Heusner Professional Dentistry
According to our open methodology, this clinic scored 22.2/100 for transparency, reputation, service accessibility, and digital visibility.
Overall rank: #11 of 14 ranked clinics · Last checked: 25 September 2026
22.2/100
Positions by Rating Profile
- Overall Transparency & Trust#1122.2/100
- Best for Expats#1125/100
- Best for Dental Implantsnot ranked
- Best for Emergency Dental Carenot ranked
- Best Price Transparency#1115.9/100
- Best English-speaking Clinics#1127.3/100
- 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
Long-standing practice on Albert Street in the commercial centre of Belize City, recommended by name in visitor forums. It publishes nothing itself: it runs no website and its Google listing has never been claimed by the business, so address, phone and opening hours are all that can be established, and none of them come from the practice.
Strengths
- No red flags identified in public sources.
Weaknesses
- Information Transparency: 4 of 10 verifiable points (missing: has a working website; 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)
- Reputation & Reviews: 9 of 19 verifiable points (missing: clinic responds to reviews; tripAdvisor presence; other review platforms)
- AI & Search Visibility: 1 of 10 verifiable points (missing: mentioned for: best 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
4 / 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 | 0/2 |
| ? | 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 [heusner-professional-dentistry-belize-city-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 [heusner-professional-dentistry-belize-city-deepen] | 0/3 |
| ✗ | Cleaning price listed No website and no social page of its own found; its Google listing lists no prices [heusner-professional-dentistry-belize-city-deepen] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Filling price listed No website and no social page of its own found; its Google listing lists no prices [heusner-professional-dentistry-belize-city-deepen] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Crown price listed No website and no social page of its own found; its Google listing lists no prices [heusner-professional-dentistry-belize-city-deepen] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Implant price listed No website and no social page of its own found; its Google listing lists no prices [heusner-professional-dentistry-belize-city-deepen] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Consultation price listed No website and no social page of its own found; its Google listing lists no prices [heusner-professional-dentistry-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 [heusner-professional-dentistry-belize-city-deepen] | 0/2 |
Reputation & Reviews
9 / 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 on two probes. Rating histogram 0 to 5 stars: 0/1/0/0/4 over 5 reviews, implied mean exactly the published 4.4. The listing has never been claimed by the practice. [gm] | 3/6 |
| ◐ | Google review volume [gm] | 0.5/3 |
| ◐ | Review recency Read in a browser on 2026-09-10: all five reviews render. The newest is a five-star review six months old — the six-month age the verification pass set aside as unattached prose is in fact a starred review with a review id, carrying a rating and no text — followed by seven months, eight months, two years and six years. [gm] | 1.5/3 |
| ✗ | Clinic responds to reviews Read in a browser on 2026-09-10: all five reviews render and none carries a "Response from the owner" block. The listing has never been claimed by the practice. [gm] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | No recurring complaints All five reviews were read in the browser on 2026-09-10. One is two-star: a former childhood patient who attributes long-term jaw and breathing problems to teeth extracted before the face had finished developing and braces fitted afterwards. It is a serious complaint but a single one, and no other review raises it or anything like it. [gm] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | No suspicious review patterns Five reviews spread over six years, one of them critical, one written in Spanish, none sharing wording with another. No burst and no template pattern. [gm] | 2/2 |
| ? | Active Facebook presence Not established: the clinic has no website, and no Facebook page under its name was found - only mentions in community groups (checked 2026-10-02). | 0/1 |
| ✗ | TripAdvisor presence No matching listing in TripAdvisor's own search on 2026-09-25 [heusner-professional-dentistry-belize-city-deepen-2] | 0/0.5 |
| ✗ | Other review platforms No profile found on WhatClinic, Dental Departures, Bookimed or American Health Tourism (checked 2026-10-01). [heusner-professional-dentistry-belize-city-deepen-3] [heusner-professional-dentistry-belize-city-deepen-4] [heusner-professional-dentistry-belize-city-deepen-5] [heusner-professional-dentistry-belize-city-deepen-6] | 0/0.5 |
Medical Infrastructure
2 / 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 Two independent reviews describe braces fitted at this practice. Review evidence only: the practice has no channel of its own, so nothing here is published by it. [gm] | 2/2 |
| ? | Oral surgery | 0/2 |
| ? | Pediatric dentistry | 0/1.5 |
| ? | Emergency care | 0/1.5 |
| ? | 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 are written in English and describe consultations conducted in English; one further review is in Spanish, indicating both languages are in use. Review evidence, not a clinic publication. [gm] | 2.5/2.5 |
| ? | Pre-visit consultation possible | 0/1.5 |
| ? | Clear service explanations | 0/1 |
| ✓ | Convenient opening hours Mon-Fri 08:00-12:00 and 14:00-17:00, Sat 08:00-12:00. [gm] [np] | 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 [avq] | 0/1 |
| ✓ | Mentioned for: English speaking dentist Belize A TripAdvisor Belize City forum thread in the top 10 recommends this dentist by name. [avq] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: dental implants Belize [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 [heusner-professional-dentistry-belize-city-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. [heusner-professional-dentistry-belize-city-av4] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Dedicated service pages No website exists [heusner-professional-dentistry-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
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: Real clinic photos
- Information Transparency: Service list published
- Reputation & Reviews: Active Facebook presence
- Medical Infrastructure: On-site X-ray
- Medical Infrastructure: CBCT (3D imaging)
- Medical Infrastructure: Implantology
- 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: 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 | +501 227-2583 |
|---|---|
| Google Maps | Map listing |
| Address | 42 Albert 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/Heusner+Professional+Dentistry/@1… | Google Maps place record read live 2026-09-10: rating 4.4 from 5 reviews, coordinates 17.4906304 / -88.1877947, address 42 Albert St, phone +501 227-2583, listing not claimed by the business and carrying no website | 2026-09-10 |
| np | https://bz.near-place.com/heusner-professional-dentistry-42-albert-… | 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 |
| heusner-professional-dentistry-belize-city-deepen | https://www.google.com/maps?cid=4794934961108479442&hl=en | Google listing (never claimed by the business), read 2026-09-25: address, phone, opening hours and 5 reviews; no website field, no social link, no photos and no price list | 2026-09-25 |
| heusner-professional-dentistry-belize-city-deepen-2 | https://www.tripadvisor.com/TypeAheadJson?action=API&query=Heusner%… | TripAdvisor's own search for "Heusner Professional Dentistry", read 2026-09-25: 12 results (12 attractions), none of them this clinic or a dental listing in Belize | 2026-09-25 |
| heusner-professional-dentistry-belize-city-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 |
| heusner-professional-dentistry-belize-city-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 |
| heusner-professional-dentistry-belize-city-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 |
| heusner-professional-dentistry-belize-city-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 |
| heusner-professional-dentistry-belize-city-av4 | search:"Heusner Professional Dentistry" Belize City | 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 concern a hospital named after a physician with a similar surname, news pages and expat guides. Listed: a Wikipedia article on a Belize City hospital, a Belize medical-care guide, an embassy PDF, a Belize news archive, two US university news pages and expat forums. | 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). |
| 2026-10-01 | 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: 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 and a TripAdvisor search; the clinic has no website and no social page of its own was found, and its listing carries zero photos. Recorded: no prices published anywhere reachable; no listing on TripAdvisor. Still unverified: dentist names, specializations, service list, genuine photos, X-ray/CBCT, implants, oral surgery, pediatric dentistry, emergency care, foreign-patient work, WhatsApp contact and online consultation — no clinic-owned channel exists to check any of these; the listing has never been claimed by the business. |
| 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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