Editorial policy and methodology

What Clinicest is — and is not

Clinicest is an independent information and matching service for people considering private dental treatment in Istanbul, Turkey. It is not a dental clinic, it does not employ dentists and it does not provide treatment or medical advice. Any treatment is agreed between you and a clinic.

Who writes the content

Guides, treatment pages and cost pages are written by the Clinicest Editorial Team. They are not written by, and are not the opinion of, a named dentist.

No dental professional reviews this content yet. Until one does, every page says “not yet reviewed by a dental professional”. When a registered dentist reviews a page, we will name them, state their qualification and registration, and date the review — we will not use a reviewer’s name we cannot show.

How Clinicest creates medical content

Treatment, cost and guide pages are drafted by the Editorial Team from the sources listed at the foot of each page. We describe what a treatment involves in general terms, and we state its risks and limits alongside its benefits.

We do not promise results, say who a treatment is “right” for, or compare clinics’ clinical quality. Whether a treatment suits you can only be decided by a dentist who has examined you.

Editorial review and medical review are different things

Editorial review is the Editorial Team re-checking a page’s wording, figures and sources against the sources it cites. It is not a clinical check.

Medical review is a registered dental professional reading a page for clinical accuracy. When that has happened, the page names the reviewer, states their qualification and gives the date; it is the only case in which a page says “medically reviewed”. We only name a reviewer who has agreed to be named.

Every page shows one of three statuses: “Editorial review only”, “Medical review in progress” or “Medically reviewed”.

Today every page is “Editorial review only”, and each says it has not yet been reviewed by a dental professional.

Where facts and sources come from

• Regulatory and safety statements are drawn from official or professional sources — for example the UK General Dental Council’s advice on going abroad for dental treatment and GOV.UK’s entry requirements for Turkey — and each page lists the sources it used.
• A source is listed only after we have opened the page and read the statement we cite. Each entry shows the date we accessed it.
• Where we cannot find a reliable source for a claim, we leave the claim out rather than soften it.
• We prefer regulators, government bodies and professional associations. A private provider’s marketing page is not treated as a source for a medical or safety statement, and a page we could not open or that sits behind a paywall is not cited.
• Each source is labelled on the page as a regulator, government body, professional body or commercial price guide, so you can weigh it.

How prices are shown

• UK figures are ranges taken from price guides published by UK dental providers. Those guides are commercial pages, so we show at least two where they exist, name them, and say when only one is available. We do not publish a UK range we cannot source.
• Turkey figures are Clinicest reference ranges. They are not quotes and have not yet been confirmed by partner clinics; we will replace them with clinic-confirmed price lists as clinics join.
• Every range states its unit — per implant, per arch, per veneer, per course — because a price without its unit cannot be compared. We show two ranges side by side and do not publish a headline “saving” percentage.
• Euro amounts are shown with an indicative sterling conversion, not a live exchange rate. Prices are indicative and may vary depending on examination, treatment plan and included services.
• There are three different kinds of price and we will never blend them into one number: a Clinicest reference range (all that is published today), a range a clinic has submitted itself (labelled as clinic-submitted, shown only once clinics are listed), and the price in a written treatment plan for you, which is the only one you can rely on.

What “last reviewed” means

It is the date the Editorial Team last re-checked the page’s wording, figures and sources. It is not a medical review and not a guarantee that nothing has changed since.

“Last updated” is the date the page’s own record last changed. There is no fixed re-checking schedule yet, so treat an older “last reviewed” date with more caution, especially for prices and travel rules.

Clinic verification: standard versus status

We have published the standard a clinic must meet before it is listed: a valid practice licence, a confirmed sterilisation and hygiene standard, named and credentialed dentists, and an on-site or documented audit. A verification badge reflects that check at the time it was granted; it is not a guarantee of outcome.

At the moment no clinics are listed on Clinicest, so no clinic has been verified under it yet. We will not describe a clinic as verified until it has been through the process, and we do not publish clinic reviews or before-and-after cases until they exist and have been checked.

Information supplied by clinics

A clinic’s profile — its description, facilities, treatments and any prices — is written by the clinic. A certification appears on a clinic’s page only after a Clinicest moderator has checked it, and only while it has not expired. Prices a clinic submits are labelled as clinic-submitted and are never presented as Clinicest reference prices.

A clinic is published only when an administrator activates it. Until then its page does not exist publicly, and it is not listed, linked or included in the sitemap.

No clinic is published yet.

Information supplied by dentists

A dentist can manage their own profile through a secure account. Changes to their name, title, specialty, biography and years of experience are held for review by Clinicest and appear only once approved; languages and a profile photo can be updated directly. Credential documents a dentist uploads are checked by Clinicest and are never published.

A dentist’s page is public only while their clinic is published.

No dentist profile is published yet.

Patient reviews and moderation

Reviews are submitted by patients whose treatment was arranged through Clinicest and recorded as completed. Every submitted review waits for a moderator, who can approve or reject it; only approved reviews appear. We will not show a rating that is not backed by approved reviews, and we do not publish ratings in structured data unless they are.

No reviews exist yet, so no ratings are shown.

How Clinicest is funded, and conflicts of interest

Clinicest is free for patients. It is designed to be paid by partner clinics — a commission when a patient we introduced completes treatment, and clinic subscriptions. That means we have a commercial interest in patients going ahead, which is why we source price and risk information independently of clinics and encourage you to compare more than one written treatment plan.

Listings can show clinics marked “featured” first. Featured status is set by Clinicest administrators, and because clinics are designed to pay Clinicest, it can be a commercial relationship. No clinic writes or edits our treatment, cost or guide pages.

No clinics are listed, so nothing is featured today.

Corrections

If you think something on Clinicest is wrong, out of date or misleading, email hello@clinicest.com with the page address and, if you can, a source. We check the claim, correct the page and update its review date. If we cannot support a claim, we remove it. We do not yet keep a public log of corrections.

Medical disclaimer

The information on Clinicest is general and educational. It is not a diagnosis or treatment advice and does not replace an examination by a registered dentist. Talk to your own dentist before you travel for treatment, and get any plan, price and warranty in writing.