Dalix Hernandez Dental Clinic
According to our open methodology, this clinic scored 34/100 for transparency, reputation, service accessibility, and digital visibility.
Overall rank: #8 of 14 ranked clinics · Last checked: 25 September 2026
34/100
Positions by Rating Profile
- Overall Transparency & Trust#834/100
- Best for Expats#836.5/100
- Best for Dental Implantsnot ranked
- Best for Emergency Dental Care#535/100
- Best Price Transparency#724.5/100
- Best English-speaking Clinics#741.3/100
- 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
Single-dentist practice in the Emporium Plaza in Belmopan, named after the dentist who runs it. Its Facebook page is the most visible dental channel in the town — it ranks in four of the five canonical Belmopan patient queries — and the practice's own street sign, photographed as that page's profile picture, sets out its hours and the four things it offers: appointments, emergencies, general dentistry and braces. There is no website and no price is published anywhere; a post showing a treatment result asks patients to message for prices. It also carries the weakest public reputation of any clinic in this index for Belize: 2.0 from five Google reviews, three of them one-star and each describing a booked appointment that the practice did not honour.
Strengths
No categories reached the strength threshold (80%).
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: 6 of 18 verifiable points (missing: no recurring complaints; tripAdvisor presence; other review platforms)
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
12 / 20
Whether basic facts about the clinic - its team, premises, services, and location - are publicly verifiable.
| ✗ | Has a working website No website on the clinic-managed Google listing and none found in a web search on 2026-09-10; the practice is present online through a Facebook page only. [gm] | 0/4 |
| ✓ | Dentist names listed The practice-managed Google listing and the clinic's Facebook page are both published under the dentist's own name, Dr. Dalix Hernandez. [gm] | 3/3 |
| ✗ | Dentist specializations listed Both of the practice's channels were read on 2026-09-10. The clinic-managed Google listing attaches no qualification or specialty to the dentist, and the Facebook page — including its About section and the practice's own street sign, which is its profile photograph — names Dr. Dalix Hernandez and lists what the clinic does without stating a degree or a specialty for her. [gm] [fb] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Real clinic photos Read in a browser on 2026-09-10: the page's profile photograph is the practice's own street sign photographed in place, and the rest of the album is the practice's own before-and-after case photography. Nothing on the page is stock imagery — but there is also no photograph of the rooms themselves, only of the sign outside them. [fb] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Service list published The clinic's own Facebook profile photograph is a photograph of its street sign, which reads "Dr. Dalix Hernandez", the week's opening hours, and then "Appointment / Emergencies / General Dentistry / Braces / Next Door". That is a short list, published by the practice on its own channel, of what it offers. Read in a browser on 2026-09-10. [fb] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Clear contact details Three numbers, all from the practice's own channels and read live on 2026-09-10: its Google listing gives +501 671-9300, its Facebook page gives +501 822-3922 with WhatsApp on +501 651-6409, and its own street sign prints "822-3922" and "671 9300" side by side — so the numbers corroborate one another rather than conflict. E-mail dhdentalclinic@yahoo.com is published on Facebook. [gm] | 2/2 |
| ✗ | English website version No website exists to have an English version [dalix-hernandez-dental-clinic-belmopan-deepen] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Address and map published Three readings agree on 2026-09-10: the Google listing gives "#107 Emporium Plaza, Belmopan", the practice's Facebook page gives "Rio grade / Nim Li Punit St, Emporium plaza, Belmopan", and the OpenStreetMap entry behind Mapcarta places it on Nim Li Punit Street beside the Field Development office. The Mapcarta page was cited before but had never actually been read; it opens in a browser. [gm] | 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 The clinic's own post of 10 July 2020 showing a treatment result says "DM for prices", and no price or price range appears anywhere on its Facebook page or its Google listing. Read in a browser on 2026-09-10. [fb] | 0/3 |
| ✗ | Cleaning price listed No website; its Google listing lists no prices, and its Facebook page answers price questions with "DM for prices" (read 2026-09-10) [dalix-hernandez-dental-clinic-belmopan-deepen] [fb] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Filling price listed No website; its Google listing lists no prices, and its Facebook page answers price questions with "DM for prices" (read 2026-09-10) [dalix-hernandez-dental-clinic-belmopan-deepen] [fb] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Crown price listed No website; its Google listing lists no prices, and its Facebook page answers price questions with "DM for prices" (read 2026-09-10) [dalix-hernandez-dental-clinic-belmopan-deepen] [fb] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Implant price listed No website; its Google listing lists no prices, and its Facebook page answers price questions with "DM for prices" (read 2026-09-10) [dalix-hernandez-dental-clinic-belmopan-deepen] [fb] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Consultation price listed No website; its Google listing lists no prices, and its Facebook page answers price questions with "DM for prices" (read 2026-09-10) [dalix-hernandez-dental-clinic-belmopan-deepen] [fb] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | X-ray / imaging price listed No website; its Google listing lists no prices, and its Facebook page answers price questions with "DM for prices" (read 2026-09-10) [dalix-hernandez-dental-clinic-belmopan-deepen] [fb] | 0/2 |
Reputation & Reviews
6 / 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) Read live 2026-09-10 from the place record on three separate probes that returned the review block: 2.0 from 5 reviews, rating histogram 3/0/1/1/0 from one to five stars, whose sum matches the review count and whose implied mean is exactly 2.00. The initial data collection recorded this as unknown after four probes that returned no review block; this is the lowest rating in the index for Belize. [gm] | 1/6 |
| ◐ | Google review volume [gm] | 0.5/3 |
| ◐ | Review recency Read in a browser on 2026-09-10: the newest review is five months old (a one-star account of a journey in from San Ignacio); a four-star review carries the same age, and the rest are one and two years old. [gm] | 1.5/3 |
| ? | Clinic responds to reviews 3 reviews from the last 24 months were read on the Google listing, none with an owner reply, too few to say the clinic does not answer reviews (read 2026-10-02). | 0/2 |
| ✗ | No recurring complaints Confirmed in the browser on 2026-09-10, where all five reviews render. Three are one-star, from three different reviewers, dated five months, one year and two years ago, and all three describe being turned away or dealt with dismissively at a booked appointment: one patient travelled in from San Ignacio for an appointment and left without the treatment; a second writes "Very awful service. I do not recommend anyone coming to this dentist. She is extremely unprofessional."; a third writes "Very bad service just say no I can't and left talking on phone. Very inconvenient." The remaining two are a four-star "Well experienced dentist" and a three-star rating with no text. There is no five-star review anywhere in the base. [gm] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | No suspicious review patterns Five reviews spread over two years, written differently, sharing no wording. The distribution is heavily negative, which is the opposite of the manipulation this criterion looks for. [gm] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Active Facebook presence The clinic's Facebook page appears in four of the five canonical Belmopan queries. [fb] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | TripAdvisor presence No matching listing in TripAdvisor's own search on 2026-09-25 [dalix-hernandez-dental-clinic-belmopan-deepen-2] | 0/0.5 |
| ✗ | Other review platforms No profile on WhatClinic, Dental Departures, Bookimed or American Health Tourism (checked 2026-10-02). [dalix-hernandez-dental-clinic-belmopan-deepen-4] [dalix-hernandez-dental-clinic-belmopan-deepen-5] [dalix-hernandez-dental-clinic-belmopan-deepen-6] [dalix-hernandez-dental-clinic-belmopan-deepen-7] | 0/0.5 |
Medical Infrastructure
3.5 / 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 | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Orthodontics The clinic's own street sign, its Facebook profile photograph, lists "Braces" among its services (read 2026-09-10) [fb] | 2/2 |
| ? | Oral surgery | 0/2 |
| ? | Pediatric dentistry | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | Emergency care The clinic's own street sign, its Facebook profile photograph, lists "Emergencies" among its services (read 2026-09-10) [fb] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ? | Works with international patients | 0/2 |
Communication & Service
6 / 10
How easy it is to contact the clinic, get answers, and book - especially for international patients.
| ✓ | WhatsApp / LINE available The clinic's own Facebook page carries a WhatsApp button and publishes the WhatsApp number +501 651-6409 in its contact block. Read in a browser on 2026-09-10. [fb] | 2/2 |
| ? | Response speed | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | English spoken The clinic's own Facebook material is written in English [dalix-hernandez-dental-clinic-belmopan-deepen-3] | 2.5/2.5 |
| ? | Pre-visit consultation possible | 0/1.5 |
| ? | Clear service explanations | 0/1 |
| ✓ | Convenient opening hours The full week on the clinic-managed Google listing, read on 2026-09-11: Monday to Friday 08:30–12:30 and 14:00–18:00, Saturday 08:30–13:00, Sunday closed. The Saturday morning surgery is what meets this criterion; the practice’s own street sign, photographed as its Facebook profile picture, also prints its week. [gm] | 1.5/1.5 |
AI & Search Visibility
4 / 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 The clinic's Facebook page ranks second for the city prominence query. [avq] | 1/1 |
| ✓ | Mentioned for: English speaking dentist Belize The clinic's Facebook page ranks first for the English-speaking query. [avq] | 1/1 |
| ✓ | Mentioned for: dental implants Belize [avq] | 1/1 |
| ✓ | Mentioned for: emergency dentist Belize The clinic's Facebook page ranks first for the emergency query. [avq] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: Belize dental clinic for expats [avq] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Structured data on website No website exists [dalix-hernandez-dental-clinic-belmopan-deepen] | 0/1.5 |
| ? | Google indexing quality | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Dedicated service pages No website exists [dalix-hernandez-dental-clinic-belmopan-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
| Dentist | Specialization | Licence No. |
|---|---|---|
| Dalix Hernandez [gm] | — | not verified |
Dentists are named; their licence numbers have not been checked against public sources yet — unverified, no penalty.
Red Flags
- low Recurring communication complaints (-1 pts) — Three separate one-star reviews on the practice's own Google listing, spread over about two years, describe appointments that were kept by the patient but not honoured by the practice — a late start ending without treatment after the patient travelled in from another town, and two accounts of being refused or dismissed on arrival. Recorded at low severity because the whole review base is five reviews. [gm]
Red-flag penalty applied: -1 points (capped at -20).
Data We Could Not Verify
- Reputation & Reviews: Clinic responds to reviews
- Medical Infrastructure: On-site X-ray
- Medical Infrastructure: CBCT (3D imaging)
- Medical Infrastructure: Implantology
- Medical Infrastructure: Oral surgery
- Medical Infrastructure: Pediatric dentistry
- Medical Infrastructure: Works with international patients
- 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 | +501 671-9300 |
|---|---|
| +501 651-6409 | |
| https://www.facebook.com/dhdental822/ | |
| Google Maps | Map listing |
| Address | #107 Emporium Plaza, Belmopan, Cayo District, 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/Dalix+Hernandez+Dental+Clinic/@17… | Google Maps place record read live 2026-09-10 (three probes returning the review block, after four in the initial data collection that did not): rating 2.0 from 5 reviews with the histogram 3/0/1/1/0, coordinates 17.2549187 / -88.7648682, address #107 Emporium Plaza, phone +501 671-9300, category Dental clinic, listing managed by the practice and titled with the dentist's name | 2026-09-10 |
| fb | https://www.facebook.com/dhdental822/ | The clinic's own Facebook page, read in a browser 2026-09-10: 1,200 followers, a WhatsApp button, contact block with +501 822-3922, WhatsApp +501 651-6409 and dhdentalclinic@yahoo.com, address "Rio grade / Nim Li Punit St, Emporium plaza, Belmopan", a profile photograph of the clinic's own street sign giving its hours and its four listed services, and a treatment post that answers price questions with "DM for prices" | 2026-09-25 |
| avq | search:best dentist Belmopan Belize / English speaking dentist Belmopan / dental implants Belmopan / emergency dentist Belmopan / Belmopan 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 |
| mc | https://mapcarta.com/N3803774325 | OpenStreetMap entry rendered by Mapcarta, read 2026-09-10: places the clinic on Nim Li Punit Street in Belmopan, next to the Field Development office and the General Sales Tax Department | 2026-09-10 |
| dalix-hernandez-dental-clinic-belmopan-deepen | https://www.google.com/maps?cid=15303843409024511756&hl=en | Google listing managed by the clinic, read 2026-09-25: category Dental clinic, address, phone, hours and 5 reviews; no website field and no price list | 2026-09-25 |
| dalix-hernandez-dental-clinic-belmopan-deepen-2 | https://www.tripadvisor.com/TypeAheadJson?action=API&query=Dalix%20… | TripAdvisor's own search for "Dalix Hernandez Dental Clinic", read 2026-09-25: 12 results (3 destinations, 4 attractions, 4 hotels, 1 restaurants), none of them this clinic or a dental listing in Belize | 2026-09-25 |
| dalix-hernandez-dental-clinic-belmopan-deepen-3 | https://www.facebook.com/dhdental822/ | Public post: "Swipe to see transformation. DM for prices" — the page's own material is in English | 2026-09-29 |
| dalix-hernandez-dental-clinic-belmopan-deepen-4 | 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 |
| dalix-hernandez-dental-clinic-belmopan-deepen-5 | 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 |
| dalix-hernandez-dental-clinic-belmopan-deepen-6 | 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 |
| dalix-hernandez-dental-clinic-belmopan-deepen-7 | https://americanhealthtourism.org/wp-json/wp/v2/facility?search=dalix | American Health Tourism, read 2026-10-02: its facility search has no entry for Dalix Hernandez or for a dental clinic in Belmopan | 2026-10-02 |
Change History
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-02 | Reputation check 2026-10-02 on the clinic's Google listing (5 reviews read): nothing settled; owner replies to reviews left unassessed. |
| 2026-10-02 | Other review platforms checked on 2026-10-02: no profile of the clinic. |
| 2026-09-29 | Re-read the clinic's own Facebook page. Confirmed its material is in English; prices are still not published (a post says "DM for prices"). |
| 2026-09-29 | Corrected 2026-09-29: clinic responds to reviews now unverified: with 5 Google reviews a missing owner reply shows nothing yet. |
| 2026-09-25 | Re-read on 2026-09-25: the clinic's Google listing, the public summary of its Facebook page, and a TripAdvisor search; the clinic has no website. Recorded: no prices published (its Facebook page asks patients to message for prices); emergencies and braces, both named on the clinic's own street sign shown on its Facebook page; no listing on TripAdvisor. Still unverified: English, X-ray/CBCT, implants, oral surgery, pediatric dentistry, foreign-patient work, online consultation and presence on other review platforms. |
| 2026-09-11 | Opening hours re-read in full on the clinic-managed listing: the Saturday morning surgery that this criterion rests on is now recorded with the whole published week. |
| 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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