Ordinacija dentalne medicine Dental Care Croatia
According to our open methodology, this clinic scored 47.2/100 for transparency, reputation, service accessibility, and digital visibility.
Overall rank: #7 of 21 ranked clinics · Last checked: 18 August 2026
Positions by Rating Profile
- Overall Transparency & Trust#747.2/100
- Best for Expats#652/100
- Best for Dental Implants#744/100
- Best for Emergency Dental Carenot ranked
- Best Price Transparency#1328.1/100
- Best English-speaking Clinics#357.7/100
- Best for Families / Children#455.4/100
Summary
Dental Care Croatia is a private dental clinic at Hrvojeva 10 in central Split, led by Dr. Marina Adriana Ježina Bušelić, who holds a doctoral degree and has undertaken implant training at UCLA. The clinic publishes its website in ten languages and lists three dentists covering implantology, prosthodontics, periodontology, aesthetic dentistry, and general dentistry. WhatsApp contact is published. The clinic holds a WhatClinic Customer Service Award 2025 and has received over 100 verified reviews on Dental Departures (4.96/5). No public price list was found on the official site, though WhatClinic quotes starting prices for several treatments.
WhatClinic shows 16 verified reviews (4.7/5, ServiceScore 10/10 from 346 interactions), most recent dated June 2024; Dental Departures shows 106+ reviews (4.96/5), most recent December 2022. Prices quoted on WhatClinic (€60 consultation, €600 implant, €6,000–€7,200 All-on-4) do not appear on the official website and may be outdated. WhatsApp number 00385911360270 (formatted as +385 91 136 0270) appears on the website. Services include facial aesthetics (Botox, PRF), which is common for Croatian dental tourism clinics. HKDM license not published on website.
Strengths
- Information Transparency: 18 of 20 points.
- Communication & Service: 10 of 10 points.
Weaknesses
- Price Transparency: 0 of 3 verifiable points (missing: prices or price ranges published)
- AI & Search Visibility: 3 of 7 verifiable points (missing: mentioned for: best dentist croatia; mentioned for: english speaking dentist croatia; mentioned for: emergency dentist croatia; mentioned for: croatia 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 Three dentists named: Dr. sci. Marina Adriana Ježina Bušelić, Dr. sci. Samra Prentić-Bakić, Dunja Petričić [s1] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Dentist specializations listed Implantology and prosthodontics (Ježina Bušelić); periodontology and general dentistry (Prentić-Bakić); general dentistry (Petričić) [s1] | 2/2 |
| ? | Real clinic photos | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Service list published Implantology, periodontology, prosthodontics, orthodontics, endodontics, pediatric dentistry, oral surgery, aesthetic dentistry, facial aesthetics, sleep and breathing disorder treatment [s1] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Clear contact details Phone +385 21 360 270, WhatsApp +385 91 136 0270, email, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn published; address Hrvojeva 10 [s1] [s2] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | English website version Site available in Croatian, English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, Czech, Slovenian [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Address and map published Hrvojeva 10, Split confirmed across official site and WhatClinic [s1] [s2] | 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 price list found on the official website; WhatClinic lists starting prices that may not be current [s1] | 0/3 |
| ? | Cleaning price listed | 0/2 |
| ? | Filling price listed | 0/2 |
| ? | Crown price listed | 0/2 |
| ? | Implant price listed WhatClinic quotes from €600 but this is a third-party figure not confirmed on the clinic's own site | 0/2 |
| ? | Consultation price listed WhatClinic quotes from €60 but not confirmed on the clinic's own site | 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) Google Maps rating not verifiable via accessible sources; Dental Departures shows 4.96/5 from 106+ reviews; WhatClinic shows 4.7/5 from 16 verified reviews | 0/6 |
| ? | Google review volume | 0/3 |
| ◐ | Review recency Most recent WhatClinic verified review dated June 10, 2024 [s2] | 1.5/3 |
| ✓ | Clinic responds to reviews WhatClinic page confirms management actively responds to reviews with professional replies [s2] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | No recurring complaints No recurring complaints found; one 2017 review noted unclear building entrance but praised treatment; overall pattern is positive [s2] [s3] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | No suspicious review patterns Reviews accumulated over multiple years across two independent platforms; no suspicious pattern observed [s2] [s3] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Active Facebook presence facebook.com/dentalcarecroatia linked from official website [s1] | 1/1 |
| ? | TripAdvisor presence | 0/0.5 |
| ✓ | Other review platforms WhatClinic (16 verified reviews, ServiceScore 10/10, Customer Service Award 2025); Dental Departures (106+ reviews, 4.96/5, Global Patients' Choice Winner) [s2] [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 Dental diagnostics including X-ray listed among services [s1] | 2/2 |
| ? | CBCT (3D imaging) 3D/CBCT imaging not explicitly confirmed on accessible pages | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Implantology Implantology including All-on-4, MGUIDE guided implants, BoneEasy listed; UCLA implant training cited for lead dentist [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Orthodontics Orthodontics with Damon system and Smilelign listed [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Oral surgery Oral surgery listed among services; includes bone augmentation and sinus lift [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Pediatric dentistry Pediatric dentistry listed among services [s1] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ? | Emergency care WhatClinic review describes weekend emergency contact but this is not formally documented on the clinic's site | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | Works with international patients Ten-language website; Dental Departures and WhatClinic listings with international reviews; explicitly markets to international patients [s1] [s2] [s3] | 2/2 |
Communication & Service
How easy it is to contact the clinic, get answers, and book - especially for international patients.
| ✓ | WhatsApp / LINE available WhatsApp +385 91 136 0270 listed on website [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Response speed WhatClinic review notes clinic contacted patient at weekend for an emergency [s2] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ✓ | English spoken English-language site; WhatClinic reviews consistently describe multilingual staff and excellent English [s1] [s2] | 2.5/2.5 |
| ✓ | Pre-visit consultation possible Online appointment booking available via the website [s1] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ✓ | Clear service explanations Services described in plain language across multiple language versions of the site [s1] | 1/1 |
| ✓ | Convenient opening hours Monday–Friday 08:00–20:00 [s1] | 1.5/1.5 |
AI & Search Visibility
Whether the clinic is discoverable when patients search - including via AI assistants. Checked with fixed queries: "best dentist Croatia", "English speaking dentist Croatia", "dental implants Croatia", "emergency dentist Croatia", "Croatia dental clinic for expats".
| ✗ | Mentioned for: best dentist Croatia Checked via the five canonical city queries on 2026-08-18; clinic not surfaced in top answers [s4] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: English speaking dentist Croatia [s4] | 0/1 |
| ✓ | Mentioned for: dental implants Croatia Clinic appears in dental implants Split Croatia search results and Dental Departures implant listings [s4] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: emergency dentist Croatia [s4] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: Croatia dental clinic for expats [s4] | 0/1 |
| ? | Structured data on website | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | Google indexing quality Official site ranks in Split dental searches; WhatClinic and Dental Departures pages also surface [s4] | 2/2 |
| ? | Dedicated service pages Individual service pages may exist but were not directly verified; multiple price-redirect URLs returned 404 | 0/1.5 |
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. sci. Marina Adriana Ježina Bušelić, dr. med. dent. [s1] [s2] | Implantology, prosthodontics, aesthetic dentistry, oral surgery; doctoral degree; UCLA implant training | not published |
| Dr. sci. Samra Prentić-Bakić, dr. med. dent. [s1] | Periodontology, general dentistry | not published |
| Dunja Petričić, dr. med. dent. [s1] | General 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) — No prices or price ranges published (derived from data).
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: Google rating (Bayesian-adjusted)
- Reputation & Reviews: Google review volume
- Reputation & Reviews: TripAdvisor presence
- Medical Infrastructure: CBCT (3D imaging)
- Medical Infrastructure: Emergency care
- AI & Search Visibility: Structured data on website
- AI & Search Visibility: Dedicated service pages
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://dental-care-croatia.com/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +385 21 360 270 |
| +385 91 136 0270 | |
| https://www.facebook.com/dentalcarecroatia | |
| Address | Hrvojeva 10, 21000 Split, Croatia |
Contact details are provided for identification only and may change; verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | https://dental-care-croatia.com/ | Clinic name, address Hrvojeva 10, phone +385 21 360 270, WhatsApp +385 91 136 0270, email [email protected], Facebook, Instagram, three dentists with specializations, full service list, ten-language site, hours Mon–Fri 08:00–20:00 | 2026-08-18 |
| s2 | https://www.whatclinic.com/dentists/croatia/split/dental-care-croatia | Address Hrvojeva 10, 4.7/5 from 16 verified reviews, ServiceScore 10 from 346 interactions, Customer Service Award 2025, most recent review June 10 2024, management responds to reviews, positive pattern, no recurring complaints; starting prices quoted by WhatClinic | 2026-08-18 |
| s3 | https://www.dentaldepartures.com/dentist/dental-care-croatia | Dr. Marina Ježina named, 4.96/5 from 106+ reviews, Global Patients' Choice Winner, most recent review December 2022, no recurring complaints across review corpus | 2026-08-18 |
| s4 | search:the five canonical city queries | AI/search visibility checks 2026-08-18: clinic surfaces in dental implants Split results; not in top answers for other four canonical queries | 2026-08-18 |
Change History
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-18 | Initial data collection. |
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