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
2026-10-16	Methodology v1.4.2	Clarified when dentist names count: a name published by the clinic counts when it lets a patient find the dentist in a professional register; a first name alone is not enough, nor is a first name with a patronymic where surnames are in use. Applied the same day to the clinics whose own channels name their dentists by first name only, which lose the points for dentist names. No other score changes.
2026-10-07	Methodology v1.4.1	Added a limit on re-checks made at a clinic's request: the next request from the same clinic about its own page is taken up no sooner than one month after the last re-check made at its request, which is dated in the clinic's change history; requests sent earlier are not processed. Corrections reported by anyone else are handled as before. No score changes.
2026-10-05	Odontología 3	Read the clinic's Google listing on 2026-10-05 (its lowest-rated and newest reviews with the star histogram): a repeated complaint among the lowest-rated reviews.
2026-10-02	CIRED Odontología	Presence re-checked on 2026-10-02: no TripAdvisor listing (two searches of its index and the clinic's site).
2026-10-02	Clínica Gemale Odontología Avanzada	Presence re-checked on 2026-10-02: no TripAdvisor listing (two searches of its index and the clinic's site).
2026-10-02	Clínica Innovare – San Lorenzo Centro	Presence re-checked on 2026-10-02: no TripAdvisor listing (two searches of its index and the clinic's site); its own Facebook page, active this year.
2026-10-02	Clínica Odontoandrauss – San Lorenzo Centro	Presence re-checked on 2026-10-02: no TripAdvisor listing (two searches of its index and the clinic's site).
2026-10-02	Clínica Odontolatina Ortoplan – Ciudad del Este	Presence re-checked on 2026-10-02: no TripAdvisor listing (two searches of its index and the clinic's site).
2026-10-02	Clínica Odontolatina Ortoplan – Ciudad del Este	Read the clinic's own website (homepage, robots.txt, sitemap and service pages) for site structure: business structured data present.
2026-10-02	Clínica Odontológica Criscioni	Presence re-checked on 2026-10-02: no TripAdvisor listing (two searches of its index and the clinic's site).
2026-10-02	Clínica Odontológica Dr. Gastón Trossero	Presence re-checked on 2026-10-02: no TripAdvisor listing (two searches of its index and the clinic's site).
2026-10-02	Clínica Praxis Odontología	Presence re-checked on 2026-10-02: no TripAdvisor listing (two searches of its index and the clinic's site).
2026-10-02	Consultorio Odontológico Petta Borecki	Presence re-checked on 2026-10-02: no TripAdvisor listing (two searches of its index and the clinic's site).
2026-10-02	Delica Dental Clinic – DDC	offersSedation: true -> false. The clinic offers conscious sedation only (nitrous oxide or oral sedatives), not general anaesthesia or deep sedation.
2026-10-02	Delica Dental Clinic – DDC	Presence re-checked on 2026-10-02: no TripAdvisor listing (two searches of its index and the clinic's site).
2026-10-02	Dental Clinic Odontología Especializada	Presence re-checked on 2026-10-02: no TripAdvisor listing (two searches of its index and the clinic's site); its own Facebook page, active this year.
2026-10-02	Dental Safe	Presence re-checked on 2026-10-02: no TripAdvisor listing (two searches of its index and the clinic's site).
2026-10-02	Dentalmás	Presence re-checked on 2026-10-02: no TripAdvisor listing (two searches of its index and the clinic's site).
2026-10-02	InnovaDent Clínica Odontológica	Presence re-checked on 2026-10-02: no TripAdvisor listing (two searches of its index and the clinic's site); its own Facebook page, active this year.
2026-10-02	Margraf Dental Health Center	offersSedation: true -> false. The clinic offers conscious sedation only (nitrous oxide or oral sedatives), not general anaesthesia or deep sedation.
2026-10-02	Margraf Dental Health Center	Presence re-checked on 2026-10-02: no TripAdvisor listing (two searches of its index and the clinic's site).
2026-10-02	Odex Centro Odontológico – Ciudad del Este	Presence re-checked on 2026-10-02: no TripAdvisor listing (two searches of its index and the clinic's site); no profile on WhatClinic, Dental Departures, Bookimed or Trustpilot.
2026-10-02	Odex Centro Odontológico – San Lorenzo	Presence re-checked on 2026-10-02: no TripAdvisor listing (two searches of its index and the clinic's site); no profile on WhatClinic, Dental Departures, Bookimed or Trustpilot.
2026-10-02	Odontolatina Encarnación	Presence re-checked on 2026-10-02: no TripAdvisor listing (two searches of its index and the clinic's site).
2026-10-02	Odontolatina Encarnación	Read the clinic's own website (homepage, robots.txt, sitemap and service pages) for site structure: business structured data present.
2026-10-02	Odontología 3	offersSedation: true -> false. The clinic offers conscious sedation only (nitrous oxide or oral sedatives), not general anaesthesia or deep sedation.
2026-10-02	Odontología 3	Presence re-checked on 2026-10-02: no TripAdvisor listing (two searches of its index and the clinic's site).
2026-10-02	Protection Dental Center – Asunción	Presence re-checked on 2026-10-02: no TripAdvisor listing (two searches of its index and the clinic's site); no profile on WhatClinic, Dental Departures, Bookimed or Trustpilot; its own Facebook page, active this year.
2026-10-02	Protection Dental Center – Ciudad del Este	Presence re-checked on 2026-10-02: no TripAdvisor listing (two searches of its index and the clinic's site); no profile on WhatClinic, Dental Departures, Bookimed or Trustpilot.
2026-10-01	CIRED Odontología	Presence on other review platforms re-checked: no profile on WhatClinic, Dental Departures or Bookimed, so this criterion is now no.
2026-10-01	Clínica Gemale Odontología Avanzada	Presence on other review platforms re-checked: no profile on WhatClinic, Dental Departures or Bookimed, so this criterion is now no.
2026-10-01	Clínica Innovare – San Lorenzo Centro	Presence on other review platforms re-checked: no profile on WhatClinic, Dental Departures or Bookimed, so this criterion is now no.
2026-10-01	Clínica Odontoandrauss – San Lorenzo Centro	Presence on other review platforms re-checked: no profile on WhatClinic, Dental Departures or Bookimed, so this criterion is now no.
2026-10-01	Clínica Odontolatina Ortoplan – Ciudad del Este	Presence on other review platforms re-checked: no profile on WhatClinic, Dental Departures or Bookimed, so this criterion is now no.
2026-10-01	Clínica Odontológica Criscioni	Presence on other review platforms re-checked: no profile on WhatClinic, Dental Departures or Bookimed, so this criterion is now no.
2026-10-01	Clínica Odontológica Dr. Gastón Trossero	Presence on other review platforms re-checked: no profile on WhatClinic, Dental Departures or Bookimed, so this criterion is now no.
2026-10-01	Clínica Praxis Odontología	Presence on other review platforms re-checked: no profile on WhatClinic, Dental Departures or Bookimed, so this criterion is now no.
2026-10-01	Consultorio Odontológico Petta Borecki	Presence on other review platforms re-checked: no profile on WhatClinic, Dental Departures or Bookimed, so this criterion is now no.
2026-10-01	Delica Dental Clinic – DDC	Presence on other review platforms re-checked: no profile on WhatClinic, Dental Departures or Bookimed, so this criterion is now no.
2026-10-01	Dental Clinic Odontología Especializada	Presence on other review platforms re-checked: no profile on WhatClinic, Dental Departures or Bookimed, so this criterion is now no.
2026-10-01	Dental Safe	Presence on other review platforms re-checked: no profile on WhatClinic, Dental Departures or Bookimed, so this criterion is now no.
2026-10-01	Dentalmás	Presence on other review platforms re-checked: no profile on WhatClinic, Dental Departures or Bookimed, so this criterion is now no.
2026-10-01	InnovaDent Clínica Odontológica	Presence on other review platforms re-checked: no profile on WhatClinic, Dental Departures or Bookimed, so this criterion is now no.
2026-10-01	Margraf Dental Health Center	Presence on other review platforms re-checked: no profile on WhatClinic, Dental Departures or Bookimed, so this criterion is now no.
2026-10-01	Odontolatina Encarnación	Presence on other review platforms re-checked: no profile on WhatClinic, Dental Departures or Bookimed, so this criterion is now no.
2026-10-01	Odontología 3	Presence on other review platforms re-checked: no profile on WhatClinic, Dental Departures or Bookimed, so this criterion is now no.
2026-09-30	CIRED Odontología	Re-read the clinic's Facebook page and Google listing on 2026-09-30: no English website version, as the clinic has no website of its own.
2026-09-29	CIRED Odontología	Corrected 2026-09-29: no recurring complaints now unverified: 1 Google review is too few to show a pattern; clinic responds to reviews now unverified: with 1 Google review a missing owner reply shows nothing yet; review recency older than a year (newest review dated 2025-06-25).
2026-09-29	Clínica Gemale Odontología Avanzada	Corrected 2026-09-29: no recurring complaints now unverified: 1 Google review is too few to show a pattern.
2026-09-29	Clínica Odontoandrauss – San Lorenzo Centro	Corrected 2026-09-29: owner replies to reviews confirmed on the Google listing (owner reply dated 2026-08-18).
2026-09-29	Clínica Odontolatina Ortoplan – Ciudad del Este	Corrected 2026-09-29: no recurring complaints and no suspicious review patterns now unverified: 4 Google reviews are too few to show a pattern; review recency older than a year (newest review dated 2025-06-06).
2026-09-29	Clínica Odontológica Criscioni	Corrected 2026-09-29: no recurring complaints now unverified: 3 Google reviews are too few to show a pattern; clinic responds to reviews now unverified: with 3 Google reviews a missing owner reply shows nothing yet; review recency older than a year (newest review dated 2025-03-13).
2026-09-29	Clínica Praxis Odontología	Corrected 2026-09-29: clinic responds to reviews now unverified: with 7 Google reviews a missing owner reply shows nothing yet.
2026-09-29	Consultorio Odontológico Petta Borecki	Corrected 2026-09-29: no recurring complaints now unverified: 3 Google reviews are too few to show a pattern; clinic responds to reviews now unverified: with 3 Google reviews a missing owner reply shows nothing yet.
2026-09-29	InnovaDent Clínica Odontológica	Corrected 2026-09-29: clinic responds to reviews now unverified: with 5 Google reviews a missing owner reply shows nothing yet; review recency older than a year (newest review dated 2025-04-29).
2026-09-29	Odex Centro Odontológico – Ciudad del Este	Corrected 2026-09-29: no recurring complaints now unverified: 4 Google reviews are too few to show a pattern.
2026-09-11	CIRED Odontología	Browser reading of the clinic’s Facebook page and Google listing: its dentist and her qualification were identified, photographs of its own surgery were found, the review count was confirmed and a full week of published opening hours was recorded.
2026-09-11	CIRED Odontología	Whether this card should stay in the directory at all was reviewed at the decisions gate, because the clinic has no website. It stays: two independent channels were read in full. Its Google listing is one the clinic controls — it carries a photograph uploaded through its own Google Business account — and publishes a full week of opening hours, a telephone and a rating. Its Facebook page publishes the address, the dentist's name and qualification and photographs of its own surgery, and has not posted since November 2019. A channel that has stopped posting is still a published channel, and the facts this card cites from it were all checked against it directly.
2026-09-11	Clínica Gemale Odontología Avanzada	Browser reading of the clinic’s Instagram and Facebook channels: its clinical director and her qualification were identified, photographs of its own treatment rooms were found, and the reputation block was closed against the place listing.
2026-09-11	Clínica Gemale Odontología Avanzada	Whether this card should stay in the directory at all was reviewed at the decisions gate, because the clinic has no website and its Google listing is unclaimed. It stays: two independent channels were read in full, and one of them is active. Its Instagram profile publishes the director's name and qualification, the services it offers and a WhatsApp number, and posts regularly. Its Facebook page publishes the address, the telephone and photographs of its own surgery, and has not posted since May 2021. The two disagree with the Google listing about which building the clinic is in, and that disagreement is recorded on this card rather than resolved.
2026-09-11	Clínica Odontolatina Ortoplan – Ciudad del Este	Browser check of the clinic’s live channels: the network site odontolatina.com was found to cover this unit with its own address and telephone, which restores the website criterion that had been judged on the broken ortoplan.com domain; the unit’s own Facebook page was identified, naming the dentist who runs it.
2026-09-11	Clínica Odontolatina Ortoplan – Ciudad del Este	Whether this card should stay in the directory at all was reviewed at the decisions gate, because the branch had been recorded as having no website at all. It stays: three independent channels were read in full. The network website carries a line for this branch with its street address and telephone and explains eight treatment areas; the branch's own Facebook page, last posting in July 2026, carries the same address and names its dentist; and its Google listing, which the business has not claimed, supplies the rating. The small following on the Facebook page does not change what it publishes.
2026-09-11	Clínica Odontológica Criscioni	Opening hours reviewed against the clinic’s own Google Business Profile as well as its website: neither publishes any, so the criterion is recorded as unknown rather than as a negative, following the rule that hours which are simply not published are not evidence of inconvenient hours.
2026-09-11	Dental Safe	The review history is now recorded as showing a burst of five-star reviews. The question had been left open because the listing displays only a rounded "2 months ago" for each review, which cannot establish a cluster. Three separate automated readings on 2026-09-11 returned the identical five records with their exact dates, and all five fall on one calendar day, 9 July 2026, with author accounts carrying one to four reviews each, against a 63-review base holding nothing but five-star ratings. This is the only listing of the forty-one read this way whose readable reviews share a single date. The derived red flag follows from the recorded value; the wording of the reviews is individual rather than templated, and no claim is made about who produced them.
2026-09-11	Margraf Dental Health Center	The recurring complaint about waiting past the booked appointment was re-read and dated to the day, and a third critical review was found that had not been read before: a German-language three-star of 14 December 2025 objecting to seven visits for two fillings. It is recorded in the note but counted separately, because it concerns the number of appointments rather than the wait within one — so the number of separate accounts making the same complaint stays at two, and no red flag is placed. Whether the clinic answers reviews was confirmed by a second, independent reading of the listing: no reply on any record, on a listing the business does control.
2026-09-11	Odex Centro Odontológico – San Lorenzo	A red flag for recurring communication complaints was added after the reviews were re-read and dated to the day: four separate accounts, over twenty-one months, describing appointments that did not happen as booked and a front desk that does not answer, with no reply from the branch on any of the twenty reviews it holds. The opening-hours criterion was also moved from satisfied to unknown. The week of hours visible for this branch sits on a Google listing the business has not claimed, and the chain website publishes none: hours a clinic has neither entered nor confirmed are reported to the reader but not counted in its favour.
2026-09-11	Odontolatina Encarnación	Browser check of the clinic’s live channels: the network site odontolatina.com was found to cover this unit with its own address and telephone, which restores the website criterion that had been judged on the broken ortoplan.com domain; two named dentists with their specialities were recorded from the clinic’s own Facebook page.
2026-09-10	CIRED Odontología	Card created from a live Google place record and a regional business-directory entry; the clinic has no site of its own, so most transparency fields are unchecked.
2026-09-10	CIRED Odontología	Adversarial verification: rating re-confirmed on the place page in both locales; the record returned no review count, histogram or review text, leaving the reputation detail to be read directly from the listing.
2026-09-10	Clínica Gemale Odontología Avanzada	Card created from a live Google place record and the clinic's indexed social profiles; no website exists, so most transparency fields are unchecked.
2026-09-10	Clínica Gemale Odontología Avanzada	Adversarial verification: the single-review count was confirmed on the place page in both locales, a telephone number was recovered from the clinic's own listing, and a truncated sentence in the summary was repaired.
2026-09-10	Clínica Innovare – San Lorenzo Centro	Card created from the group's own site and its San Lorenzo Centro branch page; no Google place record could be retrieved in four searches, so the Google fields and coordinates are unverified.
2026-09-10	Clínica Innovare – San Lorenzo Centro	Adversarial verification: the absence of a Google place for this branch was re-tested with six further searches across both locales; four sibling branches were found with their own rated listings, confirming the group lists branches individually and that this one is genuinely unlisted.
2026-09-10	Clínica Odontoandrauss – San Lorenzo Centro	Card created from the group's own site (home, professionals, branches) and a live Google place record with no rating; thirteen clinic-published registration numbers recorded as unverified because the MSPyBS register did not resolve.
2026-09-10	Clínica Odontoandrauss – San Lorenzo Centro	Adversarial verification: the place-detail endpoint returned the rating and review count the compact map endpoint had withheld in both locales (4.9 from 197 reviews), the reputation block and opening hours were filled from the branch's own Business Profile, the two social-platform fields were re-sourced from the group's own site instead of a search result set, and the five roster dentists missing from the card were added.
2026-09-10	Clínica Odontolatina Ortoplan – Ciudad del Este	Card created from a live Google place record, the indexed franchise page and a Paraguayan dentist directory; the franchise site serves raw source, so most transparency fields are unchecked.
2026-09-10	Clínica Odontolatina Ortoplan – Ciudad del Este	Adversarial verification: telephone number recovered from the unit's own Google listing, reputation block filled and the review histogram recorded; the franchise site still serves raw PHP source.
2026-09-10	Clínica Odontológica Criscioni	Card created from the clinic's own site (about, professionals, contact, treatments) and a live Google place record; seven clinic-published registration numbers recorded as unverified because the MSPyBS register did not resolve.
2026-09-10	Clínica Odontológica Criscioni	Adversarial verification: rating and count re-confirmed on the place page; no opening hours are published on either the site or the listing, and the reviews are a year old or older.
2026-09-10	Clínica Odontológica Dr. Gastón Trossero	Card created from the clinic's own site, its English version and a live Google place record; MSPyBS register unreachable, licence fields left unverified.
2026-09-10	Clínica Odontológica Dr. Gastón Trossero	Adversarial verification: reputation block filled from the live Google place page (histogram, review ages, owner replies); worksWithForeigners confirmed from the clinic's English site; a truncated sentence in the indexing note repaired.
2026-09-10	Clínica Praxis Odontología	Card created from the clinic's own site (home, team, service pages) and a live Google place record; MSPyBS register unreachable, licence fields left unverified.
2026-09-10	Clínica Praxis Odontología	Adversarial verification: weekday hours taken from the clinic's own Business Profile, review recency and reply behaviour read from the live place page.
2026-09-10	Consultorio Odontológico Petta Borecki	Card created from a live Google place record and a Paraguayan business directory entry; the practice has no website, so most transparency fields are unchecked.
2026-09-10	Consultorio Odontológico Petta Borecki	Adversarial verification: opening hours recovered from the practice's own Google Business listing (which it has claimed), and the reviews found to be three years old or more.
2026-09-10	Delica Dental Clinic – DDC	Card created from the clinic's own site (home, about, specialities, contact) and a live Google place record; MSPyBS register unreachable, licence fields left unverified.
2026-09-10	Delica Dental Clinic – DDC	Adversarial verification: reputation block filled from the live Google place page (histogram, review ages, owner replies); the clinic's Business Profile hours match the hours already on the card.
2026-09-10	Dental Clinic Odontología Especializada	Card created from the clinic's own site (home, about, services, contact) and a live Google place record; MSPyBS register unreachable, licence fields left unverified.
2026-09-10	Dental Clinic Odontología Especializada	Adversarial verification: reputation block filled from the live place page; the clinic's Business Profile hours match the hours already on the card.
2026-09-10	Dental Safe	Card created from the clinic's own site and a live Google place record; MSPyBS register unreachable, licence fields left unverified.
2026-09-10	Dental Safe	Adversarial verification: the 5.0 rating was re-confirmed in four further requests but the review count did not re-render in any of them, so it was left as first recorded, together with the unresolved question of whether the 63 reviews cluster in time.
2026-09-10	Dentalmás	Card created from a live Google place record and a local news report of the clinic's opening; the clinic has no website, so most transparency fields are unchecked.
2026-09-10	Dentalmás	Adversarial verification: opening hours and the reputation block recovered from the clinic's own Google Business listing, which the initial data collection had read only for rating, address and telephone.
2026-09-10	InnovaDent Clínica Odontológica	Card created from a live Google place record and the clinic's indexed Instagram profile; no website exists, so most transparency fields are unchecked.
2026-09-10	InnovaDent Clínica Odontológica	Adversarial verification: rating and count re-confirmed on the place page, opening hours recovered from the clinic's own Business listing, and the reviews found to be a year old or older.
2026-09-10	Margraf Dental Health Center	Card created from the clinic's own site (home, staff, services, contact) and a Forbes Paraguay report; no Google place record could be retrieved in four searches, so the Google fields are unverified and the coordinates come from the clinic's own embedded map.
2026-09-10	Margraf Dental Health Center	Adversarial verification: the Google place record that four the initial data collection text searches had missed was reached through the CID in the clinic's own embedded map — rating 4.5 from 119 reviews, histogram, hours and reviews recorded, coordinates corrected from the clinic's former address to the place record, and a recurring complaint about waiting times identified.
2026-09-10	Odex Centro Odontológico – Ciudad del Este	Card created from the chain's own site and a live Google place record for the Ciudad del Este branch; MSPyBS register unreachable, licence fields left unverified.
2026-09-10	Odex Centro Odontológico – Ciudad del Este	Adversarial verification: review recency, reply behaviour and histogram read from the live place page; the chain site publishes no opening hours and the branch listing carries none, so convenientHours stays unchecked.
2026-09-10	Odex Centro Odontológico – San Lorenzo	Card created from the chain's own site and a live Google place record for the San Lorenzo branch; MSPyBS register unreachable, licence fields left unverified.
2026-09-10	Odex Centro Odontológico – San Lorenzo	Adversarial verification: opening hours recovered from the branch's own Business Profile, and the 3.2 rating explained — four dated reviews carry the same complaint about appointments not being honoured, so recurringComplaints is now recorded as present.
2026-09-10	Odontolatina Encarnación	Card created from a live Google place record and the franchise's indexed pages; the franchise website serves raw source, and the clinic's social pages need a browser, so most transparency fields are unchecked.
2026-09-10	Odontolatina Encarnación	Adversarial verification: telephone, opening hours and the whole reputation block recovered from the clinic's own Google Business listing, which the initial data collection had read only for rating and coordinates.
2026-09-10	Odontología 3	Card created from the clinic's own site (home, professionals, services, contact) and a live Google place record; MSPyBS register unreachable, licence fields left unverified.
2026-09-10	Odontología 3	Adversarial verification: own panoramic X-ray unit, on-site tomograph and published nitrous-oxide conscious sedation found on the services page that the initial data collection had read only for the operating model; hours taken from the clinic's Business Profile; reputation block filled from the live place page.
2026-09-10	Protection Dental Center – Asunción	Card created from the clinic's own site bundle and structured data plus a live Google place record; Paraguay publishes no clinic-licence roster, so the licence fields stay unverified.
2026-09-10	Protection Dental Center – Asunción	Adversarial verification: Saturday opening found on the clinic's own Business Profile (convenientHours corrected from false), reputation block filled from the live place page.
2026-09-10	Protection Dental Center – Asunción	Recency re-derived under the rule that only starred, reviewer-linked records count: the three-week age first recorded belonged to the clinic's reply, not to a review. The enum value is unchanged.
2026-09-10	Protection Dental Center – Ciudad del Este	Card created from the group's own site bundle and structured data plus a live Google place record for the Ciudad del Este branch; MSPyBS register unreachable, licence fields left unverified.
2026-09-10	Protection Dental Center – Ciudad del Este	Adversarial verification: Saturday opening found on the branch's own Business Profile (convenientHours corrected from false), reputation block filled, and cross-border practice recorded from the clinic's Portuguese-language replies.
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	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.