HM Salud Bucal
According to our open methodology, this clinic scored 46.7/100 for transparency, reputation, service accessibility, and digital visibility.
Overall rank: #16 of 21 ranked clinics · Last checked: 25 September 2026
46.7/100
Positions by Rating Profile
- Overall Transparency & Trust#1646.7/100
- Best for Expats#1842/100
- Best for Dental Implants#1640.5/100
- Best for Emergency Dental Carenot ranked
- Best Price Transparency#1433/100
- Best English-speaking Clinicsnot ranked
- Best for Families / Children#1447/100
- 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) — Not verified Oral surgery/implants offered but no anaesthesia/sedation details published
Summary
HM Salud Bucal is a multi-specialty private dental clinic in downtown Mendoza Capital, directed by Dr. Horacio Miguez. The website lists six practicing dentists each with their provincial matricula (MP) numbers and specialty descriptions across 14 fields, including implantology, orthodontics, endodontics, pediatric dentistry, periodontics, prosthetics, and oral surgery. No price list is published. The clinic operates Monday through Thursday 9:30–18:30 and Friday 9:30–13:00.
The clinic publishes MP numbers for all six dentists on the team page — a level of licensing transparency uncommon among Mendoza private clinics found during research. No email address is visible on the website; the WhatsApp number doubles as the phone contact. No Facebook page was found; Instagram is @hm_saludbucal. Friday hours end at 13:00; closed weekends.
Strengths
- Information Transparency: 18 of 20 points.
- No red flags identified in public sources.
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)
- AI & Search Visibility: 2.5 of 10 verifiable points (missing: mentioned for: best dentist Argentina; mentioned for: English speaking dentist Argentina; mentioned for: dental implants Argentina; mentioned for: emergency dentist Argentina; mentioned for: Argentina dental clinic for expats; dedicated service pages)
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
18 / 20
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 six dentists named with MP numbers: Horacio Miguez (MP 989), María Cecilia Ideme (MP 932), Martina Bazán (MP 3264), Mariana Barzola (MP 1957), Bruno Tarantino (MP 3669), Valentina Lázaro (MP 3567) [s1] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Dentist specializations listed specializations listed per dentist: general dentistry/rehabilitation/surgery/implants, endodontics/aesthetics, orthodontics/orthopedics, general/aesthetics, pediatric dentistry [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Real clinic photos Self-hosted named staff photos, not stock [hm-salud-bucal-mendoza-deepen-9] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Service list published 14 specialties: rehabilitación oral, blanqueamiento, odontología estética, cirugía bucal, endodoncia, implantes, odontología general, odontopediatría, periodoncia, prótesis dentales, ortodoncia, ortopedia maxilar, bruxismo, toxina botulínica [s1] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Clear contact details phone/WhatsApp +54 9 261 360-6040 and Instagram on the site; no email address found [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✗ | English website version website is in Spanish only [s1] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Address and map published Avenida Colón 351, 3° piso, dpto. A published [s1] | 2/2 |
Price Transparency
0 / 15
Whether patients can estimate costs before visiting. Published price ranges count; exact prices are not required.
Reputation & Reviews
11 / 20
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 2026-09-25 [hm-salud-bucal-mendoza-deepen-8] | 5/6 |
| ◐ | Google review volume as of 2026-09-25 [hm-salud-bucal-mendoza-deepen-8] | 2/3 |
| ✓ | Review recency [hm-salud-bucal-mendoza-refresh] | 3/3 |
| ✗ | Clinic responds to reviews No owner replies on 18 distinct reviews read, including serious complaints [hm-salud-bucal-mendoza-deepen-3] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | No recurring complaints Two independent reviews describe undisclosed/surprise charges [hm-salud-bucal-mendoza-deepen] | 0/2 |
| ? | No suspicious review patterns 5 five-star reviews carry the same date (2026-09-15) among the 10 Google reviews read, too few of the 168 on the listing to call a burst, but enough to leave the criterion unassessed (read 2026-10-02). | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Active Facebook presence Instagram bio links WhatsApp, location and the clinic's website but not Facebook; found the clinic's own current page by a direct Facebook name search, whose link field matches the clinic's domain [hm-salud-bucal-mendoza-deepen-10] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | TripAdvisor presence No TripAdvisor listing found and none linked from the clinic's site [hm-salud-bucal-mendoza-deepen-2] [hm-salud-bucal-mendoza-deepen-4] | 0/0.5 |
| ✗ | Other review platforms No profile found on Doctoralia, WhatClinic, Dental Departures or Trustpilot; its Yably page only repeats its Google reviews (checked 2026-10-01). [hm-salud-bucal-mendoza-deepen-13] [hm-salud-bucal-mendoza-deepen-14] [hm-salud-bucal-mendoza-deepen-15] [hm-salud-bucal-mendoza-deepen-16] [hm-salud-bucal-mendoza-deepen-11] | 0/0.5 |
Medical Infrastructure
7.5 / 15
The range of publicly documented equipment and services. This measures documented availability, not clinical quality.
| ? | On-site X-ray X-ray equipment not explicitly documented on accessible pages | 0/2 |
| ? | CBCT (3D imaging) | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Implantology implantes dentales listed as one of 14 specialties; Dr. Miguez listed with surgery and implants [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Orthodontics ortodoncia and ortopedia maxilar listed; Dr. Barzola specializes in orthodontics [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Oral surgery cirugía bucal listed as a specialty [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Pediatric dentistry odontopediatría listed; Dr. Lázaro specializes in pediatric dentistry [s1] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ✗ | Emergency care Full site read (single-page site); no same-day/emergency care documented [hm-salud-bucal-mendoza-deepen-5] | 0/1.5 |
| ? | Works with international patients no explicit international-patient services documented | 0/2 |
Communication & Service
3 / 10
How easy it is to contact the clinic, get answers, and book - especially for international patients.
| ✓ | WhatsApp / LINE available WhatsApp +54 9 261 360-6040 on the website [s1] | 2/2 |
| ? | Response speed | 0/1.5 |
| ? | English spoken | 0/2.5 |
| ? | Pre-visit consultation possible | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | Clear service explanations 14 specialties described with per-dentist breakdowns [s1] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | Convenient opening hours Mon-Thu 9:30-18:30, Fri 9:30-13:00; closed weekends — limited Friday hours and no weekend availability [s1] | 0/1.5 |
AI & Search Visibility
2.5 / 10
Whether the clinic is discoverable when patients search - including via AI assistants. Checked with fixed queries: "best dentist Argentina", "English speaking dentist Argentina", "dental implants Argentina", "emergency dentist Argentina", "Argentina dental clinic for expats".
| ✗ | Mentioned for: best dentist Argentina [s_vis] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: English speaking dentist Argentina [s_vis] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: dental implants Argentina [s_vis] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: emergency dentist Argentina [s_vis] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: Argentina dental clinic for expats [s_vis] | 0/1 |
| ✓ | Structured data on website Dentist JSON-LD present [hm-salud-bucal-mendoza-deepen-6] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ◐ | Google indexing quality clinic appears in Mendoza dental directory searches but does not rank prominently in top visibility queries [s2] | 1/2 |
| ✗ | Dedicated service pages Single-page site; services are cards on one page, not separate URLs [hm-salud-bucal-mendoza-deepen-7] | 0/1.5 |
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. Horacio Miguez [s1] [hm-salud-bucal-mendoza-lic] | General dentistry, oral rehabilitation, surgery, implants (Director) | Matrícula 989 (Mendoza) |
| Dra. María Cecilia Ideme [s1] [hm-salud-bucal-mendoza-lic] | Endodontics, aesthetic dentistry | Matrícula 932 (Mendoza) |
| Dra. Martina Bazán [s1] | Endodontics | not verified |
| Dra. Mariana Barzola [s1] [hm-salud-bucal-mendoza-lic] | Orthodontics, maxillary orthopedics, preventive dentistry | Matrícula 1957 (Mendoza) |
| Dr. Bruno Tarantino [s1] | General dentistry, aesthetic dentistry | not verified |
| Dra. Valentina Lázaro [s1] [hm-salud-bucal-mendoza-lic] | Pediatric dentistry | Matrícula 3567 (Mendoza) |
Dentists are named; their licence numbers have not been checked against public sources yet — unverified, no penalty.
Red Flags
No red flags identified in the public sources we reviewed.
Data We Could Not Verify
- Reputation & Reviews: No suspicious review patterns
- Medical Infrastructure: On-site X-ray
- Medical Infrastructure: CBCT (3D imaging)
- Medical Infrastructure: Works with international patients
- Communication & Service: Response speed
- Communication & Service: English spoken
- Communication & Service: Pre-visit consultation possible
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://www.hmsaludbucal.com/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +54 9 261 360-6040 |
| +54 9 261 360-6040 | |
| Google Maps | Map listing |
| Address | Avenida Colón 351, 3° piso, dpto. A, Ciudad de Mendoza, Mendoza |
Contact details are provided for identification only and may change; verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | https://www.hmsaludbucal.com/ | clinic name, address Av. Colón 351 3° piso dpto. A, phone/WhatsApp +54 9 261 360-6040, Instagram @hm_saludbucal, 14 specialties, six dentists with MP numbers (Miguez MP 989, Ideme MP 932, Bazán MP 3264, Barzola MP 1957, Tarantino MP 3669, Lázaro MP 3567), hours Mon-Thu 9:30-18:30 / Fri 9:30-13:00, no prices, Spanish only | 2026-09-25 |
| s2 | search:HM Salud Bucal Mendoza odontologia reviews Doctoralia Yably | clinic confirmed in Mendoza dental directory listings on Doctoralia and Yably; positive patient testimonials found via search; no Google Maps rating surfaced | 2026-08-18 |
| s_vis | search:best dentist Mendoza / English speaking dentist Mendoza / dental implants Mendoza / emergency dentist Mendoza / Mendoza dental clinic for expats | AI/search visibility checks 2026-08-18: HM Salud Bucal does not appear in top answers for the five canonical city queries | 2026-08-18 |
| hm-salud-bucal-mendoza-lic | https://sisa.msal.gov.ar/sisa/#sisa | SISA, Argentina's national health registry portal, searched 2026-08-25. REFES (establishments) — REFES searched for 'HM SALUD BUCAL' — no results. Searched 2026-08-25. REFEPS (professionals) — Dr. Horacio Miguez: REFEPS ficha: MIGUEZ NORBERTO HORACIO, DNI 17021707 — matches clinic-published MP 989 exactly. Searched: REFEPS Apellido=MIGUEZ, Nombre=HORACIO. Dra. María Cecilia Ideme: REFEPS ficha: IDEME MARIA CECILIA, DNI 17545544 — matches clinic-published MP 932 exactly. Searched: REFEPS Apellido=IDEME, Nombre=MARIA CECILIA. Dra. Mariana Barzola: REFEPS ficha: BARZOLA MARIANA, DNI 24953383 — matches clinic-published MP 1957 exactly. Searched: REFEPS Apellido=BARZOLA, Nombre=MARIANA. Dra. Valentina Lázaro: REFEPS ficha: LAZARO ZEBALLOS VALENTINA, DNI 41364458 — matches clinic-published MP 3567 exactly. Searched: REFEPS Apellido=LAZARO, Nombre=VALENTINA. (The supports text of this source was written as a boolean by the 2026-08-25 import and was restored on 2026-09-10 from that pass's own transcript.) | 2026-08-25 |
| hm-salud-bucal-mendoza-refresh | https://www.google.com/maps/place/HM+Salud+Bucal+%7C+Dentista+en+Me… | Google rating 4.7 (161 reviews) as of 2026-08-25 | 2026-08-25 |
| hm-salud-bucal-mendoza-deepen | https://www.google.com/maps?cid=18152133261836213992&hl=es | Geraldine Zambrano Pardo (2026-01-13): "te cobran 10 mil pesos por un supuesto kit de limpieza"; Melina Opasso (2025-11-06): "te cobran la consulta $10.000. Lo cual debería ser informado al asignar el turno y no que sea una sorpresa" — both describe undisclosed charges sprung on the patient at the visit | 2026-09-25 |
| hm-salud-bucal-mendoza-deepen-2 | https://www.tripadvisor.com/TypeAheadJson?action=API&query=HM+Salud… | TripAdvisor TypeAheadJson search for "HM Salud Bucal Mendoza" returns only unrelated "HM"-named hotels and attractions; no dental clinic listing | 2026-09-25 |
| hm-salud-bucal-mendoza-deepen-3 | https://www.google.com/maps?cid=18152133261836213992&hl=es | Google listing 2026-09-25: 0 owner replies across 18 distinct reviews read in three sort orders (newest, lowest-rated, most relevant), including five 1-star reviews; listing is claimed | 2026-09-25 |
| hm-salud-bucal-mendoza-deepen-4 | https://www.hmsaludbucal.com/ | No mention of tripadvisor.com anywhere on the clinic's single-page site | 2026-09-25 |
| hm-salud-bucal-mendoza-deepen-5 | https://www.hmsaludbucal.com/ | Full single-page site read; no mention of urgencia, emergencia, guardia or same-day acute-pain appointments | 2026-09-25 |
| hm-salud-bucal-mendoza-deepen-6 | https://www.hmsaludbucal.com/ | Structured-data read found Dentist, PostalAddress, GeoCoordinates, AggregateRating and Person JSON-LD on the page | 2026-09-25 |
| hm-salud-bucal-mendoza-deepen-7 | https://www.hmsaludbucal.com/ | The entire site is one page (no sitemap, no internal route links found); services (including Odontopediatría) are presented as cards within that single page, not as individual pages | 2026-09-25 |
| hm-salud-bucal-mendoza-deepen-8 | https://www.google.com/maps?cid=18152133261836213992&hl=es | Google listing read 2026-09-25: rating 4.6 from 168 reviews (1★14/2★0/3★0/4★5/5★149) | 2026-09-25 |
| hm-salud-bucal-mendoza-deepen-9 | https://www.hmsaludbucal.com/ | Team section carries own-hosted photos per dentist, e.g. the director's photo served as "/HORACIO.png" from the site's own server, not stock imagery | 2026-09-25 |
| hm-salud-bucal-mendoza-deepen-10 | https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61565795608044 | Facebook page "HM Salud Bucal": link field hmsaludbucal.com matches the clinic's own domain exactly; address "Av. Colon 351 3er piso depto A, Mendoza" matches the clinic; bio "Centro odontologico especializado en tu sonrisa", most recent post 2025-01-31 (an older, inactive page under the same name at the same address, last posting in 2019 and linking a different, superseded domain, was not used as the source) | 2026-09-30 |
| hm-salud-bucal-mendoza-deepen-11 | https://yably.com.ar/rese%C3%B1as/mendoza/hm-salud-bucal-av-colon-3… | Yably: page "HM SALUD BUCAL", Av. Colón 351, Mendoza: rating 4.70 from 155 reviews, all of them taken from Google ("155 reseñas de 1 otra fuente"); no review of its own, so not counted as a platform profile (checked 2026-10-01) | 2026-10-01 |
| hm-salud-bucal-mendoza-deepen-13 | https://www.doctoraliar.com/buscar?q=HM%20Salud%20Bucal&loc=Mendoza | Doctoralia: "No hemos encontrado ningún HM Salud Bucal en Mendoza"; a search for its director Horacio Miguez likewise finds nothing (checked 2026-10-01) | 2026-10-01 |
| hm-salud-bucal-mendoza-deepen-14 | https://www.whatclinic.com/dentists/argentina/mendoza | WhatClinic: its Mendoza dentist catalogue and its profile sitemap list a single clinic (Clínica Mussuto), and a profile address under this clinic's name returns "page not found" (checked 2026-10-01) | 2026-10-01 |
| hm-salud-bucal-mendoza-deepen-15 | https://www.dentaldepartures.com/ | Dental Departures: none of the 1,106 clinics its search returns is in Argentina (checked 2026-10-01) | 2026-10-01 |
| hm-salud-bucal-mendoza-deepen-16 | https://www.trustpilot.com/review/hmsaludbucal.com | Trustpilot: no page for hmsaludbucal.com (checked 2026-10-01) | 2026-10-01 |
Change History
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-02 | Reputation check 2026-10-02 on the clinic's Google listing (10 reviews read): nothing settled; suspicious review patterns left unassessed. |
| 2026-10-01 | Other review platforms re-checked on 2026-10-01: no profile of the clinic on Doctoralia, WhatClinic, Dental Departures or Trustpilot (its Yably page only repeats Google reviews); value unchanged. |
| 2026-10-01 | Checked TripAdvisor, WhatClinic, Doctoralia and Yably on 2026-10-01: presence on other review platforms corrected to none found, as the Yably page only repeats the clinic's Google reviews. |
| 2026-09-30 | Read the clinic's Instagram bio: it links WhatsApp, a map location and the clinic's website, but not Facebook. A direct Facebook search by the clinic's name found its own page, whose link field points back to the clinic's domain (latest post January 2025). Recorded presence on Facebook. |
| 2026-09-25 | Re-read on 2026-09-25: the clinic's full website (a single-page site with team, services and contact sections) and its Google listing (newest, lowest-rated and most relevant reviews). Recorded: genuine self-hosted staff photos; Dentist structured data on the site; services are presented as cards on one page rather than dedicated pages; no emergency/same-day care documented; the clinic does not reply to any of the 18 reviews read, including serious complaints; two independent reviews describe undisclosed charges sprung on the patient at the visit; no TripAdvisor listing and no TripAdvisor link on the site; Google rating 4.6 from 168 reviews. Still unverified: on-site imaging equipment, English-speaking staff, work with international patients, a Facebook presence, online consultation booking. |
| 2026-08-25 | Re-verification 2026-08-25: confirmed website live, name/address/phone unchanged, business open; captured first Google rating 4.7 (161 reviews; the site's own self-reported 4.9 is not corroborated by Maps), place URL and coordinates. |
| 2026-08-25 | REFES clinic search found no match (null). 4 of 6 doctors confirmed licensed via REFEPS, matching clinic-published matrícula numbers exactly; 1 found under wrong profession; 1 not found. |
| 2026-08-18 | Imported from the city-tier dataset. |
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