San Pedro Dental Clinic
According to our open methodology, this clinic scored 35/100 for transparency, reputation, service accessibility, and digital visibility.
Overall rank: #7 of 14 ranked clinics · Last checked: 25 September 2026
35/100
Positions by Rating Profile
- Overall Transparency & Trust#735/100
- Best for Expats#737.5/100
- Best for Dental Implantsnot ranked
- Best for Emergency Dental Care#444/100
- Best Price Transparency#824.2/100
- Best English-speaking Clinics#840.3/100
- 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
The only business on Ambergris Caye that Google indexes under the dental-clinic category as a dental practice in its own right, run by Dr. Franklin Hernández, DDS. It keeps no website: everything it publishes about itself is on the banner it uses as its Facebook cover, which carries the dentist's name, a ten-treatment service list from fillings and root canals to third-molar surgery and braces, Monday-to-Saturday opening hours, two phone numbers, an e-mail address and the street it stands on, Pescador Drive. What is missing sits on the other side: the Google listing it manages itself still publishes no address, no hours, no dentist and no services, and carries a single public review.
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 of 14 verifiable points (missing: google review volume; review recency; tripAdvisor presence; other review platforms)
- AI & Search Visibility: 0 of 8 verifiable points (missing: mentioned for: best dentist Belize; 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; 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
12 / 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 Read in a browser on 2026-09-10: the banner the clinic uses as the cover of its own Facebook page is headed "San Pedro Dental Clinic" and, beneath it, "Dr. Franklin Hernández, DDS — Dental Surgeon". The Google listing still names nobody; the clinic's own page does. [fb] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Dentist specializations listed The same banner states the dentist's degree and role — "Dr. Franklin Hernández, DDS, Dental Surgeon" — on the clinic's own channel. Read in a browser on 2026-09-10. [fb] | 2/2 |
| ✗ | Real clinic photos Read in a browser on 2026-09-10: the clinic's Facebook album is personal and community photography — family and church images — and carries no photograph of the premises or of a treatment room. Its profile picture shows a masked person in what may be a clinical room, which is not enough to record premises photography. The clinic has no website. [fb] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Service list published Read in a browser on 2026-09-10: the clinic's own Facebook cover banner lists ten treatments — Veneer Porcelain & Bridges, Fillings (White), Flexible Partial and Total Denture, Rootcanal Treatment, X-Ray Services, Extractions, 3rd Molar Surgery, Cleaning, Dental Whitening and Braces. The initial data collection and the verification pass could not open this page at all. [fb] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Clear contact details Read in a browser on 2026-09-10: the clinic's Facebook page publishes a landline (226 4585), a mobile (620 6736) and the address spdentalclinic@yahoo.com, both on the cover banner and in its contact block, and carries a WhatsApp button. The mobile matches the number on the Google listing it manages, so the channels agree. [fb] [gm] | 2/2 |
| ✗ | English website version No website exists to have an English version [san-pedro-dental-clinic-san-pedro-deepen] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Address and map published Read in a browser on 2026-09-10: the clinic's own Facebook cover banner gives "Pescador Drive, San Pedro Town, Belize", and its Google listing carries a map pin for the business. Recorded with two limits stated plainly: the banner gives the street without a house number, and the Google listing itself still publishes no address line at all — the pin is all it carries. [fb] [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 Read on 2026-09-10 on both of the clinic's channels: its Facebook cover banner lists ten treatments and no figure against any of them, no post on the page quotes a price, and its Google listing carries none either. [gm] [fb] | 0/3 |
| ✗ | Cleaning price listed No website; its Google listing lists no prices, and the ten treatments on its Facebook cover banner carry no figures (read 2026-09-10) [san-pedro-dental-clinic-san-pedro-deepen] [fb] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Filling price listed No website; its Google listing lists no prices, and the ten treatments on its Facebook cover banner carry no figures (read 2026-09-10) [san-pedro-dental-clinic-san-pedro-deepen] [fb] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Crown price listed No website; its Google listing lists no prices, and the ten treatments on its Facebook cover banner carry no figures (read 2026-09-10) [san-pedro-dental-clinic-san-pedro-deepen] [fb] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Implant price listed No website; its Google listing lists no prices, and the ten treatments on its Facebook cover banner carry no figures (read 2026-09-10) [san-pedro-dental-clinic-san-pedro-deepen] [fb] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Consultation price listed No website; its Google listing lists no prices, and the ten treatments on its Facebook cover banner carry no figures (read 2026-09-10) [san-pedro-dental-clinic-san-pedro-deepen] [fb] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | X-ray / imaging price listed No website; its Google listing lists no prices, and the ten treatments on its Facebook cover banner carry no figures (read 2026-09-10) [san-pedro-dental-clinic-san-pedro-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) Read live 2026-09-10 from the place record on two probes that returned the review block: 5.0 from a single review, rating histogram 0/0/0/0/1 whose sum matches the review count and whose implied mean matches the aggregate. The initial data collection recorded this as unknown after four probes that returned no review block at all. [gm] | 3/6 |
| ✗ | Google review volume A single public review. On a base of one the rating carries almost no information, which the Bayesian adjustment in this index already accounts for. [gm] | 0/3 |
| ✗ | Review recency Read in a browser on 2026-09-10: the single review renders. It is a year old — a five-star account by a Local Guide who works in dentistry in the United States and had a bracket repaired here on holiday. [gm] | 0/3 |
| ? | Clinic responds to reviews 1 review from the last 24 months was read on the Google listing, none with an owner reply, too few to say the clinic does not answer reviews (read 2026-10-02). | 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 (2025-06-03 to 2025-06-03), fewer than the ten needed to judge a pattern, so the criterion is left unassessed (read 2026-10-02). | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Active Facebook presence The clinic runs a Facebook page under its own name. [fb] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | TripAdvisor presence No matching listing in TripAdvisor's own search on 2026-09-25 [san-pedro-dental-clinic-san-pedro-deepen-2] | 0/0.5 |
| ✗ | Other review platforms No profile found on WhatClinic, Dental Departures or Bookimed, none of which lists any clinic in Belize (checked 2026-10-01). [san-pedro-dental-clinic-san-pedro-deepen-3] [san-pedro-dental-clinic-san-pedro-deepen-4] [san-pedro-dental-clinic-san-pedro-deepen-5] | 0/0.5 |
Medical Infrastructure
9.5 / 15
The range of publicly documented equipment and services. This measures documented availability, not clinical quality.
| ✓ | On-site X-ray "X-Ray Services" is one of the ten treatments on the clinic's own Facebook cover banner (read 2026-09-10) [fb] | 2/2 |
| ? | CBCT (3D imaging) | 0/2 |
| ? | Implantology | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Orthodontics The clinic's own Facebook cover banner lists "Braces" among its ten treatments (read 2026-09-10) [fb] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Oral surgery The clinic's own Facebook cover banner lists "Extractions" and "3rd Molar Surgery" (read 2026-09-10) [fb] | 2/2 |
| ? | Pediatric dentistry | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | Emergency care Its only Google review advises visitors with a broken bracket or tooth pain to go to the clinic to be fixed right away (2025-06-03). [san-pedro-dental-clinic-san-pedro-deepen-6] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ✓ | Works with international patients Its only Google review comes from a foreign visitor on vacation who was treated at the clinic (2025-06-03). [san-pedro-dental-clinic-san-pedro-deepen-6] | 2/2 |
Communication & Service
6 / 10
How easy it is to contact the clinic, get answers, and book - especially for international patients.
| ✓ | WhatsApp / LINE available The clinic'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 Its only Google review is written in English by a visitor from the United States treated at the clinic (2025-06-03). [san-pedro-dental-clinic-san-pedro-deepen-6] | 2.5/2.5 |
| ✗ | Pre-visit consultation possible Patients reach the clinic only by phone, WhatsApp or Facebook message; no booking or estimate request on its Facebook page or Google listing. [san-pedro-dental-clinic-san-pedro-deepen-7] [san-pedro-dental-clinic-san-pedro-deepen-6] | 0/1.5 |
| ? | Clear service explanations | 0/1 |
| ✓ | Convenient opening hours Read in a browser on 2026-09-10: the clinic's own Facebook cover banner publishes "Mon-Fri 8 am - 6 pm - Sat 8 am -12 noon" — a Saturday morning surgery. Its Google listing publishes no hours at all, which is why this was unknown before. [fb] | 1.5/1.5 |
AI & Search Visibility
0 / 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 Pedro 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 The San Pedro queries are dominated by same-name towns in California, Spain, Costa Rica and the Philippines; this clinic appears in none of the five. [avq] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Structured data on website No website exists [san-pedro-dental-clinic-san-pedro-deepen] | 0/1.5 |
| ? | Google indexing quality | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Dedicated service pages No website exists [san-pedro-dental-clinic-san-pedro-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
| Dentist | Specialization | Licence No. |
|---|---|---|
| Franklin Hernández [fb] | Dental surgeon (DDS) | 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: Clinic responds to reviews
- Reputation & Reviews: No recurring complaints
- Reputation & Reviews: No suspicious review patterns
- Medical Infrastructure: CBCT (3D imaging)
- Medical Infrastructure: Implantology
- Medical Infrastructure: Pediatric dentistry
- Communication & Service: Response speed
- Communication & Service: Clear service explanations
- 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
| Phone | +501 620-6736 |
|---|---|
| https://www.facebook.com/p/San-Pedro-Dental-Clinic-100054239256825/ | |
| Google Maps | Map listing |
| Address | San Pedro Town, Ambergris Caye, 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/San+Pedro+Dental+Clinic/@17.91411… | Google Maps place record read live 2026-09-10: coordinates 17.914112 / -87.97687, phone +501 620-6736, categories Dental clinic / Service establishment, listing managed by the business, no website, no street address, no opening hours and no review block | 2026-09-10 |
| fb | https://www.facebook.com/p/San-Pedro-Dental-Clinic-100054239256825/ | The clinic's own Facebook page, read in a browser 2026-09-10: 339 followers, a WhatsApp button, contact block with +501 620-6736 and spdentalclinic@yahoo.com, and a cover banner headed "San Pedro Dental Clinic — Dr. Franklin Hernández, DDS, Dental Surgeon" carrying a ten-treatment service list, opening hours Mon-Fri 8 am - 6 pm and Sat 8 am - 12 noon, a landline 226 4585 and the address Pescador Drive, San Pedro Town | 2026-09-25 |
| avq | search:best dentist San Pedro Belize / English speaking dentist San Pedro / dental implants San Pedro / emergency dentist San Pedro / San Pedro 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 |
| san-pedro-dental-clinic-san-pedro-deepen | https://www.google.com/maps?cid=2535730347994855090&hl=en | Google listing managed by the clinic, read 2026-09-25: categories Dental clinic and Service establishment, phone and 1 review; no website field and no price list | 2026-09-25 |
| san-pedro-dental-clinic-san-pedro-deepen-2 | https://www.tripadvisor.com/TypeAheadJson?action=API&query=San%20Pe… | TripAdvisor's own search for "San Pedro Dental Clinic", read 2026-09-25: 12 results (3 destinations, 4 attractions, 5 hotels), none of them this clinic or a dental listing in Belize | 2026-09-25 |
| san-pedro-dental-clinic-san-pedro-deepen-3 | https://www.whatclinic.com/dentists/belize | WhatClinic: its Belize dentist catalogue lists no clinic at all ("No information on Dentists in Belize"), checked 2026-10-01 | 2026-10-01 |
| san-pedro-dental-clinic-san-pedro-deepen-4 | https://www.dentaldepartures.com/dentists/belize | Dental Departures: no Belize page (page not found), checked 2026-10-01 | 2026-10-01 |
| san-pedro-dental-clinic-san-pedro-deepen-5 | https://us-uk.bookimed.com/sitemap-us-uk-clinic.xml | Bookimed: its clinic sitemap (2,127 clinics) has no clinic in Belize and its Belize clinics page is gone (HTTP 410), checked 2026-10-01 | 2026-10-01 |
| san-pedro-dental-clinic-san-pedro-deepen-6 | https://www.google.com/maps?cid=2535730347994855090&hl=en | Google listing "San Pedro Dental Clinic" (managed by the business; 5.0 from 1 review) read 2026-10-02: its only review, of 2025-06-03, is written in English by a visitor on vacation who works in dentistry in the United States: "On vacay, broken bracket or tooth pain. Head over and doc will fix you right up"; it praises the clinic's dental and orthodontic work. | 2026-10-02 |
| san-pedro-dental-clinic-san-pedro-deepen-7 | https://www.facebook.com/p/San-Pedro-Dental-Clinic-100054239256825/ | The clinic's Facebook page read 2026-10-02: its header offers WhatsApp and Message buttons only (no booking); the About section gives San Pedro, Belize, telephone +501 620-6736 and an e-mail address; the newest post is of 2024-05-27, none in the past 12 months. | 2026-10-02 |
Change History
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-02 | Reputation check 2026-10-02 on the clinic's Google listing (1 reviews read): nothing settled; recurring complaints, owner replies to reviews, suspicious review patterns left unassessed. |
| 2026-10-02 | Read the clinic's Facebook page and its Google review on 2026-10-02: English-speaking care for foreign visitors with urgent problems recorded; contact is by phone, WhatsApp or Facebook message only. |
| 2026-10-01 | Checked WhatClinic, Dental Departures and Bookimed on 2026-10-01: none lists the clinic or any clinic in Belize, so presence on other review platforms is recorded as absent. |
| 2026-09-29 | Corrected 2026-09-29: no recurring complaints now unverified: 1 Google review is too few to show a pattern; clinic responds to reviews now unverified: with 1 Google review a missing owner reply shows nothing yet. |
| 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; X-ray services, extractions and third-molar surgery, and braces, all from the ten-treatment banner on the clinic's own Facebook page; no listing on TripAdvisor. Still unverified: CBCT, implants, pediatric dentistry, emergency care, foreign-patient work, English, online consultation and 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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