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 | Anveli Dental | opaque_prices flag removed under methodology v1.4.0 (no evidence of bait/opacity; non-publication is scored by price criteria). |
| 2026-09-07 | IG Dental | opaque_prices flag removed under methodology v1.4.0 (no evidence of bait/opacity; non-publication is scored by price criteria). |
| 2026-09-07 | JolyDent (Sofia-Dentist.com) | opaque_prices flag removed under methodology v1.4.0 (no evidence of bait/opacity; non-publication is scored by price criteria). |
| 2026-09-07 | Markov-Dent | opaque_prices flag removed under methodology v1.4.0 (no evidence of bait/opacity; non-publication is scored by price 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we are reviewing those entries in a follow-up pass, because some of them were also written for nothing more than an unpublished price list.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 | ProDent Clinic Sofia | opaque_prices flag removed under methodology v1.4.0 (no evidence of bait/opacity; non-publication is scored by price criteria). |
| 2026-09-07 | Sofia Dental | opaque_prices flag removed under methodology v1.4.0 (no evidence of bait/opacity; non-publication is scored by price criteria). |
| 2026-09-07 | VM Dent | 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. |
| 2026-08-26 | Anveli Dental | License verification 2026-08-26 against BZS national dentist register and IAMN/his.bg outpatient-care registry: clinic registration number 221613300501 exists but its record is marked deregistered (statuslabel 'Заличено ЛЗ') - recorded as verified false; named doctor 'Dr. Glavinov' not disambiguated among 4 same-surname BZS members. |
| 2026-08-26 | Anveli Dental | Deepen 2026-08-26: rechecked website/contacts/rating/operating status; added Google rating (4.7/80) with Maps source and geo/pin; confirmed sedation/general-anaesthesia offering with a source (previously null); visibility scout 5 queries; no uncited sources found to triage (all 5 stored sources already cited). |
| 2026-08-26 | Anveli Dental | Recorded sedation / general anaesthesia availability (informational): documented as available. Own site (basal implant surgery page): 'general anaesthesia or sedation' offered for comfort; also general anesthesia listed as a WhatClinic service. |
| 2026-08-26 | Dental Implant Bulgaria (ViR Dental) | License verification 2026-08-26 against BZS dentist register and IAMN/his.bg outpatient-care registry: clinic registration found (220911200690, also cross-referenced via 220311200724); Radostin Uzunov and Pascaliev confirmed active BZS members at the same Tsar Simeon 132 address; Boteva not disambiguated among 9 same-surname members. |
| 2026-08-26 | Dental Implant Bulgaria (ViR Dental) | Deepen 2026-08-26: IMPORTANT - both the clinic's known domains, dentalimplantbulgaria.com and its rebrand wirdental.com, are unreachable today (connection refused, same server IP) - the site is effectively dead. However the clinic itself is confirmed operating: its Google Business listing (now titled 'Радостин Узунов - Дентална клиника'/'WiR Dental') is active with recent reviews at a newly-confirmed address, ul. Todor Kozhuharov 16 (previously only 'Sofia, Bulgaria' was on file), cross-confirmed via the doctor's own Google Sites professional page (external, still live) and phone match; added Google rating (5.0/10) and a live Facebook page (WIRDENTAL Dental Centre) as external sources; visibility scout 5 queries - not present in any; no uncited sources found to triage; no sedation info found (left null). |
| 2026-08-26 | Dental Implant Bulgaria (ViR Dental) | 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. s11 [https://dentalimplantbulgaria.com/en/]: https://dentalimplantbulgaria.com/en/ (attempt1: Connect Timeout Error (attempted address: dentalimplantbulgaria.com:443, timeout: 10000ms); attempt2 (+30s): Connect Timeout Error (attempted address: dentalimplantbulgaria.com:443, timeout: 10000ms), other->stable-dead on recheck) |
| 2026-08-26 | IG Dental | License verification 2026-08-26 against IAMN/his.bg outpatient-care registry: no clinic registration identified for IG Dental under the variants tried; no named doctors on the clinic's site to check against BZS. |
| 2026-08-26 | IG Dental | Deepen 2026-08-26: rechecked website/contacts/operating status (unchanged); added Google rating (4.2/15) and a WhatClinic listing as external sources; confirmed genuine general-anaesthesia offering (true) with a dedicated source page - a strong sedation-cohort finding; visibility scout 5 queries - not present in any; no uncited sources found to triage. |
| 2026-08-26 | IG Dental | Recorded sedation / general anaesthesia availability (informational): documented as available. Dedicated service page: general anaesthesia offered, useful for dentophobia, children and lengthy procedures; team experienced treating severely damaged patients under general anaesthesia. |
| 2026-08-26 | Impression Dent | License verification 2026-08-26 against BZS dentist register and IAMN/his.bg outpatient-care registry: founder Dr. Byalev confirmed active BZS member at Impression Dent's own address, with matching clinic registration found (220911200751); Yana Mohammad-Byaleva and Karteva not found under name/surname variants tried (recorded as null, not false). |
| 2026-08-26 | Impression Dent | Deepen 2026-08-26: rechecked website/contacts/operating status (unchanged); added Google rating (4.8/220) and a Bulgarian dental-clinics Facebook community discussion as external sources; recorded a recurring-complaints pattern (pricing/quality) visible across two independent Google reviews plus the community thread (previously null); visibility scout 5 queries - appears only for expats; sedation left null - one community comment said general anaesthesia is not offered, another implied it was used elsewhere in the same thread, so the evidence is contradictory and not treated as reliable; no uncited sources found to triage. |
| 2026-08-26 | JolyDent (Sofia-Dentist.com) | License verification 2026-08-26 against BZS dentist register and IAMN/his.bg outpatient-care registry: Dr. Manya Pencheva confirmed active BZS member at JolyDent's own address; matching clinic registration found (221011200735). |
| 2026-08-26 | JolyDent (Sofia-Dentist.com) | Deepen 2026-08-26: rechecked website/contacts/operating status (unchanged); added Google rating (4.5/10) and a Bulgaria expat-directory listing (mybulgariacenter.com) as external sources; visibility scout 5 queries - appears only for englishSpeaking; no uncited sources found to triage; no sedation info found (left null). |
| 2026-08-26 | Markov-Dent | License verification 2026-08-26 against BZS dentist register and IAMN/his.bg outpatient-care registry: Dr. Ivan Markov confirmed active BZS member at Markov-Dent's own address; matching individual-practice clinic registration found (220411200614). |
| 2026-08-26 | Markov-Dent | Deepen 2026-08-26: rechecked website/contacts/operating status (unchanged); added Google rating (4.6/72) and an Infobel Bulgaria business-directory listing as external sources; visibility scout 5 queries - not present in any; no uncited sources found to triage; no sedation info found (left null). |
| 2026-08-26 | Markov-Dent | 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. markov-dent-deepen-2 [https://mesten.infobel.bg/index_18.html]: https://mesten.infobel.bg/index_18.html (HTTP 404, rotten) |
| 2026-08-26 | Medstom Dental Clinic | License verification 2026-08-26 against BZS dentist register and IAMN/his.bg outpatient-care registry: clinic registration found (220413224001); all 5 named Medstom doctors (Mohamed, El-Daris, Chankova, Mihailova, Dyulgerov) confirmed as active BZS members, 4 of them at Medstom's own bul. Dondukov 26A address. |
| 2026-08-26 | Medstom Dental Clinic | Deepen 2026-08-26: rechecked website (now live/fetchable, previously 403), contacts, operating status (unchanged); added Google rating (4.7/1,116, largest review base in the worklist), a Facebook page and a WhatClinic listing matching the Dondukov branch as external sources; confirmed exclusively-local-anaesthesia (false) with a source; visibility scout 5 queries - appears only for expats; no uncited sources found to triage. |
| 2026-08-26 | Medstom Dental Clinic | Recorded sedation / general anaesthesia availability (informational): not documented in public sources. Own blog states the clinic uses exclusively local anaesthesia for dental procedures. |
| 2026-08-26 | Ortodent Dental Clinic | License verification 2026-08-26 against IAMN/his.bg outpatient-care registry: 3 same-name candidate registrations found in Sofia but none could be confirmed as this specific clinic, whose site names no individual dentist; recorded as null, not false. |
| 2026-08-26 | Ortodent Dental Clinic | Deepen 2026-08-26: rechecked website/contacts/operating status (unchanged); added Google rating (4.9/342) and a Facebook page as external sources; found and cited an expat-community (Foreigners in Sofia & Friends) recommendation confirming worksWithForeigners (previously null); visibility scout 5 queries - not present in any; no uncited sources found to triage; no sedation info found (left null). |
| 2026-08-26 | ProDent Clinic Sofia | License verification 2026-08-26 against BZS dentist register and IAMN/his.bg outpatient-care registry: clinic registration found (220211200987); Mariya Bencheva and Albena Veselinova confirmed active BZS members at ProDent's own address; Rumen Benchev is an ENT physician per the clinic's own site (BLS УИН 2300008163), not a dentist - out of scope for the BZS register, recorded as null not false. |
| 2026-08-26 | ProDent Clinic Sofia | Deepen 2026-08-26: rechecked website/contacts/operating status (unchanged); added Google rating (5.0/5) and a verified live Facebook page as external sources; visibility scout 5 queries - not present in any; no uncited sources found to triage; no sedation info found (left null). |
| 2026-08-26 | Sofia Dental | License verification 2026-08-26 against IAMN/his.bg outpatient-care registry: no clinic registration identified for Sofia Dental under 2 name variants tried; no named doctors on the clinic's site to check against BZS. |
| 2026-08-26 | Sofia Dental | Deepen 2026-08-26: rechecked website/contacts/operating status (unchanged); added Google rating (5.0/35), a ZoomInfo business-profile external source confirming the address, and the site's own emergency-line quote (previously null); visibility scout 5 queries - appears only for emergency; no uncited sources found to triage. |
| 2026-08-26 | Sofia Implant Centre | License verification 2026-08-26 against IAMN/his.bg outpatient-care registry: clinic registration found (221513300502) under a name matching 'Sofia Implant Centre'. No named doctors on file to check against the BZS dentist register. |
| 2026-08-26 | Sofia Implant Centre | Deepen 2026-08-26: rechecked website/contacts/rating/operating status (unchanged); confirmed rating 4.8, review count updated to 767; added WhatClinic external source with its own rating (4.9/9 reviews); confirmed sedation is conscious-only (false) with a source; visibility scout 5 queries - appears in all 5; no uncited sources found to triage. |
| 2026-08-26 | Sofia Implant Centre | Recorded sedation / general anaesthesia availability (informational): not documented in public sources. FAQ states local anaesthesia for implant surgery plus 'conscious sedation' when needed (patient stays awake) - not general anaesthesia. |
| 2026-08-26 | VM Dent | License verification 2026-08-26 against BZS dentist register and IAMN/his.bg outpatient-care registry: Dr. Kostadin Mitov confirmed as an active BZS member; clinic-level registration for VM Dent not identified in the state registry under 2 name variants tried. |
| 2026-08-26 | VM Dent | Deepen 2026-08-26: recheck found a full street address (previously only 'Sofia, Bulgaria') and a phone number (previously unset) via the clinic's own contacts page - note the site's own listed number (+359 877 303 059) differs from the Google Maps-displayed number (+359 87 651 0055), both appear to be live clinic lines; review count updated 107->174 (directly confirmed vs prior aggregator estimate); added a live Facebook page as external source; visibility scout 5 queries - not present in any; a third-party 'STA anaesthesia' claim initially found in search was verified on the source page to describe a different clinic and was discarded, so sedation stays null; no uncited sources found to triage. |
| 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. |
| 2026-07-12 | Anveli Dental | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-12 | Dental Implant Bulgaria (ViR Dental) | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-12 | IG Dental | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-12 | Impression Dent | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-12 | JolyDent (Sofia-Dentist.com) | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-12 | Markov-Dent | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-12 | Medstom Dental Clinic | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-12 | Ortodent Dental Clinic | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-12 | ProDent Clinic Sofia | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-12 | Sofia Dental | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-12 | Sofia Implant Centre | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-12 | VM Dent | 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. |