From public records to one page per practice.
We read the registers, Companies House, the dentists' register, council planning records, the Internet Archive and each practice's own website. We match them into one entry per practice. We keep the source and date on every fact, and we say plainly what we don't know.
We read five kinds of public record
| Record | What it gives us | How often we read it |
|---|---|---|
| The care registers (the Care Quality Commission for England, Healthcare Improvement Scotland, Healthcare Inspectorate Wales, the Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority for Northern Ireland) | Every registered practice, its address, its registered owner, its registration date, and which practice a new entry replaced | On each register's own refresh |
| Companies House | Every dental company: directors, controlling owners, secured loans, filed accounts, and new companies formed | Daily |
| The General Dental Council (GDC) register | Every registered dentist, their specialist lists, and which practice they work at where a website names them | On each refresh |
| Council planning portals and the Internet Archive | Planning applications mentioning dental use; the earliest copy of each website, and the earliest copy that mentions implants | Planning daily; the archive on each pass |
| The practice's own website | Implants, full-arch, sedation, brands, CBCT scanner (3D X-ray), intraoral scanner, prices, patient finance, online booking, advertising tags, vacancies, team page | Rolling passes, most within 90 days; every fact dated |
Plus, for all seven countries: Dental Implants Local, our sister directory, which gives each practice’s name, website, Google rating and review count, whether it offers implants, and the implant services its website lists.
We match them into one entry per practice
A practice appears in several places under slightly different names. We match the register entry, the directory listing and the website into one entry. We try the strongest match first (the same phone number), then postcode and name, then the website. We record how sure we are on every practice, and where a match is weak a person checks it before it is used.
The ‘graph’ in our name is the web of links between practices, companies, people and places that we build behind the scenes. You never need to think about it.
We calculate a few things, and show what they are made from
- Implant activity (0 to 100). Seven signs: a specialist on staff, how much the website says about implants, full-arch, a scanner, adverts, hiring, reviews mentioning implants. Hover any score to see the seven. Three of the seven are not collected yet and count as zero, and the score says so.
- Record completeness. The share of key facts checked in the last 90 days, weighted by how sure we are that the sources describe the same practice.
- Local price comparison. Where three or more practices within 5 miles publish a comparable single-implant price, we show the typical price and the cheapest and dearest quarters.
- How well served, and the opportunity score. Every neighbourhood ranked by practices per 10,000 residents, and a weighted average of six local figures. Every figure is shown next to the score.
We say what we don't know, in words
Every fact has a source and a date. Where we have no fact we print why: not on their website, not on the register entry, not checked yet, UK only, or old with the date. A gap is never a no. A no is only printed where the website or the register actually said no.
First seen is never an opening date
The date we first saw a new company, a planning application or a register entry is the date we saw it. It is not the date the practice opened. Planning permission allows a conversion; it does not mean the practice opened. A register entry means the practice is licensed; it does not tell us when the first patient was seen. Every new-practice card says so.
Three things people do in their first week
- 1Find practices. Filter by place, what they offer, what they charge, who owns them and what changed. Export up to 5,000.
- 2Open a call list. Ten ready-made lists with live counts, ranked by implant activity, limited to your territory with one tick.
- 3Watch what changes. New loans, changes of owner, new registrations, price changes and job adverts in your territory, dated by the filing.
You sign in. The first screen is your territory. At the top: the practices where something happened in the last seven days, newest first. A loan registered on Thursday. A new director on Friday. A website that started mentioning implants. Under that, the standing lists for your patch. You open a name. You see the fees page sentence we read, the Companies House filing, the date. You add five practices to a list, export it, and start calling.
This is our own description of the product, not a customer result. We publish no customer results.
Questions about how it works
- Is DentalGraph just a list of practices?
- No. A list has a name and an address. DentalGraph has what each practice offers, charges, owns and has changed, with the source and date on every fact.
- Does a website mention prove they offer the service?
- It proves they say so on their website on that date. Click the fact to read the sentence. We never turn a mention into more than it is.
- How do you handle duplicates?
- We merge entries that the register, the directory and the website show to be the same place, and we keep the merged entry's facts. The practice page lists any merged duplicates.
- What do you do when one source disagrees with another?
- We show the most recent fact and keep the other. "Where this came from" lists both with their dates.
- Can you build a custom list for my company?
- Every list is a saved search. If you can describe it in the filters, or in plain English on Ask a question, you can save it. For anything we don't hold, tell us at hello@dentalgraph.net.
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