Dental Fusion Clinics - Faro
According to our open methodology, this clinic scored 38.9/100 for transparency, reputation, service accessibility, and digital visibility.
Overall rank: #6 of 26 ranked clinics · Last checked: 18 August 2026
Positions by Rating Profile
- Overall Transparency & Trust#638.9/100
- Best for Expats#934.8/100
- Best for Dental Implants#538.5/100
- Best for Emergency Dental Carenot ranked
- Best Price Transparency#1520.1/100
- Best English-speaking Clinics#736.5/100
- Best for Families / Children#542.4/100
Summary
Dental Fusion Clinics is a two-branch private dental group with locations in Faro and Tavira (Algarve). The Faro clinic is led by Dr. Luis Filipe Cataludo (Clinical Director and CEO) and offers 13 dental specialties including implantology, orthodontics, 3D tomography, conscious sedation, pediatric dentistry, and aesthetic injectables. The English-language website lists the full clinical team. Patient reviews are largely positive but include some complaints about pricing transparency. No ERS or OMD numbers are published.
Second mobile phone: +351 965 006 300. A former address (Rua Baptista Lopes 21 3ºE) appears on Yelp; the clinic's own website uses Largo do Sol Posto 6 and this is taken as current. DocDental mirror shows Google rating 4.3/100 reviews. One review mentioned paying €64 for an X-ray without prior pricing disclosure — noted under red flags.
Strengths
- Information Transparency: 18 of 20 points.
- Medical Infrastructure: 13.5 of 15 points.
Weaknesses
- Price Transparency: 0 of 3 verifiable points (missing: prices or price ranges published)
- AI & Search Visibility: 2.5 of 8.5 verifiable points (missing: mentioned for: best dentist portugal; mentioned for: english speaking dentist portugal; mentioned for: dental implants portugal; mentioned for: emergency dentist portugal; mentioned for: portugal 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 [s1] | 4/4 |
| ✓ | Dentist names listed Dr. Luis Filipe Cataludo (CEO/Clinical Director), Dr. Duarte Cataludo (Vice Clinical Director), Dr. Iryna Potomska [s1] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Dentist specializations listed Luis Cataludo: implantology, oral rehabilitation, aesthetics; Duarte Cataludo: general practice, endodontics, restorative; Iryna Potomska: general practice, pediatric dentistry [s1] | 2/2 |
| ? | Real clinic photos | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Service list published 13 listed specialties including implantology, orthodontics, 3D tomography, sedation, pediatrics, whitening, prosthetics [s1] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Clear contact details two phones, Facebook, Instagram on website [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | English website version English version at /en/ [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Address and map published [s1] | 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 no prices found on official website [s1] | 0/3 |
| ? | Cleaning price listed | 0/2 |
| ? | Filling price listed | 0/2 |
| ? | Crown price listed | 0/2 |
| ? | Implant price listed | 0/2 |
| ? | Consultation price listed | 0/2 |
| ? | X-ray / imaging price listed | 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) 4.3 from 100 reviews per docdental.pt mirror [s3] | 3/6 |
| ◐ | Google review volume [s3] | 2/3 |
| ? | Review recency | 0/3 |
| ? | Clinic responds to reviews | 0/2 |
| ✗ | No recurring complaints multiple reviews note pricing complaints — bill exceeded expectations, inadequate pricing even with insurance, charged €64 for X-ray when seeking a quote; positive reviews coexist with these concerns [s2] | 0/2 |
| ? | No suspicious review patterns | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Active Facebook presence [s1] | 1/1 |
| ? | TripAdvisor presence | 0/0.5 |
| ✓ | Other review platforms listed on docdental.pt, booking.dentist, top-rated.online [s3] | 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 3D tomography listed as a service implies imaging infrastructure; X-ray charged to a patient per review [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | CBCT (3D imaging) 3D tomography listed as a dedicated service [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Implantology [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Orthodontics [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Oral surgery oral surgery implied by implantology and the clinical team's documented specializations [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Pediatric dentistry pediatric dentistry listed; Dr. Iryna Potomska covers it [s1] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ? | Emergency care | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | Works with international patients English-language site; team includes non-Portuguese dentist [s1] | 2/2 |
Communication & Service
How easy it is to contact the clinic, get answers, and book - especially for international patients.
| ? | WhatsApp / LINE available WhatsApp not found in accessible sources | 0/2 |
| ? | Response speed | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | English spoken English-language website; international team [s1] | 2.5/2.5 |
| ? | Pre-visit consultation possible | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | Clear service explanations 13 specialties each described on website [s1] | 1/1 |
| ? | Convenient opening hours one source shows 09:30-13:00 and 14:30-19:00 weekdays; weekend hours unconfirmed | 0/1.5 |
AI & Search Visibility
Whether the clinic is discoverable when patients search - including via AI assistants. Checked with fixed queries: "best dentist Portugal", "English speaking dentist Portugal", "dental implants Portugal", "emergency dentist Portugal", "Portugal dental clinic for expats".
| ✗ | Mentioned for: best dentist Portugal [s4] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: English speaking dentist Portugal [s4] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: dental implants Portugal [s4] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: emergency dentist Portugal [s4] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: Portugal dental clinic for expats [s4] | 0/1 |
| ? | Structured data on website | 0/1.5 |
| ◐ | Google indexing quality clinic does not appear prominently in top search results for the five canonical city queries [s4] | 1/2 |
| ✓ | Dedicated service pages separate pages per specialty on the website [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. Missing items are penalised.
Clinic operating licence: not published on the clinic’s website — penalty applied
Dentists & professional licences
| Dentist | Specialization | Licence No. |
|---|---|---|
| Dr. Luis Filipe Cataludo [s1] | Implantology, Oral Rehabilitation, Dental Aesthetics | not published |
| Dr. Duarte Cataludo [s1] | General Dentistry, Endodontics, Restorative | not published |
| Dr. Iryna Potomska [s1] | General Dentistry, Pediatric Dentistry | 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) — Multiple patient reviews mention costs exceeding expectations and that pricing was not disclosed in advance; one patient was charged €64 for an X-ray when requesting a quote without prior notice. No price list published.
Red-flag penalty applied: -10 points (capped at -20).
Data We Could Not Verify
- Information Transparency: Real clinic photos
- Price Transparency: Cleaning price listed
- Price Transparency: Filling price listed
- Price Transparency: Crown price listed
- Price Transparency: Implant price listed
- Price Transparency: Consultation price listed
- Price Transparency: X-ray / imaging price listed
- Reputation & Reviews: Review recency
- Reputation & Reviews: Clinic responds to reviews
- Reputation & Reviews: No suspicious review patterns
- Reputation & Reviews: TripAdvisor presence
- Medical Infrastructure: Emergency care
- Communication & Service: WhatsApp / LINE available
- Communication & Service: Response speed
- Communication & Service: Pre-visit consultation possible
- Communication & Service: Convenient opening hours
- 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://clinicasdentalfusion.com/en/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +351 289 828 991 |
| https://www.facebook.com/dentalfusionclinic/ | |
| Address | Largo do Sol Posto 6, R/C, 8000-150 Faro, Portugal |
Contact details are provided for identification only and may change; verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | https://clinicasdentalfusion.com/en/ | official English site: Faro address (Largo do Sol Posto 6 R/C 8000-150), phones (+351 289 828 991 / +351 965 006 300), full team (Dr. Luis Filipe Cataludo, Dr. Duarte Cataludo, Dr. Iryna Potomska) with specializations, 13 services including 3D tomography, Facebook and Instagram links | 2026-08-18 |
| s2 | search:Dental Fusion Faro Cataludo reviews | review snippets from clinicasdentalfusion.pt/testemunhos/ and general search: mix of 5-star praise and complaints about opaque pricing; one patient charged €64 for X-ray without prior disclosure | 2026-08-18 |
| s3 | https://docdental.pt/clinicas-dentais/faro/ | Google rating mirror: Dental Fusion Clinics - Faro 4.3/5 from 100 reviews | 2026-08-18 |
| s4 | search:the five canonical city queries | AI/search visibility checks 2026-08-18: clinic not surfaced in top results for the five canonical city queries | 2026-08-18 |
Change History
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-18 |
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