IG Dental
According to our open methodology, this clinic scored 35.4/100 for transparency, reputation, service accessibility, and digital visibility.
Overall rank: #9 of 12 ranked clinics · Last checked: 26 August 2026
Positions by Rating Profile
- Overall Transparency & Trust#935.4/100
- Best for Expats#832.5/100
- Best for Dental Implants#830.5/100
- Best for Emergency Dental Carenot ranked
- Best Price Transparency#1123.2/100
- Best English-speaking Clinics#1036/100
- Best for Families / Children#235.8/100
- Sleep Dentistry (GA / deep sedation)#235.4/100
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) — General anaesthesia / deep sedation documented Dedicated service page: general anaesthesia offered, useful for dentophobia, children and lengthy procedures; team experienced treating severely damaged patients under general anaesthesia. [ig-dental-deepen-3]
Summary
Long-established general and aesthetic dental clinic (founded 1995) offering implantology, endodontics, oral surgery, periodontology, veneers/crowns, laser dentistry, treatment under general anaesthesia and pediatric dentistry. English site available; individual dentists not named on the fetched page.
Strengths
- Information Transparency: 17 of 20 points.
Weaknesses
- Price Transparency: 0 of 3 verifiable points (missing: prices or price ranges published)
- Reputation & Reviews: 5 of 10.5 verifiable points.
- AI & Search Visibility: 2.5 of 8.5 verifiable points (missing: mentioned for: best dentist sofia; mentioned for: english speaking dentist sofia; mentioned for: dental implants sofia; mentioned for: emergency dentist sofia; mentioned for: sofia dental clinic for expats)
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
Whether basic facts about the clinic - its team, premises, services, and location - are publicly verifiable.
| ✓ | Has a working website [s5] | 4/4 |
| ✗ | Dentist names listed [s5] | 0/3 |
| ✓ | Dentist specializations listed [s5] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Real clinic photos [s5] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Service list published [s5] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Clear contact details [s5] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | English website version [s5] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Address and map published Address published; no map link captured. [s5] | 2/2 |
Price Transparency
Whether patients can estimate costs before visiting. Published price ranges count; exact prices are not required.
| ✗ | Prices or price ranges published [s5] | 0/3 |
| ? | Cleaning price listed | 0/2 |
| ? | Filling price listed | 0/2 |
| ? | Crown price listed | 0/2 |
| ? | Implant price listed | 0/2 |
| ? | Consultation price listed | 0/2 |
| ? | X-ray / imaging price listed | 0/2 |
Reputation & Reviews
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 2026-08-26 [ig-dental-deepen] | 3/6 |
| ◐ | Google review volume [ig-dental-deepen] | 0.5/3 |
| ? | Review recency | 0/3 |
| ? | Clinic responds to reviews | 0/2 |
| ? | No recurring complaints | 0/2 |
| ? | No suspicious review patterns | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Active Facebook presence [s5] | 1/1 |
| ? | TripAdvisor presence | 0/0.5 |
| ✓ | Other review platforms Listed on WhatClinic (no aggregate score yet) [ig-dental-deepen-2] | 0.5/0.5 |
Medical Infrastructure
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 [s5] | 2/2 |
| ? | Orthodontics | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Oral surgery Oral surgery listed. [s5] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Pediatric dentistry [s5] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ? | Emergency care | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | Works with international patients English website. [s5] | 2/2 |
Communication & Service
How easy it is to contact the clinic, get answers, and book - especially for non-Thai speakers.
| ? | WhatsApp / LINE available | 0/2 |
| ? | Response speed | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | English spoken [s5] | 2.5/2.5 |
| ? | Pre-visit consultation possible | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | Clear service explanations [s5] | 1/1 |
| ? | Convenient opening hours | 0/1.5 |
AI & Search Visibility
Whether the clinic is discoverable when patients search - including via AI assistants. Checked with fixed queries: "best dentist Sofia", "English speaking dentist Sofia", "dental implants Sofia", "emergency dentist Sofia", "Sofia dental clinic for expats".
| ✗ | Mentioned for: best dentist Sofia [ig-dental-deepen-4] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: English speaking dentist Sofia [ig-dental-deepen-5] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: dental implants Sofia [ig-dental-deepen-6] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: emergency dentist Sofia [ig-dental-deepen-7] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: Sofia dental clinic for expats [ig-dental-deepen-8] | 0/1 |
| ? | Structured data on website | 0/1.5 |
| ◐ | Google indexing quality [sq] | 1/2 |
| ✓ | Dedicated service pages [s5] | 1.5/1.5 |
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
No published dentist roster is recorded for this clinic yet — unverified, no penalty.
Red Flags
- low No dentists identified anywhere (-2 pts) — No individual dentists named on the fetched pages. [s5]
- low Opaque or bait pricing (-2 pts) — No price list published. [s5]
Red-flag penalty applied: -4 points (capped at -20).
Data We Could Not Verify
- Price Transparency: Cleaning price listed
- Price Transparency: Filling price listed
- Price Transparency: Crown price listed
- Price Transparency: Implant price listed
- Price Transparency: Consultation price listed
- Price Transparency: X-ray / imaging price listed
- Reputation & Reviews: Review recency
- Reputation & Reviews: Clinic responds to reviews
- Reputation & Reviews: No recurring complaints
- Reputation & Reviews: No suspicious review patterns
- Reputation & Reviews: TripAdvisor presence
- Medical Infrastructure: On-site X-ray
- Medical Infrastructure: CBCT (3D imaging)
- Medical Infrastructure: Orthodontics
- Medical Infrastructure: Emergency care
- Communication & Service: WhatsApp / LINE available
- Communication & Service: Response speed
- Communication & Service: Pre-visit consultation possible
- Communication & Service: Convenient opening hours
- AI & Search Visibility: Structured data on website
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://en.igdental.bg/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +359 888 696 596 |
| https://www.facebook.com/IgDental/ | |
| Google Maps | Map listing |
| Address | bul. Vasil Levski 70, 1142 Sofia, Bulgaria |
Contact details are provided for identification only and may change; verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s5 | https://en.igdental.bg/ | Clinic name, address, contacts, services, English version, founded 1995. | 2026-07-12 |
| sq | search:зъболекар София зъбна клиника | AI/search visibility scout 2026-07-12 | 2026-07-12 |
| ig-dental-lic | https://registries.his.bg/api/V1/outpatientcare/getOutpatientCareWi… | 7 records returned (digital-imaging/diagnostic centres etc.), none named IG Dental or matching its address. | 2026-08-26 |
| ig-dental-deepen | https://www.google.com/maps/place/%D0%A1%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1… | Google rating 4.2 (15 reviews) as of 2026-08-26 | 2026-08-26 |
| ig-dental-deepen-2 | https://www.whatclinic.com/dentists/bulgaria/sofia/ig-dental-clinic | WhatClinic listing for IG Dental Clinic exists (ServiceScore 'No score yet') - accessed 2026-08-26 | 2026-08-26 |
| ig-dental-deepen-3 | https://en.igdental.bg/general-anesthesia.html | 'General anaesthetic is extremely useful in patients suffering from dentophobia, children and during lengthy dental procedures... can perform every procedure under general anaesthesia.' - accessed 2026-08-26 | 2026-08-26 |
| ig-dental-deepen-4 | search:best dentist Sofia | AI/search visibility scout 2026-08-26: not present in top results | 2026-08-26 |
| ig-dental-deepen-5 | search:english speaking dentist Sofia | AI/search visibility scout 2026-08-26: not present in top results | 2026-08-26 |
| ig-dental-deepen-6 | search:dental implants Sofia | AI/search visibility scout 2026-08-26: not present in top results | 2026-08-26 |
| ig-dental-deepen-7 | search:emergency dentist Sofia | AI/search visibility scout 2026-08-26: not present in top results | 2026-08-26 |
| ig-dental-deepen-8 | search:dentist for expats Sofia | AI/search visibility scout 2026-08-26: not present in top results | 2026-08-26 |
Change History
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-26 | Recorded sedation / general anaesthesia availability (informational): documented as available. Dedicated service page: general anaesthesia offered, useful for dentophobia, children and lengthy procedures; team experienced treating severely damaged patients under general anaesthesia. |
| 2026-08-26 | Deepen 2026-08-26: rechecked website/contacts/operating status (unchanged); added Google rating (4.2/15) and a WhatClinic listing as external sources; confirmed genuine general-anaesthesia offering (true) with a dedicated source page - a strong sedation-cohort finding; visibility scout 5 queries - not present in any; no uncited sources found to triage. |
| 2026-08-26 | License verification 2026-08-26 against IAMN/his.bg outpatient-care registry: no clinic registration identified for IG Dental under the variants tried; no named doctors on the clinic's site to check against BZS. |
| 2026-07-12 | Initial data collection. |
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