OptiSmile Advanced Dentistry and Implant Centre
According to our open methodology, this clinic scored 61.7/100 for transparency, reputation, service accessibility, and digital visibility.
Overall rank: #2 of 17 ranked clinics · Last checked: 7 September 2026
Positions by Rating Profile
- Overall Transparency & Trust#261.7/100
- Best for Expats#358/100
- Best for Dental Implants#253.5/100
- Best for Emergency Dental Carenot ranked
- Best Price Transparency#343.7/100
- Best English-speaking Clinics#362.8/100
- 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 No GA/sedation info found; site mentions Optisleep mandibular advancement device (snoring), not sedation.
Summary
Multi-service cosmetic and implant dental practice in Sea Point led by Dr Clifford Yudelman. Offers digital implant planning, Invisalign, veneers and whitening. Website publishes services and dentist information but not prices. Reported high volume of Google reviews.
Strengths
- Information Transparency: 20 of 20 points.
- Reputation & Reviews: 19 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.
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) Star histogram read live on 2026-09-07 from the place page: 481 five-star, 4 four-star, 1 three-star, 1 two-star, 6 one-star. The buckets sum to 493, matching the 493 in the place-page header exactly, and the weighted mean 4.933 reproduces the published 4.9. [gmp1] | 6/6 |
| ◐ | Google review volume Read live on 2026-09-07 from the place-page header; the star histogram sums to the same figure. The card previously held 492, read on 2026-08-25 — the listing has grown by 1 since. [gmp1] | 2.5/3 |
| ✓ | Review recency The newest review visible is 1 month old, which proves the within-3-months bucket and no better; the Newest sort does not open to automation in Maps, so the true newest review may be more recent than this. Sample: the 3 reviews Google Maps renders on the place page in its own relevance order. [gmp1] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Clinic responds to reviews The owner replied to all three reviews Google renders, and the replies are individually written — each one answers the specific treatment the patient describes rather than repeating a template. Sample: the 3 reviews Google Maps renders on the place page in its own relevance order. [gmp1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | No recurring complaints No repeated complaint theme appears in the visible sample: all three reviews are five-star and none is critical. The unread negative tail is 6 one-star and 1 two-star rating out of 493 — 1.4 per cent of the base. Sample: the 3 reviews Google Maps renders on the place page in its own relevance order. [gmp1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | No suspicious review patterns The 481/4/1/1/6 spread carries reviews in every one of the five buckets, the three visible reviewers hold 6, 1 and 3 reviews of their own, and their dates span one to two months with different procedures described (a general consultation, injection-moulded composite bonding, and bonding plus a mandibular advancement device). Sample: the 3 reviews Google Maps renders on the place page in its own relevance order. [gmp1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Active Facebook presence [s1] | 1/1 |
| ? | TripAdvisor presence | 0/0.5 |
| ✓ | Other review platforms [s1] | 0.5/0.5 |
Medical Infrastructure
The range of publicly documented equipment and services. This measures documented availability, not clinical quality.
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 Cape Town", "English speaking dentist Cape Town", "dental implants Cape Town", "emergency dentist Cape Town", "Cape Town dental clinic for expats".
| ? | Mentioned for: best dentist Cape Town | 0/1 |
| ? | Mentioned for: English speaking dentist Cape Town | 0/1 |
| ? | Mentioned for: dental implants Cape Town | 0/1 |
| ? | Mentioned for: emergency dentist Cape Town | 0/1 |
| ? | Mentioned for: Cape Town dental clinic for expats | 0/1 |
| ? | Structured data on website | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | Google indexing quality [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Dedicated service pages [s1] | 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. |
|---|---|---|
| Dr Clifford Yudelman [s1] [optismile-advanced-dentistry-and-implant-centre-doclic] | Cosmetic and implant dentistry | DP 0042919 (HPCSA, Register: DENTIST, status: ACTIVE) |
Red Flags
No red flags identified in the public sources we reviewed.
Data We Could Not Verify
- Reputation & Reviews: TripAdvisor presence
- Medical Infrastructure: Oral surgery
- Medical Infrastructure: Pediatric dentistry
- Medical Infrastructure: Emergency care
- Medical Infrastructure: Works with international patients
- Communication & Service: WhatsApp / LINE available
- Communication & Service: Response speed
- Communication & Service: Pre-visit consultation possible
- AI & Search Visibility: Mentioned for: best dentist Cape Town
- AI & Search Visibility: Mentioned for: English speaking dentist Cape Town
- AI & Search Visibility: Mentioned for: dental implants Cape Town
- AI & Search Visibility: Mentioned for: emergency dentist Cape Town
- AI & Search Visibility: Mentioned for: Cape Town dental clinic for expats
- AI & Search Visibility: Structured data on website
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://optismile.co.za/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +27 87 702 6886 |
| https://www.facebook.com/OptiSmile.Dentist.Cape.Town/ | |
| Google Maps | Map listing |
| Address | Suite 303, The Point Mall, 76 Regent Road, Sea Point, Cape Town, 8005 |
Contact details are provided for identification only and may change; verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | https://optismile.co.za/ | name, services, English site, dedicated service pages | 2026-07-14 |
| s2 | https://reviews.birdeye.com/optismile-advanced-dentistry-and-implan… | rating 4.9 and 501 reviews, address, phone | 2026-07-14 |
| optismile-advanced-dentistry-and-implant-centre-refresh | https://www.google.com/maps/place/OptiSmile+Advanced+Dentistry+and+… | most recent review 4 weeks ago (Sean van Kerckhoven) | 2026-08-25 |
| optismile-advanced-dentistry-and-implant-centre-doclic | https://hpcsaonline.custhelp.com/app/i_reg_form | searched: surname=Yudelman (wildcard), register=DENTIST -> DR. YUDELMAN CLIFFORD ALAN, DP 0042919, Cape Town 8060, ACTIVE | 2026-08-25 |
| gmp1 | https://www.google.com/maps/place/OptiSmile+Advanced+Dentistry+and+… | The clinic’s Google Maps place page — the one this card already records as contacts.googleMapsUrl — opened and read live in a real browser on 2026-09-07: star rating, review-count header, full star histogram read from the accessibility labels, review dates, review content and owner replies. The listing opens as «OptiSmile Advanced Dentistry and Implant Centre» and publishes optismile.co.za and +27 87 702 6886. Provenance: owner-managed — no «Claim this business» prompt, a Services section published on the listing, and owner replies under all three visible reviews. | 2026-09-07 |
Change History
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-07 | Reputation block measured live on 2026-09-07, which opened this clinic’s Google Maps place page in a real browser. The manual browser check could not reach these ten cards: they enter the country directory southafrica-dental as twins of this city site, carry no entry in data/research/*.json, and import-research.js therefore left them untouched, so their respondsToReviews, recurringComplaints and suspiciousReviewPatterns had never been assessed at all. Written now: googleRating 4.9 → 4.9; googleReviewCount 492 → 493 (histogram 481/4/1/1/6 = 493, weighted mean 4.933); reviewRecency within_3_months (unchanged, re-proved); respondsToReviews null → true; recurringComplaints null → false; suspiciousReviewPatterns null → false. The histogram sums to the place-page header count exactly and its weighted mean reproduces the published rating to one decimal. Fields this pass did not measure are untouched. The country twin on southafrica-dental was re-synchronised from this card in the same step; the two copies are identical except for the twin’s city key. |
| 2026-08-25 | License verification 2026-08-25 against HPCSA iRegister: found active registration for Dr Clifford Yudelman (DP 0042919, Cape Town). |
| 2026-08-25 | Re-verification 2026-08-25: confirmed website live, address, phone and open status; recorded Google rating 4.9 (was 4.9) with review count 492 (was 501 - decreased, likely a review-cleanup by Google). |
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