SOMA Dental
According to our open methodology, this clinic scored 34.4/100 for transparency, reputation, service accessibility, and digital visibility.
Overall rank: #3 of 15 ranked clinics · Last checked: 8 July 2026
Positions by Rating Profile
- Overall Transparency & Trust#334.4/100
- Best for Expats#430.3/100
- Best for Dental Implants#426/100
- Best for Emergency Dental Carenot ranked
- Best Price Transparency#420.8/100
- Best English-speaking Clinics#435/100
- Best for Families / Childrennot ranked
Summary
General and cosmetic dental practice in the SOMA/Mission area led by Dr. Nigel Suarez. The website lists services, contact details and office photos. Prices are not published.
Prices not published (USD). Open Tuesday to Friday. Source citations reconstructed 2026-07-08 (website + search aggregators); rating figures are search-sourced.
Strengths
- Information Transparency: 20 of 20 points.
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)
- AI & Search Visibility: 2.5 of 6.5 verifiable points (missing: mentioned for: english speaking dentist san francisco; mentioned for: dental implants san francisco; mentioned for: emergency dentist san francisco; mentioned for: san francisco dental clinic for expats)
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 [s3] | 4/4 |
| ✓ | Dentist names listed [s3] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Dentist specializations listed [s3] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Real clinic photos [s3] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Service list published [s3] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Clear contact details [s3] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | English website version [s3] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Address and map published [s3] | 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 [s3] | 0/3 |
| ✗ | Cleaning price listed [s3] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Filling price listed [s3] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Crown price listed [s3] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Implant price listed [s3] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Consultation price listed [s3] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | X-ray / imaging price listed [s3] | 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) Reported Google rating 4.9 from ~54 reviews; also 4.79 aggregate across platforms. [s4] | 5/6 |
| ◐ | Google review volume [s4] | 1.5/3 |
| ? | Review recency | 0/3 |
| ? | Clinic responds to reviews | 0/2 |
| ? | No recurring complaints | 0/2 |
| ? | No suspicious review patterns | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Active Facebook presence [s3] | 1/1 |
| ? | TripAdvisor presence | 0/0.5 |
| ✓ | Other review platforms Listed on Yelp (60 reviews) and Birdeye (59 reviews). [s4] | 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 [s3] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Orthodontics Invisalign listed. [s3] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Oral surgery Extractions listed. [s3] | 2/2 |
| ? | Pediatric dentistry | 0/1.5 |
| ? | Emergency care | 0/1.5 |
| ? | Works with international patients | 0/2 |
Communication & Service
How easy it is to contact the clinic, get answers, and book - especially for non-Thai speakers.
| ✗ | WhatsApp / LINE available [s3] | 0/2 |
| ? | Response speed | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | English spoken [s3] | 2.5/2.5 |
| ? | Pre-visit consultation possible | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | Clear service explanations [s3] | 1/1 |
| ? | Convenient opening hours | 0/1.5 |
AI & Search Visibility
Whether the clinic is discoverable when patients search - including via AI assistants. Checked with fixed queries: "best dentist San Francisco", "English speaking dentist San Francisco", "dental implants San Francisco", "emergency dentist San Francisco", "San Francisco dental clinic for expats".
| ✓ | Mentioned for: best dentist San Francisco Named in the 'best dentist San Francisco' query results. [sq] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: English speaking dentist San Francisco [sq] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: dental implants San Francisco [sq] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: emergency dentist San Francisco [sq] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: San Francisco dental clinic for expats [sq] | 0/1 |
| ? | Structured data on website | 0/1.5 |
| ? | Google indexing quality | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Dedicated service pages [s3] | 1.5/1.5 |
Licensing & Credentials
Whether the clinic publishes its operating licence and the dentists working there together with their professional licence numbers. Missing items are penalised.
Clinic operating licence: not published on the clinic’s website — penalty applied
Dentists & professional licences
| Dentist | Specialization | Licence No. |
|---|---|---|
| Dr. Nigel Suarez [s3] | Restorative, cosmetic dentistry, orthodontics | not published |
Dentists are named, but their professional licence numbers are not published — penalty applied.
Red Flags
- medium Clinic operating licence not published (-4 pts) — The clinic does not publish its operating licence or registration number (derived from data).
- medium Dentists / their licences not listed (-4 pts) — The clinic does not publish its dentists with their professional licence numbers (derived from data).
- low Opaque or bait pricing (-2 pts) — No prices or price ranges published (derived from data).
Red-flag penalty applied: -10 points (capped at -20).
Data We Could Not Verify
- Reputation & Reviews: Review recency
- Reputation & Reviews: Clinic responds to reviews
- Reputation & Reviews: No recurring complaints
- Reputation & Reviews: No suspicious review patterns
- Reputation & Reviews: TripAdvisor presence
- Medical Infrastructure: On-site X-ray
- Medical Infrastructure: CBCT (3D imaging)
- Medical Infrastructure: Pediatric dentistry
- Medical Infrastructure: Emergency care
- Medical Infrastructure: Works with international patients
- Communication & Service: Response speed
- Communication & Service: Pre-visit consultation possible
- Communication & Service: Convenient opening hours
- AI & Search Visibility: Structured data on website
- AI & Search Visibility: Google indexing quality
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.somadental.com/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | (415) 558-9800 |
| Address | 148 South Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA |
Contact details are provided for identification only and may change; verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s3 | search:SOMA Dental San Francisco reviews | Google rating / reputation via search aggregators | 2026-07-08 |
| s4 | search:SOMA Dental San Francisco reviews | Google rating / reputation via search aggregators | 2026-07-08 |
| sq | search:best/english speaking/implants/emergency/expats dentist San Francisco | AI/search visibility scout 2026-07-08 | 2026-07-08 |
Change History
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 2026-07-08 | Initial data collection. |
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