Galway Dental Specialists (O’Brien, Molloy & Delaney Periodontics)
According to our open methodology, this clinic scored 54.4/100 for transparency, reputation, service accessibility, and digital visibility.
Overall rank: #18 of 20 ranked clinics · Last checked: 8 September 2026
54.4/100
Positions by Rating Profile
- Overall Transparency & Trust#1854.4/100
- Best for Expats#1848.3/100
- Best for Dental Implants#1747.7/100
- Best for Emergency Dental Carenot ranked
- Best Price Transparency#1764.3/100
- Best English-speaking Clinics#1949/100
- 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) — Not verified
Summary
Referral periodontics and implant-surgery specialist practice at Marina House, Dock Road, Galway, trading as O’Brien, Molloy & Delaney Periodontics; two of its named specialists (Molloy, Delaney) match its own trading name and are confirmed on the statutory register.
Strengths
- Information Transparency: 18 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: 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 Dedicated "Specialist dental team Galway" page names Dr Michael Nolan, Dr Shkre Agkhre, Dr Paul Moore, Dr Paddy Delaney and Dr John Molloy; the latter two match the practice’s own trading name, O’Brien, Molloy & Delaney. [s2] | 3/3 |
| ✗ | Dentist specializations listed Checked: individual bios on the team page give name and photo only, without an individual specialty title per person, even though the practice as a whole is branded "Periodontics". [s2] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Real clinic photos Verified visually on the clinic's Google place page on 2026-09-08: the lead photograph is the practice's own doorway at Marina House, showing its three engraved nameplates — «Dr Paddy J. Delaney», «Dr Tiernan P. O'Brien» and «Dr John P. Molloy», each with its qualifications and «Practice limited to Periodontics and Implant Dentistry» — beside door glass carrying «…iodontics & …lant Dentistry» and the clinic's own web address. Signage of this clinic, naming its own specialists, on its own claimed profile. [gmp2] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Service list published Itemised fee page covering Prosthetic, Periodontal and Dental Implant treatment categories. [s3] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Clear contact details [s1] [gmp1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | English website version [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Address and map published [gmp1] | 2/2 |
Price Transparency
11 / 15
Whether patients can estimate costs before visiting. Published price ranges count; exact prices are not required.
| ✓ | Prices or price ranges published Permanent itemised fee page (~25 procedures across three specialty categories), all noted as eligible for a 20% Med 2 tax rebate. [s3] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Cleaning price listed Hygiene visit €140 (full hour). [s3] | 2/2 |
| ✗ | Filling price listed Checked: a specialist periodontal/prosthodontic/implant referral practice — no filling service is priced or offered. [s3] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Crown price listed Crown €1,100. [s3] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Implant price listed "Dental implant €1,200" under Dental Implant Treatments (fixture-only price, distinct from "Implant crown €1,500–1,650" listed separately). [s3] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Consultation price listed Prosthodontic consultation €200; Periodontal consultation €200; Implant consultation €120. [s3] | 2/2 |
| ✗ | X-ray / imaging price listed Checked: no x-ray/CBCT line item on the fee page, despite implant treatment planning typically requiring imaging. [s3] | 0/2 |
Reputation & Reviews
11 / 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 — 14 five-star, 0 four-star, 0 three-star, 0 two-star and 1 one-star — sums to 15, matching the 15 in the place-page header exactly, and its weighted mean 4.733 reproduces the published 4.7. [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 15 and the listing has not moved since. [gmp1] [gmp2] | 0.5/3 |
| ◐ | Review recency Newest Google review is dated 2026-06-09 (listing read 2026-09-26). [galway-dental-specialists-galway-gbp-2026-09-26] | 1.5/3 |
| ✓ | Clinic responds to reviews The owner answers three 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 referred periodontal and implant work — gum grafts, extractions, implants placed as long ago as 1999 and still in situ — under the three named partners. The single one-star rating in the distribution carries no text that relevance ordering surfaces. One- and two-star ratings together are 1 of 15, 6.7 % of a base of fifteen, and the base is stated because a percentage on fifteen ratings means 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 fifteen is too thin to carry a manipulation signature in either direction, and that is recorded rather than glossed. What can be said: the single one-star rating stands unpruned under a published 4.7; the visible dates spread from two months to five years, with one reviewer recalling an implant placed in 1999; the accounts name all three partners plus a fourth clinician and three nurses by name; and the owner answers three of the eight, which is not the behaviour of a curated record. [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 "Galway Dental Specialists" and "Molloy Delaney Periodontics"; the clinic's site does not link to TripAdvisor. [galway-dental-specialists-galway-presence] [galway-dental-specialists-galway-presence-2] [galway-dental-specialists-galway-presence-3] | 0/0.5 |
| ✗ | Other review platforms No profile found on WhatClinic, Doctify or Trustpilot (checked 2026-10-02). [galway-dental-specialists-galway-presence-4] [galway-dental-specialists-galway-presence-5] [galway-dental-specialists-galway-presence-6] | 0/0.5 |
Medical Infrastructure
4 / 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 [s3] | 2/2 |
| ? | Orthodontics | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Oral surgery Wisdom teeth removal, surgical periodontal therapy, periodontal plastic surgery all priced. [s3] | 2/2 |
| ? | Pediatric dentistry | 0/1.5 |
| ✗ | Emergency care Checked the practice homepage and the fee page: no emergency or same-day service is offered or mentioned. Re-sourced away from the search-position pseudo-source the initial data collection had used — a search ranking is not evidence about a service either way. [s1] [s3] | 0/1.5 |
| ? | 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 Friday 08:00–16:00, 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, and it is consistent with a referral-only specialist practice. [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 [av3] | 0/1 |
| ✓ | Mentioned for: dental implants Ireland Rank 5 of 8 for "dental implants Galway" (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); Galway was not queried for this key. | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Structured data on website Checked the homepage, the team page and the fee page: only a generic WebPage/WebSite/BreadcrumbList JSON-LD graph with no address, phone or geo — no LocalBusiness/Dentist-equivalent markup. [s1] [s2] [s3] | 0/1.5 |
| ? | Google indexing quality | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Dedicated service pages Separate pages for about, team, fees and contact, organised by specialty category (prosthetic, periodontal, implant). [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 →
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- #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
- Reputation & Reviews: Active Facebook presence
- Medical Infrastructure: On-site X-ray
- Medical Infrastructure: CBCT (3D imaging)
- Medical Infrastructure: Orthodontics
- Medical Infrastructure: Pediatric dentistry
- 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.galwaydentalspecialists.ie/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +353 91 569 110 |
| Google Maps | Map listing |
| Address | Marina House, 7 Dock Road, Galway, 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://www.galwaydentalspecialists.ie/ | Clinic homepage: nav, contact | 2026-09-07 |
| s2 | https://www.galwaydentalspecialists.ie/specialist-dental-team-galway/ | Named team page (five specialists) | 2026-09-07 |
| s3 | https://www.galwaydentalspecialists.ie/dental-fees-obrien-molloy-de… | Permanent itemised fee page across three specialty categories | 2026-09-07 |
| gmp1 | https://www.google.com/search?tbm=map&q=O%27Brien%20Molloy%20Delane… | 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=Molloy | Dental Council Register of Dentists entry for John Molloy | 2026-09-07 |
| reg2 | https://www.dentalcouncil.ie/dentists?keyword_filter=Delaney | Dental Council Register of Dentists entry for Patrick Delaney | 2026-09-07 |
| av1 | search:best dentist Galway | (the five canonical city queries) | 2026-09-07 |
| av2 | search:dental implants Galway | (the five canonical city queries) | 2026-09-07 |
| av3 | search:English speaking dentist Galway | (the five canonical city queries) | 2026-09-07 |
| av4 | search:emergency dentist Galway | (the five canonical city queries) | 2026-09-07 |
| reg3 | https://www.dentalcouncil.ie/dentists?keyword_filter=Nolan | Dental Council of Ireland, Register of Dentists — surname search for Dr Michael Nolan | 2026-09-07 |
| reg4 | https://www.dentalcouncil.ie/dentists?keyword_filter=Agkhre | Dental Council of Ireland, Register of Dentists — surname search for Dr Shkre Agkhre | 2026-09-07 |
| reg5 | https://www.dentalcouncil.ie/dentists?keyword_filter=Moore | Dental Council of Ireland, Register of Dentists — surname search for Dr Paul Moore | 2026-09-07 |
| gmp2 | https://www.google.com/maps/place/x/@53.2704452,-9.0514759,17z/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/@53.2704452,-9.0514759,17z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x485b96fb344d25fb:0x597cc199f1d93598!8m2!3d53.2704452!4d-9.0514759?hl=en gives the listing name, address, telephone, website, business category, the published opening week and the lead owner photograph. The listing opens as «O'Brien, Molloy, Delaney Periodontics», category Dental clinic, at Marina House, 7 Dock Road, Galway, telephone +353 91 569 110, website galwaydentalspecialists.ie — the Business Profile is filed under the three partners' names where the card carries the practice's trading name — the identifiers the card itself carries, so the place identifier resolves to this practice and not to a neighbour. | 2026-09-08 |
| galway-dental-specialists-galway-gbp-2026-09-26 | https://www.google.com/maps?cid=6448241633419408792&hl=en | Google listing read on 2026-09-26: rating 4.7 from 15 reviews; star histogram 1★ 1 / 2★ 0 / 3★ 0 / 4★ 0 / 5★ 14; newest review dated 2026-06-09; 1 of the 5 newest reviews carry an owner reply, latest dated 2026-01-15. | 2026-09-26 |
| galway-dental-specialists-galway-presence | https://www.tripadvisor.com/TypeAheadJson?action=API&query=Galway%2… | TripAdvisor's own search for "Galway Dental Specialists", run 2026-10-02, returns 12 results, none of them this clinic (e.g. DUO specialists dental clinic, Osaka; Galway's Latin Quarter, Galway; Galway Tour Company, Galway) | 2026-10-02 |
| galway-dental-specialists-galway-presence-2 | https://www.tripadvisor.com/TypeAheadJson?action=API&query=Molloy%2… | TripAdvisor's own search for "Molloy Delaney Periodontics", run 2026-10-02, returns 12 results, none of them this clinic (e.g. Matt Molloy's, Westport; Delaney Vineyards, Grapevine; Delaney Street Mercantile, Lake Geneva) | 2026-10-02 |
| galway-dental-specialists-galway-presence-3 | https://www.galwaydentalspecialists.ie/ | Clinic's website (home and contact pages) read 2026-10-02: no link to TripAdvisor | 2026-10-02 |
| galway-dental-specialists-galway-presence-4 | https://www.whatclinic.com/dentists/ireland/county-galway/galway | WhatClinic: its Galway city dentist listing read page by page (2 pages, all 20 clinics it declares), checked against its profile sitemaps (20 Galway city profiles; the 4 not shown in the listing opened, none of them this practice) and the profile addresses built from the clinic's name ("galway-dental-specialists", "galway-periodontics" and "obrien-molloy-delaney-periodontics" do not exist); no profile of the practice (checked 2026-10-02) | 2026-10-02 |
| galway-dental-specialists-galway-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 |
| galway-dental-specialists-galway-presence-6 | https://www.trustpilot.com/review/galwaydentalspecialists.ie | Trustpilot: no page for galwaydentalspecialists.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; review recency within a year (newest review dated 2026-06-09). |
| 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 (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. |
| 2026-09-07 | 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 | 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. |
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