Dentius Gent-West
According to our open methodology, this clinic scored 40.2/100 for transparency, reputation, service accessibility, and digital visibility.
Overall rank: #22 of 24 ranked clinics · Last checked: 8 September 2026
40.2/100
Positions by Rating Profile
- Overall Transparency & Trust#2240.2/100
- Best for Expats#2236/100
- Best for Dental Implants#1834/100
- Best for Emergency Dental Carenot ranked
- Best Price Transparency#2327.3/100
- Best English-speaking Clinicsnot ranked
- Best for Families / Children#1839.5/100
- 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 The group's network-wide menu lists nitrous-oxide sedation and sedation with MEOPA or general anaesthesia, but does not attribute either to this branch, and the branch's own treatment list does not mention them. Not asserted for this address.
Summary
Branch of the Dentius group practice network in Mariakerke, western Ghent. The branch page publishes its address, bus routes, free street parking, opening hours to the half hour, separate telephone-availability hours, six treatment areas and a first-visit guide; it names no practitioner, though seven dentists are recorded at this address in the RIZIV/INAMI register. The practice states that all its dentists are trained as general dentists.
Strengths
No categories reached the strength threshold (80%).
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)
- AI & Search Visibility: 3.5 of 9 verifiable points (missing: mentioned for: best dentist Belgium; mentioned for: English speaking dentist Belgium; mentioned for: dental implants Belgium; mentioned for: emergency dentist Belgium; structured data on website)
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
15 / 20
Whether basic facts about the clinic - its team, premises, services, and location - are publicly verifiable.
| ✓ | Has a working website The branch page on dentius.be answered HTTP 200 on 2026-09-07 with real, branch-specific content: this address, this telephone number, these opening hours and these transport directions. [s1] | 4/4 |
| ✗ | Dentist names listed The branch page was read in full: it speaks of the group practice's dentists in general terms and states that each of them is trained as a general dentist, but names none of them. [s1] | 0/3 |
| ✗ | Dentist specializations listed With no practitioner named for this branch, no qualification is attributed to a named person. [s1] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Real clinic photos Settled in a browser on 2026-09-08 from the branch's own Google Business Profile: the lead owner photograph shows one of this practice's own treatment rooms at Albrecht Dürerlaan 60, with its chair and unit at a full-height window onto the garden. [gmpb] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Service list published The branch page publishes six treatment areas attributed to this practice - endodontics, implantology, aesthetic dentistry, children's dentistry, conservative dentistry and prevention - each with a one-line explanation. [s1] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Clear contact details The branch page publishes the street address, telephone 09 226 46 74, separate telephone-availability hours by weekday, an online booking link and a contact form; the telephone matches the Google listing. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | English website version The group site runs Dutch, French and English versions with a switcher on every page. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Address and map published The branch page publishes the street address with a route-description link, the bus lines that stop nearby and a note that street parking is free. [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 branch page carries no fee table and no amount; the group's tariff material explains the convention system rather than pricing treatments. [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
11.5 / 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, 4.135, reproduces the published figure. [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: 25 five-star, 4 four-star, 2 three-star, 0 two-star and 6 one-star = 37. [gmpb] | 1/3 |
| ◐ | Review recency Browser 2026-09-08, 8 visible reviews, sort "Most relevant". The newest visible review is ten months old; the rest run 1 to 5 years. [gmpb] | 1.5/3 |
| ✓ | Clinic responds to reviews Browser 2026-09-08, 8 visible reviews, sort "Most relevant": the owner has replied to six of the eight, including all three one-star accounts. [gmpb] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | No recurring complaints Browser 2026-09-08, 8 visible reviews, sort "Most relevant": three readable one-star accounts, each on its own subject — a family who had come to the practice because it was known as child-friendly and found on the day that it was not; a patient of more than twenty years whose account is cut off by Google's truncation, which could not be expanded; and a family who had attended since 2014 and stopped in March 2025 after a named dentist gave what they describe as a terribly painful annual check-up followed by one problem after another. Two of the three frame themselves as long-standing patients reporting a decline, but their actual subjects differ and the third is unreadable, so no repeated theme is established. All three are answered by the owner. One-star and two-star ratings together are 6 of 37, or 16.2 per cent of the base. [gmpb] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | No suspicious review patterns Browser 2026-09-08: histogram 25/4/2/0/6 with a mean of 4.135 against a published 4.1 — every bucket but one populated, a real critical tail that the owner answers individually, dates across five years. No manipulation signature. [gmpb] | 2/2 |
| ? | Active Facebook presence The Facebook page linked from the practice's website is the Dentius group's page for all its practices; no page of this practice itself was found (checked 2026-10-02). | 0/1 |
| ✗ | TripAdvisor presence No TripAdvisor listing found via its search for "Dentius Gent-West Ghent" and "Dentius Gent West"; the clinic's site does not link to TripAdvisor (checked 2026-10-02). [dentius-gent-west-ta] [dentius-gent-west-ta-2] [dentius-gent-west-ta-3] | 0/0.5 |
| ✗ | Other review platforms No profile of its own on a review platform: the Hospital Examiner page is a generated directory entry with no reviews and no sign the clinic keeps it; nothing on WhatClinic, Doctoranytime or Dental Departures. [dentius-gent-west-platforms] [dentius-gent-west-g6] [dentius-gent-west-g6-2] [dentius-gent-west-g6-3] | 0/0.5 |
Medical Infrastructure
5.5 / 15
The range of publicly documented equipment and services. This measures documented availability, not clinical quality.
| ? | On-site X-ray Imaging equipment is not described on the branch page. | 0/2 |
| ? | CBCT (3D imaging) Cone-beam imaging is not described on the branch page. | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Implantology Implantology - dental surgery specialised in placing implants - is one of the six treatments this branch attributes to itself, which is what distinguishes its published offering from the group's other Ghent branches. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ? | Orthodontics Orthodontics appears in the group's network-wide treatment menu but not among the six treatments this branch attributes to itself; a network menu is not a branch attribution, so this is left unresolved. | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Oral surgery The branch's own implantology entry describes it as dental surgery specialised in placing implants. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Pediatric dentistry Children's dentistry - preserving the oral health of children and adolescents - is one of the six treatments the branch attributes to itself. [s1] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ? | Emergency care The branch answers weekend and holiday toothache by pointing to the regional on-call number; no service of its own is documented. Left unresolved rather than asserted. | 0/1.5 |
| ? | Works with international patients Beyond the group site's three language versions, no arrangements for international patients are documented. | 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 branch page. | 0/2 |
| ? | Response speed | 0/1.5 |
| ? | English spoken The group site has an English version, but the branch publishes nothing about the languages spoken at this address; not asserted. | 0/2.5 |
| ✓ | Pre-visit consultation possible The branch offers online booking and a contact form, and the group publishes a medical-history form to complete before the first visit. [s1] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ✓ | Clear service explanations The branch page explains each treatment area in a line, sets out the practice's philosophy on consultation time and describes how to reach it by bus and car. [s1] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | Convenient opening hours Published opening is Monday to Wednesday 8:30-13:00 and 13:30-18:30, Thursday 8:30-13:00 and 13:30-17:00 and Friday 8:30-13:00 and 13:30-17:30; weekends are covered only by the regional on-call service. [s1] | 0/1.5 |
AI & Search Visibility
3.5 / 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 branch page 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 branch page nor its name appears. [av2] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: dental implants Belgium Re-run 2026-09-07 with a country qualifier by the verification pass, because the earlier capture of the plain city query was dominated by the American namesakes (Ghent NY, Ghent MA, Ghent WV). All five results of the re-run are Belgium-scoped. Neither this practice's domain nor its name appears in them, so the field is now a checked negative rather than an unanswerable null. [av3] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: emergency dentist Belgium Checked in the results captured 2026-09-07 for the canonical city query; neither the branch page 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 branch page carries no schema.org JSON-LD block or equivalent markup. [s1] | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | Google indexing quality The group's domain takes ranks 1, 4, 10 and 13 of 20 results for the branch name, with the branch's own page first; the rest are recruitment listings and directory entries (web search 2026-09-07). [giq1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Dedicated service pages The group site gives every treatment its own page and links them from the branch page, though those pages are network-wide rather than branch-specific. [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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Charlotte D'Haeseleer [reg1] | General dentist (RIZIV/INAMI qualification 001, algemeen tandarts) | RIZIV/INAMI 313052-64 | Convention number, not a licence number: Belgium publishes no searchable licence register. |
| Femke Scholiers [reg2] | General dentist (RIZIV/INAMI qualification 001, algemeen tandarts) | RIZIV/INAMI 315086-67 | Convention number, not a licence number: Belgium publishes no searchable licence register. |
| Geraldine Leterme [reg3] | General dentist (RIZIV/INAMI qualification 001, algemeen tandarts) | RIZIV/INAMI 309035-07 | Convention number, not a licence number: Belgium publishes no searchable licence register. |
| Louise Peeters [reg4] | General dentist (RIZIV/INAMI qualification 001, algemeen tandarts) | RIZIV/INAMI 300494-12 | Convention number, not a licence number: Belgium publishes no searchable licence register. |
Red Flags
- low No dentists identified anywhere (-2 pts) — No dentist names published (derived from data).
Red-flag penalty applied: -2 points (capped at -20).
Data We Could Not Verify
- Reputation & Reviews: Active Facebook presence
- Medical Infrastructure: On-site X-ray
- Medical Infrastructure: CBCT (3D imaging)
- Medical Infrastructure: Orthodontics
- 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://dentius.be/nl/praktijken/gentwest |
|---|---|
| Phone | +32 9 226 46 74 |
| Google Maps | Map listing |
| Address | Albrecht Dürerlaan 60, 9030 Ghent (Mariakerke), 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://dentius.be/nl/praktijken/gentwest | Branch page: address, telephone, bus and parking directions, opening hours, telephone-availability hours, six branch treatments, practice philosophy and the on-call number | 2026-09-07 |
| gm1 | https://www.google.com/maps/preview/place/Tandartspraktijk+Dentius+… | Live Google Maps place record: rating, address, telephone, website, business categories and pin coordinates | 2026-09-07 |
| reg0 | https://www.departementzorg.be/nl/zorgaanbod | Flemish Departement Zorg statement of what it recognises and subsidises - no dental practices | 2026-09-07 |
| reg1 | https://webappsa.riziv-inami.fgov.be/silverpages/Home/SearchHcw/?Fo… | RIZIV/INAMI provider record for Charlotte D'Haeseleer: number, qualification, convention status and work address under the branch name | 2026-09-07 |
| reg2 | https://webappsa.riziv-inami.fgov.be/silverpages/Home/SearchHcw/?Fo… | RIZIV/INAMI provider record for Femke Scholiers: number, qualification, convention status and work address under the branch name | 2026-09-07 |
| reg3 | https://webappsa.riziv-inami.fgov.be/silverpages/Home/SearchHcw/?Fo… | RIZIV/INAMI provider record for Geraldine Leterme: number, qualification, convention status and work address under the branch name | 2026-09-07 |
| reg4 | https://webappsa.riziv-inami.fgov.be/silverpages/Home/SearchHcw/?Fo… | RIZIV/INAMI provider record for Louise Peeters: number, qualification, convention status and work addresses including the branch | 2026-09-07 |
| av1 | search:best dentist Ghent | Canonical city visibility query, results captured 2026-09-07 | 2026-09-07 |
| av2 | search:English speaking dentist Ghent | Canonical city visibility query, results captured 2026-09-07 | 2026-09-07 |
| av3 | search:dental implants Ghent Belgium | Canonical visibility query for dental implants, re-run with a country qualifier | 2026-09-07 |
| av4 | search:emergency dentist Ghent | Canonical city visibility query, results captured 2026-09-07 | 2026-09-07 |
| giq1 | search:"Dentius Gent-West" Mariakerke | Name query used to judge indexing quality: the group's domain holds ranks 1, 4, 10 and 13 of 20 results, the branch page first | 2026-09-07 |
| gmpb | https://www.google.com/maps/place/x/@51.0764391,3.688003,17z/data=!… | Live Google Maps place page opened in a browser on 2026-09-08: headline rating and review count, the five star-histogram buckets, eight most-relevant reviews with star values, dates and owner replies, the full published week of opening hours, and the place's own lead photography | 2026-09-08 |
| dentius-gent-west-ta | https://www.tripadvisor.com/TypeAheadJson?action=API&query=Dentius%… | TripAdvisor's own search for "Dentius Gent-West Ghent", run 2026-10-02, returns 12 results, none of them this clinic (e.g. Weleda City Spa Gent, Ghent, Belgium; Cube Zero - Escape Games Ghent, Ghent, Belgium) | 2026-10-02 |
| dentius-gent-west-ta-2 | https://www.tripadvisor.com/TypeAheadJson?action=API&query=Dentius%… | TripAdvisor's own search for "Dentius Gent West", run 2026-10-02, returns 12 results, none of them this clinic (e.g. Sokoun Ladies and Gents Spa, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Museum Voor Schone Kunsten Gent, Ghent, Belgium) | 2026-10-02 |
| dentius-gent-west-ta-3 | https://dentius.be/nl/praktijken/gentwest | The clinic's website, home page and 6 linked pages (contact, team, practice) read 2026-10-02: no link to or mention of TripAdvisor | 2026-10-02 |
| dentius-gent-west-platforms | https://hospitalexaminer.com/countries/belgium/east-flanders/tandar… | Hospital Examiner page "Tandartspraktijk Dentius Gent-West", Albrecht Dürerlaan 60, 9030 Ghent, telephone +32 9 226 46 74 (the card's number) — the card's address — with its own rating block ("0.0 out of 5 stars, based on 0 reviews") and a review form, read 2026-10-02 | 2026-10-02 |
| dentius-gent-west-g6 | https://www.whatclinic.com/dentists/belgium/ghent | WhatClinic's Ghent dentist listing read 2026-10-02, every page (1 page, 3 clinics), checked against its profile sitemaps (73 Belgian dentist profiles) and direct profile addresses built from the clinic's name: no profile at this clinic's address | 2026-10-02 |
| dentius-gent-west-g6-2 | https://www.doctoranytime.be/sitemaps/hospitals | Doctoranytime's lists of practice pages (917) and practitioner pages (5,313), read 2026-10-02: no page for this practice (the Dentius group page lists its Etterbeek, Uccle, Fleurus, Tervuren and EOCC practices, not Gent-West) | 2026-10-02 |
| dentius-gent-west-g6-3 | https://www.dentaldepartures.com/ | Dental Departures: its clinic search for Belgium, Brussels, Ghent and Liège, read 2026-10-02, returns no Belgian location (the country is not covered) | 2026-10-02 |
Change History
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-02 | Other review platforms corrected to none: the Hospital Examiner page is a generated directory entry with no reviews, and the clinic has no profile on WhatClinic, Doctoranytime or Dental Departures (checked 2026-10-02). |
| 2026-10-02 | Presence on review sites checked: TripAdvisor — no; other review platforms — yes. |
| 2026-09-08 | Browser reputation pass: review count established at 37 against the histogram, recency, owner-reply state, complaint reading (three one-star accounts quoted, no shared theme) and manipulation reading recorded, premises photography settled. |
| 2026-09-07 | Adversarial verification: the visibility query for implants was re-run with a country qualifier and resolved to a checked negative; the Google rating and pin were re-read live and matched; every cited RIZIV/INAMI record was re-read by number and matched. |
| 2026-09-07 | Initial data collection (Belgium): the branch page read live in full; Google Maps place record read live for rating, address, telephone, categories and coordinates; seven dentists found at this street address by RIZIV/INAMI postcode search on 9030, four of them recorded here after single-record lookup on their provider numbers - none is named by the branch itself; three canonical visibility queries taken from the central capture of 2026-09-07, the implants query set aside as off-target and the expats query not run for this city. Network-wide treatments such as sedation and orthodontics were deliberately not attributed to this branch. Review count, histogram, recency, owner replies, premises photos and Facebook presence left null and queued for a manual browser check. |
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