Dentistry on King
According to our open methodology, this clinic scored 68.9/100 for transparency, reputation, service accessibility, and digital visibility.
Overall rank: #1 of 12 ranked clinics · Last checked: 8 September 2026
Positions by Rating Profile
- Overall Transparency & Trust#168.9/100
- Best for Expats#164.5/100
- Best for Dental Implants#265/100
- Best for Emergency Dental Care#270.3/100
- Best Price Transparency#146.2/100
- Best English-speaking Clinics#167.7/100
- Best for Families / Children#173.3/100
- 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) — No general anaesthesia or deep sedation documented Dentist is certified to provide moderate IV sedation (conscious/responsive), not general anaesthesia or deep sleep. [s1]
Summary
Downtown practice above King subway station offering general, cosmetic, restorative and implant dentistry, endodontics, orthodontics, CEREC same-day crowns and emergency care. Team notes RCDSO membership.
Strengths
- Information Transparency: 20 of 20 points.
- Reputation & Reviews: 19.5 of 20 points.
- Medical Infrastructure: 13 of 15 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) Read live on the place page in a browser on 2026-09-08. Unchanged. The star histogram — 533 five-star, 5 four-star, 1 three-star, 2 two-star and 11 one-star — sums to 552, matching the 552 in the place-page header exactly, and its weighted mean 4.897 reproduces the published 4.9. [dentistry-on-king-refresh] [gmpb] | 6/6 |
| ✓ | Google review volume Read live on 2026-09-08 from the place-page header, and the star histogram sums to the same figure. The card held 549 and the listing has gained 3 since. [dentistry-on-king-refresh] [gmpb] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Review recency The newest review visible is two months old, which proves the within_3_months bucket and no better. Visible dates: 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 5 and 7 months. The bucket the card already carried, now proved on a measured sample rather than inferred. Sample: the eight reviews Google Maps renders on the place page in its own relevance order — the "Newest" sort does not open to automation, so a review more recent than the newest one visible may exist. [dentistry-on-king-refresh] [gmpb] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Clinic responds to reviews The owner answers all eight of the reviews visible on the place page on 2026-09-08. Sample: the eight reviews Google Maps renders on the place page in its own relevance order — the "Newest" sort does not open to automation, so a review more recent than the newest one visible may exist. [gmpb] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | No recurring complaints Google's relevance ordering surfaces eight five-star accounts and no critical text at all, so nothing readable establishes a theme and the criterion is false with the unread mass stated: the one- and two-star share is 13 of 552 = 2.4 %, and none of those thirteen accounts is surfaced. Sample: the eight reviews Google Maps renders on the place page in its own relevance order — the "Newest" sort does not open to automation, so a review more recent than the newest one visible may exist. [gmpb] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | No suspicious review patterns Judged on the histogram shape, the spread of dates, the variety of reviewers and the wording, on 2026-09-08. The histogram fills every bucket (533/5/1/2/11) on a base of 552 — the ordinary shape of a busy downtown practice rather than a wall. The visible dates spread across seven months, the accounts describe different treatments including wisdom-tooth surgery at lengths from a line to several paragraphs, and the owner answers all eight individually. [gmpb] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Active Facebook presence [s1] | 1/1 |
| ? | TripAdvisor presence | 0/0.5 |
| ✓ | Other review platforms Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn, X. [s1] | 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 [s1] | 2/2 |
| ? | CBCT (3D imaging) | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Implantology [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Orthodontics Invisalign. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Oral surgery Oral surgery, wisdom teeth. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Pediatric dentistry [s1] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ✓ | Emergency care [s1] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ✓ | Works with international patients Multiple staff languages listed. [s1] | 2/2 |
Communication & Service
How easy it is to contact the clinic, get answers, and book - especially for non-Thai speakers.
AI & Search Visibility
Whether the clinic is discoverable when patients search - including via AI assistants. Checked with fixed queries: "best dentist Toronto", "English speaking dentist Toronto", "dental implants Toronto", "emergency dentist Toronto", "Toronto dental clinic for expats".
| ✓ | Mentioned for: best dentist Toronto Named in best-dentist Toronto search results. [sq] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: English speaking dentist Toronto [sq] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: dental implants Toronto [sq] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: emergency dentist Toronto [sq] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: Toronto dental clinic for expats [sq] | 0/1 |
| ? | Structured data on website | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | Google indexing quality [s2] | 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. Mahan Alavi [s1] [dentistry-on-king-doclic] | General, cosmetic, restorative and implant dentistry | 109112 (RCDSO) |
Red Flags
No red flags identified in the public sources we reviewed.
Data We Could Not Verify
- Reputation & Reviews: TripAdvisor presence
- Medical Infrastructure: CBCT (3D imaging)
- Communication & Service: Response speed
- Communication & Service: Pre-visit consultation possible
- 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://dentistryonking.net/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +1-416-368-8000 |
| https://www.facebook.com/dentistryonking/ | |
| Google Maps | Map listing |
| Address | 5 King St E, Unit C, Toronto, ON M5C 3C6, Canada |
Contact details are provided for identification only and may change; verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | https://dentistryonking.net/ | Clinic website: address, contacts, dentist, services, languages, photos. | 2026-07-12 |
| s2 | https://trustanalytica.org/ca/on/toronto/reviews/dentistry-on-king | Aggregated Google review rating and count. | 2026-07-12 |
| sq | search:best dentist Toronto / English speaking dentist Toronto / dental implants Toronto / emergency dentist Toronto / Toronto dental clinic for expats | AI/search visibility scout 2026-07-12 | 2026-07-12 |
| dentistry-on-king-refresh | https://www.google.com/maps/place/Dentistry+on+King/@43.6492156,-79… | Google rating 4.9 (549 reviews) as of 2026-08-25 | 2026-08-25 |
| dentistry-on-king-doclic | https://www.rcdso.org/find-a-dentist/search-results?Alpha=alavi&Cit… | RCDSO Find a Dentist search (name 'alavi', City Toronto) returned one match: Mahan Alavi, Registration Number 109112, Status Member, Primary Practice Market Dental, 149 Lower Jarvis St — registry's primary-practice address differs from Dentistry on King (5 King St E); name is unique in the Toronto search, and the record shows a 'See Other Locations' link consistent with practicing at more than one office. | 2026-08-26 |
| gmpb | https://www.google.com/maps/place/x/@43.6492156,-79.3770843,17z/dat… | The clinic’s Google Maps place page, opened in a real browser on 2026-09-08 by the wave-5 phase-I browser pass (agent I-5). The Reviews tab (this URL) gives the headline rating, the review-count header, the five star-histogram buckets read whole from their accessibility labels, and the eight most-relevant reviews with their star values, dates, text and owner replies; the sibling Overview URL https://www.google.com/maps/place/x/@43.6492156,-79.3770843,17z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x89d4cb327cb40465:0xe014cdce49d34ee5!8m2!3d43.6492156!4d-79.3770843?hl=en gives the listing name, address, telephone, website, business category, the full published opening week and the lead owner photograph. The listing opens as «Dentistry on King», category Dentist, at 5 King St E, Unit C, in the Metropole, Toronto ON · +1 416-368-8000 · dentistryonking.net — the identifiers the card itself carries, so the place identifier resolves to this practice. Opening hours read on the same visit: Monday 08:30–18:30, Tuesday 08:00–19:00, Wednesday 08:30–15:00, Thursday 08:30–18:30, Friday 09:00–13:00, Saturday 08:30–16:00, Sunday closed — evening and Saturday opening, which corroborates the card's existing convenientHours: true. Lead owner photograph: The lead owner photograph is one of the practice's own surgeries with a clinician treating a patient — chair, delivery unit and operating light in frame — which corroborates the card's existing realClinicPhotos: true. | 2026-09-08 |
Change History
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-08 | Reputation measured live on 2026-09-08 by the wave-5 phase-I browser pass (agent I-5), which opened this clinic’s Google Maps place page in a real browser on both its Reviews and Overview tabs. This card also enters the canada country directory as a twin and carries no entry in data/research/*.json, so import-research.js never touched it and respondsToReviews, recurringComplaints and suspiciousReviewPatterns had never been assessed at all. Written now: googleRating 4.9 → 4.9 (unchanged, re-verified); googleReviewCount 549 → 552 (histogram 533/5/1/2/11 = 552, weighted mean 4.897); reviewRecency within_3_months (unchanged, now proved on a measured sample); 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. The published opening week and the lead owner photograph were read on the same visit and corroborate the values the card already carries, which are left untouched. Fields this pass did not measure are untouched. The country twin was re-synchronised from this card in the same step; the two copies are identical except for the twin’s city key. |
| 2026-08-26 | License verification 2026-08-26 against RCDSO: Dr. Mahan Alavi found as a Member (#109112), a unique name match in Toronto, though the registry's primary-practice address (Market Dental) differs from the clinic's own address. |
| 2026-08-25 | Recorded sedation / general anaesthesia availability (informational): not documented in public sources. Dentist is certified to provide moderate IV sedation (conscious/responsive), not general anaesthesia or deep sleep. |
| 2026-08-25 | Re-verification 2026-08-25: confirmed website live, name/address/phone unchanged, not permanently closed. Google Maps rating steady at 4.9 but review count grew sharply from 300 to 549; recorded Maps place URL and pin coordinates (newly captured). |
| 2026-07-12 | Initial data collection. |
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