Changelog
Every data update, correction, and methodology change is logged here and in each clinic's own change history. The rating updates whenever the underlying public data changes.
| Date | Subject | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-26 | AIC - Advanced Implantology Center | Link-rot cleanup 2026-08-26: pruning 1 dead source(s) confirmed unreachable in the fleet external-link sweep (checked 2026-08-26) and re-confirmed dead by direct recheck where applicable. s2 [https://aicporto.com/aic-english.html]: https://aicporto.com/aic-english.html (HTTP 404, rotten) |
| 2026-08-25 | AIC - Advanced Implantology Center | Re-verification 2026-08-25: confirmed website, name and phone; captured first Google rating 4.9 (85 reviews); corrected postal code to 4050-070 (was 4050-107 in worklist); added geo coordinates. |
| 2026-08-25 | AIC - Advanced Implantology Center | License verification 2026-08-25 against ERS (clinic) and OMD (doctors): clinic license FOUND self-published on aicporto.pt (ERS 18740/2020 | SRER 146782, and a second pair ERS 26968/2026 | SRER 175479) after ERS registry name search came up empty on 2 variants; both named doctors found registered with OMD by name/district match (Andrea/Andreia spelling variant noted for one). |
| 2026-08-25 | Bocca Clínica | Re-verification 2026-08-25: confirmed website, address, phone, and rating (5.0) unchanged; captured first Google review count of 112; added geo coordinates. |
| 2026-08-25 | Bocca Clínica | License verification 2026-08-25 against OMD: clinical director Dr. Jaime Guimaraes confirmed registered (Porto/Porto, Cirurgia Oral specialty). Clinic clinicLicense was already on file (16639/2018) and not re-searched. |
| 2026-08-25 | Carreira Dental Clinic - Porto | Re-verification 2026-08-25: confirmed website live; corrected address to R. de António Cardoso 391, 4150-079 Porto (worklist had 385, 4150-742); captured first phone number +351 220 925 530 (previously unset); captured first Google rating 4.8 (59 reviews); added geo coordinates. |
| 2026-08-25 | Carreira Dental Clinic - Porto | License verification 2026-08-25: clinic license found via ERS, Numero de Registo 150739, address matches exactly (distinguished from same-brand Oliveira de Azemeis and Viseu branches). No named doctors on file for this clinic. |
| 2026-08-25 | Clínica Bessa | Re-verification 2026-08-25: confirmed website, address, phone, and rating (4.8) unchanged; Google review count increased to 540 (was 310); added geo coordinates. |
| 2026-08-25 | Clínica Bessa | License verification 2026-08-25: clinic license found self-published (ERS No 10515 / Licenca 1615/2011) on clinicabessa.pt, naming clinical director Dr. Edgar Felgueiras as the legal entity's namesake; OMD registry search confirms Dr. Edgar Felgueiras registered in Porto. |
| 2026-08-25 | Clínica Jorge Moura (Jorge Moura Dental Centre) | Re-verification 2026-08-25: confirmed website, address, phone, and rating (4.9) unchanged; Google review count increased to 231 (was 225); added geo coordinates. |
| 2026-08-25 | Clínica Jorge Moura (Jorge Moura Dental Centre) | License verification 2026-08-25 against OMD: Dra. Ana Carina Mendes confirmed registered (Porto/Amarante, exact name match). Dr. Pedro Moura left null: OMD searches for 'Pedro Moura' returned 4 results, none a clean match (the man himself is Distrito: Faro; a same-surname 'Pedro Dias Moura' is Porto/Amarante but with a different middle name) -- ambiguous, not treated as false. Clinic clinicLicense was already on file (8702/2014) and not re-searched. |
| 2026-08-25 | Clínica Médico-Dentária da Prelada | Re-verification 2026-08-25: original worklist website prelada.pt is unreachable (expired SSL certificate); confirmed via Google Maps and direct fetch that the clinic's current live site is https://dentista.com.pt/ (same clinic name, address, and phone), so contacts.website is corrected/moved; recorded full street address (worklist previously had only "Porto, Portugal"); Google review count increased to 155 (was 128), rating unchanged at 4.1; added geo coordinates. |
| 2026-08-25 | Clínica Médico-Dentária da Prelada | License verification 2026-08-25: clinic FOUND via ERS (Numero de Registo 107539), which also revealed the full legal name of the clinic's Responsavel Tecnico, 'Catia Arabela Albuquerque da Costa Reis Pinto Cardoso' (worklist only had 'Dra. Catia'). Doctor licenses left null: 'Dr. Rui' has only a first name (OMD requires 2+ words, registry: individual dentists only, unsearchable as-is); OMD searches for 'Catia' combined with 2-3 of her surname components ('Catia Cardoso', 'Catia Pinto Cardoso', 'Catia Reis Pinto Cardoso') returned no single unambiguous exact match among several similarly-surnamed Porto-district dentists (e.g. 'Catia Reis', 'Catia Arcanjo Pinto') -- transliteration/compound-surname ambiguity. |
| 2026-08-25 | Clínica PCMFG - Medicina Dentária | Re-verification 2026-08-25: confirmed website and rating (5.0) unchanged; recorded full street address (worklist previously had only "Porto, Portugal"); captured first phone number +351 226 001 616 (previously unset); Google review count increased to 260 (was 257); added geo coordinates. Site documents general anaesthesia ("Bloco Operatório / Anestesia geral") for orthognathic/maxillofacial surgery. |
| 2026-08-25 | Clínica PCMFG - Medicina Dentária | Recorded sedation / general anaesthesia availability (informational): documented as available. Site documents general anaesthesia for orthognathic/maxillofacial surgery in an operating theatre |
| 2026-08-25 | Clínica PCMFG - Medicina Dentária | License verification 2026-08-25: clinic license search inconclusive -- ERS name search ('PCMFG', street name) found no match and clinic's own site has no published number, but a city-filtered ERS search was not completed, so recorded as null rather than false. No named doctors on file for this clinic. |
| 2026-08-25 | Clínica Prof. Machado Capelas - Medicina Dentária | Re-verification 2026-08-25: confirmed website, address, and rating (5.0) unchanged; captured first phone number +351 222 008 966 (previously unset); Google review count increased to 447 (was 303); added geo coordinates. Site describes IV sedation that explicitly is not general anaesthesia (patient not fully asleep). |
| 2026-08-25 | Clínica Prof. Machado Capelas - Medicina Dentária | Recorded sedation / general anaesthesia availability (informational): not documented in public sources. IV sedation reduces consciousness but page explicitly states it is NOT general anaesthesia (patient not fully asleep) |
| 2026-08-25 | CMDP - Centro de Medicina Dentária do Porto | Re-verification 2026-08-25: confirmed website, address and phone; captured first Google rating 4.6 (56 reviews); added geo coordinates. Site advertises conscious sedation only, not deep/general anaesthesia. |
| 2026-08-25 | CMDP - Centro de Medicina Dentária do Porto | Recorded sedation / general anaesthesia availability (informational): not documented in public sources. Site advertises "Sedação Consciente" as a featured service (conscious, patient stays aware) |
| 2026-08-25 | CMDP - Centro de Medicina Dentária do Porto | License verification 2026-08-25 against ERS: clinic FOUND, exact name and address match, Numero de Registo 101356, Estado Registado. No named doctors on file for this clinic to verify. |
| 2026-08-25 | Dentalcore - Centro Médico Dentário | Re-verification 2026-08-25: confirmed website, address and phone; captured first Google rating 4.8 (31 reviews); added geo coordinates. Site documents conscious sedation only, not deep/general anaesthesia. |
| 2026-08-25 | Dentalcore - Centro Médico Dentário | Recorded sedation / general anaesthesia availability (informational): not documented in public sources. Site documents conscious sedation only ("minimal depression of consciousness"), with a sedation dentist listed |
| 2026-08-25 | Dentalcore - Centro Médico Dentário | License verification 2026-08-25 initially recorded clinic license as FALSE (ERS registry, 3 name variants, no match; clinic's own site footer publishes no license number either). CORRECTED 2026-08-26 after adversarial spot-check: the clinic's Termos e Condicoes page lists legal-entity name variants ('Penin & Santos Reis, Lda.' etc.) missed by the original search; ERS search on 'Penin' found the clinic registered as 'PENIN & SANTOS REIS - CLINICA DENTÁRIA, LDA', Numero de Registo 107653, Estado Registado, address and Responsavel Tecnico matching the clinic exactly. All 5 named doctors remain confirmed registered with OMD by name/district/specialty match (unchanged). |
| 2026-08-25 | Impress Porto | Re-verification 2026-08-25: confirmed website and rating (4.9) unchanged; added postal code to address (4000-431, previously not recorded); captured first phone number +351 308 800 355 (previously unset); Google review count increased sharply to 2,572 (was 1,024); added geo coordinates. |
| 2026-08-25 | Impress Porto | License verification 2026-08-25: clinic license found self-published on the clinic's Porto page (Licenca 20983/2021, Registo 34320, Certidao E157252). No named doctors on file for this clinic. |
| 2026-08-25 | Instituto AreLuna | Re-verification 2026-08-25: confirmed website, address and phone; Google rating updated to 4.9 (was 5) and review count increased to 525 (was 354); added geo coordinates. |
| 2026-08-25 | Instituto AreLuna | License verification 2026-08-25: clinic license and all 4 named doctors' OMD registration numbers found self-published on the clinic's own site (institutoareluna.pt), which lists individual OMD numbers per clinician; not independently cross-checked against the OMD public registry due to time. |
| 2026-08-25 | MALO CLINIC Porto | Re-verification 2026-08-25: confirmed website, address and phone; captured first Google rating 3.9 (59 reviews); added geo coordinates. |
| 2026-08-25 | MALO CLINIC Porto | License verification 2026-08-25: clinic license found via ERS registry for the Porto-specific establishment (Numero de Registo 104407), distinct from the entity-level ERS No. 12920 shown on the group's international website. No named doctors on file for this clinic. |
| 2026-08-25 | Medway - Clínica Dentária | Re-verification 2026-08-25: confirmed website, address and phone; captured first Google rating 4.9 (677 reviews); added geo coordinates. |
| 2026-08-25 | Medway - Clínica Dentária | License verification 2026-08-25 against ERS: clinic FOUND, Numero de Registo 161261 (entity COMSMILE, LDA), address matches exactly; ERS record's Responsavel Tecnico 'Daniela Paiva' matches the clinic's own director. All 4 named doctors confirmed registered with OMD, matched to Porto district (3 by concelho match to the clinic's own address). |
| 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 | Molar Clinic | Re-verification 2026-08-25: confirmed website, address and phone; Google rating updated to 4.9 (was 5) and review count increased to 430 (was 382); confirmed not permanently closed (currently on a planned Aug 15–31 vacation break, per both Maps and the clinic's own site); added geo coordinates. |
| 2026-08-25 | Molar Clinic | License verification 2026-08-25: clinic license found self-published on molar.pt (Registo E121555 / Licenca 7903/2014). No named doctors on file for this clinic. |
| 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. |