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 | Dental Harmonia | Presence on review platforms checked on 2026-10-05: no profile on MedReviews, WhatClinic or Trustpilot; Dental Departures does not cover Israel. |
| 2026-10-05 | Dental Harmonia | Google indexing quality measured as partial after a name-and-city web search on 2026-10-05 (own site not listed, though indexed). |
| 2026-10-05 | Dental Harmonia | Read 5 of the clinic's Google reviews on 2026-10-05: the owner replies to reviews. |
| 2026-10-05 | Dr Michael Meyer – Dental Aesthetics & Implants | Google indexing quality measured as poor after a name-and-city web search on 2026-10-05 (no website of its own, none listed). |
| 2026-10-05 | Dr. Eran Zenziper | Read 16 of the clinic's Google reviews on 2026-10-02: the owner replies to reviews. |
| 2026-10-05 | Dr. Michael Etinger | Google indexing quality measured as poor after a name-and-city web search on 2026-10-05 (no website of its own, none listed). |
| 2026-10-05 | Dr. Virginia Melmed (Prof Ervin Weiss Dental Center) | Google indexing quality measured as partial after a name-and-city web search on 2026-10-05 (own site not listed, though indexed). |
| 2026-10-05 | Jerusalem Dental | Read 19 of the clinic's Google reviews on 2026-10-05: no owner replies seen. |
| 2026-10-05 | KJ Dental Office (Dr Stephen Kurer) | Read 10 of the clinic's Google reviews on 2026-10-02: the owner replies to reviews. |
| 2026-10-02 | Dr. Ari Greenspan | Website structure read on 2026-10-02: business structured data found. |
| 2026-10-02 | Dr. Olga Sorin Dental Clinic | Website structure read on 2026-10-02: no business structured data found; separate treatment pages found. |
| 2026-10-01 | Dr. Karmon Meir Dental Clinic | Other review platforms re-checked on 2026-10-01: MedReviews (5.0 from 14 reviews) and B144 (4.8 from 5 verified raters). |
| 2026-10-01 | Dr. Olga Sorin Dental Clinic | Other review platforms re-checked on 2026-10-01: B144 page rated 3.7 by 3 verified raters; no MedReviews profile. |
| 2026-09-30 | Dr Michael Meyer – Dental Aesthetics & Implants | Re-read 2026-09-30 on the clinic's Google listing and its Facebook page: dentist name, specialization, contacts, address and the absence of a website and of prices now rest on them; service list set to unknown, since neither channel publishes one; Facebook presence recorded. |
| 2026-09-30 | Dr. Ari Greenspan | Re-read 2026-09-30 on the clinic's own website (read in full) and Google listing: dentist names, specializations, service list, contacts, address and the absence of published prices now rest on its own pages. |
| 2026-09-30 | Dr. Ilan Gilboa Dental Clinic | Re-read 2026-09-30 on the clinic's own website and Google listing: specializations, service list, contacts, address and the Hebrew-only site now rest on its own pages. |
| 2026-09-30 | Dr. Ilan Gilboa Dental Clinic | Searched Facebook for the clinic by its English name with the city, by its phone number and by its Hebrew name with the city; none of the searches found a page of the clinic, and its website links none. Recorded absence from Facebook. |
| 2026-09-30 | Dr. Karmon Meir Dental Clinic | Re-read 2026-09-30 on the clinic's own website and Google listing: contacts and address now rest on them. |
| 2026-09-30 | Dr. Karmon Meir Dental Clinic | Searched Facebook for the clinic by its English name with the city, by its phone number and by its Hebrew name with the city; none of the searches found a page of the clinic, and its website links none. Recorded absence from Facebook. |
| 2026-09-30 | Dr. Michael Etinger | Re-read 2026-09-30 on the clinic's Google listing and its Facebook page: dentist name, contacts, address, the absence of a website and of a price list now rest on them; a free preliminary online consultation was recorded; specializations and service list set to unknown, since neither channel states them; Facebook presence recorded. |
| 2026-09-30 | Dr. Olga Sorin Dental Clinic | Re-read 2026-09-30: the clinic has a website, sorin.co.il, linked from its own Facebook page, so the card now records a website; dentist name, service list, contacts, address, the absence of an English version and of published prices rest on the website, Google listing and Facebook page; Facebook presence recorded. |
| 2026-09-30 | Dr. Olga Sorin Dental Clinic | Read the clinic's Instagram account on 2026-09-30 (profile, highlight albums and every post of the past 12 months); it publishes no prices either, so the price criteria stay unmet. |
| 2026-09-30 | Dr. Watad Dental Center | Re-read 2026-09-30 on the clinic's own website and Google listing: dentist names, service list, contacts, address and the Hebrew-only site now rest on its own pages; the specialization note corrected to the implant, veneer and rehabilitation work the team page describes. |
| 2026-09-30 | Jerusalem Dental | Re-read 2026-09-30 on the clinic's own website and Google listing: dentist names (Dr Simone Landau, Dr Eli Vazana), specializations, service list, contacts and address now rest on its own pages. |
| 2026-09-30 | Jerusalem Dental | The clinic's site carries no Facebook link. A Facebook search by the name of its dentist, Dr. Simone Landau, found the clinic's own page, with its address, phone and website. Recorded presence on Facebook. |
| 2026-09-30 | KJ Dental Office (Dr Stephen Kurer) | Re-read 2026-09-30 on the clinic's own website and Google listing: specializations, service list, contacts and address now rest on its staff, services and contact pages. |
| 2026-09-30 | Moriah Experts Clinic (Dr. Bernard Dahan) | Re-read 2026-09-30 on the clinic's own website and Google listing: dentist names, specializations, service list, contacts and address now rest on the clinic's own team, treatments and contact pages. |
| 2026-09-30 | Perfect Smile (Dr. Ilan Shlesinger) | Re-read 2026-09-30 on the practice's own website and Google listing: dentist name, specialization (orthodontics only, not general dentistry), service list, contacts and address now rest on its own pages. |
| 2026-09-30 | Prof. Yankel & Dr Alice Gabet – Esthetic Implant Dentistry | Re-read 2026-09-30 on the practice's Google listing and the website it links to: dentist names, specializations, service list, contacts and address now rest on them; English version corrected to present. |
| 2026-09-29 | Dental Harmonia | Corrected 2026-09-29: clinic responds to reviews now unverified: only 8 reviews were checked for owner replies. |
| 2026-09-29 | Dr Michael Meyer – Dental Aesthetics & Implants | Corrected 2026-09-29: review recency within 3 months (newest review dated 2026-08-04). |
| 2026-09-29 | Dr. Ari Greenspan | Corrected 2026-09-29: clinic responds to reviews now unverified: only 8 reviews were checked for owner replies. |
| 2026-09-29 | Dr. Eran Zenziper | Corrected 2026-09-29: clinic responds to reviews now unverified: only 8 reviews were checked for owner replies. |
| 2026-09-29 | Dr. Watad Dental Center | Corrected 2026-09-29: review recency within 3 months (newest review dated 2026-08-02). |
| 2026-09-29 | Jerusalem Dental | Corrected 2026-09-29: clinic responds to reviews now unverified: only 8 reviews were checked for owner replies. |
| 2026-09-29 | KJ Dental Office (Dr Stephen Kurer) | Corrected 2026-09-29: clinic responds to reviews now unverified: only 8 reviews were checked for owner replies. |
| 2026-09-29 | Moriah Experts Clinic (Dr. Bernard Dahan) | Re-read the clinic's team page on 2026-09-29. Recorded: the page shows individually photographed headshots of its named specialists rather than stock or generic imagery. |
| 2026-09-25 | Art-Smile (Dr. Boris Mezhericky) | Re-read on 2026-09-25: the clinic's website (home, implants, 3D/CBCT, orthodontics, whitening, non-invasive-dentistry, sports and general-health pages, gallery) and its Google listing. Recorded: named specializations for the referred surgical, orthodontic and plastic-surgery specialists; genuine own-hosted portrait photos of the clinic's dentists; no prices published for any treatment; no TripAdvisor presence; pediatric orthodontic treatment documented; no online booking or consultation-request form, only static contact details; most treatment pages are empty stubs with only one (orthodontics) carrying an explanation; evening opening hours on the Google listing; Organization-level structured data on the home page; separate but largely content-free treatment pages. Still unverified: on-site X-ray, CBCT and emergency same-day appointments are not documented either way; the listing remains at zero Google reviews. |
| 2026-09-25 | Dental Studio TLV (Dr. Meytal Salman) | Re-read on 2026-09-25: the clinic's website (home, ten service pages, dental-tourism, Q&A and online booking pages) and its Google listing. Recorded: a genuine branded photo of the dentist; no prices published for any treatment; a Facebook page; no TripAdvisor presence; absence from the WhatClinic Tel Aviv directory with no review-platform link on the site either; no pediatric or emergency dentistry offered; 3D CBCT imaging in the implant process; online booking, including a short video call with the dentist; plain-language explanations on dedicated pages for each key service; LocalBusiness structured data. |
| 2026-09-25 | Dr Michael Meyer – Dental Aesthetics & Implants | Re-read on 2026-09-25: the clinic's Google Business Profile lists a website (dr-meyer.co.il) but it returns a "ConnectYourDomain Error" page, not a live site, consistent with the card's existing record of no working website, so only the Google Business Profile was read. Recorded: a genuine business-uploaded photo of the waiting-room interior; no prices published anywhere reachable; no TripAdvisor presence. Still unverified: Facebook presence, on-site equipment, service scope and communication channels remain unverifiable without a working website or social-media page to read. |
| 2026-09-25 | Dr. Ari Greenspan | Re-read on 2026-09-25: the clinic's website (Hebrew home page and service pages, the English version and its clinic page) and its Google listing. Recorded: a genuine own-hosted portrait photo of the dentist; no prices published for any treatment; a Facebook page linked from the English site; no TripAdvisor presence; digital panoramic X-ray and 3D imaging both documented; implants placed by the dentist himself; a configured WhatsApp contact widget; an English version presenting an English-speaking dentist; in-depth plain-language guides for several procedures. Still unverified: orthodontics (a 3D-printing article describes making aligners, but no orthodontic service is listed) and documented work with international patients. |
| 2026-09-25 | Dr. Eran Zenziper | Re-read on 2026-09-25: the clinic's website (home, what-is-a-prosthodontist, treatment types, general and cosmetic dentistry, technology, FAQ, team, reviews, blog and contact pages) and its Google listing. Recorded: a genuine own-hosted photo of the dentist at chairside; no prices published for any treatment; a Facebook page; no TripAdvisor presence; orthodontics handled only by coordinating outside specialists, not offered in-house; only a generic contact form and WhatsApp link, no online booking; detailed plain-language explanations of the specialty and its approach; no structured data; dedicated pages for each topic. Still unverified: pediatric care (general dentistry is described as covering all ages), on-site X-ray/CBCT equipment (the site mentions 3D imaging only for a cosmetic smile preview), whether the clinic places implants surgically itself, English-language service and work with international patients. |
| 2026-09-25 | Dr. Ilan Gilboa Dental Clinic | Re-read on 2026-09-25: the clinic's website (home, photo gallery, treatments, about and contact pages). Recorded: a genuine before/after case-photo gallery; no prices published for any treatment; no TripAdvisor presence; digital imaging/X-rays documented, no CBCT; no emergency service documented; no WhatsApp contact; no online booking, only phone and email; very detailed plain-language explanations of every treatment category; no structured data; services presented on one general page rather than dedicated pages. Still unverified: no Facebook page link was found on the site (checked across five pages), and work with international patients or English-language service could not be confirmed (the site is Hebrew-only with no such statement). |
| 2026-09-25 | Dr. Karmon Meir Dental Clinic | Re-read on 2026-09-25: the clinic's website (home, treatments, team and contact pages) and its Google listing. Corrected: the clinic is open until 19:00-20:00 on weekdays, which counts as convenient hours. Recorded: a genuine own-hosted team photo; no English version of the site; no prices published for any treatment; no TripAdvisor presence; no orthodontic treatment offered; the clinic's own pages state its patient range starts from young teenagers rather than young children; phone scheduling and a generic contact form, no online booking; services listed by category without explanations; LocalBusiness structured data on the site; all services on one general page. Still unverified: no Facebook page link was found (only analytics scripts); on-site X-ray/CBCT equipment, English-language service and work with international patients are not documented either way. |
| 2026-09-25 | Dr. Michael Etinger | Re-read on 2026-09-25: the clinic has no website on record and its Google listing carries no website field, so only the Google Business Profile was read. Recorded: a genuine business-uploaded photo of in-office equipment; no prices published anywhere reachable (no website, no prices on the Google listing); no TripAdvisor presence; evening opening hours on the Google listing. Still unverified: Facebook presence, on-site equipment, service scope and communication channels remain unverifiable without a website or social-media page to read. |
| 2026-09-25 | Dr. Nelly Steinbock D.M.D | Re-read on 2026-09-25: the clinic's website (home, about, team, technologies, FAQ, root canal, whitening, gallery, contact, English and Russian pages) and its Google listing. Recorded: a genuine, own-hosted clinic photo gallery; no prices published for any treatment in any language version; a Facebook page linked from the site; no TripAdvisor presence; no implant or orthodontic treatment documented; pediatric root canal treatment documented; clear plain-language explanation of the root canal procedure; Sunday opening hours on the Google listing; no business-entity structured data; dedicated pages for root canal and whitening. Still unverified: CBCT (the FAQ mentions occasional 3D CT-Endo imaging, while the equipment page lists digital X-rays and microscopes), a pre-visit consultation (the contact form accepts file attachments but offers no booking) and emergency same-day appointments. |
| 2026-09-25 | Dr. Olga Sorin Dental Clinic | Re-read on 2026-09-25: the clinic has no website on record and its Google listing carries no website field, so only the Google Business Profile was read. Recorded: a genuine business-uploaded photo of the dentist at the reception desk; no prices published anywhere reachable; no TripAdvisor presence. Still unverified: specializations, Facebook presence, on-site equipment, service scope and communication channels remain unverifiable without a website or social-media page to read. |
| 2026-09-25 | Dr. Virginia Melmed (Prof Ervin Weiss Dental Center) | Re-read on 2026-09-25: all ten pages of the clinic's website (English and Hebrew) and its Google listing. Recorded: the Google listing remains unclaimed with owner replies impossible; no prices published for any treatment; a Facebook page; no TripAdvisor presence; no orthodontics offered; preventive care for children, with pedodontics and oral surgery specialists on the clinic's staff; digital radiographs among the office technology; the site explicitly advertises dental tourism for an English-speaking ("Anglo") practice; no WhatsApp contact; brief plain-language explanations of each service on one services page; no business-entity structured data; no dedicated per-service pages. Still unverified: genuine clinic/team photos (the page's own images are mostly logos and decorative thumbnails, and the Google listing carries only one photo) and opening hours. |
| 2026-09-25 | Dr. Watad Dental Center | Re-read on 2026-09-25: the clinic's website (home, FAQ, online booking, team, reviews and branch contact pages) and its Google listing. Recorded: a genuine clinical case photo on the Google listing (the website's own photography is stock imagery); no prices published for any treatment; a Facebook page and WhatsApp contact; no TripAdvisor presence; clear-aligner orthodontics offered; a CT device among the clinic's equipment; online booking of a first consultation meeting, with free computerized imaging; a detailed plain-language explanation of veneers; Dentist/LocalBusiness structured data; services presented as short sections rather than dedicated pages. Still unverified: pediatric dentistry (the FAQ says orthodontics suits children from about age 14), emergency same-day appointments, work with international patients and English-language service (the site is Hebrew-only). |
| 2026-09-25 | Jerusalem Dental | Re-read on 2026-09-25: the clinic's website (English home, service, appointment, about and contact pages, plus its Hebrew and French versions) and its Google listing. Recorded: a genuine own-hosted photo of the dentist in the operatory; no prices published for any treatment; no TripAdvisor presence; a WhatsApp chat button on the site; an English-language site with Hebrew and French versions; an online appointment-request form with date and time preference; Sunday opening hours on the Google listing; Organization-level structured data; dedicated pages for individual services. Still unverified: no Facebook page link was found on the site, and documented work with international patients was not found beyond the multilingual site. |
| 2026-09-25 | KJ Dental Office (Dr Stephen Kurer) | Re-read on 2026-09-25: the clinic's website (home, implants, emergency, pediatric, oral surgery, prosthetics, cosmetic, FAQ, staff, medical-history-form, contact and article pages in English and Hebrew) and its Google listing. Recorded: a genuine, recent Google-listing photo of two staff dentists; no prices published for any treatment (estimates are given after an examination); oral surgery and a specialist pediatric department documented; the emergency service explicitly welcomes tourists and visitors, with the site available in Hebrew, English and French; only a generic contact form and a printable intake form, no online booking; clear explanations of pediatric and implant care; business-entity structured data sitewide; dedicated pages per service. Still unverified: orthodontics (it appears in the site's articles but not in its services menu) and on-site X-ray/CBCT equipment (the implants page mentions dental CT imaging without naming equipment). |
| 2026-09-25 | Moriah Experts Clinic (Dr. Bernard Dahan) | Re-read on 2026-09-25: the clinic's website (home, English version, team, treatment pages including implants, orthodontics, hygiene, root canal and technology, patient-information and appointment pages) and its Google listing. Corrected: the site carries a full English version, not only Hebrew. Recorded: no prices published for any treatment (plans are individually quoted); a Facebook page and WhatsApp contact on the site; no TripAdvisor presence; an on-site digital panoramic X-ray, with CT scans brought by the patient rather than taken on site; a dedicated implants and jaw-reconstruction service line; orthodontics for adults and children; no emergency dentistry documented; English spoken with its own contact form; a pre-visit intake process with an online early-contact form; clear explanations of implant techniques and clinic technology; evening opening hours on the Google listing; Organization-level structured data; dedicated, substantive pages per treatment category. Still unverified: genuine clinic/team photos (the site's image files could not be downloaded for viewing) and work with international patients beyond the English site itself. |
| 2026-09-25 | Perfect Smile (Dr. Ilan Shlesinger) | Re-read on 2026-09-25: the clinic's website (home, clinic tour, contact, equipment, about, English, children's orthodontics, getting-started and several topic pages) and its Google listing. Corrected: the site has an English page in its main menu, and it publishes a price for the orthodontic diagnosis appointment (400 NIS, 200 NIS for website visitors). Recorded: a genuine own-hosted photo of the waiting room; no other prices published (the practice is orthodontics-only); a Facebook page; no TripAdvisor presence; orthodontic treatment for children explicitly documented; a dedicated emergency-only phone number; plain-language explanations of orthodontic appliances; Sunday opening hours on the Google listing; no business-entity structured data; many dedicated topic pages. Still unverified: on-site X-ray/CBCT equipment (diagnostic X-rays are taken by referral) and whether extractions are performed at the practice. |
| 2026-09-25 | Prof. Yankel & Dr Alice Gabet – Esthetic Implant Dentistry | Re-read on 2026-09-25: this listing's own Google Business Profile points to a dedicated page for Prof. Yankel and Dr. Alice Gabet on the K&J Dental Office site (the clinic's own listed website), which was read together with the shared site's implants, emergency and services pages. Recorded: a genuine Google-listing photo of the dentist at chairside; no prices published for any treatment; a Facebook page and WhatsApp contact; no TripAdvisor presence; implant surgery and pediatric sedation training documented for these two doctors specifically; an emergency service that explicitly welcomes tourists and visitors, with English and French site versions; only a generic contact form and a printable intake form, no online booking; clear explanations of implant care; evening opening hours; business-entity structured data; dedicated service pages. The practice shares its website with K&J Dental Office, whose team page lists Prof. and Dr. Gabet. Still unverified: orthodontics. |
| 2026-09-10 | Art-Smile (Dr. Boris Mezhericky) | Name-verification pass 2026-09-10: Boris Mezhericky confirmed via own-site Hebrew text (script-mismatch case, read directly). |
| 2026-09-10 | Dr. Ilan Gilboa Dental Clinic | Name-verification pass 2026-09-10: Tami Frankel, Meir Daviko and Alon Paul all confirmed via own-site home-page Hebrew news items (script-mismatch cases, read directly; the page was previously fetched but not re-read in the site's own script). |
| 2026-09-10 | Dr. Karmon Meir Dental Clinic | Name-verification pass 2026-09-10: Meir Karmon and Mia Karmon both confirmed via own-site page title and JSON-LD LocalBusiness name, which name both practitioners directly. |
| 2026-09-10 | Dr. Watad Dental Center | Name-verification pass 2026-09-10: 'Dr. Watad' confirmed via own-site JSON-LD structured data, which also gives the previously-unknown full first name 'Mohammed'. |
| 2026-09-10 | KJ Dental Office (Dr Stephen Kurer) | Name-verification pass 2026-09-10: Stephen Kurer and Jacob Jackson both confirmed via own-site navigation (dedicated bio-page links, Hebrew, decoded), plus the practice's own Waze listing name. |
| 2026-09-10 | Moriah Experts Clinic (Dr. Bernard Dahan) | Name-verification pass 2026-09-10: Binyamin Retzkin and Anne Sophie Attal both confirmed via own-site Team page Hebrew text (script-mismatch cases, read directly). |
| 2026-09-10 | Perfect Smile (Dr. Ilan Shlesinger) | Name-verification pass 2026-09-10: Ilan Shlesinger confirmed via own-site Hebrew text plus a linked personal LinkedIn profile using an alternate Latin spelling. |
| 2026-09-10 | Prof. Yankel & Dr Alice Gabet – Esthetic Implant Dentistry | Name-verification pass 2026-09-10: Yankel Gabet and Alice Gabet both confirmed via a dedicated own-site combined bio page (same office directory site as kj-dental-kurer-jerusalem). |
| 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 | Art-Smile (Dr. Boris Mezhericky) | Coverage top-up: Google rating re-checked live on the Maps place page in a browser. The listing genuinely carries no rating and no reviews, so googleRating stays null and googleReviewCount is now an explicit 0 rather than null — an honest zero, not an unread figure. |
| 2026-09-03 | Art-Smile (Dr. Boris Mezhericky) | Price sweep: own site re-checked directly, no price list. Infrastructure: found a "3D in dentistry" nav item whose content a non-interactive fetch cannot retrieve — flagged for a browser check rather than guessed at; hasCBCT stays null. |
| 2026-09-03 | Art-Smile (Dr. Boris Mezhericky) | Reputation pass 2026-09-03 (browser): the four review criteria were checked and left null - the listing carries no reviews to assess (or, for gottlieb, no listing at all). The finding is now recorded on each criterion rather than only in the verify trail. |
| 2026-09-03 | Art-Smile (Dr. Boris Mezhericky) | Browser follow-up 2026-09-03: the clinic's "3D in dentistry" page was opened in Chrome and is an empty stub (heading only), so hasCBCT stays null with the finding now recorded on the criterion. contacts.facebook and contacts.email filled in and hasWhatsAppOrLine set true from the clinic's own site footer. |
| 2026-09-03 | Dental Harmonia | Price-transparency top-up: site re-checked directly for a price list; none found, pricesPublished stays false. Infrastructure (hasCBCT/hasXray/offersSedation) already correct from the prior pass — confirmed unchanged. |
| 2026-09-03 | Dental Harmonia | Reputation pass 2026-09-03 (browser): the Google Maps place page was reopened on its Reviews tab and reviewRecency, respondsToReviews, recurringComplaints and suspiciousReviewPatterns were assessed for the first time (all four were null). Rating and review count re-read and reconciled against the star histogram. |
| 2026-09-03 | Dental Studio TLV (Dr. Meytal Salman) | Price-transparency top-up: homepage re-checked directly for a price list; none found, pricesPublished stays false. No new infrastructure evidence (CBCT/X-ray/sedation) on the homepage. |
| 2026-09-03 | Dental Studio TLV (Dr. Meytal Salman) | Reputation pass 2026-09-03 (browser): the Google Maps place page was reopened on its Reviews tab and reviewRecency, respondsToReviews, recurringComplaints and suspiciousReviewPatterns were assessed for the first time (all four were null). Rating and review count re-read and reconciled against the star histogram. |
| 2026-09-03 | Dr Michael Meyer – Dental Aesthetics & Implants | Price sweep: no site exists to check (Wix placeholder reconfirmed). Rule D: Dr Michael Meyer’s licence field converted to licenseNotFound (license: null, licenseNotFound: 2026-09-02) — register searched under three Hebrew spellings of the surname with no match; see clinic.notes. |
| 2026-09-03 | Dr Michael Meyer – Dental Aesthetics & Implants | Reputation pass 2026-09-03 (browser): the Google Maps place page was reopened on its Reviews tab and reviewRecency, respondsToReviews, recurringComplaints and suspiciousReviewPatterns were assessed for the first time (all four were null). Rating and review count re-read and reconciled against the star histogram. |
| 2026-09-03 | Dr. Ari Greenspan | Infrastructure: strengthened the offersSedation:true sourcing by reading the clinic’s dedicated general-anaesthesia page directly (previously only the nav link’s existence was cited) — confirms full GA (“fall asleep… wake up with perfect teeth”), not merely conscious sedation. Price sweep: no price list found on direct re-check. |
| 2026-09-03 | Dr. Ari Greenspan | Reputation pass 2026-09-03 (browser): the Google Maps place page was reopened on its Reviews tab and reviewRecency, respondsToReviews, recurringComplaints and suspiciousReviewPatterns were assessed for the first time (all four were null). Rating and review count re-read and reconciled against the star histogram. |
| 2026-09-03 | Dr. Eran Zenziper | Rule A re-sourcing: worksWithForeigners and englishSpoken were sourced only to a third-party MedReviews language list. Re-checked the clinic’s own site (homepage + About page) directly — it states no languages and is Hebrew-only — so both are set to null rather than resting on the directory. Price sweep: no price list found on direct re-check. |
| 2026-09-03 | Dr. Eran Zenziper | Reputation pass 2026-09-03 (browser): the Google Maps place page was reopened on its Reviews tab and reviewRecency, respondsToReviews, recurringComplaints and suspiciousReviewPatterns were assessed for the first time (all four were null). Rating and review count re-read and reconciled against the star histogram. |
| 2026-09-03 | Dr. Ilan Gilboa Dental Clinic | Price-transparency top-up: clinic’s own site checked directly for a price list; none found, pricesPublished stays false. |
| 2026-09-03 | Dr. Ilan Gilboa Dental Clinic | Reputation pass 2026-09-03 (browser): the Google Maps place page was reopened on its Reviews tab and reviewRecency, respondsToReviews, recurringComplaints and suspiciousReviewPatterns were assessed for the first time (all four were null). Rating and review count re-read and reconciled against the star histogram. |
| 2026-09-03 | Dr. Karmon Meir Dental Clinic | Price sweep attempted: the clinic’s Zap-Web-builder site is JS-rendered and a non-interactive fetch cannot see its real content; flagged for a browser follow-up rather than guessed at. No other criteria changed. |
| 2026-09-03 | Dr. Karmon Meir Dental Clinic | Reputation pass 2026-09-03 (browser): reviewRecency set to older from the listing's single five-year-old review; respondsToReviews, recurringComplaints and suspiciousReviewPatterns left null as unassessable on one review. |
| 2026-09-03 | Dr. Karmon Meir Dental Clinic | Browser follow-up 2026-09-03: the JS-rendered drcarmonm.zapweb.co.il opened in Chrome and all 3 pages read. pricesPublished set false (own channel checked in full, no figures) under Rule A; offersEmergency set true from the clinic's own treatments list; serviceListPublished and dentistNamesListed re-sourced from a directory to the clinic's own pages; convenientHours confirmed against the published hours; contacts.email filled in. |
| 2026-09-03 | Dr. Michael Etinger | Price sweep: reconfirmed no clinic website exists to check for a price page; pricesPublished stays false. |
| 2026-09-03 | Dr. Michael Etinger | Reputation pass 2026-09-03 (browser): the Google Maps place page was reopened on its Reviews tab and reviewRecency, respondsToReviews, recurringComplaints and suspiciousReviewPatterns were assessed for the first time (all four were null). Rating and review count re-read and reconciled against the star histogram. |
| 2026-09-03 | Dr. Nelly Steinbock D.M.D | Rule A re-sourcing: worksWithForeigners and englishSpoken re-sourced from a third-party MedReviews list to the clinic’s own site, which itself publishes an English version and a Russian nav link — value stands (true) but the source is now the clinic’s own publication. Infrastructure: offersSedation set to false — the site documents nitrous oxide only, which does not meet the methodology’s GA/deep-sedation bar. Price sweep: no price list found on direct re-check. |
| 2026-09-03 | Dr. Nelly Steinbock D.M.D | Reputation pass 2026-09-03 (browser): the Google Maps place page was reopened on its Reviews tab and reviewRecency, respondsToReviews, recurringComplaints and suspiciousReviewPatterns were assessed for the first time (all four were null). Rating and review count re-read and reconciled against the star histogram. |
| 2026-09-03 | Dr. Olga Sorin Dental Clinic | Price sweep: reconfirmed no clinic website exists to check for a price page; pricesPublished stays null. |
| 2026-09-03 | Dr. Olga Sorin Dental Clinic | Reputation pass 2026-09-03 (browser): the Google Maps place page was reopened on its Reviews tab and reviewRecency, respondsToReviews, recurringComplaints and suspiciousReviewPatterns were assessed for the first time (all four were null). Rating and review count re-read and reconciled against the star histogram. |
| 2026-09-03 | Dr. Virginia Melmed (Prof Ervin Weiss Dental Center) | Coverage top-up: Google rating re-checked live on the Maps place page in a browser. The listing genuinely carries no rating and no reviews (and is marked temporarily closed), so googleRating stays null and googleReviewCount is now an explicit 0 rather than null. |
| 2026-09-03 | Dr. Virginia Melmed (Prof Ervin Weiss Dental Center) | Price-transparency top-up: no price list found on direct re-check. Rule D: Dr Virginia Melmed’s licence field converted from a research narrative to the schema’s licenseNotFound state (license: null, licenseNotFound: 2026-09-02) — the register was exhaustively searched under every spelling on that date and she could not be matched to an entry; see clinic.notes for the search detail. |
| 2026-09-03 | Dr. Virginia Melmed (Prof Ervin Weiss Dental Center) | Reputation pass 2026-09-03 (browser): the four review criteria were checked and left null - the listing carries no reviews to assess (or, for gottlieb, no listing at all). The finding is now recorded on each criterion rather than only in the verify trail. |
| 2026-09-03 | Dr. Watad Dental Center | Price sweep: own site checked directly, no price list. Rule D: "Dr. Watad"’s licence field converted to licenseNotFound (license: null, licenseNotFound: 2026-09-02) — 37 candidate surnames and 4 candidate given names exist in the register and the clinic’s own site (reconfirmed today) still publishes no first name, so no single entry can be matched; see clinic.notes. |
| 2026-09-03 | Dr. Watad Dental Center | Reputation pass 2026-09-03 (browser): the Google Maps place page was reopened on its Reviews tab and reviewRecency, respondsToReviews, recurringComplaints and suspiciousReviewPatterns were assessed for the first time (all four were null). Rating and review count re-read and reconciled against the star histogram. |
| 2026-09-03 | Jerusalem Dental | Price sweep attempted: dentistjerusalem.com returns HTTP 403 to a non-interactive fetch, so its own price page (if any) could not be checked; flagged for a browser follow-up. No other criteria changed. |
| 2026-09-03 | Jerusalem Dental | Reputation pass 2026-09-03 (browser): the Google Maps place page was reopened on its Reviews tab and reviewRecency, respondsToReviews, recurringComplaints and suspiciousReviewPatterns were assessed for the first time (all four were null). Rating and review count re-read and reconciled against the star histogram. |
| 2026-09-03 | Jerusalem Dental | Browser follow-up 2026-09-03: dentistjerusalem.com (HTTP 403 to fetch) opened in Chrome, all 14 pages read. hasCBCT set false from the clinic's own technology list; hasXray and pricesPublished confirmed and re-sourced from a directory to the clinic's own site; clearServiceExplanations set true. |
| 2026-09-03 | KJ Dental Office (Dr Stephen Kurer) | Price-transparency top-up: clinic’s own site checked directly for a price list (previously only the WhatClinic absence was recorded); none found, pricesPublished stays false. No new infrastructure evidence on the homepage. |
| 2026-09-03 | KJ Dental Office (Dr Stephen Kurer) | Reputation pass 2026-09-03 (browser): the Google Maps place page was reopened on its Reviews tab and reviewRecency, respondsToReviews, recurringComplaints and suspiciousReviewPatterns were assessed for the first time (all four were null). Rating and review count re-read and reconciled against the star histogram. |
| 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. |
| 2026-09-03 | Moriah Experts Clinic (Dr. Bernard Dahan) | Price-transparency top-up: clinic’s own site checked directly for a price list; none found, pricesPublished stays false. No new infrastructure evidence (CBCT/X-ray/sedation) resolvable from the homepage. |
| 2026-09-03 | Moriah Experts Clinic (Dr. Bernard Dahan) | Reputation pass 2026-09-03 (browser): the Google Maps place page was reopened on its Reviews tab and reviewRecency, respondsToReviews, recurringComplaints and suspiciousReviewPatterns were assessed for the first time (all four were null). Rating and review count re-read and reconciled against the star histogram. |
| 2026-09-03 | Perfect Smile (Dr. Ilan Shlesinger) | Rule A re-sourcing: worksWithForeigners and englishSpoken were sourced only to a third-party WhatClinic language list; the clinic’s own "English" page is a near-empty stub (hours only), so both are set to null. Price sweep: the only figure on-site is a promotional half-price consultation offer, which per rule B does not count as a published price — pricesPublished and consultationPriceListed both stay/are set false with the promo now disclosed in the notes. |
| 2026-09-03 | Perfect Smile (Dr. Ilan Shlesinger) | Reputation pass 2026-09-03 (browser): the Google Maps place page was reopened on its Reviews tab and reviewRecency, respondsToReviews, recurringComplaints and suspiciousReviewPatterns were assessed for the first time (all four were null). Rating and review count re-read and reconciled against the star histogram. |
| 2026-09-03 | Prof. Yankel & Dr Alice Gabet – Esthetic Implant Dentistry | Price-transparency top-up: the shared clinic site checked directly for a price list (previously only the WhatClinic absence was recorded); none found, pricesPublished stays false. |
| 2026-09-03 | Prof. Yankel & Dr Alice Gabet – Esthetic Implant Dentistry | Reputation pass 2026-09-03 (browser): the Google Maps place page was reopened on its Reviews tab and reviewRecency, respondsToReviews, recurringComplaints and suspiciousReviewPatterns were assessed for the first time (all four were null). Rating and review count re-read and reconciled against the star histogram. |
| 2026-09-02 | Art-Smile (Dr. Boris Mezhericky) | Initial data collection for the Israel Dental Transparency & Trust Index: verified via clinic/aggregator websites; Google Maps ratings could not be independently confirmed (no live place URL reachable) so left null; Ministry of Health dentist registry confirmed SPA-blocked. |
| 2026-09-02 | Art-Smile (Dr. Boris Mezhericky) | Live Google Maps re-verification (rating/review count/geo/place URL) and live re-check of the 5 canonical aiVisibility search queries for Haifa. |
| 2026-09-02 | Dental Harmonia | Initial data collection for the Israel Dental Transparency & Trust Index: verified via clinic/aggregator websites; Google Maps ratings could not be independently confirmed (no live place URL reachable) so left null; Ministry of Health dentist registry confirmed SPA-blocked. |
| 2026-09-02 | Dental Harmonia | Live Google Maps re-verification (rating/review count/geo/place URL) and live re-check of the 5 canonical aiVisibility search queries for Tel Aviv. |
| 2026-09-02 | Dental Studio TLV (Dr. Meytal Salman) | Initial data collection for the Israel Dental Transparency & Trust Index: verified via clinic/aggregator websites; Google Maps ratings could not be independently confirmed (no live place URL reachable) so left null; Ministry of Health dentist registry confirmed SPA-blocked. |
| 2026-09-02 | Dental Studio TLV (Dr. Meytal Salman) | Live Google Maps re-verification (rating/review count/geo/place URL) and live re-check of the 5 canonical aiVisibility search queries for Tel Aviv. |
| 2026-09-02 | Dental Studio TLV (Dr. Meytal Salman) | Bonus: Israel MOH dentist practitioners registry (registries.health.gov.il/Practitioners/2) verified reachable and searchable in a live browser session (contrary to prior non-interactive SPA-blocked reads) — individual dentist licence confirmed. |
| 2026-09-02 | Dr Michael Meyer – Dental Aesthetics & Implants | Initial data collection for the Israel Dental Transparency & Trust Index: verified via clinic/aggregator websites; Google Maps ratings could not be independently confirmed (no live place URL reachable) so left null; Ministry of Health dentist registry confirmed SPA-blocked. |
| 2026-09-02 | Dr Michael Meyer – Dental Aesthetics & Implants | Live Google Maps re-verification (rating/review count/geo/place URL) and live re-check of the 5 canonical aiVisibility search queries for Tel Aviv. |
| 2026-09-02 | Dr. Ari Greenspan | Initial data collection for the Israel Dental Transparency & Trust Index: verified via clinic/aggregator websites; Google Maps ratings could not be independently confirmed (no live place URL reachable) so left null; Ministry of Health dentist registry confirmed SPA-blocked. |
| 2026-09-02 | Dr. Ari Greenspan | Live Google Maps re-verification (rating/review count/geo/place URL) and live re-check of the 5 canonical aiVisibility search queries for Jerusalem. |
| 2026-09-02 | Dr. Ari Greenspan | Bonus: Israel MOH dentist practitioners registry (registries.health.gov.il/Practitioners/2) verified reachable and searchable in a live browser session (contrary to prior non-interactive SPA-blocked reads) — individual dentist licence confirmed. |
| 2026-09-02 | Dr. Eran Zenziper | Initial data collection for the Israel Dental Transparency & Trust Index: verified via clinic/aggregator websites; Google Maps ratings could not be independently confirmed (no live place URL reachable) so left null; Ministry of Health dentist registry confirmed SPA-blocked. |
| 2026-09-02 | Dr. Eran Zenziper | Live Google Maps re-verification (rating/review count/geo/place URL) and live re-check of the 5 canonical aiVisibility search queries for Tel Aviv. |
| 2026-09-02 | Dr. Eran Zenziper | Bonus: Israel MOH dentist practitioners registry (registries.health.gov.il/Practitioners/2) verified reachable and searchable in a live browser session (contrary to prior non-interactive SPA-blocked reads) — individual dentist licence confirmed. |
| 2026-09-02 | Dr. Ilan Gilboa Dental Clinic | Initial data collection for the Israel Dental Transparency & Trust Index: verified via clinic/aggregator websites; Google Maps ratings could not be independently confirmed (no live place URL reachable) so left null; Ministry of Health dentist registry confirmed SPA-blocked. |
| 2026-09-02 | Dr. Ilan Gilboa Dental Clinic | Live Google Maps re-verification (rating/review count/geo/place URL) and live re-check of the 5 canonical aiVisibility search queries for Netanya. |
| 2026-09-02 | Dr. Ilan Gilboa Dental Clinic | Bonus: Israel MOH dentist practitioners registry (registries.health.gov.il/Practitioners/2) verified reachable and searchable in a live browser session (contrary to prior non-interactive SPA-blocked reads) — individual dentist licence confirmed. |
| 2026-09-02 | Dr. Karmon Meir Dental Clinic | Initial data collection for the Israel Dental Transparency & Trust Index: verified via clinic/aggregator websites; Google Maps ratings could not be independently confirmed (no live place URL reachable) so left null; Ministry of Health dentist registry confirmed SPA-blocked. |
| 2026-09-02 | Dr. Karmon Meir Dental Clinic | Live Google Maps re-verification (rating/review count/geo/place URL) and live re-check of the 5 canonical aiVisibility search queries for Netanya. |
| 2026-09-02 | Dr. Michael Etinger | Initial data collection for the Israel Dental Transparency & Trust Index: verified via clinic/aggregator websites; Google Maps ratings could not be independently confirmed (no live place URL reachable) so left null; Ministry of Health dentist registry confirmed SPA-blocked. |
| 2026-09-02 | Dr. Michael Etinger | Live Google Maps re-verification (rating/review count/geo/place URL) and live re-check of the 5 canonical aiVisibility search queries for Jerusalem. |
| 2026-09-02 | Dr. Nelly Steinbock D.M.D | Initial data collection for the Israel Dental Transparency & Trust Index: verified via clinic/aggregator websites; Google Maps ratings could not be independently confirmed (no live place URL reachable) so left null; Ministry of Health dentist registry confirmed SPA-blocked. |
| 2026-09-02 | Dr. Nelly Steinbock D.M.D | Live Google Maps re-verification (rating/review count/geo/place URL) and live re-check of the 5 canonical aiVisibility search queries for Haifa. |
| 2026-09-02 | Dr. Nelly Steinbock D.M.D | Bonus: Israel MOH dentist practitioners registry (registries.health.gov.il/Practitioners/2) verified reachable and searchable in a live browser session (contrary to prior non-interactive SPA-blocked reads) — individual dentist licence confirmed. |
| 2026-09-02 | Dr. Olga Sorin Dental Clinic | Initial data collection for the Israel Dental Transparency & Trust Index: verified via clinic/aggregator websites; Google Maps ratings could not be independently confirmed (no live place URL reachable) so left null; Ministry of Health dentist registry confirmed SPA-blocked. |
| 2026-09-02 | Dr. Olga Sorin Dental Clinic | Live Google Maps re-verification (rating/review count/geo/place URL) and live re-check of the 5 canonical aiVisibility search queries for Netanya. |
| 2026-09-02 | Dr. Virginia Melmed (Prof Ervin Weiss Dental Center) | Initial data collection for the Israel Dental Transparency & Trust Index: verified via clinic/aggregator websites; Google Maps ratings could not be independently confirmed (no live place URL reachable) so left null; Ministry of Health dentist registry confirmed SPA-blocked. |
| 2026-09-02 | Dr. Virginia Melmed (Prof Ervin Weiss Dental Center) | Live Google Maps re-verification (rating/review count/geo/place URL) and live re-check of the 5 canonical aiVisibility search queries for Tel Aviv. |
| 2026-09-02 | Dr. Watad Dental Center | Initial data collection for the Israel Dental Transparency & Trust Index: verified via clinic/aggregator websites; Google Maps ratings could not be independently confirmed (no live place URL reachable) so left null; Ministry of Health dentist registry confirmed SPA-blocked. |
| 2026-09-02 | Dr. Watad Dental Center | Live Google Maps re-verification (rating/review count/geo/place URL) and live re-check of the 5 canonical aiVisibility search queries for Netanya. |
| 2026-09-02 | Jerusalem Dental | Initial data collection for the Israel Dental Transparency & Trust Index: verified via clinic/aggregator websites; Google Maps ratings could not be independently confirmed (no live place URL reachable) so left null; Ministry of Health dentist registry confirmed SPA-blocked. |
| 2026-09-02 | Jerusalem Dental | Live Google Maps re-verification (rating/review count/geo/place URL) and live re-check of the 5 canonical aiVisibility search queries for Jerusalem. |
| 2026-09-02 | KJ Dental Office (Dr Stephen Kurer) | Initial data collection for the Israel Dental Transparency & Trust Index: verified via clinic/aggregator websites; Google Maps ratings could not be independently confirmed (no live place URL reachable) so left null; Ministry of Health dentist registry confirmed SPA-blocked. |
| 2026-09-02 | KJ Dental Office (Dr Stephen Kurer) | Live Google Maps re-verification (rating/review count/geo/place URL) and live re-check of the 5 canonical aiVisibility search queries for Jerusalem. |
| 2026-09-02 | Moriah Experts Clinic (Dr. Bernard Dahan) | Initial data collection for the Israel Dental Transparency & Trust Index: verified via clinic/aggregator websites; Google Maps ratings could not be independently confirmed (no live place URL reachable) so left null; Ministry of Health dentist registry confirmed SPA-blocked. |
| 2026-09-02 | Moriah Experts Clinic (Dr. Bernard Dahan) | Live Google Maps re-verification (rating/review count/geo/place URL) and live re-check of the 5 canonical aiVisibility search queries for Haifa. |
| 2026-09-02 | Perfect Smile (Dr. Ilan Shlesinger) | Initial data collection for the Israel Dental Transparency & Trust Index: verified via clinic/aggregator websites; Google Maps ratings could not be independently confirmed (no live place URL reachable) so left null; Ministry of Health dentist registry confirmed SPA-blocked. |
| 2026-09-02 | Perfect Smile (Dr. Ilan Shlesinger) | Live Google Maps re-verification (rating/review count/geo/place URL) and live re-check of the 5 canonical aiVisibility search queries for Haifa. |
| 2026-09-02 | Prof. Yankel & Dr Alice Gabet – Esthetic Implant Dentistry | Initial data collection for the Israel Dental Transparency & Trust Index: verified via clinic/aggregator websites; Google Maps ratings could not be independently confirmed (no live place URL reachable) so left null; Ministry of Health dentist registry confirmed SPA-blocked. |
| 2026-09-02 | Prof. Yankel & Dr Alice Gabet – Esthetic Implant Dentistry | Live Google Maps re-verification (rating/review count/geo/place URL) and live re-check of the 5 canonical aiVisibility search queries for Jerusalem. |
| 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. |