Palomo's Dental Center
Según nuestra metodología abierta, esta clínica obtuvo 50.6/100 en transparencia, reputación, accesibilidad del servicio y visibilidad digital.
Posición general: #4 de 14 clínicas clasificadas · Última comprobación: 2026-09-25
50.6/100
Posiciones por perfil de clasificación
- Transparencia y confianza global#450.6/100
- Para expatriados#548/100
- Para implantes dentales#543/100
- Para urgencias dentales#348.5/100
- Transparencia de precios#436.3/100
- Clínicas de habla inglesa#553/100
- Para familias y niñosno participa
- Odontología del sueño (anestesia general / sedación profunda)no participa
Anestesia general y sedación profunda
Si la clínica documenta tratamientos bajo anestesia general o sedación profunda / crepuscular — la «odontología del sueño», en la que el paciente duerme y no percibe nada (no siente, ve ni oye el procedimiento). La sedación consciente ordinaria, en la que el paciente permanece despierto y receptivo, no cuenta aquí. Es información orientativa y no afecta a la puntuación de transparencia.
- ? Anestesia general / sedación profunda (odontología del sueño) — No verificado
Resumen
Consultorio de dos dentistas en la esquina de las calles St. Joseph y St. Thomas, en Belize City, dirigido por el Dr. Alfonso Palomo (odontología general y endodoncia) y la Dra. Virginia Diaz Palomo (ortodoncia), ambos graduados en la Universidad Francisco Marroquín de Guatemala en 2001, que trasladaron su consultorio a Belice en 2016. El sitio web publica una lista de servicios en seis áreas, la formación de ambos dentistas y un número de urgencias independiente, pero no publica precios.
Puntos fuertes
- Transparencia de la información: 20 de 20 puntos.
- No se identificaron señales de alerta en las fuentes públicas.
Puntos débiles
- Transparencia de precios: 0 de 15 puntos verificables (falta: precios o rangos de precios publicados; precio de la limpieza indicado; precio del empaste indicado; precio de la corona indicado; precio del implante indicado; precio de la consulta indicado; precio de la radiografía / imagen indicado)
- Reputación y reseñas: 9 de 19 puntos verificables (falta: la clínica responde a las reseñas; presencia en TripAdvisor; otras plataformas de reseñas)
Desglose de la puntuación
Cada criterio a continuación se evalúa a partir de fuentes públicas. ✓ verificado: sí · ✗ verificado: no / no encontrado · ◐ parcial · ? sin verificar (0 puntos, no es un hallazgo negativo).
Transparencia de la información
20 / 20
Si los datos básicos sobre la clínica — su equipo, sus instalaciones, sus servicios y su ubicación — son públicamente verificables.
| ✓ | Tiene un sitio web operativo [s1] | 4/4 |
| ✓ | Se indican los nombres de los dentistas [s1] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Se indican las especializaciones de los dentistas 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 |
| ✓ | Fotografías reales de la clínica 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 |
| ✓ | Lista de servicios publicada Six named areas: general dentistry, cosmetic dentistry, dental implants, orthodontics, dental examinations, endodontics. [s1] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Datos de contacto claros Two phone numbers, an e-mail address and a street address in the site footer. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Versión del sitio web en inglés The site is published in English. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Dirección y mapa publicados Street address published in the site's contact block and matching the Google place record. [s1] [gm] | 2/2 |
Transparencia de precios
0 / 15
Si un paciente puede estimar los costes antes de la visita. Los rangos de precios publicados cuentan; no se exigen precios exactos.
| ✗ | Precios o rangos de precios publicados The site lists services and treatment descriptions but no prices or price ranges anywhere. [s1] | 0/3 |
| ✗ | Precio de la limpieza indicado 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 |
| ✗ | Precio del empaste indicado 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 |
| ✗ | Precio de la corona indicado 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 |
| ✗ | Precio del implante indicado 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 |
| ✗ | Precio de la consulta indicado 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 |
| ✗ | Precio de la radiografía / imagen indicado 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 |
Reputación y reseñas
9 / 20
Señales públicas de reseñas. La valoración de Google se ajusta con una previa bayesiana (valoración 4.0, peso 25) para que un 5.0 con un puñado de reseñas no supere a un 4.8 con cientos.
| ◐ | Valoración de Google (ajustada de forma bayesiana) 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 |
| ◐ | Volumen de reseñas de Google [gm] | 0.5/3 |
| ◐ | Frescura de las reseñas 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 |
| ✗ | La clínica responde a las reseñas 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 |
| ✓ | Sin quejas recurrentes 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 |
| ✓ | Sin patrones de reseñas sospechosos 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 |
| ? | Presencia activa en Facebook 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 |
| ✗ | Presencia en TripAdvisor No matching listing in TripAdvisor's own search on 2026-09-25 [palomos-dental-center-belize-city-deepen-4] | 0/0.5 |
| ✗ | Otras plataformas de reseñas 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 |
Infraestructura médica
7.5 / 15
El alcance del equipamiento y los servicios documentados públicamente. Mide la disponibilidad documentada, no la calidad clínica.
| ? | Radiografía en la clínica | 0/2 |
| ? | CBCT (imagen 3D) | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Implantología [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Ortodoncia Braces and clear aligners; one of the two dentists is an orthodontist. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Cirugía oral 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 |
| ✗ | Odontología pediátrica Full service list on the homepage has no pediatric item [s1] | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | Atención de urgencias Dedicated emergency contact number +501 602-9143 published on the homepage. [s1] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ? | Trabaja con pacientes internacionales | 0/2 |
Comunicación y servicio
5 / 10
Cuán fácil es contactar con la clínica, obtener respuestas y reservar cita — especialmente para pacientes internacionales.
| ✗ | WhatsApp / LINE disponible 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 |
| ? | Velocidad de respuesta | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | Se habla inglés [s1] | 2.5/2.5 |
| ✗ | Consulta previa a la visita posible 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 |
| ✓ | Explicaciones claras de los servicios Each service area carries a plain-language paragraph explaining what it covers. [s1] | 1/1 |
| ✓ | Horario de apertura conveniente Mon-Fri 08:00-18:00 and Sat 08:00-13:00 published on the homepage. [s1] | 1.5/1.5 |
Visibilidad en IA y buscadores
4 / 10
Si los pacientes encuentran la clínica al buscar — también a través de asistentes de IA. Se comprueba con consultas fijas: "best dentist Belize", "English speaking dentist Belize", "dental implants Belize", "emergency dentist Belize", "Belize dental clinic for expats".
| ✓ | Se menciona en la consulta: best dentist Belize Own site ranks first for the city prominence query. [avq] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | Se menciona en la consulta: English speaking dentist Belize Neither the clinic nor its channels appear in the top 10 for the English-speaking query. [avq] | 0/1 |
| ✓ | Se menciona en la consulta: dental implants Belize [avq] | 1/1 |
| ✓ | Se menciona en la consulta: emergency dentist Belize [avq] | 1/1 |
| ✓ | Se menciona en la consulta: Belize dental clinic for expats [avq] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | Datos estructurados en el sitio web 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 |
| ? | Calidad de la indexación en Google | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Páginas de servicios individuales 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 |
Licencias y profesionales
Si la clínica publica su licencia de funcionamiento y los dentistas que trabajan en ella con sus números de licencia profesional. Un «no publicado» verificado se registra como señal de alerta (red flag); los datos aún no comprobados se muestran como no verificados y no conllevan penalización.
Licencia de actividad de la clínica: aún no contrastado con fuentes públicas — no verificado, sin penalización
Dentistas y sus licencias
| Dentista | Especialización | N.º de licencia |
|---|---|---|
| Alfonso Palomo [s1] | General dentist and endodontist | no verificado |
| Virginia Diaz Palomo [s1] | Orthodontist | no verificado |
Los dentistas figuran con nombre; sus números de licencia aún no se han contrastado con fuentes públicas — no verificado, sin penalización.
Señales de alerta
No se identificaron señales de alerta en las fuentes públicas que revisamos.
Datos que no pudimos verificar
- Reputación y reseñas: Presencia activa en Facebook
- Infraestructura médica: Radiografía en la clínica
- Infraestructura médica: CBCT (imagen 3D)
- Infraestructura médica: Trabaja con pacientes internacionales
- Comunicación y servicio: Velocidad de respuesta
- Visibilidad en IA y buscadores: Calidad de la indexación en Google
Los elementos sin verificar obtienen 0 puntos, pero no se consideran hallazgos negativos. Si puede documentar alguno de ellos, por favor envíe una corrección.
Información de contacto
| Sitio web | https://www.belizedentalclinic.com/ |
|---|---|
| Teléfono | +501 223-2624 |
| Google Maps | Ficha en el mapa |
| Dirección | Cor. St. Joseph & St. Thomas Sts., Belize City, Belize |
Los datos de contacto se proporcionan únicamente para su identificación y pueden cambiar; verifíquelos directamente con la clínica.
Fuentes
| ID | Fuente | Qué respalda | Fecha de acceso |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Historial de cambios
| Fecha | Cambio |
|---|---|
| 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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