Messukylän Hammaslääkäriasema
According to our open methodology, this clinic scored 25.6/100 for transparency, reputation, service accessibility, and digital visibility.
Overall rank: #21 of 21 ranked clinics · Last checked: 8 September 2026
25.6/100
Positions by Rating Profile
- Overall Transparency & Trust#2125.6/100
- Best for Expatsnot ranked
- Best for Dental Implantsnot ranked
- Best for Emergency Dental Carenot ranked
- Best Price Transparency#2120.8/100
- Best English-speaking Clinicsnot ranked
- Best for Families / Children#921.8/100
- 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 No general anaesthesia or intravenous/twilight sedation is documented. [s2]
Summary
Small single-dentist practice in the Jankka shopping centre in Messukylä, eastern Tampere, in operation for about 25 years. Liisa Perttula, a dental licentiate of the University of Turku, does general dentistry and dentures; the practice states it accommodates elderly, multi-morbid and mobility-impaired patients and has step-free access and free parking. The price list is not published online.
Strengths
- Information Transparency: 16 of 20 points.
- No red flags identified in public sources.
Weaknesses
- Price Transparency: 0 of 15 verifiable points (missing: prices or price ranges published; cleaning price listed; filling price listed; crown price listed; implant price listed; consultation price listed; x-ray / imaging price listed)
- Reputation & Reviews: 3 of 15 verifiable points (missing: google review volume; review recency; clinic responds to reviews; tripAdvisor presence; other review platforms)
- Medical Infrastructure: 1.5 of 11 verifiable points (missing: implantology; orthodontics; oral surgery; emergency care; works with international patients)
- Communication & Service: 1.5 of 6 verifiable points (missing: whatsApp / LINE available; clear service explanations; convenient opening hours)
- AI & Search Visibility: 1 of 9 verifiable points (missing: mentioned for: best dentist Finland; mentioned for: English speaking dentist Finland; mentioned for: dental implants Finland; mentioned for: emergency dentist Finland; structured data on website; dedicated service pages)
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: a small three-page site, but with real and current clinic content (address, dentist, phone, access, payment methods). [s1] | 4/4 |
| ✓ | Dentist names listed [s2] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Dentist specializations listed The staff page states her qualification and where it was taken: hammaslääketieteen lisensiaatti, University of Turku 1990, working as a general dentist and also making dentures. [s2] | 2/2 |
| ? | Real clinic photos The place page's lead image, read in a browser on 2026-09-08, is an interior corner of a waiting area with a chair, a plant, a hand-sanitiser dispenser and two printed notices. It carries no signage and, more decisively, **the profile is unclaimed** — it offers «Claim this business» and has no website field — so nothing on it is published by the clinic. A criterion about the photographs a clinic publishes of its own premises cannot be satisfied from a record the clinic does not control. [gmpb] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Service list published Fillings, root canal treatment, basic treatment of gum disease and dentures are named by the dentist herself; the list is short but concrete. [s2] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Clear contact details Phone and street address with the shopping centre named; consistent with the Google place record. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✗ | English website version The site is Finnish only. Its HTML nevertheless declares lang="en", which is a template defect rather than an English version. [s1] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Address and map published Street address with the shopping centre named, a bus line given and a map link. [s1] | 2/2 |
Price Transparency
0 / 15
Whether patients can estimate costs before visiting. Published price ranges count; exact prices are not required.
| ✗ | Prices or price ranges published The price page states in so many words that the full price list is available in the waiting room at the practice, and that prosthetic work is quoted individually before treatment. Nothing is priced online. [s3] | 0/3 |
| ✗ | Cleaning price listed No price published online. [s3] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Filling price listed No price published online. [s3] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Crown price listed No price published online. [s3] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Implant price listed No price published online. [s3] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Consultation price listed No price published online. [s3] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | X-ray / imaging price listed No price published online. [s3] | 0/2 |
Reputation & Reviews
3 / 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 — 2 five-star, 0 four-star, 0 three-star, 0 two-star and 0 one-star — sums to 2, matching the 2 in the place-page header exactly, and its weighted mean 5.000 reproduces the published 5.0. [gm1] [gmpb] | 3/6 |
| ✗ | 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 2 and the listing has not moved since. [gm1] [gmpb] | 0/3 |
| ✗ | Review recency The newest review visible is one year old, which proves the older bucket and no better. Visible dates: 1 year and 5 years (edited). Sample: the two 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] | 0/3 |
| ✗ | Clinic responds to reviews The Google listing is unclaimed (it offers "Claim this business"), so no owner replies to reviews (read 2026-09-25). [messukylan-hammaslaakariasema-tampere-gbp-2026-09-25] | 0/2 |
| ? | No recurring complaints Only 2 Google reviews exist, too few to show whether a complaint recurs (read 2026-10-05). | 0/2 |
| ? | No suspicious review patterns The listing carries only 2 Google reviews (2018-06-24 to 2025-04-11), fewer than the ten needed to judge a pattern, so the criterion is left unassessed (read 2026-10-05). | 0/2 |
| ? | Active Facebook presence Not established: the clinic's website links no Facebook page, and no page was found under its name (checked 2026-10-05). [messukylan-hammaslaakariasema-tampere-fb] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | TripAdvisor presence No TripAdvisor listing found via its search for "Messukylän Hammaslääkäriasema Tampere" and "Messukylän Dental"; the clinic's site does not link to TripAdvisor (checked 2026-10-05). [messukylan-hammaslaakariasema-tampere-tripadvisor] [messukylan-hammaslaakariasema-tampere-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). [messukylan-hammaslaakariasema-tampere-platforms] [messukylan-hammaslaakariasema-tampere-platforms-2] [messukylan-hammaslaakariasema-tampere-deepen] [messukylan-hammaslaakariasema-tampere-platforms-3] [messukylan-hammaslaakariasema-tampere-platforms-4] | 0/0.5 |
Medical Infrastructure
1.5 / 15
The range of publicly documented equipment and services. This measures documented availability, not clinical quality.
| ? | On-site X-ray The site does not say whether radiography is done on the premises, so there is nothing to verify either way. | 0/2 |
| ? | CBCT (3D imaging) The site does not mention imaging equipment at all. | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Implantology Implants are not among the treatments the dentist names; she lists fillings, root canal treatment, basic gum treatment and dentures. [s2] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Orthodontics Orthodontics is not among the treatments named. [s2] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Oral surgery Surgical treatment is not among the treatments named. [s2] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Pediatric dentistry The dentist states that patients of all ages are welcome ('Toivotan tervetulleeksi kaiken ikäiset asiakkaat'). [s2] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ✗ | Emergency care No emergency or same-day service is offered on the practice's own pages; appointments are made by telephone. [s1] | 0/1.5 |
| ✗ | Works with international patients The practice publishes nothing about foreign patients and keeps no non-Finnish version of its site. [s1] | 0/2 |
Communication & Service
1.5 / 10
How easy it is to contact the clinic, get answers, and book - especially for international patients.
| ✗ | WhatsApp / LINE available Telephone only; the site publishes no e-mail or messenger channel. [s1] | 0/2 |
| ? | Response speed | 0/1.5 |
| ? | English spoken The practice makes no statement about the languages it works in. | 0/2.5 |
| ✓ | Pre-visit consultation possible The practice states that a written cost estimate is given before prosthetic treatment begins. [s3] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ✗ | Clear service explanations Treatments are named in a single sentence with no explanation of what each involves. [s2] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Convenient opening hours Neither of the practice's channels publishes evening or weekend opening. Its own site publishes no opening hours at all and arranges appointments by telephone; the Google record — which is unclaimed, so the hours on it are not the clinic's own publication and are recorded here as corroboration rather than as the source — shows Monday to Friday 08:00–17:00 with both weekend days closed. The verdict moves from unassessed to a checked negative. [gmpb] | 0/1.5 |
AI & Search Visibility
1 / 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 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 page carries no schema.org JSON-LD at all; the only microdata is the site builder's generic WebPage and ImageObject markup, with no business entity. [s1] | 0/1.5 |
| ◐ | Google indexing quality The practice's own front page is the first result for its own name, but it is the only page of its own that ranks: the rest of the first fourteen are business directories, a recruitment ad, third-party social posts and unrelated listings, and its two inner pages do not appear. [giq1] | 1/2 |
| ✗ | Dedicated service pages The site has three pages in total — front page, staff and prices — with no page per service. [s1] | 0/1.5 |
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. |
|---|---|---|
| Liisa Perttula [s2] | Hammaslääketieteen lisensiaatti, University of Turku 1990; general dentistry, fillings, root canal treatment, basic treatment of gum disease, dentures | 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: No recurring complaints
- Reputation & Reviews: No suspicious review patterns
- Reputation & Reviews: Active Facebook presence
- Medical Infrastructure: On-site X-ray
- Medical Infrastructure: CBCT (3D imaging)
- 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://messukylanhammas.fi/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +358 3 363 2022 |
| Google Maps | Map listing |
| Address | Ankkarinraitti 2, Jankan Liikekeskus, 33700 Tampere, 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://messukylanhammas.fi/ | Practice's own front page: address, dentist, phone, access, 25 years in operation | 2026-09-07 |
| s2 | https://messukylanhammas.fi/henkil%C3%B6kunta | Practice's own staff page: the dentist's degree, university, year and treatments | 2026-09-07 |
| s3 | https://messukylanhammas.fi/hinnasto | Practice's own price page, which states the price list is available in the waiting room | 2026-09-07 |
| gm1 | https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJXUgwLoAgj0YRc1pw5… | Live Google Maps place record: name, category Dentist, address, coordinates; no rating returned | 2026-09-07 |
| giq1 | search:"Messukylän Hammaslääkäriasema" Tampere | 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 Tampere | Canonical visibility query, AI-visibility pass (web search) | 2026-09-07 |
| bsq2 | search:English speaking dentist Tampere | Canonical visibility query, AI-visibility pass (web search) | 2026-09-07 |
| bsq3 | search:dental implants Tampere | Canonical visibility query, AI-visibility pass (web search) | 2026-09-07 |
| bsq4 | search:emergency dentist Tampere | Canonical visibility query, AI-visibility pass (web search) | 2026-09-07 |
| gmpb | https://www.google.com/maps/place/x/@61.4890017,23.854202,17z/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 two most-relevant reviews with their star values, dates, text and owner replies; the sibling Overview URL https://www.google.com/maps/place/x/@61.4890017,23.854202,17z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x468f20802e30485d:0xda18a5a8e4705a73!8m2!3d61.4890017!4d23.854202?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 «Messukylän Hammaslääkäriasema», category Dentist, at Ankkarinraitti 2, 33700 Tampere · +358 3 363 2022 (the record carries no website field and offers «Add website») — the identifiers the card itself carries, so the place identifier resolves to this practice and not to a neighbour. | 2026-09-08 |
| messukylan-hammaslaakariasema-tampere-gbp-2026-09-25 | https://www.google.com/maps?cid=15715493044515002995&hl=en | Google listing read on 2026-09-25: rating 5 from 2 reviews; star histogram 1★ 0 / 2★ 0 / 3★ 0 / 4★ 0 / 5★ 2; newest review dated 2025-04-11; the listing is unclaimed (it offers "Claim this business"). | 2026-09-25 |
| messukylan-hammaslaakariasema-tampere-deepen | https://www.yelp.com/biz/messukyl%C3%A4n-hammasl%C3%A4%C3%A4k%C3%A4… | Yelp page "MESSUKYLÄN HAMMASLÄÄKÄRIASEMA", Ankkarinraitti 2 33560 TAMPERE, telephone 03 363 2022, 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 |
| messukylan-hammaslaakariasema-tampere-platforms | https://www.whatclinic.com/dentists/finland/tampere | WhatClinic read 2026-10-02: its Tampere dentist catalogue (1 page, 1 clinic), 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/messukylan-hammaslaakariasema, /dentists/finland/messukylan-hammaslaakariasema-tampere return 404): no profile for this clinic | 2026-10-02 |
| messukylan-hammaslaakariasema-tampere-platforms-2 | https://www.trustpilot.com/review/messukylanhammas.fi | Trustpilot, read 2026-10-02: no company page exists for messukylanhammas.fi, the clinic's own website ("the page you're looking for could not be found") | 2026-10-02 |
| messukylan-hammaslaakariasema-tampere-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 |
| messukylan-hammaslaakariasema-tampere-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 |
| messukylan-hammaslaakariasema-tampere-fb | https://messukylanhammas.fi/ | The clinic's website, opened on 2026-10-05: its home page carries no link to a Facebook page | 2026-10-05 |
| messukylan-hammaslaakariasema-tampere-tripadvisor | https://www.tripadvisor.com/TypeAheadJson?action=API&details=true&q… | TripAdvisor's own search, read 2026-10-05: 12 suggestions for "Messukylän Hammaslääkäriasema Tampere" (1 place, 4 attractions, 6 hotels, 1 restaurant), none of them a dental practice in or near Tampere; 12 suggestions for "Messukylän Dental" (8 attractions, 4 hotels), none of them a dental practice in or near Tampere; no listing for this clinic | 2026-10-05 |
| messukylan-hammaslaakariasema-tampere-tripadvisor-2 | https://messukylanhammas.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 | Reputation check 2026-10-05 on the clinic's Google listing (2 reviews read): nothing settled; recurring complaints, suspicious review patterns left unassessed. |
| 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; no Facebook page identified. |
| 2026-09-29 | Corrected 2026-09-29: no recurring complaints and no suspicious review patterns now unverified: 2 Google reviews are too few to show a pattern; active Facebook presence now unverified: no Facebook search is on record, so the absence of a page is not established; no owner replies to reviews: the Google listing is unclaimed. |
| 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 (2/0/0/0/0 = 2, weighted mean 5.000), review recency, the owner-reply state, the complaint reading and the manipulation reading from the two 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: the practice's three-page website read in full; Google Maps place record read, which returned the place with address and coordinates but no rating. Prices recorded as unpublished on the practice's own statement. Review-side fields and both licence layers left unset with reasons and queued for a further check. |
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