Tandheelkunde Gent
According to our open methodology, this clinic scored 45.6/100 for transparency, reputation, service accessibility, and digital visibility.
Overall rank: #16 of 24 ranked clinics · Last checked: 8 September 2026
45.6/100
Positions by Rating Profile
- Overall Transparency & Trust#1645.6/100
- Best for Expats#1740.8/100
- Best for Dental Implants#1438.5/100
- Best for Emergency Dental Carenot ranked
- Best Price Transparency#1631.8/100
- Best English-speaking Clinicsnot ranked
- Best for Families / Children#1443.7/100
- 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 on the pages read.
Summary
Family group practice on the Gordunakaai, founded in 1973 by Jan Hooft as an orthodontic and children's practice and taken over by his son Jean-Baptiste, who specialised in implantology, periodontology and prosthodontics. Today six dentists and two oral hygienists work there, each with a published specialisation and degree history, across eight treatment areas. Google lists the practice as Polikliniek Tandheelkunde Gent; no fees are published.
Strengths
- Information Transparency: 16 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
16 / 20
Whether basic facts about the clinic - its team, premises, services, and location - are publicly verifiable.
| ✓ | Has a working website tandheelkundegent.be answered HTTP 200 on 2026-09-07 with real clinic content in Dutch. [s1] | 4/4 |
| ✓ | Dentist names listed The practice-and-team page names Jean-Baptiste Hooft, Jan Hooft, Benedikte Vandenberghe, Thibault Vlaminck, Gwen De Meulemeester, Naomi Seyad, Yara Bleuze and Pauline Poppe as dentists, plus the oral hygienists Dilawar Sagar and Pieter De Vos. [s2] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Dentist specializations listed Each dentist carries a stated specialisation and, for most, their degrees and postgraduate training with universities and years - implantology, periodontology and prosthodontics; orthodontics and paediatric dentistry; general and prosthetic dentistry; general dentistry and endodontics. [s2] | 2/2 |
| ? | Real clinic photos Not settled by the manual browser check of 2026-09-08. The place page's lead image is a street-level view of the building at Gordunakaai 14 with parked cars, carrying no signage, room, equipment or staff by which the practice could be identified. | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Service list published The clinic publishes eight treatment areas on its own site, each with its own page: general dentistry, implantology, prosthetic dentistry, orthodontics, periodontology, endodontics, paediatric dentistry and aesthetic dentistry. [s1] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Clear contact details The contact page publishes the street address, a landline, a mobile number, a separate line for the children's dentist and an email form; the landline 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 contact page publishes the street address with a route link, and the same address is recorded for two of the practice's dentists in the RIZIV/INAMI register. [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's own navigation was read in full - home, practice and team, eight treatment pages, contact and privacy - and contains no fee page; 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
12 / 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 4.5. The star histogram's weighted mean, 4.520, 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 25 and the histogram sums to the same figure (22 five-star, 0 four-star, 0 three-star, 0 two-star, 3 one-star). [gm1] [gmpb] | 1/3 |
| ✓ | Review recency Browser 2026-09-08, 8 visible reviews, sort "Most relevant". The newest visible review is one month old; the rest run 5 months to 2 years. [gmpb] | 3/3 |
| ? | Clinic responds to reviews 7 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": no review below five stars surfaced and no repeated theme is readable. One-star and two-star ratings together are 3 of 25, or 12.0 per cent of the base. [gmpb] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | No suspicious review patterns Browser 2026-09-08: histogram 22/0/0/0/3 with a mean of 4.520 against a published 4.5; three one-star ratings stand on the listing, the visible dates run from one month to two years and the accounts name different clinicians. No manipulation signature. [gmpb] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Active Facebook presence The page answered HTTP 200 on 2026-09-07 under the title "Tandheelkunde Gent | Ghent"; how active it is was not established and is queued for a manual browser check. [fb1] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | TripAdvisor presence No TripAdvisor listing found via its search for "Tandheelkunde Gent Ghent" and "Gent"; the clinic's site does not link to TripAdvisor (checked 2026-10-02). [tandheelkunde-gent-ta] [tandheelkunde-gent-ta-2] [tandheelkunde-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). [tandheelkunde-gent-platforms] [tandheelkunde-gent-platforms-2] [tandheelkunde-gent-platforms-3] [tandheelkunde-gent-platforms-4] | 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 pages read. | 0/2 |
| ? | CBCT (3D imaging) Cone-beam imaging is not described on the pages read. | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Implantology Implantology is one of the eight published treatment areas and the practice owner's stated specialisation, taken at Ghent University. [s1] [s2] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Orthodontics Orthodontics is a published treatment area and the founder's specialist training, taken at Ghent University in 1972. [s1] [s2] | 2/2 |
| ? | Oral surgery Extractions and oral surgery are not named as a treatment area; implant placement is implied by the implantology page but surgery is not separately documented. | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Pediatric dentistry Paediatric dentistry is a published treatment area with its own telephone line, and two dentists name it as their field. [s1] [s2] | 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 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 A mobile number is published but no messenger service is named. | 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 offers online appointment booking and a contact form for questions, noting that it tries to honour the patient's preferred dentist and time. [s1] [s3] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ✓ | Clear service explanations Each of the eight treatment areas is explained in plain language on the home page, including what a periodontologist or endodontist actually does, with a fuller page behind each. [s1] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | Convenient opening hours The full published week was read on the clinic's own Google Business record in a browser on 2026-09-08 — the pages of its own site publish none: Monday to Friday 09:00-17:00, closed Saturday and Sunday. No evening and no weekend opening. [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 pages carry schema.org JSON-LD blocks. [s1] [s2] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ✓ | Google indexing quality The clinic's own domain takes ranks 1, 2, 7, 10, 14, 15 and 17 of 20 results for its name plus street, with directory listings of the variant name filling much of the rest (web search 2026-09-07). [giq1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Dedicated service pages Each of the eight treatment areas has its 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jean-Baptiste Hooft [reg1] | Implantology, periodontology and prosthetic dentistry; dentistry degree Ghent University 2001, specialised studies in implantology and periodontology 2004, assistant in the prosthetic dentistry department of Ghent University Hospital 2004-2013 (clinic's own site) | RIZIV/INAMI 301060-28 | Convention number, not a licence number: Belgium publishes no searchable licence register. |
| Jan Hooft [reg2] | Orthodontics and paediatric dentistry; dentistry degree Ghent University 1970, specialist in orthodontics and paediatric dentistry Ghent University 1972 (clinic's own site) | RIZIV/INAMI 370113-39 | 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
- Information Transparency: Real clinic photos
- Reputation & Reviews: Clinic responds to reviews
- Medical Infrastructure: On-site X-ray
- Medical Infrastructure: CBCT (3D imaging)
- Medical Infrastructure: Oral surgery
- 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://tandheelkundegent.be/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +32 9 329 93 34 |
| https://www.facebook.com/p/Tandheelkunde-Gent-61558019762307/ | |
| Google Maps | Map listing |
| Address | Gordunakaai 14, 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://tandheelkundegent.be/ | Clinic home page: eight treatment areas with explanations, practice history, contact block and schema.org markup | 2026-09-07 |
| s2 | https://tandheelkundegent.be/praktijk-team/ | Practice and team page: history since 1973, eight named dentists and two oral hygienists with specialisations, degrees and years | 2026-09-07 |
| s3 | https://tandheelkundegent.be/contact/ | Contact page: street address with route link, landline, mobile, the children's dentist's separate line and the contact form | 2026-09-07 |
| gm1 | https://www.google.com/maps/preview/place/Polikliniek+Tandheelkunde… | Live Google Maps place record: rating, address, telephone, website, business category and pin coordinates | 2026-09-07 |
| fb1 | https://www.facebook.com/p/Tandheelkunde-Gent-61558019762307/ | 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 Jean-Baptiste Hooft: number, qualification, convention status and work address under the practice company's name | 2026-09-07 |
| reg2 | https://webappsa.riziv-inami.fgov.be/silverpages/Home/SearchHcw/?Fo… | RIZIV/INAMI provider record for Jan Hooft: number, qualification, conventioned status and work address at Gordunakaai 14 | 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:"Tandheelkunde Gent" Gordunakaai | Name query used to judge indexing quality and to identify the clinic's Facebook page: the clinic's own domain holds ranks 1, 2, 7, 10, 14, 15 and 17 of 20 results | 2026-09-07 |
| gmpb | https://www.google.com/maps/place/x/@51.0428126,3.7087827,17z/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, and the full published week of opening hours | 2026-09-08 |
| tandheelkunde-gent-ta | https://www.tripadvisor.com/TypeAheadJson?action=API&query=Tandheel… | TripAdvisor's own search for "Tandheelkunde 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 |
| tandheelkunde-gent-ta-2 | https://www.tripadvisor.com/TypeAheadJson?action=API&query=Gent | TripAdvisor's own search for "Gent", run 2026-10-02, returns 12 results, none of them this clinic (e.g. Genting SkyWorlds Theme Park, Genting Highlands, Malaysia; Genting Skyway, Genting Highlands, Malaysia) | 2026-10-02 |
| tandheelkunde-gent-ta-3 | https://tandheelkundegent.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 |
| tandheelkunde-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 |
| tandheelkunde-gent-platforms-2 | https://www.trustpilot.com/review/tandheelkundegent.be | Trustpilot, read 2026-10-02: no company page exists for tandheelkundegent.be, the clinic's own website ("the page you're looking for could not be found") | 2026-10-02 |
| tandheelkunde-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 (Hooft) | 2026-10-02 |
| tandheelkunde-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 |
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. |
| 2026-09-08 | Browser reputation pass: the 25-review count confirmed against the histogram, recency, owner-reply state, complaint and manipulation readings recorded; the published opening week read on the Google record and the hours criterion settled as a checked negative. |
| 2026-09-07 | Adversarial verification: review count read live from the Google place record; the team size in the summary corrected to the number the clinic publishes itself; the visibility query for implants re-run with a country qualifier. |
| 2026-09-07 | Initial data collection (Belgium): home, practice-and-team and contact pages read live; Google Maps place record read live for rating, address, telephone, category and coordinates, with the listing's variant name recorded; the two Hooft dentists matched in the RIZIV/INAMI provider register by name and confirmed by single-record lookup on their provider numbers, both with this street address; 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. Review count, histogram, recency, owner replies, opening hours, premises photos and third-party review profiles left null and queued for a manual browser check. |
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