Göta Dental
According to our open methodology, this clinic scored 56.8/100 for transparency, reputation, service accessibility, and digital visibility.
Overall rank: #9 of 18 ranked clinics · Last checked: 8 September 2026
Positions by Rating Profile
- Overall Transparency & Trust#956.8/100
- Best for Expats#954/100
- Best for Dental Implantsnot ranked
- Best for Emergency Dental Carenot ranked
- Best Price Transparency#1056.6/100
- Best English-speaking Clinics#1057.3/100
- 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) — Not verified
Summary
Specialist orthodontic clinic on Första Långgatan run by two named registered specialist orthodontists, with a full English site aimed at English-speaking patients.
Strengths
- Information Transparency: 18 of 20 points.
Weaknesses
- Price Transparency: 7 of 15 verifiable points (missing: cleaning price listed; filling price listed; crown price listed; implant price listed)
- Medical Infrastructure: 4 of 9.5 verifiable points (missing: implantology; oral surgery; emergency care)
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 [s1] | 4/4 |
| ✓ | Dentist names listed Jilah Qaljaee (Founder) and Sara Waldenström (Specialist) are named as registered specialist orthodontists. [s1] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Dentist specializations listed Both stated as "registered specialist orthodontist"; Sara Waldenström's bio adds "dental degree + 3 years of specialist training, focus on aligners and aesthetic orthodontics". [s1] | 2/2 |
| ? | Real clinic photos | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Service list published Aligners, metal, ceramic and lingual braces described on the homepage. [s1] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Clear contact details [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | English website version Full English site explicitly targeting "English-speaking specialists" / English-speaking patients. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Address and map published Street address published by the clinic and confirmed on the Google place record for the same phone number. [s1] [gmap7] | 2/2 |
Price Transparency
Whether patients can estimate costs before visiting. Published price ranges count; exact prices are not required.
| ✓ | Prices or price ranges published Corrected by the verifier. The clinic's price page publishes standing fixed prices for each of its four treatment methods - aligners from 25 980 kr, metal braces 34 800 kr, ceramic braces 37 800 kr, lingual braces 54 800 kr - and states what each price includes (consultation, radiography, 3D scan, all check-ups, retainer and Essix). A separate seasonal discount runs alongside it; under the wave's rule a promotion does not disqualify a standing list. [s2] | 3/3 |
| ✗ | Cleaning price listed Specialist orthodontic clinic; no general cleaning service or price found. [s1] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Filling price listed [s1] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Crown price listed [s1] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Implant price listed [s1] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Consultation price listed Consultation fee stated as 1,295 SEK, credited in full if treatment proceeds. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | X-ray / imaging price listed Radiography is priced as part of the published 1 295 kr consultation ("clinical consultation and radiography included from the start"), following the fleet convention that imaging inside a published package counts as a published price. [s2] | 2/2 |
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) Confirmed on the live place page 2026-09-08. Star histogram: 19 five-star, 0 four-star, 0 three-star, 0 two-star, 1 one-star; the buckets sum to 20, exactly the header count, and the weighted mean 4.800 reproduces the published 4.8. The listing's Google category is Orthodontist. [gmapv] [gmpb] | 4/6 |
| ◐ | Google review volume Read from the place-page header 2026-09-08 - the count the worklist asked for, and the answer is itself the finding. The clinic's own pages advertise 4.9 from 290 reviews; the Business Profile Google holds for this address carries 20. The self-published claim overstates the review base by a factor of about fourteen, which is why the clinic's own figure is not adopted anywhere in this card. [gmpb] | 1/3 |
| ✓ | Review recency The newest visible reviews are 2 weeks old. Sample: the 8 reviews the place page's Reviews tab renders in Google's own Most-relevant order; the Newest sort does not open to the extension. [gmpb] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Clinic responds to reviews The owner has replied to all 8 visible reviews. Same relevance-ordered sample. [gmpb] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | No recurring complaints No negative review surfaced in the visible sample and the histogram holds a single one-star: negative mass 1 of 20 = 5.0 per cent. Same relevance-ordered sample. [gmpb] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | No suspicious review patterns Recorded false because nothing in the reviews themselves shows manipulation - different reviewers, different wording, no template. Two observations are disclosed rather than scored: three of the twenty reviews arrived inside the same fortnight, and the clinic advertises a review count fourteen times the one its Business Profile carries. The second is an unverifiable marketing claim rather than evidence of review manipulation, so it is not counted here. [gmpb] | 2/2 |
| ? | Active Facebook presence | 0/1 |
| ? | TripAdvisor presence | 0/0.5 |
| ? | Other review platforms | 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 Specialist orthodontic practice; implants are outside its stated scope. [s1] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Orthodontics [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✗ | Oral surgery [s1] | 0/2 |
| ? | Pediatric dentistry | 0/1.5 |
| ✗ | Emergency care [s1] | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | Works with international patients Full English site explicitly for English-speaking patients. [s1] | 2/2 |
Communication & Service
How easy it is to contact the clinic, get answers, and book - especially for international patients.
AI & Search Visibility
Whether the clinic is discoverable when patients search - including via AI assistants. Checked with fixed queries: "best dentist Sweden", "English speaking dentist Sweden", "dental implants Sweden", "emergency dentist Sweden", "Sweden dental clinic for expats".
| ✗ | Mentioned for: best dentist Sweden [av1] | 0/1 |
| ✓ | Mentioned for: English speaking dentist Sweden AV pass: gotadental.se present, rank 5, for "English speaking dentist Gothenburg" (this query had enough genuine Gothenburg, Sweden results to be usable, unlike the off-target "emergency" query). [av1] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: dental implants Sweden [av1] | 0/1 |
| ? | Mentioned for: emergency dentist Sweden SERP off-target (namesake towns) - see stigbergstandlakarna-gothenburg for the shared explanation; applies to every Gothenburg card. | 0/1 |
| ? | Mentioned for: Sweden dental clinic for expats The "dental clinic for expats" query was run only for each country's first research city (Stockholm) in the wave-5 AV pass; not run for Gothenburg. | 0/1 |
| ✓ | Structured data on website [s1] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ? | Google indexing quality Not evaluated - SearXNG public instances returned HTTP 429 on every attempt; WebSearch reserved for canonical queries. | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Dedicated service pages The site indexes about 390 URLs, including individual pages per treatment method and per cost question (aligner price, ceramic braces, lingual braces, retainer price, treatment for adults, treatment for children and others). [s1] [s2] | 1.5/1.5 |
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. |
|---|---|---|
| Jilah Qaljaee [s1] | Registered specialist orthodontist; Founder | not verified |
| Sara Waldenström [s1] | Registered specialist orthodontist; dental degree plus 3 years of specialist training, focus on aligners and aesthetic orthodontics | not verified |
Dentists are named; their licence numbers have not been checked against public sources yet — unverified, no penalty.
Red Flags
- low Aggressive marketing practices (-1 pts) — Self-published aggregate rating the live record does not support. The clinic’s own site advertises "4,9 from 290 reviews"; its Google Business record, opened in a browser on 2026-09-08, carries 4.8 from 20 — an advertised review count fourteen times the real one. No figure from the clinic’s own widget was adopted into this card; the rating and count recorded here are the live ones. [s1] [gmpb]
Red-flag penalty applied: -1 points (capped at -20).
Data We Could Not Verify
- Information Transparency: Real clinic photos
- Reputation & Reviews: Active Facebook presence
- Reputation & Reviews: TripAdvisor presence
- Reputation & Reviews: Other review platforms
- Medical Infrastructure: On-site X-ray
- Medical Infrastructure: CBCT (3D imaging)
- Medical Infrastructure: Pediatric dentistry
- Communication & Service: WhatsApp / LINE available
- Communication & Service: Response speed
- Communication & Service: Convenient opening hours
- AI & Search Visibility: Mentioned for: emergency dentist Sweden
- AI & Search Visibility: Mentioned for: Sweden dental clinic for expats
- AI & Search Visibility: Google indexing quality
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://gotadental.se/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +46 31 713 57 84 |
| Address | Första Långgatan 21, 413 29 Göteborg, Sweden |
Contact details are provided for identification only and may change; verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | https://gotadental.se/en/ | Clinic homepage: named specialist team, services, consultation fee, structured data, English version | 2026-09-07 |
| gmap7 | https://www.google.com/search?tbm=map&q=G%C3%B6ta+Dental+F%C3%B6rst… | Live Google Maps search-preview fetch: address, phone, geo, listed website | 2026-09-07 |
| av1 | search:the five canonical city queries | AV / AV-2 pass canonical-query visibility check (WebSearch, centralized wave-5 pass) | 2026-09-07 |
| s2 | https://gotadental.se/priser/ | The clinic's own standing price page: fixed all-inclusive prices per orthodontic method, the consultation fee, and what the price includes | 2026-09-07 |
| gmapv | https://www.google.com/search?tbm=map&q=G%C3%B6ta+Dental+F%C3%B6rst… | Verifier read of the live Google place preview (tbm=map, hl=sv and hl=en, gl=se): rating, address, phone, geo, listed website, place id | 2026-09-07 |
| gmpb | https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJE9xvbFXzT0YR1UtDl… | Live Google Maps place page opened in a browser (phase I): rating, review count, star histogram, review dates, owner replies, listing category | 2026-09-08 |
Change History
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-09 | Manual red flag aggressive_marketing (low) set at gate E2: the clinic advertises "4,9 from 290 reviews" on its own site against a live Google record of 4.8/20 (phase-I browser pass, 2026-09-08). Same class as the four Taiwanese cards of wave 4 (e-decisions §1.4). suspiciousReviewPatterns stays false — the flag is about what the clinic publishes about itself, not about the reviews it has. |
| 2026-09-08 | Browser reputation pass (I-3): live Google place page opened; the review base behind the 4.8 turns out to be 20, against the 290 the clinic advertises on its own site. Histogram, recency, owner replies, complaint reading and manipulation check recorded, with the advertised-count discrepancy disclosed. |
| 2026-09-07 | Verification pass (D-sweden): the clinic's price page was read and publishes standing fixed prices for all four of its treatment methods, which reverses pricesPublished from false to true; rating 4.8 read from the live Google place preview, which does not corroborate the clinic's self-advertised 4.9/290 - the self-reported figure stays out of the scored fields; the orphaned map source is now attached to the address field it supports. |
| 2026-09-07 | Initial data collection: clinic website plus a live non-browser Google Maps search-preview fetch. The clinic's own self-reported "4.9 from 290 reviews" claim was not corroborated by the non-browser Maps fetch and was left out of the scored rating fields pending a browser place-page visit. |
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