Century Smile Dental
According to our open methodology, this clinic scored 50.8/100 for transparency, reputation, service accessibility, and digital visibility.
Overall rank: #7 of 12 ranked clinics · Last checked: 25 August 2026
Positions by Rating Profile
- Overall Transparency & Trust#750.8/100
- Best for Expats#945.8/100
- Best for Dental Implants#843/100
- Best for Emergency Dental Care#846/100
- Best Price Transparency#734.9/100
- Best English-speaking Clinics#950/100
- Best for Families / Childrennot ranked
- Sleep Dentistry (GA / deep sedation)not ranked
General Anaesthesia & Deep Sedation
Whether the clinic documents treatment under general anaesthesia or deep / twilight sedation — "sleep dentistry", where the patient is asleep and unaware (does not feel, see, or hear the procedure). Ordinary conscious sedation, where the patient stays awake and responsive, does not count here. This is informational and does not affect the transparency score.
- ✗ General anaesthesia / deep sedation (sleep dentistry) — No general anaesthesia or deep sedation documented IV sedation offered but keeps patient in 'twilight sleep/awake' state (still awake, less aware); general anesthesia explicitly not available. [century-smile-dental-sedation]
Summary
Culver City general, cosmetic and specialty dental practice offering implants, Invisalign, root canals, oral surgery, periodontics and emergency appointments. Laser dentistry and in-house membership plan available.
Strengths
- Information Transparency: 20 of 20 points.
Weaknesses
- Price Transparency: 0 of 15 verifiable points (missing: prices or price ranges published; cleaning price listed; filling price listed; crown price listed; implant price listed; consultation price listed; x-ray / imaging price listed)
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 [s1] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Dentist specializations listed [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Real clinic photos [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Service list published [s1] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Clear contact details [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | English website version [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Address and map published [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 [s1] | 0/3 |
| ✗ | Cleaning price listed [s1] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Filling price listed [s1] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Crown price listed [s1] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Implant price listed [s1] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Consultation price listed [s1] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | X-ray / imaging price listed [s1] | 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) as of 2026-08-25 [century-smile-dental-refresh] | 6/6 |
| ◐ | Google review volume [century-smile-dental-refresh] | 2.5/3 |
| ✓ | Review recency [century-smile-dental-refresh] | 3/3 |
| ? | Clinic responds to reviews | 0/2 |
| ? | No recurring complaints | 0/2 |
| ? | No suspicious review patterns | 0/2 |
| ? | Active Facebook presence | 0/1 |
| ? | TripAdvisor presence | 0/0.5 |
| ✓ | Other review platforms Yelp, Zocdoc, Birdeye. [s2] | 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 | 0/2 |
| ? | CBCT (3D imaging) | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Implantology [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Orthodontics Invisalign. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Oral surgery Oral surgery, periodontics. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ? | Pediatric dentistry | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | Emergency care Emergency appointments. [s1] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ? | Works with international patients | 0/2 |
Communication & Service
How easy it is to contact the clinic, get answers, and book - especially for non-Thai speakers.
| ✗ | WhatsApp / LINE available [s1] | 0/2 |
| ? | Response speed | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | English spoken [s1] | 2.5/2.5 |
| ? | Pre-visit consultation possible | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | Clear service explanations [s1] | 1/1 |
| ? | Convenient opening hours | 0/1.5 |
AI & Search Visibility
Whether the clinic is discoverable when patients search - including via AI assistants. Checked with fixed queries: "best dentist Los Angeles", "English speaking dentist Los Angeles", "dental implants Los Angeles", "emergency dentist Los Angeles", "Los Angeles dental clinic for expats".
| ✗ | Mentioned for: best dentist Los Angeles [sq] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: English speaking dentist Los Angeles [sq] | 0/1 |
| ✓ | Mentioned for: dental implants Los Angeles [sq] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: emergency dentist Los Angeles [sq] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: Los Angeles dental clinic for expats [sq] | 0/1 |
| ? | Structured data on website | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | Google indexing quality [s1] [s2] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Dedicated service pages [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. A verified “not published” is recorded as a red flag; data we have not checked yet is shown as unverified and carries no penalty.
Clinic operating licence: not checked against public sources yet — unverified, no penalty
Dentists & professional licences
| Dentist | Specialization | Licence No. |
|---|---|---|
| Dr. Leila Moghaddam, DMD [s1] | General/cosmetic dentistry | not verified |
| Dr. Rafiee [s1] | Periodontics/oral surgery | not verified |
| Dr. Gu [s1] | — | not verified |
Dentists are named; their licence numbers have not been checked against public sources yet — unverified, no penalty.
Red Flags
- low Opaque or bait pricing (-2 pts) — No treatment prices published on the site. [s1]
Red-flag penalty applied: -2 points (capped at -20).
Data We Could Not Verify
- Reputation & Reviews: Clinic responds to reviews
- Reputation & Reviews: No recurring complaints
- Reputation & Reviews: No suspicious review patterns
- Reputation & Reviews: Active Facebook presence
- Reputation & Reviews: TripAdvisor presence
- Medical Infrastructure: On-site X-ray
- Medical Infrastructure: CBCT (3D imaging)
- Medical Infrastructure: Pediatric dentistry
- Medical Infrastructure: Works with international patients
- 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://centurysmile.com/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +1-310-836-6161 |
| Google Maps | Map listing |
| Address | 3831 Hughes Ave #701, Culver City, CA 90232 |
Contact details are provided for identification only and may change; verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | https://centurysmile.com/ | Clinic name, phone, dentists, services, photos, membership plan. | 2026-07-10 |
| s2 | https://reviews.birdeye.com/century-smile-dental-165588817392994 | Address 3831 Hughes Ave; rating 4.8 with 261 reviews. | 2026-07-10 |
| sq | search:cosmetic dentist LA | AI/search visibility scout 2026-07-10 | 2026-07-10 |
| century-smile-dental-refresh | https://www.google.com/maps/place/Century+Smile+Dental/@34.0224004,… | most recent review 4 weeks ago (as of 2026-08-25) | 2026-08-25 |
| century-smile-dental-sedation | https://centurysmile.com/services/sedation-sleep-dentistry/ | Site: IV Sedation 'does put you into a twilight sleep/awake state', 'you will still be awake but less aware'; general anesthesia 'not available in our practice' | 2026-08-25 |
Change History
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-25 | License verification 2026-08-25 against NPPES NPI Registry: no confirmed match for any of the 3 named doctors (Moghaddam, Rafiee, Gu) - all first-name-sparse entries with either no NPPES record or multiple ambiguous same-surname candidates none located at the clinic's Culver City address; all left null. No clinic-level NPI found. |
| 2026-08-25 | Recorded sedation / general anaesthesia availability (informational): not documented in public sources. IV sedation offered but keeps patient in 'twilight sleep/awake' state (still awake, less aware); general anesthesia explicitly not available. |
| 2026-08-25 | Re-verification 2026-08-25: confirmed website live (centurysmile.com), phone and name unchanged, clinic operating (open). Google Business profile lists suite '#701' not previously recorded, so address was refined; review count changed from stored 261 to 274, rating steady at 4.8. Note: Maps listing shows phone +1 310-742-0708, differing from the site's/worklist's +1-310-836-6161 (likely a call-tracking number); stored phone left unchanged since site matches worklist. |
| 2026-07-10 | Initial data collection. |
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