IDU Implantes — Maldonado
According to our open methodology, this clinic scored 61.7/100 for transparency, reputation, service accessibility, and digital visibility.
Overall rank: #2 of 20 ranked clinics · Last checked: 25 September 2026
Positions by Rating Profile
- Overall Transparency & Trust#261.7/100
- Best for Expats#160/100
- Best for Dental Implants#159.3/100
- Best for Emergency Dental Carenot ranked
- Best Price Transparency#151.1/100
- Best English-speaking Clinicsnot ranked
- Best for Families / Children#265.1/100
- 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) — No general anaesthesia or deep sedation documented Conscious sedation only; no general anaesthesia or deep sedation is offered. [idu-implantes-maldonado-g5]
Summary
Implant-led practice on the Bulevar Artigas corner in Maldonado city, within the Punta del Este area this directory covers, trading as IDU Implantes and running a second consultorio in Montevideo. Its site publishes immediate-load implants with fixed provisional teeth placed the same day, prostheses over implants, full-arch rehabilitation in zirconia, invisible aligners, digital smile design, veneers and whitening, and states that digital radiology, an intraoral scanner and a cone-beam tomograph are on its own premises. Dr. Andrés Alayón is named as clinical director with his UDELAR degree and his implant training, and the site footer publishes the clinic's MSP habilitación number. No prices are published; instalment and bank financing are, and the initial 3D diagnosis is stated to be free. The Google listing is titled with the dentist's name rather than the practice's trading name.
Identity across the two channels was checked on the hard identifiers rather than the name: the Google listing is titled "Clínica Dr. Andrés Alayón" while the practice trades as IDU Implantes, but both carry the same street corner in Maldonado and the same telephone, +598 4226 3799, and the site names Dr. Alayón as its clinical director and responsible practitioner. The site contradicts itself on both its addresses: its body text and footer give "Av. Boulevard Artigas esq. Av. del Mar" for Maldonado and "Paraguay 1208 apto 104 y 105 esq Canelones" for Montevideo, while the structured data embedded in the same page gives "Av. Roosevelt y Parada 12" and "WTC, Torre 2, Buceo". The addresses on this card are the ones in the visible text, because the Google listing and the telephone agree with them. Two of the three patient testimonials the site publishes are the same two reviews, under the same names, that appear on its Google listing. This card was opened at a decisions gate rather than in a research pass, so the AI-visibility fields were not measured and are left unset.
Strengths
- Information Transparency: 18 of 20 points.
- No red flags identified in public sources.
Weaknesses
- Price Transparency: 4 of 15 verifiable points (missing: prices or price ranges published; cleaning price listed; filling price listed; crown price listed; implant price listed)
- AI & Search Visibility: 3 of 8 verifiable points (missing: mentioned for: best dentist Uruguay; mentioned for: English speaking dentist Uruguay; mentioned for: dental implants Uruguay; mentioned for: emergency dentist Uruguay; mentioned for: Uruguay dental clinic for expats)
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 Dr. Andrés Alayón is named as clinical director and as the practice's responsible practitioner. He is the only dentist named: the site states that it has more than ten professionals but names none of the others. [s1] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Dentist specializations listed The site states his qualification and training in his own words: graduated from UDELAR in 2007, began specialising in dental implants in 2008 in Córdoba, Argentina, and has trained since in the Americas, Europe and the United States, with further study in orthodontics, endodontics and aesthetics. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Real clinic photos Own-domain photographs with camera-style filenames (images/IMG_1220.webp, IMG_3954-1.webp, IMG_3963-2.webp, IMG_9689-scaled.webp), a named portrait of the dentist (images/idu-andres-alayon.webp) and a before-and-after case gallery of the practice's own work (images/casos/caso-1 to caso-4). [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Service list published [s1] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Clear contact details The site publishes a separate street address and telephone for each of its two consultorios, and a contact form that asks which of the two the patient wants. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✗ | English website version The page declares itself as es-UY, carries no alternate-language link and no translated pages were found. [s1] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Address and map published [s1] [gmap] | 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 No price or price range is published for any treatment. What is published is payment terms: card payment in up to twelve instalments and bank financing over thirty-six instalments at zero interest. [s1] | 0/3 |
| ✗ | Cleaning price listed Full site read; no price figures for general/preventive care [idu-implantes-maldonado-deepen-14] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Filling price listed Full site read; implant/prosthetics specialist, no filling price [idu-implantes-maldonado-deepen-15] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Crown price listed Full site read; no crown price [idu-implantes-maldonado-deepen-2] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Implant price listed Full site read; no implant price figure [idu-implantes-maldonado-deepen-3] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Consultation price listed The initial diagnosis is published as free — "Diagnóstico Gratuito" on the home page and "tu diagnóstico 3D sin costo" on the contact form. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | X-ray / imaging price listed Free 3D diagnostic scan published [idu-implantes-maldonado-deepen-4] | 2/2 |
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) Rating 4.7 read 2026-09-11 and cross-checked against the listing's rating histogram (41 five-star, 2 four-star, 1 three-star, 0 two-star, 3 one-star), whose mean of 4.70 matches the headline figure. [gmap] | 4/6 |
| ◐ | Google review volume Review count 47, read 2026-09-11 and equal to the sum of the rating histogram (41+2+1+0+3). [gmap] | 1/3 |
| ✓ | Review recency The newest of the five reviews read on 2026-09-11 is dated 26 June 2026, under three months old. The five read are dated between 3 October 2025 and 26 June 2026. [gmap] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Clinic responds to reviews The practice answers critical reviews in public. Of the five reviews read on 2026-09-11, the one-star dated 26 November 2025 — which accuses the practice of caring about money rather than the patient over a biopsy quote — carries a substantial reply from the practice dated 2 December 2025 that answers the specific accusation. [gmap] | 2/2 |
| ✗ | No recurring complaints Two independent reviews describe the same profit-over-care complaint [idu-implantes-maldonado-deepen-5] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | No suspicious review patterns The rating histogram read 2026-09-11 spans four of the five possible ratings — 41 five-star, two four-star, one three-star and three one-star — which is an ordinary distribution rather than a wall of five-star reviews, and the five reviews read are dated across nine months. Nothing in either points to manufactured reviews. [gmap] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Active Facebook presence Facebook page linked from the clinic's own structured data [idu-implantes-maldonado-deepen-16] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | TripAdvisor presence Two independent negatives: TripAdvisor search and own site [idu-implantes-maldonado-deepen-6] [idu-implantes-maldonado-deepen-17] | 0/0.5 |
| ✗ | Other review platforms Two independent negatives: WhatClinic and TripAdvisor [idu-implantes-maldonado-deepen-7] [idu-implantes-maldonado-deepen-18] | 0/0.5 |
Medical Infrastructure
The range of publicly documented equipment and services. This measures documented availability, not clinical quality.
| ✓ | On-site X-ray The site states that digital radiology is in the practice's own premises. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | CBCT (3D imaging) The site states twice, once in the dentist's own words, that a current-generation tomograph is in the practice's own premises and that treatment is planned from 3D imaging. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Implantology [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Orthodontics Invisible aligners, with a dedicated page. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Oral surgery Implant surgery, extractions and bone regeneration for patients with insufficient bone. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Pediatric dentistry Children's orthopaedics and orthodontics from age 3 are documented [idu-implantes-maldonado-deepen-8] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ✗ | Emergency care Full treatment menu published; no emergency category [idu-implantes-maldonado-deepen-19] | 0/1.5 |
| ? | Works with international patients | 0/2 |
Communication & Service
How easy it is to contact the clinic, get answers, and book - especially for international patients.
| ✓ | WhatsApp / LINE available The site carries two WhatsApp links, wa.me/59891055084 and wa.me/59892499467. Which of the two consultorios each belongs to is not stated, so neither is recorded as this card's number. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ? | Response speed | 0/1.5 |
| ? | English spoken | 0/2.5 |
| ✓ | Pre-visit consultation possible Online free-evaluation request form with clinic and treatment selection [idu-implantes-maldonado-deepen] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ✓ | Clear service explanations Each treatment is published with what it is for and how long it takes — a missing single tooth, a loose denture, worn teeth, fear of the dentist, each with the time the practice says the solution needs — and a frequently-asked-questions block answers duration, pain, financing, guarantee, insufficient bone and insurance reimbursement. [s1] | 1/1 |
| ✓ | Convenient opening hours Hours published on the practice's own Google Business Profile, read 2026-09-11: Monday to Friday 9 AM–8 PM, Saturday and Sunday closed — evening opening every weekday. The practice's own site publishes a shorter weekday window for the same consultorio, 09:00–19:00; both meet the test and the difference is recorded here rather than resolved. Scored against a single published rule: evening opening (closing 19:00 or later) or Saturday/Sunday opening. [gmap] | 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 Uruguay", "English speaking dentist Uruguay", "dental implants Uruguay", "emergency dentist Uruguay", "Uruguay dental clinic for expats".
| ✗ | Mentioned for: best dentist Uruguay Not present in the top web results for "best dentist Punta del Este" on 2026-09-25. [idu-implantes-maldonado-deepen-9] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: English speaking dentist Uruguay Not present for "English speaking dentist Punta del Este", re-run as "English speaking dentist Punta del Este, Uruguay" on 2026-09-25. [idu-implantes-maldonado-deepen-10] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: dental implants Uruguay Not present in the top web results for "dental implants Punta del Este" on 2026-09-25. [idu-implantes-maldonado-deepen-11] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: emergency dentist Uruguay Not present in the top web results for "emergency dentist Punta del Este" on 2026-09-25. [idu-implantes-maldonado-deepen-12] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: Uruguay dental clinic for expats Not present in the top web results for "Punta del Este dental clinic for expats" on 2026-09-25. [idu-implantes-maldonado-deepen-13] | 0/1 |
| ✓ | Structured data on website The home page embeds schema.org Dentist data with the practice name, telephone, both postal addresses, both sets of coordinates and its social profiles. [s1] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ? | Google indexing quality | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Dedicated service pages Separate pages per treatment area: /implantes-dentales, /protesis-sobre-implantes, /ortodoncia and /otros-tratamientos, alongside /quienes-somos, /contacto and a blog. [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: Habilitación MSP Nº 4522 (as published by the clinic in its own site footer, beside Dr. Andrés Alayón as responsible practitioner; MSP habilitación is a paper, provider-facing procedure with no public search tool, so the number is published but cannot be independently confirmed) [s1]
Dentists & professional licences
| Dentist | Specialization | Licence No. |
|---|---|---|
| Dr. Andrés Alayón [s1] | Implantology — immediate-load implants, full-arch rehabilitation | not verified |
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
- Medical Infrastructure: Works with international patients
- Communication & Service: Response speed
- Communication & Service: English spoken
- AI & Search Visibility: Google indexing quality
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://iduimplantes.com/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +598 4226 3799 |
| https://www.facebook.com/iduimplantes | |
| Google Maps | Map listing |
| Address | Av. Bulevar Artigas esq. Av. del Mar, Maldonado, Departamento de Maldonado, Uruguay |
Contact details are provided for identification only and may change; verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | https://iduimplantes.com/ | Practice website fetched in full on 2026-09-11 (120 KB): trading name IDU Implantes, clinical director Dr. Andrés Alayón with UDELAR 2007 and implant training from 2008 in Córdoba, Argentina; Maldonado consultorio at Av. Boulevard Artigas esq. Av. del Mar with hours Mon–Fri 09:00–19:00 and telephone 4226 3799; Montevideo consultorio at Paraguay 1208 apto 104 y 105 esq Canelones, telephone 2903 4369; services (immediate-load implants, prostheses over implants, zirconia full-arch rehabilitation, invisible aligners, digital smile design, veneers, whitening, extractions, bone regeneration, conscious sedation); digital radiology, intraoral scanner and tomograph stated as on-site; free 3D diagnosis; no prices, twelve-instalment card payment and thirty-six-instalment bank financing at zero interest; MSP habilitación Nº 4522 in the footer; schema.org Dentist structured data; separate pages per treatment area; own-domain photographs and a before-and-after case gallery; two WhatsApp links; declared language es-UY with no translated version. | 2026-09-25 |
| gmap | https://www.google.com/maps?cid=6488332265937201765 | Google place read by an automated fetch on 2026-09-11: "Clínica Dr. Andrés Alayón", Dental clinic, Blvr. Gral. José Gervasio Artigas, 20000 Maldonado; coordinates -34.9253866, -54.9408295; telephone +598 4226 3799; rating 4.7 over 47 reviews, histogram 3/0/1/2/41; hours Monday to Friday 9 AM–8 PM, weekends closed; four photographs uploaded through the practice's own Google Business account; five reviews returned, dated 3 October 2025 to 26 June 2026, of which the one-star of 26 November 2025 carries a reply from the practice dated 2 December 2025. | 2026-09-11 |
| idu-implantes-maldonado-deepen | https://iduimplantes.com/otros-tratamientos | Page carries "Solicitar Evaluación Gratis" form fields: Nombre, WhatsApp, Email, Clínica de Preferencia, Tratamiento | 2026-09-25 |
| idu-implantes-maldonado-deepen-2 | https://iduimplantes.com/protesis-sobre-implantes | Implant-prosthetics page (structured Offer catalogue) names services without prices | 2026-09-25 |
| idu-implantes-maldonado-deepen-3 | https://iduimplantes.com/implantes-dentales | Implants page and its structured-data Offer catalogue name "Implantes All-on-4" and "Carga Inmediata" services with no price field | 2026-09-25 |
| idu-implantes-maldonado-deepen-4 | https://iduimplantes.com/contacto | Page: "Diagnóstico 3D sin costo — Sin compromiso de compra — Agendar Diagnóstico Gratuito" | 2026-09-25 |
| idu-implantes-maldonado-deepen-5 | https://www.google.com/maps?cid=6488332265937201765&hl=en | Review 2025-11-26: "no les importa la salud del paciente sino la plata"; review 2025-09-09: "Solo les importa la plata, no la salud del paciente...no les interesa tu salud, solo cuánto dinero pueden sacarte" | 2026-09-25 |
| idu-implantes-maldonado-deepen-6 | https://www.tripadvisor.com/TypeAheadJson?action=API&query=IDU%20Im… | TypeAheadJson returned only unrelated geo/attraction/hotel suggestions, no clinic profile | 2026-09-25 |
| idu-implantes-maldonado-deepen-7 | https://www.whatclinic.com/dentists/uruguay | National WhatClinic Uruguay catalogue lists 4 dentists nationwide (DentalPro, Dr. Daniel Larrosa Techera, Clinica BioVital, Consultorio Dr. Fabian Rigali), none of them this clinic | 2026-09-25 |
| idu-implantes-maldonado-deepen-8 | https://iduimplantes.com/ortodoncia | Orthodontics page: "Ortopedia Infantil — Ortodoncia en Niños: Guía del crecimiento facial desde los 3 años"; "trabaja con niños desde los 3 años" | 2026-09-25 |
| idu-implantes-maldonado-deepen-9 | search:best dentist Punta del Este | Web search on 2026-09-25: results 1–9 were facebook.com, starofservice.uy, newholidays.co.uk, en.wikipedia.org, clinicadifiuri-falcioni.com, centrodentaldeleste.com, odontologiapuntadeleste.com, clinicaberro.com.uy, sitio.clinicaodontologicaaimone.com; the clinic's site and name were not among them. | 2026-09-25 |
| idu-implantes-maldonado-deepen-10 | search:English speaking dentist Punta del Este, Uruguay | Web search on 2026-09-25 for "English speaking dentist Punta del Este, Uruguay" (re-run of "English speaking dentist Punta del Este"): results 1–10 were dnb.com, tripadvisor.ca, facebook.com (x2), expatexchange.com, expat.com, baexpats.org, newholidays.co.uk, dentaldepartures.com, whatclinic.com; the clinic's site and name were not among them. | 2026-09-25 |
| idu-implantes-maldonado-deepen-11 | search:dental implants Punta del Este | Web search on 2026-09-25: results 1–10 were facebook.com, implantologiadental.uy (x2), odontologiapuntadeleste.com, clinicaberro.com.uy, clinicadifiuri-falcioni.com, newholidays.co.uk, puntadelesteinternacional.com, en.wikipedia.org, smilepuntadeleste.com; the clinic's site and name were not among them. | 2026-09-25 |
| idu-implantes-maldonado-deepen-12 | search:emergency dentist Punta del Este | Web search on 2026-09-25: results 1–10 were facebook.com, m.facebook.com, starofservice.uy, smilesofpuntagorda.com, centrodentaldeleste.com, odontologiapuntadeleste.com, clinicadifiuri-falcioni.com, clinicaberro.com.uy, sitio.clinicaodontologicaaimone.com, emergencydentistry.com; the clinic's site and name were not among them. | 2026-09-25 |
| idu-implantes-maldonado-deepen-13 | search:Punta del Este dental clinic for expats | Web search on 2026-09-25: results 1–10 were facebook.com, m.facebook.com, clinicadifiuri-falcioni.com, clinicaberro.com.uy, centrodentaldeleste.com, puntadelesteinternacional.com, newholidays.co.uk, smilepuntadeleste.com, sitio.clinicaodontologicaaimone.com, dentaldepartures.com; the clinic's site and name were not among them. | 2026-09-25 |
| idu-implantes-maldonado-deepen-14 | https://iduimplantes.com/otros-tratamientos | Other-treatments page read; no cleaning price published | 2026-09-25 |
| idu-implantes-maldonado-deepen-15 | https://iduimplantes.com/otros-tratamientos | Same page; no filling price published | 2026-09-25 |
| idu-implantes-maldonado-deepen-16 | https://iduimplantes.com/ | Page JSON-LD "sameAs" lists "https://www.facebook.com/iduimplantes" | 2026-09-25 |
| idu-implantes-maldonado-deepen-17 | https://iduimplantes.com/ | No tripadvisor.com link found on the clinic's own site | 2026-09-25 |
| idu-implantes-maldonado-deepen-18 | https://www.tripadvisor.com/TypeAheadJson?action=API&query=IDU%20Im… | TripAdvisor search also returned no matching clinic profile | 2026-09-25 |
| idu-implantes-maldonado-deepen-19 | https://iduimplantes.com/otros-tratamientos | Same complete treatment menu; no urgent/same-day care entry | 2026-09-25 |
| idu-implantes-maldonado-g5 | https://iduimplantes.com/ | Home page read 2026-10-02: for patients afraid of pain "Usamos sedación consciente" (conscious sedation); none of the site's 9 pages offers general anaesthesia or deep or intravenous sedation | 2026-10-02 |
Change History
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-02 | offersSedation: true -> false. The clinic offers conscious sedation only (nitrous oxide or oral sedatives), not general anaesthesia or deep sedation. |
| 2026-09-25 | Search visibility checked on 2026-09-25 for the five standard Punta del Este queries: not present for "best dentist Punta del Este", "English speaking dentist Punta del Este, Uruguay", "dental implants Punta del Este", "emergency dentist Punta del Este", "Punta del Este dental clinic for expats". |
| 2026-09-25 | Re-read on 2026-09-25: the clinic's treatment pages (implants, prosthetics, other treatments), contact page and its Google listing (48 reviews). Recorded: a free 3D diagnostic scan is published; an online free-evaluation request form lets patients pick their preferred branch and treatment; a Facebook page is linked from the site's own structured data; children's orthopaedics from age 3 on the orthodontics page; no emergency service in the full treatment menu. Two independent one-star reviews from within weeks of each other describe the same complaint — that the clinic prioritizes billing over patient care — so recurring complaints are recorded. Checked TripAdvisor and the national WhatClinic directory: no profile on either. Still unverified: cleaning/filling/crown prices, English-speaking staff and work with foreign patients. |
| 2026-09-11 | Card opened at the decisions gate for this country. The practice was already known as an uncarded Google listing in the Maldonado area; it was added once two independent channels had been read in full and found to agree on the street corner, the telephone and the dentist's name — its own website and its Google listing. Reputation, hours and coordinates come from the listing; services, staffing, equipment, payment terms and the clinic's MSP habilitación number from the site. The AI-visibility fields were not measured and are left unset rather than guessed. |
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