Scottish Centre for Excellence in Dentistry
According to our open methodology, this clinic scored 87.8/100 for transparency, reputation, service accessibility, and digital visibility.
Overall rank: #4 of 25 ranked clinics · Last checked: 8 September 2026
87.8/100
Positions by Rating Profile
- Overall Transparency & Trust#487.8/100
- Best for Expats#981.5/100
- Best for Dental Implants#785.5/100
- Best for Emergency Dental Carenot ranked
- Best Price Transparency#692.5/100
- Best English-speaking Clinics#1080.2/100
- Best for Families / Children#782.5/100
- 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 centre publishes intravenous sedation administered by consultant anaesthetists, and its own clinical-team page titles the responsible clinician "Surgery & Conscious Sedation". No general anaesthesia or deep/twilight sedation is documented anywhere in the 30 pages read on 2026-09-07, and this criterion counts only the latter. [s3] [s4]
Summary
Large private centre on Govan Road in Glasgow, registered with Healthcare Improvement Scotland as an independent clinic under Portman Healthcare Limited. It publishes a full guide fee list, offers free nurse consultations before any paid appointment, and names a clinical team of specialists and consultants with their GDC registration numbers.
Strengths
- Information Transparency: 20 of 20 points.
- Price Transparency: 15 of 15 points.
- Reputation & Reviews: 19.5 of 20 points.
- AI & Search Visibility: 8 of 10 points.
- No red flags identified in public sources.
Weaknesses
No category fell below the weakness threshold (50% of verifiable points).
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 treatment, team, fee and patient-journey pages. [s1] | 4/4 |
| ✓ | Dentist names listed Clinical team page names dentists, specialists, a radiologist and hygienists, each with a GDC registration number. [s3] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Dentist specializations listed Restorative Dentistry specialists, a special interest in restorative and implant dentistry, surgery with conscious sedation, and a named dental radiologist. [s3] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Real clinic photos The lead owner photograph is the centre's own building entrance, its glazed doors under the SCOTTISH CENTRE for excellence in dentistry fascia — its own premises and signage. 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] [s2] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Clear contact details Address, phone and a "get in touch" page published on the clinic's own site. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | English website version [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Address and map published Address published with a get-in-touch and directions page on the clinic's own site. [s1] | 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 Standing guide fee page grouped by examinations, radiographs, restorations, extractions, hygiene, periodontics, endodontics, crowns, veneers, dentures, whitening, sedation and implants. [s2] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Cleaning price listed Hygienist appointments from GBP 95. [s2] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Filling price listed All permanent restorations from GBP 256. [s2] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Crown price listed Crowns from GBP 1,332. [s2] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Implant price listed Dental implants from GBP 3,409, with the implant consultation free. [s2] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Consultation price listed Adult new patient examination GBP 130; review examination GBP 110; child GBP 75. [s2] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | X-ray / imaging price listed Intraoral radiograph GBP 38; OPT or cephalometric GBP 91; CT scan GBP 144 for one or two arches. [s2] | 2/2 |
Reputation & Reviews
19.5 / 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 — 591 five-star, 29 four-star, 5 three-star, 4 two-star and 14 one-star — sums to 643, matching the 643 in the place-page header exactly, and its weighted mean 4.833 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 643 from 2026-09-07 and the listing has not moved since. [g1] [gmpb] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Review recency The newest review visible is one month old, which proves the within_3_months bucket and no better. Visible dates: 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3 and 3 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 18 of 643 ratings, 2.8 %. 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. 591 five-star with a substantial genuine 29-strong four-star tail and ratings at every level below; the visible reviews are referral cases naming several clinicians, at very different lengths, and each carries an individual owner reply. [gmpb] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Active Facebook presence The centre's own site links its Facebook page. [s1] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | TripAdvisor presence No TripAdvisor listing found via its search for the clinic's name and a short form of it; the clinic's site does not link to TripAdvisor (checked 2026-10-05). [scottish-centre-for-excellence-in-dentistry-glasgow-tripadvisor] [scottish-centre-for-excellence-in-dentistry-glasgow-tripadvisor-2] | 0/0.5 |
| ✓ | Other review platforms Has its own clinic profile on WhatClinic (5 patient reviews, 5.0). [scottish-centre-for-excellence-in-dentistry-glasgow-platforms] | 0.5/0.5 |
Medical Infrastructure
11.5 / 15
The range of publicly documented equipment and services. This measures documented availability, not clinical quality.
| ✓ | On-site X-ray Radiographs are priced on the clinic's own fee page and the team includes a named dental radiologist. [s2] [s3] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | CBCT (3D imaging) CT scan priced at GBP 144 for one or two arches. [s2] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Implantology [s2] [s3] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Orthodontics Children's braces, cosmetic teeth straightening and Invisalign are published treatments with a free Invisalign consultation. [s1] [s2] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Oral surgery Oral surgery and wisdom teeth are published treatments, extractions are priced, and a named clinician works in surgery and conscious sedation. [s1] [s2] [s3] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Pediatric dentistry Children's dentistry is a published treatment with separate child examination fees; the HIS conditions of registration state the service will treat service users aged from birth. [s1] [s2] [reg1] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ✗ | Emergency care No emergency or same-day service and no emergency fee appear anywhere in the 30 pages of the centre site read on 2026-09-07. [s1] [s2] | 0/1.5 |
| ? | Works with international patients | 0/2 |
Communication & Service
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 The centre publishes free nurse consultations, at which a same-visit appointment with a dentist or specialist can often be arranged. [s2] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ✓ | Clear service explanations Separate pages per treatment plus a patient-journey and nervous-patient section including hypnotherapy. [s1] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | Convenient opening hours No opening hours are published anywhere in the 30 pages of the centre site read on 2026-09-07. [s1] | 0/1.5 |
AI & Search Visibility
8 / 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 The clinic's own domain appears in the results for the canonical query in the AI-visibility pass of 2026-09-07. [av1] | 1/1 |
| ✓ | Mentioned for: English speaking dentist UK The clinic's own domain appears in the results for the canonical query in the AI-visibility pass of 2026-09-07. [av4] | 1/1 |
| ✓ | 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 JSON-LD covering Dentist, PostalAddress, GeoCoordinates and ContactPoint. [s1] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ✓ | Google indexing quality Name search returns the clinic's own home page first plus its contact, fee and team pages in the top eight (web search, 2026-09-07). [giq1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Dedicated service pages [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.
- #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, 335 Govan Road, Glasgow G51 2SE, service provider Portman Healthcare Limited. Conditions of registration state the service will provide dental services and treat service users aged from birth, and limit operating hours to 07:00-21:00 daily except for emergency care. (Healthcare Improvement Scotland, not the Care Quality Commission, is the institutional regulator in Scotland; CQC registration does not reach Glasgow. Read live from the HIS register on 2026-09-07.) [reg1]
Dentists & professional licences
| Dentist | Specialization | Licence No. |
|---|---|---|
| Professor Colin Burns [s3] [reg2] | Special interest in restorative and implant dentistry; BDS Glasgow 1990, MFDS RCS England 2005, MSc Warwick 2012; Fellow of the International Team for Implantology | GDC 65349 |
| Dr Sachin Jauhar [s3] [reg2] | Restorative specialist; BDS Glasgow 2002, MSc Med Sci, FDS RestDent RCPS Glasgow | GDC 80722 |
| Dr William Keys [s3] [reg2] | Specialist in Restorative Dentistry; BDS, MDSc, FDS (Rest. Dent.) RCPS Glasgow | GDC 177290 |
| Mr Arshad Ali [s3] [reg2] | Specialist in Restorative Dentistry and Prosthodontics; BDS Glasgow 1978, FDS RCS England and Edinburgh 1981, DRD Edinburgh 1987, MRD RCS Edinburgh 1993, FDS RCPS Glasgow 1998 | GDC 52076 |
| Dr Abid Faqir [s3] [reg2] | Dentist; MSc University of Glasgow 2003 | GDC 75815 |
| Dr Jacqueline Davidson [s3] [reg2] | Dentist; BDS University of Glasgow 2001 | GDC 79587 |
| Lyall Dominick [s3] [reg2] | Dentist; BDS Glasgow 2013, MFDS RCPSG, MSc | GDC 243639 |
| Dr Ryan O'Rourke [s3] [reg2] | Dentist; BDS University of Glasgow 2016 | GDC 264218 |
| Mr Ahad Shafi [s3] [reg2] | Consultant Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon; MBChB Glasgow, BDS Glasgow 2007, MFDS RCPSG, FRCS (OMFS) RCPSG; GMC 7460904 | GDC 113726 |
| Dr Kaila Girvan [s3] [reg2] | Surgery and conscious sedation; BDS (Hons) University of Glasgow 2012, MFDS RCPS Glasgow | GDC 227216 |
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://www.scottishdentistry.com/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +44 141 427 4530 |
| https://www.facebook.com/ScottishDentistry/ | |
| Google Maps | Map listing |
| Address | 335 Govan Road, Glasgow G51 2SE, 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://www.scottishdentistry.com/ | Address, phone, treatment list, patient journey, structured data | 2026-09-07 |
| s2 | https://www.scottishdentistry.com/dental-fees | Published guide fee list including examinations, radiographs, restorations, hygiene, endodontics, crowns, sedation and implants | 2026-09-07 |
| s3 | https://www.scottishdentistry.com/meet-the-team | Named clinicians with GDC registration numbers, qualifications and specialist status | 2026-09-07 |
| g1 | https://www.google.com/maps/place/Scottish+Centre+for+Excellence+in… | Google place record: rating, review count, coordinates, address, phone, website | 2026-09-07 |
| reg1 | https://www.healthcareimprovementscotland.scot/services/scottish-ce… | 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 clinicians; every registration number was opened individually through this per-registrant deep link on 2026-09-07 | 2026-09-07 |
| giq1 | search:"Scottish Centre for Excellence in Dentistry" Glasgow | Name search: own domain first plus its contact, fee and team pages; own Facebook page | 2026-09-07 |
| av1 | search:best dentist Glasgow | Canonical visibility query, AI-visibility pass | 2026-09-07 |
| av2 | search:dental implants Glasgow | Canonical visibility query, AI-visibility pass | 2026-09-07 |
| av3 | search:emergency dentist Glasgow | Canonical visibility query, AI-visibility pass | 2026-09-07 |
| av4 | search:English speaking dentist Glasgow | Canonical visibility query, AI-visibility pass | 2026-09-07 |
| s4 | https://www.scottishdentistry.com/for-patients/nervous-patients | Intravenous sedation administered by consultant anaesthetists | 2026-09-07 |
| gmpb | https://www.google.com/maps/place/x/@55.8546141,-4.298463,17z/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/@55.8546141,-4.298463,17z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x48884687632eadf1:0xceb325afd53aa235!8m2!3d55.8546141!4d-4.298463?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 «Scottish Centre for Excellence in Dentistry», category Dentist, at 335 Govan Rd, Glasgow G51 2SE · +44 141 427 4530 · scottishdentistry.com — the card’s own name, street, telephone and website, so the place identifier resolves to this practice. | 2026-09-08 |
| scottish-centre-for-excellence-in-dentistry-glasgow-platforms | https://www.whatclinic.com/dentists/uk/lanarkshire/glasgow/scottish… | WhatClinic clinic profile "Scottish Centre for Excellence in Dentistry", 335 Govan Road, Glasgow G51 2SE: 5 reviews, rating 5.0 (checked 2026-10-01) | 2026-10-01 |
| scottish-centre-for-excellence-in-dentistry-glasgow-tripadvisor | https://www.tripadvisor.com/TypeAheadJson?action=API&details=true&q… | TripAdvisor's own search, read 2026-10-05: 12 suggestions for "Scottish Centre for Excellence in Dentistry Glasgow" (6 attractions, 6 hotels), none of them a dental practice in or near Glasgow; 12 suggestions for "Scottish Centre Excellence Dentistry" (7 attractions, 5 hotels), none of them a dental practice in or near Glasgow; no listing for this clinic | 2026-10-05 |
| scottish-centre-for-excellence-in-dentistry-glasgow-tripadvisor-2 | https://www.scottishdentistry.com/ | 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. |
| 2026-09-08 | 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 (591/29/5/4/14 = 643, weighted mean 4.833), 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 (591/29/5/4/14 = 643, weighted mean 4.833), 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 (591/29/5/4/14 = 643, weighted mean 4.833), 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): the clinical-team page read in full, raising the recorded roster from seven to ten dentists, each number opened individually in the GDC register and confirmed Registered/Dentist, and one clinician's two specialist listings restored; the HIS entry and its conditions re-read; the published fee list re-read and the intraoral radiograph, OPT/cephalometric and CT scan prices confirmed; sedation corrected to a published negative because the centre's own page titles it conscious sedation; emergency care and opening hours settled as checked negatives after 30 pages; the Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn evidence taken from the centre's own site, raising onOtherPlatforms to true. |
| 2026-09-07 | Initial data collection (research, no browser): home, fee and clinical-team pages read; seven GDC registration numbers verified one by one; institutional licence taken from the Healthcare Improvement Scotland register; Google place record read automatically. The self-published review count in the site's own structured data is lower than the live figure and was not adopted. |
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