Rhône Dental Clinic
According to our open methodology, this clinic scored 80/100 for transparency, reputation, service accessibility, and digital visibility.
Overall rank: #6 of 24 ranked clinics · Last checked: 8 September 2026
80/100
Positions by Rating Profile
- Overall Transparency & Trust#680/100
- Best for Expats#579.8/100
- Best for Dental Implants#774/100
- Best for Emergency Dental Care#777.8/100
- Best Price Transparency#776.1/100
- Best English-speaking Clinics#483/100
- Best for Families / Children#780.4/100
- 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 The rates page carries a single line, "Analgesic sedation — with the intervention of our anaesthetists, price on quotation"; the depth is not published, so it cannot be read as general anaesthesia or asleep-and-unaware sedation.
Summary
Multidisciplinary dental clinic on Rue du Rhône in central Geneva, headed by Dr Christophe Gachet, whose Geneva cantonal practice authorisation is recorded in the federal MedReg register at this exact address. The clinic publishes a bilingual French/English site with a permanent rates page, a named team with stated specialities and dedicated pages per treatment.
Strengths
- Information Transparency: 20 of 20 points.
- Reputation & Reviews: 19.5 of 20 points.
- Communication & Service: 8.5 of 10 points.
- No red flags identified in public sources.
Weaknesses
No category fell below the weakness threshold (50% of verifiable points).
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
20 / 20
Whether basic facts about the clinic - its team, premises, services, and location - are publicly verifiable.
| ✓ | Has a working website Read live 2026-09-07: HTTP 200 with real clinic content (opening hours, phone, treatment navigation, team), not a placeholder or cookie wall. [s1] | 4/4 |
| ✓ | Dentist names listed The clinic's own team page names Dr Christophe Gachet (head of clinic), Dr Carl Merheb (clinic manager / associate), Dr Nikolaos Angelakopoulos, Dr Pamela Maggio and Dr Thierry Thomas (posturologist). [s3] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Dentist specializations listed Each named practitioner carries a stated speciality and diploma list on the clinic's own team page (cosmetic and micro-invasive dentistry, endodontics and pediatric dentistry, occlusodontics and posturology, certificates in fixed prosthetics, forensic odontology and periodontology). [s3] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Real clinic photos Settled in a browser on 2026-09-08. The clinic page, whose imagery arrives through CSS backgrounds and lazy scripts and so was invisible to the automated read, renders photographs of this practice's own rooms: a treatment room with its unit and chair at a window over the Rhône and Lake Geneva, matching the clinic's own description of an apartment setting with those views. Its Google profile's lead image, by contrast, is a branded marketing card and was not used. [b1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Service list published The clinic's own navigation publishes a concrete treatment list with a page per item: dental check-up, implants, micro-invasive dentistry, endodontics, wisdom-tooth extraction, periodontology, occlusodontology, amalgam removal, prostheses, bruxism, orthodontics, hygienist, veneers, Invisalign, whitening. [s1] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Clear contact details Phone +41 22 310 50 77, a WhatsApp link and an online booking route are published in the site header on every page and repeated on the contact page; the number matches the Google place record and the MedReg practice address entry. [s1] [s4] [m3] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | English website version Full EN/FR site with a language switcher; the English tree (/en/) carries the same treatment, team and rates pages as the French one. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Address and map published The clinic's own contact page publishes the street address and access details; the address matches the Google place record and the practice address held in MedReg. [s4] | 2/2 |
Price Transparency
9 / 15
Whether patients can estimate costs before visiting. Published price ranges count; exact prices are not required.
| ✓ | Prices or price ranges published Permanent rates page (not a promotion): diagnosis CHF 115, consultation with orthodontic analysis CHF 150, dental scaling from CHF 170, whitening from CHF 650, veneers from CHF 650, two-sided filling from CHF 290, amalgam removal with composite reconstruction from CHF 600, plus a separate aesthetic-medicine tariff list. [s2] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Cleaning price listed "Dental Scaling starting from CHF 170.-" on the clinic's own rates page. [s2] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Filling price listed "Cavities with 2-sided filling starting from CHF 290.-" on the clinic's own rates page. [s2] | 2/2 |
| ✗ | Crown price listed The rates page was read in full; prostheses and crowns are not priced there, they fall under "Implants and prosthetic solutions — prices on quotation". [s2] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Implant price listed The rates page states "Implants and prosthetic solutions — Prices on quotation", i.e. no figure or range is published. [s2] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Consultation price listed "Diagnosis CHF 115.-" and "Consultation with Orthodontic Analysis ... CHF 150.-" on the clinic's own rates page. [s2] | 2/2 |
| ✗ | X-ray / imaging price listed No radiography line appears anywhere on the published rates page. [s2] | 0/2 |
Reputation & Reviews
19.5 / 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) Re-read live on the place page in a browser on 2026-09-08 and unchanged at 4.9. The star histogram's weighted mean, 4.923, reproduces the published figure. [gmp1] [gmpb] | 6/6 |
| ✓ | Google review volume Headline count read on the place page in a browser on 2026-09-08 — the largest base in the country. The histogram is labelled in thousands and sums to the same figure: 1,440 five-star, 20 four-star, 1 three-star, 3 two-star and 21 one-star = 1,485. [gmpb] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Review recency Browser 2026-09-08, 8 visible reviews, sort: Google's own "Most relevant" order. The newest visible review is one month old and six of the eight are under five months. [gmpb] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Clinic responds to reviews Owner replies to reviews on the Google listing: 1 of the 5 newest reviews answered, owner reply dated 2026-09-24 (read 2026-09-29). [rhone-dental-clinic-geneva-gbp-2026-09-29] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | No recurring complaints Browser 2026-09-08, 8 visible reviews, sort "Most relevant": no negative account surfaced and no repeated theme is readable. One-star and two-star ratings together are 24 of 1,485, or 1.6 per cent of the base. [gmpb] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | No suspicious review patterns Browser 2026-09-08: histogram 1,440/20/1/3/21 with a mean of 4.923 against a published 4.9; a twenty-strong four-star tail and twenty-one one-star ratings sit under the average, dates are spread and the accounts name different clinicians and hygienists. No manipulation signature. [gmpb] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Active Facebook presence The clinic links its own Facebook page facebook.com/rhonedentalclinicgva from its site. [s1] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | TripAdvisor presence No TripAdvisor listing found via its search for "Rhône Dental Clinic Geneva" and "Rhône Dental"; the clinic's site does not link to TripAdvisor (checked 2026-10-05). [rhone-dental-clinic-geneva-tripadvisor] [rhone-dental-clinic-geneva-tripadvisor-2] | 0/0.5 |
| ✓ | Other review platforms A Trustpilot review page exists for rhone-dental-clinic.ch; the clinic is additionally listed on onedoc.ch, local.ch and search.ch. [m2] | 0.5/0.5 |
Medical Infrastructure
9 / 15
The range of publicly documented equipment and services. This measures documented availability, not clinical quality.
| ? | On-site X-ray Checked in a browser on 2026-09-08 on the clinic page and the laboratory page, both rendered and scrolled: neither documents radiography of any kind. The laboratory page is about the in-house ceramics laboratory — master ceramists, veneers, crowns, traceability — and names no imaging. The clinic's Google categories do not include dental radiology either. Absence of documentation is not absence of equipment, so the field stays an honest null with the search now closed. | 0/2 |
| ? | CBCT (3D imaging) Checked in a browser on 2026-09-08 on the clinic page and the laboratory page, both rendered and scrolled: no cone-beam, 3D imaging or tomography is documented anywhere. Left an honest null on the same reasoning as the radiography field. | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Implantology Dedicated page /en/dental-care/dental-implants/ published by the clinic. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Orthodontics Dedicated orthodontist and Invisalign pages published by the clinic. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Oral surgery Dedicated page for wisdom-tooth extraction; the Google place record additionally lists periodontist and oral-care categories. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Pediatric dentistry Dedicated page /en/dental-care/paediatric-dental-clinic/ published by the clinic; the Google place record also carries the "Pediatric dentist" category. [s1] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ✓ | Emergency care Dedicated page /en/contact/dental-emergencies/ published by the clinic; the Google place record carries the "Emergency dental service" category. [s4] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ? | Works with international patients The rendered team page was read to its end in a browser on 2026-09-08: it publishes every practitioner with title, memberships and clinical specialities, and it publishes no list of languages spoken and no international-patient statement. The delivered HTML carries only a WPML language switcher. The question the open question asked is therefore answered — the clinic states nothing — and the field stays null while the methodology-level bar for this criterion is open. | 0/2 |
Communication & Service
8.5 / 10
How easy it is to contact the clinic, get answers, and book - especially for international patients.
| ✓ | WhatsApp / LINE available A working WhatsApp link (api.whatsapp.com/send?phone=41796508000) with a pre-filled consultation message is in the site header. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ? | Response speed No response-time data available in this pass. | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | English spoken The clinic runs a complete English version of its own site, including treatment, team and rates pages. [s1] | 2.5/2.5 |
| ✓ | Pre-visit consultation possible The clinic publishes an online booking route, a separate hygienist booking route and a "Get a call back" request form. [s1] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ✓ | Clear service explanations Each treatment has its own page describing the procedure in plain language rather than a single generic list. [s1] | 1/1 |
| ✓ | Convenient opening hours Hours published on the clinic's own Google Business record run 8 AM–7 PM, i.e. into the evening; the site carries an opening-hours link in the header. [gmp1] | 1.5/1.5 |
AI & Search Visibility
6 / 10
Whether the clinic is discoverable when patients search - including via AI assistants. Checked with fixed queries: "best dentist Switzerland", "English speaking dentist Switzerland", "dental implants Switzerland", "emergency dentist Switzerland", "Switzerland dental clinic for expats".
| ✗ | Mentioned for: best dentist Switzerland Web search results for "best dentist Geneva Switzerland" collected centrally on 2026-09-07 (AI-visibility pass; the query was re-run with a country qualifier because the first run was dominated by namesake towns in the United States). Neither the clinic's domain nor its name appears in the returned list. [bsq1] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: English speaking dentist Switzerland Web search results for "English speaking dentist Geneva" collected centrally on 2026-09-07. All ten returned results are on-target for Geneva, Switzerland, so this is a checked negative rather than an off-target SERP; the clinic does not appear. [bsq2] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: dental implants Switzerland Web search results for "dental implants Geneva Switzerland" collected centrally on 2026-09-07 (re-run with a country qualifier). The clinic does not appear in the returned list. [bsq3] | 0/1 |
| ✓ | Mentioned for: emergency dentist Switzerland Web search results for "emergency dentist Geneva" collected centrally on 2026-09-07. The clinic's own emergency page rhone-dental-clinic.ch/en/contact/dental-emergencies/ is returned at rank 2. [bsq4] | 1/1 |
| ? | Mentioned for: Switzerland dental clinic for expats Query not run in the AI-visibility pass: the query budget ran the expats query only for the first research city of each country, which for Switzerland was Zurich. | 0/1 |
| ✓ | Structured data on website One schema.org JSON-LD block per page carrying Organization, WebSite, WebPage and BreadcrumbList types. [s1] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ✓ | Google indexing quality A name search returns the clinic's own domain at ranks 1, 2, 4, 6, 8 and 15 of twenty, covering home, contact, team, clinic and treatment pages, alongside its own Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube channels (web search 2026-09-07). [giq1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Dedicated service pages Individual pages exist for implants, endodontics, periodontology, orthodontics, veneers, Invisalign, whitening, paediatric dentistry and wisdom-tooth extraction. [s1] | 1.5/1.5 |
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.
- #1ZurichDental Bahnhofplatz17.8 of 100View report → report in German
- #2CHD Clinique d'Hygiène Dentaire Genève Cornavin46.3 of 100View report → report in German
- #3Clinique Dentaire de Chantepoulet29.2 of 100View report → report in German
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 & MedReg records
| Dentist | Specialization | MedReg No. | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dr Christophe Gachet [reg1] | Head of the clinic; cosmetic dentistry, heavy-metal decontamination, dental phobia | MedReg 60524, GLN 7601000850621 | Cantonal authorisation active; the specialist title is a recognised foreign one, not a Swiss federal title. |
| Dr Carl Merheb [reg1] [rhone-dental-clinic-geneva-doclic] | Clinic manager / associate; cosmetic and micro-invasive dentistry | MedReg 81222 | Cantonal authorisation to practise under own responsibility: granted and active, no restrictions. |
| Dr Nikolaos Angelakopoulos [reg1] [rhone-dental-clinic-geneva-doclic] | Endodontics and pediatric dentistry | MedReg 81303 | Cantonal authorisation to practise under own responsibility: granted and active, no restrictions. |
| Dr Pamela Maggio [reg1] [rhone-dental-clinic-geneva-doclic] | Dental doctor | MedReg 120610 | Cantonal authorisation to practise under own responsibility: granted and active, no restrictions. |
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
- AI & Search Visibility: Mentioned for: Switzerland 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://rhone-dental-clinic.ch/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +41 22 310 50 77 |
| +41 79 650 80 00 | |
| https://www.facebook.com/rhonedentalclinicgva/ | |
| Google Maps | Map listing |
| Address | Rue du Rhône 29, 1204 Genève, Switzerland |
Contact details are provided for identification only and may change; verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | https://rhone-dental-clinic.ch/en/ | Clinic website (English version): live body content, service navigation, contacts, WhatsApp link, structured data | 2026-09-07 |
| s2 | https://rhone-dental-clinic.ch/en/rates-dentist-geneva/ | Published permanent rates page: scaling, filling, consultation, whitening, veneers, sedation line, implants on quotation | 2026-09-07 |
| s3 | https://rhone-dental-clinic.ch/en/our-team/ | Named dentists with stated specialities and diplomas | 2026-09-07 |
| s4 | https://rhone-dental-clinic.ch/en/contact/ | Address, opening-hours link and dedicated dental-emergency route | 2026-09-07 |
| gmp1 | https://www.google.com/maps/place/Rhone+Dental+Clinic,+Rue+du+Rh%C3… | Live Google Maps place record: rating, address, phone, website, categories, opening hours and pin coordinates | 2026-09-07 |
| reg1 | https://www.healthreg-public.admin.ch/medreg/search | MedReg, the federal statutory register of the medical professions (FOPH): dentist records with GLN, diploma and the cantonal authorisation to practise | 2026-09-07 |
| reg2 | https://www.healthreg-public.admin.ch/betreg/search | BetReg, the federal facility module: queried for dental entities in Genève, zero results (coverage follows narcotics authorisations, so absence is not evidence) | 2026-09-07 |
| m2 | https://www.trustpilot.com/review/rhone-dental-clinic.ch | Independent review-platform presence | 2026-09-07 |
| m3 | https://www.local.ch/fr/d/geneve/1204/clinique-dentaire/rhone-denta… | Independent directory listing confirming name, address and telephone | 2026-09-07 |
| bsq1 | search:best dentist Geneva Switzerland | Canonical visibility query, web search, AI-visibility pass | 2026-09-07 |
| bsq2 | search:English speaking dentist Geneva | Canonical visibility query, web search, AI-visibility pass | 2026-09-07 |
| bsq3 | search:dental implants Geneva Switzerland | Canonical visibility query, web search, AI-visibility pass | 2026-09-07 |
| bsq4 | search:emergency dentist Geneva | Canonical visibility query, web search, AI-visibility pass | 2026-09-07 |
| giq1 | search:"Rhone Dental Clinic" Geneve | Name search used to judge indexing quality of the clinic's own pages | 2026-09-07 |
| gmpb | https://www.google.com/maps/place/x/@46.2043286,6.1474876,17z/data=… | Live Google Maps place page opened in a browser on 2026-09-08: headline rating and review count, the five star-histogram buckets, eight most-relevant reviews with star values, dates and owner-reply state, and the full published week of opening hours | 2026-09-08 |
| b1 | https://rhone-dental-clinic.ch/en/the-clinic/ | The clinic page rendered in a browser: photographs of the practice's own treatment rooms overlooking the Rhône and Lake Geneva, its equipment and its own signage | 2026-09-08 |
| b2 | https://rhone-dental-clinic.ch/en/our-team/ | The team page rendered and scrolled to its end in a browser: every practitioner with title, memberships and clinical specialities, and the site footer with the published week of opening hours | 2026-09-08 |
| b3 | https://rhone-dental-clinic.ch/en/laboratory/ | The laboratory page rendered in a browser: the clinic's in-house ceramics laboratory, master ceramists, veneers, crowns and traceability | 2026-09-08 |
| rhone-dental-clinic-geneva-doclic | https://rhone-dental-clinic.ch/notre-equipe/ | Own-site team page names this dentist (read 2026-09-10): "Dr. Christophe Gachet & Dr. Carl Merheb | Médecins Dentistes & Associés à la Rhône Dental Clinic". Independent of the already-cited MedReg federal registry source (reg1); the homepage alone (the only page in the automated read's cache) does not name him. | 2026-09-10 |
| rhone-dental-clinic-geneva-gbp-2026-09-29 | https://www.google.com/maps?cid=4846820402239434797&hl=en | Google listing read on 2026-09-29: rating 4.9 from 1495 reviews; star histogram 1★ 21 / 2★ 3 / 3★ 1 / 4★ 20 / 5★ 1450; newest review dated 2026-09-28; 1 of the 5 newest reviews carry an owner reply, latest dated 2026-09-24. | 2026-09-29 |
| rhone-dental-clinic-geneva-tripadvisor | https://www.tripadvisor.com/TypeAheadJson?action=API&details=true&q… | TripAdvisor's own search, read 2026-10-05: 12 suggestions for "Rhône Dental Clinic Geneva" (3 places, 4 attractions, 5 hotels), none of them a dental practice in or near Geneva; 12 suggestions for "Rhône Dental" (3 places, 4 attractions, 5 hotels), none of them a dental practice in or near Geneva; no listing for this clinic | 2026-10-05 |
| rhone-dental-clinic-geneva-tripadvisor-2 | https://rhone-dental-clinic.ch/ | 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 | TripAdvisor presence checked on 2026-10-05: no listing found for this clinic. |
| 2026-09-29 | Corrected 2026-09-29: owner replies to reviews confirmed on the Google listing (owner reply dated 2026-09-24). |
| 2026-09-10 | Name-verification 2026-09-10: the 3 remaining dentists (already MedReg-licensed on this card) confirmed by name on the clinic's own /notre-equipe/ team page, not in the earlier read's cache; licence values unchanged. |
| 2026-09-09 | Sedation criterion re-read against methodology 1.4.0, which counts only general anaesthesia or deep intravenous sedation where the patient is asleep and unaware. The rates page carries a single line, "Analgesic sedation — with the intervention of our anaesthetists, price on quotation"; the depth is not published, so it cannot be read as general anaesthesia or asleep-and-unaware sedation. The value moves from true to unknown: the earlier reading credited sedation that is not documented as deep enough, and the published wording settles the question neither way. |
| 2026-09-08 | Checked by hand in a browser: place page opened for the reputation block on the country's largest review base (1,485, histogram reconciled); practice photographs settled from the clinic's own rendered clinic page. |
| 2026-09-07 | Adversarial verification: all four MedReg records re-read live and confirmed, including the head of clinic's Geneva authorisation at this address; the local.ch listing re-read and attached to clearContacts; BetReg re-queried for Genève (131 companies, overflow flag false, none dental); the Google place re-read live and the 4.9 rating confirmed. |
| 2026-09-07 | Initial data collection (automated): clinic website read in French and English including the rates and team pages; Google Maps place record read live for rating, categories, hours and coordinates; the four named dentists verified in the federal MedReg register, with the head of clinic's full licence record pulled (GLN, cantonal authorisation, decision date, restrictions, practice address); BetReg queried and found to hold no dental entity in Genève; canonical visibility queries taken from the central AI-visibility pass. Review count, recency, owner replies, complaint reading, manipulation reading and a visual check of clinic photography left null and queued for a manual browser check. |
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