Dr. Virginia Melmed (Prof Ervin Weiss Dental Center)
According to our open methodology, this clinic scored 37.8/100 for transparency, reputation, service accessibility, and digital visibility.
Overall rank: #15 of 18 ranked clinics · Last checked: 3 September 2026
Positions by Rating Profile
- Overall Transparency & Trust#1537.8/100
- Best for Expats#1633.3/100
- Best for Dental Implants#1436/100
- Best for Emergency Dental Care#739.3/100
- Best Price Transparency#1725.8/100
- Best English-speaking Clinicsnot ranked
- Best for Families / Children#1139.2/100
- 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
Summary
Solo cosmetic and restorative dentistry practice on the 19th floor of Weizmann Tower in central Tel Aviv, run by UCLA-trained Dr. Virginia Melmed, operating out of the Prof Ervin Weiss Dental Center.
The practice operates inside the Prof Ervin Weiss Dental Center, which holds MOH institution licence 557CN ("Merkaz Mumhim Dentali Ltd", Hebrew for "Dental Experts Center Ltd", Weizmann 14, status in force / valid to 01/09/2027, registered medical director Dr Ervin Yitzhak Weiss, dentist licence 2-2567). Licensing of Dr Melmed herself could not be established: the MOH dentist register holds three practitioners under the Hebrew spelling of her surname (Guy, Yuval, Dafna — none of them Virginia) and exactly one dentist with the given name Virginia, registered under a different surname, so no entry can be matched to her on the evidence available; her own site publishes no Hebrew spelling and no registration number. Google Maps, re-read 2026-09-02: the "Dr. Virginia Melmed" listing at Weizmann Tower is marked "Temporarily closed" and carries no rating, no reviews, no hours and no website link — which is why the rating fields are null. Maps gives the street number as Weizmann 19 while the clinic’s own site and the MOH institution record both give Weizmann 14; the latter is used.
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)
- Reputation & Reviews: 1.5 of 7 verifiable points (missing: google review volume; clinic responds to reviews; tripAdvisor presence)
- AI & Search Visibility: 1 of 10 verifiable points (missing: mentioned for: best dentist Israel; mentioned for: English speaking dentist Israel; mentioned for: dental implants Israel; mentioned for: emergency dentist Israel; mentioned for: Israel dental clinic for expats; structured data on website; 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
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] [s2] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Dentist specializations listed Cosmetic and advanced/restorative dentistry. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ? | Real clinic photos | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Service list published [s1] [s2] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Clear contact details [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | English website version Entire site in English. [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 Price sweep 2026-09-03: drvirginiamelmed.com re-checked directly — no prices, no dedicated pricing page; the site mentions Cerec/digital impressions (chairside CAD-CAM) but no costs. [s1] [s2] | 0/3 |
| ✗ | Cleaning price listed No price list on the site [virginia-melmed-telaviv-deepen-7] [virginia-melmed-telaviv-deepen-3] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Filling price listed No filling price on the site [virginia-melmed-telaviv-deepen-8] [virginia-melmed-telaviv-deepen-3] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Crown price listed No crown price on the site [virginia-melmed-telaviv-deepen-9] [virginia-melmed-telaviv-deepen-3] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Implant price listed No implant price on the site [virginia-melmed-telaviv-deepen-10] [virginia-melmed-telaviv-deepen-3] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Consultation price listed No consultation fee stated [virginia-melmed-telaviv-deepen-11] [virginia-melmed-telaviv-deepen-3] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | X-ray / imaging price listed No imaging price on the site [virginia-melmed-telaviv-deepen-12] [virginia-melmed-telaviv-deepen-3] | 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 2026-09-03, live Google Maps listing (browser): the place page for "Dr. Virginia Melmed" in Weizmann Tower (Migdal Weizmann), Weizmann St, Tel Aviv-Yafo — phone +972 3-546-7934 matching the card — shows no star rating and no reviews at all, and the place is flagged "Temporarily closed". Honest zero-review listing, so no rating exists to record. [sm] | 0/6 |
| ✗ | Google review volume As of 2026-09-03, live Google Maps listing (browser): zero reviews on the place page. [sm] | 0/3 |
| ? | Review recency The clinic's Google Business listing was reopened on 2026-09-03: it carries no reviews at all - no rating widget, no star histogram, no review block - and Google marks the practice "Temporarily closed". With nothing to read there is nothing to assess, so this criterion stays null rather than being scored as a negative. [sm] | 0/3 |
| ✗ | Clinic responds to reviews The Google listing is unclaimed, so owner replies are impossible [virginia-melmed-telaviv-deepen] | 0/2 |
| ? | No recurring complaints The clinic's Google Business listing was reopened on 2026-09-03: it carries no reviews at all - no rating widget, no star histogram, no review block - and Google marks the practice "Temporarily closed". With nothing to read there is nothing to assess, so this criterion stays null rather than being scored as a negative. [sm] | 0/2 |
| ? | No suspicious review patterns The clinic's Google Business listing was reopened on 2026-09-03: it carries no reviews at all - no rating widget, no star histogram, no review block - and Google marks the practice "Temporarily closed". With nothing to read there is nothing to assess, so this criterion stays null rather than being scored as a negative. [sm] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Active Facebook presence Facebook page linked on the site [virginia-melmed-telaviv-deepen-13] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | TripAdvisor presence No TripAdvisor listing found; not referenced on the site [virginia-melmed-telaviv-deepen-4] [virginia-melmed-telaviv-deepen-14] | 0/0.5 |
| ✓ | Other review platforms Listed on WhatClinic. [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 Digital radiographs listed among the office technology [virginia-melmed-telaviv-deepen-19] | 2/2 |
| ? | CBCT (3D imaging) | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Implantology [s1] [s2] | 2/2 |
| ✗ | Orthodontics Full service list read; orthodontics is not offered [virginia-melmed-telaviv-deepen-2] [virginia-melmed-telaviv-deepen-3] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Oral surgery An oral surgeon is on the clinic's staff; extractions documented [virginia-melmed-telaviv-deepen-5] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Pediatric dentistry Preventive care for children; a pedodontist is on the clinic's staff [virginia-melmed-telaviv-deepen-6] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ✓ | Emergency care Emergency dental treatment listed among services. [s1] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ✓ | Works with international patients The site explicitly advertises dental tourism and an English-speaking practice [virginia-melmed-telaviv-deepen-15] | 2/2 |
Communication & Service
How easy it is to contact the clinic, get answers, and book - especially for international patients.
| ✗ | WhatsApp / LINE available No WhatsApp/LINE link found on the site [virginia-melmed-telaviv-deepen-16] [virginia-melmed-telaviv-deepen-3] | 0/2 |
| ? | Response speed | 0/1.5 |
| ? | English spoken | 0/2.5 |
| ✓ | Pre-visit consultation possible Consultation bookable via WhatClinic listing. [s2] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ✓ | Clear service explanations The services page explains each treatment briefly in plain language [virginia-melmed-telaviv-deepen-6] | 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 Israel", "English speaking dentist Israel", "dental implants Israel", "emergency dentist Israel", "Israel dental clinic for expats".
| ✗ | Mentioned for: best dentist Israel Not present on page 1 of web results. [sqa] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: English speaking dentist Israel Not present on page 1 (local pack or web results). [sqb] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: dental implants Israel Not present on page 1 of web results. [sqc] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: emergency dentist Israel Not present on page 1 (local pack or web results). [sqd] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: Israel dental clinic for expats Not present on page 1 (local pack or web results). [sqe] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Structured data on website Only a generic WebSite type found, no business-entity schema [virginia-melmed-telaviv-deepen-17] | 0/1.5 |
| ◐ | Google indexing quality The clinic's own site is not among the 10 results of a name-and-city web search on 2026-10-05, although a search limited to its domain shows its pages are indexed. [virginia-melmed-telaviv-av4] [virginia-melmed-telaviv-av4-2] | 1/2 |
| ✗ | Dedicated service pages Services appear as short items on the one home page [virginia-melmed-telaviv-deepen-18] | 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: 557CN (MOH Institutions Registry — "Dental Experts Center Ltd.", Weizmann 14 Tel Aviv, status: valid, 01/09/2024–01/09/2027) (This is the MOH facility licence of the dental centre at the card’s address, whose registered medical director is Dr Ervin Yitzhak Weiss (dentist licence 2-2567, prosthodontic rehabilitation) — that is, the Prof Ervin Weiss Dental Center the practice operates out of. It is a licence of the centre, not of Dr Melmed personally.) [reg3]
Dentists & professional licences
| Dentist | Specialization | Licence No. |
|---|---|---|
| Virginia Melmed [s1] [reg1] | DDS, cosmetic and restorative dentistry (UCLA-trained, per her own site) | not found in the public register (checked 2 September 2026) |
One or more named dentists could not be found in the public register on the date checked — recorded as unverified, no penalty.
Red Flags
No red flags identified in the public sources we reviewed.
Data We Could Not Verify
- Information Transparency: Real clinic photos
- Reputation & Reviews: Google rating (Bayesian-adjusted)
- Reputation & Reviews: Review recency
- Reputation & Reviews: No recurring complaints
- Reputation & Reviews: No suspicious review patterns
- Medical Infrastructure: CBCT (3D imaging)
- Communication & Service: Response speed
- Communication & Service: English spoken
- Communication & Service: Convenient opening hours
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.drvirginiamelmed.com/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +972 3 546 7934 |
| Google Maps | Map listing |
| Address | Weizmann Tower, 14 Weizmann St., Suite 1908 (19th floor), Tel Aviv, Israel |
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.drvirginiamelmed.com/contact | Address, phone, email | 2026-09-03 |
| s2 | https://www.whatclinic.com/dentists/israel/tel-aviv/dr-virginia-melmed | Clinic name (Prof Ervin Weiss Dental Center), services, rating, address confirmation | 2026-09-02 |
| reg1 | https://registries.health.gov.il/Practitioners/2 | Israel MOH Practitioners Registry, dentists filter — 15,532 dentist records, register dated 02/09/2026. Searched live in a browser on 2026-09-02: every dentist licence number, licence type, status and specialist certificate recorded on this card was read from it. | 2026-09-02 |
| sm | https://www.google.com/maps/place/Dr.+Virginia+Melmed/@32.0811111,3… | Live Maps listing, address, geo confirmed 2026-09-02; no rating/review count shown on listing | 2026-09-03 |
| sqa | search:best dentist Tel Aviv | AI/search visibility scout 2026-09-02 | 2026-09-02 |
| sqb | search:English speaking dentist Tel Aviv | AI/search visibility scout 2026-09-02 | 2026-09-02 |
| sqc | search:dental implants Tel Aviv | AI/search visibility scout 2026-09-02 | 2026-09-02 |
| sqd | search:emergency dentist Tel Aviv | AI/search visibility scout 2026-09-02 | 2026-09-02 |
| sqe | search:Tel Aviv dental clinic for expats | AI/search visibility scout 2026-09-02 | 2026-09-02 |
| reg3 | https://registries.health.gov.il/Institutions | Israel MOH Institutions Registry, category "dental clinics of corporations" — 1,030 licensed dental clinics, register dated 02/09/2026, read live 2026-09-02. | 2026-09-02 |
| virginia-melmed-telaviv-deepen | https://www.google.com/maps?cid=1964384725088482969&hl=en | Google Business Profile re-read 2026-09-25: listing shows the "Claim this business" prompt and carries no reviews | 2026-09-25 |
| virginia-melmed-telaviv-deepen-2 | https://www.drvirginiamelmed.com/ | Complete service list (whitening, crowns/veneers, Cerec, digital impressions, fillings, implants) contains no orthodontic treatment | 2026-09-25 |
| virginia-melmed-telaviv-deepen-3 | https://www.drvirginiamelmed.com/--c13qp | All ten pages of the site read on 2026-09-25 (English and Hebrew home, services, treatment types, about, why us, testimonials, contact): no prices, no orthodontic treatment and no WhatsApp link | 2026-09-25 |
| virginia-melmed-telaviv-deepen-4 | https://www.tripadvisor.com/TypeAheadJson?action=API&query=Virginia… | TripAdvisor search for "Virginia Melmed" on 2026-09-25 returned 12 results (places, attractions and hotels in Virginia, US); none is a dental listing for this clinic | 2026-09-25 |
| virginia-melmed-telaviv-deepen-5 | https://www.drvirginiamelmed.com/why-us | Why Us page: "Specialists from the areas of prosthodontics, periodontics, pedodontics and oral surgery make up the staff at the dental clinic"; the page also lists digital radiographs among the office technology | 2026-09-25 |
| virginia-melmed-telaviv-deepen-6 | https://www.drvirginiamelmed.com/services | Services page (read 2026-09-25) explains whitening, porcelain crowns and veneers, white fillings and bonding, cleanings and sealants in plain language, e.g. "Porcelain crowns and veneers can be used to replace teeth structure that has been destroyed or damaged"; and "Dr. Virginia Melmed is pleased to provide preventative and educational services to children" | 2026-09-25 |
| virginia-melmed-telaviv-deepen-7 | https://www.drvirginiamelmed.com/ | Home page lists services (whitening, crowns/veneers, Cerec, fillings, implants) with no price figures anywhere | 2026-09-25 |
| virginia-melmed-telaviv-deepen-8 | https://www.drvirginiamelmed.com/ | "White Fillings | Composite | Dental Bonding" is listed among services with no price | 2026-09-25 |
| virginia-melmed-telaviv-deepen-9 | https://www.drvirginiamelmed.com/ | "All-ceramic Crowns and Veneers" and "Cerec (one-appointment crowns)" are listed among services with no price | 2026-09-25 |
| virginia-melmed-telaviv-deepen-10 | https://www.drvirginiamelmed.com/ | "Dental Implants" is listed among services with no price | 2026-09-25 |
| virginia-melmed-telaviv-deepen-11 | https://www.drvirginiamelmed.com/ | Home page directs patients to call to schedule, with no consultation price given | 2026-09-25 |
| virginia-melmed-telaviv-deepen-12 | https://www.drvirginiamelmed.com/ | Home page read in full: no X-ray/imaging price | 2026-09-25 |
| virginia-melmed-telaviv-deepen-13 | https://www.drvirginiamelmed.com/ | Home page links facebook.com/Tel-Aviv-Dentist-Dr-Virginia-Melmed-333571680020468/ | 2026-09-25 |
| virginia-melmed-telaviv-deepen-14 | https://www.drvirginiamelmed.com/ | Full home page checked: no tripadvisor.com reference | 2026-09-25 |
| virginia-melmed-telaviv-deepen-15 | https://www.drvirginiamelmed.com/ | Home page: "Dental tourism in Tel Aviv" listed as a topic, and the practice is branded "Anglo Dentist in Tel Aviv" | 2026-09-25 |
| virginia-melmed-telaviv-deepen-16 | https://www.drvirginiamelmed.com/ | Home page gives only a phone number for contact; no wa.me/WhatsApp or LINE link found in the page source | 2026-09-25 |
| virginia-melmed-telaviv-deepen-17 | https://www.drvirginiamelmed.com/ | JSON-LD on the home page contains only a WebSite type; no Dentist/LocalBusiness/Organization entity | 2026-09-25 |
| virginia-melmed-telaviv-deepen-18 | https://www.drvirginiamelmed.com/ | Teeth whitening, crowns, Cerec, fillings and implants each appear as a brief home-page item rather than a distinct content page | 2026-09-25 |
| virginia-melmed-telaviv-deepen-19 | https://www.drvirginiamelmed.com/why-us | Why Us page: "technology that Dr. Virginia Melmed utilizes in the office includes intraoral and extraoral cameras, digital radiographs, the Wand injector, and a Cerec machine" | 2026-09-25 |
| virginia-melmed-telaviv-av4 | search:"Dr. Virginia Melmed" Tel Aviv | Web search run on 2026-10-05 (English, US results) for the clinic's name and city: 10 results listed, none from its own domain. Listed instead: ten WhatClinic pages. | 2026-10-05 |
| virginia-melmed-telaviv-av4-2 | search:site:drvirginiamelmed.com | Web search run on 2026-10-05 (English, US results) limited to the clinic's own domain: it returns five pages of the site (home, about the dentist, services, why-us and contact), so the site is indexed although it is not among the name-and-city results. | 2026-10-05 |
Change History
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-05 | Google indexing quality measured as partial after a name-and-city web search on 2026-10-05 (own site not listed, though indexed). |
| 2026-09-25 | Re-read on 2026-09-25: all ten pages of the clinic's website (English and Hebrew) and its Google listing. Recorded: the Google listing remains unclaimed with owner replies impossible; no prices published for any treatment; a Facebook page; no TripAdvisor presence; no orthodontics offered; preventive care for children, with pedodontics and oral surgery specialists on the clinic's staff; digital radiographs among the office technology; the site explicitly advertises dental tourism for an English-speaking ("Anglo") practice; no WhatsApp contact; brief plain-language explanations of each service on one services page; no business-entity structured data; no dedicated per-service pages. Still unverified: genuine clinic/team photos (the page's own images are mostly logos and decorative thumbnails, and the Google listing carries only one photo) and opening hours. |
| 2026-09-03 | Reputation pass 2026-09-03 (browser): the four review criteria were checked and left null - the listing carries no reviews to assess (or, for gottlieb, no listing at all). The finding is now recorded on each criterion rather than only in the verify trail. |
| 2026-09-03 | Price-transparency top-up: no price list found on direct re-check. Rule D: Dr Virginia Melmed’s licence field converted from a research narrative to the schema’s licenseNotFound state (license: null, licenseNotFound: 2026-09-02) — the register was exhaustively searched under every spelling on that date and she could not be matched to an entry; see clinic.notes for the search detail. |
| 2026-09-03 | Coverage top-up: Google rating re-checked live on the Maps place page in a browser. The listing genuinely carries no rating and no reviews (and is marked temporarily closed), so googleRating stays null and googleReviewCount is now an explicit 0 rather than null. |
| 2026-09-02 | Live Google Maps re-verification (rating/review count/geo/place URL) and live re-check of the 5 canonical aiVisibility search queries for Tel Aviv. |
| 2026-09-02 | Initial data collection for the Israel Dental Transparency & Trust Index: verified via clinic/aggregator websites; Google Maps ratings could not be independently confirmed (no live place URL reachable) so left null; Ministry of Health dentist registry confirmed SPA-blocked. |
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