Itäväylän Hammaslääkärit
According to our open methodology, this clinic scored 69.4/100 for transparency, reputation, service accessibility, and digital visibility.
Overall rank: #13 of 21 ranked clinics · Last checked: 8 September 2026
69.4/100
Positions by Rating Profile
- Overall Transparency & Trust#1369.4/100
- Best for Expatsnot ranked
- Best for Dental Implants#1368.5/100
- Best for Emergency Dental Care#765.8/100
- Best Price Transparency#1381.3/100
- Best English-speaking Clinics#867.5/100
- Best for Families / Children#566.3/100
- Sleep Dentistry (GA / deep sedation)#669.4/100
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 The price list carries 'Hoito nukutuksessa / tunti' (treatment under general anaesthesia, per hour) at about 500 € on top of the dental work. [s5]
Summary
Dentist-owned, chain-independent practice in the Itäkeskus shopping centre in eastern Helsinki. Nine named dentists including one training in periodontology, an itemised price list with no hidden fees, treatment under general anaesthesia priced by the hour, and service in English on request. Evening appointments to 19:30 on weekdays.
Strengths
- Information Transparency: 16 of 20 points.
- Price Transparency: 15 of 15 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
16 / 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 across services, staff, prices and location pages. [s1] | 4/4 |
| ✓ | Dentist names listed Nine practising dentists named with individual profile links, plus hygienist and nursing staff; one retired dentist is marked as such. [s3] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Dentist specializations listed Elina Puomila is listed as erikoistuva hammaslääkäri, parodontologia (training in periodontology); the services page adds that a periodontology specialist treats the most demanding scaling, recession, gingival overgrowth and peri-implant cases. [s3] | 2/2 |
| ? | Real clinic photos The lead image on the place page, read in a browser on 2026-09-08, is an interior view of a waiting area — wooden chairs, a cushion and a corridor — carrying a camera date stamp of 23/04/2026, and the place page's photo strip is headed «All · Latest · 6 days ago» with no «By owner» section, so what is on offer is visitor photography rather than anything the clinic publishes. The criterion asks for photographs the clinic itself publishes of its real premises; that is not what this record carries, and the field stays null rather than false because the clinic's own site was not opened for this purpose. [gmpb] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Service list published General dentistry, fillings, root canal treatment, dental surgery, prosthetics, periodontal and hygienist care, each described, plus a saliva test for periodontitis risk. [s2] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Clear contact details Phone, e-mail, street address and opening hours 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; the front page carries a single English sentence ('We serve our customers also in English') but no English version. [s1] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Address and map published A location page giving the shopping-centre level, lift access from the car park and step-free entry, alongside the street address. [s4] | 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 with the gross price and the patient's share, introduced by the clinic's stated principle of no office or hidden fees. [s5] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Cleaning price listed Suppea hammaskiven poisto 60–140 €, laaja 180–250 €; hygienist gum treatment 100–150 €. [s5] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Filling price listed One-surface 80 €, two 150 €, three 170 €. [s5] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Crown price listed Muovikruunu 195 €; proteettinen kruunu listed in the prosthetics block. [s5] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Implant price listed Implantit alkaen 2300 €. [s5] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Consultation price listed Hammastarkastus 69 €; konsultaatio, first 15 minutes 40 €; emergency-type visit from 80 €. [s5] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | X-ray / imaging price listed BW imaging 60 €, panoramic (PTG) 90 €. [s5] | 2/2 |
Reputation & Reviews
11 / 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) as of 2026-09-25; previously 4.5 [itavaylan-hammaslaakarit-helsinki-gbp-2026-09-25] | 4/6 |
| ◐ | Google review volume as of 2026-09-25; previously 24 [itavaylan-hammaslaakarit-helsinki-gbp-2026-09-25] | 1/3 |
| ✓ | Review recency The newest review visible is two months old, which proves the within_3_months bucket and no better. Visible dates: 2, 4, 6 and 10 months, then 2, 2, 3 and 3 years. 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 Only 6 of the 12 Google reviews read are dated within the last 24 months (2025-10-11 to 2026-09-12), fewer than the ten needed to judge whether the owner replies; none carries an owner reply. | 0/2 |
| ✗ | No recurring complaints Three of the eight visible accounts are critical and two of them share one theme — the treating dentist's manner and the roughness of the work done in a hurry. A one-star two months old describes a chipped area repaired so that it felt jagged and frayed the dental floss, and adds that «judging by his behaviour, the dentist must not have had a very good day»; a one-star four months old says the experience did not match the positive comments at all, that «the dentist was rough and in a hurry», and breaks off at Google's truncation. The third, a two-star ten months old, is on a different subject — payment taken by card on the day and no invoice or itemised list of procedures supplied after three requests. Two readable negatives on one theme meets the methodology's threshold, so the criterion is true. The one- and two-star mass is 3 of 24 = 12.5 %; none of the three is answered by the owner, who answers nothing on this profile. 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] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | No suspicious review patterns Judged on the histogram shape, the spread of dates, the variety of reviewers and the wording, on 2026-09-08. The histogram fills four of five buckets on a base of 24 (20/1/0/1/2), the visible dates run from two months to three years, the accounts vary in length and language, and the owner engages with none of them. Nothing suggests a curated record. [gmpb] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Active Facebook presence The clinic links its own Facebook page and points patients to it for feedback. [fb1] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | TripAdvisor presence No TripAdvisor listing found via its search for "Itäväylän Hammaslääkärit Helsinki" and "Itäväylän Hammaslääkärit"; the clinic's site does not link to TripAdvisor (checked 2026-10-05). [itavaylan-hammaslaakarit-helsinki-tripadvisor] [itavaylan-hammaslaakarit-helsinki-tripadvisor-2] | 0/0.5 |
| ✗ | Other review platforms No profile on WhatClinic or Trustpilot, and Dental Departures and Bookimed list no Finnish clinics; no Yelp page was found under its name, nor a Finnish dentist-review site with reviews of its own. [itavaylan-hammaslaakarit-helsinki-deepen] [itavaylan-hammaslaakarit-helsinki-deepen-2] [itavaylan-hammaslaakarit-helsinki-deepen-3] [itavaylan-hammaslaakarit-helsinki-deepen-4] | 0/0.5 |
Medical Infrastructure
9 / 15
The range of publicly documented equipment and services. This measures documented availability, not clinical quality.
| ✓ | On-site X-ray Bite-wing and panoramic imaging priced in the clinic's own price list. [s5] | 2/2 |
| ✗ | CBCT (3D imaging) The price list covers bite-wing and panoramic imaging only; no cone-beam CT is priced or described. [s5] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Implantology The front page states that implants are done together with experienced surgeons; implants are priced. [s1] [s5] | 2/2 |
| ✗ | Orthodontics Orthodontics is absent from the service pages and the price list. [s2] [s5] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Oral surgery A dental surgery service block covering extractions and minor operations. [s2] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Pediatric dentistry The services page states 'Annamme perushoitoa kaikenikäisille' — basic care for patients of all ages. [s2] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ✓ | Emergency care The price list carries an 'Ensiapuluonteinen käynti' (emergency-type visit) from 80 €. [s5] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ✗ | Works with international patients Beyond the single line about serving customers in English, the clinic publishes nothing about foreign patients, insurance or paperwork. [s1] | 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 Phone and e-mail only. [s1] | 0/2 |
| ? | Response speed | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | English spoken The front page states in English: 'We serve our customers also in English. Welcome!' [s1] | 2.5/2.5 |
| ✓ | Pre-visit consultation possible A 40 € 15-minute consultation is published as a bookable item. [s5] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ✓ | Clear service explanations Each treatment is explained in plain Finnish with a "read more" page. [s2] | 1/1 |
| ✓ | Convenient opening hours The clinic's Google Business Profile publishes the full week, read in a browser on 2026-09-08: Monday to Thursday 08:00–19:30, Friday 08:00–16:00, Saturday and Sunday closed. A 19:30 close on four weekdays is evening surgery published clearly, so the criterion is confirmed on the clinic's own record as well as on its site. [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, city and 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, city and 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, city and 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, city and wellbeing-county pages and directories. [bsq4] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: Finland dental clinic for expats 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, city and wellbeing-county pages and directories. [bsq5] | 0/1 |
| ✓ | Structured data on website The site's schema.org JSON-LD graph carries a business-level Organization entity for the practice ("Itäväylän Hammaslääkärit") alongside the generic WebPage/WebSite/BreadcrumbList nodes. Re-read on 2026-09-07: that Organization node carries the business name, the site URL and, where present, its social profiles — but no PostalAddress, no telephone and no geo. It is therefore not LocalBusiness or Dentist markup; it is credited under the criterion's "or equivalent" wording as business-level structured data. [s1] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ✓ | Google indexing quality The clinic's own domain holds the first two results for its own name and five of the first nine (front page, location, price list, staff, services); the rest are directories, its social profiles and the shopping centre's page. [giq1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Dedicated service pages Individual pages per treatment (check-up, filling, root canal, dental surgery, prosthetics, gum treatment) plus a per-dentist profile page. [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. |
|---|---|---|
| Pirjo Siikavuo [s3] | Hammaslääkäri | not verified |
| Kirsi Puomila [s3] | Hammaslääkäri | not verified |
| Marianna Lindbohm [s3] | Hammaslääkäri | not verified |
| Kristiina Achté [s3] | Hammaslääkäri; the clinic also names her as its data-protection officer | not verified |
| Anne-Mari Sillman-Tarhio [s3] | Hammaslääkäri | not verified |
| Elina Puomila [s3] | Erikoistuva hammaslääkäri, parodontologia (training in periodontology) | not verified |
| Ilona Korpelainen [s3] | Hammaslääkäri | not verified |
| Enni Aalto-Setälä [s3] | Hammaslääkäri | not verified |
| Elina Karjalainen [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
- Information Transparency: Real clinic photos
- Reputation & Reviews: Clinic responds to reviews
- Communication & Service: Response speed
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.itavaylanhammaslaakarit.fi/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +358 9 341 7330 |
| https://facebook.com/itavaylanhammaslaakarit | |
| Google Maps | Map listing |
| Address | Itäkatu 7 E, Itäkeskus, 00930 Helsinki, 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://www.itavaylanhammaslaakarit.fi/ | Clinic's own front page: hours, address, service in English, implants with partner surgeons | 2026-09-07 |
| s2 | https://www.itavaylanhammaslaakarit.fi/palvelumme/ | Clinic's own services page: treatments, all ages, specialist periodontal care | 2026-09-07 |
| s3 | https://www.itavaylanhammaslaakarit.fi/henkilokunta-itavaylan-hamma… | Clinic's own staff page: named dentists, hygienist, nurses, ownership | 2026-09-07 |
| s4 | https://www.itavaylanhammaslaakarit.fi/sijainti/ | Clinic's own location page: address, access, step-free entry | 2026-09-07 |
| s5 | https://www.itavaylanhammaslaakarit.fi/hinnasto/ | Clinic's own standing price list | 2026-09-07 |
| fb1 | https://facebook.com/itavaylanhammaslaakarit | Clinic's own Facebook page, linked from its site | 2026-09-07 |
| giq1 | search:"Itäväylän Hammaslääkärit" Helsinki | 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 Helsinki | Canonical visibility query, AI-visibility pass (web search) | 2026-09-07 |
| bsq2 | search:English speaking dentist Helsinki | Canonical visibility query, AI-visibility pass (web search) | 2026-09-07 |
| bsq3 | search:dental implants Helsinki | Canonical visibility query, AI-visibility pass (web search) | 2026-09-07 |
| bsq4 | search:emergency dentist Helsinki | Canonical visibility query, AI-visibility pass (web search) | 2026-09-07 |
| bsq5 | search:Helsinki dental clinic for expats | Canonical visibility query, AI-visibility pass (web search) | 2026-09-07 |
| gmpb | https://www.google.com/maps/place/x/@60.2103953,25.0810064,17z/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/@60.2103953,25.0810064,17z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x46920f2a4e9767e9:0x34638451f7f01364!8m2!3d60.2103953!4d25.0810064?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 «Itäväylän Hammaslääkärit», category Dental clinic, at Itäkatu 7 E, floor 0 of the Itis centre, 00930 Helsinki · +358 9 341 7330 · itavaylanhammaslaakarit.fi — the identifiers the card itself carries, so the place identifier resolves to this practice and not to a neighbour. | 2026-09-08 |
| itavaylan-hammaslaakarit-helsinki-gbp-2026-09-25 | https://www.google.com/maps?cid=3775006400253530980&hl=en | Google listing read on 2026-09-25: rating 4.7 from 26 reviews; star histogram 1★ 1 / 2★ 1 / 3★ 0 / 4★ 1 / 5★ 23; newest review dated 2026-09-12. | 2026-09-25 |
| itavaylan-hammaslaakarit-helsinki-deepen | https://www.whatclinic.com/dentists/finland/helsinki | WhatClinic read 2026-10-02: the Helsinki catalogue (1 page, 4 clinics) and WhatClinic's Finland sitemap (8 Finnish profiles) list no profile for the clinic; direct addresses /dentists/finland/itaevaeylaen-hammaslaeaekaerit return 404. | 2026-10-02 |
| itavaylan-hammaslaakarit-helsinki-deepen-2 | https://www.trustpilot.com/review/itavaylanhammaslaakarit.fi | Trustpilot read 2026-10-02: no page for itavaylanhammaslaakarit.fi ("Whoops! The page you're looking for could not be found"). | 2026-10-02 |
| itavaylan-hammaslaakarit-helsinki-deepen-3 | https://www.dentaldepartures.com/dentists/finland | Dental Departures read 2026-10-02: has no Finland location (its Finland page returns "not found" and its clinic search recognises neither Finland nor Helsinki); no profile for this clinic. | 2026-10-02 |
| itavaylan-hammaslaakarit-helsinki-deepen-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 (no Finland page), and none of its 2,127 clinic pages is in Finland. | 2026-10-02 |
| itavaylan-hammaslaakarit-helsinki-deepen-5 | https://www.google.com/maps?cid=3775006400253530980&hl=en | Google listing "Itäväylän Hammaslääkärit" (Dental clinic), read 2026-10-02 in four review orders (newest, lowest-rated, most relevant, highest-rated first): 4.7 from 26 reviews (1★ 1 / 2★ 1 / 3★ 0 / 4★ 1 / 5★ 23); 11 distinct reviews read, dated 2020-10-17 to 2026-09-12 | 2026-10-02 |
| itavaylan-hammaslaakarit-helsinki-tripadvisor | https://www.tripadvisor.com/TypeAheadJson?action=API&details=true&q… | TripAdvisor's own search, read 2026-10-05: 12 suggestions for "Itäväylän Hammaslääkärit Helsinki" (1 place, 4 attractions, 6 hotels, 1 restaurant), none of them a dental practice in or near Helsinki; 1 suggestion for "Itäväylän Hammaslääkärit" (1 restaurant), none of them a dental practice in or near Helsinki; no listing for this clinic | 2026-10-05 |
| itavaylan-hammaslaakarit-helsinki-tripadvisor-2 | https://www.itavaylanhammaslaakarit.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. |
| 2026-10-05 | Google reviews re-read on 2026-10-05: 6 from the last 24 months, fewer than the ten needed, so owner replies are left unassessed. |
| 2026-10-02 | Read 11 of the clinic's Google reviews on 2026-10-02: no owner replies seen. |
| 2026-10-02 | Presence on review platforms checked on 2026-10-02: no profile on WhatClinic or Trustpilot; Dental Departures and Bookimed do not cover Finland. |
| 2026-09-29 | Corrected 2026-09-29: clinic responds to reviews now unverified: only 8 reviews were checked for owner replies; Google rating 4.7 (was 4.5) and review count 26 (was 24) from the Google listing on 2026-09-25. |
| 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 (previously unknown — the automated map method never returned it), the histogram itself (20/1/0/1/2 = 24, weighted mean 4.500), 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, services, staff, location and price pages; 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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