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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-07 | 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. |
| 2026-10-07 | Virtus Dental Center | Re-checked on 2026-10-07, limited to the price entries: the clinic's implants page still gives a price range (€350 to €400 per implant) and a free consultation is offered, but the crowns page no longer states a price (on 2026-09-17 it gave 150 to 200 euros), so the crown price entry is now no. One priced treatment is not a price list, so the general entry on published prices stays at no. Nothing else on the card was re-read. |
| 2026-10-05 | Ekdent Clinic | Read the clinic's Google listing on 2026-10-05 in 3 review orders (11 distinct reviews, dated 2024-10-06 to 2026-09-21; 4.9 from 123): owner replies false. |
| 2026-10-05 | Virtus Dental Center | Read the clinic's Google listing on 2026-10-05 in 2 review orders (10 distinct reviews, dated 2025-01-23 to 2026-10-01; 5.0 from 92): owner replies false. |
| 2026-10-01 | Dodbiba Dental Clinic | Reviews on other platforms re-checked: no profile on WhatClinic, Dental Departures, Bookimed, Dental Tourism Albania or Trustpilot; the ratings page cited earlier only repeated the clinic's Google rating, so this is now marked no. |
| 2026-10-01 | Ekdent Clinic | Review platforms re-checked: no profile on WhatClinic, Dental Departures or Bookimed, so "reviewed on other platforms" changed from yes to no. |
| 2026-10-01 | Ekdent Clinic | Read the clinic's English website and its Facebook page for the past year on 2026-10-01: 3D imaging, an online treatment-request form, step-by-step treatment explanations and English-language service are documented. |
| 2026-10-01 | Implantus (Dr. Roland Zhuka) | Viewed the clinic's photo gallery on 2026-10-01: it shows a panoramic X-ray unit in the clinic's own imaging room, so on-site X-ray is recorded; cone-beam CT is still not stated in words and stays unrecorded. |
| 2026-10-01 | Kristi Dental Clinic (KDK) | Checked WhatClinic, Dental Departures and Trustpilot on 2026-10-01: no profile of the clinic on any of them, so presence on other review platforms is recorded as absent. |
| 2026-10-01 | Tirana Dental Hospital | Other platforms set to yes: the clinic has a Trustpilot page for its website, 3.9 from 7 reviews, the latest from October 2025 (checked 2026-10-01). |
| 2026-10-01 | Virtus Dental Center | Review platforms re-checked: no profile on WhatClinic, Dental Departures or Bookimed, so "reviewed on other platforms" changed from yes to no. |
| 2026-10-01 | Virtus Dental Center | Read ten of the clinic's Google reviews in four orders on 2026-10-01: although every rating is five-star, there is no burst, no template wording and no run of single-review accounts, so no suspicious review pattern is recorded. |
| 2026-09-30 | Andent Dental Clinic | Re-read on 2026-09-30 at the clinic's request, together with five neighbouring Tirana clinics: the clinic's website (home, specialists, dentist profiles, implant, All-on-4, All-on-6, general dentistry, FAQ, contact and dental-tourism pages, in English with the Italian, Albanian, French and Spanish versions), its Google listing, its Trustpilot and booking.dentist profiles and the register of the Order of Dentists of Albania. Recorded: Google 5.0 from 369 reviews, newest 2026-09-25, with owner replies continuing; a contact email; a €30 check-up including X-rays; All-on-6 prices alongside All-on-4. Corrected: cleaning and filling prices are published on the general dentistry page (scale and polish €50-70, composite fillings from €60); check-ups and preventive care for children are offered. Updated: All-on-6 is named alongside All-on-4, and Dr. Anduela Çurmaku is recorded as the clinic's founder and lead implantologist, her name spelled as on the site; the dentists list adds Laurent Bixheku, Iva Dervishi and Ira Dalipi with what the register shows for each. Still unverified: TripAdvisor presence. Visibility re-checked on 2026-09-30 with the five canonical Tirana queries, run once for every card compared in this pass; local results, the first page of web results and AI Overviews all counted. The clinic appears in 2 of the five. |
| 2026-09-30 | City Dental Clinic CDC | Re-read on 2026-09-30: the clinic's website (home, staff, price list, general dentistry, surgery, implantology, orthodontics, children's dentistry, sedation and dental-tourism pages, and its articles, in English, Italian and Albanian), its Google listing, WhatClinic, TripAdvisor and the register of the Order of Dentists of Albania. Recorded: Google 4.9 from 169 reviews, newest 2026-09-27, with owner replies continuing; zirconia crown price (€200); free remote consultation; structured data on the site; a WhatClinic profile. Corrected: an imaging price is published (3D scan €80). Not found in any language version of the site: cleaning and filling prices. Visibility re-checked on 2026-09-30 with the five canonical Tirana queries, run once for every card compared in this pass; local results, the first page of web results and AI Overviews all counted. The clinic appears in 0 of the five. |
| 2026-09-30 | Dodbiba Dental Clinic | Read the clinic's own Facebook page: it carries the clinic's street address, but has a single post, from March 2021, and one review. Recorded: no active presence on Facebook. |
| 2026-09-30 | Ekdent Clinic | Read the clinic's own Facebook page and the dentist's profile on 2026-09-30 (About, contact section and every post of the past 12 months); recorded a free consultation and no other published prices, and linked the clinic's page as its Facebook contact. |
| 2026-09-30 | Ekdent Clinic | Read the clinic's own website (ekdent.al, linked from its Instagram) and its Instagram accounts on 2026-09-30 (every post of the past 12 months and the highlight albums): recorded the website, its English version and service pages, emergency and children's care, X-ray, orthodontics and dental tourism; no standing prices were found, only time-limited anniversary offers. |
| 2026-09-30 | Elite Dental | Re-read on 2026-09-30: the clinic's website in English, Italian, Albanian and German (home, price list, services, who-we-are, treatment, photo and contact pages) and its Italian-language site dentistalbania.it, its Google listing, its WhatClinic profile and the register of the Order of Dentists of Albania. Recorded: Google 5.0 from 2,542 reviews, newest 2026-09-30; owner replies on some critical reviews; a contact email; the full price list (implants from €400, crowns from €130, fillings €50, CT scan €80). Corrected: the clinic names about ten dentists with their specialities; it describes a children's treatment room; the site carries no Dentist or LocalBusiness markup; six of the eight readable one-star reviews describe concerns dismissed or unanswered; a burst of 29 five-star reviews since 29 September leaves review manipulation undetermined. Still unverified: TripAdvisor presence. Visibility re-checked on 2026-09-30 with the five canonical Tirana queries, run once for every card compared in this pass; local results, the first page of web results and AI Overviews all counted. The clinic appears in 5 of the five. |
| 2026-09-30 | Family Dental Care | Re-read on 2026-09-30: the clinic's website (home, team, treatment, dental-tourism, contact pages and its articles, in Italian, English, Albanian, Spanish and French), its Google listing in English, Italian and Albanian, TripAdvisor's search and WhatClinic's Tirana directory. Recorded: Google 4.9 from 262 reviews, newest 2026-09-28; opening hours Monday to Saturday 8 AM to 8 PM; occasional owner replies; structured data on the site; the address on Rruga Bardhyl shown on the Google listing. Corrected: X-ray diagnostics are advertised as free; emergency treatment is listed among the endodontic services; the clinic's own articles list children's dentistry; All-on-6 surgery is offered under general anaesthesia; the readable low reviews repeat complaints about long waits and unfinished treatment; the review history is no longer described as clean, because four five-star reviews arrived on one day; the clinic is not found on other review platforms. Cleaning and filling prices remain unpublished. Visibility re-checked on 2026-09-30 with the five canonical Tirana queries, run once for every card compared in this pass; local results, the first page of web results and AI Overviews all counted. The clinic appears in 1 of the five. |
| 2026-09-30 | Tirana Dental Hospital | Re-read on 2026-09-30: the clinic's website in English and Albanian (services, both price lists, team, FAQ, contact, international-patients, dental-tourism and online-consultation pages), its Google listing, and the WhatClinic and TripAdvisor directories. Recorded: Google 4.9 from 501 reviews, newest 2026-09-29, with owner replies; an online consultation with the founder. Corrected: the team page names three dentists, so the flag for unnamed dentists is removed; removable orthodontic appliances for children are offered; opening hours are Monday to Friday 9:00-17:00 with no evening or weekend opening; three one-star reviews share a complaint about unclear or unquoted costs; YouTube and TikTok are not review platforms, and no profile on a review platform was found. Still unverified: Trustpilot presence. Visibility re-checked on 2026-09-30 with the five canonical Tirana queries, run once for every card compared in this pass; local results, the first page of web results and AI Overviews all counted. The clinic appears in 1 of the five. |
| 2026-09-30 | Trio Dental Center | Re-read on 2026-09-30: the clinic's website (home, prices, team, dentists, contact, implant, orthodontic and dental-tourism pages and its articles, in English with the Albanian, Italian, French and Spanish versions), its Google listing, TripAdvisor's own search, its Trustpilot profile and the register of the Order of Dentists of Albania. Recorded: Google 4.8 from 260 reviews, newest 2026-09-28, with owner replies continuing; an itemised 2026 price list; pediatric treatment and general anaesthesia offered; no emergency or same-day appointments documented. Corrected: the clinic's phone number is +355 69 747 4695, the one it publishes today; cleaning (€60) and filling (€40) prices are published; four of the six readable one-star reviews report dental work that failed, did not fit or was left unfinished, a repeated complaint. The flag for an unpublished price list is removed: the price list is published. Visibility re-checked on 2026-09-30 with the five canonical Tirana queries, run once for every card compared in this pass; local results, the first page of web results and AI Overviews all counted. The clinic appears in 4 of the five. |
| 2026-09-29 | Andent Dental Clinic | Corrected 2026-09-29: owner replies to reviews confirmed on the Google listing (owner reply dated 2026-09-25). |
| 2026-09-29 | Andent Dental Clinic | Checked TripAdvisor's own search and the clinic's website for a TripAdvisor profile: none found on either channel. |
| 2026-09-29 | City Dental Clinic CDC | Checked TripAdvisor's own search and the clinic's website for a TripAdvisor profile: none found on either channel. |
| 2026-09-29 | Dodbiba Dental Clinic | Checked TripAdvisor's own search and the clinic's website for a TripAdvisor profile: none found on either channel. |
| 2026-09-29 | Ekdent Clinic | Corrected 2026-09-29: published prices and the cleaning, filling, crown, implant, consultation and X-ray prices now unverified: the clinic has no website and its social page was not checked for this; review recency within 3 months (newest review dated 2026-09-21). |
| 2026-09-29 | Ekdent Clinic | Checked TripAdvisor's own search for a profile: none found. The clinic has no website; its Google Business Profile does not list a website either, so there is no self-published channel that could carry a TripAdvisor link. |
| 2026-09-29 | Elite Dental | Corrected 2026-09-29: review recency within 3 months (newest review dated 2026-09-28); red flag "No dentists identified anywhere" removed: it contradicted the recorded finding that the clinic names its dentists. |
| 2026-09-29 | Elite Dental | Found the clinic's own WhatClinic profile (address matches exactly), a genuine review platform listing. No TripAdvisor profile found. |
| 2026-09-29 | Family Dental Care | Corrected 2026-09-29: review recency within 3 months (newest review dated 2026-09-28). |
| 2026-09-29 | Family Dental Care | Checked TripAdvisor's own search and the clinic's website for a TripAdvisor profile: none found on either channel. |
| 2026-09-29 | Family Dental Care | Re-read the clinic's website on 2026-09-29 (treatments page, the dental tourism page in Italian and Spanish, page and post sitemaps). Corrected: prices are published - the dental tourism page lists prices from 299 € for an implant and from 149 € for a crown, plus All-on-4/6 and denture prices, and advertises a free consultation. No cleaning, filling or X-ray price appears in that list, and no children's or emergency dentistry is among the clinic's treatments. |
| 2026-09-29 | Implantus (Dr. Roland Zhuka) | Corrected 2026-09-29: review recency within 3 months (newest review dated 2026-09-28); owner replies to reviews confirmed on the Google listing (owner reply dated 2026-09-28). |
| 2026-09-29 | Implantus (Dr. Roland Zhuka) | Checked TripAdvisor's own search and the clinic's website for a TripAdvisor profile: none found on either channel. The oral-surgery page mentions digital imaging and 3D scanning for surgical planning without naming CBCT or cone-beam equipment, so X-ray and CBCT are left unrecorded. |
| 2026-09-29 | Klinika Dentare Megadent | Corrected 2026-09-29: review recency within 3 months (newest review dated 2026-09-21). |
| 2026-09-29 | Klinika Dentare Megadent | Checked TripAdvisor's own search and the clinic's website for a TripAdvisor profile: none found on either channel. |
| 2026-09-29 | Kristi Dental Clinic (KDK) | Checked TripAdvisor's own search and the clinic's website for a TripAdvisor profile: none found. The homepage's visible text turned out to be a general-medicine blog excerpt (about cervical cancer treatment) and a description of a Durres general-practice branch, not dental-specific content, so hasXray/hasCBCT/offersSurgery are left unresolved rather than guessed from unrelated text. |
| 2026-09-29 | Tirana Dental Hospital | Read the full service menu and FAQ page: no emergency/same-day urgent care service is listed among the clinic's specialties. No TripAdvisor profile found either. |
| 2026-09-29 | Trio Dental Center | Corrected 2026-09-29: review recency within 3 months (newest review dated 2026-09-28). |
| 2026-09-29 | Trio Dental Center | Checked TripAdvisor's own search and the clinic's website for a TripAdvisor profile: none found on either channel. |
| 2026-09-29 | Virtus Dental Center | Checked TripAdvisor's own search and the clinic's website for a TripAdvisor profile: none found. Re-read the Google listing sorted by lowest rating: still 100% five-star at a base of 91, with the five sampled reviews spread from 2025-01 to 2026-08 and reviewer accounts carrying 3-6 prior reviews each - only one signal (the all-five-star histogram), so suspiciousReviewPatterns remains unresolved. |
| 2026-09-17 | Andent Dental Clinic | Re-read on 2026-09-17: the clinic’s website (homepage price comparison table) and its Google listing. Recorded: free consultation; no price found for cleaning or fillings despite both being offered; address and map published; no pediatric dentistry documented; Google 5.0 from 368 reviews, newest dated 2026-07-06; no recurring complaints and no signs of manipulated reviews; open until 8 PM most weekdays. Removed: the "suspicious review patterns" flag, which rested on the site quoting a review count that could not be checked against a Google listing; the listing is now cited directly and its histogram (3 one-star, 2 four-star, 363 five-star of 368), review dates and reviewer histories show no manipulation. Still unverified: TripAdvisor presence and whether an X-ray taken at the clinic carries a price. |
| 2026-09-17 | Andent Dental Clinic | Aligned with the clinic's entry on albaniadentalrating.com: recorded General anaesthesia / deep sedation (sleep dentistry) (no) from sources read on 2026-08-25. |
| 2026-09-17 | City Dental Clinic CDC | Re-read on 2026-09-17: the clinic's homepage price table and its Google listing. Recorded: no cleaning, filling or X-ray price found on the price table; emergency dental service listed as a Google Business Profile category; Google 4.9 from 168 reviews, newest dated 2026-07-24, with owner replies; no recurring complaints or manipulation signs; open until 8PM most weekdays and on Saturday. Still unverified: 3D/CBCT imaging and TripAdvisor presence. |
| 2026-09-17 | Dodbiba Dental Clinic | Re-read on 2026-09-17: the clinic's website, now live at dodbibadental.al, and its Google listing. Recorded: a working website with matching contacts, address/map and an English version; genuine premises and treatment-room photos on the Google listing (the site's own photos are a generic template); X-ray part of the standard exam; implants offered with placement surgery referred to other dentists; family/pediatric dentistry documented and listed as a Google Business Profile category; no price figures found for any procedure; open to 19:00 on weekdays; Google 4.8 from 48 reviews, newest dated 2025-11-27, with no recurring complaints or manipulation signs. Removed: the "no verifiable address" flag — the clinic now publishes its street address, a Google Maps link, a phone number and an email on its own site, and its Google listing publishes the address and coordinates. Still unverified: 3D/CBCT imaging, Facebook presence, TripAdvisor presence. |
| 2026-09-17 | Ekdent Clinic | Re-read on 2026-09-17: the clinic’s Google listing, its Facebook page link and a third-party dental-media directory profile; no official clinic website was found on any of them, and the Google Business Profile carries no website field. Recorded: no price information on any checked channel; address published on the Google listing; Google rating now 4.9 from 123 reviews (previously 5.0 from 119), no recurring complaints and no signs of manipulated reviews; Saturday hours published. Still unverified: services offered, equipment, English-language communication and TripAdvisor presence; prices may be listed on the clinic’s Facebook page, which could not be read. |
| 2026-09-17 | Elite Dental | Re-read on 2026-09-17: the clinic's website (Italian price list, services page, homepage) and its Google listing. Recorded: filling, crown, X-ray/CT and consultation prices published; no cleaning price found despite cleaning being offered as a service; address and map published; no pediatric or emergency care documented; Google 5.0 from 2,483 reviews with no recurring complaints or manipulation signs; Saturday hours published. Still unverified: TripAdvisor and other-platform presence. |
| 2026-09-17 | Elite Dental | Aligned with the clinic's entry on albaniadentalrating.com: recorded General anaesthesia / deep sedation (sleep dentistry) (no) from sources read on 2026-08-25. |
| 2026-09-17 | Family Dental Care | Re-read on 2026-09-17: the clinic’s Google listing (the website’s dedicated treatment pages returned an interstitial page and could not be read). Recorded: Google 4.9 from 257 reviews, newest readable review dated 2026-05-09; no recurring complaints (one isolated negative review among the readable set) and no signs of manipulated reviews. Still unverified: itemized prices for cleaning, filling, crowns, implants, consultation and X-rays; pediatric and emergency care; TripAdvisor presence. |
| 2026-09-17 | Implantus (Dr. Roland Zhuka) | Re-read on 2026-09-17: the clinic's website (main clinic page, dedicated implant and crown pages) and its Google listing. Recorded: no price figures found for any procedure despite dedicated treatment pages; emergency dental service listed as a Google Business Profile category; no pediatric dentistry documented; online/WhatsApp appointment requests; Google 4.9 from 541 reviews, newest dated 2026-06-11, with no recurring complaints or manipulation signs; open until 8PM most weekdays and on Saturday. Still unverified: TripAdvisor presence and X-ray/CBCT equipment. |
| 2026-09-17 | Klinika Dentare Megadent | Re-read on 2026-09-17: the clinic’s Albanian-language website (reachable again) and its Google listing. Recorded: a genuine staff photo on the homepage; address published on the Google listing; free first consultation, but no price figures for any other procedure (only a percentage discount on implants); orthodontic clear aligners documented; each service explained on its own page; no WhatsApp or LINE contact found; owner replies to reviews; Google 4.9 from 50 reviews, newest dated 2026-05-15, with no recurring complaints or manipulation signs; open to 7 PM most weekdays and all day Saturday. Still unverified: X-ray/CBCT equipment, pediatric dentistry and TripAdvisor presence. |
| 2026-09-17 | Kristi Dental Clinic (KDK) | Re-read on 2026-09-17: the clinic's dedicated Tirana page, its contact page and its Google listing. Recorded: phone/WhatsApp and address/map published and consistent with the Google listing; no price figures found for any service; no pediatric or emergency care documented on this branch's page. Google rating unchanged at 5.0 from 10 reviews, newest dated 2024-08-09; no recurring complaints or manipulation signs, though the review base is small. Still unverified: TripAdvisor and other-platform presence, X-ray/CBCT equipment, and whether the clinic's own social pages belong to this branch or a sibling location. |
| 2026-09-17 | Tirana Dental Hospital | Re-read on 2026-09-17: the clinic’s website (services menu, reference price list, international-patients page) and its Google listing. Recorded: the reference price list prices nine procedures in Lek - consultation 5,000, teeth cleaning 4,000-8,000, direct restoration 6,000-12,000, crowns and veneers 25,000-45,000, implant 50,000-150,000 - with no X-ray price; orthodontics (fixed, semi-fixed and clear aligners) offered; no pediatric category; WhatsApp booking for a first visit; Google 4.9 from 497 reviews, newest dated 2026-07-24, with owner replies; no recurring complaints or manipulation signs. Corrected: the clinic does publish prices, and it does offer orthodontics. Still unverified: TripAdvisor presence and same-day emergency care. |
| 2026-09-17 | Trio Dental Center | Re-read on 2026-09-17: the clinic’s website (implant, crown and X-ray price table; homepage) and its Google listing. Recorded: implant (€350), crown (€120-200), X-ray (€50-100) and free-consultation prices published; no cleaning or filling price found; address, coordinates and map published; weekday and Saturday hours published; Google 4.8 from 258 reviews with a recent owner reply; no recurring complaints or manipulation signs. Corrected: the clinic does publish prices, on a dedicated implantology page. Still unverified: TripAdvisor presence and same-day emergency care. |
| 2026-09-17 | Virtus Dental Center | Re-read on 2026-09-17: the clinic's website (implant and crown treatment pages, dental-tourism FAQ guide) and its Google listing. Recorded: implant and crown prices published, free consultation offered; no cleaning, filling or X-ray price found; no pediatric or emergency care documented; Google 5.0 from 89 reviews, newest dated 2026-08-11, with no 1-2 star reviews; Saturday hours published. Still unverified: whether the five-star histogram reflects genuine review activity, and TripAdvisor presence. |
| 2026-09-10 | Andent Dental Clinic | Twin parity (albania-dental / tirana-dental publish the same clinic): both cards already carried the same full re-read of the USSH register of dentists, which finds no row for this dentist and names the rows that do exist under the surname as its own control, but only one of the two published the verdict. Both now record that the register does not publish a licence for this dentist, and both cite that reading; the per-row source it was previously attributed to on albania-dental describes a different dentist. |
| 2026-09-10 | City Dental Clinic CDC | Licence periods re-read against the USSH register on 2026-09-10 and the albania/tirana twin copies of this card brought into one state: Ersted Muco 2019-03-18 to 2024-03-18; Eral Skenderi 2019-02-01 to 2024-02-01; Gisela Muca 2021-01-12 to 2026-01-12. Where the two copies disagreed, the register decided; the period is printed as the register publishes it, without an expiry verdict of our own. |
| 2026-09-10 | City Dental Clinic CDC | Twin parity (albania-dental / tirana-dental publish the same clinic): both cards already carried the same full re-read of the USSH register of dentists, which finds no row for this dentist and names the rows that do exist under the surname as its own control, but only one of the two published the verdict. Both now record that the register does not publish a licence for this dentist, and both cite that reading; the per-row source it was previously attributed to on albania-dental describes a different dentist. |
| 2026-09-10 | Family Dental Care | Licence periods re-read against the USSH register on 2026-09-10 and the albania/tirana twin copies of this card brought into one state: Besmir Skenderi 2019-03-07 to 2024-03-07; Marsida Murati 2025-05-05 to 2029-05-05; Dorina Beqiraj 2023-03-13 to 2028-03-13; Xhuliana Nikolli 2026-02-18 to 2031-02-17; Klejda Seiti 2026-04-10 to 2031-04-09. Where the two copies disagreed, the register decided; the period is printed as the register publishes it, without an expiry verdict of our own. |
| 2026-09-10 | Trio Dental Center | Licence periods re-read against the USSH register on 2026-09-10 and the albania/tirana twin copies of this card brought into one state: Elian Dylgjeri 2021-03-21 to 2026-03-21; Marsida Kume 2024-02-06 to 2029-02-06. Where the two copies disagreed, the register decided; the period is printed as the register publishes it, without an expiry verdict of our own. |
| 2026-09-10 | Trio Dental Center | Twin parity (albania-dental / tirana-dental publish the same clinic): both cards already carried the same full re-read of the USSH register of dentists, which finds no row for this dentist and names the rows that do exist under the surname as its own control, but only one of the two published the verdict. Both now record that the register does not publish a licence for this dentist, and both cite that reading; the per-row source it was previously attributed to on albania-dental describes a different dentist. |
| 2026-09-07 | Family Dental Care | 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 check. |
| 2026-09-07 | Family Dental Care | Opaque_prices flag removed under methodology v1.4.0 (no citable evidence found on re-verification: familydentalcareal.com/en/ re-fetched 2026-09-07 carries only generic 'save up to 70%' and free-quote marketing, with no published figures, no price page and no teaser price that could be contradicted; Trustpilot is unreachable by automated fetch. Unsubstantiated savings framing over unpublished prices is marketing, and non-publication is already scored by the price-transparency 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 | Trio Dental Center | 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 check. |
| 2026-09-07 | Trio Dental Center | opaque_prices flag re-verified under methodology v1.4.0 and kept with citable evidence: the clinic's own /prices/ page states it will show the complete price list for dental implants and then publishes none, offering only a 'save up to 70%' claim and a free-estimate form (fetched 2026-09-07). Note rewritten from the unsourced 'savings framing' wording to the quoted evidence; supporting source recorded. |
| 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. |
| 2026-08-27 | Klinika Dentare Megadent | linkrot 2026-08-27: replaced dead website http://megadent.al/megadent/en/ (broken WPML/Yoast language-redirect loop: /en/ -> /en/megadent/sq/ -> /en/megadent/it/ -> HTTP 404) with verified-live http://megadent.al/megadent/sq/ (same domain/clinic; HTTP 200, title 'Fillimi - Megadent - Klinike dentare ne Tirane', confirmed on 2026-08-27). Note: this is the Albanian-language homepage — the site's own language switcher for /en/ and /it/ is broken sitewide; no working English path exists on this domain as of this check. |
| 2026-08-26 | Andent Dental Clinic | License verification 2026-08-26 against QKB Regjistri Tregtar and USSH Regjistri i Stomatologeve: clinic found registered as ANDENT dental clinic (NIPT M22314039G, admin Anduela Curmaku, matching the named doctor); Anduela Curmaku's USSH license is active, Ilva Petushi not found in USSH register. |
| 2026-08-26 | City Dental Clinic CDC | License verification 2026-08-26 against QKB Regjistri Tregtar and USSH Regjistri i Stomatologeve: clinic not located under trade-name variants tried; of the five named doctors, three (Ersted Muco, Eral Skenderi, Gisela Muca) have expired USSH licenses and two (Bardhyl Skenderi, Arber Gjermeni) are not found in the register. |
| 2026-08-26 | Dodbiba Dental Clinic | License verification 2026-08-26 against QKB Regjistri Tregtar and USSH Regjistri i Stomatologeve: clinic found registered as a sole-proprietor business under Marsela Dodbiba (NIPT K72027034C); her USSH dentist license is active. |
| 2026-08-26 | Ekdent Clinic | License verification 2026-08-26 against QKB Regjistri Tregtar and USSH Regjistri i Stomatologeve: clinic not located under trade-name/owner-name variants tried ('Ekdent', 'Lamcja'); Klevis Lamcja's USSH dentist license is active. |
| 2026-08-26 | Elite Dental | License verification 2026-08-26 against QKB Regjistri Tregtar and USSH Regjistri i Stomatologeve: clinic found registered as Elite Dental (NIPT M41709022A, admin Artdur Dema, matching the named doctor); Artdur Dema's USSH dentist license is active. |
| 2026-08-26 | Family Dental Care | License verification 2026-08-26 against QKB Regjistri Tregtar and USSH Regjistri i Stomatologeve: clinic found registered as FAMILY DENTAL CARE (NIPT M41309015E); Marsida Murati, Dorina Beqiraj, Xhuliana Nikolli and Klejda Seiti have active USSH licenses, Besmir Skenderi's license has expired (3/7/2024), Ledjo Halili is an ambiguous near-match ('Ledio Halili' in register). |
| 2026-08-26 | Implantus (Dr. Roland Zhuka) | License verification 2026-08-26 against QKB Regjistri Tregtar and USSH Regjistri i Stomatologeve: clinic found registered as Implantus (NIPT M41310038B, sole admin Roland Zhuka, matching the named doctor); Roland Zhuka's USSH dentist license has expired (7/14/2025), no renewal shown. |
| 2026-08-26 | Klinika Dentare Megadent | License verification 2026-08-26 against QKB Regjistri Tregtar: clinic not located under trade-name variants tried ('Megadent', 'Mega Dent'); no named doctors on file to check against USSH. |
| 2026-08-26 | Klinika Dentare Megadent | Link-rot cleanup 2026-08-26: pruning 1 dead source(s) confirmed unreachable in an external-link check (checked 2026-08-26) and re-confirmed dead by direct recheck where applicable. s2 [http://megadent.al/megadent/en/]: http://megadent.al/megadent/en/ (HTTP 404, rotten) |
| 2026-08-26 | Kristi Dental Clinic (KDK) | License verification 2026-08-26 against QKB Regjistri Tregtar: clinic not located under trade-name variants tried ('Kristi Dental', 'Kristi', 'KDK'); no named doctors on file to check against USSH. |
| 2026-08-26 | Tirana Dental Hospital | License verification 2026-08-26 against QKB Regjistri Tregtar: clinic not located under trade-name variants tried ('Tirana Dental Hospital', 'Dental Hospital'); no named doctors on file to check against USSH. |
| 2026-08-26 | Trio Dental Center | License verification 2026-08-26 against QKB Regjistri Tregtar (clinics) and USSH Regjistri i Stomatologeve (dentists): clinic found registered as TRIO DENTAL CENTER (NIPT M12227014N); Marsida Kume's license is active, Elian Dylgjeri's USSH license has expired (3/21/2026), Kristina Beqiraj not found in USSH register. |
| 2026-08-26 | Virtus Dental Center | License verification 2026-08-26 against QKB Regjistri Tregtar and USSH Regjistri i Stomatologeve: clinic found registered as VIRTUS DENTAL CENTER (NIPT M41407042R, admin Arnold Mboqe, matching a named doctor); Armando Becoku, Nela Mataj and Adela Dajlani have active USSH licenses, Arnold Mboqe's license has expired (9/17/2024), Ester Rina is an ambiguous near-match ('Esterina Rina' in register). |
| 2026-08-25 | Andent Dental Clinic | Re-verification 2026-08-25: confirmed website live, name/phone unchanged, business open; address refined with unit/floor and postal code (1010) per Google listing; captured first Google rating 5.0 (366 reviews), place URL and coordinates. |
| 2026-08-25 | City Dental Clinic CDC | Re-verification 2026-08-25: confirmed website live, name/address/phone unchanged, business open (was mid-closed for daily hours at time of check, not permanently closed); captured first Google rating 4.9 (171 reviews), place URL and coordinates. |
| 2026-08-25 | City Dental Clinic CDC | Recorded sedation / general anaesthesia availability (informational): documented as available. Own site lists General Anesthesia as a priced service, separate from IV conscious sedation. |
| 2026-08-25 | Dodbiba Dental Clinic | Re-verification 2026-08-25: found and confirmed a live official website (dodbibadental.al, previously unset) and phone (+355 4 225 1944, previously unset), both matching the Google listing exactly; refined address with house number; business open; captured first Google rating 4.8 (48 reviews), place URL and coordinates. |
| 2026-08-25 | Ekdent Clinic | Re-verification 2026-08-25: no website is listed in the record on file or on the clinic's Google profile (still unset; only social-media pages found, none confirmed as an official site); phone confirmed unchanged and matches the Google listing exactly; address refined to the Google-listed location description (Gener 2 complex near the lake dam); business open; captured first Google rating 5.0 (119 reviews), place URL and coordinates. |
| 2026-08-25 | Elite Dental | Re-verification 2026-08-25: confirmed website live, address/phone match Google listing, business open; captured first Google rating 5.0 (2,432 reviews), place URL and coordinates. Note: Google listing's own website link points to a second clinic domain (dentistalbania.it) in addition to the confirmed elitedental.al. |
| 2026-08-25 | Family Dental Care | Re-verification 2026-08-25: confirmed website live, name/address/phone unchanged, business open; captured first Google rating 4.9 (254 reviews), place URL and coordinates. |
| 2026-08-25 | Family Dental Care | Recorded sedation / general anaesthesia availability (informational): not documented in public sources. Site testimonial cites 'sedazione conscia' (conscious sedation) only; no general anaesthesia mentioned. |
| 2026-08-25 | Implantus (Dr. Roland Zhuka) | Re-verification 2026-08-25: confirmed website live (implantus.al), address unchanged, business open; own site lists two phone lines and both the stored +355 69 70 44 409 and the Google listing's +355 69 44 44 016 appear there, so no phone correction made; captured first Google rating 4.9 (530 reviews), place URL and coordinates. Note: a second Google listing 'Dr. Roland Zhuka | Dentisti in Albania' (4.9, 393 reviews, same address) exists for the same doctor/practice under a different site domain (dr-rolandzhuka.com) — the implantus.al-linked listing was used as primary. |
| 2026-08-25 | Klinika Dentare Megadent | Re-verification 2026-08-25: website megadent.al is DEAD (expired TLS certificate; both https and http connection attempts failed) — no successor site found; business itself is still active and open per its Google Maps profile (recent reviews, normal hours), so treated as operating despite the broken website. Phone corrected to +355 69 426 5603 as shown on the live Google listing (differs from stored landline +355 42 356 426, which could not be re-confirmed since the site is down). Captured first Google rating 4.9 (50 reviews), place URL and coordinates. |
| 2026-08-25 | Kristi Dental Clinic (KDK) | Re-verification 2026-08-25: confirmed website live, name/address/phone unchanged, business open; captured first Google rating 5.0 (10 reviews), place URL and coordinates. Note: the clinic's own site displays a self-reported '4.9/5, 152 reviews' badge that does not match the Google listing tied to this exact address/phone (5.0, 10 reviews) — recorded the directly observed Google Maps figures. |
| 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 | Tirana Dental Hospital | Re-verification 2026-08-25: confirmed website live, name/address/phone unchanged, business open; captured first Google rating 4.9 (491 reviews), place URL and coordinates. Site's price list also documents a second after-hours phone (+355 67 255 4966), not used to replace the primary listed number. |
| 2026-08-25 | Tirana Dental Hospital | Recorded sedation / general anaesthesia availability (informational): documented as available. Own price list lists general anaesthesia (with overnight hospital stay) as a paid service. |
| 2026-08-25 | Trio Dental Center | Re-verification 2026-08-25: confirmed website live and name/address/phone unchanged; Google rating changed 4.9→4.8 and review count 189→249 (place URL and coordinates newly captured). |
| 2026-08-25 | Trio Dental Center | Recorded sedation / general anaesthesia availability (informational): documented as available. Site testimonial: patient had full rehab 'in anestesia totale' (under general anesthesia). |
| 2026-08-25 | Virtus Dental Center | Re-verification 2026-08-25: confirmed website live, name/address/phone unchanged, business open; captured first Google rating 5.0 (86 reviews), place URL and coordinates. |
| 2026-08-25 | Virtus Dental Center | Recorded sedation / general anaesthesia availability (informational): not documented in public sources. Own FAQ page documents conscious sedation only; no general anaesthesia mentioned. |
| 2026-08-23 | Methodology v1.2.0 | Added an informational "Sedation & general anaesthesia" availability field to every clinic and a new "Sleep Dentistry (Sedation / GA)" list, for patients who cannot tolerate — or would rather not be awake for — treatment. This field is informational and does not change any transparency score. |
| 2026-07-12 | Andent Dental Clinic | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-12 | City Dental Clinic CDC | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-12 | Dodbiba Dental Clinic | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-12 | Ekdent Clinic | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-12 | Elite Dental | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-12 | Family Dental Care | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-12 | Implantus (Dr. Roland Zhuka) | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-12 | Klinika Dentare Megadent | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-12 | Kristi Dental Clinic (KDK) | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-12 | Tirana Dental Hospital | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-12 | Trio Dental Center | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-12 | Virtus Dental Center | 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. |