National Dental Care North Adelaide Village
According to our open methodology, this clinic scored 58.9/100 for transparency, reputation, service accessibility, and digital visibility.
Overall rank: #23 of 33 ranked clinics · Last checked: 10 September 2026
Positions by Rating Profile
- Overall Transparency & Trust#2358.9/100
- Best for Expats#2256.5/100
- Best for Dental Implants#2354/100
- Best for Emergency Dental Care#2258.5/100
- Best Price Transparency#2639.8/100
- Best English-speaking Clinics#2260/100
- Best for Families / Children#2061.3/100
- 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
North Adelaide branch of the National Dental Care network (operated by NDC Australia Pty Ltd, ABN 49 162 955 866), a short walk from the Adelaide CBD. The location page names a large multilingual team of 14 dentists led by Dr Rodrigo Ramos, plus an oral health therapist and hygienists, with the practice stating it speaks English, Portuguese, Italian, Gujarati, Hindi, Mandarin, Punjabi, Farsi, Chinese, Hokkien and Malay between them. It is open seven days a week, including Saturday and Sunday, but its only pricing disclosure is a time-limited new-patient checkup offer rather than a standing price list.
Strengths
- Information Transparency: 16 of 20 points.
- Reputation & Reviews: 17 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)
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 14 dentists individually named on the location homepage, led by Dr Rodrigo Ramos. [s1] | 3/3 |
| ✗ | Dentist specializations listed Every dentist carries only the generic title "Dentist" (or "Oral Health Therapist"/"Hygienist"); no individual specialization is stated for any of them. [s1] | 0/2 |
| ? | Real clinic photos | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Service list published General Dentistry, Cosmetic Dentistry, Emergency Dental, Beyond Teeth categories, plus a dedicated Treatments page listing Same-Day Dental (CEREC), Kids Dental, Whitening, Check-ups, Periodontics, Endodontics, Fillings, Mouthguards, Extractions, Veneers, Implants. [s1] [s2] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Clear contact details [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | English website version [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Address and map published [s1] [sm] | 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 Only a time-limited "New Patient Offer" (no-gap or $199 checkup, normally $272) is advertised — a promotional price, not a standing price list for three or more services. [s1] | 0/3 |
| ✗ | Cleaning price listed Only covered by the promotional new-patient checkup bundle, not a standing price. [s1] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Filling price listed [s1] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Crown price listed [s1] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Implant price listed [s1] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Consultation price listed Only the promotional new-patient bundle carries a figure. [s1] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | X-ray / imaging price listed X-rays only appear inside the promotional new-patient bundle. [s1] | 0/2 |
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) Read live from the clinic's Google Maps place page 2026-09-10 (automated two-step place read, name/address/phone cross-checked against the clinic's own site). Star histogram read from the same place page: 1*=18, 2*=0, 3*=4, 4*=8, 5*=379 — sums to 409, which reconciles with the header count, and its weighted mean reproduces the displayed rating. [sm] | 6/6 |
| ◐ | Google review volume Header count on the Google Maps place page, 2026-09-10. [sm] | 2.5/3 |
| ✓ | Review recency Newest customer review rendered on the place page is three months old. [sm] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Clinic responds to reviews The owner replies to reviews on Google: 10 of the 10 reviews read carry an owner reply, 8 of them to reviews from the last 12 months; the latest reply is dated 2026-09-30 (to a review of 2026-09-30). [national-dental-care-north-adelaide-r6rep] [sm] | 2/2 |
| ✗ | No recurring complaints Of 426 Google reviews, 18 are one- or two-star (4.2 %); four of the five lowest-rated (2025-2026) describe booking and administration failures: appointments cancelled or never recorded, a 40-minute wait, an admin error that cost over $600 (read 2026-10-02). [national-dental-care-north-adelaide-r6rep] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | No suspicious review patterns No five-star cluster and no repeated wording in the 10 Google reviews read (2025-04-03 to 2026-09-30); 6 are from accounts with other reviews of their own (read 2026-10-02). [national-dental-care-north-adelaide-r6rep] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Active Facebook presence Location-specific Facebook page linked: facebook.com/ndc.northadelaide (plus the corporate facebook.com/nationaldentalcare). [s1] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | TripAdvisor presence No TripAdvisor listing found via its search for the clinic's name and a short form of it; the clinic's site does not link to TripAdvisor (checked 2026-10-02 and 2026-10-05). [national-dental-care-north-adelaide-tripadvisor] [national-dental-care-north-adelaide-tripadvisor-2] | 0/0.5 |
| ✓ | Other review platforms HealthEngine booking profile managed by the practice: live online booking and a roster naming its dentists; the rating it shows is Google's (checked 2026-10-02). [national-dental-care-north-adelaide-oop-5] | 0.5/0.5 |
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 listed among popular treatments. [s2] | 2/2 |
| ? | Orthodontics | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Oral surgery The branch treatments page lists Tooth Extractions among its treatments, and the branch's own Google Business Profile is categorised as a dental clinic offering emergency dental service. [s2] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Pediatric dentistry "Kids Dental" is both a featured and a popular treatment, and the FAQ confirms family/children's services. [s1] [s2] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ✓ | Emergency care "Emergency Dental" is a top-level treatment category, and a dedicated FAQ confirms emergency dental care is offered. [s1] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ✓ | Works with international patients Languages spoken listed as "English, Portuguese, Italian, Gujarati, Hindi, Mandarin, Punjabi, Farsi, Chinese, Hokkien, Malay." [s1] | 2/2 |
Communication & Service
How easy it is to contact the clinic, get answers, and book - especially for international patients.
| ✗ | WhatsApp / LINE available [s1] | 0/2 |
| ? | Response speed | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | English spoken [s1] | 2.5/2.5 |
| ? | Pre-visit consultation possible | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | Clear service explanations [s1] [s2] | 1/1 |
| ✓ | Convenient opening hours Open Saturday and Sunday (8:30-4:00) in addition to weekdays, with a late Thursday (until 7:00pm). [s1] | 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 Australia", "English speaking dentist Australia", "dental implants Australia", "emergency dentist Australia", "Australia dental clinic for expats".
| ✗ | Mentioned for: best dentist Australia Absent from the top 10 for this canonical query in the AI-visibility pass. The initial data collection left this unchecked; the verification pass recorded the finding. [sq-adelaide] | 0/1 |
| ✓ | Mentioned for: English speaking dentist Australia Rank 3 of 10 for "English speaking dentist Adelaide" (web search, 2026-09-10): the location's own team-member page for Dr Marcio Maia ("fluent in Portuguese, English, and Spanish"). [sq-adelaide] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: dental implants Australia Absent from the top 10 for this canonical query in the AI-visibility pass. The initial data collection left this unchecked; the verification pass recorded the finding. [sq-adelaide] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: emergency dentist Australia Absent from the top 10 for this canonical query in the AI-visibility pass. The initial data collection left this unchecked; the verification pass recorded the finding. [sq-adelaide] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: Australia dental clinic for expats Absent from the top 10 for this canonical query in the AI-visibility pass. The initial data collection left this unchecked; the verification pass recorded the finding. [sq-adelaide] | 0/1 |
| ✓ | Structured data on website The location page serves a schema.org JSON-LD Dentist block. [s1] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ✓ | Google indexing quality A branch team-member page ranks #3 of 10 for the canonical "English speaking dentist Adelaide" query, and the branch has nine indexed treatment pages under its own /north-adelaide/ path. [sq-adelaide] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Dedicated service pages Treatments page (/north-adelaide/treatments) is a distinct URL from the homepage. [s2] | 1.5/1.5 |
Ranking leaders in AI answers
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Measured by Ansmeter, 7 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. |
|---|---|---|
| Dr Rodrigo Ramos [s1] | Lead Dentist | not verified |
| Dr Amanda Santos [s1] | Dentist | not verified |
| Dr Annie Do [s1] | Dentist | not verified |
| Dr Marcio Maia [s1] | Dentist (fluent in Portuguese, English and Spanish) | not verified |
| Dr Frank Sergi [s1] | Dentist | not verified |
| Dr Gurpreet Kaur [s1] | Dentist | not verified |
| Dr Jainy Shah [s1] | Dentist | not verified |
| Dr Kimia Amirzadeh [s1] | Dentist | not verified |
| Dr Krishna Girija [s1] | Dentist | not verified |
| Dr Lucy Ryan [s1] | Dentist | not verified |
| Dr Shweta Malik [s1] | Dentist | not verified |
| Dr Veena Jain [s1] | Dentist | not verified |
| Dr Yao Quan Ng [s1] | Dentist | not verified |
| Dr Maryam Jaberi [s1] | Dentist | not verified |
| Dr Joshua Chong [s1] | Oral Health Therapist | 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
- Medical Infrastructure: On-site X-ray
- Medical Infrastructure: CBCT (3D imaging)
- Medical Infrastructure: Orthodontics
- Communication & Service: Response speed
- Communication & Service: Pre-visit consultation possible
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.nationaldentalcare.com.au/north-adelaide |
|---|---|
| Phone | +61 8 8267 2578 |
| https://www.facebook.com/ndc.northadelaide | |
| Google Maps | Map listing |
| Address | North Adelaide Village, Shop 34, 67 O'Connell Street, North Adelaide SA 5006, Australia |
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.nationaldentalcare.com.au/north-adelaide | Location homepage: team roster, languages, hours, address, phone, Facebook, new-patient offer | 2026-09-10 |
| s2 | https://www.nationaldentalcare.com.au/north-adelaide/treatments | Distinct treatments page | 2026-09-10 |
| sm | https://www.google.com/maps?cid=15810038558149839844&hl=en | Google Maps place page (automated two-step read 2026-09-10) resolves the multi-suite ambiguity the initial data collection flagged: profile name "National Dental Care North Adelaide Village", address Shop 34/67 O'Connell St, phone (08) 8267 2578 and the branch's own URL all match, ftid 0x6ab0c8d794a4db79:0xdb688a4dafc00be4. Carries coordinates, rating 4.8, 409 reviews, star histogram and owner replies. | 2026-09-10 |
| sq-adelaide | search:best dentist Adelaide Australia / English speaking dentist Adelaide / dental implants Adelaide / emergency dentist Adelaide / Adelaide dental clinic for expats | AI/search visibility scout — five canonical search queries for Adelaide | 2026-09-10 |
| reg1 | https://www.sahealth.sa.gov.au/wps/wcm/connect/Public+Content/SA+He… | SA Health "Licensed private hospitals and day procedure centres" register (Health Care Act 2008) — live, searchable, sortable HTML table, 56 entries, snapshot "Last updated: Fri 4 September 2026"; verified live in-browser 2026-09-10 (a direct page read of this JS-rendered table returns only an empty shell, confirmed independently on 2026-09-10) and merged into our registry research for Australia (scope: clinics, access: open). | 2026-09-10 |
| national-dental-care-north-adelaide-oop-5 | https://healthengine.com.au/dentist/sa/north-adelaide/national-dent… | HealthEngine, read 2026-10-02: booking profile "National Dental Care North Adelaide Village", Shop 34, 67 O'Connell Street, North Adelaide (the clinic's address), with live online booking ("Last booking via Healthengine was made 27 minutes ago") and a practitioner roster naming Dr Amanda Santos and Dr Rodrigo Ramos, dentists of this practice; presence rests on the booking and roster, while the rating shown (4.8 from 417) is the Google rating, with no HealthEngine reviews | 2026-10-02 |
| national-dental-care-north-adelaide-r6rep | https://www.google.com/maps?cid=15810038558149839844&hl=en | Google listing "National Dental Care North Adelaide Village", read 2026-10-02 with its reviews sorted lowest first and newest first: rating 4.8 from 426 reviews, histogram 18 one-star, 0 two-star, 4 three-star, 8 four-star, 396 five-star; 10 distinct reviews read (dated 2025-04-03 to 2026-09-30), 10 with an owner reply; the lowest-rated reviews read are dated 2025-2026. | 2026-10-02 |
| national-dental-care-north-adelaide-tripadvisor | https://www.tripadvisor.com/TypeAheadJson?action=API&details=true&q… | TripAdvisor's own search, read 2026-10-02: 12 suggestions for "National Dental Care North Adelaide Village Adelaide" (12 places), none of them a dental practice in or near Adelaide; 12 suggestions for "National North Village" (12 places), none of them a dental practice in or near Adelaide; no listing for this clinic | 2026-10-02 |
| national-dental-care-north-adelaide-tripadvisor-2 | https://www.nationaldentalcare.com.au/north-adelaide | Clinic's website, the page at this address 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 | Review-platform presence checked on 2026-10-02: managed HealthEngine booking profile counted. |
| 2026-10-02 | Reputation check 2026-10-02 on the clinic's Google listing (10 reviews read): recurring complaints yes, suspicious review patterns no. |
| 2026-09-10 | Adversarial verification: the multi-suite CID ambiguity the initial data collection could not resolve was resolved by the automated place read (name, address, phone and branch URL all matched), and the plain search URL was replaced with the branch place link; geo, rating, review count, histogram, recency and owner replies read live; surgery filled from the branch treatments page; structured data, indexing quality and the four remaining canonical queries recorded. |
| 2026-09-10 | Initial data collection for the Australia Dental Transparency & Trust Index (Adelaide): verified via nationaldentalcare.com.au/north-adelaide, automated Google Maps CID search, the SA Health register, and the five canonical AI-visibility queries. |
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