Dentology
According to our open methodology, this clinic scored 49.4/100 for transparency, reputation, service accessibility, and digital visibility.
Overall rank: #13 of 24 ranked clinics · Last checked: 8 September 2026
49.4/100
Positions by Rating Profile
- Overall Transparency & Trust#1349.4/100
- Best for Expats#1249.8/100
- Best for Dental Implants#1242.5/100
- Best for Emergency Dental Care#749.8/100
- Best Price Transparency#1435.3/100
- Best English-speaking Clinics#955.2/100
- Best for Families / Children#1250.7/100
- 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; one founder's experience is in treating anxious patients, which is not sedation.
Summary
Practice on the Vlaamsekaai in Antwerp's Zuid district, founded by two dentists who trained at ACTA in Amsterdam. It is the only clinic in this Belgian cohort that publishes its practitioners' RIZIV/INAMI numbers itself, alongside their training history and fields of interest, and it opens until 20:00 on Tuesdays. Google and the RIZIV register both carry the practice under the variant name Dentology Plus / DENTOLOGY+.
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)
- Reputation & Reviews: 8 of 18 verifiable points (missing: no recurring complaints; 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
18 / 20
Whether basic facts about the clinic - its team, premises, services, and location - are publicly verifiable.
| ✓ | Has a working website dentology.be answered HTTP 200 on 2026-09-07 with real clinic content in Dutch. [s1] | 4/4 |
| ✓ | Dentist names listed The dentists page names Hugo Wagemaker, Bebine Gubbels, Gabriele Fastame, D. Armendariz Munoz and the endodontist J. R. Schwarz. [s2] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Dentist specializations listed Each of the first three dentists carries a full training history, a stated field - Invisalign and full-mouth rehabilitation; aesthetic dentistry, porcelain work and anxious patients; general and aesthetic-prosthetic dentistry - and, for the two founders, their RIZIV/INAMI number and qualification code. The fifth is listed as dentist-endodontist. [s2] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Real clinic photos Settled in a browser on 2026-09-08 from the clinic's own Google Business Profile: the lead owner photograph shows this practice's own interior at Vlaamsekaai — its window seat and street frontage on the Zuid. [gmpb] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Service list published The clinic publishes thirteen treatments on its own site: six-monthly check-up, oral hygiene, whitening, Invisalign, facings, crowns, bridges, implantology, periodontology, children's dentistry, fillings, endodontics and prostheses. [s1] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Clear contact details Telephone +32 3 293 03 08, info@dentology.be and the street address are published in the footer of every page; the telephone matches the Google listing. [s3] | 2/2 |
| ✗ | English website version The site exists only in Dutch; no language switcher and no English pages were found on any page read. [s1] [s2] [s3] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Address and map published The street address is published in the footer of every page together with parking directions; the same address, Vlaamsekaai 24, is recorded for the practice in the RIZIV/INAMI register. [s1] [s3] | 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 has no fee page in its five-item navigation and no amount in euro appears on any page read. [s1] [s3] | 0/3 |
| ✗ | Cleaning price listed [s1] [s3] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Filling price listed [s1] [s3] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Crown price listed [s1] [s3] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Implant price listed [s1] [s3] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Consultation price listed [s1] [s3] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | X-ray / imaging price listed [s1] [s3] | 0/2 |
Reputation & Reviews
8 / 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 3.9. The star histogram's weighted mean, 3.943, reproduces the published figure. [gm1] [gmpb] | 1/6 |
| ◐ | Google review volume Confirmed on the place page in a browser on 2026-09-08: the headline reads 35 and the histogram sums to the same figure (25 five-star, 1 four-star, 0 three-star, 0 two-star, 9 one-star). [gm1] [gmpb] | 1/3 |
| ✓ | Review recency Browser 2026-09-08, 8 visible reviews, sort "Most relevant". The newest visible review is three months old; the rest run 4 to 7 months and 2 to 4 years. [gmpb] | 3/3 |
| ? | Clinic responds to reviews 9 reviews from the last 24 months were read on the Google listing, none with an owner reply, too few to say the clinic does not answer reviews (read 2026-10-05). | 0/2 |
| ✗ | No recurring complaints Browser 2026-09-08, 8 visible reviews, sort "Most relevant": two readable one-star accounts share one theme — treatment that failed and had to be redone, at the patient's expense. One describes returning repeatedly, "a total of five expensive visits to the specialist", without the problem being resolved; the other describes veneers that had to be replaced by a different dentist, after which the shape, size and structure finally looked natural, and reports being treated rudely and arrogantly in the process. Neither has an owner reply. One-star and two-star ratings together are 9 of 35, or 25.7 per cent of the base. [gmpb] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | No suspicious review patterns Browser 2026-09-08: histogram 25/1/0/0/9 with a mean of 3.943 against a published 3.9. The distribution is polarised and almost two-valued, but the negatives are long, specific and unanswered and the dates run across four years — the opposite of a curated profile. No manipulation signature. [gmpb] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Active Facebook presence The clinic invites visitors to its Facebook page from its own home page, and the page answered HTTP 200 on 2026-09-07 under the title "Dentology | Antwerp". [fb1] [s1] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | TripAdvisor presence No TripAdvisor listing found via its search for "Dentology Antwerp" and "Dentology"; the clinic's site does not link to TripAdvisor (checked 2026-10-02). [dentology-antwerp-ta] [dentology-antwerp-ta-2] [dentology-antwerp-ta-3] | 0/0.5 |
| ✗ | Other review platforms No profile found on four review platforms that cover Belgium: WhatClinic, Trustpilot, Doctoranytime and Hospital Examiner (checked 2026-10-02). [dentology-antwerp-platforms] [dentology-antwerp-platforms-2] [dentology-antwerp-platforms-3] [dentology-antwerp-platforms-4] | 0/0.5 |
Medical Infrastructure
7 / 15
The range of publicly documented equipment and services. This measures documented availability, not clinical quality.
| ? | On-site X-ray The clinic says its treatment rooms carry the newest 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 Implantology is one of the thirteen treatments published on the clinic's own site, and one founder states experience with full-mouth rehabilitation. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Orthodontics Invisalign is published as a treatment and one founder names it as his field. [s1] [s2] | 2/2 |
| ? | Oral surgery Extractions and oral surgery are not named in the treatment list; left unresolved rather than asserted. | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Pediatric dentistry Children's dentistry is published among the clinic's treatments and it states it treats young and old alike. [s1] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ✓ | Emergency care The clinic runs a dedicated urgent-care page, puts "Spoed" in the page title and in the navigation of every page, and asks patients in pain to contact it as soon as possible; for weekends it points to the regional on-call service. [s3] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ? | Works with international patients One dentist is described as speaking Dutch, Italian, Spanish and English, but the clinic documents no arrangements for international patients; left unresolved. | 0/2 |
Communication & Service
6.5 / 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 dentists page states that Gabriele Fastame speaks Dutch, Italian, Spanish and English. [s2] | 2.5/2.5 |
| ✓ | Pre-visit consultation possible The clinic invites contact through its contact form and says visitors are welcome to walk in and get acquainted before booking treatment. [s1] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ✓ | Clear service explanations Each of the thirteen treatments has its own explanatory page and the practitioners' training and fields are set out in plain language. [s1] [s2] | 1/1 |
| ✓ | Convenient opening hours Published opening is Monday 9:30-18:30, Tuesday 8:00-20:00, Wednesday to Friday 9:30-18:30, weekends closed - the Tuesday evening slot to 20:00 is published clearly. [s3] | 1.5/1.5 |
AI & Search Visibility
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 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 Checked in the results captured 2026-09-07 for the canonical city query; neither the clinic's domain nor its name appears. [av3] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | 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 Every page carries a schema.org JSON-LD graph with WebSite, WebPage and ImageObject nodes; it does not, however, declare a LocalBusiness or Dentist node with address and hours. [s1] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ✓ | Google indexing quality The clinic's own domain takes ranks 1, 2, 4, 10 and 18 of 20 results for its name plus street, with its own Facebook and LinkedIn pages and two newspaper articles about the practice's opening filling much of the rest (web search 2026-09-07). [giq1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Dedicated service pages Each of the thirteen treatments has its own URL under /behandelingen/. [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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hugo Wagemaker [reg1] [s2] | Invisalign and full-mouth rehabilitation (clinic's own site); RIZIV/INAMI qualification 001, general dentist | RIZIV/INAMI 313019-97 | Convention number, not a licence number: Belgium publishes no searchable licence register. |
| Bebine Gubbels [reg2] [s2] | Aesthetic dentistry, porcelain restorations and anxious patients (clinic's own site); RIZIV/INAMI qualification 001, general dentist | RIZIV/INAMI 313017-02 | 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: Clinic responds to reviews
- Medical Infrastructure: On-site X-ray
- Medical Infrastructure: CBCT (3D imaging)
- Medical Infrastructure: Oral surgery
- Medical Infrastructure: Works with international patients
- Communication & Service: WhatsApp / LINE available
- Communication & Service: Response speed
- 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.dentology.be/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +32 3 293 03 08 |
| https://www.facebook.com/tandartspraktijkdentology/ | |
| Google Maps | Map listing |
| Address | Vlaamsekaai 24-25, 2000 Antwerp ('t Zuid), 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.dentology.be/ | Clinic home page: practice description, thirteen published treatments, Facebook invitation, address and telephone | 2026-09-07 |
| s2 | https://www.dentology.be/onze-tandartsen/ | Dentists page: five named practitioners with training history, fields of practice and, for two, their own RIZIV/INAMI numbers and qualification codes | 2026-09-07 |
| s3 | https://www.dentology.be/openingstijden/ | Opening hours by weekday, including the Tuesday evening slot, plus the urgent-care instructions and the regional on-call number | 2026-09-07 |
| gm1 | https://www.google.com/maps/preview/place/Dentology+Plus,+Vlaamseka… | Live Google Maps place record: rating, address, telephone, website, business category and pin coordinates | 2026-09-07 |
| fb1 | https://www.facebook.com/tandartspraktijkdentology/ | Clinic Facebook page, live 2026-09-07 | 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 Hugo Wagemaker: number, qualification, convention status and work address under the practice name DENTOLOGY+ | 2026-09-07 |
| reg2 | https://webappsa.riziv-inami.fgov.be/silverpages/Home/SearchHcw/?Fo… | RIZIV/INAMI provider record for Bebine Gubbels: number, qualification, convention status and work address under the practice name DENTOLOGY+ | 2026-09-07 |
| av1 | search:best dentist Antwerp | Canonical city visibility query, results captured 2026-09-07 | 2026-09-07 |
| av2 | search:English speaking dentist Antwerp | Canonical city visibility query, results captured 2026-09-07 | 2026-09-07 |
| av3 | search:dental implants Antwerp | Canonical city visibility query, results captured 2026-09-07 | 2026-09-07 |
| av4 | search:emergency dentist Antwerp | Canonical city visibility query, results captured 2026-09-07 | 2026-09-07 |
| giq1 | search:"Dentology" tandarts Antwerpen Vlaamsekaai | Name query used to judge indexing quality: the clinic's own domain holds ranks 1, 2, 4, 10 and 18 of 20 results | 2026-09-07 |
| gmpb | https://www.google.com/maps/place/x/@51.2103667,4.3917118,17z/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-reply state, the full published week of opening hours, and the place's own lead photography | 2026-09-08 |
| dentology-antwerp-ta | https://www.tripadvisor.com/TypeAheadJson?action=API&query=Dentolog… | TripAdvisor's own search for "Dentology Antwerp", run 2026-10-02, returns 12 results, none of them this clinic (e.g. Antwerpen-Centraal, Antwerp, Belgium; Antwerp's Red Light District, Antwerp Province, Belgium) | 2026-10-02 |
| dentology-antwerp-ta-2 | https://www.tripadvisor.com/TypeAheadJson?action=API&query=Dentology | TripAdvisor's own search for "Dentology", run 2026-10-02, returns 0 results, none of them this clinic | 2026-10-02 |
| dentology-antwerp-ta-3 | https://www.dentology.be/ | The clinic's website, home page and 3 linked pages (contact, team, practice) read 2026-10-02: no link to or mention of TripAdvisor | 2026-10-02 |
| dentology-antwerp-platforms | https://www.whatclinic.com/dentists/belgium/antwerp | WhatClinic's Antwerp dentist listing read 2026-10-02, every page (1 page, 10 clinics), checked against its profile sitemaps (73 Belgian dentist profiles, each one outside the listing opened) and against direct profile addresses built from the clinic's name: no profile at this clinic's address or with its dentists | 2026-10-02 |
| dentology-antwerp-platforms-2 | https://www.trustpilot.com/review/dentology.be | Trustpilot, read 2026-10-02: no company page exists for dentology.be, the clinic's own website ("the page you're looking for could not be found") | 2026-10-02 |
| dentology-antwerp-platforms-3 | https://www.doctoranytime.be/sitemaps/hospitals | Doctoranytime's lists of practice pages (917) and practitioner pages (5,313, of them 575 dentists and 64 orthodontists), read 2026-10-02: no page for this practice or for its dentists (Wagemaker, Gubbels) | 2026-10-02 |
| dentology-antwerp-platforms-4 | https://hospitalexaminer.com/countries/belgium/antwerp/ | Hospital Examiner's Antwerp listing read 2026-10-02 (272 listings, the dental ones opened for their addresses): none for this clinic | 2026-10-02 |
Change History
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-02 | Reputation check 2026-10-05 on the clinic's Google listing (12 reviews read): nothing settled; owner replies to reviews left unassessed. |
| 2026-10-02 | Presence on review sites checked: TripAdvisor — no; other review platforms — no. |
| 2026-09-29 | Corrected 2026-09-29: clinic responds to reviews now unverified: only 8 reviews were checked for owner replies. |
| 2026-09-08 | Browser reputation pass: the 35-review count confirmed against the histogram; recurring complaints recorded true on two unanswered one-star accounts sharing the theme of work that had to be redone at the patient's expense; owner-reply state recorded false; premises photography settled. |
| 2026-09-07 | Adversarial verification: review count read live from the Google place record; both RIZIV numbers the clinic publishes itself re-read in the register and matched; the listing name and street-number variant re-checked and resolved to one place. |
| 2026-09-07 | Initial data collection (Belgium): home, dentists and opening-hours pages read live; Google Maps place record read live for rating, address, telephone, category and coordinates, with the listing's variant name and street number recorded; Facebook page liveness confirmed; both founders' self-published RIZIV/INAMI numbers verified by single-record lookup in the register, which returns the practice name DENTOLOGY+ at Vlaamsekaai 24; 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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