Dr. Megan Ryan Dental Clinic
According to our open methodology, this clinic scored 63.3/100 for transparency, reputation, service accessibility, and digital visibility.
Overall rank: #2 of 14 ranked clinics · Last checked: 25 September 2026
63.3/100
Positions by Rating Profile
- Overall Transparency & Trust#263.3/100
- Best for Expats#262.5/100
- Best for Dental Implants#260.5/100
- Best for Emergency Dental Carenot ranked
- Best Price Transparency#243/100
- Best English-speaking Clinics#266.5/100
- Best for Families / Children#169.5/100
- 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
Practice on Leandro Salazar Drive off the Bullet Tree Road, run by dental surgeon Dr. Megan Ryan and carrying the largest public review base of any dental practice in San Ignacio. Its practice domain belizedentistry.com, which served an "under construction" holding page earlier in September 2026, now carries a full site: six named dentists and specialists, six service pages, panoramic and CBCT imaging, and an online booking form with a choice of service and time. No prices are published.
Strengths
- Information Transparency: 20 of 20 points.
- Medical Infrastructure: 13.5 of 15 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)
- AI & Search Visibility: 3.5 of 8 verifiable points (missing: mentioned for: English speaking dentist Belize; mentioned for: dental implants Belize; mentioned for: Belize dental clinic for expats; structured data on website)
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
20 / 20
Whether basic facts about the clinic - its team, premises, services, and location - are publicly verifiable.
| ✓ | Has a working website belizedentistry.com now carries a full practice site: named dentists, six service pages, equipment, hours, contacts and an online booking form [s1] | 4/4 |
| ✓ | Dentist names listed Both the legacy site and the practice-managed Google listing are published under the dentist's own name. [s2] [gm] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Dentist specializations listed The practice-managed Google listing is titled "Dr. Megan Ryan - Dental Surgeon". [gm] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Real clinic photos Read in a browser on 2026-09-10: the practice's own Facebook cover is a photograph of a clinician in the practice's operatory working on a patient, captioned "Offering family dental service in San Ignacio Belize". The dormant website carries nothing comparable. [fb] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Service list published The legacy Google Sites pages list extractions, fillings, implants, pulpotomy, root canals and veneers as separate procedure pages, though the site has not been updated since about 2016. [s2] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Clear contact details Read live on 2026-09-10 across the practice's own channels: the phone +501 615-7801 on the Google listing it manages and on its own promotional posts, WhatsApp and Messenger on its Facebook page, and the address mryan@belizedentistry.com in its August 2026 recruitment post. The numbers agree between channels. The dormant website's contact page is empty, which is what this was recorded on before the practice's other channels were read directly. [gm] [fb] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | English website version [s2] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Address and map published [gm] | 2/2 |
Price Transparency
0 / 15
Whether patients can estimate costs before visiting. Published price ranges count; exact prices are not required.
Reputation & Reviews
13 / 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: 1/0/0/1/23 over 25 reviews, implied mean exactly the published 4.8 — the largest and strongest review base in San Ignacio. The listing is managed by the practice. [gm] | 4/6 |
| ◐ | Google review volume [gm] | 1/3 |
| ✓ | Review recency Read in a browser on 2026-09-10: the newest of the eight reviews shown is one month old — a five-star account by a Local Guide with 196 reviews comparing the practice with health care elsewhere in Belize. The verification pass could not get the review block out of this listing on four automated probes; the browser returns it. [gm] | 3/3 |
| ? | Clinic responds to reviews 6 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 2026-10-05). | 0/2 |
| ✓ | No recurring complaints The histogram read in the browser on 2026-09-10 is 1/0/0/1/23 from one to five stars: one sub-three-star review in a base of twenty-five, so three different reviewers cannot be describing the same problem. None of the eight reviews shown raises a complaint; several describe waiting for visiting specialists and judge it worth the wait. [gm] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | No suspicious review patterns no signs of manipulation [dr-megan-ryan-dental-clinic-san-ignacio-deepen-9] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Active Facebook presence The practice runs a Facebook page under its own name with 2,500 followers and twelve recommendations, and it is current: it posted a dental-assistant vacancy on 15 August 2026. Read in a browser on 2026-09-10. [fb] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | TripAdvisor presence No matching listing in TripAdvisor's own search on 2026-09-25 [dr-megan-ryan-dental-clinic-san-ignacio-deepen-10] | 0/0.5 |
| ✗ | Other review platforms No profile on WhatClinic, Dental Departures or Bookimed (checked 2026-10-02); American Health Tourism has only an unclaimed directory entry for it, with no reviews. [dr-megan-ryan-dental-clinic-san-ignacio-deepen-18] [dr-megan-ryan-dental-clinic-san-ignacio-deepen-19] [dr-megan-ryan-dental-clinic-san-ignacio-deepen-20] [dr-megan-ryan-dental-clinic-san-ignacio-deepen-21] | 0/0.5 |
Medical Infrastructure
13.5 / 15
The range of publicly documented equipment and services. This measures documented availability, not clinical quality.
| ✓ | On-site X-ray The site's own homepage documents Beam Panoramic imaging as part of its equipment [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | CBCT (3D imaging) The site's own homepage names Cone Beam Computed Tomography (CBCT) explicitly [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Implantology Implant procedure page on the practice's legacy site. [s2] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Orthodontics Orthodontics is one of the clinic's six named service categories, with its own dedicated page [dr-megan-ryan-dental-clinic-san-ignacio-deepen-8] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Oral surgery Extraction procedure page; the practice-managed Google listing describes the dentist as a dental surgeon. [s2] [gm] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Pediatric dentistry Pediatric Dentistry is one of the clinic's six named service categories, with its own dedicated page [dr-megan-ryan-dental-clinic-san-ignacio-deepen-5] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ✗ | Emergency care No mention of emergency, urgent or same-day care on any page of the practice's site (home, booking, contact, six service pages), read today [s1] [dr-megan-ryan-dental-clinic-san-ignacio-deepen] [dr-megan-ryan-dental-clinic-san-ignacio-deepen-2] [dr-megan-ryan-dental-clinic-san-ignacio-deepen-15] [dr-megan-ryan-dental-clinic-san-ignacio-deepen-4] [dr-megan-ryan-dental-clinic-san-ignacio-deepen-16] [dr-megan-ryan-dental-clinic-san-ignacio-deepen-6] [dr-megan-ryan-dental-clinic-san-ignacio-deepen-7] [dr-megan-ryan-dental-clinic-san-ignacio-deepen-8] | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | Works with international patients The site's own homepage documents visiting international specialists serving both Belizean residents and expats [s1] | 2/2 |
Communication & Service
7 / 10
How easy it is to contact the clinic, get answers, and book - especially for international patients.
| ✓ | WhatsApp / LINE available The practice's own Facebook page carries a WhatsApp button, read in a browser on 2026-09-10. [fb] | 2/2 |
| ? | Response speed | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | English spoken [s2] | 2.5/2.5 |
| ✓ | Pre-visit consultation possible The site's own booking page is a real appointment-request tool with a service dropdown (all six treatment categories) and a time-slot picker, not a generic contact form [dr-megan-ryan-dental-clinic-san-ignacio-deepen] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ✓ | Clear service explanations Service pages explain what the procedure involves and its recovery, not just a name [dr-megan-ryan-dental-clinic-san-ignacio-deepen-3] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | Convenient opening hours The practice-managed Google listing publishes Monday to Friday 08:00-12:00 and 13:00-17:00 and is closed on Saturday and Sunday, read live on 2026-09-10. Hours are published clearly, but there is no evening or weekend surgery. [gm] | 0/1.5 |
AI & Search Visibility
3.5 / 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 practice domain ranks third 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 Three pages belonging to the practice appear in the top 10 for the emergency query. [avq] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: Belize dental clinic for expats [avq] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Structured data on website No JSON-LD on the new site; the only schema.org markup is Rating microdata on the testimonial block, with no Dentist or LocalBusiness entity [s1] | 0/1.5 |
| ? | Google indexing quality | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Dedicated service pages Six services each have their own distinct page with real explanatory text, not one consolidated list [dr-megan-ryan-dental-clinic-san-ignacio-deepen-17] | 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: not checked against public sources yet — unverified, no penalty
Dentists & professional licences
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
- Reputation & Reviews: Clinic responds to reviews
- Communication & Service: Response speed
- 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://belizedentistry.com/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +501 615-7801 |
| +501 615-7801 | |
| https://www.facebook.com/people/Dr-Megan-Ryan-Dental-Clinic/100063713946863/ | |
| Google Maps | Map listing |
| Address | Leandro Salazar Drive, Bullet Tree Road, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | https://belizedentistry.com/ | Practice website read 2026-09-25: six named dentists and specialists (Dr. Megan Ryan, DDS, lead dental surgeon; implantology, oral and maxillofacial surgery and endodontics specialists), six service pages, equipment "Beam Panoramic, Cone Beam Computed Tomography (CBCT), and Cephalometric imaging", "10x Visiting Specialists - International experts available year-round for belizean residents and expats", hours Mon-Fri 8:00-12:00 and 13:00-17:00, phone and WhatsApp +501 615-7801, e-mail mryan@belizedentistry.com; no price figures; no schema.org business markup | 2026-09-25 |
| s2 | https://sites.google.com/a/belizedentistry.com/www/home | The practice's legacy Google Sites pages: procedure pages for extractions, fillings, implants, pulpotomy, root canals and veneers, an empty contact page, and announcements dated 2010-2016 | 2026-09-10 |
| gm | https://www.google.com/maps/place/Dr.+Megan+Ryan+-+Dental+Surgeon/@… | Google Maps place record read live 2026-09-10: rating 4.8 from 25 reviews, coordinates 17.1572493 / -89.0896701, address Leandro Salazar Drive, Bullet Tree Road, San Ignacio, phone +501 615-7801, category Dental clinic, listing managed by the business | 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 |
| fb | https://www.facebook.com/people/Dr-Megan-Ryan-Dental-Clinic/1000637… | The practice's own Facebook page, read in a browser 2026-09-10: 2,500 followers, 100 % recommended from 12 recommendations, a WhatsApp button, a cover photograph of a clinician treating a patient in the practice's own operatory, a link to belizedentistry.com, and recruitment posts of August 2026 giving mryan@belizedentistry.com | 2026-09-10 |
| dr-megan-ryan-dental-clinic-san-ignacio-deepen | https://belizedentistry.com/booking/ | Booking page read 2026-09-25: a form with service selection (Restorative, Advanced & Surgical, Cosmetic & Preventive, Orthodontics, Extractions, Pediatric), date, time slots from 08:00 to 4:00, name, e-mail, phone and message fields and a "Send Appointment" button; no price figures | 2026-09-25 |
| dr-megan-ryan-dental-clinic-san-ignacio-deepen-2 | https://belizedentistry.com/contact-us/ | Read today: no "emergency"/"urgent"/"same-day" wording found | 2026-09-25 |
| dr-megan-ryan-dental-clinic-san-ignacio-deepen-3 | https://belizedentistry.com/service/extractions/ | Extractions page, read today: "Extractions are performed when a tooth cannot be saved through other treatments. The procedure is done under local anesthesia... Recovery involves mild discomfort and following post-operative care instructions..." | 2026-09-25 |
| dr-megan-ryan-dental-clinic-san-ignacio-deepen-4 | https://belizedentistry.com/service/advanced-surgical-dentistry/ | Read today: no "emergency"/"urgent"/"same-day" wording found | 2026-09-25 |
| dr-megan-ryan-dental-clinic-san-ignacio-deepen-5 | https://belizedentistry.com/service/pediatric-dentistry/ | Site navigation and homepage list "Pediatric Dentistry" as one of six named services with its own page | 2026-09-25 |
| dr-megan-ryan-dental-clinic-san-ignacio-deepen-6 | https://belizedentistry.com/service/restorative-dentistry/ | Restorative dentistry page read 2026-09-25 (veneers, crowns, fillings, bridges, full and partial dentures): no price figures, no emergency wording | 2026-09-25 |
| dr-megan-ryan-dental-clinic-san-ignacio-deepen-7 | https://belizedentistry.com/service/cosmetic-dentistry/ | Cosmetic and preventive dentistry page read 2026-09-25 (whitening, professional cleaning, sealants, night guards): no price figures, no emergency wording | 2026-09-25 |
| dr-megan-ryan-dental-clinic-san-ignacio-deepen-8 | https://belizedentistry.com/service/orthodontics/ | Orthodontics page read 2026-09-25 (braces, expanders, retainers, each explained): no price figures, no emergency wording | 2026-09-25 |
| dr-megan-ryan-dental-clinic-san-ignacio-deepen-9 | https://www.google.com/maps?cid=8417388305061302771&hl=en | Histogram 1/0/0/1/23 over 25 reviews (92% five-star, not 100%); dates spread from 2017 to 2026 across relevant/newest sorts; reviewers include long-established Local Guide accounts (223, 128, 44, 25, 9 reviews), not one-time accounts | 2026-09-25 |
| dr-megan-ryan-dental-clinic-san-ignacio-deepen-10 | https://www.tripadvisor.com/TypeAheadJson?action=API&query=Megan%20… | TripAdvisor's own search for "Megan Ryan Dental Clinic", read 2026-09-25: 12 results (5 attractions, 6 hotels, 1 restaurants), none of them this clinic or a dental listing in Belize | 2026-09-25 |
| dr-megan-ryan-dental-clinic-san-ignacio-deepen-11 | https://belizedentistry.com/contact-us/ | Read today, no price figures | 2026-09-25 |
| dr-megan-ryan-dental-clinic-san-ignacio-deepen-12 | https://belizedentistry.com/service/extractions/ | Read today, no price figures | 2026-09-25 |
| dr-megan-ryan-dental-clinic-san-ignacio-deepen-13 | https://belizedentistry.com/service/advanced-surgical-dentistry/ | Read today, no price figures | 2026-09-25 |
| dr-megan-ryan-dental-clinic-san-ignacio-deepen-14 | https://belizedentistry.com/service/pediatric-dentistry/ | Read today, no price figures | 2026-09-25 |
| dr-megan-ryan-dental-clinic-san-ignacio-deepen-15 | https://belizedentistry.com/service/extractions/ | Read today: no "emergency"/"urgent"/"same-day" wording found | 2026-09-25 |
| dr-megan-ryan-dental-clinic-san-ignacio-deepen-16 | https://belizedentistry.com/service/pediatric-dentistry/ | Read today: no "emergency"/"urgent"/"same-day" wording found | 2026-09-25 |
| dr-megan-ryan-dental-clinic-san-ignacio-deepen-17 | https://belizedentistry.com/service/extractions/ | Confirmed distinct URLs: /service/restorative-dentistry/, /service/advanced-surgical-dentistry/, /service/cosmetic-dentistry/, /service/orthodontics/, /service/extractions/, /service/pediatric-dentistry/, each with its own content | 2026-09-25 |
| dr-megan-ryan-dental-clinic-san-ignacio-deepen-18 | 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 |
| dr-megan-ryan-dental-clinic-san-ignacio-deepen-19 | 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 |
| dr-megan-ryan-dental-clinic-san-ignacio-deepen-20 | 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 |
| dr-megan-ryan-dental-clinic-san-ignacio-deepen-21 | https://americanhealthtourism.org/facility/dr-megan-ryan-dental-sur… | American Health Tourism, read 2026-10-02: 2 identical directory entries "Dr. Megan Ryan - Dental Surgeon" (Leandro Salazar Drive, Bullet Tree Road, San Ignacio, phone +501 615-7801, the clinic's address and phone) marked "Unclaimed" by the site, with no reviews; the clinic has not taken it over, so it is not counted as a profile | 2026-10-02 |
Change History
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-02 | Reputation check 2026-10-05 on the clinic's Google listing (13 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 | Corrected 2026-09-29: clinic responds to reviews now unverified: only 8 reviews were checked for owner replies. |
| 2026-09-25 | Re-read on 2026-09-25: the practice's website belizedentistry.com in full (home, booking, contact and six service pages), its Google listing and a TripAdvisor search. Corrected: the practice domain, recorded on 2026-09-10 as an under-construction holding page, now carries a full site, so a website is recorded. Recorded: no prices published anywhere on the site; no signs of manipulation in the review history; panoramic and CBCT imaging on site; orthodontics and pediatric dentistry offered with their own pages; no emergency care documented; visiting international specialists serving Belizean residents and expats; an online booking form with service, date and time selection; procedures explained on the service pages; six dedicated service pages; no listing on TripAdvisor. Still unverified: presence on other review platforms. |
| 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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