Dental Clinic Odontología Especializada
According to our open methodology, this clinic scored 53.3/100 for transparency, reputation, service accessibility, and digital visibility.
Overall rank: #5 of 21 ranked clinics · Last checked: 11 September 2026
Positions by Rating Profile
- Overall Transparency & Trust#553.3/100
- Best for Expats#552.5/100
- Best for Dental Implants#548/100
- Best for Emergency Dental Care#156/100
- Best Price Transparency#437.8/100
- Best English-speaking Clinicsnot ranked
- Best for Families / Children#457.8/100
- 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) — Not verified
Summary
Encarnación practice on Independencia Nacional, founded in 1993 by Dra. Susana Monzón and still directed by her. The team page names three dentists with their fields: the director, a specialist in oral rehabilitation and an orthodontist. Eight service areas are published — dental implants, orthodontics, paediatric dentistry, oral surgery, whitening, children's preventive care, periodontal therapy and dental emergencies — alongside a results gallery and an online booking route. Opening hours are Monday to Friday 08:00-18:00 and Saturday 08:00-12:00.
Address and phone match between the clinic's contact page and the Google place record, which is titled 'Dental Clinic Odontología Especializada'. The hl=en Google request returned the place without a rating and the hl=es request on the same day returned 4.8 from 23 reviews; the Spanish-locale figures are the ones recorded. The clinic is also the Encarnación entry that a third-party dentist directory surfaces in the canonical 'dental clinic for expats' query for this city.
Strengths
- Information Transparency: 18 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)
- AI & Search Visibility: 2 of 10 verifiable points (missing: mentioned for: best dentist Paraguay; mentioned for: English speaking dentist Paraguay; mentioned for: dental implants Paraguay; mentioned for: emergency dentist Paraguay; 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
Whether basic facts about the clinic - its team, premises, services, and location - are publicly verifiable.
| ✓ | Has a working website dentalclinic.com.py serves a full site with services, results, about and contact pages [s1] | 4/4 |
| ✓ | Dentist names listed three dentists named with their roles and specialities [s2] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Dentist specializations listed oral rehabilitation and orthodontics named per dentist; eight service areas published [s2] [s3] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Real clinic photos The website publishes photographs of the clinic’s own staff at work, filed under their names, together with portraits of its dentists. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Service list published implants, orthodontics, paediatric dentistry, oral surgery, whitening, children's preventive care, periodontal therapy, dental emergencies [s3] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Clear contact details address, phone, opening hours, Instagram link and a booking form [s4] | 2/2 |
| ✗ | English website version Spanish-only site [s1] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Address and map published street address published; matches the Google place record [s4] [s5] | 2/2 |
Price Transparency
Whether patients can estimate costs before visiting. Published price ranges count; exact prices are not required.
Reputation & Reviews
Public review signals. The Google rating is adjusted with a Bayesian prior (rating 4.0, weight 25) so a 5.0 from a handful of reviews does not outrank a 4.8 from hundreds.
| ◐ | Google rating (Bayesian-adjusted) as of 2026-09-10 [s5] | 4/6 |
| ◐ | Google review volume as of 2026-09-10 [s5] | 1/3 |
| ✓ | Review recency newest review rendered on the clinic's own Google place page is two months old (read 2026-09-10) [s8] | 3/3 |
| ✗ | Clinic responds to reviews The clinic does not answer reviews. The listing was read twice on 2026-09-11 — the reviews panel and an automated fetch, the latter returning five of its 23 reviews, dated between 6 May 2025 and 20 June 2026 — and no record from either reading carries a reply, including the one-star. The listing is one the clinic controls: all four of its photographs were uploaded through its own Google Business account. [s8] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | No recurring complaints a single negative review (a patient refused a radiograph and asked to pay first) against a histogram of 1/0/0/0/22; no repeated theme [s8] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | No suspicious review patterns No sign of manipulation is recorded. The rating histogram read 2026-09-11 gives 22 five-star and one one-star out of 23, so the base carries a negative tail rather than being uniform, and the reviews continue over more than a year. Disclosed alongside that: of the five records the listing renders, three are dated 6 May 2025 and one 7 May 2025, with the fifth on 20 June 2026, and two of those authors have a single review to their name. A four-review cluster inside a 23-review base that also holds a one-star and later reviews reads as a clinic asking satisfied patients to write rather than as a manufactured history. [s8] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Active Facebook presence facebook.com/dentalclinic.enc is the clinic's own Facebook page, active in the last two years (read 2026-10-02). [dental-clinic-encarnacion-deepen-3] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | TripAdvisor presence No TripAdvisor listing found via its search for "Dental Clinic Odontologia Especializada Encarnacion" and "Dental Clinic Encarnacion" (2026-10-02); the clinic's site does not link to TripAdvisor. [dental-clinic-encarnacion-deepen] [dental-clinic-encarnacion-deepen-2] | 0/0.5 |
| ✗ | Other review platforms No profile found on WhatClinic, Dental Departures, Bookimed or Trustpilot (checked 2026-10-01). [dental-clinic-encarnacion-platforms] [dental-clinic-encarnacion-platforms-2] [dental-clinic-encarnacion-platforms-3] [dental-clinic-encarnacion-platforms-4] | 0/0.5 |
Medical Infrastructure
The range of publicly documented equipment and services. This measures documented availability, not clinical quality.
| ? | On-site X-ray | 0/2 |
| ? | CBCT (3D imaging) | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Implantology dental implants published as a service area [s3] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Orthodontics orthodontics published, with a named orthodontist [s2] [s3] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Oral surgery oral surgery published as a service area [s3] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Pediatric dentistry paediatric dentistry and children's preventive care published [s3] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ✓ | Emergency care 'Emergencia Dental — atención inmediata ante urgencias' is the first highlighted service [s1] [s3] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ? | Works with international patients | 0/2 |
Communication & Service
How easy it is to contact the clinic, get answers, and book - especially for international patients.
| ✓ | WhatsApp / LINE available the contact page offers WhatsApp as an alternative to the online booking form [s4] | 2/2 |
| ? | Response speed | 0/1.5 |
| ? | English spoken | 0/2.5 |
| ✓ | Pre-visit consultation possible online booking in a few steps plus a contact form for questions [s4] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ✓ | Clear service explanations each of the eight service areas carries a short plain-language description [s3] | 1/1 |
| ✓ | Convenient opening hours Hours published on the clinic's own Google Business Profile, re-read 2026-09-11: Monday to Friday in two sessions, 08:00–12:00 and 14:00–18:00, plus Saturday 08:00–11:00. The earlier note gave the weekday span as a single 08:00–18:00 block; the midday close is recorded here. The Saturday opening is what satisfies the criterion. Scored against a single published rule: evening opening (closing 19:00 or later) or Saturday/Sunday opening. [s4] | 1.5/1.5 |
AI & Search Visibility
Whether the clinic is discoverable when patients search - including via AI assistants. Checked with fixed queries: "best dentist Paraguay", "English speaking dentist Paraguay", "dental implants Paraguay", "emergency dentist Paraguay", "Paraguay dental clinic for expats".
| ✗ | Mentioned for: best dentist Paraguay [s6] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: English speaking dentist Paraguay [s6] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: dental implants Paraguay [s6] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: emergency dentist Paraguay [s6] | 0/1 |
| ✓ | Mentioned for: Paraguay dental clinic for expats surfaced at rank 2 of the city 'dental clinic for expats' query through a dentist-directory entry carrying its address [s6] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | Structured data on website no schema.org JSON-LD in the delivered pages [s1] | 0/1.5 |
| ◐ | Google indexing quality the clinic surfaces through a directory copy rather than its own domain in the canonical queries, though the domain ranks for city clinic searches [s6] | 1/2 |
| ✗ | Dedicated service pages one combined services page [s3] | 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.
- #1Clínica Odontológica Dr. Gastón Trossero41.5 of 100View report → report in Spanish
- #2Delica Dental Clinic – DDC50.4 of 100View report → report in Spanish
- #3Odontología 311.8 of 100View report → report in Spanish
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. |
|---|---|---|
| Dra. Susana Monzón [s2] | Dental director; founder (1993) | not verified |
| Dra. Leticia Schütz [s2] | Oral rehabilitation | not verified |
| Dra. Silvia Lovera [s2] | Orthodontics | 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
- Medical Infrastructure: On-site X-ray
- Medical Infrastructure: CBCT (3D imaging)
- Medical Infrastructure: Works with international patients
- Communication & Service: Response speed
- Communication & Service: English spoken
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://dentalclinic.com.py/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +595 986 156059 |
| +595 986 156059 | |
| https://www.facebook.com/dentalclinic.enc/ | |
| Google Maps | Map listing |
| Address | Independencia Nacional 962, Encarnación 6000, Paraguay |
Contact details are provided for identification only and may change; verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | https://dentalclinic.com.py/ | clinic name, highlighted services including dental emergencies, navigation to services, results, about and contact || Clinic website re-read 2026-09-11: photographs of its own staff at work, filed under their names (leticiaTablet, susanaAtendiendo), alongside the practice’s dentist portraits | 2026-09-11 |
| s2 | https://dentalclinic.com.py/nosotros/ | founded 1993 by Dra. Susana Monzón; team Dra. Susana Monzón (dental director), Dra. Leticia Schütz (specialist in oral rehabilitation), Dra. Silvia Lovera (orthodontist) | 2026-09-10 |
| s3 | https://dentalclinic.com.py/servicios/ | eight service areas: implants, orthodontics, paediatric dentistry, oral surgery, whitening, children's preventive care, periodontal therapy, dental emergencies; no prices | 2026-09-10 |
| s4 | https://dentalclinic.com.py/contacto/ | address Independencia Nacional 962 Encarnación, phone +595 986156059, opening hours Mon-Fri 08:00-18:00 and Sat 08:00-12:00, Instagram link, online booking and contact form | 2026-09-10 |
| s5 | https://www.google.com/maps/preview/place/Dental+Clinic+Odontolog%C… | Google place record read 2026-09-10: rating 4.8 from 23 reviews (hl=es request), coordinates -27.3370958/-55.8610733, address Independencia Nacional 962 Encarnación 6000, phone +595 986156059, website dentalclinic.com.py, category Dentist | 2026-09-10 |
| s6 | search:best dentist Encarnación Paraguay / English speaking dentist Encarnación / dental implants Encarnación / emergency dentist Encarnación / Encarnación dental clinic for expats | AI/search visibility check 2026-09-10 over the five canonical Encarnación queries; the clinic's address appears at rank 2 of the expat query through a directory entry | 2026-09-10 |
| s7 | https://controldeprofesiones.mspbs.gov.py/consulta-registro-profesi… | MSPyBS DGCEyTS Registro Profesional public consult; unreachable on 2026-09-10 (Google Public DNS answers SERVFAIL, extended DNS error 22, for mspbs.gov.py) | 2026-09-10 |
| s8 | https://www.google.com/maps?cid=13763845258861179859 | Google place page (place-detail endpoint) re-read 2026-09-10: rating 4.8 from 23 reviews, star histogram 1★–5★ = 1/0/0/0/22, opening hours on the clinic's own Business Profile Mon–Fri 08:00–12:00 and 14:00–18:00, Saturday 08:00–11:00, Sunday closed; newest review two months old, no owner reply on any review shown | 2026-09-10 |
| dental-clinic-encarnacion-platforms | https://www.whatclinic.com/dentists/paraguay | WhatClinic: it has no Paraguay dentist listing and no Asunción listing (both addresses return not found), none of the 22,037 dentist profiles in its profile sitemaps is in Paraguay, and the profile addresses built from the clinic's name under its Paraguay city paths return not found, so it has no profile for Dental Clinic Odontología Especializada (checked 2026-10-01) | 2026-10-01 |
| dental-clinic-encarnacion-platforms-2 | https://www.dentaldepartures.com/ | Dental Departures: its clinic search does not recognise Paraguay as a location and lists no clinic there (checked 2026-10-01) | 2026-10-01 |
| dental-clinic-encarnacion-platforms-3 | https://bookimed.com/clinics/country=paraguay/ | Bookimed: its Paraguay clinic page has been removed (HTTP 410), and none of the 2,127 clinic pages in its clinic sitemap carries this clinic's name (checked 2026-10-01) | 2026-10-01 |
| dental-clinic-encarnacion-platforms-4 | https://www.trustpilot.com/review/dentalclinic.com.py | Trustpilot: no company page for dentalclinic.com.py (checked 2026-10-01) | 2026-10-01 |
| dental-clinic-encarnacion-deepen | https://www.tripadvisor.com/TypeAheadJson?action=API&query=Dental%2… | TripAdvisor's own search for "Dental Clinic Odontologia Especializada Encarnacion" and for "Dental Clinic Encarnacion" (2026-10-02) returned only unrelated attractions and hotels, among them dental practices in other cities; no listing for this clinic | 2026-10-02 |
| dental-clinic-encarnacion-deepen-2 | https://dentalclinic.com.py/ | Clinic's website, read 2026-10-02 (home page): no link to a TripAdvisor page | 2026-10-02 |
| dental-clinic-encarnacion-deepen-3 | https://www.facebook.com/dentalclinic.enc/ | Facebook page read 2026-10-02: "Dental Clinic" (Encarnación), category Dentist and dental surgery, address Independencia Nacional 962 and phone +595 986 156059 (the clinic's), 82 followers, newest post 15 September 2026 | 2026-10-02 |
Change History
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-02 | Presence re-checked on 2026-10-02: no TripAdvisor listing (two searches of its index and the clinic's site); its own Facebook page, active this year. |
| 2026-10-01 | Presence on other review platforms re-checked: no profile on WhatClinic, Dental Departures or Bookimed, so this criterion is now no. |
| 2026-09-10 | Adversarial verification: reputation block filled from the live place page; the clinic's Business Profile hours match the hours already on the card. |
| 2026-09-10 | Card created from the clinic's own site (home, about, services, contact) and a live Google place record; MSPyBS register unreachable, licence fields left unverified. |
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