Dentelli
According to our open methodology, this clinic scored 37.2/100 for transparency, reputation, service accessibility, and digital visibility.
Overall rank: #17 of 21 ranked clinics · Last checked: 18 August 2026
Positions by Rating Profile
- Overall Transparency & Trust#1737.2/100
- Best for Expats#1535.5/100
- Best for Dental Implants#1831/100
- Best for Emergency Dental Carenot ranked
- Best Price Transparency#1721.3/100
- Best English-speaking Clinics#1240/100
- Best for Families / Children#1037.3/100
Summary
Dentelli is a dental clinic on Ul. Josipa Jovića in Split, founded and led by Dr. Martina Karlo, DMD, who has over 20 years of clinical experience in Germany and Croatia. The clinic also employs Dr. Nikolina Bubalović Maretić (aesthetic dentistry), Dr. Gordana Paic Karega (orthodontics), and Dr. Ivica Pelivan (implant-prosthetic care). The website is available in Croatian, English, and German. Dentelli is one of the most prominently listed clinics in Split on international dental-tourism platforms and has 185 verified reviews (4.9/5) on medicaltourismco.com and 34 reviews (4.8/5) on Qunomedical. No price list is published on the official website.
The clinic website returned 404 on sub-pages (/en/team, /en/prices, /en/about-us); core data comes from the homepage, the contact page, and third-party platforms. WhatsApp is not listed. The medicaltourismco.com directory lists 185 verified reviews and 4.9 stars for Dentelli; Qunomedical shows 34 reviews (4.8/5), most recent November 2023. No HKDM licence number published.
Strengths
- Information Transparency: 18 of 20 points.
Weaknesses
- Price Transparency: 0 of 3 verifiable points (missing: prices or price ranges published)
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. Martina Karlo (founder), Dr. Nikolina Bubalović Maretić, Dr. Gordana Paic Karega, Dr. Ivica Pelivan confirmed via homepage and directory [s1] [s2] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Dentist specializations listed General and aesthetic dentistry (Karlo), aesthetic dentistry (Bubalović Maretić), orthodontics (Paic Karega), implant-prosthetic care (Pelivan) [s2] | 2/2 |
| ? | Real clinic photos | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Service list published Professional cleaning and gum health, implants and All-on-4/6, crowns and bridges, veneers, pediatric dentistry (Dentelli for Kids) [s1] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Clear contact details Phone +385 91 440 1250, email [email protected], Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn published [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | English website version Site available in Croatian, English, German [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Address and map published Ul. Josipa Jovića 93, Split confirmed on website and multiple directories [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 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) Google Maps rating not verifiable via accessible sources; medicaltourismco.com shows 4.9/5 from 185 verified reviews; Qunomedical shows 4.8/5 from 34 reviews | 0/6 |
| ? | Google review volume | 0/3 |
| ◐ | Review recency Most recent Qunomedical review dated November 13, 2023 [s3] | 1.5/3 |
| ? | Clinic responds to reviews | 0/2 |
| ✓ | No recurring complaints No complaint patterns found across medicaltourismco.com or Qunomedical review corpus; reviews consistently positive [s2] [s3] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | No suspicious review patterns Reviews across two independent platforms with multi-year accumulation; no suspicious clustering observed [s2] [s3] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Active Facebook presence facebook.com/dentelli.split linked from official website [s1] | 1/1 |
| ? | TripAdvisor presence | 0/0.5 |
| ✓ | Other review platforms medicaltourismco.com (185 reviews, 4.9/5); Qunomedical (34 reviews, 4.8/5) [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 Imaging equipment not specified on accessible pages; on-site laboratory mentioned | 0/2 |
| ? | CBCT (3D imaging) 3D diagnostics not confirmed on accessible pages; dental-tourism directories mention 3D technology as standard in Split clinics | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Implantology Implants, All-on-4, All-on-6, All-on-8, same-day implant with crown, dental bone grafts listed [s1] [s2] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Orthodontics Orthodontic braces and aligners; dedicated orthodontist Dr. Gordana Paic Karega on team [s2] | 2/2 |
| ? | Oral surgery Oral surgery not explicitly confirmed on accessible pages; implant surgery implied | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Pediatric dentistry Dentelli for Kids program listed on homepage [s1] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ? | Emergency care | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | Works with international patients English and German site; prominent presence on multiple international dental-tourism platforms; international patient reviews documented [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 not listed on website; phone and email only [s1] | 0/2 |
| ? | Response speed | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | English spoken English-language site; Qunomedical reviews name English-speaking coordinator Zvonimir Magdic; reviewers describe seamless English communication [s1] [s3] | 2.5/2.5 |
| ? | Pre-visit consultation possible | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | Clear service explanations Service categories described on homepage in plain language [s1] | 1/1 |
| ✓ | Convenient opening hours Monday–Friday 08:00–20:00; Saturday 08:00–14:00 [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 Clinic appears prominently in search results for the canonical city queries on 2026-08-18; described as highly reviewed in Split on medicaltourismco.com [s4] | 1/1 |
| ✓ | Mentioned for: English speaking dentist Croatia Dentelli surfaces in results for English-speaking dentist Split Croatia queries [s4] | 1/1 |
| ✓ | Mentioned for: dental implants Croatia Dentelli appears in dental implants Split Croatia results [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 and directory pages rank prominently for Split dental tourism searches [s4] | 2/2 |
| ? | Dedicated service pages Dedicated service sub-pages exist in site navigation but were not directly accessible during research (404 on /en/prices and /en/team) | 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. Martina Karlo, DMD [s1] [s2] | General and aesthetic dentistry; founder; 20+ years experience in Germany and Croatia; reported 14,000+ treatments | not published |
| Dr. Nikolina Bubalović Maretić [s2] | Aesthetic dentistry | not published |
| Dr. Gordana Paic Karega [s2] | Orthodontics | not published |
| Dr. Ivica Pelivan [s2] | Implant-prosthetic care | 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: Clinic responds to reviews
- Reputation & Reviews: TripAdvisor presence
- Medical Infrastructure: On-site X-ray
- Medical Infrastructure: CBCT (3D imaging)
- Medical Infrastructure: Oral surgery
- Medical Infrastructure: Emergency care
- Communication & Service: Response speed
- Communication & Service: Pre-visit consultation possible
- 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://dentelli.dental/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +385 91 440 1250 |
| https://www.facebook.com/dentelli.split/ | |
| Address | Ul. Josipa Jovića 93, 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://dentelli.dental/ | Clinic name, address Ul. Josipa Jovića 93, phone +385 91 440 1250, email [email protected], Facebook/Instagram/YouTube/LinkedIn, services (implants, All-on-4/6, crowns, veneers, pediatric), Croatian/English/German site, hours Mon–Fri 08:00–20:00 / Sat 08:00–14:00 | 2026-08-18 |
| s2 | https://www.medicaltourismco.com/clinics/dentist/croatia/split/ | 4.9/5 rating from 185 verified reviews; dentist list (Karlo, Bubalović Maretić, Paic Karega, Pelivan) with specializations; on-site lab, 20+ years experience | 2026-08-18 |
| s3 | https://www.qunomedical.com/en/dentelli-dental-clinic | 4.8/5 from 34 reviews; most recent review November 2023; English-speaking coordinator Zvonimir Magdic named; positive review pattern; no recurring complaints | 2026-08-18 |
| s4 | search:the five canonical city queries | AI/search visibility checks 2026-08-18: Dentelli appears prominently for canonical Split dental queries including implants and English-speaking dentist | 2026-08-18 |
Change History
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-18 | Initial data collection. |
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