ORIS Tandartsen Gent
According to our open methodology, this clinic scored 44.4/100 for transparency, reputation, service accessibility, and digital visibility.
Overall rank: #17 of 24 ranked clinics · Last checked: 8 September 2026
44.4/100
Positions by Rating Profile
- Overall Transparency & Trust#1744.4/100
- Best for Expats#1839.3/100
- Best for Dental Implants#1637/100
- Best for Emergency Dental Carenot ranked
- Best Price Transparency#1931.4/100
- Best English-speaking Clinicsnot ranked
- 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 General anaesthesia or deep sedation is not mentioned on the pages read.
Summary
Multidisciplinary practice on the Kortrijksesteenweg run by Prof. Stefan Vandeweghe, head of reconstructive dentistry at Ghent University, and Charlotte Vermeersch. The team page gives each dentist a full academic and clinical biography; the practical page states plainly that the practice is not conventioned, that its technical fees therefore sit above the convention tariff and that a written quote is drawn up for large treatments - but publishes no amounts. It moved to this address in 2023.
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 tandartsen-gent.be answered HTTP 200 on 2026-09-07 with real clinic content in Dutch. [s1] | 4/4 |
| ✓ | Dentist names listed The team page names Prof. Stefan Vandeweghe, Charlotte Vermeersch and Lucas Ongenae, and the home page names the two founders in its own heading. [s2] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Dentist specializations listed Each dentist has a full biography: doctorate on bone remodelling around modified implants, post-doctoral work in Malmo, head of the reconstructive dentistry department at Ghent University and a practice focus on oral implantology and restorative dentistry for one; general dentistry qualification 2010 and group-practice experience for another; master's degree in dentistry from Ghent University in 2023 for the third. [s2] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Real clinic photos Settled in a browser on 2026-09-08 from the practice's own Google Business Profile: the lead owner photograph shows one of this practice's own treatment rooms at Kortrijksesteenweg 639 — its chair, unit and daylit window. [gmpb] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Service list published The clinic publishes its treatments on its own site: periodontology, endodontology, bridges and implants, bleaching and fillings, orthodontics and surgery, from an annual check-up to complex rehabilitation with crown and bridge work or implants. [s1] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Clear contact details The practical page publishes the street address, telephone 09 221 99 00 and an online agenda; the email address is obfuscated against spam bots. 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 with Google Maps and Waze links on the home page and repeated on the practical page; the same address is recorded for both founders 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 practical page has a tariff section. It states that the practice is not conventioned, that its fees for technical work therefore sit somewhat above the convention tariff, that a written quote is always drawn up in advance for large and lengthy treatments and that the clinic considers price transparency important - but it publishes no amount, range or fee table. [s3] | 0/3 |
| ✗ | Cleaning price listed [s3] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Filling price listed [s3] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Crown price listed [s3] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Implant price listed [s3] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Consultation price listed [s3] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | X-ray / imaging price listed [s3] | 0/2 |
Reputation & Reviews
8.5 / 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 4.3. The star histogram's weighted mean, 4.250, reproduces the published figure. [gm1] [gmpb] | 3/6 |
| ◐ | Google review volume Confirmed on the place page in a browser on 2026-09-08: the headline reads 16 and the histogram sums to the same figure (13 five-star, 0 four-star, 0 three-star, 0 two-star, 3 one-star). [gm1] [gmpb] | 0.5/3 |
| ✓ | Review recency Newest Google review is dated 2026-09-07 (listing read 2026-09-25). [oris-tandartsen-gent-gbp-2026-09-25] | 3/3 |
| ? | Clinic responds to reviews 8 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 say the same thing in the same words — that the staff were rude. One describes an appointment moved from one day to the next and then the practice saying it does not fit braces for children, and closes on the staff being really rude; the other says only that the staff were really rude and the dentists too. A third one-star reports paperwork filled in wrongly, a refund refused as a result, and messages left unanswered. None of the three has an owner reply. One-star and two-star ratings together are 3 of 16, or 18.8 per cent of the base. [gmpb] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | No suspicious review patterns Browser 2026-09-08: histogram 13/0/0/0/3 with a mean of 4.250 against a published 4.3; a small two-valued base with no owner engagement, dates spread across two years and no shared phrasing among the positives. No manipulation signature. [gmpb] | 2/2 |
| ? | Active Facebook presence Not established: the clinic's website links no Facebook page; the pages named Oris Dental belong to a Norwegian chain or carry no details (checked 2026-10-05). [oris-tandartsen-gent-fb] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | TripAdvisor presence No TripAdvisor listing found via its search for "ORIS Tandartsen Gent Ghent" and "ORIS Gent"; the clinic's site does not link to TripAdvisor (checked 2026-10-02). [oris-tandartsen-gent-ta] [oris-tandartsen-gent-ta-2] [oris-tandartsen-gent-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). [oris-tandartsen-gent-platforms] [oris-tandartsen-gent-platforms-2] [oris-tandartsen-gent-platforms-3] [oris-tandartsen-gent-platforms-4] | 0/0.5 |
Medical Infrastructure
6 / 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 pages read, though the practical page asks new patients to bring radiographs from a previous dentist. | 0/2 |
| ? | CBCT (3D imaging) Cone-beam imaging is not described on the pages read. | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Implantology Bridges and implants are a published treatment group and the practice's principal dentist works chiefly in oral implantology, having trained and doctorated in it. [s1] [s2] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Orthodontics Orthodontics is published as a treatment group on the clinic's own site. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Oral surgery Surgery is published alongside orthodontics as a treatment group, and implant placement is described as done at the practice. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ? | Pediatric dentistry Children's dentistry is not named on the pages read. | 0/1.5 |
| ? | 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 Dutch-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 Dutch-only site; not asserted either way. | 0/2.5 |
| ✓ | Pre-visit consultation possible The clinic runs an online agenda and invites prospective patients to write with their name, telephone number and dental question so that it can call back. [s3] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ✓ | Clear service explanations The practical page answers what to bring, how to book, how payment and reimbursement work and why the practice is not conventioned, in plain language. Disclosure, dated: as delivered on 2026-09-07 the same page contradicted itself on new patients — its contact block said the practice was currently accepting them while its own FAQ lower down said it was not and offered a waiting list. Re-read in a browser on 2026-09-08 the rendered page carried only the first statement; the FAQ answer saying the opposite was no longer present. Both readings are recorded rather than one being deleted, because a visitor on either date saw a different page. [s3] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | Convenient opening hours Left as a checked negative and now checked on both channels. The clinic's own site states only that it works Monday to Friday, strictly by appointment, and its own Google Business record publishes no opening hours at all — the place page still offers "Add missing information" for them. Neither channel documents any evening or weekend opening. [s1] [gmpb] | 0/1.5 |
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 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 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 team and practical pages carry schema.org JSON-LD blocks. [s2] [s3] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ✓ | Google indexing quality The name query returned only seven results, and the clinic's own domain holds the first two of them; the rest are business directories and unrelated documents (web search 2026-09-07). [giq1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Dedicated service pages The treatments are published as separate entries under a treatments section rather than as one undifferentiated list. [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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stefan Vandeweghe [reg1] | Oral implantology and restorative dentistry; doctorate 2010, head of the reconstructive dentistry department at Ghent University (clinic's own site); RIZIV/INAMI qualification 001, general dentist | RIZIV/INAMI 306050-82 | Convention number, not a licence number: Belgium publishes no searchable licence register. |
| Charlotte Vermeersch [reg2] | General dentistry; Ghent University 2009, qualified as general dentist 2010 (clinic's own site); RIZIV/INAMI qualification 001, general dentist | RIZIV/INAMI 309042-97 | 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
- Reputation & Reviews: Active Facebook presence
- Medical Infrastructure: On-site X-ray
- Medical Infrastructure: CBCT (3D imaging)
- Medical Infrastructure: Pediatric dentistry
- 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://tandartsen-gent.be/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +32 9 221 99 00 |
| Google Maps | Map listing |
| Address | Kortrijksesteenweg 639, 9000 Ghent, 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://tandartsen-gent.be/ | Clinic home page: named founders, treatment groups, address with map and navigation links, telephone | 2026-09-07 |
| s2 | https://tandartsen-gent.be/team | Team page: full academic and clinical biographies of the practice's dentists | 2026-09-07 |
| s3 | https://tandartsen-gent.be/praktisch-contact | Practical page: new-patient policy, opening days, appointment rules, the tariff statement, payment methods and what to bring | 2026-09-07 |
| gm1 | https://www.google.com/maps/preview/place/ORIS+Tandartspraktijk+Gen… | Live Google Maps place record: rating, review count, address, telephone, website, business category 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 Stefan Vandeweghe: number, qualification, convention status and work address under the clinic's name | 2026-09-07 |
| reg2 | https://webappsa.riziv-inami.fgov.be/silverpages/Home/SearchHcw/?Fo… | RIZIV/INAMI provider record for Charlotte Vermeersch: number, qualification, convention status and work address under the clinic's name | 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:"ORIS" tandartsen Gent Vandeweghe Vermeersch | Name query used to judge indexing quality and social presence: the clinic's own domain holds the first two of seven results and no Facebook page appears | 2026-09-07 |
| gmpb | https://www.google.com/maps/place/x/@51.0349813,3.7164649,17z/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 place's own lead photography, and the fact that the record publishes no opening hours at all | 2026-09-08 |
| b1 | https://tandartsen-gent.be/praktisch-contact | The practice's practical-information and contact page rendered and scrolled in a browser: the new-patient statement as a visitor sees it today | 2026-09-08 |
| oris-tandartsen-gent-gbp-2026-09-25 | https://www.google.com/maps?cid=1307689823411049190&hl=en | Google listing read on 2026-09-25: rating 4.3 from 16 reviews; star histogram 1★ 3 / 2★ 0 / 3★ 0 / 4★ 0 / 5★ 13; newest review dated 2026-09-07. | 2026-09-25 |
| oris-tandartsen-gent-ta | https://www.tripadvisor.com/TypeAheadJson?action=API&query=ORIS%20T… | TripAdvisor's own search for "ORIS Tandartsen Gent 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 |
| oris-tandartsen-gent-ta-2 | https://www.tripadvisor.com/TypeAheadJson?action=API&query=ORIS%20Gent | TripAdvisor's own search for "ORIS Gent", run 2026-10-02, returns 12 results, none of them this clinic (e.g. L'oris Caffe' - CLOSED, Cerea, Veneto, Italy; Oris Cruises, Hanoi, Vietnam) | 2026-10-02 |
| oris-tandartsen-gent-ta-3 | https://tandartsen-gent.be/ | The clinic's website, home page and 2 linked pages (contact, team, practice) read 2026-10-02: no link to or mention of TripAdvisor | 2026-10-02 |
| oris-tandartsen-gent-platforms | 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, 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 |
| oris-tandartsen-gent-platforms-2 | https://www.trustpilot.com/review/tandartsen-gent.be | Trustpilot, read 2026-10-02: no company page exists for tandartsen-gent.be, the clinic's own website ("the page you're looking for could not be found") | 2026-10-02 |
| oris-tandartsen-gent-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 (Stefan Vandeweghe, Vermeersch) | 2026-10-02 |
| oris-tandartsen-gent-platforms-4 | https://hospitalexaminer.com/countries/belgium/east-flanders/ | Hospital Examiner's East Flanders listing read 2026-10-02 (286 listings, the dental ones opened for their addresses): none for this clinic | 2026-10-02 |
| oris-tandartsen-gent-fb | https://tandartsen-gent.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 | Reputation check 2026-10-05 on the clinic's Google listing (10 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; 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 2026-09-07). |
| 2026-09-09 | Editorial gate: the new-patients contradiction recorded by the verification pass on 2026-09-07 was no longer present in the rendered page on 2026-09-08 (the manual browser check). The disclosure is kept and dated rather than retired, and no manual contradictory_info flag is set — consistent with the methodology's decision that contradictions about availability are disclosed, not flagged. |
| 2026-09-08 | Checked by hand in a browser: the 16-review count confirmed against the histogram; recurring complaints recorded true on two unanswered one-star accounts that both name rude staff; owner-reply state recorded false; premises photography settled; the place record confirmed to publish no opening hours; and the contact page re-read, where the self-contradiction about new patients no longer appears. |
| 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): home, team and practical pages read live; Google Maps place record read live and returned both rating and review count; both founders matched in the RIZIV/INAMI provider register by name and confirmed by single-record lookup on their provider numbers, both at this address, with the register's convention status matching the clinic's own statement; 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. The practical page's self-contradiction about accepting new patients recorded. Star histogram, recency, owner replies, premises photos and third-party review profiles left null and queued for a manual browser check. |
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