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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-07 | Centre Dentaire El Wassy | 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 crawl. |
| 2026-09-07 | Centre Dentaire El Wassy | opaque_prices flag removed under methodology v1.4.0 (no citable evidence found on re-verification: dentisteamarrakech.com, fetched 2026-09-07, advertises 'Bon Prix' in its title and 'prix très avantageux' / 'au meilleur prix' in body copy but carries no figures and no price page. Unsubstantiated price puffery over unpublished prices is not documented bait). |
| 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we are reviewing those entries in a follow-up pass, because some of them were also written for nothing more than an unpublished price list.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 | Montblanc Dental Center | opaque_prices flag removed under methodology v1.4.0 (no evidence of bait/opacity; non-publication is scored by price criteria). |
| 2026-09-03 | Methodology v1.3.1 | Clarified that the publication criteria refer to the clinic’s own channels: a service list, the names of the dentists and a price list count when the clinic itself publishes them (its website, its social profiles or its own Google Business profile) — registers, directories and review sites do not, and a time-limited promotional offer is not a price list. Added a third state for a dentist’s licence, "checked, not found in the public register": a dentist we searched for in the national register and did not find is now recorded as checked-but-unverified with the date of the check, instead of being shown either as "not checked yet" or as the "not published" red flag. Neither change alters any weight or penalty; the red-flag rule still fires only on a verified negative. Also corrected the wording of the penalty note under the ranking table, which rendered as "20−" in right-to-left dictionaries. |
| 2026-08-25 | Basma Clinique Dentaire | Re-verification 2026-08-25: confirmed website live, address and phone unchanged. Captured Google rating 4.9 and 485 reviews (previously unset). |
| 2026-08-25 | Centre Dentaire Al Haouz | Re-verification 2026-08-25: confirmed website live, address and phone unchanged. Captured Google rating 5.0 and 11 reviews (previously unset). |
| 2026-08-25 | Centre Dentaire El Wassy | Re-verification 2026-08-25: confirmed website live, address and phone unchanged. Captured Google rating 4.4 and 34 reviews (previously unset). |
| 2026-08-25 | Centre Dentaire El Wassy | Recorded sedation / general anaesthesia availability (informational): not documented in public sources. 'Sedative dentistry' article: local anaesthesia, nitrous oxide, anti-anxiety meds or oral sedation; patient stays conscious, not fully asleep. |
| 2026-08-25 | Centre Dentaire Salim | Re-verification 2026-08-25: confirmed website live, address and phone unchanged. Captured Google rating 5.0 and 61 reviews (previously unset); note the Maps listing itself does not display a phone number (site's number confirmed independently). |
| 2026-08-25 | Clinique Dentaire Targa | Re-verification 2026-08-25: confirmed website live, address and phone unchanged. Captured Google rating 4.4 and 145 reviews (previously unset). Own site also confirms general-anaesthesia dental care (recorded separately in sedation research). |
| 2026-08-25 | Clinique Dentaire Targa | Recorded sedation / general anaesthesia availability (informational): documented as available. Dedicated page: dental care under general anaesthesia in hospital operating room with anaesthesiologist present. |
| 2026-08-25 | Marrakech Dental Clinic | Re-verification 2026-08-25: confirmed website live, address and phone unchanged. Google rating jumped from 2.3 to 4.7 and review count rose from 47 to 122; recorded Google Maps place URL and coordinates (new fields). |
| 2026-08-25 | Marrakech Senior Dentist (Dr Rachid Ait Addi) | Re-verification 2026-08-25: confirmed website live and phone unchanged; Google Maps profile (listed as "Cabinet Dentaire Ait Addi Rachid") gives a fuller street address than the generic stored "Massira, Marrakech", recorded as a correction. Captured Google rating 4.9 and 116 reviews (previously unset). |
| 2026-08-25 | Marrakech Smile | Re-verification 2026-08-25: Google Maps now shows this listing as "Temporarily closed" (not permanently closed) — recorded as an operating-status change. Website (marrakechsmile.com, redirecting to its own index.php) is still live but displays a "site under renovation" banner; address and phone unchanged. Captured Google rating 4.6 and 216 reviews (previously unset). |
| 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 | Montblanc Dental Center | Re-verification 2026-08-25: confirmed website live, address and phone unchanged. Google rating updated from 5 to 4.9 and review count rose from 90 to 192; recorded place URL, coordinates, and review recency. |
| 2026-08-25 | Montblanc Dental Center | Recorded sedation / general anaesthesia availability (informational): documented as available. Site: implant surgery under local anaesthesia; general anaesthesia at hospital used in rare cases. |
| 2026-08-25 | Moqadem Dental Clinic | Re-verification 2026-08-25: confirmed website live, address and phone unchanged. Captured Google rating 4.9 and 1298 reviews (previously unset). Note: the Google Maps profile (listed under the owner-doctor's name, Moqadem Hafça) also links two other clinic domains (mondentiste.ma, esthetiquedentairemarrakech.com) alongside the stored moqademdentalclinic.com; stored site confirmed live and correct so not recorded as a website change. |
| 2026-08-25 | Moqadem Dental Clinic | Recorded sedation / general anaesthesia availability (informational): not documented in public sources. Conscious sedation only, offered for anxious patients; patient stays awake/relaxed. |
| 2026-08-25 | Ocre Dental Center | Re-verification 2026-08-25: website moved — stored ocredentalcenter.com now 301-redirects to https://dentalmarrakech.com/, confirmed live with matching address, phone, and clinic name. Address and phone unchanged. Captured Google rating 5.0 and 160 reviews (previously unset). |
| 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 | Basma Clinique Dentaire | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-12 | Centre Dentaire Al Haouz | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-12 | Centre Dentaire El Wassy | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-12 | Centre Dentaire Salim | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-12 | Clinique Dentaire Targa | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-12 | Marrakech Dental Clinic | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-12 | Marrakech Senior Dentist (Dr Rachid Ait Addi) | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-12 | Marrakech Smile | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-12 | Montblanc Dental Center | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-12 | Moqadem Dental Clinic | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-12 | Ocre 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. |