Advance Dental Care
According to our open methodology, this clinic scored 26.9/100 for transparency, reputation, service accessibility, and digital visibility.
Overall rank: #10 of 14 ranked clinics · Last checked: 25 September 2026
26.9/100
Positions by Rating Profile
- Overall Transparency & Trust#1026.9/100
- Best for Expats#1028.5/100
- Best for Dental Implants#626.5/100
- Best for Emergency Dental Care#632.5/100
- Best Price Transparency#1017.3/100
- Best English-speaking Clinics#1030.2/100
- 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) — Not verified
Summary
Practice on St Thomas Street with one of the larger public review bases in Belize City. It runs no website: its only channel is a Google Business listing it manages itself, which carries the address, phone number and opening hours but no dentist name, service list or prices. Reviewers consistently name a Dr. David Gonzalez and describe implants, surgical extractions and same-day emergency care — but none of that comes from the practice, which publishes nothing about who works there or what it offers, and that gap is what the score reflects.
Strengths
No categories reached the strength threshold (80%).
Weaknesses
- Information Transparency: 6 of 20 verifiable points (missing: has a working website; dentist names listed; dentist specializations listed; service list published; english website version)
- 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: 0 of 8 verifiable points (missing: mentioned for: best dentist Belize; mentioned for: English speaking dentist Belize; mentioned for: dental implants Belize; mentioned for: emergency dentist Belize; mentioned for: Belize 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
6 / 20
Whether basic facts about the clinic - its team, premises, services, and location - are publicly verifiable.
| ✗ | Has a working website The practice-managed Google listing carries no website, and no site for it surfaced in a web search on 2026-09-10. [gm] | 0/4 |
| ✗ | Dentist names listed The clinic's only channel — its own Google Business listing — names no dentist. [gm] | 0/3 |
| ✗ | Dentist specializations listed [gm] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Real clinic photos No website; a patron-uploaded photo on the clinic's Google listing shows a real patient in a real dental chair with visible equipment and a dentist at work, not stock imagery [advance-dental-care-belize-city-deepen] | 2/2 |
| ✗ | Service list published The listing carries the category "Dentist" only; no treatment list is published on any clinic channel. [gm] | 0/3 |
| ✓ | Clear contact details Street address, phone number and full opening hours on the clinic-managed Google listing. [gm] [np] | 2/2 |
| ✗ | English website version No website exists to have an English version [advance-dental-care-belize-city-deepen] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Address and map published Street address and coordinates on the clinic-managed Google listing. [gm] [np] | 2/2 |
Price Transparency
0 / 15
Whether patients can estimate costs before visiting. Published price ranges count; exact prices are not required.
| ✗ | Prices or price ranges published No prices are published on the clinic's only channel. [gm] | 0/3 |
| ✗ | Cleaning price listed No website and no social page of its own found; its Google listing lists no prices [advance-dental-care-belize-city-deepen] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Filling price listed No website and no social page of its own found; its Google listing lists no prices [advance-dental-care-belize-city-deepen] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Crown price listed No website and no social page of its own found; its Google listing lists no prices [advance-dental-care-belize-city-deepen] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Implant price listed No website and no social page of its own found; its Google listing lists no prices [advance-dental-care-belize-city-deepen] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Consultation price listed No website and no social page of its own found; its Google listing lists no prices [advance-dental-care-belize-city-deepen] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | X-ray / imaging price listed No website and no social page of its own found; its Google listing lists no prices [advance-dental-care-belize-city-deepen] | 0/2 |
Reputation & Reviews
10.5 / 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) Google Maps place record read live 2026-09-10. Rating histogram 0 to 5 stars: 1/0/0/0/14 over 15 reviews, implied mean 4.73 against the published 4.7. The listing is managed by the practice. [gm] | 3/6 |
| ◐ | Google review volume [gm] | 0.5/3 |
| ✓ | Review recency Newest Google review is dated 2026-07-23 (listing read 2026-09-25). [advance-dental-care-belize-city-gbp-2026-09-25] | 3/3 |
| ✗ | Clinic responds to reviews Read in a browser on 2026-09-10: eight of the fifteen reviews render and none carries a "Response from the owner" block, on a listing the practice manages. [gm] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | No recurring complaints Fourteen of the fifteen reviews are five-star and one is one-star; the single one-star review is not among the eight Google renders, so its text was not read here either. All eight that were read are detailed positive accounts of specific treatments, and with one sub-three-star review in the base three reviewers cannot be repeating the same complaint. [gm] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | No suspicious review patterns Seven distinct reviews spanning two years, no sentence shared between any two of them, and several describing different treatments and different years of attendance. [gm] | 2/2 |
| ? | Active Facebook presence Not established: the "Advance Dental Care" page found gives a Caye Caulker address and another phone and has not posted since May 2020; no page of the Belize City clinic was found (checked 2026-10-02). | 0/1 |
| ✗ | TripAdvisor presence No matching listing in TripAdvisor's own search on 2026-09-25 [advance-dental-care-belize-city-deepen-2] | 0/0.5 |
| ✗ | Other review platforms No profile of its own on a review platform: American Health Tourism has only an unclaimed directory entry with no reviews; WhatClinic, Dental Departures and Bookimed list no clinic in Belize. [advance-dental-care-belize-city-deepen-3] [advance-dental-care-belize-city-g6] [advance-dental-care-belize-city-g6-2] [advance-dental-care-belize-city-g6-3] | 0/0.5 |
Medical Infrastructure
5.5 / 15
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 One reviewer reports two implants placed at this practice years ago with no subsequent problems, and another describes multi-visit reconstructive work covering every tooth, including crowns. Review evidence, not a clinic publication. [gm] | 2/2 |
| ? | Orthodontics | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Oral surgery Independent reviewers on the practice-managed listing describe surgery performed here: an infected wisdom tooth removed for a visitor, and a serious mouth injury treated on arrival. This rests on review evidence, not on anything the practice publishes — it publishes no service list at all. [gm] | 2/2 |
| ? | Pediatric dentistry | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | Emergency care Two independent reviewers describe being taken the same day on an urgent basis — an infected wisdom tooth during a family visit, and a mouth injury after the patient travelled in by boat and plane from the cayes. Review evidence, not a clinic publication. [gm] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ? | Works with international patients | 0/2 |
Communication & Service
4 / 10
How easy it is to contact the clinic, get answers, and book - especially for international patients.
| ? | WhatsApp / LINE available | 0/2 |
| ? | Response speed | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | English spoken Reviews from patients based in the United States, Canada and Belgium describe their options and aftercare being explained to them here in English. The methodology admits consistent review evidence for this criterion. [gm] | 2.5/2.5 |
| ? | Pre-visit consultation possible | 0/1.5 |
| ? | Clear service explanations | 0/1 |
| ✓ | Convenient opening hours Monday to Friday 09:00–18:00 and Saturday 09:00–13:00, Sunday closed, re-read on 2026-09-11 on the independent directory that mirrors this listing. The listing’s own short answer renders only the two days next to the date it is read — three attempts returned Thursday and Friday only — and gives them as 08:00–18:00, an hour earlier than the copy. The Saturday surgery, which is what meets this criterion, is published on both. [gm] [np] | 1.5/1.5 |
AI & Search Visibility
0 / 10
Whether the clinic is discoverable when patients search - including via AI assistants. Checked with fixed queries: "best dentist Belize", "English speaking dentist Belize", "dental implants Belize", "emergency dentist Belize", "Belize dental clinic for expats".
| ✗ | Mentioned for: best dentist Belize [avq] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: English speaking dentist Belize [avq] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: dental implants Belize [avq] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: emergency dentist Belize [avq] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: Belize dental clinic for expats The practice appears in none of the five canonical Belize City queries. [avq] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Structured data on website No website exists, so no HTML markup to check [advance-dental-care-belize-city-deepen] | 0/1.5 |
| ? | Google indexing quality | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Dedicated service pages No website exists [advance-dental-care-belize-city-deepen] | 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
No published dentist roster is recorded for this clinic yet — unverified, no penalty.
Red Flags
- low No dentists identified anywhere (-2 pts) — No dentist names published (derived from data).
Red-flag penalty applied: -2 points (capped at -20).
Data We Could Not Verify
- Reputation & Reviews: Active Facebook presence
- Medical Infrastructure: On-site X-ray
- Medical Infrastructure: CBCT (3D imaging)
- Medical Infrastructure: Orthodontics
- Medical Infrastructure: Pediatric dentistry
- Medical Infrastructure: Works with international patients
- Communication & Service: WhatsApp / LINE available
- Communication & Service: Response speed
- Communication & Service: Pre-visit consultation possible
- Communication & Service: Clear service explanations
- 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
| Phone | +501 203-1133 |
|---|---|
| Google Maps | Map listing |
| Address | No 7, St Thomas Street, Belize City, Belize |
Contact details are provided for identification only and may change; verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| gm | https://www.google.com/maps/place/Advance+Dental+Care/@17.5096369,-… | Google Maps place record read live 2026-09-10: rating 4.7 from 15 reviews, coordinates 17.5096369 / -88.1933383, address No 7 St Thomas St, phone +501 203-1133, category Dentist, listing managed by the business with no website attached | 2026-09-10 |
| np | https://bz.near-place.com/advance-dental-care-no-7-saint-thomas-str… | Independent Belize business directory listing confirming name, address, phone and full opening hours | 2026-09-10 |
| avq | search:best dentist Belize City Belize / English speaking dentist Belize City / dental implants Belize City / emergency dentist Belize City / Belize City dental clinic for expats | AI/search visibility scout 2026-09-10: the five canonical patient queries for this city, run as web searches, top-10 organic results | 2026-09-10 |
| reg1 | https://www.bmda.bz/ | Belize Medical and Dental Association — voluntary professional body; its FAQ names the Medical Council of Belize under the Medical Practitioners Registration Act as the statutory regulator, and BMDA publishes no licence lookup of its own | 2026-09-10 |
| reg2 | https://www.health.gov.bz/ | Ministry of Health & Wellness (Belize) — the whole domain serves a single contact-only placeholder page with no register, list or search | 2026-09-10 |
| advance-dental-care-belize-city-deepen | https://www.google.com/maps?cid=120422393784905392&hl=en | Google listing managed by the practice, read 2026-09-25: category Dentist, address, phone, opening hours and 15 reviews; no website field, no social link and no price list; a visitor photo uploaded 2024-03-04 shows a patient in the practice's treatment chair, with its equipment and a dentist at work behind her | 2026-09-25 |
| advance-dental-care-belize-city-deepen-2 | https://www.tripadvisor.com/TypeAheadJson?action=API&query=Advance%… | TripAdvisor's own search for "Advance Dental Care Belize", read 2026-09-25: 12 results (1 destinations, 9 attractions, 2 hotels), none of them this clinic or a dental listing in Belize | 2026-09-25 |
| advance-dental-care-belize-city-gbp-2026-09-25 | https://www.google.com/maps?cid=120422393784905392&hl=en | Google listing read on 2026-09-25: rating 4.7 from 15 reviews; star histogram 1★ 1 / 2★ 0 / 3★ 0 / 4★ 0 / 5★ 14; newest review dated 2026-07-23. | 2026-09-25 |
| advance-dental-care-belize-city-deepen-3 | https://americanhealthtourism.org/facility/advance-dental-care/ | American Health Tourism: unclaimed facility page "Advance Dental Care", category Dental Clinic, No 7, St Thomas St, Belize City, phone +501 203-1133 (the clinic's address and phone); the page has its own rating block and a "Write a Review" form, with no reviews yet (checked 2026-10-01) | 2026-10-01 |
| advance-dental-care-belize-city-g6 | https://www.whatclinic.com/dentists/belize | WhatClinic, read 2026-10-02: its Belize dentist page lists no clinic ("No information on Dentists in Belize"), and none of its clinic-profile sitemaps (22,037 dentist profiles) is in Belize | 2026-10-02 |
| advance-dental-care-belize-city-g6-2 | https://www.dentaldepartures.com/dentists/belize | Dental Departures, read 2026-10-02: no Belize page, and its clinic search does not recognise Belize as a location (it falls back to the whole list of 1,106 clinics, none in Belize) | 2026-10-02 |
| advance-dental-care-belize-city-g6-3 | https://bookimed.com/clinics/country=belize/ | Bookimed, read 2026-10-02: its Belize clinics page is gone (HTTP 410); it lists no clinic in Belize | 2026-10-02 |
Change History
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-02 | Other review platforms corrected to none: the American Health Tourism entry is an unclaimed directory page with no reviews, and WhatClinic, Dental Departures and Bookimed list no clinic in Belize (checked 2026-10-02). |
| 2026-10-01 | Other review platforms re-checked on 2026-10-01: facility page on American Health Tourism (same address and phone, no reviews yet); the directory listing cited before is not a review platform. |
| 2026-09-29 | Corrected 2026-09-29: active Facebook presence now unverified: no Facebook search is on record, so the absence of a page is not established; review recency within 3 months (newest review dated 2026-07-23). |
| 2026-09-25 | Re-read on 2026-09-25: the clinic's Google Business Profile (photos, category, hours, reviews) and a TripAdvisor search; the clinic has no website and no social page of its own was found. Recorded: a patron-uploaded listing photo shows a genuine treatment room; no prices published anywhere reachable; no listing on TripAdvisor. Still unverified: X-ray/CBCT equipment, orthodontics, pediatric dentistry, work with foreign patients, WhatsApp contact, online consultation — no clinic-owned channel documents any of these. |
| 2026-09-11 | Opening hours re-read: the Saturday surgery this criterion rests on is confirmed, with the one-hour disagreement between the clinic’s listing and the directory that mirrors it recorded rather than smoothed over. |
| 2026-09-10 | Reputation reread: every place record reopened with its reviews panel, showing the eight most relevant reviews with their dates, the reviewers' histories, and any owner replies. Owner-reply status settled on all sixteen cards, and review recency and complaint patterns settled where the panel allowed it. Clinic channels that had not opened before — Facebook pages, clinic websites and OpenStreetMap listings — were read for the first time. |
| 2026-09-10 | Adversarial verification: every card re-read against its live Google place record with the two-step /maps/preview/place method, which returns the rating histogram and the review snippets the compact endpoint omits. Recovered the review blocks the initial data collection could not reach on two cards, added review recency and complaint / manipulation assessments where snippets could be read, corrected criteria sourced to listings the clinic does not control, and removed cited pages that were never actually readable. |
| 2026-09-10 | Initial data collection for the Belize Dental Transparency & Trust Index: read from the clinic's own channels where it has any, its live Google Maps place record, and independent directory or press listings. Belize publishes no dental register, so all licence fields are recorded as unverified. |
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