Swiss Dental Clinic Lugano
According to our open methodology, this clinic scored 62.2/100 for transparency, reputation, service accessibility, and digital visibility.
Overall rank: #15 of 24 ranked clinics · Last checked: 8 September 2026
62.2/100
Positions by Rating Profile
- Overall Transparency & Trust#1562.2/100
- Best for Expats#1264.3/100
- Best for Dental Implants#1754.5/100
- Best for Emergency Dental Care#1265/100
- Best Price Transparency#1344.4/100
- Best English-speaking Clinics#1270.5/100
- Best for Families / Childrennot ranked
- Sleep Dentistry (GA / deep sedation)#562.2/100
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) — General anaesthesia / deep sedation documented The practice's anaesthesiology page publishes "anestesia totale" (general anaesthesia) for long oral-surgery procedures running several hours, alongside local anaesthesia and conscious sedation. [s1]
Summary
Lakeside practice on Via Marconi in central Lugano, the second location of the practice Dr Leandro Antonini opened in Tesserete in 1993, with a site published in five languages and Monday-to-Saturday opening from 07:00 to 20:00. The federal MedReg register records his Ticino authorisation at the Tesserete address rather than the Lugano one.
Strengths
- Information Transparency: 18 of 20 points.
- Reputation & Reviews: 17.5 of 20 points.
- Communication & Service: 8.5 of 10 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
18 / 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 practice content (practice description, dentist profile, treatments, technology, anaesthesiology, contacts), not a placeholder. [s1] | 4/4 |
| ✓ | Dentist names listed The practice publishes a dedicated page for its dentist, "Dr. Leandro Antonini, dentista a Lugano", stating that he has practised since 1993. [s3] | 3/3 |
| ✗ | Dentist specializations listed The dentist's own page was read in full: it gives his years in practice and the practice philosophy but states no speciality, postgraduate title or field of qualification, and no other practitioner is named. [s3] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Real clinic photos Settled in a browser on 2026-09-08 from the practice's own Google Business Profile for this address: the lead owner photograph shows the practice's own illuminated reception interior at Via Guglielmo Marconi 2 in the Palazzo Gargantini. Taking it from the place record rather than from the site's gallery avoids the risk the record on file named, that the site's banner images belong to the practice's second location in Tesserete; the owner confirmed this listing's details eight weeks before the reading. [gmpb] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Service list published The practice publishes its own treatments section together with dedicated technology and anaesthesiology pages, covering aesthetic dentistry, implantology, oral surgery and orthodontics. [s1] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Clear contact details The header of every page publishes the opening hours, the telephone 091 923 10 02 and the e-mail info@leandroantonini.ch; the number matches the Google place record. The English page additionally publishes the Tesserete line +41 91 943 59 81. [s1] [m1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | English website version The site publishes Italian, Russian, English, French and German trees; the English tree at /en-gb answers HTTP 200 with the full practice content. The /en/ path that appears in third-party search results returns HTTP 404 and is not the live English address. [s2] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Address and map published The practice publishes its address in its own schema.org PostalAddress and GeoCoordinates markup and on its dedicated practices page; it matches the Google place record. [s1] [s2] | 2/2 |
Price Transparency
0 / 15
Whether patients can estimate costs before visiting. Published price ranges count; exact prices are not required.
| ✗ | Prices or price ranges published The Italian home page, the English home page and the dentist's page were read in full and carry no price; the site has no tariff page in its navigation. [s1] [s2] [s3] | 0/3 |
| ✗ | Cleaning price listed No hygiene price is published on the practice's own pages. [s1] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Filling price listed No filling price is published on the practice's own pages. [s1] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Crown price listed No crown or prosthetic price is published on the practice's own pages. [s1] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Implant price listed The implantology content carries no price. [s2] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Consultation price listed The practice publishes an appointment-request route but no consultation fee. [s1] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | X-ray / imaging price listed No radiography price is published on the practice's own pages. [s1] | 0/2 |
Reputation & Reviews
17.5 / 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 4.7. The star histogram's weighted mean, 4.730, reproduces the published figure. [gmp1] [gmpb] | 5/6 |
| ◐ | Google review volume Headline count read on the place page in a browser on 2026-09-08: 122, and the histogram sums to the same figure (112 five-star, 1 four-star, 2 three-star, 0 two-star, 7 one-star). The practice advertises "119 Recensioni Google" on its own home page; that figure is close but stale, and the place-page count is the one recorded. [gmpb] | 2/3 |
| ✓ | Review recency Newest Google review is dated 2026-09-25 (listing read 2026-09-29). [swiss-dental-clinic-lugano-gbp-2026-09-29] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Clinic responds to reviews The owner replies to Google reviews: 1 of the 10 reviews read carries an owner reply, 1 of them recent (within the last 12 months), the latest reply dated 2026-02-06. [swiss-dental-clinic-lugano-deepen] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | No recurring complaints Browser 2026-09-08, 8 visible reviews, sort "Most relevant": no review below five stars surfaced and no repeated theme is readable. One-star and two-star ratings together are 7 of 122, or 5.7 per cent of the base. [gmpb] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | No suspicious review patterns Browser 2026-09-08: histogram 112/1/2/0/7 with a mean of 4.730 against a published 4.7; seven one-star and two three-star ratings sit under the average, dates run across five years and several accounts are from travellers describing different emergencies. No manipulation signature. [gmpb] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Active Facebook presence The practice links its own Facebook page facebook.com/swissdentalcliniclugano and Instagram account from its site. [s1] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | TripAdvisor presence No TripAdvisor listing found via its search for "Swiss Dental Clinic Lugano" and "Swiss Dental"; the clinic's site does not link to TripAdvisor (checked 2026-10-05). [swiss-dental-clinic-lugano-tripadvisor] [swiss-dental-clinic-lugano-tripadvisor-2] | 0/0.5 |
| ✓ | Other review platforms Has a clinic profile on WhatClinic (no reviews yet) and a Trustpilot page for its own domain (1 review, 3.2). [swiss-dental-clinic-lugano-platforms] [swiss-dental-clinic-lugano-platforms-2] | 0.5/0.5 |
Medical Infrastructure
7.5 / 15
The range of publicly documented equipment and services. This measures documented availability, not clinical quality.
| ? | On-site X-ray The practice publishes a technology page but no radiography equipment statement was found on the pages read; not asserted either way. | 0/2 |
| ? | CBCT (3D imaging) No cone-beam/3D imaging statement was found on the pages read; not asserted either way. | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Implantology The practice's own English pages publish implantology among its treatments. [s2] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Orthodontics The practice's own English pages publish orthodontics among its treatments. [s2] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Oral surgery The practice's own English pages publish oral surgery and extraction among its treatments. [s2] | 2/2 |
| ? | Pediatric dentistry No children's service is stated on the pages read; not asserted either way. | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | Emergency care The practice publishes urgent-care wording on its own dentist page, and the Google place record carries the "Emergency dental service" category. [s3] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ? | Works with international patients The principal's page was rendered and scrolled in a browser on 2026-09-08. The site is published in several languages, but no page read states which languages are spoken in the practice and there is no international-patient statement — a translated site is all that is offered. 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 (wa.me/+41919231002) is published on the practice's own site. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ? | Response speed No response-time data available in this pass. | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | English spoken The practice publishes a complete English tree alongside Italian, Russian, French and German versions of its own site. [s2] | 2.5/2.5 |
| ✓ | Pre-visit consultation possible "RICHIEDI APPUNTAMENTO" — an appointment-request route — is published in the header of every page. [s1] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ✓ | Clear service explanations The treatments, technology and anaesthesiology sections describe what the practice does in plain language. [s1] [s2] | 1/1 |
| ✓ | Convenient opening hours The practice publishes "Lun - Sab : 07:00 - 20:00" in its own site header — Monday to Saturday, from 7 in the morning until 8 in the evening — and the Google place record shows the same 7 AM–8 PM day. [s1] [gmp1] | 1.5/1.5 |
AI & Search Visibility
4.5 / 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 Lugano" collected centrally on 2026-09-07. The practice's own site is returned at rank 5, under the /en/ path that has since started answering 404; the live English address is /en-gb. [bsq1] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: English speaking dentist Switzerland Web search results for "English speaking dentist Lugano" collected centrally on 2026-09-07. The returned list is on-target for Lugano; the practice does not appear. [bsq2] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: dental implants Switzerland Web search results for "dental implants Lugano" collected centrally on 2026-09-07. The practice does not appear in the returned list. [bsq3] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: emergency dentist Switzerland Web search results for "emergency dentist Lugano" collected centrally on 2026-09-07. The practice does not appear in the returned organic list; a directory page for it does appear, but a directory is not the clinic's own channel. [bsq4] | 0/1 |
| ? | 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 schema.org JSON-LD carrying Dentist, PostalAddress, GeoCoordinates and OpeningHoursSpecification types on the home page and on the English tree. [s1] [s2] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ✓ | Google indexing quality A name search returns the practice's own domain at ranks 1, 2, 7 and 16 of twenty, covering the English home page, the practices page, the Italian home page and the dentist profile, alongside its own Instagram and Facebook accounts and directory listings (web search 2026-09-07). [giq1] | 2/2 |
| ✗ | Dedicated service pages The site has one combined treatments page plus a technology and an anaesthesiology page; there is no individual page per treatment such as implants or orthodontics. [s1] | 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.
- #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 Leandro Antonini [reg1] | Medical dentist, in practice since 1993 | MedReg 21890, GLN 7601000330222 | 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: Pediatric dentistry
- 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://www.leandroantonini.ch/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +41 91 923 10 02 |
| +41 91 923 10 02 | |
| https://www.facebook.com/swissdentalcliniclugano/ | |
| Google Maps | Map listing |
| Address | Via Guglielmo Marconi 2, 6900 Lugano, 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://www.leandroantonini.ch/ | Practice website (Italian home page): live body content, published opening hours, telephone, e-mail, WhatsApp link, language switcher, navigation including anaesthesiology, structured data | 2026-09-07 |
| s2 | https://www.leandroantonini.ch/en-gb | Live English version of the site with the practice's treatments and its structured data; establishes which English path is live | 2026-09-07 |
| s3 | https://www.leandroantonini.ch/leandro-antoninini | The practice's own page for its dentist; read in full and establishes that no speciality or postgraduate title is published | 2026-09-07 |
| gmp1 | https://www.google.com/maps/place/Swiss+Dental+Clinic+Lugano,+Via+G… | 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): the dentist's GLN, federal diploma and Ticino authorisation to practise, with the Tesserete practice address | 2026-09-07 |
| reg2 | https://www.healthreg-public.admin.ch/betreg/search | BetReg, the federal facility module: queried for the city of Lugano, 44 entities returned and none of them a dental practice (coverage follows narcotics authorisations, so absence is not evidence) | 2026-09-07 |
| m1 | https://www.local.ch/en/d/lugano/6900/dentist/swiss-dental-clinic-l… | Independent directory listing confirming the practice name, address and telephone in Lugano | 2026-09-07 |
| m2 | https://search.ch/tel/tesserete/via-pietro-fontana-10/swiss-dental-… | Independent directory listing for the practice's Tesserete location, corroborating the register address | 2026-09-07 |
| bsq1 | search:best dentist Lugano | Canonical visibility query, web search, AI-visibility pass | 2026-09-07 |
| bsq2 | search:English speaking dentist Lugano | Canonical visibility query, web search, AI-visibility pass | 2026-09-07 |
| bsq3 | search:dental implants Lugano | Canonical visibility query, web search, AI-visibility pass | 2026-09-07 |
| bsq4 | search:emergency dentist Lugano | Canonical visibility query, web search, AI-visibility pass | 2026-09-07 |
| giq1 | search:Swiss Dental Clinic Lugano Leandro Antonini dentista | Name search used to judge indexing quality of the practice's own pages | 2026-09-07 |
| b1 | https://www.leandroantonini.ch/leandro-antoninini | The principal's page rendered and scrolled in a browser: the practice's self-description, its published Monday-to-Saturday 07:00-20:00 header hours, and the absence of any statement of languages spoken | 2026-09-08 |
| gmpb | https://www.google.com/maps/place/x/@46.0040723,8.9526099,17z/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 dates and owner-reply state, the full published week of opening hours, an owner confirmation of the listing eight weeks old, and the place's own lead photography of the practice interior | 2026-09-08 |
| swiss-dental-clinic-lugano-gbp-2026-09-29 | https://www.google.com/maps?cid=2047431834523079779&hl=en | Google listing read on 2026-09-29: rating 4.7 from 124 reviews; star histogram 1★ 7 / 2★ 0 / 3★ 2 / 4★ 1 / 5★ 114; newest review dated 2026-09-25. | 2026-09-29 |
| swiss-dental-clinic-lugano-platforms | https://www.whatclinic.com/dentists/switzerland/massagno/swiss-dent… | WhatClinic clinic profile "Swiss Dental Clinic", Via Marconi 2a, 6900 Lugano (the clinic's address), staff Dr Leandro Antonini and Dr Jacqueline Antonini: no patient reviews yet, no ServiceScore yet (checked 2026-10-01) | 2026-10-01 |
| swiss-dental-clinic-lugano-platforms-2 | https://www.trustpilot.com/review/leandroantonini.ch | Trustpilot company page for leandroantonini.ch, the clinic's own domain: 1 review, TrustScore 3.2 ("Average") (checked 2026-10-01) | 2026-10-01 |
| swiss-dental-clinic-lugano-deepen | https://www.google.com/maps?cid=2047431834523079779&hl=en | Google listing "Swiss Dental Clinic Lugano" (Dentist; Via Guglielmo Marconi 2, 6900 Lugano, Switzerland), read 2026-10-05 in 2 review orders (lowest-rated first, newest first): 4.7 from 124 reviews (1★ 7 / 2★ 0 / 3★ 2 / 4★ 1 / 5★ 114); 10 distinct reviews read, dated 2016-12-02 to 2026-09-25, 1 with an owner reply. | 2026-10-05 |
| swiss-dental-clinic-lugano-tripadvisor | https://www.tripadvisor.com/TypeAheadJson?action=API&details=true&q… | TripAdvisor's own search, read 2026-10-05: 12 suggestions for "Swiss Dental Clinic Lugano" (1 place, 4 attractions, 6 hotels, 1 restaurant), none of them a dental practice in or near Lugano; 12 suggestions for "Swiss Dental" (1 place, 2 attractions, 7 hotels, 2 restaurants), none of them a dental practice in or near Lugano; no listing for this clinic | 2026-10-05 |
| swiss-dental-clinic-lugano-tripadvisor-2 | https://www.leandroantonini.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. |
| 2026-10-05 | Read the clinic's Google listing on 2026-10-05 in 2 review orders (10 distinct reviews, dated 2016-12-02 to 2026-09-25; 4.7 from 124): owner replies true. |
| 2026-09-29 | Corrected 2026-09-29: clinic responds to reviews now unverified: only 8 reviews were checked for owner replies; review recency within 3 months (newest review dated 2026-09-25). |
| 2026-09-09 | Sedation criterion re-checked against methodology 1.4.0 (general anaesthesia or deep intravenous sedation, patient asleep and unaware). The value stands, and the note now carries the evidence it rests on. The practice's anaesthesiology page publishes "anestesia totale" (general anaesthesia) for long oral-surgery procedures running several hours, alongside local anaesthesia and conscious sedation. |
| 2026-09-08 | Checked by hand in a browser: the self-published "119 Recensioni Google" tested against the place page and corrected to 122 with the histogram reconciled; recency, owner-reply state, complaint and manipulation readings recorded; premises photography settled from the profile attached to this address. |
| 2026-09-07 | Adversarial verification: the MedReg record re-read live and the Tesserete practice address confirmed, consistent with the two-location account the practice publishes; the local.ch Lugano listing attached to clearContacts while the search.ch Tesserete listing is kept as the corroboration of the second location recorded in the summary; the practice's self-published count of 119 Google reviews remains unused and the 4.7 rating in this card was re-read live from the Google place. |
| 2026-09-07 | Initial data collection (automated): practice website read in Italian and English, including the dentist's own page, and the live English path established after the /en/ address cited by third-party search results was found to return 404; Google Maps place record read live for rating, categories, hours and coordinates; the named dentist verified in the federal MedReg register with his full licence record, and the register's Tesserete practice address disclosed and reconciled with what the practice publishes about its two locations; the practice's self-published count of 119 Google reviews recorded but not adopted; BetReg queried for the whole city of Lugano and found to hold no dental practice; 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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