transparency
18 / 20
Whether basic facts about the clinic - its team, premises, services, and location - are publicly verifiable.
| ✓ | Has a working website [s1] | 4/4 |
| ✓ | Dentist names listed Team page (aboutbeacondental.ie) names Dr. Edward Owens (founder) plus Dr Sylvia Gonzalez, Dr Andrew Norris, Dr Brendan O’Connor, Dr Abhilash Sahadevan and Dr Evelyn Rioja. Note: the site itself spells two of these names two ways in different places (Gonzales/Gonzalez, Connor/O’Connor). [s2] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Dentist specializations listed Dr. Owens is named as "a highly respected and experienced Prosthodontist (a restorative dentist)"; team described as including "both Specialist and General Dental Surgeons". [s2] | 2/2 |
| ? | Real clinic photos Looked at on the clinic's Google place page on 2026-09-08 and left unassessed rather than credited. The lead photograph is the glass entrance of the Beacon Consultants Clinic with that building's own sign and logo — the host medical centre the dental practice occupies two suites in, not the practice itself. Under the methodology's rule a photograph of the host building is not the clinic's publication of itself, exactly as a shopping-centre frontage is not. The clinic's own website was not opened for this purpose in this pass, so the field stays null rather than false. [gmp2] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Service list published Detailed treatments menu (Restorative/Prosthodontics, Digital Dentistry, Implants, Dentures, Hygiene, Sleep Medicine, Tooth Whitening, Oral Surgery) plus a full itemised cost page. [s1] [s3] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Clear contact details Own site publishes +353 1 531 0088 and the Beacon Court, Sandyford address consistently; the Google Business listing itself carries a different phone number, +353 1 213 5644 — disclosed here rather than silently reconciled. [s1] [gmp1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | English website version [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Address and map published Address matches the Google Maps listing exactly (Beacon Court, Suite 1 & 2, Beacon Consultants Clinic, Sandyford). [s1] [gmp1] | 2/2 |
Price Transparency
13 / 15
Whether patients can estimate costs before visiting. Published price ranges count; exact prices are not required.
| ✓ | Prices or price ranges published Permanent "Costs of Dental Care" page with ~20 itemised procedures; not a promotional offer. [s4] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Cleaning price listed Dental Hygiene Appointment €90 per session. [s4] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Filling price listed Restorative Dentistry "costs commence at €135". [s4] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Crown price listed Crown (All ceramic) €1,100; Gold Crown €1,250. [s4] | 2/2 |
| ✗ | Implant price listed Checked: the cost page prices "Implant Supported Crown (Not including implant) €1,450–1,850 per unit" — explicitly excludes the implant fixture itself, and no separate implant-placement fee is published. [s4] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Consultation price listed Initial dental visit/consultation, General Dentist €100–120; Specialist Dental Fee €160–190. [s4] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | X-ray / imaging price listed 2D X-Ray (OPG) €95; 3D CBCT scan €280. [s4] | 2/2 |
Reputation & Reviews
13 / 20
Public review signals. The Google rating is adjusted with a Bayesian prior (rating 4.0, weight 25) so a 5.0 from a handful of reviews does not outrank a 4.8 from hundreds.
| ◐ | Google rating (Bayesian-adjusted) Read live on the place page in a browser on 2026-09-08. Unchanged from the automated reading of 2026-09-07. The star histogram — 17 five-star, 0 four-star, 0 three-star, 0 two-star and 3 one-star — sums to 20, matching the 20 in the place-page header exactly, and its weighted mean 4.400 reproduces the published 4.4. [gmp1] [gmp2] | 3/6 |
| ◐ | Google review volume Read live on 2026-09-08 from the place-page header, and the star histogram sums to the same figure. The card held 20 and the listing has not moved since. [gmp1] [gmp2] | 1/3 |
| ✓ | Review recency The newest review visible is 2 months old, which proves the within_3_months bucket and no better. Visible dates: 2 months, two entries at 1 year, three at 2 years, one at 3 years and one at 7 years. Sample: the eight reviews Google Maps renders on the place page in its own relevance order — the "Newest" sort does not open to automation, so a review more recent than the newest one visible may exist. [gmp2] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Clinic responds to reviews The owner answers all eight of the reviews visible on the place page on 2026-09-08. Sample: the eight reviews Google Maps renders on the place page in its own relevance order — the "Newest" sort does not open to automation, so a review more recent than the newest one visible may exist. [gmp2] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | No recurring complaints Recorded false with an explicit gap, because this is the card the manual browser check asked to read the negative tail on and the tail turned out not to be readable. Three of the twenty ratings are one-star — 3 of 20, 15.0 % of the base — and Google's relevance ordering surfaces none of them; the histogram's star filters do not filter the review list, so their subject cannot be established at all. All eight visible reviews are five-star. The share is below the 25 % at which the methodology's rule withholds a verdict, so the value stands as «no repeated theme in what can be read» rather than «no complaints exist», and the gap is stated here so a reader is not misled by the figure. Sample: the eight reviews Google Maps renders on the place page in its own relevance order — the "Newest" sort does not open to automation, so a review more recent than the newest one visible may exist. [gmp2] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | No suspicious review patterns Judged on the histogram shape, the spread of dates, the variety of reviewers and the wording, on 2026-09-08. The distribution is strictly two-valued — 17 five-star and 3 one-star, nothing in between — on a base of only twenty, and that shape is disclosed rather than glossed. Against manipulation: the visible dates spread from two months to seven years, the accounts are long and specific and name four different clinicians (Dr Brendan O'Connor, the oral surgeon Andrew Norris, Dr Owens and his team), and the owner answers every one individually. One feature is worth a reader's attention and is recorded rather than scored: five of the eight visible accounts are about the practice's dental sleep-medicine service for snoring and sleep apnoea rather than about general dentistry, so the visible sample is not representative of what a general patient would experience. The telephone number on the place record, +353 1 213 5644, is not the +353 1 531 0088 the clinic publishes on its own site; both are the practice's own numbers and nothing in a browser can settle which is answered. [gmp2] | 2/2 |
| ? | Active Facebook presence No Facebook page is linked from the clinic's site, and none was found under the clinic's name (checked 2026-10-02); not established. | 0/1 |
| ✗ | TripAdvisor presence No TripAdvisor listing found via its search for "Beacon Dental Clinic Dublin" and "Beacon dental"; the clinic's site does not link to TripAdvisor. [beacon-dental-clinic-sandyford-dublin-presence] [beacon-dental-clinic-sandyford-dublin-presence-2] [beacon-dental-clinic-sandyford-dublin-presence-3] | 0/0.5 |
| ✗ | Other review platforms No profile found on WhatClinic, Doctify or Trustpilot (checked 2026-10-02). [beacon-dental-clinic-sandyford-dublin-presence-4] [beacon-dental-clinic-sandyford-dublin-presence-5] [beacon-dental-clinic-sandyford-dublin-presence-6] | 0/0.5 |
Medical Infrastructure
9.5 / 15
The range of publicly documented equipment and services. This measures documented availability, not clinical quality.
| ✓ | On-site X-ray "Digital x-ray" listed under Digital Dentistry; 2D X-Ray/OPG priced at €95. [s3] [s4] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | CBCT (3D imaging) "3D CBCT scan: €280" published as an own service (with a note that referral CBCT for external dentists is not offered, implying in-house use for their own patients). [s4] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Implantology Dedicated Dental Implants treatment page. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✗ | Orthodontics Checked the full "Comprehensive List of Dental Services" nav and the costs page — no orthodontics/braces/aligner service found. [s1] [s4] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Oral surgery Dedicated "Oral Surgery" treatment page. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✗ | Pediatric dentistry Checked the full services nav and costs page — no children’s/paediatric dentistry service found; practice appears adult-restorative focused. [s1] [s4] | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | Emergency care Meta description on every page: "providing a full general dental service – emergency, cosmetic dentistry, dental crowns, teeth whitening and veneers". [s1] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ? | Works with international patients | 0/2 |
Communication & Service
2.5 / 10
How easy it is to contact the clinic, get answers, and book - especially for international patients.
| ? | WhatsApp / LINE available | 0/2 |
| ? | Response speed | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | English spoken [s1] | 2.5/2.5 |
| ? | Pre-visit consultation possible | 0/1.5 |
| ? | Clear service explanations | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Convenient opening hours Settled from null on 2026-09-08: the clinic's own Google Business Profile publishes the full week — Monday to Thursday 08:00–17:30, Friday 08:00–14:00, Saturday and Sunday closed. Under the rule this index applies to every card — evening hours credited only from a close at 19:00 or later on at least one weekday, or any weekend opening — that is a checked negative rather than an unassessed field. [gmp2] | 0/1.5 |
AI & Search Visibility
2.5 / 10
Whether the clinic is discoverable when patients search - including via AI assistants. Checked with fixed queries: "best dentist Ireland", "English speaking dentist Ireland", "dental implants Ireland", "emergency dentist Ireland", "Ireland dental clinic for expats".
| ✗ | Mentioned for: best dentist Ireland [av1] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: English speaking dentist Ireland Checked 2026-09-07; not among the results (≥3 Irish-Dublin results present in this query, so false rather than null — see country-level note). [av2] | 0/1 |
| ✓ | Mentioned for: dental implants Ireland Rank 4 of 8 for "dental implants Dublin Ireland" (AV-2 re-run, 2026-09-07). [av3] | 1/1 |
| ? | Mentioned for: emergency dentist Ireland SERP off-target (namesake towns) — see country-level note on "emergency dentist Dublin". [av4] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: Ireland dental clinic for expats [av5] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Structured data on website No schema.org LocalBusiness/Dentist/Organization markup found in the page source. [s1] | 0/1.5 |
| ? | Google indexing quality | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Dedicated service pages Individual URLs per treatment, e.g. /treatments/dental-implants/, /treatments/oral-surgery/, /treatments/digital-dentistry/. [s1] | 1.5/1.5 |
Ranking leaders in AI answers
The queries above are this index's own check. The three leading clinics have also been measured in full: how often ChatGPT and Gemini name them when a patient asks them to recommend a dentist.
- #13Dental Limerick53.6 of 100View report →
- #2Portobello Dental Clinic39.6 of 100View report →
- #3Alexandra Dental Limerick60.8 of 100View report →
Measured by Ansmeter, 8 October 2026. Ansmeter is an affiliated service. Its figure is not part of this rating and does not affect positions — scores change only when public data changes.
Licensing & Credentials
Whether the clinic publishes its operating licence and the dentists working there together with their professional licence numbers. A verified “not published” is recorded as a red flag; data we have not checked yet is shown as unverified and carries no penalty.
Clinic operating licence: not checked against public sources yet — unverified, no penalty
Dentists & professional licences
| Dentist | Specialization | Licence No. |
|---|---|---|
| Dr. Edward Owens [reg1] | Prosthodontist (restorative dentist); founder, 2003 | IDC 1481 |
| Dr Andrew Norris [reg2] | — | IDC 10700 |
| Dr Sylvia Gonzalez (site also spells this Silvia Gonzales) [reg4] [s2] | — | IDC 3522 |
| Dr Brendan O’Connor [reg3] | — | IDC 12499 |
| Dr Abhilash Sahadevan [reg5] | — | not found in the public register (checked 7 September 2026) |
| Dr Evelyn Rioja [reg6] | — | not found in the public register (checked 7 September 2026) |
One or more named dentists could not be found in the public register on the date checked — recorded as unverified, no penalty.
Red Flags
No red flags identified in the public sources we reviewed.
Data We Could Not Verify
- Information Transparency: Real clinic photos
- Reputation & Reviews: Active Facebook presence
- Medical Infrastructure: Works with international patients
- Communication & Service: WhatsApp / LINE available
- Communication & Service: Response speed
- Communication & Service: Pre-visit consultation possible
- Communication & Service: Clear service explanations
- AI & Search Visibility: Mentioned for: emergency dentist Ireland
- AI & Search Visibility: Google indexing quality
Unverified items score 0 points but are not treated as negative findings. If you can document any of them, please send a correction.
Contact Information
| Website | https://beacondental.ie/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +353 1 531 0088 |
| Google Maps | Map listing |
| Address | Suite 1 & 2, Beacon Consultants Clinic, Beacon Court, Sandyford, Dublin 18, D18 E7P4, Ireland |
Contact details are provided for identification only and may change; verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | https://beacondental.ie/ | Clinic homepage: nav/service list, meta description, address/phone footer | 2026-09-07 |
| s2 | https://beacondental.ie/aboutbeacondental/ | Own-site about page names this dentist under two spellings: an "h3" heading reads "Dr Silvia Gonzalez", while the accompanying photo's alt/title text and file name read "Dr Sylvia Gonzales" -- confirming both card-noted variants belong to the same person (read 2026-09-10). | 2026-09-10 |
| s3 | https://beacondental.ie/treatments/digital-dentistry/ | Confirms digital x-ray as an in-house service | 2026-09-07 |
| s4 | https://beacondental.ie/costs-of-dental-care/ | Permanent itemised price list | 2026-09-07 |
| gmp1 | https://www.google.com/search?tbm=map&q=Beacon%20Dental%20Clinic%20… | Google Maps automated lookup: rating, geo, address, phone, website | 2026-09-07 |
| reg0 | https://www.hiqa.ie/find-a-centre | Confirms Ireland has no institutional/facility register covering private dental practices | 2026-09-07 |
| reg1 | https://www.dentalcouncil.ie/dentists?keyword_filter=Owens | Dental Council Register of Dentists entry for Edward Owens | 2026-09-07 |
| reg2 | https://www.dentalcouncil.ie/dentists?keyword_filter=Norris | Dental Council Register of Dentists entry for Andrew Norris | 2026-09-07 |
| av1 | search:best dentist Dublin Ireland | (the five canonical city queries) | 2026-09-07 |
| av2 | search:English speaking dentist Dublin | (the five canonical city queries) | 2026-09-07 |
| av3 | search:dental implants Dublin Ireland | (the five canonical city queries) | 2026-09-07 |
| av4 | search:emergency dentist Dublin | (the five canonical city queries) | 2026-09-07 |
| av5 | search:Dublin dental clinic for expats | (the five canonical city queries) | 2026-09-07 |
| reg3 | https://www.dentalcouncil.ie/dentists?keyword_filter=O'Connor | Dental Council of Ireland, Register of Dentists — surname search for Dr Brendan O’Connor | 2026-09-07 |
| reg4 | https://www.dentalcouncil.ie/dentists?keyword_filter=Gonzalez | Dental Council of Ireland, Register of Dentists — surname search for Dr Sylvia/Silvia Gonzalez | 2026-09-07 |
| reg5 | https://www.dentalcouncil.ie/dentists?keyword_filter=Sahadevan | Dental Council of Ireland, Register of Dentists — surname search for Dr Abhilash Sahadevan (no entry) | 2026-09-07 |
| reg6 | https://www.dentalcouncil.ie/dentists?keyword_filter=Rioja | Dental Council of Ireland, Register of Dentists — surname search for Dr Evelyn Rioja (no entry) | 2026-09-07 |
| gmp2 | https://www.google.com/maps/place/x/@53.2753448,-6.2195324,17z/data… | The clinic’s Google Maps place page, opened in a real browser on 2026-09-08. The Reviews tab (this URL) gives the headline rating, the review-count header, the five star-histogram buckets read whole from their accessibility labels, and the eight most-relevant reviews with their star values, dates, text and owner replies; the sibling Overview URL https://www.google.com/maps/place/x/@53.2753448,-6.2195324,17z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x4867090bc8540ad9:0x929e9ea90b6513b8!8m2!3d53.2753448!4d-6.2195324?hl=en gives the listing name, address, telephone, website, business category, the published opening week and the lead owner photograph. The listing opens as «Beacon Dental Clinic», category Dental clinic, at Suite 1 & 2, Beacon Consultants Clinic, Beacon Court, Sandyford Business Park, Dublin 18, D18 E7P4, website beacondental.ie — the identifiers the card itself carries, so the place identifier resolves to this practice and not to a neighbour. | 2026-09-08 |
| beacon-dental-clinic-sandyford-dublin-presence | https://www.tripadvisor.com/TypeAheadJson?action=API&query=Beacon%2… | TripAdvisor's own search for "Beacon Dental Clinic Dublin", run 2026-10-02, returns 12 results, none of them this clinic (e.g. Viet Han Dental Clinic, Nha Trang; Symmetry Dental and Aesthetics Clinics, Cancun; CM Liria Dental Clinic, San Jose del Monte) | 2026-10-02 |
| beacon-dental-clinic-sandyford-dublin-presence-2 | https://www.tripadvisor.com/TypeAheadJson?action=API&query=Beacon%2… | TripAdvisor's own search for "Beacon dental", run 2026-10-02, returns 12 results, none of them this clinic (e.g. Beacon Theatre, New York City; Beacon Hill, Boston; Beacon Hill Park, Victoria) | 2026-10-02 |
| beacon-dental-clinic-sandyford-dublin-presence-3 | https://beacondental.ie/ | Clinic's website (home and contact pages) read 2026-10-02: no link to TripAdvisor | 2026-10-02 |
| beacon-dental-clinic-sandyford-dublin-presence-4 | https://www.whatclinic.com/dentists/ireland/county-dublin | WhatClinic: its County Dublin dentist listing read page by page (15 pages, 175 of the 183 clinics it declares), checked against its profile sitemaps (224 County Dublin profiles; the 49 not shown in the listing opened, none of them this practice or at its address) and the profile addresses built from the clinic's name ("sandyford/beacon-dental-clinic" leads back to the Sandyford listing, i.e. a former profile was removed; Seapoint Clinic at Beacon Court is another practice); no profile of the practice (checked 2026-10-02) | 2026-10-02 |
| beacon-dental-clinic-sandyford-dublin-presence-5 | https://www.doctify.com/sitemap.ie.practices.xml | Doctify: none of the 2,012 Irish practice profiles in its practice sitemap is this practice, by name or address (checked 2026-10-02) | 2026-10-02 |
| beacon-dental-clinic-sandyford-dublin-presence-6 | https://www.trustpilot.com/review/beacondental.ie | Trustpilot: no page for beacondental.ie (checked 2026-10-02) | 2026-10-02 |
Change History
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-02 | Presence on review platforms checked 2026-10-02: no TripAdvisor listing; no profile on WhatClinic, Doctify or Trustpilot. |
| 2026-09-29 | Corrected 2026-09-29: active Facebook presence now unverified: no Facebook search is on record, so the absence of a page is not established. |
| 2026-09-10 | 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. |
| 2026-09-08 | 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. |
| 2026-09-07 | 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 | 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. |
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