Centre Médico-Dentaire de Liège
According to our open methodology, this clinic scored 53.3/100 for transparency, reputation, service accessibility, and digital visibility.
Overall rank: #12 of 24 ranked clinics · Last checked: 8 September 2026
53.3/100
Positions by Rating Profile
- Overall Transparency & Trust#1253.3/100
- Best for Expats#1347.3/100
- Best for Dental Implants#1146.5/100
- Best for Emergency Dental Carenot ranked
- Best Price Transparency#1236.5/100
- Best English-speaking Clinicsnot ranked
- Best for Families / Children#1151.5/100
- 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 General anaesthesia or deep sedation is not mentioned on the pages read, although the clinic reports an equipped operating room.
Summary
Surgery-oriented practice in the Fragnée quarter, led by Michel Vanhakendover, a dental surgeon trained at the University of Liège and at Paris VI Salpetriere, with the dentists Jean Thiry and Arnaud Piron. It publishes a dedicated operating room, covered private parking and four areas of care, and belongs to the Dentius network - its own orthodontics page and its contact address both carry the Dentius Fragnée name. Seven dentists are recorded at this address in the RIZIV/INAMI register; opening hours and fees are not published.
Strengths
- Information Transparency: 18 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)
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
18 / 20
Whether basic facts about the clinic - its team, premises, services, and location - are publicly verifiable.
| ✓ | Has a working website centremedicodentairedeliege.be answered HTTP 200 on 2026-09-07 with real clinic content in French. [s1] | 4/4 |
| ✓ | Dentist names listed The home page names Michel Vanhakendover, Jean Thiry and Arnaud Piron, and the site runs a separate "les dentistes" page. [s1] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Dentist specializations listed Michel Vanhakendover is presented as a qualified specialist dental surgeon with degrees from the University of Liège and from Paris VI, La Salpetriere; the other two are named as dentists working alongside him. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Real clinic photos Settled in a browser on 2026-09-08 from the centre's own Google Business Profile: the lead owner photograph shows one of this centre's own treatment rooms at Rue de Namur 61 — its chair, unit and instrument cabinetry. [gmpb] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Service list published The clinic publishes four areas of care on its own site, each with its own page: general dentistry for adults and children, dental implants, prostheses and crowns, and dental surgery, plus a separate orthodontics page. [s1] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Clear contact details Telephone 04 252 34 21, an email address, the street address and the enterprise number BE0430459175 are published in the footer of every page; the telephone matches the Google listing. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✗ | English website version The site exists only in French; no language switcher and no English pages were found. [s1] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Address and map published The street address is published in the contact block and the footer, together with a note about covered private parking; the same address is recorded for several dentists in the RIZIV/INAMI register. [s1] | 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's own navigation - centre, dentistry, dentists, implants, orthodontics, blog, contact - was read; no fee page exists and no amount in euro appears on any page read. [s1] | 0/3 |
| ✗ | Cleaning price listed [s1] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Filling price listed [s1] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Crown price listed [s1] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Implant price listed [s1] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Consultation price listed [s1] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | X-ray / imaging price listed [s1] | 0/2 |
Reputation & Reviews
14 / 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) Re-read live on the place page in a browser on 2026-09-08 and unchanged at 4.1. The star histogram's weighted mean, 4.096, reproduces the published figure. The same record carries all three names the sources use — it is headed "Medical-Dental Center Emile Digneffe" with "Dentius Fragnée - Centre Médico Dentaire" beneath — together with the card's address, telephone and website. [gm1] [gmpb] | 3/6 |
| ◐ | Google review volume Headline count read on the place page in a browser on 2026-09-08 — the figure the automated channel never returned for this card. The histogram sums to the same figure: 38 five-star, 2 four-star, 0 three-star, 3 two-star and 9 one-star = 52. [gmpb] | 1.5/3 |
| ✓ | Review recency Newest Google review is dated 2026-08-18 (listing read 2026-09-25). [centre-medico-dentaire-liege-gbp-2026-09-25] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Clinic responds to reviews Browser 2026-09-08, 8 visible reviews, sort "Most relevant": the owner has replied individually to all eight, including the critical one. [gmpb] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | No recurring complaints Browser 2026-09-08, 8 visible reviews, sort "Most relevant": one readable critical account, a two-star from a patient who has finally changed dentists after regretting each visit and, in his words, wasting thousands of euro at this centre. A single instance is not a repeated theme. Disclosed rather than hidden: one-star and two-star ratings together are 12 of 52, or 23.1 per cent of the base — close to, but under, the 25 per cent at which this criterion is withheld — and Google's relevance ordering surfaced only one of them. [gmpb] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | No suspicious review patterns Browser 2026-09-08: histogram 38/2/0/3/9 with a mean of 4.096 against a published 4.1; a real critical tail stands on the listing and is answered, and the visible dates run across a year. No manipulation signature. [gmpb] | 2/2 |
| ? | Active Facebook presence Not established: the clinic's website links no Facebook page; the page "Centre Medico Dentaire" found is a practice in Luxembourg (checked 2026-10-05). [centre-medico-dentaire-liege-fb] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | TripAdvisor presence No TripAdvisor listing found via its search for "Centre Medico-Dentaire de Liege" and "Medico"; the clinic's site does not link to TripAdvisor (checked 2026-10-02). [centre-medico-dentaire-liege-ta] [centre-medico-dentaire-liege-ta-2] [centre-medico-dentaire-liege-ta-3] | 0/0.5 |
| ✓ | Other review platforms WhatClinic has a profile for this practice as "Cabinet Dentaire" at its address, with biographies and photos of its dentists and a ServiceScore from patient enquiries; no reviews on it yet. [centre-medico-dentaire-liege-platforms] | 0.5/0.5 |
Medical Infrastructure
7.5 / 15
The range of publicly documented equipment and services. This measures documented availability, not clinical quality.
| ? | On-site X-ray The clinic advertises up-to-date equipment but names no imaging device; left unresolved rather than asserted. | 0/2 |
| ? | CBCT (3D imaging) Cone-beam imaging is not mentioned on the pages read. | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Implantology Dental implants are one of the four published areas of care, with a page of their own. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Orthodontics Orthodontics has its own page in the clinic's own navigation. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Oral surgery Dental surgery is a published area of care and the clinic states that it has a dedicated, equipped operating room; its lead practitioner is a specialist dental surgeon. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Pediatric dentistry The clinic states that its general dentistry covers adults and children. [s1] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ? | Emergency care Emergency or same-day care is not documented on the pages read. | 0/1.5 |
| ? | Works with international patients No arrangements for international patients are documented; the site is French-only. | 0/2 |
Communication & Service
2.5 / 10
How easy it is to contact the clinic, get answers, and book - especially for international patients.
| ? | WhatsApp / LINE available No messenger contact is published on the pages read. | 0/2 |
| ? | Response speed | 0/1.5 |
| ? | English spoken The clinic publishes nothing about the languages it works in and runs a French-only site; not asserted either way. | 0/2.5 |
| ✓ | Pre-visit consultation possible The clinic invites patients to contact its team to arrange an appointment or ask questions about its care, by telephone or email. [s1] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ✓ | Clear service explanations Each of the four areas of care is explained in a sentence on the home page with a fuller page behind it. [s1] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | Convenient opening hours Left as a checked negative and now checked on both channels. The centre's own site publishes no opening hours — its hours block invites the reader to contact the practice to find them out — and its own Google Business record publishes none either: the place page, read in a browser on 2026-09-08, still offers "Add missing information" where the week would be. No evening or weekend availability is documented anywhere the clinic publishes. [s1] [gmpb] | 0/1.5 |
AI & Search Visibility
6 / 10
Whether the clinic is discoverable when patients search - including via AI assistants. Checked with fixed queries: "best dentist Belgium", "English speaking dentist Belgium", "dental implants Belgium", "emergency dentist Belgium", "Belgium dental clinic for expats".
| ✗ | Mentioned for: best dentist Belgium Checked in the results captured 2026-09-07 for the canonical city query; neither the clinic's domain nor its name appears. [av1] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: English speaking dentist Belgium Checked in the results captured 2026-09-07 for the canonical city query; neither the clinic's domain nor its name appears. [av2] | 0/1 |
| ✓ | Mentioned for: dental implants Belgium The clinic's own implants page appears in the results for the canonical city query, captured 2026-09-07. [av3] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: emergency dentist Belgium Checked in the results captured 2026-09-07 for the canonical city query; neither the clinic's domain nor its name appears. [av4] | 0/1 |
| ? | Mentioned for: Belgium dental clinic for expats Query not run in the AI-visibility pass: the expats query was captured only for the first research city of each country, which for Belgium is Brussels. | 0/1 |
| ✓ | Structured data on website The page carries a schema.org JSON-LD block. [s1] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ✓ | Google indexing quality The clinic's own domain takes ranks 1, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 10 of 20 results for its name plus street, with a Pages d'Or profile under its network name next (web search 2026-09-07). [giq1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Dedicated service pages Dentistry, dentists, implants and orthodontics each have their own URL. [s1] | 1.5/1.5 |
Ranking leaders in AI answers
The queries above are this index's own check. The three leading clinics have also been measured in full: how often ChatGPT and Gemini name them when a patient asks them to recommend a dentist.
- #1Winston Dental Clinic10.7 of 100View report →
- #2VIDENT Dental Clinic40.6 of 100View report →
- #3ALC Dental20.6 of 100View report →
Measured by Ansmeter, 7 October 2026. Ansmeter is an affiliated service. Its figure is not part of this rating and does not affect positions — scores change only when public data changes.
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 & RIZIV/INAMI numbers
| Dentist | Specialization | RIZIV/INAMI No. | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michel Vanhakendover [reg1] | Specialist dental surgeon, University of Liège and Paris VI La Salpetriere (clinic's own site); RIZIV/INAMI qualification 001, general dentist | RIZIV/INAMI 386143-14 | Convention number, not a licence number: Belgium publishes no searchable licence register. |
| Arnaud Piron [reg2] | General dentistry (clinic's own site); RIZIV/INAMI qualification 001, general dentist | RIZIV/INAMI 318081-79 | Convention number, not a licence number: Belgium publishes no searchable licence register. |
| Clara Vanhakendover [reg3] | General dentist (RIZIV/INAMI qualification 001, algemeen tandarts) | RIZIV/INAMI 317194-93 | Convention number, not a licence number: Belgium publishes no searchable licence register. |
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: Emergency care
- Medical Infrastructure: Works with international patients
- Communication & Service: WhatsApp / LINE available
- Communication & Service: Response speed
- Communication & Service: English spoken
- AI & Search Visibility: Mentioned for: Belgium dental clinic for expats
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.centremedicodentairedeliege.be/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +32 4 252 34 21 |
| Google Maps | Map listing |
| Address | Rue de Namur 61, 4000 Liège (Fragnée), Belgium |
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.centremedicodentairedeliege.be/ | Clinic home page: named dentists and their training, four areas of care, operating room and private parking, address, telephone, email, enterprise number and the hours block that gives no hours | 2026-09-07 |
| gm1 | https://www.google.com/maps/preview/place/Medical-Dental+Center+Emi… | Live Google Maps place record: rating, address, telephone, website, business category and pin coordinates | 2026-09-07 |
| reg0 | https://www.vivalis.brussels/fr/accompagner-les-acteurs-socio-sanit… | The one Belgian institutional register that could be read in full: 162 agreed socio-health institutions across 30 sectors, none of them dental | 2026-09-07 |
| reg1 | https://webappsa.riziv-inami.fgov.be/silverpages/Home/SearchHcw/?Fo… | RIZIV/INAMI provider record for Michel Vanhakendover: number, qualification, convention status and work address at Rue de Namur 61 | 2026-09-07 |
| reg2 | https://webappsa.riziv-inami.fgov.be/silverpages/Home/SearchHcw/?Fo… | RIZIV/INAMI provider record for Arnaud Piron: number, qualification, conventioned status and work address under the clinic's name | 2026-09-07 |
| reg3 | https://webappsa.riziv-inami.fgov.be/silverpages/Home/SearchHcw/?Fo… | RIZIV/INAMI provider record for Clara Vanhakendover: number, qualification, convention status and work address under the Dentius Fragnée name at Rue de Namur 61 | 2026-09-07 |
| av1 | search:best dentist Liège Belgium | Canonical city visibility query, results captured 2026-09-07 | 2026-09-07 |
| av2 | search:English speaking dentist Liège Belgium | Canonical city visibility query, results captured 2026-09-07 | 2026-09-07 |
| av3 | search:dental implants Liège Belgium | Canonical city visibility query, results captured 2026-09-07 | 2026-09-07 |
| av4 | search:emergency dentist Liège Belgium | Canonical city visibility query, results captured 2026-09-07 | 2026-09-07 |
| giq1 | search:"Centre Medico-Dentaire" Liege rue de Namur dentiste | Name query used to judge indexing quality and social presence: the clinic's own domain holds ranks 1, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 10 of 20 results and no Facebook page appears | 2026-09-07 |
| gmpb | https://www.google.com/maps/place/x/@50.6196861,5.576973,17z/data=!… | Live Google Maps place page opened in a browser on 2026-09-08: the three name variants on one record, headline rating and review count, the five star-histogram buckets, eight most-relevant reviews with star values, dates and owner replies, the place's own lead photography, and the fact that the record publishes no opening hours at all | 2026-09-08 |
| centre-medico-dentaire-liege-gbp-2026-09-25 | https://www.google.com/maps?cid=17316806522263863066&hl=en | Google listing read on 2026-09-25: rating 4.1 from 52 reviews; star histogram 1★ 9 / 2★ 3 / 3★ 0 / 4★ 2 / 5★ 38; newest review dated 2026-08-18; 5 of the 5 newest reviews carry an owner reply, latest dated 2026-08-26. | 2026-09-25 |
| centre-medico-dentaire-liege-ta | https://www.tripadvisor.com/TypeAheadJson?action=API&query=Centre%2… | TripAdvisor's own search for "Centre Medico-Dentaire de Liege", run 2026-10-02, returns 12 results, none of them this clinic (e.g. La Voie Du Plaisir - Massage Centre, Liege, Belgium; Centre de Loisirs Ovifat, Ovifat, Belgium) | 2026-10-02 |
| centre-medico-dentaire-liege-ta-2 | https://www.tripadvisor.com/TypeAheadJson?action=API&query=M%C3%A9dico | TripAdvisor's own search for "Medico", run 2026-10-02, returns 12 results, none of them this clinic (e.g. Vive Spa Medico, Tijuana, Mexico; Museo Medico Tommaso Campailla, Modica, Italy) | 2026-10-02 |
| centre-medico-dentaire-liege-ta-3 | https://www.centremedicodentairedeliege.be/ | The clinic's website, home page and 1 linked page (contact, team, practice) read 2026-10-02: no link to or mention of TripAdvisor | 2026-10-02 |
| centre-medico-dentaire-liege-platforms | https://www.whatclinic.com/dentists/belgium/liege/cabinet-dentaire | WhatClinic, read 2026-10-02: profile "Cabinet Dentaire", Rue de Namur 61, 4000 Liège (the card's address), with the practice's own content: staff entries with biographies and photos for Dr Michel Vanhakendover, Dr Tania Richard and Dr Frédéric Jolibois, and a treatment list; ServiceScore "Satisfactory" 5.4 from 4 user interactions; no description text and no patient reviews yet | 2026-10-02 |
| centre-medico-dentaire-liege-fb | https://www.centremedicodentairedeliege.be/ | The clinic's website, opened on 2026-10-05: its home page carries no link to a Facebook page | 2026-10-05 |
Change History
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-02 | Presence on review sites checked: TripAdvisor — no; other review platforms — yes. |
| 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; review recency within 3 months (newest review dated 2026-08-18). |
| 2026-09-08 | Browser reputation pass: the three name variants re-confirmed as one place record, review count established at 52 against the histogram, recency, owner-reply state, complaint and manipulation readings recorded, premises photography settled, and the absence of any published opening hours confirmed on both of the clinic's channels. |
| 2026-09-07 | Adversarial verification: every cited RIZIV/INAMI record re-read by number and matched field for field; the number of dentists the register places at this address re-counted from a postcode-wide query read to the end, and the summary corrected to it; the Google rating and pin re-read live and matched. |
| 2026-09-07 | Initial data collection (Belgium): the clinic's home page read live in full; Google Maps place record read live for rating, address, telephone, category and coordinates, with the listing's third name variant recorded; three dentists at this address matched in the RIZIV/INAMI provider register by postcode search on 4000 and confirmed by single-record lookup, one of them registered under the Dentius Fragnée name that ties the practice to the network; four canonical visibility queries taken from the central capture of 2026-09-07, the fifth not run for this city. Review count, histogram, recency, owner replies, premises photos and third-party review profiles left null and queued for a manual browser check. |
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