ForteDent Dental Clinic
According to our open methodology, this clinic scored 43.2/100 for transparency, reputation, service accessibility, and digital visibility.
Overall rank: #5 of 20 ranked clinics · Last checked: 27 August 2026
Positions by Rating Profile
- Overall Transparency & Trust#543.2/100
- Best for Expats#540.5/100
- Best for Dental Implants#541.5/100
- Best for Emergency Dental Carenot ranked
- Best Price Transparency#725.4/100
- Best English-speaking Clinics#542.3/100
- Best for Families / Children#443.6/100
- Sleep Dentistry (GA / deep sedation)not ranked
General Anaesthesia & Deep Sedation
Whether the clinic documents treatment under general anaesthesia or deep / twilight sedation — "sleep dentistry", where the patient is asleep and unaware (does not feel, see, or hear the procedure). Ordinary conscious sedation, where the patient stays awake and responsive, does not count here. This is informational and does not affect the transparency score.
- ? General anaesthesia / deep sedation (sleep dentistry) — Not verified
Summary
Long-running dental clinic on Sliema's High Street, serving local and foreign patients since 2007 with staff speaking around 11 languages. Offers general dentistry, CAD-CAM restorations, orthodontics (including Invisalign/Cristaline aligners) and implant surgery, with a second nearby branch at 84A High Street.
Strengths
No categories reached the strength threshold (80%).
Weaknesses
- Price Transparency: 0 of 3 verifiable points (missing: prices or price ranges published)
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 [site] | 4/4 |
| ✗ | Dentist names listed [site] | 0/3 |
| ✗ | Dentist specializations listed [site] | 0/2 |
| ? | Real clinic photos | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Service list published [site] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Clear contact details [site] [maps] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | English website version [site] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Address and map published [maps] | 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 [site] | 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) as of 2026-08-27; main 114 High Street listing [maps] | 6/6 |
| ◐ | Google review volume [maps] | 2.5/3 |
| ? | Review recency | 0/3 |
| ? | Clinic responds to reviews | 0/2 |
| ? | No recurring complaints | 0/2 |
| ? | No suspicious review patterns | 0/2 |
| ? | Active Facebook presence | 0/1 |
| ? | TripAdvisor presence | 0/0.5 |
| ✓ | Other review platforms [whatclinic] | 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 | 0/2 |
| ? | CBCT (3D imaging) | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Implantology [site] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Orthodontics [site] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Oral surgery [site] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Pediatric dentistry [site] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ? | Emergency care | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | Works with international patients [site] | 2/2 |
Communication & Service
How easy it is to contact the clinic, get answers, and book - especially for international patients.
| ? | WhatsApp / LINE available | 0/2 |
| ? | Response speed | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | English spoken [site] | 2.5/2.5 |
| ? | Pre-visit consultation possible | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | Clear service explanations [site] | 1/1 |
| ? | Convenient opening hours | 0/1.5 |
AI & Search Visibility
Whether the clinic is discoverable when patients search - including via AI assistants. Checked with fixed queries: "best dentist Malta", "English speaking dentist Malta", "dental implants Malta", "emergency dentist Malta", "Malta dental clinic for expats".
| ✓ | Mentioned for: best dentist Malta [ai-best] | 1/1 |
| ✓ | Mentioned for: English speaking dentist Malta [ai-english] | 1/1 |
| ✓ | Mentioned for: dental implants Malta Appears in the Google Local Pack (Places) for "dental implants Malta" (Sliema branch), 4.9★ (283 reviews) [s_ai] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: emergency dentist Malta [s_ai] | 0/1 |
| ✓ | Mentioned for: Malta dental clinic for expats Named directly in a Facebook expat-group thread recommending Sliema dentists for expats [s_ai] | 1/1 |
| ? | Structured data on website | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | Google indexing quality [ai-english] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Dedicated service pages [site] | 1.5/1.5 |
Licensing & Credentials
Whether the clinic publishes its operating licence and the dentists working there together with their professional licence numbers. A verified “not published” is recorded as a red flag; data we have not checked yet is shown as unverified and carries no penalty.
Clinic operating licence: not checked against public sources yet — unverified, no penalty
Dentists & professional licences
No published dentist roster is recorded for this clinic yet — unverified, no penalty.
Red Flags
- low No dentists identified anywhere (-2 pts) — No dentist names published (derived from data).
- low Opaque or bait pricing (-2 pts) — No prices or price ranges published (derived from data).
Red-flag penalty applied: -4 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: Active Facebook presence
- Reputation & Reviews: TripAdvisor presence
- Medical Infrastructure: On-site X-ray
- Medical Infrastructure: CBCT (3D imaging)
- Medical Infrastructure: Emergency care
- Communication & Service: WhatsApp / LINE available
- Communication & Service: Response speed
- 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://fortedent.com/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +356 2733 3111 |
| Google Maps | Map listing |
| Address | 114 High Street (Triq il-Kbira), Sliema, Malta |
Contact details are provided for identification only and may change; verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| site | https://fortedent.com/ | services (general, CAD-CAM, paediatric, orthodontics, oral surgery, implantology), languages spoken, since 2007, no prices published, no named dentists on homepage | 2026-08-27 |
| maps | https://www.google.com/maps/search/Fortedent+Dental+Clinic+114+High… | address, phone, Google rating 4.9 (283 reviews) as of 2026-08-27 | 2026-08-27 |
| whatclinic | https://www.whatclinic.com/dentists/malta/sliema/fortedent-dental-c… | presence on WhatClinic aggregator listing (44 verified reviews there) | 2026-08-27 |
| ai-best | https://www.google.com/search?q=best+dentist+Malta&hl=en&gl=us&pws=0 | Fortedent Dental Clinic named first in the top-ranking WhatClinic snippet for "best dentist Malta" | 2026-08-27 |
| ai-english | https://www.google.com/search?q=English+speaking+dentist+Malta&hl=e… | fortedent.com ranks directly in organic results, snippet: "Languages spoken include Maltese, English, Italian, Turkish, Arabic" | 2026-08-27 |
| s_ai | search:best dentist Malta / English speaking dentist Malta / dental implants Malta / emergency dentist Malta / Malta dental clinic for expats | AI/search visibility scout 2026-08-28 | 2026-08-28 |
Change History
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-27 | Initial verification: confirmed live website, address, phone and Google rating (4.9, 283 reviews); no dentists named on the clinic's own homepage so licensing.doctors left empty; recorded AI/search-visibility signals from direct queries. |
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