Elmwood Dental & Facial Aesthetics
According to our open methodology, this clinic scored 45.6/100 for transparency, reputation, service accessibility, and digital visibility.
Overall rank: #20 of 20 ranked clinics · Last checked: 8 September 2026
45.6/100
Positions by Rating Profile
- Overall Transparency & Trust#2045.6/100
- Best for Expats#2042.5/100
- Best for Dental Implants#1938/100
- Best for Emergency Dental Carenot ranked
- Best Price Transparency#2033.1/100
- Best English-speaking Clinics#2047/100
- 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 [s2]
Summary
General, cosmetic and implant dentistry practice at the Elmwood Medical Centre, Frankfield, Douglas, Cork, with two named dentists each holding a stated area of special interest; the site is an older static build that does not publish any pricing.
Strengths
- Information Transparency: 18 of 20 points.
- No red flags identified in public sources.
Weaknesses
- Price Transparency: 0 of 15 verifiable points (missing: prices or price ranges published; cleaning price listed; filling price listed; crown price listed; implant price listed; consultation price listed; x-ray / imaging price listed)
- AI & Search Visibility: 2.5 of 7 verifiable points (missing: mentioned for: best dentist Ireland; mentioned for: English speaking dentist Ireland; mentioned for: emergency dentist Ireland; 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 Treatments page names Dr Caoimhe O’ Shea and Dr Eoin Mills. [s2] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Dentist specializations listed "For Dr Caoimhe O’ Shea it is cosmetic dentistry and facial aesthetics, for Dr Eoin Mills it is the Six Month Smiles Orthodontic system and implant dentistry." [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 exterior of the Elmwood Medical Centre — a three-storey building with a pharmacy at street level and the medical centre's own sign on the corner — which is the host building the dental practice occupies, not the practice itself. Under the methodology's rule a photograph of the host building is not the clinic's publication of itself. 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 Treatments page lists Facial Aesthetics, Adult Orthodontics, Tooth Whitening, Easy Dentures, Smart Implants, Gum Treatments, Fillings, Root Canal Treatment, Bridges, Extraction/Wisdom Tooth Extraction, Crowns and Veneers. [s2] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Clear contact details [s1] [gmp1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | English website version [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Address and map published Footer address ("Elmwood Dental, Elmwood Medical Centre, Frankfield, Douglas, Cork") matches the Google Maps listing (Elmwood Medical Centre, Grange Rd, Frankfield, Cork, T12 HX06). [s1] [gmp1] | 2/2 |
Price Transparency
0 / 15
Whether patients can estimate costs before visiting. Published price ranges count; exact prices are not required.
| ✗ | Prices or price ranges published Checked the homepage and the full treatments page (13 named treatments) — no price is published for any procedure anywhere on the site, despite the nav being labelled "Treatments & Fees". [s1] [s2] | 0/3 |
| ✗ | Cleaning price listed [s2] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Filling price listed [s2] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Crown price listed [s2] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Implant price listed [s2] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Consultation price listed [s1] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | X-ray / imaging price listed [s1] [s2] | 0/2 |
Reputation & Reviews
10.5 / 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 — 7 five-star, 0 four-star, 1 three-star, 0 two-star and 1 one-star — sums to 9, matching the 9 in the place-page header exactly, and its weighted mean 4.333 reproduces the published 4.3. [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 9 and the listing has not moved since. [gmp1] [gmp2] | 0.5/3 |
| ◐ | Review recency Newest Google review is dated 2026-06-07 (listing read 2026-09-26). [elmwood-dental-douglas-cork-gbp-2026-09-26] | 1.5/3 |
| ? | Clinic responds to reviews | 0/2 |
| ✓ | No recurring complaints The thinnest base in either country, and eight of its nine reviews are visible, so this is close to a complete reading. One critical account is readable and it stands alone: a one-star four years old from a patient who booked online and was telephoned on the day of the appointment to be told the practice was not taking new patients and the booking was cancelled. A three-star three months old carries no text at all. There is no second readable negative, so no theme repeats. One- and two-star ratings together are 1 of 9, 11.1 % of a base of nine, and the base is stated here because a percentage on nine ratings means very little on its own. 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. A base of nine accumulated across eleven years is far too thin to carry a manipulation signature in either direction, and that is recorded rather than glossed. What can be said: the distribution 7/0/1/0/1 keeps both a three-star and a one-star under a published 4.3; the visible dates run from three months to eleven years with no cluster anywhere; two of the eight visible entries are bare star ratings with no text; the written accounts name the practice's dentist and describe different visits; and there is no owner engagement on the profile at all. [gmp2] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Active Facebook presence [s1] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | TripAdvisor presence No TripAdvisor listing found via its search for "Elmwood Dental & Facial Aesthetics Cork" and "Elmwood dental"; the clinic's site does not link to TripAdvisor. [elmwood-dental-douglas-cork-presence] [elmwood-dental-douglas-cork-presence-2] [elmwood-dental-douglas-cork-presence-3] | 0/0.5 |
| ✓ | Other review platforms WhatClinic: profile 'Elmwood Dental' at Elmwood Medical Centre, Frankfield, Douglas, with its three dentists, photos and opening hours; no reviews yet. [elmwood-dental-douglas-cork-presence-4] | 0.5/0.5 |
Medical Infrastructure
6 / 15
The range of publicly documented equipment and services. This measures documented availability, not clinical quality.
| ? | On-site X-ray | 0/2 |
| ? | CBCT (3D imaging) | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Implantology "Smart Implants" treatment; Dr Eoin Mills’ stated interest is implant dentistry. [s2] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Orthodontics "Adult Orthodontics" treatment page; Dr Eoin Mills’ stated interest is the Six Month Smiles orthodontic system. [s2] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Oral surgery "Extraction / Wisdom tooth extraction" treatment. [s2] | 2/2 |
| ✗ | Pediatric dentistry Checked the full treatments list — no children’s/paediatric dentistry service found. [s2] | 0/1.5 |
| ✗ | Emergency care Checked the full treatments list — no dedicated emergency service found. [s2] | 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 Confirmed independently on 2026-09-08 against the clinic's own Google Business Profile, which publishes the full week: Monday to Wednesday 08:30–17:30, Thursday 08:30–20:00, Friday 08:00–17:00, Saturday and Sunday closed. The Thursday close at 20:00 is what satisfies this criterion under the rule this index applies to every card, and it agrees with the late surgery the clinic advertises on its own site. [s2] [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 [av3] | 0/1 |
| ✓ | Mentioned for: dental implants Ireland Rank 6 of 10 for "dental implants Cork Ireland" (AI-visibility pass, 2026-09-07). [av2] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: emergency dentist Ireland [av4] | 0/1 |
| ? | Mentioned for: Ireland dental clinic for expats Query not run in AI-visibility pass — the single centralised canonical-query AI-visibility pass ran the "dental clinic for expats" query only for the first research city per country (Dublin); Cork was not queried for this key. | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Structured data on website Older static site with no schema.org markup at all. [s1] | 0/1.5 |
| ? | Google indexing quality | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Dedicated service pages Separate pages per treatment (implants, orthodontics, whitening, dentures, etc.), though several carry only brief content. [s2] | 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: Real clinic photos
- Reputation & Reviews: Clinic responds to reviews
- Medical Infrastructure: On-site X-ray
- Medical Infrastructure: CBCT (3D imaging)
- 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: Ireland dental clinic for expats
- 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 | http://www.elmwooddental.ie/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +353 21 489 7925 |
| https://www.facebook.com/ElmwoodDentalCork | |
| Google Maps | Map listing |
| Address | Elmwood Medical Centre, Grange Road, Frankfield, Douglas, Cork, T12 HX06, Ireland |
Contact details are provided for identification only and may change; verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | http://elmwooddental.ie/ | Clinic homepage: contact/address footer, nav, Facebook link | 2026-09-07 |
| s2 | http://elmwooddental.ie/treatments.html | Full treatments list naming both dentists, their stated interests, and all 13 services (checked comprehensively for price/emergency/pediatric/sedation — none found) | 2026-09-07 |
| gmp1 | https://www.google.com/search?tbm=map&q=Elmwood%20Dental%2C%20Dougl… | 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=O%27Shea | Dental Council Register of Dentists entry for Caoimhe O’Shea | 2026-09-07 |
| reg2 | https://www.dentalcouncil.ie/dentists?keyword_filter=Mills | Dental Council Register of Dentists entry for Eoin Mills | 2026-09-07 |
| av1 | search:best dentist Cork Ireland | (the five canonical city queries) | 2026-09-07 |
| av2 | search:dental implants Cork Ireland | (the five canonical city queries) | 2026-09-07 |
| av3 | search:English speaking dentist Cork Ireland | (the five canonical city queries) | 2026-09-07 |
| av4 | search:emergency dentist Cork Ireland | (the five canonical city queries) | 2026-09-07 |
| gmp2 | https://www.google.com/maps/place/x/@51.8669894,-8.4582158,17z/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/@51.8669894,-8.4582158,17z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x48448ff2db7f6de1:0x554e8d2a0243043b!8m2!3d51.8669894!4d-8.4582158?hl=en gives the listing name, address, telephone, website, business category, the published opening week and the lead owner photograph. The listing opens as «Elmwood Dental Practice», category Dental clinic, at Elmwood Medical Centre, Grange Road, Frankfield, Douglas, Cork, T12 HX06, telephone +353 21 489 7925, website elmwooddental.ie — the Business Profile is filed under the shorter «Elmwood Dental Practice» where the card carries the practice's full trading name — the identifiers the card itself carries, so the place identifier resolves to this practice and not to a neighbour. | 2026-09-08 |
| elmwood-dental-douglas-cork-gbp-2026-09-26 | https://www.google.com/maps?cid=6147005752973395003&hl=en | Google listing read on 2026-09-26: rating 4.3 from 9 reviews; star histogram 1★ 1 / 2★ 0 / 3★ 1 / 4★ 0 / 5★ 7; newest review dated 2026-06-07. | 2026-09-26 |
| elmwood-dental-douglas-cork-presence | https://www.tripadvisor.com/TypeAheadJson?action=API&query=Elmwood%… | TripAdvisor's own search for "Elmwood Dental & Facial Aesthetics Cork", run 2026-10-02, returns 12 results, none of them this clinic (e.g. Symmetry Dental and Aesthetics Clinics, Cancun; Renu Facial And Body Aesthetics, San Juan Capistrano; Serenity Facial Aesthetics and Spa, Burlington) | 2026-10-02 |
| elmwood-dental-douglas-cork-presence-2 | https://www.tripadvisor.com/TypeAheadJson?action=API&query=Elmwood%… | TripAdvisor's own search for "Elmwood dental", run 2026-10-02, returns 12 results, none of them this clinic (e.g. Elmwood Village, Buffalo; Elmwood Park Zoo, Norristown; Elmwood Cemetery, Memphis) | 2026-10-02 |
| elmwood-dental-douglas-cork-presence-3 | http://www.elmwooddental.ie/ | Clinic's website (home and contact pages) read 2026-10-02: no link to TripAdvisor | 2026-10-02 |
| elmwood-dental-douglas-cork-presence-4 | https://www.whatclinic.com/beauty-clinics/ireland/county-cork/cork/… | WhatClinic, read 2026-10-02: profile 'Elmwood Dental', Elmwood Medical Centre, Frankfield, Douglas, Cork, listed with dental treatments and medical aesthetics, with clinic-specific content: staff entries and photos for Dr Caoimhe O'Shea, Dr Eoin Mills and Dr Aoife Woods (the first two named on the clinic's own about page) and opening hours for each day; no description text, no ServiceScore and no patient reviews yet | 2026-10-02 |
Change History
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-02 | Presence on review platforms checked 2026-10-02: no TripAdvisor listing; WhatClinic profile at Elmwood Medical Centre, Douglas. |
| 2026-09-29 | 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). |
| 2026-09-08 | 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 (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. |
| 2026-09-07 | 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 | 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. |
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