Changelog
Every data update, correction, and methodology change is logged here and in each clinic's own change history. The rating updates whenever the underlying public data changes.
| Date | Subject | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-07 | Dental Experts Guatemala | opaque_prices flag reviewed under methodology v1.4.0 and kept: the note hints at opacity but cites nothing verifiable, so it is annotated for re-verification at the next crawl. |
| 2026-09-07 | Dental Experts Guatemala | opaque_prices flag removed under methodology v1.4.0 (no citable evidence found on re-verification: dentalexpertsguatemala.com/international-patients/dental-pricing-in-guatemala/, fetched 2026-09-07, publishes an itemised USD price table covering 21 procedures next to US comparison figures, so the 'percentage savings only, no itemised prices' premise no longer holds). |
| 2026-09-07 | Dental Experts Guatemala | priceTransparency re-evaluated 2026-09-07 (wave-4 Y16): clinic now publishes a full USD cost-comparison price table (previously false). pricesPublished, cleaningPriceListed, crownPriceListed, implantPriceListed and xrayPriceListed now true; fillingPriceListed and consultationPriceListed stay false/unset→false — neither appears on the table or anywhere else on the site. See dental-experts-guatemala-prices-2026-09-07. |
| 2026-09-07 | Methodology v1.4.0 | Narrowed the "Opaque or bait pricing" red flag to what its published definition describes. Until now the flag was applied automatically to every clinic that does not publish a price list — a harsher statement than the evidence supports, since the catalogue defines the flag as complaints about final bills materially exceeding quoted prices, or advertised prices that are not honoured. Not publishing prices is already scored: it costs the clinic points in the price transparency category, and it is not, on its own, evidence of bait pricing. The automatic rule is removed, so the flag and its 2-point penalty come off about 1,300 clinic pages across the index; no clinic gains a flag, and no weight, severity or other scoring rule changed. The flag can still be recorded against a clinic by hand with cited sources, and about 210 clinics carry such an entry today; we are reviewing those entries in a follow-up pass, because some of them were also written for nothing more than an unpublished price list. |
| 2026-09-03 | Methodology v1.3.1 | Clarified that the publication criteria refer to the clinic’s own channels: a service list, the names of the dentists and a price list count when the clinic itself publishes them (its website, its social profiles or its own Google Business profile) — registers, directories and review sites do not, and a time-limited promotional offer is not a price list. Added a third state for a dentist’s licence, "checked, not found in the public register": a dentist we searched for in the national register and did not find is now recorded as checked-but-unverified with the date of the check, instead of being shown either as "not checked yet" or as the "not published" red flag. Neither change alters any weight or penalty; the red-flag rule still fires only on a verified negative. Also corrected the wording of the penalty note under the ranking table, which rendered as "20−" in right-to-left dictionaries. |
| 2026-08-25 | Centro Dental Multimedica | Re-verification 2026-08-25: confirmed website live, address and phone unchanged; captured Google rating 4.7 (39 reviews), Maps URL and geo coordinates. |
| 2026-08-25 | Clinica Dental Cuida Dent | Re-verification 2026-08-25: website https://cuidadentgt.com/ is unreachable over both HTTPS and HTTP - it returns a TLS certificate hostname-mismatch error (the certificate covers autodiscover.cuidadentgt.com, not the site itself), confirmed by both an automated fetch and a live browser visit; no successor site was found. The Google Maps listing (phone +502 3596 8834, Zona 10) remains active and is not marked permanently closed, but shows no reviews yet, so no rating was captured. Recorded Maps URL and geo coordinates. |
| 2026-08-25 | Clinica Dental Guatemala (Dr. Carlos Toledo / DentalSmile) | Re-verification 2026-08-25: website live, phone confirmed; Google Maps shows address 2A Calle A 6-28 Zona 10 while the clinic site still lists 2a calle 6-24 Zona 10 (Centro Médico Renovati) — conflicting sources, stored address left unchanged pending clarification. |
| 2026-08-25 | Clinica Estilo Dental (Clinica Dental Globo) | Re-verification 2026-08-25: confirmed website live (clinicadental-globo.com), address and phone unchanged (site lists both 2234-7112 and 3405-5995; Maps surfaces the latter as the primary number, not a discrepancy); captured Google rating 4.5 (6 reviews), Maps URL and geo coordinates. |
| 2026-08-25 | Dental City Guatemala | Re-verification 2026-08-25: confirmed website live, address and phone unchanged; captured Google rating 5.0 (62 reviews), Maps URL and geo coordinates. |
| 2026-08-25 | Dental Clinic 3D | Re-verification 2026-08-25: website confirmed live via a direct browser visit to https://dentalclinic3d.com/ (an automated fetch tool initially returned a DNS error, but the site loads normally and matches the clinic); address unchanged. Corrected phone to +502 2334 1643 (shown on the site and Google Maps; previously stored +502 2251-5530). Captured Google rating 4.8 (62 reviews), Maps URL and geo coordinates. |
| 2026-08-25 | Dental Experts Guatemala | Re-verification 2026-08-25: confirmed website live, address and phone unchanged; captured Google rating 5.0 (125 reviews), Maps URL and geo coordinates. |
| 2026-08-25 | Dental Experts Guatemala | Recorded sedation / general anaesthesia availability (informational): not documented in public sources. Site shows a patient under "Conscious Sedation" (awake) in a procedure photo; no general anaesthesia or deep/twilight sedation mentioned. |
| 2026-08-25 | Guatemala Dental | Re-verification 2026-08-25: confirmed website live and address unchanged; recorded previously-unset phone +502 2301-5400; captured Google rating 4.9 (180 reviews), Maps URL and geo coordinates. |
| 2026-08-25 | Innova Dental | Re-verification 2026-08-25: confirmed website live, address and phone unchanged; captured Google rating 4.7 (40 reviews), Maps URL and geo coordinates. |
| 2026-08-25 | iSmile Guatemala | Re-verification 2026-08-25: confirmed website live, address and phone unchanged; captured Google rating 4.9 (205 reviews), Maps URL and geo coordinates. |
| 2026-08-25 | iSmile Guatemala | Recorded sedation / general anaesthesia availability (informational): documented as available. Site states general anaesthesia offered with specialized anaesthesiologists. |
| 2026-08-25 | Methodology v1.3.0 | Corrected how the two licensing red flags are applied ("Clinic operating licence not published" and "Dentists / their licences not listed"). Previously they were applied whenever licensing data was absent from our records, which treated unchecked data as a negative finding — contrary to the methodology's own rule that unverified data is a fact about our coverage, not about the clinic. Both flags now apply only where we have verified that the information is not published. Manual licensing flags that rested on unverified data were removed from the affected clinics. No other scoring rules changed; most scores rise because the incorrect penalty is removed. |
| 2026-08-25 | RoDa Dental | Re-verification 2026-08-25: confirmed website live and address unchanged (13 Calle 5-31, Zona 9). Corrected phone to +502 3159 5551, the number Google Maps lists for this Zona 9 location; the previously stored +502 2220-6981 is the clinic's separate Zona 1 branch per rodadental.com. This Google Maps listing shows no reviews yet, so no rating was captured. |
| 2026-08-25 | Sole Ortodoncia (Dr. Alejandro Sole) | Re-verification 2026-08-25: confirmed website live (clinicadental.gt resolves to Dr. Alejandro Sole / Sole Ortodoncia, Zona 14), address and phone unchanged. Its Google Maps listing carries no reviews (owner-claimed, no street address published on the profile itself), so no rating was captured; recorded Maps URL and geo coordinates. |
| 2026-08-23 | Methodology v1.2.0 | Added an informational "Sedation & general anaesthesia" availability field to every clinic and a new "Sleep Dentistry (Sedation / GA)" list, for patients who cannot tolerate — or would rather not be awake for — treatment. This field is informational and does not change any transparency score. |
| 2026-07-12 | Centro Dental Multimedica | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-12 | Clinica Dental Cuida Dent | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-12 | Clinica Dental Guatemala (Dr. Carlos Toledo / DentalSmile) | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-12 | Clinica Estilo Dental (Clinica Dental Globo) | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-12 | Dental City Guatemala | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-12 | Dental Clinic 3D | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-12 | Dental Experts Guatemala | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-12 | Guatemala Dental | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-12 | Innova Dental | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-12 | iSmile Guatemala | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-12 | RoDa Dental | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-12 | Sole Ortodoncia (Dr. Alejandro Sole) | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-08 | Methodology v1.1.0 | Added licensing transparency: clinics are now penalised when they do not publish their operating licence, or do not list their dentists together with their professional licence numbers. Each clinic page now shows a Licensing & Credentials section. |
| 2026-07-03 | Methodology v1.0.0 | Initial public methodology. |