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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-27 | Apex Dental | Initial verification: confirmed live website (via redirect), address, phone and Google rating (4.9, 111 reviews); matched a named dentist to a Medical Council of Malta registration via a phone-number cross-reference; recorded AI/search-visibility signals from direct queries. |
| 2026-08-27 | BridgePoint Dental | Initial verification: confirmed live website, address, phone and Google rating (4.3, 24 reviews); matched both named dentists to Medical Council of Malta registrations. |
| 2026-08-27 | Camilleri Dental and Medical Clinic | Initial verification: confirmed live website, address, phone and Google rating (4.4, 99 reviews); matched two named dentists to Medical Council of Malta registrations. |
| 2026-08-27 | David Muscat Dental Clinic | Initial verification: confirmed live website, address, phone and Google rating (5.0, 3 reviews); matched the named dentist to a Medical Council of Malta registration. |
| 2026-08-27 | Debono Dental Clinic | Initial verification: confirmed address, phone and Google rating (4.6, 11 reviews); matched the dentist to a Medical Council of Malta registration via a phone-number cross-reference; no dedicated website found. |
| 2026-08-27 | Dental & Implantology Unit (St James Hospital) | Initial verification: confirmed live website, address, phone and Google rating (4.4, 19 reviews); matched both founders to Medical Council of Malta registrations; recorded AI/search-visibility signal from a direct query. |
| 2026-08-27 | Dental Care Centre | Initial verification: confirmed address, phone and Google rating (5.0, 5 reviews); the website URL shown on Google Maps was checked and found to be an unrelated Philippines directory, so hasWebsite is recorded as false and no site-derived criteria are populated. |
| 2026-08-27 | Dental Clinic @ Fifteen | Initial verification: confirmed address, phone and Google rating (4.9, 21 reviews); no dedicated website found; matched a review-named dentist to a Medical Council of Malta registration via a phone-number cross-reference. |
| 2026-08-27 | Drs Demajo Dental & Implantology Clinics — Ta' Xbiex | Initial verification: confirmed live website, address, phone and Google rating (4.3, 291 reviews) for the Ta' Xbiex head-office branch; matched two named dentists to Medical Council of Malta registrations; recorded AI/search-visibility signals from direct queries. |
| 2026-08-27 | Drs Demajo Dental & Implantology Clinics — Valletta | Initial verification: confirmed live website, address, phone and Google rating (4.3, 67 reviews) for the Valletta branch; matched two named dentists to Medical Council of Malta registrations; recorded AI/search-visibility signals from direct queries. |
| 2026-08-27 | ForteDent Dental Clinic | Initial verification: confirmed live website, address, phone and Google rating (4.9, 283 reviews); no dentists named on the clinic's own homepage so licensing.doctors left empty; recorded AI/search-visibility signals from direct queries. |
| 2026-08-27 | Helios Dental Clinic | Initial verification: confirmed address, phone and Google rating (3.9, 7 reviews); the website URL shown on Google Maps was checked and found to be the same unrelated Philippines directory seen on another clinic's listing, so hasWebsite is recorded as false; matched the dentist named in reviews to a Medical Council of Malta registration via a phone-number cross-reference. |
| 2026-08-27 | Mosta Dental Clinic | Initial verification: confirmed address, phone and Google rating (4.7, 55 reviews); no dedicated website found (Facebook only); a dentist first name appears in reviews but could not be reliably matched to a Medical Council registration, so licensing.doctors is left empty rather than guessed. |
| 2026-08-27 | Regional Dental Centre | Initial verification: confirmed live website, address, phone and Google rating (4.9, 151 reviews); matched two named dentists to Medical Council of Malta registrations; recorded strong AI/search-visibility signals across four of the five fixed queries. |
| 2026-08-27 | Signature Dental | Initial verification: confirmed live website, address, phone and Google rating (4.9, 90 reviews); matched both named dentists to Medical Council of Malta registrations; recorded AI/search-visibility signal from a direct query. |
| 2026-08-27 | St. Julian's Dental and Medical Clinic | Initial verification: confirmed address, phone, live website domain and Google rating (4.2, 127 reviews) via Google Maps; the clinic's own website returned an automated bot-detection challenge, so website-derived criteria are left unverified. |
| 2026-08-27 | Swatar Dental and Implantology Clinic | Initial verification: confirmed address, phone and Google rating (4.7, 15 reviews); matched the dentist named in reviews and a Reddit thread to a Medical Council of Malta registration; no dedicated website found. |
| 2026-08-27 | Thames Dental Clinic | Initial verification: confirmed live website, address, phone and Google rating (3.9, 19 reviews); matched the practice to a licensed dentist via a phone-number cross-reference; recorded a low-severity communication-complaints red flag based on two independent reviews. |
| 2026-08-27 | The Dental Clinic | Initial verification: confirmed live website, address, phone and Google rating (4.7, 53 reviews); no dentist names published on the site; recorded AI/search-visibility signals from two direct queries. |
| 2026-08-27 | Zerafa Dental Studio | Initial verification: confirmed live website, address, phone, hours; matched the named dentist to a Medical Council of Malta registration; Google rating 5.0 from a small base of 4 reviews. |
| 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. |
| 2026-08-23 | 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. |
| 2026-07-08 | 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. |