Dr. Douglas Smith's Dental Clinic
According to our open methodology, this clinic scored 14.4/100 for transparency, reputation, service accessibility, and digital visibility.
Overall rank: #12 of 14 ranked clinics · Last checked: 25 September 2026
14.4/100
Positions by Rating Profile
- Overall Transparency & Trust#1214.4/100
- Best for Expats#1313.8/100
- Best for Dental Implantsnot ranked
- Best for Emergency Dental Carenot ranked
- Best Price Transparency#1311.4/100
- Best English-speaking Clinicsnot ranked
- 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 West Street in central San Ignacio, open four days a week. Nothing about it is published by the practice itself: it has no website, its Google listing has never been claimed, and its address, phone number and hours are known only from that listing and from third-party Belize directories that mirror it.
Strengths
- 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: 4.5 of 15 verifiable points (missing: google review volume; clinic responds to reviews; tripAdvisor presence; other review platforms)
- AI & Search Visibility: 1 of 10 verifiable points (missing: 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; google indexing quality; 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 No website on the Google listing and none found in a web search on 2026-09-10. [gm] | 0/4 |
| ? | Dentist names listed | 0/3 |
| ? | Dentist specializations listed | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Real clinic photos No website; a patron-uploaded photo on the clinic's Google listing shows the real storefront/entrance with the clinic's own signage, not stock imagery [dr-douglas-smith-dental-clinic-san-ignacio-deepen] | 2/2 |
| ? | Service list published | 0/3 |
| ✓ | Clear contact details Street address, phone number and opening hours available, though published by third parties rather than by the practice. [gm] [np] | 2/2 |
| ✗ | English website version No website exists to have an English version [dr-douglas-smith-dental-clinic-san-ignacio-deepen] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Address and map published [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 website and no social page of its own found; its Google listing lists no prices [dr-douglas-smith-dental-clinic-san-ignacio-deepen] | 0/3 |
| ✗ | Cleaning price listed No website and no social page of its own found; its Google listing lists no prices [dr-douglas-smith-dental-clinic-san-ignacio-deepen] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Filling price listed No website and no social page of its own found; its Google listing lists no prices [dr-douglas-smith-dental-clinic-san-ignacio-deepen] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Crown price listed No website and no social page of its own found; its Google listing lists no prices [dr-douglas-smith-dental-clinic-san-ignacio-deepen] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Implant price listed No website and no social page of its own found; its Google listing lists no prices [dr-douglas-smith-dental-clinic-san-ignacio-deepen] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Consultation price listed No website and no social page of its own found; its Google listing lists no prices [dr-douglas-smith-dental-clinic-san-ignacio-deepen] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | X-ray / imaging price listed No website and no social page of its own found; its Google listing lists no prices [dr-douglas-smith-dental-clinic-san-ignacio-deepen] | 0/2 |
Reputation & Reviews
4.5 / 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: 0/0/0/0/1 — a single five-star review, which carries almost no information about a practice; the Bayesian adjustment in this index already accounts for that. The listing has never been claimed. [gm] | 3/6 |
| ✗ | Google review volume [gm] | 0/3 |
| ◐ | Review recency Read in a browser on 2026-09-10: the single public review is seven months old — a first-hand account of the dentist opening the door on his way out to lunch and treating a walk-in. [gm] | 1.5/3 |
| ✗ | Clinic responds to reviews Read in a browser on 2026-09-10: the practice's single review renders in full and carries no "Response from the owner" block. The listing has never been claimed by the practice. [gm] | 0/2 |
| ? | No recurring complaints Only 1 Google reviews exist, too few to show whether a complaint recurs (read 2026-10-02). | 0/2 |
| ? | No suspicious review patterns The listing carries only 1 Google review (2026-02-06 to 2026-02-06), fewer than the ten needed to judge a pattern, so the criterion is left unassessed (read 2026-10-02). | 0/2 |
| ? | Active Facebook presence Not established: the clinic has no website, and the San Ignacio dental page found gives another phone and has not posted since 2016 (checked 2026-10-02). | 0/1 |
| ✗ | TripAdvisor presence No matching listing in TripAdvisor's own search on 2026-09-25 [dr-douglas-smith-dental-clinic-san-ignacio-deepen-2] | 0/0.5 |
| ✗ | Other review platforms No profile found on WhatClinic, Dental Departures, Bookimed or American Health Tourism (checked 2026-10-01). [dr-douglas-smith-dental-clinic-san-ignacio-deepen-3] [dr-douglas-smith-dental-clinic-san-ignacio-deepen-4] [dr-douglas-smith-dental-clinic-san-ignacio-deepen-5] [dr-douglas-smith-dental-clinic-san-ignacio-deepen-6] | 0/0.5 |
Medical Infrastructure
0 / 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 | 0/2 |
| ? | Oral surgery | 0/2 |
| ? | Pediatric dentistry | 0/1.5 |
| ? | Emergency care | 0/1.5 |
| ? | Works with international patients | 0/2 |
Communication & Service
1.5 / 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 | 0/2.5 |
| ? | Pre-visit consultation possible | 0/1.5 |
| ? | Clear service explanations | 0/1 |
| ✓ | Convenient opening hours Read live on the Google listing on 2026-09-10: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday 09:00-17:00, closed Wednesday and Friday. The practice keeps a full Saturday surgery, which is what this criterion asks for; it was recorded as absent before the hours were read in a browser. [gm] | 1.5/1.5 |
AI & Search Visibility
1 / 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 A map gazetteer page for this practice appears in the top 10 for the city prominence query. [avq] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: English speaking dentist Belize [avq] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: dental implants Belize The implants query for San Ignacio returns an empty result set in two separate web searches. [avq] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: emergency dentist Belize [avq] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: Belize dental clinic for expats [avq] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Structured data on website No website exists [dr-douglas-smith-dental-clinic-san-ignacio-deepen] | 0/1.5 |
| ✗ | Google indexing quality The clinic has no website of its own; a name-and-city web search on 2026-10-05 lists only directory, news and third-party pages. [dr-douglas-smith-dental-clinic-san-ignacio-av4] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Dedicated service pages No website exists [dr-douglas-smith-dental-clinic-san-ignacio-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
No red flags identified in the public sources we reviewed.
Data We Could Not Verify
- Information Transparency: Dentist names listed
- Information Transparency: Dentist specializations listed
- Information Transparency: Service list published
- Reputation & Reviews: No recurring complaints
- Reputation & Reviews: No suspicious review patterns
- Reputation & Reviews: Active Facebook presence
- Medical Infrastructure: On-site X-ray
- Medical Infrastructure: CBCT (3D imaging)
- Medical Infrastructure: Implantology
- Medical Infrastructure: Orthodontics
- Medical Infrastructure: Oral surgery
- Medical Infrastructure: Pediatric dentistry
- Medical Infrastructure: Emergency care
- Medical Infrastructure: Works with international patients
- Communication & Service: WhatsApp / LINE available
- Communication & Service: Response speed
- Communication & Service: English spoken
- Communication & Service: Pre-visit consultation possible
- Communication & Service: Clear service explanations
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 | +501 824-4330 |
|---|---|
| Google Maps | Map listing |
| Address | 12 West Street, San Ignacio, 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/Dr+Douglas+Smith.+dental+clinic/@… | Google Maps place record read live 2026-09-10: rating 5.0 from 1 review, coordinates 17.1581936 / -89.0706608, address 12 West St, phone +501 824-4330, category Dentist, listing not claimed by the business and carrying no website | 2026-09-10 |
| np | https://bz.near-place.com/dr-douglas-smith-dental-clinic-12-west-st… | Independent Belize business directory listing confirming name, 12 West Street address, phone and the four-day opening pattern | 2026-09-10 |
| avq | search:best dentist San Ignacio Belize / English speaking dentist San Ignacio / dental implants San Ignacio / emergency dentist San Ignacio / San Ignacio 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 |
| dr-douglas-smith-dental-clinic-san-ignacio-deepen | https://www.google.com/maps?cid=5708792703432970597&hl=en | Google listing (never claimed by the business), read 2026-09-25: address, phone, opening hours and 1 review; no website field, no social link and no price list; a visitor photo uploaded 2025-04-29 shows the practice's own entrance with its dentistry sign | 2026-09-25 |
| dr-douglas-smith-dental-clinic-san-ignacio-deepen-2 | https://www.tripadvisor.com/TypeAheadJson?action=API&query=Douglas%… | TripAdvisor's own search for "Douglas Smith Dental Clinic", read 2026-09-25: 12 results (4 destinations, 4 attractions, 3 hotels, 1 restaurants), none of them this clinic or a dental listing in Belize | 2026-09-25 |
| dr-douglas-smith-dental-clinic-san-ignacio-deepen-3 | https://www.whatclinic.com/dentists/belize | WhatClinic: its Belize dentist catalogue lists no clinic at all ("No information on Dentists in Belize"), and no WhatClinic dentist profile is in Belize (checked 2026-10-01) | 2026-10-01 |
| dr-douglas-smith-dental-clinic-san-ignacio-deepen-4 | https://www.dentaldepartures.com/dentists/belize | Dental Departures: has no Belize page (page not found), and none of the 1,106 clinics its search returns is in Belize (checked 2026-10-01) | 2026-10-01 |
| dr-douglas-smith-dental-clinic-san-ignacio-deepen-5 | https://bookimed.com/clinics/country=belize/ | Bookimed: its Belize clinics page has been removed (HTTP 410); it lists no clinic in Belize (checked 2026-10-01) | 2026-10-01 |
| dr-douglas-smith-dental-clinic-san-ignacio-deepen-6 | https://americanhealthtourism.org/sitemap_index.xml | American Health Tourism: none of the 67,423 facility pages in its sitemap is this clinic (it has pages for other Belize dental clinics) (checked 2026-10-01) | 2026-10-01 |
| dr-douglas-smith-dental-clinic-san-ignacio-av4 | search:"Dr. Douglas Smith's Dental Clinic" San Ignacio | Web search run on 2026-10-05 (English, US results) for the clinic's name and city: 9 results listed. no page of an own site: the results are US dentists of the same name. Listed: directory pages of US dentists called Douglas Smith in California, Utah, Georgia, Colorado, Idaho and other states. | 2026-10-05 |
Change History
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-05 | Google indexing quality measured as poor after a name-and-city web search on 2026-10-05 (no website of its own, none listed). |
| 2026-10-02 | Reputation check 2026-10-02 on the clinic's Google listing (1 reviews read): nothing settled; recurring complaints, suspicious review patterns left unassessed. |
| 2026-10-01 | Other review platforms re-checked on 2026-10-01: no profile of the clinic on WhatClinic, Dental Departures, Bookimed or American Health Tourism; the directory listing cited before is not a review platform; changed from yes to no. |
| 2026-09-29 | Corrected 2026-09-29: no recurring complaints and no suspicious review patterns now unverified: 1 Google review is too few to show a pattern; active Facebook presence now unverified: no Facebook search is on record, so the absence of a page is not established. |
| 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 the clinic's genuine storefront; no prices published anywhere reachable; no listing on TripAdvisor. Still unverified: dentist name, specialization, service list, X-ray/CBCT, implants, orthodontics, oral surgery, pediatric dentistry, emergency care, foreign-patient work, WhatsApp contact, English spoken and online consultation — no clinic-owned channel beyond an unclaimed Google listing exists to check any of these; the review base of 1 is too small to assess recurring complaints or suspicious patterns. |
| 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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