Matus 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#1218/100
- Best for Dental Implantsnot ranked
- Best for Emergency Dental Carenot ranked
- Best Price Transparency#1211.5/100
- Best English-speaking Clinics#1221/100
- 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 George Price Avenue at the eastern end of the twin towns, in Santa Elena: its own Facebook page and the OpenStreetMap record both place it there, while the Google listing it manages gives the address under the joint municipality name San Ignacio. It runs two channels — that listing and a Facebook page with 1,500 followers — and neither names a dentist, lists a treatment or quotes a price; between them they publish an address, two phone numbers and opening hours. The practice has no website.
Strengths
- No red flags identified in public sources.
Weaknesses
- Information Transparency: 4 of 12 verifiable points (missing: has a working website; real clinic photos; 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: 4 of 14 verifiable points (missing: google review volume; review recency; tripAdvisor presence; other review platforms)
- AI & Search Visibility: 1 of 10 verifiable points (missing: mentioned for: best dentist Belize; mentioned for: English speaking dentist Belize; mentioned for: dental implants 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 clinic-managed 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 Read in a browser on 2026-09-10: the clinic's Facebook album holds four images in total — a smile close-up and a close-up of a child being examined, each of them published twice — and neither the page nor the Google listing carries a photograph of the premises. The clinic has no website. [fb] | 0/2 |
| ? | Service list published | 0/3 |
| ✓ | Clear contact details Two numbers, both from the practice's own channels, read live on 2026-09-10: +501 607-1129 on the Google listing it manages and +501 804-2842 on its Facebook page, which also offers Messenger. No e-mail is published. [gm] | 2/2 |
| ✗ | English website version No website exists to have an English version [matus-dental-clinic-san-ignacio-deepen] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Address and map published The street and the number agree on all three channels; the town did not. The practice-managed Google listing gives “#2 George Price Ave., San Ignacio”, the clinic’s own Facebook page gives the same number in Santa Elena — the twin town immediately across the Macal river — and the OpenStreetMap record behind Mapcarta, re-read on 2026-09-11, records the clinic as “2, George Price Avenue, Santa Elena” in the joint municipality of San Ignacio & Santa Elena. Two of the three channels, one of them independent of the clinic, place the premises in Santa Elena, so that is the town recorded here; the listing’s “San Ignacio” is the name of the municipality the two towns share, and the card stays with the San Ignacio clinics for that reason. [gm] [mc] | 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 Read on 2026-09-10 on both of the clinic's channels: neither its Google listing nor its Facebook page quotes a price or a range for anything. [gm] [fb] | 0/3 |
| ✗ | Cleaning price listed No website; neither its Google listing nor its Facebook page, read in full on 2026-09-10, quotes a price or a range [matus-dental-clinic-san-ignacio-deepen] [fb] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Filling price listed No website; neither its Google listing nor its Facebook page, read in full on 2026-09-10, quotes a price or a range [matus-dental-clinic-san-ignacio-deepen] [fb] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Crown price listed No website; neither its Google listing nor its Facebook page, read in full on 2026-09-10, quotes a price or a range [matus-dental-clinic-san-ignacio-deepen] [fb] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Implant price listed No website; neither its Google listing nor its Facebook page, read in full on 2026-09-10, quotes a price or a range [matus-dental-clinic-san-ignacio-deepen] [fb] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Consultation price listed No website; neither its Google listing nor its Facebook page, read in full on 2026-09-10, quotes a price or a range [matus-dental-clinic-san-ignacio-deepen] [fb] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | X-ray / imaging price listed No website; neither its Google listing nor its Facebook page, read in full on 2026-09-10, quotes a price or a range [matus-dental-clinic-san-ignacio-deepen] [fb] | 0/2 |
Reputation & Reviews
4 / 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: 0/0/0/0/2 over 2 reviews. Two five-star reviews carry very little information about a practice, which the Bayesian adjustment in this index already accounts for. The listing is managed by the practice. [gm] | 3/6 |
| ✗ | Google review volume [gm] | 0/3 |
| ✗ | Review recency Read in a browser on 2026-09-10: both reviews render. They are three and six years old and both are star ratings with no text. The verification pass could not get the review block out of this listing automatically. [gm] | 0/3 |
| ? | Clinic responds to reviews None of the 2 Google reviews read is from the last 24 months (newest 2022-11-12), so replies cannot be assessed (read 2026-10-02). | 0/2 |
| ? | No recurring complaints Only 2 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 2 Google reviews (2020-01-03 to 2022-11-12), fewer than the ten needed to judge a pattern, so the criterion is left unassessed (read 2026-10-02). | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Active Facebook presence A Facebook page search on 2026-09-10 found the clinic's own page — 1,500 followers, two recommendations, its own address and phone number, and a standing description of its work. The initial data collection and the verification pass recorded the Google listing as this clinic's only channel; it has a second. [fb] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | TripAdvisor presence No matching listing in TripAdvisor's own search on 2026-09-25 [matus-dental-clinic-san-ignacio-deepen-2] | 0/0.5 |
| ✗ | Other review platforms No profile on WhatClinic, Dental Departures, Bookimed or American Health Tourism (checked 2026-10-02). [matus-dental-clinic-san-ignacio-deepen-4] [matus-dental-clinic-san-ignacio-deepen-5] [matus-dental-clinic-san-ignacio-deepen-6] [matus-dental-clinic-san-ignacio-deepen-7] | 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
4 / 10
How easy it is to contact the clinic, get answers, and book - especially for international patients.
| ✗ | WhatsApp / LINE available The clinic's Facebook contact details list a phone number only; no WhatsApp number or button [matus-dental-clinic-san-ignacio-deepen-3] | 0/2 |
| ? | Response speed | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | English spoken the clinic's own Facebook summary is written in English [fb] | 2.5/2.5 |
| ? | Pre-visit consultation possible | 0/1.5 |
| ? | Clear service explanations | 0/1 |
| ✓ | Convenient opening hours The full week on the practice-managed Google listing, read on 2026-09-11: Monday to Friday 08:00–17:00, Saturday 08:00–15:00, Sunday closed. The Saturday surgery is what meets this criterion; the practice publishes nothing of its own besides this listing and its Facebook page. [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 [avq] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | 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 A directory page for this practice appears 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 website exists [matus-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. [matus-dental-clinic-san-ignacio-av4] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Dedicated service pages No website exists [matus-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: Clinic responds to reviews
- Reputation & Reviews: No recurring complaints
- Reputation & Reviews: No suspicious review patterns
- 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: 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 | +501 607-1129 |
|---|---|
| https://www.facebook.com/MatusDentalClinic/ | |
| Google Maps | Map listing |
| Address | #2 George Price Avenue, Santa Elena, 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/Matus+Dental+Clinic/@17.158564,-8… | Google Maps place record read live 2026-09-10 (four probes, English and Spanish): rating 5.0 from 2 reviews, coordinates 17.158564 / -89.0658496, address #2 George Price Ave., phone +501 607-1129, category Dental clinic, opens 08:00, listing managed by the business with no website | 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/MatusDentalClinic/ | The clinic's own Facebook page, read in full on 2026-09-10 and its description re-read on 2026-09-25: 1,500 followers, two recommendations, address "#2 George Price Ave., Santa Elena, Belize", phone +501 804-2842, a four-image album with no premises photograph, no price anywhere, and its description in English: "At Matus Dental Clinc we take pride in our work to give the patient the best dental work available." | 2026-09-25 |
| mc | https://mapcarta.com/N4502969954 | OpenStreetMap entry rendered by Mapcarta, read 2026-09-10: places the clinic on George Price Avenue in Cayo, near the Cocopele Inn | 2026-09-10 |
| matus-dental-clinic-san-ignacio-deepen | https://www.google.com/maps?cid=13698597718387957282&hl=en | Google listing managed by the clinic, read 2026-09-25: category Dental clinic, address, phone, hours and 2 reviews; no website field and no price list | 2026-09-25 |
| matus-dental-clinic-san-ignacio-deepen-2 | https://www.tripadvisor.com/TypeAheadJson?action=API&query=Matus%20… | TripAdvisor's own search for "Matus Dental Clinic", read 2026-09-25: 12 results (5 attractions, 5 hotels, 2 restaurants), none of them this clinic or a dental listing in Belize | 2026-09-25 |
| matus-dental-clinic-san-ignacio-deepen-3 | https://www.facebook.com/MatusDentalClinic/ | Contact info lists only +501 804-2842; the page offers only a Message button, no WhatsApp option. The clinic's Google listing carries no website or messaging link. | 2026-09-29 |
| matus-dental-clinic-san-ignacio-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 |
| matus-dental-clinic-san-ignacio-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 |
| matus-dental-clinic-san-ignacio-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 |
| matus-dental-clinic-san-ignacio-deepen-7 | https://americanhealthtourism.org/wp-json/wp/v2/facility?search=matus | American Health Tourism, read 2026-10-02: its facility search has no entry for Matus Dental Clinic (its only "Clinica Dental Santa Elena" is in Costa Rica) | 2026-10-02 |
| matus-dental-clinic-san-ignacio-av4 | search:"Matus 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 a guest house of the same surname, a US dental practice with a similar name and San Ignacio guides. Listed: a charity page on San Ignacio, an expat healthcare guide, three booking pages of a San Ignacio guest house, a US practice review page and a WebMD listing of a US practice. | 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 (2 reviews read): nothing settled; recurring complaints, owner replies to reviews, suspicious review patterns left unassessed. |
| 2026-10-02 | Other review platforms checked on 2026-10-02: no profile of the clinic. |
| 2026-09-29 | Read the clinic's own Facebook page in full. Its About text is generic (no specific service list); no WhatsApp contact and no prices are published there. |
| 2026-09-29 | Corrected 2026-09-29: no recurring complaints now unverified: 2 Google reviews are too few to show a pattern; clinic responds to reviews now unverified: with 2 Google reviews a missing owner reply shows nothing yet; dentist names listed, dentist specializations listed and service list published now unverified: the clinic has no website and its social page was not checked for this. |
| 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 on either channel; the clinic's own Facebook description is written in English; no listing on TripAdvisor. Still unverified: X-ray/CBCT, implants, orthodontics, oral surgery, pediatric dentistry, emergency care, foreign-patient work, WhatsApp contact, online consultation and presence on other review platforms; the base of 2 reviews is too small to assess review patterns. |
| 2026-09-11 | Town of the premises settled: the OpenStreetMap record, independent of the clinic, agrees with the clinic’s own Facebook page that the address is in Santa Elena, the twin town across the Macal river, and the address line now says so; the card stays with the San Ignacio clinics because the two towns share one municipality. Opening hours re-read in full on the practice-managed listing. |
| 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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