Palomo's Dental Center
According to our open methodology, this clinic scored 50.6/100 for transparency, reputation, service accessibility, and digital visibility.
Overall rank: #4 of 14 ranked clinics · Last checked: 25 September 2026
50.6/100
Positions by Rating Profile
- Overall Transparency & Trust#450.6/100
- Best for Expats#548/100
- Best for Dental Implants#543/100
- Best for Emergency Dental Care#348.5/100
- Best Price Transparency#436.3/100
- Best English-speaking Clinics#553/100
- 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
Two-dentist practice at the corner of St. Joseph and St. Thomas Streets in Belize City, run by Dr. Alfonso Palomo (general dentistry and endodontics) and Dra. Virginia Diaz Palomo (orthodontics), who both qualified at Universidad Francisco Marroquin in Guatemala in 2001 and moved their practice to Belize in 2016. The site publishes a six-area service list, both dentists' training histories and a separate emergency number, but no prices.
Strengths
- Information Transparency: 20 of 20 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)
- Reputation & Reviews: 9 of 19 verifiable points (missing: clinic responds to reviews; 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
20 / 20
Whether basic facts about the clinic - its team, premises, services, and location - are publicly verifiable.
| ✓ | Has a working website [s1] | 4/4 |
| ✓ | Dentist names listed [s1] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Dentist specializations listed The site gives each dentist a field: Dr. Alfonso Palomo, general practitioner and endodontist (postgraduate degree in endodontics, Universidad de San Carlos, 2006); Dra. Virginia Diaz Palomo, orthodontist (Universidad Mariano Galvez, 2005). [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Real clinic photos Read in a browser on 2026-09-10: the site's welcome block carries a photograph of the practice's own treatment room with a dentist working on a patient, and the "Meet our dentists" block carries camera-original portraits of Dr. Alfonso Palomo and Dra. Virginia Diaz Palomo. Nothing on the site is stock imagery of a generic clinic. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Service list published Six named areas: general dentistry, cosmetic dentistry, dental implants, orthodontics, dental examinations, endodontics. [s1] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Clear contact details Two phone numbers, an e-mail address and a street address in the site footer. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | English website version The site is published in English. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Address and map published Street address published in the site's contact block and matching the Google place record. [s1] [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 site lists services and treatment descriptions but no prices or price ranges anywhere. [s1] | 0/3 |
| ✗ | Cleaning price listed No price figures on the site: the homepage lists six services with no prices; "Pricing Table", "Pricing Plans" and FAQ are unedited WordPress theme demo pages, not the clinic's real price list [s1] [palomos-dental-center-belize-city-deepen] [palomos-dental-center-belize-city-deepen-2] [palomos-dental-center-belize-city-deepen-3] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Filling price listed No price figures on the site: the homepage lists six services with no prices; "Pricing Table", "Pricing Plans" and FAQ are unedited WordPress theme demo pages, not the clinic's real price list [s1] [palomos-dental-center-belize-city-deepen] [palomos-dental-center-belize-city-deepen-2] [palomos-dental-center-belize-city-deepen-3] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Crown price listed No price figures on the site: the homepage lists six services with no prices; "Pricing Table", "Pricing Plans" and FAQ are unedited WordPress theme demo pages, not the clinic's real price list [s1] [palomos-dental-center-belize-city-deepen] [palomos-dental-center-belize-city-deepen-2] [palomos-dental-center-belize-city-deepen-3] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Implant price listed No price figures on the site: the homepage lists six services with no prices; "Pricing Table", "Pricing Plans" and FAQ are unedited WordPress theme demo pages, not the clinic's real price list [s1] [palomos-dental-center-belize-city-deepen] [palomos-dental-center-belize-city-deepen-2] [palomos-dental-center-belize-city-deepen-3] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Consultation price listed No price figures on the site: the homepage lists six services with no prices; "Pricing Table", "Pricing Plans" and FAQ are unedited WordPress theme demo pages, not the clinic's real price list [s1] [palomos-dental-center-belize-city-deepen] [palomos-dental-center-belize-city-deepen-2] [palomos-dental-center-belize-city-deepen-3] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | X-ray / imaging price listed No price figures on the site: the homepage lists six services with no prices; "Pricing Table", "Pricing Plans" and FAQ are unedited WordPress theme demo pages, not the clinic's real price list [s1] [palomos-dental-center-belize-city-deepen] [palomos-dental-center-belize-city-deepen-2] [palomos-dental-center-belize-city-deepen-3] | 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. Rating histogram 0 to 5 stars: 2/0/0/0/14 over 16 reviews, whose implied mean is exactly the published 4.5. The listing is not claimed by the practice. [gm] | 3/6 |
| ◐ | Google review volume [gm] | 0.5/3 |
| ◐ | Review recency Read in a browser on 2026-09-10: the newest of the eight reviews shown is seven months old (a patient who had tried several Belize City dentists and found the prices fair and the work unhurried); the rest run from four to seven years. [gm] | 1.5/3 |
| ✗ | Clinic responds to reviews Read in a browser on 2026-09-10 in the listing's own reviews panel: eight of the sixteen reviews render and not one carries a "Response from the owner" block. The listing has never been claimed by the practice — the "Claim this business" control is still on it — so the practice has no way to reply on it at all. [gm] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | No recurring complaints Fourteen of the sixteen reviews are five-star and two are one-star. One of the two was read in full in the browser on 2026-09-10 — a patient whose crown came loose within a month and who reports bone loss around the implant afterwards — and the second is not among the eight reviews Google renders. With only two sub-three-star reviews in the whole base, three different reviewers cannot be describing the same problem, and none of the eight reviews shown raises a complaint at all. [gm] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | No suspicious review patterns Reviews are spread over six years, each is written differently, and no sentence is shared between any two of them. The same verbatim-overlap test run across every Belize listing that renders review text found sharing on one listing only, and this is not it. [gm] | 2/2 |
| ? | Active Facebook presence Not established: no Facebook page is linked from the clinic's own channels, and none was found under its name (checked 2026-10-02). | 0/1 |
| ✗ | TripAdvisor presence No matching listing in TripAdvisor's own search on 2026-09-25 [palomos-dental-center-belize-city-deepen-4] | 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. [palomos-dental-center-belize-city-deepen-6] [palomos-dental-center-belize-city-deepen-7] [palomos-dental-center-belize-city-deepen-8] [palomos-dental-center-belize-city-deepen-9] | 0/0.5 |
Medical Infrastructure
7.5 / 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 [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Orthodontics Braces and clear aligners; one of the two dentists is an orthodontist. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Oral surgery The clinic's own dentists place dental implants (own-site service list), which the methodology counts as oral surgery even when the word "surgery" is not used [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✗ | Pediatric dentistry Full service list on the homepage has no pediatric item [s1] | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | Emergency care Dedicated emergency contact number +501 602-9143 published on the homepage. [s1] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ? | Works with international patients | 0/2 |
Communication & Service
5 / 10
How easy it is to contact the clinic, get answers, and book - especially for international patients.
| ✗ | WhatsApp / LINE available No wa.me/WhatsApp/LINE link anywhere in the site's HTML; the only channels are two phone numbers and an e-mail address [s1] | 0/2 |
| ? | Response speed | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | English spoken [s1] | 2.5/2.5 |
| ✗ | Pre-visit consultation possible The only online channel is a generic Contact Form 7 form (name, phone, e-mail, message) with no service or time selection [s1] | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | Clear service explanations Each service area carries a plain-language paragraph explaining what it covers. [s1] | 1/1 |
| ✓ | Convenient opening hours Mon-Fri 08:00-18:00 and Sat 08:00-13:00 published on the homepage. [s1] | 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 Own site ranks first for the city prominence query. [avq] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: English speaking dentist Belize Neither the clinic nor its channels appear in the top 10 for the English-speaking query. [avq] | 0/1 |
| ✓ | Mentioned for: dental implants Belize [avq] | 1/1 |
| ✓ | Mentioned for: emergency dentist Belize [avq] | 1/1 |
| ✓ | Mentioned for: Belize dental clinic for expats [avq] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | Structured data on website The only schema.org markup on the site is WebPage, WebSite and BreadcrumbList; there is no Dentist, LocalBusiness or other business entity [s1] | 0/1.5 |
| ? | Google indexing quality | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Dedicated service pages Services are one consolidated list on the homepage; the site's /services/dentistry/ page (linked from its sitemap) is unedited WordPress theme demo content, not a real per-service page [palomos-dental-center-belize-city-deepen-5] | 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. |
|---|---|---|
| Alfonso Palomo [s1] | General dentist and endodontist | not verified |
| Virginia Diaz Palomo [s1] | Orthodontist | not verified |
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: Active Facebook presence
- Medical Infrastructure: On-site X-ray
- Medical Infrastructure: CBCT (3D imaging)
- Medical Infrastructure: Works with international patients
- 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://www.belizedentalclinic.com/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +501 223-2624 |
| Google Maps | Map listing |
| Address | Cor. St. Joseph & St. Thomas Sts., 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | https://www.belizedentalclinic.com/ | Clinic homepage read 2026-09-25: Dr. Alfonso Palomo and Dra. Virginia Diaz Palomo with their training; six services (general dentistry, cosmetic dentistry, dental implants, orthodontics, dental examinations, endodontics); hours Mon-Fri 8:00-18:00, Sat 8:00-13:00; separate emergency number +501-602-9143; contact block with two phone numbers and an e-mail address, no WhatsApp link; a name/phone/e-mail/message contact form; no price figures; page markup limited to schema.org WebPage, WebSite and BreadcrumbList | 2026-09-25 |
| gm | https://www.google.com/maps/place/Palomo's+Dental+Center/@17.505374… | Google Maps place record read live 2026-09-10: rating 4.5 from 16 reviews, coordinates 17.5053749 / -88.1944565, phone +501 223-2624, category Dental clinic, listing not claimed by the business | 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 |
| palomos-dental-center-belize-city-deepen | https://www.belizedentalclinic.com/pricing-table/ | Read today: /pricing-table/ and /pricing-plans/ show the theme's stock "Basic Plan $16/Month, 6 Medical Specialties..." subscription tiers with Lorem ipsum copy; /faq/ answers are all Lorem ipsum placeholder text | 2026-09-25 |
| palomos-dental-center-belize-city-deepen-2 | https://www.belizedentalclinic.com/pricing-plans/ | Read today: /pricing-table/ and /pricing-plans/ show the theme's stock "Basic Plan $16/Month, 6 Medical Specialties..." subscription tiers with Lorem ipsum copy; /faq/ answers are all Lorem ipsum placeholder text | 2026-09-25 |
| palomos-dental-center-belize-city-deepen-3 | https://www.belizedentalclinic.com/faq/ | FAQ page read today: every answer is unedited Lorem ipsum placeholder text from the WordPress theme | 2026-09-25 |
| palomos-dental-center-belize-city-deepen-4 | https://www.tripadvisor.com/TypeAheadJson?action=API&query=Palomo's… | TripAdvisor's own search for "Palomo's Dental Center", read 2026-09-25: 12 results (7 attractions, 3 hotels, 2 restaurants), none of them this clinic or a dental listing in Belize | 2026-09-25 |
| palomos-dental-center-belize-city-deepen-5 | https://www.belizedentalclinic.com/services/dentistry/ | Read today: Lorem ipsum body text, a fictitious "Dr. Oviya Ben" placeholder dentist, unrelated "Cardiology"/"Fitness"/"Cancer Care" blocks left over from the theme demo | 2026-09-25 |
| palomos-dental-center-belize-city-deepen-6 | 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 |
| palomos-dental-center-belize-city-deepen-7 | 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 |
| palomos-dental-center-belize-city-deepen-8 | 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 |
| palomos-dental-center-belize-city-deepen-9 | https://americanhealthtourism.org/facility/palomos-dental-center/ | American Health Tourism, read 2026-10-02: a directory entry "Palomo's Dental Center" (the clinic's phone +501 223-2624 and website) 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 | Other review platforms checked on 2026-10-02: no profile of the clinic. |
| 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 own website in full (home page and the pricing, FAQ and per-service pages reachable from its sitemap) and a TripAdvisor search. Recorded: no cleaning, filling, crown, implant, consultation or X-ray price anywhere on the site — its "Pricing Table", "Pricing Plans", FAQ and one per-service page turned out to be unedited template demo content, not the clinic's own material; implant placement counted as oral surgery; no pediatric dentistry in the six-item service list; no WhatsApp/LINE link; no online consultation request beyond a general contact form; no listing on TripAdvisor. Corrected: the site's schema.org markup describes only the web page and site, not the practice, so structured data is no longer recorded. Still unverified: presence on other review platforms, on-site X-ray/CBCT equipment, work with foreign patients. |
| 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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