Cherrybank Dental Spa Edinburgh
According to our open methodology, this clinic scored 73.9/100 for transparency, reputation, service accessibility, and digital visibility.
Overall rank: #20 of 25 ranked clinics · Last checked: 8 September 2026
73.9/100
Positions by Rating Profile
- Overall Transparency & Trust#2073.9/100
- Best for Expats#2071.3/100
- Best for Dental Implants#2070.2/100
- Best for Emergency Dental Care#1075.6/100
- Best Price Transparency#2354.1/100
- Best English-speaking Clinics#1674.5/100
- Best for Families / Children#1077.8/100
- 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.
- ✗ General anaesthesia / deep sedation (sleep dentistry) — No general anaesthesia or deep sedation documented The clinic publishes "Sedation Dentistry" for anxious patients and sedation for nervous children over twelve, but nothing on its site and nothing in the HIS conditions of registration documents general anaesthesia or deep/twilight sedation, which is what this criterion counts. [s4] [reg1]
Summary
Private practice on Hanover Street in Edinburgh's New Town, part of the Pain Free Dentistry Group and registered with Healthcare Improvement Scotland as an independent clinic. Six dentists are named with their GDC registration numbers, but the site carries no fee page.
Strengths
- Information Transparency: 20 of 20 points.
- Reputation & Reviews: 19 of 20 points.
- Medical Infrastructure: 13 of 15 points.
- No red flags identified in public sources.
Weaknesses
- Price Transparency: 2 of 15 verifiable points (missing: prices or price ranges published; cleaning price listed; filling price listed; crown price listed; implant price listed; x-ray / imaging price listed)
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
20 / 20
Whether basic facts about the clinic - its team, premises, services, and location - are publicly verifiable.
| ✓ | Has a working website Body read on 2026-09-07: live content site with team, treatment and contact pages. [s1] | 4/4 |
| ✓ | Dentist names listed Six dentists, three therapists and the nursing team named, each with a GDC registration number. [s2] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Dentist specializations listed Stated interests per clinician: endodontics with an operating microscope, oral implantology, advanced cosmetic dentistry, minimally invasive cosmetic dentistry and cosmetic orthodontic systems. [s2] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Real clinic photos The practice's own team photography: the owner strip on the place page shows members of staff inside the practice holding boards reading "Cherrybank Dental Spa Edinburgh — Pain Free!". The strip did not paint on the first attempt and was read on a second pass with a longer settle. [gmpb] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Service list published [s1] [s3] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Clear contact details Address, phone and contact page published on the clinic's own site. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | English website version [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Address and map published Embedded map on the clinic's own site. [s1] | 2/2 |
Price Transparency
2 / 15
Whether patients can estimate costs before visiting. Published price ranges count; exact prices are not required.
| ✗ | Prices or price ranges published The site navigation carries no fee or price page, and none of the pages read on 2026-09-07 (home, treatments, team, contact) publishes a figure. The sister site cherrybankdentalspa.com has a fees page, but that is the Perth practice and its prices were not attributed here. [s1] [s3] | 0/3 |
| ✗ | Cleaning price listed [s1] [s3] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Filling price listed [s1] [s3] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Crown price listed [s1] [s3] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Implant price listed [s1] [s3] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Consultation price listed The clinic publishes a standing "Complimentary Consult" route in its own navigation and structured data. The criterion counts a consultation published as free. No other treatment price is published, so pricesPublished stays false. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✗ | X-ray / imaging price listed [s1] [s3] | 0/2 |
Reputation & Reviews
19 / 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 — 397 five-star, 8 four-star, 2 three-star, 4 two-star and 18 one-star — sums to 429, matching the 429 in the place-page header exactly, and its weighted mean 4.776 reproduces the published 4.8. [g1] [gmpb] | 6/6 |
| ◐ | 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 428 on 2026-09-07. [g1] [gmpb] | 2.5/3 |
| ✓ | Review recency The newest review visible is one month old, which proves the within_3_months bucket and no better. Visible dates: 1, 2, 2, 2, 4, 4, 4 and 4 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. [gmpb] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Clinic responds to reviews The owner answers 8 of 8 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. [gmpb] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | No recurring complaints No criticism appears in the visible sample; the one- and two-star mass is 22 of 429 ratings, 5.1 %. 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. [gmpb] | 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. 397 five-star with a genuine tail at every level below; the visible reviews describe different treatments in different voices, run from one to four months and each carries an individual owner reply. [gmpb] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Active Facebook presence Browser 2026-09-10: the page publishes the clinic's Hanover Street address and website, is recommended by 78 per cent of 18 reviewers and had posted 11 hours before it was read. [fb1] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | TripAdvisor presence No TripAdvisor listing found via its search for "Cherrybank Dental Spa Edinburgh" and "Cherrybank dental"; the clinic's site does not link to TripAdvisor (checked 2026-10-02 and 2026-10-05). [cherrybank-dental-spa-edinburgh-tripadvisor] [cherrybank-dental-spa-edinburgh-tripadvisor-2] | 0/0.5 |
| ✓ | Other review platforms Has its own clinic profile on WhatClinic (1 patient review, 5.0). [cherrybank-dental-spa-edinburgh-platforms] | 0.5/0.5 |
Medical Infrastructure
13 / 15
The range of publicly documented equipment and services. This measures documented availability, not clinical quality.
| ✓ | On-site X-ray The clinic's own implant page states it is "a fully digital practice with pre-treatment imaging and planning". (Corrected: the earlier note quoted a patient testimonial republished on the treatments page — "X-Rays and 3D imaging scans" — as if it were the clinic's own text. A review is not the clinic's channel.) [s5] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | CBCT (3D imaging) The clinic's own implant article documents "digital X-rays and 3D imaging to assess bone volume and anatomy at the implant site" (read 2026-09-10). It never names cone-beam CT or the scanner. [cherrybank-dental-spa-edinburgh-deepen] [cherrybank-dental-spa-edinburgh-deepen-2] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Implantology A named dentist holds a main qualification in oral implantology, and the HIS conditions of registration name cosmetic dentistry including dental implants. [s2] [reg1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Orthodontics A named dentist is trained in Invisalign, Quick Straight Teeth and Cfast. [s2] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Oral surgery A named dentist practises oral surgery and implants; another trained in oral and maxillofacial surgery in hospital posts. [s2] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Pediatric dentistry The clinic publishes a Family Dentist page covering children's dental care and states it can offer sedation for nervous children over twelve. [s4] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ✓ | Emergency care Emergency dentist is a published treatment on the clinic's own site. [s3] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ? | Works with international patients | 0/2 |
Communication & Service
6.5 / 10
How easy it is to contact the clinic, get answers, and book - especially for international patients.
| ✗ | WhatsApp / LINE available No WhatsApp or messenger link in the pages read on 2026-09-07. [s1] | 0/2 |
| ? | Response speed | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | English spoken [s1] | 2.5/2.5 |
| ✓ | Pre-visit consultation possible A complimentary consultation route is published in the clinic's own structured data and site navigation. [s1] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ✓ | Clear service explanations [s3] | 1/1 |
| ✓ | Convenient opening hours Published hours on the clinic's own pages: Monday to Wednesday 09:00-20:00, Thursday 09:00-18:00, Friday 09:00-17:00 and Saturday 09:00-13:00. [s1] [s3] | 1.5/1.5 |
AI & Search Visibility
6 / 10
Whether the clinic is discoverable when patients search - including via AI assistants. Checked with fixed queries: "best dentist UK", "English speaking dentist UK", "dental implants UK", "emergency dentist UK", "UK dental clinic for expats".
| ✗ | Mentioned for: best dentist UK Checked in the AI-visibility pass of 2026-09-07; the clinic does not appear. [av1] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: English speaking dentist UK Checked in the AI-visibility pass of 2026-09-07; the clinic does not appear. [av4] | 0/1 |
| ✓ | Mentioned for: dental implants UK The clinic's own domain appears in the results for the canonical query in the AI-visibility pass of 2026-09-07. [av2] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: emergency dentist UK Checked in the AI-visibility pass of 2026-09-07; the clinic does not appear. [av3] | 0/1 |
| ? | Mentioned for: UK dental clinic for expats Query not run in the AI-visibility pass: the expat query was run only for the first research city of each country. | 0/1 |
| ✓ | Structured data on website Two JSON-LD blocks covering Dentist, MedicalBusiness, Place, GeoCoordinates and ReserveAction. [s1] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ✓ | Google indexing quality Name search returns the clinic's own home page first plus its contact and treatments pages (web search, 2026-09-07). [giq1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Dedicated service pages [s3] | 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.
- #1Deansgate Dental Studio19.2 of 100View report →
- #2Manchester City Centre Dental & Implant Clinic26.2 of 100View report →
- #3Integrated Dentalcare0 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: Registered independent clinic with Healthcare Improvement Scotland: service type Independent clinic, registration status Registered, 94 Hanover Street, Edinburgh EH2 1DR, service provider Cherrybank Edinburgh Limited of Gordon Chambers, 90 Mitchell Street, Glasgow G1 3NQ. Conditions of registration limit the service to general dentistry, cosmetic dentistry including dental implants and non-surgical aesthetic treatments, and to operating hours of 07:00-21:00 daily except for emergency care. (Healthcare Improvement Scotland, not the Care Quality Commission, is the institutional regulator in Scotland. Read live from the HIS register on 2026-09-07.) [reg1]
Dentists & professional licences
| Dentist | Specialization | Licence No. |
|---|---|---|
| Chris McCrudden [s2] [reg2] | Dentist; special interest in endodontics using an operating microscope; BDS University of Dundee 1999 | GDC 76410 |
| Umair Mohammed [s2] [reg2] | Dentist; minimally invasive cosmetic dentistry and cosmetic orthodontics; BDS Dundee 2010, MFDS RCS Ed | GDC 190933 |
| Nik Vourakis [s2] [reg2] | Dentist; main qualification in oral implantology | GDC 268460 |
| Elaine Halley [s2] [reg2] | Dentist; advanced cosmetic dentistry, accredited by the British Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry | GDC 67791 |
| Rami Al Laham [s2] [reg2] | Dentist; MSc Advanced General Dental Practice | GDC 304631 |
| Lisa Lee [s2] [reg2] | Dentist | GDC 311320 |
Red Flags
No red flags identified in the public sources we reviewed.
Data We Could Not Verify
- Medical Infrastructure: Works with international patients
- Communication & Service: Response speed
- AI & Search Visibility: Mentioned for: UK dental clinic for expats
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://cherrybankedinburgh.co.uk/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +44 131 516 3549 |
| https://www.facebook.com/cherrybankedinburgh/ | |
| Google Maps | Map listing |
| Address | 94 Hanover Street, Edinburgh EH2 1DR, United Kingdom |
Contact details are provided for identification only and may change; verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | https://cherrybankedinburgh.co.uk/ | Address, phone, service overview, embedded map, structured data, absence of a fee page in the navigation | 2026-09-07 |
| s2 | https://cherrybankedinburgh.co.uk/meet-the-team/ | Named dentists and therapists with GDC registration numbers and stated interests | 2026-09-07 |
| s3 | https://cherrybankedinburgh.co.uk/dental-treatments/ | Treatment list, emergency dentist, Saturday opening, on-site X-rays and 3D imaging | 2026-09-07 |
| g1 | https://www.google.com/maps/place/Cherrybank+Dental+Spa/@55.9543684… | Google place record: rating, review count, coordinates, address, phone, website | 2026-09-07 |
| reg1 | https://www.healthcareimprovementscotland.scot/services/cherrybank-… | Healthcare Improvement Scotland register entry: service type, registration status, address, provider, conditions of registration | 2026-09-07 |
| reg2 | https://olr.gdc-uk.org/SearchRegister/SearchResult?RegistrationNumb… | GDC register entries for the named dentists; every registration number was opened individually through this per-registrant deep link on 2026-09-07 | 2026-09-07 |
| giq1 | search:"Cherrybank Dental Spa Edinburgh" | Name search: own domain in the first three results; own Facebook and LinkedIn profiles | 2026-09-07 |
| av1 | search:best dentist Edinburgh | Canonical visibility query, AI-visibility pass | 2026-09-07 |
| av2 | search:dental implants Edinburgh | Canonical visibility query, AI-visibility pass | 2026-09-07 |
| av3 | search:emergency dentist Edinburgh | Canonical visibility query, AI-visibility pass | 2026-09-07 |
| av4 | search:English speaking dentist Edinburgh | Canonical visibility query, AI-visibility pass | 2026-09-07 |
| s4 | https://cherrybankedinburgh.co.uk/family-dentist/ | Children's dental care and sedation for nervous children over twelve | 2026-09-07 |
| s5 | https://cherrybankedinburgh.co.uk/dental-implants/ | The practice describes itself as a fully digital practice with pre-treatment imaging and planning | 2026-09-07 |
| fb1 | https://www.facebook.com/cherrybankedinburgh/ | Facebook page "Cherrybank Dental Edinburgh", 1,100 followers, described as "Pain Free Dentistry in Edinburgh": it publishes 94 Hanover Street, Edinburgh EH2 1DR and cherrybankedinburgh.co.uk - both matching the card - a telephone number, and is recommended by 78 per cent of 18 reviewers. The newest post, a composite-bonding case linking the clinic's own smile-makeovers page, was 11 hours old when read. Opened while logged in on 2026-09-10; the pass could not judge the page because Facebook answers automated clients with HTTP 400. | 2026-09-10 |
| gmpb | https://www.google.com/maps/place/x/@55.9543684,-3.1979483,17z/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/@55.9543684,-3.1979483,17z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x4887c7949bf423a5:0xe3dfd2c03850083a!8m2!3d55.9543684!4d-3.1979483?hl=en gives the listing name, address, telephone, website, business category, the full published opening week and the lead owner photograph. The listing opens as «Cherrybank Dental Spa», category Dentist, at 94 Hanover St, Edinburgh EH2 1DR · +44 131 516 3549 · cherrybankedinburgh.co.uk — the card’s own name, street, telephone and website, so the place identifier resolves to this practice. | 2026-09-08 |
| cherrybank-dental-spa-edinburgh-deepen | https://cherrybankedinburgh.co.uk/dental-implants-in-edinburgh/ | The clinic's own article "Dental Implants in Edinburgh: What the Process Involves", under "Clinical Assessment and Planning": "Your dentist will carry out a full examination including digital X-rays and 3D imaging to assess bone volume and anatomy at the implant site." The same page separately describes "a digital scan or impressions" taken to fabricate the crown, so the practice distinguishes the optical scan from the 3D radiographic imaging used to measure bone. Rendered in a real browser on 2026-09-10. | 2026-09-10 |
| cherrybank-dental-spa-edinburgh-deepen-2 | https://cherrybankedinburgh.co.uk/page-sitemap.xml | The site's own page sitemap, 56 URLs, read on 2026-09-10 to enumerate the treatment pages. Site searches for CBCT, "cone beam", tomography and OPG each return "Nothing Found", and the /dental-implants/ and /full-arch-dental-implants/ pages say only "take some x-rays, possibly some scans too", so the article above is the clinic's only description of 3D imaging and the equipment is nowhere named. | 2026-09-10 |
| cherrybank-dental-spa-edinburgh-platforms | https://www.whatclinic.com/dentists/uk/midlothian/edinburgh/new-tow… | WhatClinic clinic profile "Cherrybank Dental Spa - Edinburgh", 94 Hanover Street, Edinburgh EH2 1DR: 1 review, rating 5.0 (checked 2026-10-01) | 2026-10-01 |
| cherrybank-dental-spa-edinburgh-tripadvisor | https://www.tripadvisor.com/TypeAheadJson?action=API&query=Cherryba… | TripAdvisor's own search, read 2026-10-02: 12 suggestions for "Cherrybank Dental Spa Edinburgh" (7 attractions, 5 hotels), none of them a dental practice in or near Edinburgh; 12 suggestions for "Cherrybank dental" (5 attractions, 7 hotels), none of them a dental practice in or near Edinburgh; "Bannatyne Health Club & Spa - Edinburgh" is a health club, a different business; no listing for this clinic | 2026-10-02 |
| cherrybank-dental-spa-edinburgh-tripadvisor-2 | https://cherrybankedinburgh.co.uk/ | Clinic's website, home page read 2026-10-05: no link to a TripAdvisor page | 2026-10-05 |
Change History
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-05 | TripAdvisor presence checked on 2026-10-05: no listing found for this clinic. |
| 2026-09-10 | Checked by hand in a browser on 2026-09-10: the two rows a second check left open on this card are closed. hasCBCT moves from null to true on the clinic's own implant article, which documents 3D imaging used to assess bone volume at the implant site - the wording is quoted in the published note because the practice never names cone-beam CT or the scanner. onFacebook was already true on the page URL alone; the page has now been opened logged in and matches the card on address and website, so the value rests on evidence rather than on a URL. |
| 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 (397/8/2/4/18 = 429, weighted mean 4.776), 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. |
| 2026-09-08 | 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 (397/8/2/4/18 = 429, weighted mean 4.776), 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 (no browser): six GDC numbers re-opened and confirmed; the HIS entry and its conditions re-read; a misattribution corrected — the X-ray and 3D-imaging wording behind hasXray was a patient testimonial republished on the clinic site, so the criterion is now sourced to the clinic's own "fully digital practice with pre-treatment imaging" statement and hasCBCT is left explicitly unresolved; the Family Dentist page found, so children's dentistry moves from unresolved to true; the standing complimentary consultation recorded, so consultationPriceListed moves from false to true while pricesPublished stays false; sedation recorded as a published negative; opening hours cited verbatim; the social evidence moved off the search pseudo-source, with Facebook queued for the browser because the clinic does not link it. |
| 2026-09-07 | Initial data collection (research, no browser): home, team and treatments pages read; six GDC registration numbers verified one by one; institutional licence taken from the Healthcare Improvement Scotland register; Google place record read automatically. The absence of any published price was checked against the site navigation, and the Perth sister site's fee page was deliberately not attributed to this practice. |
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