Hammaslääkärikeskus Elegant
According to our open methodology, this clinic scored 75/100 for transparency, reputation, service accessibility, and digital visibility.
Overall rank: #8 of 21 ranked clinics · Last checked: 8 September 2026
75/100
Positions by Rating Profile
- Overall Transparency & Trust#875/100
- Best for Expatsnot ranked
- Best for Dental Implants#873/100
- Best for Emergency Dental Care#666.5/100
- Best Price Transparency#884.7/100
- Best English-speaking Clinicsnot ranked
- Best for Families / Childrennot ranked
- 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 sedation page describes "kevytnukutus": an anaesthesiologist gives repeated intravenous doses of anxiolytic and analgesic medicine, and the clinic states this is a considerably simpler alternative than nukutus (general anaesthesia). 300 € for the first hour. [s2] [s3]
Summary
Dentist-owned centre on Kristiinankatu in the heart of Turku, in operation since 1986. Nine named dentists including specialists in prosthodontics, periodontology, oral and maxillofacial surgery and two in orthodontics, plus staff anaesthesiologists for sedation dentistry and an in-house physiotherapist. Itemised price list with no office fees, evening appointments to 20:00 on four days a week.
Strengths
- Information Transparency: 18 of 20 points.
- Price Transparency: 15 of 15 points.
- Reputation & Reviews: 16 of 20 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
18 / 20
Whether basic facts about the clinic - its team, premises, services, and location - are publicly verifiable.
| ✓ | Has a working website Opened and read on 2026-09-07: real clinic content with a page per treatment, staff page, price list and contacts. [s1] | 4/4 |
| ✓ | Dentist names listed Ten dentists named on the staff page as read on 2026-09-07 — three yleishammaslääkäri, five erikoishammaslääkäri and two further hammaslääkäri — plus hygienists, nurses, anaesthesiologists, a physiotherapist and office staff, each grouped by role. All ten are recorded in the licensing block. [s3] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Dentist specializations listed Each specialist entry names the field: Katri Puijola prosthodontics, Annina Salmi Svartström periodontology, Elina Koivuperä and Erika Mäkinen orthodontics, Reijo Niittynen oral and maxillofacial surgery; the rest are listed as yleishammaslääkäri (general dentist). [s3] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Real clinic photos The place page carries an owner photo set and its lead image, read in a browser on 2026-09-08, is the practice's own waiting room: its ribbed timber reception counter, black leather armchairs and herringbone floor. Premises, so the criterion is met. [gmpb] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Service list published Six service groups broken into about twenty individual treatments, from check-ups and fillings through oral surgery, implants, orthodontics and sedation dentistry to prosthetics, aesthetics, hygienist care and occupational dental care. [s2] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Clear contact details Phone, e-mail and the street address with floor in the header and footer of every page; consistent with the Google place record. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✗ | English website version The site is Finnish only; it declares no language alternates and carries no switcher. [s1] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Address and map published Street address with floor published site-wide with a map link, plus parking directions; the page's own structured data carries the postal address. [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 itemised price list for dentist and hygienist treatment with the price before and after Kela reimbursement, opening with a 0 € service fee line and the clinic's statement that it charges no office fees. [s4] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Cleaning price listed Hammaskiven poisto including powder polishing 105 € (30 min), 125 € (45 min), 148 € (60 min). [s4] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Filling price listed One-surface 92.50 €, two 164.50 €, three 194.40 €. [s4] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Crown price listed Keraaminen kruunu (Cerec) from 595 €; composite crown 230.40 €. [s4] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Implant price listed Implantti + kruunu from 2300 €. [s4] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Consultation price listed Hammastarkastus 70.50 €. [s4] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | X-ray / imaging price listed Intraoral 41 €, bite-wing 54 €, panoramic 98.30 €. [s4] | 2/2 |
Reputation & Reviews
16 / 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 — 44 five-star, 0 four-star, 0 three-star, 0 two-star and 0 one-star — sums to 44, matching the 44 in the place-page header exactly, and its weighted mean 5.000 reproduces the published 5.0. [gm1] [gmpb] | 5/6 |
| ◐ | 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 44 and the listing has not moved since. [gm1] [gmpb] | 1/3 |
| ✓ | Review recency The newest review visible is one month old, which proves the within_3_months bucket and no better. Visible dates: 1, 3, 3, 3, 5, 7, 8 and 8 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 one of the eight 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 rating below five exists on this listing at all — the whole distribution is 44 five-star ratings — so there is no negative account to carry a complaint and the criterion is false on a complete distribution rather than on a sample. The base of 44 is stated so the reader can weigh it. 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. A genuine wall — 44 ratings, all five-star — and it is disclosed as such. Against a manipulation reading: the eight visible accounts describe quite different work (a canine replaced, orthodontics, routine care) at lengths from one line to several paragraphs, they name different clinicians including the practice principal, they are written in two languages, the dates spread across at least eight months rather than clustering in one, and the owner answers only one of the eight — a curated record is the one that answers everything, not the one that answers a single review. Recorded false with the shape disclosed. [gmpb] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Active Facebook presence The clinic links its own Facebook page from its site, alongside Instagram. [fb1] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | TripAdvisor presence No TripAdvisor listing found via its search for "Hammaslääkärikeskus Elegant Turku" and "Hammaslääkärikeskus Elegant"; the clinic's site does not link to TripAdvisor (checked 2026-10-05). [hammaslaakarikeskus-elegant-turku-tripadvisor] [hammaslaakarikeskus-elegant-turku-tripadvisor-2] | 0/0.5 |
| ✗ | Other review platforms No profile on WhatClinic or Trustpilot, its Yelp page is an unclaimed listing with no reviews, and Dental Departures and Bookimed do not cover Finland (checked 2026-10-02). [hammaslaakarikeskus-elegant-turku-platforms] [hammaslaakarikeskus-elegant-turku-platforms-2] [hammaslaakarikeskus-elegant-turku-deepen] [hammaslaakarikeskus-elegant-turku-platforms-3] [hammaslaakarikeskus-elegant-turku-platforms-4] | 0/0.5 |
Medical Infrastructure
9.5 / 15
The range of publicly documented equipment and services. This measures documented availability, not clinical quality.
| ✓ | On-site X-ray Intraoral, bite-wing and panoramic imaging priced in the clinic's own price list; imaging is named among its other services. [s4] | 2/2 |
| ✗ | CBCT (3D imaging) The price list covers intraoral, bite-wing and panoramic imaging only; no cone-beam CT is priced or described. [s4] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Implantology [s2] [s4] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Orthodontics Orthodontics and Invisalign aligner treatment among the services, with two orthodontic specialists on staff. [s2] [s3] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Oral surgery Oral and maxillofacial surgery page and a surgical specialist on staff; surgical extraction priced from 336 €. [s2] [s4] | 2/2 |
| ✗ | Pediatric dentistry Children's dentistry is not named among the services or in the price list. [s2] [s4] | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | Emergency care The front page carries an emergency block — 'Lohkesiko hammas? Jos ei löydy vapaata akuuttia aikaa, soita!' — inviting patients to call for an acute slot. [s1] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ✗ | Works with international patients The clinic publishes nothing about foreign patients and keeps no non-Finnish version of its site. [s1] | 0/2 |
Communication & Service
4 / 10
How easy it is to contact the clinic, get answers, and book - especially for international patients.
| ✗ | WhatsApp / LINE available Phone, e-mail and a 24/7 online booking system only. [s1] | 0/2 |
| ? | Response speed | 0/1.5 |
| ? | English spoken The clinic makes no statement about the languages it works in, and there is no non-Finnish version to infer from. | 0/2.5 |
| ✓ | Pre-visit consultation possible The specialist-dentistry page names an implant consultation as a bookable step before treatment, and the clinic runs a 24/7 online booking system. [s2] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ✓ | Clear service explanations Each of the roughly twenty treatments has its own page explaining what it is and when it is needed. [s2] | 1/1 |
| ✓ | Convenient opening hours Confirmed on the clinic's own Google Business Profile, read in a browser on 2026-09-08 and updated by the business itself ten weeks ago: Monday to Thursday 08:00–20:00, Friday 08:00–15:00, Saturday and Sunday closed. The 20:00 close on four weekdays matches the clinic's own site exactly. [s1] [gmpb] | 1.5/1.5 |
AI & Search Visibility
5 / 10
Whether the clinic is discoverable when patients search - including via AI assistants. Checked with fixed queries: "best dentist Finland", "English speaking dentist Finland", "dental implants Finland", "emergency dentist Finland", "Finland dental clinic for expats".
| ✗ | Mentioned for: best dentist Finland The canonical city query was run in the AI-visibility pass on 2026-09-07; the clinic does not appear in the returned result list, which is held by national chains, the university, wellbeing-county pages and directories. [bsq1] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: English speaking dentist Finland The canonical city query was run in the AI-visibility pass on 2026-09-07; the clinic does not appear in the returned result list, which is held by national chains, the university, wellbeing-county pages and directories. [bsq2] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: dental implants Finland The canonical city query was run in the AI-visibility pass on 2026-09-07; the clinic does not appear in the returned result list, which is held by national chains, the university, wellbeing-county pages and directories. [bsq3] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: emergency dentist Finland The canonical city query was run in the AI-visibility pass on 2026-09-07; the clinic does not appear in the returned result list, which is held by national chains, the university, wellbeing-county pages and directories. [bsq4] | 0/1 |
| ? | Mentioned for: Finland dental clinic for expats The fifth canonical query was not run for this city in the AI-visibility pass: the pass ran it only for the first research city of each country (Helsinki for Finland). Left unset rather than guessed. | 0/1 |
| ✓ | Structured data on website The site's schema.org JSON-LD carries a Place entity with a PostalAddress and, re-read on 2026-09-07, a ["Dentist","Organization"] entity naming the practice with its street address, alongside Person and Article nodes — genuine Dentist markup, not just the generic WebPage/WebSite graph. [s1] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ✓ | Google indexing quality The clinic's own domain holds the first result for its own name and five of the first nine (front page, staff, contacts, price list, services); the rest are directories and its own social profiles. [giq1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Dedicated service pages About twenty individual treatment pages grouped into six service categories. [s2] | 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.
- #1Hammaslääkäriasema Dent Å14.9 of 100View report →
- #2Hammasvahti47.6 of 100View report →
- #3Hammaslääkäriasema Helmiäinen52.3 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
| Dentist | Specialization | Licence No. |
|---|---|---|
| Katri Puijola [s3] | Erikoishammaslääkäri, protetiikka (specialist in prosthodontics) | not verified |
| Annina Salmi Svartström [s3] | Erikoishammaslääkäri, parodontologia (specialist in periodontology) | not verified |
| Elina Koivuperä [s3] | Oikomishoidon erikoishammaslääkäri (specialist in orthodontics) | not verified |
| Erika Mäkinen [s3] | Oikomishoidon erikoishammaslääkäri (specialist in orthodontics) | not verified |
| Reijo Niittynen [s3] | Erikoishammaslääkäri, suu- ja leukakirurgia (specialist in oral and maxillofacial surgery) | not verified |
| Kalle Arve [s3] | Yleishammaslääkäri (general dentist) | not verified |
| Ilkka Puijola [s3] | Yleishammaslääkäri (general dentist) | not verified |
| Lassi Arimaa [s3] | Yleishammaslääkäri (general dentist) | not verified |
| Marja Pursimo [s3] | Hammaslääkäri | not verified |
| Anni Aakula [s3] | Hammaslääkäri | not verified |
Dentists are named; their licence numbers have not been checked against public sources yet — unverified, no penalty.
Red Flags
No red flags identified in the public sources we reviewed.
Data We Could Not Verify
- Communication & Service: Response speed
- Communication & Service: English spoken
- AI & Search Visibility: Mentioned for: Finland 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://elegant.fi/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +358 2 233 0000 |
| https://facebook.com/hammaslaakarikeskuselegant | |
| Google Maps | Map listing |
| Address | Kristiinankatu 4 B, 2nd floor, 20100 Turku, Finland |
Contact details are provided for identification only and may change; verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | https://elegant.fi/ | Clinic's own front page: ownership since 1986, hours, emergency invitation, contacts | 2026-09-07 |
| s2 | https://elegant.fi/palvelut | Clinic's own service index and the six treatment groups | 2026-09-07 |
| s3 | https://elegant.fi/henkilokunta | Own site roster page names this dentist (read 2026-09-10): "ri Tutustu Katri Puijola Erikoishammaslääkäri, Protetiikka Tutustu Annina Salmi Svartström Erikoishammaslääkäri, Parodontologia Tutustu Elina Koivuperä Oikomishoidon erik" | 2026-09-10 |
| s4 | https://elegant.fi/hinnasto | Clinic's own standing price list for dentist and hygienist treatment | 2026-09-07 |
| gm1 | https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJg-kcA_x2jEYRG5hh8… | Live Google Maps place record: name, categories including oral surgeon and orthodontist, address, website, rating, coordinates | 2026-09-07 |
| fb1 | https://facebook.com/hammaslaakarikeskuselegant | Clinic's own Facebook page, linked from its site | 2026-09-07 |
| giq1 | search:"Hammaslääkärikeskus Elegant" Turku | Name-and-city search used to judge how well the clinic's own pages rank for its own name (web search) | 2026-09-07 |
| bsq1 | search:best dentist Turku | Canonical visibility query, AI-visibility pass (web search) | 2026-09-07 |
| bsq2 | search:English speaking dentist Turku | Canonical visibility query, AI-visibility pass (web search) | 2026-09-07 |
| bsq3 | search:dental implants Turku | Canonical visibility query, AI-visibility pass (web search) | 2026-09-07 |
| bsq4 | search:emergency dentist Turku | Canonical visibility query, AI-visibility pass (web search) | 2026-09-07 |
| gmpb | https://www.google.com/maps/place/x/@60.4489861,22.2644751,17z/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/@60.4489861,22.2644751,17z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x468c76fc031ce983:0x769277d3f261981b!8m2!3d60.4489861!4d22.2644751?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 «Hammaslääkärikeskus Elegant Turku», category Dentist, at Kristiinankatu 4 B, 2. kerros, 20100 Turku · +358 2 233 0000 · elegant.fi — the identifiers the card itself carries, so the place identifier resolves to this practice and not to a neighbour. | 2026-09-08 |
| hammaslaakarikeskus-elegant-turku-deepen | https://www.yelp.com/biz/hammasl%C3%A4%C3%A4k%C3%A4rikeskus-elegant… | Yelp page "HAMMASLÄÄKÄRIKESKUS ELEGANT", Kristiinankatu 4B 20100 Turku, telephone 02 233 0000, read 2026-10-02 (yelp.fi): marked "Ei lunastettu" (not claimed by the business) and 0 reviews, a listing Yelp built itself rather than a review profile | 2026-10-02 |
| hammaslaakarikeskus-elegant-turku-platforms | https://www.whatclinic.com/dentists/finland/turku | WhatClinic read 2026-10-02: its Turku dentist catalogue (no clinic listed), its profile sitemaps (8 Finnish dentist profiles, each checked for address and staff) and direct profile addresses built from the clinic's name (/dentists/finland/hammaslaakarikeskus-elegant, /dentists/finland/hammaslaakarikeskus-elegant-turku return 404): no profile for this clinic | 2026-10-02 |
| hammaslaakarikeskus-elegant-turku-platforms-2 | https://www.trustpilot.com/review/elegant.fi | Trustpilot, read 2026-10-02: no company page exists for elegant.fi, the clinic's own website ("the page you're looking for could not be found") | 2026-10-02 |
| hammaslaakarikeskus-elegant-turku-platforms-3 | https://www.dentaldepartures.com/dentists/finland | Dental Departures read 2026-10-02: no Finland location (its Finland page returns "not found" and its clinic search recognises neither Finland nor Helsinki, Oulu, Tampere or Turku); no profile for this clinic | 2026-10-02 |
| hammaslaakarikeskus-elegant-turku-platforms-4 | https://us-uk.bookimed.com/sitemap-us-uk-clinics-country.xml | Bookimed read 2026-10-02: Finland is not among its 53 clinic countries (its Finland page returns 404), and none of its 2,127 clinic pages is in Finland | 2026-10-02 |
| hammaslaakarikeskus-elegant-turku-tripadvisor | https://www.tripadvisor.com/TypeAheadJson?action=API&details=true&q… | TripAdvisor's own search, read 2026-10-05: 12 suggestions for "Hammaslääkärikeskus Elegant Turku" (5 attractions, 7 hotels), none of them a dental practice in or near Turku; 12 suggestions for "Hammaslääkärikeskus Elegant" (5 attractions, 7 hotels), none of them a dental practice in or near Turku; no listing for this clinic | 2026-10-05 |
| hammaslaakarikeskus-elegant-turku-tripadvisor-2 | https://elegant.fi/ | 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. |
| 2026-10-02 | Yelp page read on 2026-10-02: an unclaimed listing with no reviews, so no profile on any review platform; presence on other platforms set to no. |
| 2026-10-02 | Presence on review platforms checked on 2026-10-02: no WhatClinic or Trustpilot profile; a Yelp page exists but could not be read, so left unverified. |
| 2026-09-10 | Name-verification pass 2026-09-10: 10 doctor(s) previously no-match against the own-site roster confirmed by re-reading the clinic's staff/team page(s) (Katri Puijola; Annina Salmi Svartström; Elina Koivuperä; Erika Mäkinen; Reijo Niittynen; Kalle Arve; Ilkka Puijola; Lassi Arimaa; Marja Pursimo; Anni Aakula); no data other than sources/license-passthrough changed. |
| 2026-09-09 | Sedation criterion re-read against methodology 1.4.0, which counts only general anaesthesia or deep intravenous sedation where the patient is asleep and unaware. The sedation page describes "kevytnukutus": an anaesthesiologist gives repeated intravenous doses of anxiolytic and analgesic medicine, and the clinic states this is a considerably simpler alternative than nukutus (general anaesthesia). 300 € for the first hour. The value moves from true to false: what this practice offers is published, and it is not sleep dentistry. |
| 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 (44/0/0/0/0 = 44, weighted mean 5.000), 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 | Initial data collection: clinic website read across the front page, service index, several treatment pages, the staff page and the price list; Google Maps place record read live. Review-side fields and both licence layers left unset with reasons and queued for a manual browser check. |
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