Journal des modifications
Chaque mise à jour de données, correction et modification de la méthodologie est consignée ici et dans l'historique propre à chaque clinique. Le classement est mis à jour dès que les données publiques sous-jacentes changent.
| Date | Objet | Modification |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-07 | Méthodologie v1.4.1 | Added a limit on re-checks made at a clinic's request: the next request from the same clinic about its own page is taken up no sooner than one month after the last re-check made at its request, which is dated in the clinic's change history; requests sent earlier are not processed. Corrections reported by anyone else are handled as before. No score changes. |
| 2026-10-05 | Gentry Dentistry | onOtherPlatforms true → not established: the Healthgrades profile it rested on is unclaimed and has no ratings; no profile found on WhatClinic or Trustpilot, and Yelp could not be read. |
| 2026-10-05 | Gentry Dentistry | Read the clinic's Yelp page on 2026-10-05: it is claimed by the business and has 78 reviews, so the clinic is recorded as present on a review platform. |
| 2026-10-05 | San Francisco Cosmetic Dental Group | onOtherPlatforms true → not established: the Healthgrades office page it rested on has no reviews; no profile found on WhatClinic or Trustpilot, and Yelp could not be read. |
| 2026-10-05 | San Francisco Cosmetic Dental Group | Read the clinic's Yelp page on 2026-10-05: it is claimed by the business and has 64 reviews, so the clinic is recorded as present on a review platform. |
| 2026-10-02 | 7x7 Dental Implant & Oral Surgery | Read the clinic's website HTML on 2026-10-02: structured data: present. |
| 2026-10-02 | 7x7 Dental Implant & Oral Surgery | Read the clinic's Google listing on 2026-10-02 in 2 review orders (10 distinct reviews, dated 2021-04-21 to 2026-10-01; 4.9 from 621): owner replies true; recurring complaints true; suspicious review patterns false. |
| 2026-10-02 | Dental Implant & Oral Surgery of SF | onOtherPlatforms: unknown -> false. No page for the Union Street practice on Yelp, Healthgrades, RateMDs or WhatClinic; its surgeons' pages are at other addresses. |
| 2026-10-02 | Dental Implant & Oral Surgery of SF | Read the clinic's website HTML on 2026-10-02: structured data: absent. |
| 2026-10-02 | Dental Implant & Oral Surgery of SF | Facebook presence checked on 2026-10-02: the clinic's own page is active (latest post 2026-05-23). |
| 2026-10-02 | Estudio Dental SF | Read the clinic's website HTML on 2026-10-02: structured data: present. |
| 2026-10-02 | Estudio Dental SF | Read the clinic's Google listing on 2026-10-02 in 2 review orders (10 distinct reviews, dated 2019-08-02 to 2026-09-21; 4.7 from 239): recurring complaints true; suspicious review patterns false. |
| 2026-10-02 | Marina Tooth Fairy | Read the clinic's website HTML on 2026-10-02: structured data: present. |
| 2026-10-02 | Marina Tooth Fairy | Read the clinic's Google listing on 2026-10-02 in 2 review orders (10 distinct reviews, dated 2021-01-29 to 2026-09-28; 4.8 from 428): recurring complaints true; suspicious review patterns false. |
| 2026-10-02 | San Francisco Cosmetic Dental Group | offersSedation: true -> false. The clinic offers conscious sedation only (nitrous oxide or oral sedatives), not general anaesthesia or deep sedation. |
| 2026-10-02 | San Francisco Dental Care | Read the clinic's Google listing on 2026-10-02 in 2 review orders (10 distinct reviews, dated 2018-09-13 to 2026-09-29; 4.9 from 287): recurring complaints false. |
| 2026-10-02 | San Francisco Dental Implant Center | Read the clinic's website HTML on 2026-10-02: structured data: present. |
| 2026-10-02 | San Francisco Dental Implant Center | Read the clinic's Google listing on 2026-10-02 in 3 review orders (15 distinct reviews, dated 2015-07-14 to 2026-08-18; 4.9 from 253): owner replies false; recurring complaints false; suspicious review patterns false. |
| 2026-10-02 | San Francisco Dental Implant Center | Facebook presence checked on 2026-10-02: the clinic's own page is active (latest post 2026-07-04). |
| 2026-10-02 | SF Veneer (Dr Soto) | Read the clinic's Google listing on 2026-10-02 in 2 review orders (10 distinct reviews, dated 2026-01-15 to 2026-09-17; 5.0 from 124): suspicious review patterns false. |
| 2026-10-02 | West Portal Family Dentistry | Read the clinic's website HTML on 2026-10-02: structured data: present. |
| 2026-10-02 | West Portal Family Dentistry | Read the clinic's Google listing on 2026-10-02 in 2 review orders (10 distinct reviews, dated 2016-08-25 to 2026-09-15; 4.8 from 181): recurring complaints true; suspicious review patterns false. |
| 2026-10-01 | Dental Implant & Oral Surgery of SF | Reviews on other platforms re-checked: the review page cited earlier only gathered the practice's Google reviews, and in this check its Yelp and Zocdoc pages could not be read, so this is now marked unknown. |
| 2026-10-01 | Estudio Dental SF | Re-read the clinic's website on 2026-10-01: its insurance page publishes first-visit fees - cleaning $175, full-mouth x-rays $225 and comprehensive exam $175 - and its whitening page a starting price of about $650, so published prices and the cleaning, consultation and X-ray prices are now recorded as published. |
| 2026-10-01 | Marina Tooth Fairy | Re-read the clinic's website on 2026-10-01: an initial consultation is advertised as free, so the consultation price is now recorded as published; the "$0 cleanings" offer applies only to insured patients and is not a cleaning fee, so the cleaning price is recorded as not published. |
| 2026-10-01 | San Francisco Dental Implant Center | Re-read the clinic's website on 2026-10-01: its cost page publishes price ranges for implant treatment (about $2,259 for an implant to about $8,000 with major bone grafting, $15,000-$30,000 for a full jaw) and its pages offer a free consultation, so prices, the implant price and the consultation price are now recorded as published. |
| 2026-10-01 | SF Veneer (Dr Soto) | Re-read the clinic's website on 2026-10-01: its FAQ publishes veneer fees ($2,400 porcelain, $1,200 composite) and its virtual consultation is free, so published prices and the consultation price are now recorded as present; presence on other review platforms is withdrawn to unknown, as the site links none and WhatClinic lists none. |
| 2026-10-01 | SF Veneer (Dr Soto) | Review platforms re-checked: Dr. Robert Soto has a Healthgrades profile at the clinic's address and phone (5.0 from 1 rating), so "reviewed on other platforms" changed from unknown to yes. |
| 2026-10-01 | Skoulas DDS | Re-read the clinic's website on 2026-10-01: its implant page publishes a typical fee range of $3,000-4,500 per tooth, so implant prices and published prices are now recorded as present; no fee is given for cleanings, fillings, crowns, consultations or X-rays. |
| 2026-09-30 | San Francisco Cosmetic Dental Group | Read the clinic's website on 2026-09-30 (home, team, office tour, technology, appointment, contact and service-category pages), replacing an archived copy from 2025-03-28. Recorded: named staff photos, a detailed service list, clear contacts and an address with a map; implants, orthodontics, oral surgery, pediatric dentistry, emergency care and sedation are offered, with digital X-rays but no CBCT; no WhatsApp or LINE and no prices for any service; an appointment form with date and time selection; structured data markup; weekday hours closing by 18:00. |
| 2026-09-30 | SF Veneer (Dr Soto) | Searched Facebook on 2026-09-30 by the clinic's name and by its phone number; the only similarly-named page turned out to be an unrelated furniture business, so no matching page was found (the site links only Instagram). |
| 2026-09-29 | Dental Implant & Oral Surgery of SF | Corrected 2026-09-29: review recency within a year (newest review dated 2026-01-31). |
| 2026-09-29 | Estudio Dental SF | Corrected 2026-09-29: review recency within 3 months (newest review dated 2026-09-21). |
| 2026-09-29 | Marina Tooth Fairy | Corrected 2026-09-29: owner replies to reviews confirmed on the Google listing (owner reply dated 2026-09-21). |
| 2026-09-29 | San Francisco Cosmetic Dental Group | Corrected 2026-09-29: service list published, clear contact details, address and map published, on-site X-ray, oral surgery, clear service explanations, structured data on website and dedicated service pages now unverified: the only evidence was an archived copy of the clinic's website from 2025-03-28, more than a year old. |
| 2026-09-29 | West Portal Family Dentistry | Corrected 2026-09-29: owner replies to reviews confirmed on the Google listing (owner reply dated 2026-09-21). |
| 2026-09-24 | Dentistry of San Francisco | Re-read on 2026-09-24: the clinic's website (procedures, technology, hours and payment-options pages) and its Google listing. Recorded: digital X-rays on site, no CBCT or panoramic equipment described, tooth extractions documented, an online appointment-request form supporting consultation requests, and Monday-Thursday-only office hours closing at 5pm (no evening or weekend hours). Google rating remains 5.0, now from 262 reviews (up from 260), with owner replies to recent reviews and no signs of review manipulation; both low-rated reviews describe being recommended or sold treatment the reviewer felt was unnecessary, a repeating complaint theme. No TripAdvisor listing found. |
| 2026-09-24 | Gentry Dentistry | Re-read on 2026-09-24: the clinic's website (digital-x-rays, technology, new-patient-experience and periodontics pages) and its Google listing. Recorded: digital X-rays and a cone-beam (CBCT) imaging system on site, online appointment booking, and Google-listed hours (Monday-Friday, no evening or weekend availability); no emergency dental care is documented anywhere on the site. Google review count is now 181 (up from 179) at an unchanged 4.9 rating, with owner replies on file, no repeating complaint theme among the lowest-rated reviews, and no signs of review manipulation. No TripAdvisor listing found. |
| 2026-09-24 | San Francisco Cosmetic Dental Group | The website could not be reached on 2026-09-24 (an access-restriction error, checked directly and as text); the website facts below come from an archived copy of the site dated 2025-03-28, together with the clinic's Google listing read live today. From the archived site: a published list of services with explanatory text and dedicated pages, clear contact details and a location/map section, digital X-rays, post-operative instructions for extractions and implant surgery, and structured data about the practice. From the live Google listing: review count is now 220 (up from 215) at an unchanged 5.0 rating, with active recent owner replies, no repeating complaint theme, and no signs of review manipulation. Still unverified, pending the site becoming reachable again: office hours (today's Google listing shows weekday hours closing by 5pm, while the archived site listed later closing on Wednesday and Thursday), emergency, orthodontic and pediatric care, whether genuine premises or team photos are shown (the archived smile-results gallery consists of stock imagery), CBCT equipment, itemized service prices, WhatsApp/messaging contact, and a dedicated pre-consultation feature. |
| 2026-09-24 | San Francisco Dental Care | Re-read on 2026-09-24: the clinic's website (contact, other-services, CEREC and laser-dentistry pages) and its Google listing. Recorded: emergency dental care and pediatric dentistry documented among the practice's own services, an online appointment form supporting consultation requests, and Monday-Friday office hours with no evening or weekend availability. The site does not describe its imaging equipment, so X-ray and CBCT availability remain unconfirmed. Google rating remains 4.9 from 286 reviews, with owner replies on file and no signs of review manipulation. No TripAdvisor listing found. |
| 2026-09-24 | San Francisco Dental Partners | Re-read on 2026-09-24: the clinic's website (patients, FAQ and comprehensive-dentistry pages) and its Google listing. Recorded: digital X-rays and an intraoral scanner on site, pediatric dentistry and around-the-clock on-call coverage documented, online scheduling through booking widgets, and Monday-Friday office hours with no evening or weekend availability. Also recorded: two independent reviews describe being told a treatment was covered in-network and then billed later as out-of-network, a repeating complaint theme. Google review count is now 385 (up from 382) at an unchanged 4.9 rating, with active owner replies and no signs of review manipulation. No TripAdvisor listing found. |
| 2026-09-24 | SF Smile Doctor | Re-read on 2026-09-24: the clinic's website (full 56-page sitemap, including the implant, implant-technologies, clear-braces and contact pages) and its Google listing. Recorded: digital X-rays and i-CAT cone beam (CBCT) imaging on site, clear-aligner orthodontics, emergency patients accepted, a photo-submission smile-preview feature, and Monday-Friday office hours with no evening or weekend availability. The clinic's Google listing appears under an alternate name ("Implant SF - Dr. Sassan Kafayi DDS") linking to a second domain, confirmed today to redirect to the same website, with the same address and patient phone line. Google rating remains 4.9 from 69 reviews, with an owner reply on file and no signs of review manipulation. No TripAdvisor listing found. |
| 2026-09-24 | SF Veneer (Dr Soto) | Re-read on 2026-09-24: the clinic's website (general-dentistry, virtual-consultation, traveling-patients and patient-information pages) and its Google listing. Recorded: digital X-rays are taken in-house, but tooth extractions, implant placement and complex orthodontics are referred out to specialist oral surgeons rather than performed by the practice; a documented program for international and traveling patients; a photo-submission video consultation service; and Monday-Friday office hours with no evening or weekend availability. No pediatric dental care is documented. Google rating remains 5.0 from 124 reviews, all five-star, with active owner replies. Not found on TripAdvisor. Still unverified: Facebook presence and emergency-care arrangements. |
| 2026-09-24 | Skoulas DDS | Re-read on 2026-09-24: the clinic's website (technology, cone-beam, pediatric-dentistry, emergency-dentistry, extractions and virtual-consult pages) and its Google listing. Recorded: digital X-rays and a cone-beam (CBCT) scanner on site, in-house tooth extractions, pediatric dentistry, a dedicated emergency-dentistry service, a video virtual-consultation option, and Monday-Friday office hours with no evening or weekend availability. Google rating remains 4.8 from 157 reviews, with active recent owner replies and no signs of review manipulation; the most recent review is from the day before this check. Also recorded: at least three independent reviews describe a rushed, poorly communicated Invisalign process with unsatisfactory results, a repeating complaint theme. No TripAdvisor listing found. |
| 2026-09-24 | SOMA Dental | Re-read on 2026-09-24: the clinic's website (patient information, contact, services and general-dentistry pages) and its Google listing. Recorded: x-rays described as part of the exam process, a free virtual consultation option, emergency dental care listed as one of the practice's Google Business Profile categories, and Tuesday-Friday office hours (Monday closed) with no evening or weekend availability. Google rating remains 4.9 from 54 reviews, with an owner reply on file, no repeating complaint theme, and no signs of review manipulation; the most recent review is about three and a half months old. No TripAdvisor listing found. |
| 2026-09-07 | Méthodologie v1.4.0 | Narrowed the "Opaque or bait pricing" red flag to what its published definition describes. Until now the flag was applied automatically to every clinic that does not publish a price list — a harsher statement than the evidence supports, since the catalogue defines the flag as complaints about final bills materially exceeding quoted prices, or advertised prices that are not honoured. Not publishing prices is already scored: it costs the clinic points in the price transparency category, and it is not, on its own, evidence of bait pricing. The automatic rule is removed, so the flag and its 2-point penalty come off about 1,300 clinic pages across the index; no clinic gains a flag, and no weight, severity or other scoring rule changed. The flag can still be recorded against a clinic by hand with cited sources, and about 210 clinics carry such an entry today; we are reviewing those entries in a follow-up pass, because some of them were also written for nothing more than an unpublished price list. |
| 2026-09-03 | Méthodologie v1.3.1 | Clarified that the publication criteria refer to the clinic’s own channels: a service list, the names of the dentists and a price list count when the clinic itself publishes them (its website, its social profiles or its own Google Business profile) — registers, directories and review sites do not, and a time-limited promotional offer is not a price list. Added a third state for a dentist’s licence, "checked, not found in the public register": a dentist we searched for in the national register and did not find is now recorded as checked-but-unverified with the date of the check, instead of being shown either as "not checked yet" or as the "not published" red flag. Neither change alters any weight or penalty; the red-flag rule still fires only on a verified negative. Also corrected the wording of the penalty note under the ranking table, which rendered as "20−" in right-to-left dictionaries. |
| 2026-08-26 | 7x7 Dental Implant & Oral Surgery | Deepen 2026-08-26: rechecked website/contacts/Google reputation via live Google Maps visit (rating 4.9, 596 reviews) and operating status; added external sources (Maps place page + NPPES registry citations); ran 5-query AI/search visibility scout; no uncited sources existed to triage. |
| 2026-08-26 | 7x7 Dental Implant & Oral Surgery | Recorded sedation / general anaesthesia availability (informational): documented as available. Site states surgeons are board certified/eligible in Dental Anesthesiology and that facility/procedure rooms are 'inspected and certified for general anesthesia'. |
| 2026-08-26 | Dental Implant & Oral Surgery of SF | Deepen 2026-08-26: rechecked website/contacts/Google reputation via live Google Maps visit (rating 2.2, 5 reviews) and operating status; added external sources (Maps place page + NPPES registry citations); ran 5-query AI/search visibility scout; no uncited sources existed to triage. Google rating is notably low (2.2, 5 reviews) with billing/care complaints visible in the reviews - flagged via reputation.recurringComplaints. |
| 2026-08-26 | Dental Implant & Oral Surgery of SF | Recorded sedation / general anaesthesia availability (informational): documented as available. Anesthesia page documents general anesthesia (breathing tube, ventilator) for select cases alongside conscious IV sedation and local/nitrous options. |
| 2026-08-26 | Dentistry of San Francisco | Deepen 2026-08-26: rechecked website/contacts/Google reputation via live Google Maps visit (rating 5, 260 reviews) and operating status; added external sources (Maps place page + NPPES registry citations); ran 5-query AI/search visibility scout; no uncited sources existed to triage. confirmed dentistryofsanfrancisco.com is a redirect alias, not a distinct site. |
| 2026-08-26 | Estudio Dental SF | Deepen 2026-08-26: rechecked website/contacts/Google reputation via live Google Maps visit (rating 4.8, 236 reviews) and operating status; added external sources (Maps place page + NPPES registry citations); ran 5-query AI/search visibility scout; no uncited sources existed to triage. |
| 2026-08-26 | Gentry Dentistry | Deepen 2026-08-26: rechecked website/contacts/Google reputation via live Google Maps visit (rating 4.9, 179 reviews) and operating status; added external sources (Maps place page + NPPES registry citations); ran 5-query AI/search visibility scout; no uncited sources existed to triage. |
| 2026-08-26 | Gentry Dentistry | Recorded sedation / general anaesthesia availability (informational): not documented in public sources. Sedation-dentistry page centers on nitrous oxide (patient conscious, depth adjustable, works in ~20s); general anesthesia mentioned only in passing educational text, not documented as an offered service. |
| 2026-08-26 | Marina Tooth Fairy | Deepen 2026-08-26: rechecked website/contacts/Google reputation via live Google Maps visit (rating 4.8, 417 reviews) and operating status; added external sources (Maps place page + NPPES registry citations); ran 5-query AI/search visibility scout; no uncited sources existed to triage. |
| 2026-08-26 | Marina Tooth Fairy | Recorded sedation / general anaesthesia availability (informational): not documented in public sources. Site's own IV-sedation page explicitly frames it as conscious sedation: patient stays awake and responsive, not put to sleep. |
| 2026-08-26 | San Francisco Cosmetic Dental Group | Deepen 2026-08-26: rechecked website/contacts/Google reputation via live Google Maps visit (rating 5, 215 reviews) and operating status; added external sources (Maps place page + NPPES registry citations + SFGATE Best-of-Bay-Area press piece); ran 5-query AI/search visibility scout; no uncited sources existed to triage. clinic website sfcdg.com is now reachable (was HTTP 403 on 2026-07-08); phone (415) 398-2582 newly observed via Google Business Profile and SFGATE; second dentist Dr. Garrison T. DePhillips, DDS found on-site. |
| 2026-08-26 | San Francisco Dental Care | Deepen 2026-08-26: rechecked website/contacts/Google reputation via live Google Maps visit (rating 4.9, 286 reviews) and operating status; added external sources (Maps place page + NPPES registry citations); ran 5-query AI/search visibility scout; no uncited sources existed to triage. |
| 2026-08-26 | San Francisco Dental Implant Center | Deepen 2026-08-26: rechecked website/contacts/Google reputation via live Google Maps visit (rating 4.9, 253 reviews) and operating status; added external sources (Maps place page + NPPES registry citations); ran 5-query AI/search visibility scout; no uncited sources existed to triage. |
| 2026-08-26 | San Francisco Dental Partners | Deepen 2026-08-26: rechecked website/contacts/Google reputation via live Google Maps visit (rating 4.9, 382 reviews) and operating status; added external sources (Maps place page + NPPES registry citations + SFGATE Best-of-Bay-Area press piece); ran 5-query AI/search visibility scout; no uncited sources existed to triage. |
| 2026-08-26 | SF Smile Doctor | Deepen 2026-08-26: rechecked website/contacts/Google reputation via live Google Maps visit (rating 4.9, 69 reviews) and operating status; added external sources (Maps place page + NPPES registry citations); ran 5-query AI/search visibility scout; no uncited sources existed to triage. Google Business Profile now surfaces under the name 'Implant SF - Dr. Sassan Kafayi DDS' / implantsf.com, which 301-redirects to the same sfsmiledoctor.com site - same practice, no site change needed. |
| 2026-08-26 | SF Smile Doctor | Recorded sedation / general anaesthesia availability (informational): documented as available. Anesthesia-options page describes twilight IV sedation: 'puts patients into a sleeplike state' and 'some patients may be asleep while others will slip in and out of sleep', alongside conscious nitrous/oral options. |
| 2026-08-26 | SF Veneer (Dr Soto) | Deepen 2026-08-26: rechecked website/contacts/Google reputation via live Google Maps visit (rating 5, 122 reviews) and operating status; added external sources (Maps place page + NPPES registry citations); ran 5-query AI/search visibility scout; no uncited sources existed to triage. |
| 2026-08-26 | Skoulas DDS | Deepen 2026-08-26: rechecked website/contacts/Google reputation via live Google Maps visit (rating 4.8, 156 reviews) and operating status; added external sources (Maps place page + NPPES registry citations + SFGATE Best-of-Bay-Area press piece); ran 5-query AI/search visibility scout; no uncited sources existed to triage. |
| 2026-08-26 | SOMA Dental | Deepen 2026-08-26: rechecked website/contacts/Google reputation via live Google Maps visit (rating 4.9, 54 reviews) and operating status; added external sources (Maps place page + NPPES registry citations); ran 5-query AI/search visibility scout; no uncited sources existed to triage. |
| 2026-08-26 | West Portal Family Dentistry | Deepen 2026-08-26: rechecked website/contacts/Google reputation via live Google Maps visit (rating 4.8, 179 reviews) and operating status; added external sources (Maps place page + NPPES registry citations); ran 5-query AI/search visibility scout; no uncited sources existed to triage. |
| 2026-08-25 | 7x7 Dental Implant & Oral Surgery | License verification 2026-08-25 against NPPES NPI Registry: Dean Duncan (lic. 25882), Eric Scharf (lic. 51135, exact address match) and Len Tolstunov (lic. 40500, exact address match, listed professionally as 'Len Tolstunov') found; Mugdha Patwardhan found at the exact clinic address but NPPES lists only a New York license on file (no CA license), left null; Andrew Morrow and Dominique Mahal not found under any name searched, left null. No clinic-level NPI found. |
| 2026-08-25 | Dental Implant & Oral Surgery of SF | License verification 2026-08-25 against NPPES NPI Registry: all five named oral/maxillofacial surgeons found with CA license numbers (Song 47664, Connelly a95042, Gupta 58357, Silva 40308, Mashkoor 103016); several are registered at other San Francisco institutional addresses (UCSF, SF VA Medical Center) rather than the clinic's Union St suite, consistent with academic/hospital-affiliated OMFS practice. No clinic-level NPI found. |
| 2026-08-25 | Dentistry of San Francisco | License verification 2026-08-25 against NPPES NPI Registry (federal, open): the clinic's registered legal entity DR. S. JOSEPH, DDS, INC. (NPI 1699515544) found at the exact clinic address, owned by Dr. Sunny Joseph (CA lic. 63834, matching the site's 'Dr. Joseph, DDS'); Dr. Petrini also found with CA license 25186 and exact address match. |
| 2026-08-25 | Estudio Dental SF | License verification 2026-08-25 against NPPES NPI Registry: Dr. Junyi Wu found with CA license 110038 and exact practice-address match. No clinic-level NPI found under two business-name variants. |
| 2026-08-25 | Gentry Dentistry | License verification 2026-08-25 against NPPES NPI Registry: Dr. Emily Gentry found with CA license 53992 and exact address match; Dr. Shivani Madhav found with CA license 111709 (unique name match, differing address). No clinic-level NPI found. |
| 2026-08-25 | Marina Tooth Fairy | License verification 2026-08-25 against NPPES NPI Registry: Dr. Hibret Hailu Benjamin found with CA license 50139 and exact practice-address match. No clinic-level NPI found under two business-name variants. |
| 2026-08-25 | Méthodologie v1.3.0 | Corrected how the two licensing red flags are applied ("Clinic operating licence not published" and "Dentists / their licences not listed"). Previously they were applied whenever licensing data was absent from our records, which treated unchecked data as a negative finding — contrary to the methodology's own rule that unverified data is a fact about our coverage, not about the clinic. Both flags now apply only where we have verified that the information is not published. Manual licensing flags that rested on unverified data were removed from the affected clinics. No other scoring rules changed; most scores rise because the incorrect penalty is removed. |
| 2026-08-25 | San Francisco Cosmetic Dental Group | License verification 2026-08-25 against NPPES NPI Registry: Dr. Aaron Elliot Rose found with CA license 43391 and exact practice-address match (this clinic's own website returned HTTP 403 during the original data collection, so no clinic-published license number could be cross-checked). No clinic-level NPI found under two business-name variants. |
| 2026-08-25 | San Francisco Dental Care | License verification 2026-08-25 against NPPES NPI Registry: all four named dentists found with CA license numbers (Baysac 52967 with exact address match; Tran 62746, Chow 64844 and Ebrahimi 52979 as unique name matches with differing registered addresses). No clinic-level NPI found. |
| 2026-08-25 | San Francisco Dental Implant Center | License verification 2026-08-25 against NPPES NPI Registry: Dr. Alex Rabinovich found with CA dental license 48850 (plus CA medical license A102021 for oral & maxillofacial surgery), a unique nationwide name match with the DDS/MD credential combination matching the clinic's description. No clinic-level NPI found. |
| 2026-08-25 | San Francisco Dental Partners | License verification 2026-08-25 against NPPES NPI Registry: Jasmine Bhuva (lic. 55684) and Molly O'Hare (lic. DDS106539) found with exact practice-address matches; Winston Young found with CA license 102963 as a unique nationwide name match (registered address differs). No clinic-level NPI found under two business-name variants. |
| 2026-08-25 | SF Smile Doctor | License verification 2026-08-25 against NPPES NPI Registry: Dr. Sassan Kafayi found with CA license 43024 and exact practice-address match. No clinic-level NPI found under two business-name variants. |
| 2026-08-25 | SF Veneer (Dr Soto) | License verification 2026-08-25 against NPPES NPI Registry: Dr. Robert Soto (registered as Fernando Roberto Soto, alias 'Robert Soto') found with CA license 57481; Dr. Mike Villavecer found with CA license 104968. No clinic-level NPI found under two business-name variants. |
| 2026-08-25 | Skoulas DDS | License verification 2026-08-25 against NPPES NPI Registry: Dr. Antigone Skoulas found with CA license 58515 as a unique nationwide name match. No clinic-level NPI found under two business-name variants. |
| 2026-08-25 | SOMA Dental | License verification 2026-08-25 against NPPES NPI Registry: Dr. Nigel Suarez found with CA license 41679 and exact practice-address match. No clinic-level NPI found under two business-name variants; California does not license dental clinics as facilities. |
| 2026-08-25 | West Portal Family Dentistry | License verification 2026-08-25 against NPPES NPI Registry: found two clinic-registered legal entities (TERRI NGUYEN, D.D.S., INC. NPI 1124179320; TIFFANY H NGUYEN, INC, DDS NPI 1811774755) at the exact clinic address; all three named dentists (Terri M. Nguyen lic. 44617, Tiffany H. Nguyen lic. 103093, Laura T. Huynh lic. 46608) found with matching CA licenses and exact address matches. |
| 2026-08-23 | Méthodologie v1.2.0 | Added an informational "Sedation & general anaesthesia" availability field to every clinic and a new "Sleep Dentistry (Sedation / GA)" list, for patients who cannot tolerate — or would rather not be awake for — treatment. This field is informational and does not change any transparency score. |
| 2026-07-08 | 7x7 Dental Implant & Oral Surgery | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-08 | Dental Implant & Oral Surgery of SF | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-08 | Dentistry of San Francisco | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-08 | Estudio Dental SF | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-08 | Gentry Dentistry | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-08 | Marina Tooth Fairy | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-08 | Méthodologie v1.1.0 | Added licensing transparency: clinics are now penalised when they do not publish their operating licence, or do not list their dentists together with their professional licence numbers. Each clinic page now shows a Licensing & Credentials section. |
| 2026-07-08 | San Francisco Cosmetic Dental Group | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-08 | San Francisco Dental Care | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-08 | San Francisco Dental Implant Center | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-08 | San Francisco Dental Partners | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-08 | SF Smile Doctor | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-08 | SF Veneer (Dr Soto) | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-08 | Skoulas DDS | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-08 | SOMA Dental | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-08 | West Portal Family Dentistry | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-03 | Méthodologie v1.0.0 | Initial public methodology. |