Charlestown Dental Centre
According to our open methodology, this clinic scored 75.6/100 for transparency, reputation, service accessibility, and digital visibility.
Overall rank: #6 of 20 ranked clinics · Last checked: 8 September 2026
75.6/100
Positions by Rating Profile
- Overall Transparency & Trust#675.6/100
- Best for Expats#669.5/100
- Best for Dental Implants#675.5/100
- Best for Emergency Dental Carenot ranked
- Best Price Transparency#784.8/100
- Best English-speaking Clinics#867.2/100
- Best for Families / Children#673.2/100
- 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.
Summary
General, orthodontic and oral-surgery practice on the second floor of Charlestown Shopping Centre, Finglas, Dublin 11, with a five-dentist team (several EU-qualified) and a fully itemised, permanent price list including a dedicated children’s fee schedule.
Strengths
- Information Transparency: 18 of 20 points.
- Price Transparency: 15 of 15 points.
- Reputation & Reviews: 17 of 20 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: dental implants 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 names Dr Florina-Andreea Hangan, Dr Anca Ghidanac, Dr Henriksen, Dr Beatriz Lara and Dr Diana-Elena Munteanu. [s2] | 3/3 |
| ? | Dentist specializations listed | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Real clinic photos Verified visually on the clinic's Google place page on 2026-09-08: the lead photograph is one of the practice's own treatment rooms — the dental chair and operator stool, the delivery unit and operating light, the imaging screen, and the clinic's own wall mural of patients along the back wall. Premises and equipment of this clinic on its own claimed profile. [gmp2] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Service list published Nav covers Dental Surgery, Orthodontics, Dental Hygienist, Cosmetic Dentistry, plus a fully itemised price list. [s1] [s3] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Clear contact details Phone and address consistent between the site footer, the price-list contact block and the Google Business listing. [s1] [gmp1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | English website version [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Address and map published Address on the price-list page footer ("Charlestown Shopping Centre, 2nd Floor, St Margaret’s Road, Finglas, Dublin, D11 KXC7, Ireland") matches the Google Maps listing exactly. [s3] [gmp1] | 2/2 |
Price Transparency
15 / 15
Whether patients can estimate costs before visiting. Published price ranges count; exact prices are not required.
| ✓ | Prices or price ranges published Permanent, itemised price list of well over 40 procedures across general dentistry, prosthetics, crowns/veneers, endodontics, extractions, oral surgery, implants, children’s dentistry and orthodontics. [s3] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Cleaning price listed Scale and Polish from €75; Scale and Polish with Consultation €110. [s3] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Filling price listed Under the children’s (under-16) fee schedule: filling on a permanent tooth €100, filling on a temporary tooth €70. An equivalent adult filling line item was not found separately itemised. [s3] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Crown price listed Crown E-Max/Zirconium €650. [s3] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Implant price listed Dental Implant from €900 (under Dental Implants, distinct from "Crown on Implant from €900" listed separately). [s3] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Consultation price listed Consultation €50; Consultation with Specialist €90; free consultation with PRSI. [s3] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | X-ray / imaging price listed OPG (walk-in without exam) €50; CT Scan €140. [s3] | 2/2 |
Reputation & Reviews
17 / 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 — 157 five-star, 1 four-star, 1 three-star, 1 two-star and 9 one-star — sums to 169, matching the 169 in the place-page header exactly, and its weighted mean 4.751 reproduces the published 4.8. [gmp1] [gmp2] | 5/6 |
| ◐ | 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 169 and the listing has not moved since. [gmp1] [gmp2] | 2/3 |
| ✓ | Review recency The newest review visible is 1 month old, which proves the within_3_months bucket and no better. Visible dates: 1 month, three entries at 3 months, one at 4 months, one at 5 months, one at 6 months and one at 8 months. 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 No critical account is readable in the visible sample: all eight reviews are five-star and describe emergency appointments, a child's extraction, hygienist work and implant treatment under named clinicians. Nine one-star ratings exist in the distribution — 9 of 169 — and Google's relevance ordering surfaces none of them, while the histogram's star filters do not filter the list, so their subject is unknown. One- and two-star ratings together are 10 of 169, 5.9 % of the base, below the 25 % at which the methodology's rule withholds a verdict, so the value is recorded false with the unread mass stated: this is «no repeated theme in what can be read», not «no complaints exist». 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. Two features of this listing were examined together and both are disclosed. The distribution 157/1/1/1/9 is near two-valued — 157 five-star and 9 one-star with only three ratings anywhere in between — and every one of the eight visible reviews falls inside eight months, so no older account surfaces at all. Against manipulation: the nine one-star ratings stand unpruned under a published 4.8; the accounts are long, specific and varied, naming six different people at the practice (Dr Andreea, Dr Anca, Dr Thomas, the receptionist Narcisa, the nurse Sinziana) and describing different treatments including a child's extraction; and the owner answers every one individually and by name. A practice that asks satisfied patients for reviews produces this shape, and nothing else on the record points the other way. Recorded false with the shape written into the note so the gate can take a second view. [gmp2] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Active Facebook presence facebook.com/charlestowndental linked from the site. [s1] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | TripAdvisor presence No TripAdvisor listing found via its search for "Charlestown Dental Centre Dublin" and "Charlestown dental"; the clinic's site does not link to TripAdvisor. [charlestown-dental-centre-dublin-presence] [charlestown-dental-centre-dublin-presence-2] [charlestown-dental-centre-dublin-presence-3] | 0/0.5 |
| ✗ | Other review platforms Doctify lists the practice only as an unclaimed entry with no reviews; WhatClinic and Trustpilot have no profile of it (checked 2026-10-05). [charlestown-dental-centre-dublin-g6] [charlestown-dental-centre-dublin-deepen] [charlestown-dental-centre-dublin-deepen-2] | 0/0.5 |
Medical Infrastructure
11.5 / 15
The range of publicly documented equipment and services. This measures documented availability, not clinical quality.
| ✓ | On-site X-ray OPG walk-in €50; CT Scan €140 (own service, not flagged as referral-only). [s3] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | CBCT (3D imaging) "CT Scan €140" priced among the clinic’s own general-dentistry procedures. [s3] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Implantology Dedicated Dental Implants price section, including bone graft. [s3] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Orthodontics Dedicated Orthodontics nav item; price list covers braces and aligners from €2,980–€6,080 and €4,900–€5,900 respectively. [s1] [s3] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Oral surgery Dedicated "Oral Surgery With Specialist" price section (surgical extraction, wisdom teeth, open flap surgery, gingivectomy). [s3] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Pediatric dentistry Full "Children Treatments (under 16 years old)" price section. [s3] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ✗ | Emergency care Checked the full site nav (Home, Our Team, Dental Surgery, Orthodontics, Dental Hygienist, Cosmetic Dentistry, Pricelist, Contact) and the price-list FAQ ("we provide consultations, as well as tooth extractions, fillings and cleaning") — no dedicated emergency-dentistry service is advertised. [s1] [s3] | 0/1.5 |
| ? | Works with international patients | 0/2 |
Communication & Service
4 / 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 Friday 09:00–20:00, Saturday 10:00–15:00, Sunday closed. Both halves of the rule this index applies are satisfied, a weekday close at 20:00 and a Saturday opening, so this is a verified positive rather than an unassessed field. [gmp2] | 1.5/1.5 |
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 Rank 1 of 7 for "English speaking dentist Dublin", checked 2026-09-07. [av2] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: dental implants Ireland [av3] | 0/1 |
| ? | 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 Checked the homepage, the team page and the price list: not one application/ld+json block and no schema.org microdata anywhere on the site. [s1] [s2] [s3] | 0/1.5 |
| ? | Google indexing quality | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Dedicated service pages Separate nav pages for Dental Surgery, Orthodontics, Dental Hygienist and Cosmetic 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
Red Flags
No red flags identified in the public sources we reviewed.
Data We Could Not Verify
- Information Transparency: Dentist specializations listed
- 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://www.charlestowndentalcentre.ie/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +353 1 211 8885 |
| https://www.facebook.com/charlestowndental | |
| Google Maps | Map listing |
| Address | Charlestown Shopping Centre, 2nd Floor, St Margaret’s Road, Finglas, Dublin 11, D11 KXC7, 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://www.charlestowndentalcentre.ie/dentist-dublin | Clinic homepage: full site nav, social links | 2026-09-07 |
| s2 | https://www.charlestowndentalcentre.ie/our-team | Named team page | 2026-09-07 |
| s3 | https://www.charlestowndentalcentre.ie/pricelist | Permanent itemised price list (general, prosthetic, crowns, endodontics, extractions, oral surgery, implants, children, orthodontics) and address/contact footer | 2026-09-07 |
| gmp1 | https://www.google.com/search?tbm=map&q=Charlestown%20Dental%20Cent… | 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=Hangan | Dental Council Register of Dentists entry for Florina-Andreea Hangan | 2026-09-07 |
| reg2 | https://www.dentalcouncil.ie/dentists?keyword_filter=Munteanu | Dental Council Register of Dentists entry for Diana-Elena Munteanu | 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=Ghidanac | Dental Council of Ireland, Register of Dentists — surname search for Dr Anca Ghidanac | 2026-09-07 |
| reg4 | https://www.dentalcouncil.ie/dentists?keyword_filter=Henriksen | Dental Council of Ireland, Register of Dentists — surname search for Dr Henriksen | 2026-09-07 |
| reg5 | https://www.dentalcouncil.ie/dentists?keyword_filter=Lara | Dental Council of Ireland, Register of Dentists — surname search for Dr Beatriz Lara | 2026-09-07 |
| gmp2 | https://www.google.com/maps/place/x/@53.4032878,-6.3035022,17z/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/@53.4032878,-6.3035022,17z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x486713c7cd80c791:0x28b6691a7e2dbd92!8m2!3d53.4032878!4d-6.3035022?hl=en gives the listing name, address, telephone, website, business category, the published opening week and the lead owner photograph. The listing opens as «Charlestown Dental Centre», category Oral surgeon, at Charlestown Shopping Centre, 2nd floor, St Margaret's Road, Finglas, Dublin 11, D11 KXC7, telephone +353 1 211 8885, website charlestowndentalcentre.ie — the identifiers the card itself carries, so the place identifier resolves to this practice and not to a neighbour. | 2026-09-08 |
| charlestown-dental-centre-dublin-deepen | https://www.whatclinic.com/dentists/ireland/county-dublin | WhatClinic: all 15 pages of its County Dublin dentist listing (176 clinics) and its profile sitemaps (614 Irish dentist profiles) have no profile for Charlestown Dental Centre; it has no Finglas listing page, the one Finglas dental practice it lists (Med Dent Dental Clinic, Hampton Wood Road) is another one, and profile addresses built from its name return not found (checked 2026-10-01) | 2026-10-01 |
| charlestown-dental-centre-dublin-deepen-2 | https://www.trustpilot.com/review/charlestowndentalcentre.ie | Trustpilot, read 2026-10-05: no company page for charlestowndentalcentre.ie, the practice's website (page not found) | 2026-10-05 |
| charlestown-dental-centre-dublin-presence | https://www.tripadvisor.com/TypeAheadJson?action=API&query=Charlest… | TripAdvisor's own search for "Charlestown Dental Centre Dublin", run 2026-10-02, returns 12 results, none of them this clinic (e.g. The Convention Centre Dublin, Dublin; Dublin Visitor Centre, Dublin; The Dublin Arts Center Gallery, Dublin) | 2026-10-02 |
| charlestown-dental-centre-dublin-presence-2 | https://www.tripadvisor.com/TypeAheadJson?action=API&query=Charlest… | TripAdvisor's own search for "Charlestown dental", run 2026-10-02, returns 12 results, none of them this clinic (e.g. Charlestown Town Beach, Charlestown; Charlestown State Park, Charlestown; Charlestown Navy Yard, Boston) | 2026-10-02 |
| charlestown-dental-centre-dublin-presence-3 | https://www.charlestowndentalcentre.ie/ | Clinic's website (home and contact pages) read 2026-10-02: no link to TripAdvisor | 2026-10-02 |
| charlestown-dental-centre-dublin-g6 | https://www.doctify.com/ie/practice/charlestown-dental-centre | Doctify, read 2026-10-05 through its own practice search: the entry "Charlestown Dental Centre" is on Doctify's "unclaimed" plan, with no reviews, no logo and no photos - a listing Doctify created itself, not one the practice keeps; the practice's home page, read the same day, does not link to Doctify | 2026-10-05 |
Change History
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-05 | Presence on review platforms checked on 2026-10-05: only an unclaimed Doctify entry with no reviews; no profile on WhatClinic or Trustpilot. |
| 2026-10-02 | 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 | Presence on review platforms checked 2026-10-02: no TripAdvisor listing. |
| 2026-10-01 | Other review platforms re-checked on 2026-10-01: no profile on WhatClinic, Trustpilot or Doctify; onOtherPlatforms set to false. |
| 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 (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. |
| 2026-09-07 | 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 | 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. |
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