Smile Store
According to our open methodology, this clinic scored 71.7/100 for transparency, reputation, service accessibility, and digital visibility.
Overall rank: #12 of 20 ranked clinics · Last checked: 8 September 2026
71.7/100
Positions by Rating Profile
- Overall Transparency & Trust#1271.7/100
- Best for Expats#1263.8/100
- Best for Dental Implants#1171.3/100
- Best for Emergency Dental Carenot ranked
- Best Price Transparency#1377.3/100
- Best English-speaking Clinics#1161.3/100
- Best for Families / Children#968.8/100
- 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
Implant and orthodontic specialist practice ("The Dental Specialists") on the Togher/Tramore Road junction, Cork, with a four-dentist team (an oral surgeon and a periodontist/implant surgeon among them) and an exhaustively itemised, tax-relief-annotated fee schedule.
Strengths
- Information Transparency: 18 of 20 points.
- Price Transparency: 13 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: 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 About-us page names Dr. Bence Kadár, Dr Orsolya Németh, Dr Desislava Hubenova and Dr Gabriella Wesselényi. [s2] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Dentist specializations listed Dr. Bence Kadár is named "Oral Surgeon"; Dr Gabriella Wesselényi is named "Periodontist/Implant Surgeon". [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 image is a branded graphic — a plain white and amber panel carrying the practice's web address — and not a photograph of anything. Under the methodology's rule a marketing graphic is not premises, signage in situ, team or equipment, on the same footing as the branded night-shot graphic that failed this criterion in the Swiss group. 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 Extensive treatment nav (implants, all-on-four, orthodontics/braces, periodontal, hygienist, root canal, crowns/bridges, extractions, inlays/onlays, fillings, whitening, veneers) plus a fully itemised fee schedule with tax-relief columns. [s1] [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
13 / 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 schedule (well over 25 procedures with fee/tax-relief/net-cost columns); a single implant line is marked "*PROMOTION*" and is not counted toward this, but the rest of the list is not time-limited. [s3] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Cleaning price listed Scale & Polish €85; Prophyjet sand blasting €170. [s3] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Filling price listed Tooth coloured (composite) filling €125–185 depending on surfaces. [s3] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Crown price listed Porcelain fused to metal crown on tooth €525; Full contour Zirconia crown €625. [s3] | 2/2 |
| ✗ | Implant price listed Checked: the only implant-fixture line item, "Alpha-Bio Single Implant", is explicitly marked "*PROMOTION*" (€749) — a time-limited promotional price does not count as a published price per the methodology's rule on promotional prices. "Porcelain fused to metal crown on implant" (€595) prices only the restoration, not the implant. [s3] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Consultation price listed Consultation / review appointment €45; Specialist consultation fee €100. [s3] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | X-ray / imaging price listed Small X-ray €25; Large X-ray (OPG) €55; Cone Beam CT €180. [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) as of 2026-09-26; previously 4.6 [smile-store-cork-gbp-2026-09-26] | 5/6 |
| ◐ | Google review volume as of 2026-09-26; previously 173 [smile-store-cork-gbp-2026-09-26] | 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, 2 months (edited), 3 months, 5 months, 6 months, 7 months and two entries at 9 months (one edited). 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 two 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 implant courses, hygienist appointments and long relationships with the practice, several of them praising its instalment payment plans. Sixteen one-star ratings exist in the distribution and Google's relevance ordering surfaces none of them, while the histogram's star filters do not filter the review list, so their subject cannot be established. One- and two-star ratings together are 17 of 173, 9.8 % 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. The distribution 154/2/0/1/16 is near two-valued — 154 five-star and 16 one-star with only three ratings anywhere in between — and every one of the eight visible reviews falls inside nine months, so no older account surfaces at all. Both facts are disclosed rather than glossed. Against manipulation: the sixteen one-star ratings stand unpruned under a published 4.6; the accounts are long and specific, naming six different members of staff (the hygienist Ciara, Jennifer, Danii, Lea, Shauna) and describing implant courses over years; and the owner answers only two of the eight, where a curated record answers everything. A practice whose patients are on multi-appointment payment plans accumulates exactly this kind of enthusiastic base. [gmp2] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Active Facebook presence Facebook page "Smile Store - The Dental Specialists" (facebook.com/SmileStoreCork): newest post 2026-02-13, 100 reviews. [smile-store-cork-presence-7] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | TripAdvisor presence No TripAdvisor listing found via its search for "Smile Store Cork" and "Smile Store"; the clinic's site does not link to TripAdvisor. [smile-store-cork-presence] [smile-store-cork-presence-2] [smile-store-cork-presence-3] | 0/0.5 |
| ✗ | Other review platforms No profile found on WhatClinic, Doctify or Trustpilot (checked 2026-10-02). [smile-store-cork-presence-4] [smile-store-cork-presence-5] [smile-store-cork-presence-6] | 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 [s3] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | CBCT (3D imaging) "Cone Beam CT €180" priced as an own service, described as a "Low radiation scan, digital 3D image". [s3] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Implantology [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Orthodontics Dedicated Orthodontics/braces/Invisalign/lingual-braces/surgical-orthodontics nav items. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Oral surgery Extractions and Wisdom Teeth Removal, Surgical Orthodontics nav items. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Pediatric dentistry The fee schedule carries a dedicated "Orthodontics for Children" section (initial consultation, diagnosis and treatment plan €80, "up to 16 years of age"; Early treatment for children (Stage I); Myofunctional Therapy Programme; Functional Appliance; metal braces per arch). Children’s dentistry at this practice is orthodontic rather than general, which is disclosed here rather than scored as an absence. [s1] [s3] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ✗ | Emergency care Checked the full treatments nav and fee schedule — no dedicated emergency service found. [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 08:00–17:00, 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 [av3] | 0/1 |
| ✓ | Mentioned for: dental implants Ireland Rank 5 and rank 8 of 10 (two of its own pages) 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 Only generic Yoast SEO WebPage/WebSite/Organization JSON-LD; no LocalBusiness/Dentist markup with address or phone. [s1] | 0/1.5 |
| ? | Google indexing quality | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Dedicated service pages Individual URLs per treatment, e.g. /treatments/dental-implants/, /treatments/invisalign/, /treatments/root-canal-treatment/. [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: Real clinic photos
- 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 | https://smilestore.ie/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +353 21 432 0004 |
| Google Maps | Map listing |
| Address | Togher Road / Tramore Road Junction, Cork, T12 X0PP, 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://smilestore.ie/ | Clinic homepage: meta description, full treatments nav | 2026-09-07 |
| s2 | https://smilestore.ie/about-us/ | Named team page with specialisations | 2026-09-07 |
| s3 | https://smilestore.ie/fees/ | Permanent itemised fee schedule with tax-relief columns | 2026-09-07 |
| gmp1 | https://www.google.com/search?tbm=map&q=Smile%20Store%20Dental%2C%2… | 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=Kadar | Dental Council Register of Dentists entry for Bence Kadár | 2026-09-07 |
| reg2 | https://www.dentalcouncil.ie/dentists?keyword_filter=Wesselenyi | Dental Council Register of Dentists entry for Gabriella Wesselényi | 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 |
| reg3 | https://www.dentalcouncil.ie/dentists?keyword_filter=Nemeth | Dental Council of Ireland, Register of Dentists — surname search for Dr Orsolya Németh | 2026-09-07 |
| reg4 | https://www.dentalcouncil.ie/dentists?keyword_filter=Hubenova | Dental Council of Ireland, Register of Dentists — surname search for Dr Desislava Hubenova | 2026-09-07 |
| gmp2 | https://www.google.com/maps/place/x/@51.8767631,-8.4937343,17z/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/@51.8767631,-8.4937343,17z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x48448fd060364cfb:0x70a0f558fb786b86!8m2!3d51.8767631!4d-8.4937343?hl=en gives the listing name, address, telephone, website, business category, the published opening week and the lead owner photograph. The listing opens as «Smile Store - Your Local Dental Specialists», category Dentist, at Togher Road at the Tramore Road junction, Cork, T12 X0PP, telephone +353 21 432 0004, website smilestore.ie — the identifiers the card itself carries, so the place identifier resolves to this practice and not to a neighbour. | 2026-09-08 |
| smile-store-cork-gbp-2026-09-26 | https://www.google.com/maps?cid=8115756291046534022&hl=en | Google listing read on 2026-09-26: rating 4.7 from 199 reviews; star histogram 1★ 16 / 2★ 1 / 3★ 0 / 4★ 2 / 5★ 180; newest review dated 2026-09-25. | 2026-09-26 |
| smile-store-cork-presence | https://www.tripadvisor.com/TypeAheadJson?action=API&query=Smile%20… | TripAdvisor's own search for "Smile Store Cork", run 2026-10-02, returns 12 results, none of them this clinic (e.g. The Cork Store, Lisbon; SMILE Concept Store, Ljubljana; Cork Store, Braga) | 2026-10-02 |
| smile-store-cork-presence-2 | https://www.tripadvisor.com/TypeAheadJson?action=API&query=Smile%20… | TripAdvisor's own search for "Smile Store", run 2026-10-02, returns 12 results, none of them this clinic (e.g. SMILE Concept Store, Ljubljana; Smile Wellness Store, Rome; Smile Organic Farm Cooking School, Chiang Mai) | 2026-10-02 |
| smile-store-cork-presence-3 | https://smilestore.ie/ | Clinic's website (home and contact pages) read 2026-10-02: no link to TripAdvisor | 2026-10-02 |
| smile-store-cork-presence-4 | https://www.whatclinic.com/dentists/ireland/county-cork/cork | WhatClinic: its Cork city dentist listing read page by page (4 pages, 32 of the 33 clinics it declares), checked against its profile sitemaps (18 Cork city profiles; the 2 not shown in the listing opened, neither is this practice) and the profile addresses built from the clinic's name ("smile-store" leads back to the Cork listing, i.e. a former profile was removed; "smile-store-cork" does not exist); no profile of the practice (checked 2026-10-02) | 2026-10-02 |
| smile-store-cork-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 |
| smile-store-cork-presence-6 | https://www.trustpilot.com/review/smilestore.ie | Trustpilot: no page for smilestore.ie (checked 2026-10-02) | 2026-10-02 |
| smile-store-cork-presence-7 | https://www.facebook.com/SmileStoreCork/ | Facebook page "Smile Store - The Dental Specialists" read 2026-10-02: linked from the clinic's site; About gives the clinic's address (Tramore Road Jct. Togher Road, Cork) and phone +353 21 432 0004; 12,662 followers, newest timeline post 2026-02-13, "76% recommend (100 reviews)" | 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; an active Facebook page. |
| 2026-09-29 | 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. |
| 2026-09-08 | 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 (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. |
| 2026-09-07 | 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 | 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. |
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