Zara Dental Centar
According to our open methodology, this clinic scored 60.3/100 for transparency, reputation, service accessibility, and digital visibility.
Overall rank: #2 of 21 ranked clinics · Last checked: 18 August 2026
Positions by Rating Profile
- Overall Transparency & Trust#260.3/100
- Best for Expats#258.3/100
- Best for Dental Implants#358/100
- Best for Emergency Dental Carenot ranked
- Best Price Transparency#456.7/100
- Best English-speaking Clinics#259.7/100
- Best for Families / Children#257.7/100
Summary
Zara Dental Centar (ZDC) is a private dental clinic and implantology centre at Put Matije Gupca 33 in Zadar, founded in 2015 by Dr. Ivana Šljaka Lijić. The clinic operates six dental chairs and documented CBCT (MORITA Veraviewpocs 3D R100), digital orthopan and RVG imaging. Published EUR price list covers implants, crowns and veneers. The website is available in Croatian, English, German and Italian. Dr. Lijić holds membership of the Croatian Chamber of Dental Medicine (HKDM), the German Society of Dental Implantology (DGZI) and the Swiss Dental Academy.
Second phone: +385 23 324 654. Free first examination published on site. The clinic received a WhatClinic Customer Service Award 2024. The medical-tourism aggregator medicaltourismco.com published a rating of 4.7/5 from 150 reviews, while booking.dentist showed 4.91/5 from 40 reviews; these figures come from the aggregators and cannot be independently verified as Google Maps data — rated null under googleRating accordingly. No orthodontics or emergency-care pages found on the official site.
Strengths
- Information Transparency: 20 of 20 points.
Weaknesses
No category fell below the weakness threshold (50% of verifiable points).
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 [zdc-s1] | 4/4 |
| ✓ | Dentist names listed Five dentists named on the team page: Dr. Ivana Šljaka Lijić, Dr. Frane Kovačević, Dr. Lucija Karlović, Dr. Antonio Modrić, Dr. Božena Sorić [zdc-s2] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Dentist specializations listed Dr. Lijić: implantology and prosthetics; Dr. Kovačević: digital dentistry and prosthetics; others listed without subspecialty [zdc-s3] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Real clinic photos Clinic interior photos documented on official site and dental-tourism aggregators [zdc-s1] [zdc-s4] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Service list published Implantology, implantoprosthetics, prosthetics, endodontics, periodontology, pediatric dentistry, Digital Smile Design [zdc-s1] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Clear contact details Two phones, email, Facebook, and map on official site [zdc-s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | English website version Full English, German and Italian site versions [zdc-s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Address and map published Street address and map location confirmed across sources [zdc-s1] [zdc-s4] | 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 EUR price list published; first examination free [zdc-s4] | 3/3 |
| ? | Cleaning price listed Cleaning price not found in accessible price-list extracts | 0/2 |
| ? | Filling price listed Filling price not found in accessible price-list extracts | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Crown price listed Metal-ceramic crown €219; zirconia crown €310; porcelain veneers €370 [zdc-s4] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Implant price listed Nobel Biocare implant €740; All-on-4 €5,840; All-on-6 (acrylic) €7,595 [zdc-s4] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Consultation price listed First dental examination is free, published on official site [zdc-s1] | 2/2 |
| ? | X-ray / imaging price listed X-ray/CBCT price not found in accessible sources | 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) Aggregators report 4.7–4.91 from 40–199 reviews depending on source; Google Maps rating not verifiable via accessible mirror | 0/6 |
| ? | Google review volume Review counts vary by platform (40 on booking.dentist, 199 on hrvatskekarta.com); Google total unverifiable | 0/3 |
| ◐ | Review recency booking.dentist shows reviews including one by Sally King praising 6 crowns, recent content [zdc-s4] | 1.5/3 |
| ? | Clinic responds to reviews No evidence of clinic replies found in accessible review excerpts | 0/2 |
| ✓ | No recurring complaints One isolated mention of a time-pressure situation; no recurring complaint pattern found across sources [zdc-s5] [zdc-s4] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | No suspicious review patterns Reviews span multiple years and multiple platforms; no suspicious burst patterns observed [zdc-s5] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Active Facebook presence Facebook page linked from official site [zdc-s1] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | TripAdvisor presence [zdc-s6] | 0/0.5 |
| ✓ | Other review platforms WhatClinic ServiceScore 9.6 (34 votes, Customer Service Award 2024); Medical Tourism Co; booking.dentist; Dental Departures; dentavacation.com [zdc-s5] [zdc-s3] [zdc-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 Digital orthopan and RVG imaging documented on clinic about page [zdc-s2] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | CBCT (3D imaging) MORITA Veraviewpocs 3D R100 CBCT documented [zdc-s2] [zdc-s3] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Implantology Implantology listed as core service; All-on-4 protocol offered [zdc-s1] | 2/2 |
| ✗ | Orthodontics Orthodontics not listed on the official service menu [zdc-s1] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Oral surgery Oral surgery listed on medicaltourismco aggregator profile [zdc-s3] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Pediatric dentistry Pediatric dentistry listed among services on official site [zdc-s1] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ? | Emergency care Emergency services not documented on official site or accessible aggregator pages | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | Works with international patients Multilingual site (EN/DE/IT/HR); documented international patient reviews; free airport transfer offered [zdc-s1] [zdc-s5] | 2/2 |
Communication & Service
How easy it is to contact the clinic, get answers, and book - especially for international patients.
| ? | WhatsApp / LINE available WhatsApp or LINE not documented on official site or accessible sources | 0/2 |
| ? | Response speed | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | English spoken English site; international patient reviews consistently praise English communication [zdc-s1] [zdc-s5] | 2.5/2.5 |
| ✓ | Pre-visit consultation possible Free first examination published; contact form available [zdc-s1] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ✓ | Clear service explanations Dedicated service descriptions on official site [zdc-s1] | 1/1 |
| ✓ | Convenient opening hours Mon/Wed/Fri 08:00–20:00; Tue/Thu 08:00–15:00; Saturday by arrangement [zdc-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 Appears in top search results for the five canonical city queries [zdc-s6] | 1/1 |
| ✓ | Mentioned for: English speaking dentist Croatia [zdc-s6] | 1/1 |
| ✓ | Mentioned for: dental implants Croatia [zdc-s6] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: emergency dentist Croatia [zdc-s6] | 0/1 |
| ✓ | Mentioned for: Croatia dental clinic for expats [zdc-s6] | 1/1 |
| ? | Structured data on website Structured data markup not verified from accessible fetched content | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | Google indexing quality Official site ranks prominently for clinic name and Zadar dental tourism queries [zdc-s6] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Dedicated service pages Individual pages for implantology, prosthetics, endodontics and other services [zdc-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. Ivana Šljaka Lijić [zdc-s2] [zdc-s3] | Implantology and prosthetics | not published |
| Dr. Frane Kovačević [zdc-s2] [zdc-s3] | Digital dentistry and prosthetics | not published |
| Dr. Lucija Karlović [zdc-s2] | General dentistry | not published |
| Dr. Antonio Modrić [zdc-s2] | General dentistry | not published |
| Dr. Božena Sorić [zdc-s2] | 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).
Red-flag penalty applied: -8 points (capped at -20).
Data We Could Not Verify
- Price Transparency: Cleaning price listed
- Price Transparency: Filling 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
- Medical Infrastructure: Emergency care
- Communication & Service: WhatsApp / LINE available
- Communication & Service: Response speed
- 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://zdc.hr/en/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +385 98 226 918 |
| https://www.facebook.com/Zara-Dental-Centar-1091940880838602/ | |
| Address | Put Matije Gupca 33, 23000 Zadar, Croatia |
Contact details are provided for identification only and may change; verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| zdc-s1 | https://zdc.hr/en/ | official English site: clinic name, address, phones, email, Facebook, service list, opening hours, multilingual, CBCT equipment, first exam free, no orthodontics/emergency pages found | 2026-08-18 |
| zdc-s2 | https://zdc.hr/en/zdc_tim.html | team page: five dentist names (Šljaka Lijić, Kovačević, Karlović, Modrić, Sorić); digital orthopan and RVG equipment listed | 2026-08-18 |
| zdc-s3 | https://www.medicaltourismco.com/clinic/croatia/zadar/zara-dental-c… | aggregator: CBCT MORITA model; Dr. Lijić credentials (HKDM, DGZI, Swiss Dental Academy, 19+ years); Dr. Kovačević specialization; oral surgery listed; 4.7/5 from 150 reviews (platform-only, not Google verified) | 2026-08-18 |
| zdc-s4 | https://www.booking.dentist/dental-clinic/zara-dental-centar | prices: metal-ceramic crown €219, zirconia €310, veneers €370, Nobel Biocare implant €740, All-on-4 €5,840; rating 4.91/5 from 40 reviews (platform only); Dr. Ivana Šljaka Lijić named as founder | 2026-08-18 |
| zdc-s5 | https://www.whatclinic.com/dentists/croatia/zadar/zdc-dental-clinic… | WhatClinic: ServiceScore 9.6 (34 votes); Customer Service Award 2024; 7 verified reviews; latest review May 2024; English praised; DGZI membership; free shuttle; no recurring complaints | 2026-08-18 |
| zdc-s6 | search:the five canonical city queries (Zadar/Croatia variants) | AI/search visibility checks 2026-08-18: ZDC appears in top results for implants, English-speaking dentist and expat queries; not prominently featured for emergency dentist query | 2026-08-18 |
Change History
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-18 |
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