Bellas Dental
According to our open methodology, this clinic scored 18.1/100 for transparency, reputation, service accessibility, and digital visibility.
Overall rank: #26 of 26 ranked clinics · Last checked: 18 August 2026
Positions by Rating Profile
- Overall Transparency & Trust#2618.1/100
- Best for Expats#2613.3/100
- Best for Dental Implants#2316.5/100
- Best for Emergency Dental Carenot ranked
- Best Price Transparency#264.9/100
- Best English-speaking Clinicsnot ranked
- Best for Families / Childrennot ranked
Summary
Bellas Dental is a dental clinic established in March 2021 in the Gambelas district of Faro. The clinic has three consulting rooms, a sterilization room, a radiology room, and accessible facilities. It offers implantology, orthodontics, general and aesthetic dentistry, endodontics, prosthodontics, and facial harmonisation. The English-language website is available. Individual dentist names and credentials are not published. DocDental shows a Google rating of 3.6 from 23 reviews. No ERS or OMD numbers are published.
Mobile +351 930 602 626 also listed on website. The clinic advertises 12-month zero-interest financing up to €2,500. Instagram @bellasdental.gambelas. Over 900 satisfied patients claimed on social media. No dentist names found in any accessible source.
Strengths
No categories reached the strength threshold (80%).
Weaknesses
- Price Transparency: 0 of 3 verifiable points (missing: prices or price ranges published)
- Reputation & Reviews: 3.5 of 10.5 verifiable points.
- AI & Search Visibility: 2.5 of 8.5 verifiable points (missing: mentioned for: best dentist portugal; mentioned for: english speaking dentist portugal; mentioned for: dental implants portugal; mentioned for: emergency dentist portugal; mentioned for: portugal dental clinic for expats)
Score Breakdown
Every criterion below is scored from public sources. ✓ verified yes · ✗ verified no / not found · ◐ partial · ? unverified (scores 0, not a negative finding).
Information Transparency
Whether basic facts about the clinic - its team, premises, services, and location - are publicly verifiable.
| ✓ | Has a working website [s1] | 4/4 |
| ✗ | Dentist names listed no individual dentist names found on website or in any accessible directory [s1] [s2] | 0/3 |
| ✗ | Dentist specializations listed specialty areas listed but not attributed to named practitioners [s1] | 0/2 |
| ? | Real clinic photos | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Service list published implantology, orthodontics, general dentistry/aesthetics, endodontics, prosthodontics, facial harmonisation [s1] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Clear contact details landline, mobile, email on website [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | English website version English version available at /en/home [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Address and map published [s1] | 2/2 |
Price Transparency
Whether patients can estimate costs before visiting. Published price ranges count; exact prices are not required.
| ✗ | Prices or price ranges published no price list published; financing terms (12x up to €2,500 zero-interest) referenced [s1] | 0/3 |
| ? | Cleaning price listed | 0/2 |
| ? | Filling price listed | 0/2 |
| ? | Crown price listed | 0/2 |
| ? | Implant price listed | 0/2 |
| ? | Consultation price listed | 0/2 |
| ? | X-ray / imaging price listed | 0/2 |
Reputation & Reviews
Public review signals. The Google rating is adjusted with a Bayesian prior (rating 4.0, weight 25) so a 5.0 from a handful of reviews does not outrank a 4.8 from hundreds.
| ◐ | Google rating (Bayesian-adjusted) 3.6 from 23 Google reviews per docdental.pt mirror [s3] | 1/6 |
| ◐ | Google review volume [s3] | 1/3 |
| ? | Review recency | 0/3 |
| ? | Clinic responds to reviews | 0/2 |
| ? | No recurring complaints review content not accessible via sources used | 0/2 |
| ? | No suspicious review patterns | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Active Facebook presence [s1] | 1/1 |
| ? | TripAdvisor presence | 0/0.5 |
| ✓ | Other review platforms listed on docdental.pt, booking.dentist, whatclinic.com [s2] | 0.5/0.5 |
Medical Infrastructure
The range of publicly documented equipment and services. This measures documented availability, not clinical quality.
| ✓ | On-site X-ray radiology room documented in clinic description [s1] | 2/2 |
| ? | CBCT (3D imaging) | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Implantology [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Orthodontics [s1] | 2/2 |
| ? | Oral surgery oral surgery not explicitly listed; implantology implies surgical capability | 0/2 |
| ? | Pediatric dentistry | 0/1.5 |
| ? | Emergency care | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | Works with international patients English-language website available [s1] | 2/2 |
Communication & Service
How easy it is to contact the clinic, get answers, and book - especially for international patients.
| ? | WhatsApp / LINE available WhatsApp not confirmed in accessible sources | 0/2 |
| ? | Response speed | 0/1.5 |
| ? | English spoken English website exists but staff language capabilities not confirmed | 0/2.5 |
| ? | Pre-visit consultation possible | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | Clear service explanations [s1] | 1/1 |
| ? | Convenient opening hours opening hours not found in accessible sources | 0/1.5 |
AI & Search Visibility
Whether the clinic is discoverable when patients search - including via AI assistants. Checked with fixed queries: "best dentist Portugal", "English speaking dentist Portugal", "dental implants Portugal", "emergency dentist Portugal", "Portugal dental clinic for expats".
| ✗ | Mentioned for: best dentist Portugal [s4] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: English speaking dentist Portugal [s4] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: dental implants Portugal [s4] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: emergency dentist Portugal [s4] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: Portugal dental clinic for expats [s4] | 0/1 |
| ? | Structured data on website | 0/1.5 |
| ◐ | Google indexing quality clinic does not surface in top results for the five canonical city queries [s4] | 1/2 |
| ✓ | Dedicated service pages separate pages per specialty on the website [s1] | 1.5/1.5 |
Licensing & Credentials
Whether the clinic publishes its operating licence and the dentists working there together with their professional licence numbers. Missing items are penalised.
Clinic operating licence: not published on the clinic’s website — penalty applied
Dentists & professional licences
The clinic does not publish the dentists working there or their professional licence numbers — penalty applied.
Red Flags
- medium Clinic operating licence not published (-4 pts) — The clinic does not publish its operating licence or registration number (derived from data).
- medium Dentists / their licences not listed (-4 pts) — The clinic does not publish its dentists with their professional licence numbers (derived from data).
- medium No dentists identified anywhere (-3 pts) — No individual dentist names or credentials are published anywhere on the official website or in any accessible directory. Patients cannot verify who will treat them.
- low Opaque or bait pricing (-2 pts) — No prices or price ranges published (derived from data).
Red-flag penalty applied: -13 points (capped at -20).
Data We Could Not Verify
- Information Transparency: Real clinic photos
- Price Transparency: Cleaning price listed
- Price Transparency: Filling price listed
- Price Transparency: Crown price listed
- Price Transparency: Implant price listed
- Price Transparency: Consultation price listed
- Price Transparency: X-ray / imaging price listed
- Reputation & Reviews: Review recency
- Reputation & Reviews: Clinic responds to reviews
- Reputation & Reviews: No recurring complaints
- Reputation & Reviews: No suspicious review patterns
- Reputation & Reviews: TripAdvisor presence
- Medical Infrastructure: CBCT (3D imaging)
- Medical Infrastructure: Oral surgery
- Medical Infrastructure: Pediatric dentistry
- Medical Infrastructure: Emergency care
- Communication & Service: WhatsApp / LINE available
- Communication & Service: Response speed
- Communication & Service: English spoken
- Communication & Service: Pre-visit consultation possible
- Communication & Service: Convenient opening hours
- AI & Search Visibility: Structured data on website
Unverified items score 0 points but are not treated as negative findings. If you can document any of them, please send a correction.
Contact Information
| Website | https://www.bellasdental.pt/en/home |
|---|---|
| Phone | +351 289 115 325 |
| https://www.facebook.com/BellasDental/ | |
| Address | Rua das Violetas, Lote Q, Loja A, Gambelas, 8005-200 Faro, Portugal |
Contact details are provided for identification only and may change; verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | https://www.bellasdental.pt/en/home | official English website: address (Rua das Violetas Lote Q Loja A Gambelas 8005-200 Faro), phones (+351 289 115 325, +351 930 602 626), email [email protected], Facebook, Instagram @bellasdental.gambelas, service list (implantology, orthodontics, general/aesthetic dentistry, endodontics, prosthodontics, facial harmonisation), radiology room documented, opened March 2021, 12x zero-interest financing | 2026-08-18 |
| s2 | search:Bellas Dental Faro Portugal reviews Google dentist | confirms clinic identity at Rua das Violetas Gambelas; Facebook page; multi-platform listing; 900+ satisfied patients claim; no dentist names found | 2026-08-18 |
| s3 | https://docdental.pt/clinicas-dentais/faro/ | Google rating mirror: Bellas Dental 3.6/5 from 23 reviews | 2026-08-18 |
| s4 | search:the five canonical city queries | AI/search visibility checks 2026-08-18: clinic not surfaced in top results for the five canonical city queries | 2026-08-18 |
Change History
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-18 |
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