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 | Adalya Dental Clinic | 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 | Adalya Dental Clinic | opaque_prices flag removed under methodology v1.4.0 (no citable evidence found on re-verification: the clinic publishes an itemised price page at adalyadentalclinic.com/antalya-dentist-prices-turkey/ with per-treatment figures in GBP/EUR/USD, fetched 2026-09-07, so the 'no prices published' premise no longer holds, and no report of a quoted price not being honoured is citable). |
| 2026-09-07 | Adalya Dental Clinic | priceTransparency re-evaluated 2026-09-07 (wave-4 Y16): clinic now publishes a 2026 itemised price list (previously false). pricesPublished, cleaningPriceListed, fillingPriceListed, crownPriceListed and implantPriceListed now true; consultationPriceListed and xrayPriceListed stay false — neither is priced or offered free anywhere on the site. See adalya-dental-prices-2026-09-07. |
| 2026-09-07 | Altindent Özel Ağız ve Diş Sağlığı Polikliniği | opaque_prices flag removed under methodology v1.4.0 (no evidence of bait/opacity; non-publication is scored by price criteria). |
| 2026-09-07 | Antlara Dental Clinic | opaque_prices flag removed under methodology v1.4.0 (no evidence of bait/opacity; non-publication is scored by price criteria). |
| 2026-09-07 | AST Ağız ve Diş Sağlığı Polikliniği | opaque_prices flag removed under methodology v1.4.0 (no evidence of bait/opacity; non-publication is scored by price criteria). |
| 2026-09-07 | DentGroup Antalya Lara Dental Clinic | opaque_prices flag removed under methodology v1.4.0 (no evidence of bait/opacity; non-publication is scored by price criteria). |
| 2026-09-07 | Markasya Ağız ve Diş Sağlığı Kliniği | opaque_prices flag removed under methodology v1.4.0 (no evidence of bait/opacity; non-publication is scored by price criteria). |
| 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. |
| 2026-09-07 | Mustafa Tuncer Ağız ve Diş Sağlığı Polikliniği | opaque_prices flag removed under methodology v1.4.0 (no evidence of bait/opacity; non-publication is scored by price criteria). |
| 2026-09-07 | Panoramik Ağız ve Diş Sağlığı | opaque_prices flag removed under methodology v1.4.0 (no evidence of bait/opacity; non-publication is scored by price criteria). |
| 2026-09-07 | Smile Dental Turkey | 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 | Smile Dental Turkey | opaque_prices flag removed under methodology v1.4.0 (no citable evidence found on re-verification: smiledentalturkey.com/dental-treatment-prices-in-turkey/, fetched 2026-09-07, publishes a full itemised price table in GBP/EUR/USD — 'Implants From £392, Crowns & Veneers From £167' — plus per-patient case studies with itemised cost breakdowns, so the 'Save 80% without figures' premise no longer holds). |
| 2026-09-07 | Smile Dental Turkey | priceTransparency re-evaluated 2026-09-07 (wave-4 Y16): clinic now publishes a full itemised price list (previously false). pricesPublished, cleaningPriceListed, fillingPriceListed, crownPriceListed, implantPriceListed and consultationPriceListed (free, stated explicitly) now true; xrayPriceListed stays false — X-rays are only ever described as bundled into treatment prices, never priced on their own. See smile-dental-turkey-prices-2026-09-07 and smile-dental-turkey-packages-2026-09-07. |
| 2026-09-07 | Sundent Ağız ve Diş Sağlığı Polikliniği | opaque_prices flag removed under methodology v1.4.0 (no evidence of bait/opacity; non-publication is scored by price criteria). |
| 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 | Adalya Dental Clinic | Re-verified live facts (website, contacts, operating status, Google reputation): no changes. A Google-sourced rating (4.8, 66 reviews) surfaced via a Trustindex aggregator page, but no acceptable-format Google Maps source URL (place/cid/short-link) could be located today, so no rating value was recorded. |
| 2026-08-25 | Adalya Dental Clinic | License verification 2026-08-25 against T.C. Sağlık Bakanlığı Sağlık Turizmi Yetkili Diğer Sağlık Tesisleri list and Doktor Bilgi Bankası: clinic found (name and street match; building number and phone differ slightly — flagged); all 4 named doctors could not be checked — no accessible individual-dentist registry. |
| 2026-08-25 | Altindent Özel Ağız ve Diş Sağlığı Polikliniği | Re-verification 2026-08-25: confirmed website live, name/phone unchanged, clinic not closed; newly captured full street address (Göksu Mahallesi, Suphi Türel Caddesi, No:37/HA, Kepez) from the clinic's contact page — worklist previously had no street address on record. No acceptable-format Google Maps link was found on the site. |
| 2026-08-25 | Altindent Özel Ağız ve Diş Sağlığı Polikliniği | License verification 2026-08-25 against T.C. Sağlık Bakanlığı Sağlık Turizmi Yetkili Diğer Sağlık Tesisleri list, Özel Hastane Listesi and the clinic's own site: not found under any searched name variant, and the site itself publishes no license number — recorded as verified-false. |
| 2026-08-25 | Antlara Dental Clinic | Re-verification 2026-08-25: confirmed website live, name/address/phone unchanged, clinic not closed; recorded Google Maps place URL and pin coordinates (36.8638429, 30.7432618) resolved from the clinic's own maps.app.goo.gl link. Google star rating/review count could not be captured today (Google Maps live page is JS-rendered and no acceptable-format mirror with a Google-sourced rating was found). |
| 2026-08-25 | Antlara Dental Clinic | Recorded sedation / general anaesthesia availability (informational): documented as available. Documents general anaesthesia (temporary loss of consciousness) for lengthy/painful cases; also offers awake IV twilight sedation. |
| 2026-08-25 | Antlara Dental Clinic | License verification 2026-08-25 against T.C. Sağlık Bakanlığı Doktor Bilgi Bankası: clinic license already on file (health tourism certificate) and not re-checked; all 8 named doctors could not be checked — Turkey's only individual-dentist registry requires e-Devlet identity verification and has no public name-lookup. |
| 2026-08-25 | AST Ağız ve Diş Sağlığı Polikliniği | Re-verified live facts (website, contacts, operating status, Google reputation): no changes. No Google Maps link was found on the site and no acceptable-format Maps source could be located today, so the stored rating (5) was not re-captured with a source. |
| 2026-08-25 | AST Ağız ve Diş Sağlığı Polikliniği | Recorded sedation / general anaesthesia availability (informational): documented as available. Site states oral surgery is performed under local anaesthesia, general anaesthesia, or sedation anaesthesia. |
| 2026-08-25 | AST Ağız ve Diş Sağlığı Polikliniği | License verification 2026-08-25 against T.C. Sağlık Bakanlığı Sağlık Turizmi Yetkili Diğer Sağlık Tesisleri list and Doktor Bilgi Bankası: clinic found — address and phone match exactly; all 5 named doctors could not be checked — no accessible individual-dentist registry. |
| 2026-08-25 | DentGroup Antalya Lara Dental Clinic | Re-verification 2026-08-25: confirmed website live, name/address/phone unchanged, clinic not closed; newly captured Google rating 4.9 (756 reviews, both previously unset) plus Maps place URL and pin coordinates. |
| 2026-08-25 | DentGroup Antalya Lara Dental Clinic | Recorded sedation / general anaesthesia availability (informational): not documented in public sources. Branch page states only digital (computerized) local anesthesia is applied in all treatments; no GA/deep sedation mentioned. |
| 2026-08-25 | DentGroup Antalya Lara Dental Clinic | License verification 2026-08-25 against T.C. Sağlık Bakanlığı Sağlık Turizmi Yetkili Diğer Sağlık Tesisleri list and Doktor Bilgi Bankası: clinic found — exact address match; all 11 named doctors could not be checked — no accessible individual-dentist registry. |
| 2026-08-25 | Lara Smile Dental Clinic | Re-verification 2026-08-25: confirmed website live, name/address/phone unchanged, clinic not closed; newly captured Google rating 4.9 (676 reviews, both previously unset) plus Maps place URL and pin coordinates. |
| 2026-08-25 | Lara Smile Dental Clinic | Recorded sedation / general anaesthesia availability (informational): documented as available. Site offers general anaesthesia ("totally unconscious") for significant oral surgery, plus lesser conscious sedation levels for other cases. |
| 2026-08-25 | Lara Smile Dental Clinic | License verification 2026-08-25 against T.C. Sağlık Bakanlığı Doktor Bilgi Bankası: clinic license already on file (health tourism certificate) and not re-checked; all 4 named doctors could not be checked — Turkey's only individual-dentist registry requires e-Devlet identity verification and has no public name-lookup. |
| 2026-08-25 | Markasya Ağız ve Diş Sağlığı Kliniği | Re-verification 2026-08-25: confirmed website live, name/address/phone unchanged, clinic not closed; recorded Google Maps place URL and pin coordinates (36.879203, 30.6479405) resolved from the clinic's own maps.app.goo.gl link. Google star rating/review count could not be captured today (Google Maps live page is JS-rendered and no acceptable-format mirror with a Google-sourced rating was found). |
| 2026-08-25 | Markasya Ağız ve Diş Sağlığı Kliniği | License verification 2026-08-25 against T.C. Sağlık Bakanlığı Sağlık Turizmi Yetkili Diğer Sağlık Tesisleri list and Doktor Bilgi Bankası: clinic found — address and phone match exactly; all 4 named doctors could not be checked — no accessible individual-dentist registry. |
| 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 | Mustafa Tuncer Ağız ve Diş Sağlığı Polikliniği | Re-verified live facts (website, contacts, operating status, Google reputation): no changes. Only an Apple Maps link was found on the site (no Google Maps link), and no acceptable-format Google Maps source could be located today. |
| 2026-08-25 | Mustafa Tuncer Ağız ve Diş Sağlığı Polikliniği | License verification 2026-08-25 against T.C. Sağlık Bakanlığı Sağlık Turizmi Yetkili Diğer Sağlık Tesisleri list, Özel Hastane Listesi and the clinic's own site: not found under any searched name variant, and the site itself publishes no license number — recorded as verified-false; the 1 named doctor could not be checked — no accessible individual-dentist registry. |
| 2026-08-25 | Myra Dental Centre | Re-verification 2026-08-25: confirmed name/address/phone unchanged and clinic not closed; reconfirmed Google rating at 4.9 and newly captured review count (695, previously unset), plus Maps place URL and pin coordinates. Direct site fetch is bot-blocked; content confirmed via an accessible reader-proxy mirror instead. |
| 2026-08-25 | Myra Dental Centre | Recorded sedation / general anaesthesia availability (informational): documented as available. Dedicated page: personalized sedation or general anaesthesia planning, managed safely, for procedures like All-on-4 and complex extractions. |
| 2026-08-25 | Myra Dental Centre | License verification 2026-08-25 against T.C. Sağlık Bakanlığı Sağlık Turizmi Yetkili Diğer Sağlık Tesisleri list: found — 'Özel Klinik Myra Ağız ve Diş Sağlığı Polikliniği', Antalya, phone matching the clinic's stored number exactly. |
| 2026-08-25 | Panoramik Ağız ve Diş Sağlığı | Re-verification 2026-08-25: confirmed website live, name/address/phone unchanged, clinic not closed; recorded Google Maps place URL and pin coordinates (36.8553848, 30.6108547) resolved from the clinic's own maps.app.goo.gl link. Google star rating/review count could not be captured today (Google Maps live page is JS-rendered and no acceptable-format mirror with a Google-sourced rating was found). |
| 2026-08-25 | Smile Dental Turkey | Re-verification 2026-08-25: confirmed website live, name/address unchanged, clinic not closed; newly captured Google rating 4.8 (102 reviews, both previously unset) plus Maps place URL and pin coordinates. |
| 2026-08-25 | Smile Dental Turkey | License verification 2026-08-25 against T.C. Sağlık Bakanlığı Sağlık Turizmi Yetkili Diğer Sağlık Tesisleri list, Özel Hastane Listesi and the clinic's own site: not found under any searched name variant despite the clinic itself claiming an 'official Health Tourism Certificate' — recorded as verified-false; all 8 named doctors could not be checked — no accessible individual-dentist registry. |
| 2026-08-25 | Sundent Ağız ve Diş Sağlığı Polikliniği | Re-verification 2026-08-25: confirmed website live, name/address unchanged, clinic not closed; corrected phone — the live site now displays +90 553 315 07 28 and +90 553 315 07 29 throughout (header, WhatsApp links, footer), not the stored +90 242 321 07 86. No acceptable-format Google Maps link was found on the site, so rating/review count/geo were not captured today. |
| 2026-08-25 | Sundent Ağız ve Diş Sağlığı Polikliniği | License verification 2026-08-25 against T.C. Sağlık Bakanlığı Sağlık Turizmi Yetkili Diğer Sağlık Tesisleri list and Doktor Bilgi Bankası: clinic found — exact address match (registry phone matches the clinic's prior, now-superseded number); all 3 named doctors could not be checked — no accessible individual-dentist registry. |
| 2026-08-25 | VDC Dental Clinic Turkey | Re-verification 2026-08-25: stored website https://dentalclinicturkey.com/ now 301-redirects permanently to https://www.turkeydentalclinic.com/ (site rebranded as "Turkey Dental Centre"); stored phone +90 544 348 07 87 confirmed live on the new site, confirming continuity of the same clinic. Street address still not published on the new site (unchanged from worklist). No acceptable-format Google Maps link was found; rating/review count/geo not captured today. |
| 2026-08-25 | VDC Dental Clinic Turkey | License verification 2026-08-25 against T.C. Sağlık Bakanlığı Sağlık Turizmi Yetkili Diğer Sağlık Tesisleri list: found — 'Özel VDC Ağız ve Diş Sağlığı Polikliniği', Antalya, matching the clinic's distinctive VDC name. |
| 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. |
| 2026-07-10 | Adalya Dental Clinic | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-10 | Altindent Özel Ağız ve Diş Sağlığı Polikliniği | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-10 | Antlara Dental Clinic | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-10 | AST Ağız ve Diş Sağlığı Polikliniği | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-10 | DentGroup Antalya Lara Dental Clinic | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-10 | Lara Smile Dental Clinic | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-10 | Markasya Ağız ve Diş Sağlığı Kliniği | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-10 | Mustafa Tuncer Ağız ve Diş Sağlığı Polikliniği | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-10 | Myra Dental Centre | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-10 | Panoramik Ağız ve Diş Sağlığı | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-10 | Smile Dental Turkey | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-10 | Sundent Ağız ve Diş Sağlığı Polikliniği | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-10 | VDC Dental Clinic Turkey | 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. |