Centre Street Dental Clinic
According to our open methodology, this clinic scored 60/100 for transparency, reputation, service accessibility, and digital visibility.
Overall rank: #22 of 29 ranked clinics · Last checked: 8 September 2026
60/100
Positions by Rating Profile
- Overall Transparency & Trust#2260/100
- Best for Expatsnot ranked
- Best for Dental Implants#2156/100
- Best for Emergency Dental Care#2061.3/100
- Best Price Transparency#2340.5/100
- Best English-speaking Clinics#2160.3/100
- Best for Families / Children#1763.5/100
- 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) — No general anaesthesia or deep sedation documented Sedation is not on the published service list. [s3]
Summary
Family-owned practice in downtown Calgary next to Chinatown, operating since 1986 and open six days a week. The site names three dentists, a denturist and the hygiene team, and states that the clinic bills to the Alberta Dental Association fee guide without printing figures of its own. Two of the three dentists hold active Alberta permits; the third is not on the register under the given name the clinic publishes.
Strengths
- Information Transparency: 18 of 20 points.
- No red flags identified in public sources.
Weaknesses
- Price Transparency: 0 of 15 verifiable points (missing: prices or price ranges published; cleaning price listed; filling price listed; crown price listed; implant price listed; consultation price listed; x-ray / imaging price listed)
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
18 / 20
Whether basic facts about the clinic - its team, premises, services, and location - are publicly verifiable.
| ✓ | Has a working website Live on 2026-09-07: HTTP 200 with the practice content in the body. [s1] | 4/4 |
| ✓ | Dentist names listed The team page names Dr. Zhendan Pan, Dr. Harris Zou and Dr. Belinda Le as the dentists, plus a denturist and the hygiene and assisting teams. [s2] | 3/3 |
| ✗ | Dentist specializations listed The team page gives names and roles only; no qualification, degree or clinical specialisation is stated for any named dentist. [s2] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Real clinic photos Confirmed on the place page in a browser on 2026-09-08: the lead owner photograph is the practice's own corner premises at 303 Centre Street South, its shopfront carrying the blue «CENTRE STREET DENTAL» fascia sign in English and Chinese. Premises and signage together, so the existing value is evidenced rather than inferred. [s1] [gmpb] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Service list published A full list of dental services with an explanation of each. [s3] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Clear contact details Address, phone (403) 290-0303, e-mail info@centrestdental.com and full opening hours are published on the contact page. [s4] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | English website version The site is published in English. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Address and map published Full street address with postcode and a location block on the contact page. The clinic writes the address as Unit 101, 303 Centre Street SW while the Google place record prints 303 Centre St S #101; the coordinates and phone are the same. [s4] | 2/2 |
Price Transparency
0 / 15
Whether patients can estimate costs before visiting. Published price ranges count; exact prices are not required.
| ✗ | Prices or price ranges published The services page states that the clinic follows the Alberta Dental Association fee guide and invites patients to phone with questions about fees, but publishes no figures of its own. A reference to an external guide without amounts is not a published price list. [s3] | 0/3 |
| ✗ | Cleaning price listed No cleaning fee is published on the clinic site. [s3] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Filling price listed No filling fee is published on the clinic site. [s3] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Crown price listed No crown fee is published on the clinic site. [s3] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Implant price listed No implant fee is published on the clinic site. [s3] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Consultation price listed No examination fee is published on the clinic site. [s3] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | X-ray / imaging price listed No radiography fee is published on the clinic site. [s3] | 0/2 |
Reputation & Reviews
15.5 / 20
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) Read live on the place page in a browser on 2026-09-08. Unchanged from the automated reading of 2026-09-07. The star histogram — 120 five-star, 3 four-star, 0 three-star, 0 two-star and 3 one-star — sums to 126, matching the 126 in the place-page header exactly, and its weighted mean 4.881 reproduces the published 4.9. [gmp1] [gmpb] | 6/6 |
| ◐ | Google review volume Read live on 2026-09-08 from the place-page header, and the star histogram sums to the same figure. The card held 126 and the listing has not moved since. [gmp1] [gmpb] | 2/3 |
| ✓ | Review recency The newest review visible is two months old, which proves the within_3_months bucket and no better. Visible dates: 2, 3, 5, 5, 6, 8, 9 and 11 months. Sample: the eight reviews Google Maps renders on the place page in its own relevance order; a newest-first list was not available, so a review more recent than the newest one visible may exist. [gmpb] | 3/3 |
| ✗ | Clinic responds to reviews None of the 11 reviews read from the last 24 months (2025-11-14 to 2026-08-23) carries an owner reply on the Google listing; the latest reply seen is dated 2021-10-30 (read 2026-10-05). [centre-street-dental-clinic-calgary-r6rep] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | No recurring complaints Google's relevance ordering surfaces eight five-star accounts and no critical text, so nothing readable establishes a theme and the criterion is false with the unread mass stated: the one- and two-star share is 3 of 126 = 2.4 %, and none of those three accounts is surfaced. Sample: the eight reviews Google Maps renders on the place page in its own relevance order; a newest-first list was not available, so a review more recent than the newest one visible may exist. [gmpb] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | No suspicious review patterns Judged on the histogram shape, the spread of dates, the variety of reviewers and the wording, on 2026-09-08. The histogram is two-valued at the ends (120/3/0/0/3) on a base of 126, which is disclosed rather than scored: the visible dates spread from two to eleven months without clustering, the accounts name different receptionists, hygienists and dentists and vary in length and language, and the owner answers none of them at all — the opposite of a curated record. [gmpb] | 2/2 |
| ? | Active Facebook presence Not established: the clinic's website links no Facebook page, and the page address found under its name does not open (checked 2026-10-02). | 0/1 |
| ✗ | TripAdvisor presence TripAdvisor's own search index was queried in a real browser on 2026-09-10, under the clinic name and again with the city appended; it carries no listing for this practice. [centre-street-dental-clinic-calgary-deepen] | 0/0.5 |
| ✓ | Other review platforms Has its own clinic profile on Dentist 365, with no patient reviews. [centre-street-dental-clinic-calgary-deepen-2] | 0.5/0.5 |
Medical Infrastructure
11 / 15
The range of publicly documented equipment and services. This measures documented availability, not clinical quality.
| ✓ | On-site X-ray The services page states the clinic uses DEXIS digital diagnostic imaging in place of film radiography. [s3] | 2/2 |
| ✗ | CBCT (3D imaging) Cone-beam CT is named nowhere on the clinic own channel. Its service menu, technology wording and the pages carrying equipment claims were re-read on 2026-09-07 and none mentions cone-beam, CBCT or 3D imaging; the Alberta register publishes no facility data that could add to that. Recorded as a checked negative rather than as unchecked. [s3] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Implantology Dental implants are on the published service list. [s3] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Orthodontics Invisalign is on the published service list. [s3] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Oral surgery Extractions and dental surgery are on the published service list. [s3] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Pediatric dentistry Dentistry for children is on the published service list. [s3] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ✓ | Emergency care Emergency dental care is described on the clinic homepage. [s1] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ✗ | Works with international patients The clinic publishes staff languages including Cantonese, Mandarin and Vietnamese, but documents no international-patient provision such as foreign insurance handling. [s1] [s3] | 0/2 |
Communication & Service
5 / 10
How easy it is to contact the clinic, get answers, and book - especially for international patients.
| ✗ | WhatsApp / LINE available No WhatsApp or LINE contact is published. [s4] | 0/2 |
| ? | Response speed | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | English spoken The practice publishes in English and lists English first among its staff languages. [s1] | 2.5/2.5 |
| ✗ | Pre-visit consultation possible Online booking is offered, but the clinic does not offer a preliminary estimate through it. [s3] [s4] | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | Clear service explanations Every listed service is followed by a paragraph explaining it. [s3] | 1/1 |
| ✓ | Convenient opening hours Confirmed on the clinic's own Google Business Profile, read in a browser on 2026-09-08: Monday 09:00–16:00, Tuesday to Thursday 09:00–17:30, Friday 08:00–16:00, **Saturday 08:00–15:30**, Sunday closed. Saturday opening is published clearly on the clinic's own record. [s4] [gmpb] | 1.5/1.5 |
AI & Search Visibility
4.5 / 10
Whether the clinic is discoverable when patients search - including via AI assistants. Checked with fixed queries: "best dentist Canada", "English speaking dentist Canada", "dental implants Canada", "emergency dentist Canada", "Canada dental clinic for expats".
| ✗ | Mentioned for: best dentist Canada Canonical visibility query best dentist Calgary, run in the AI-visibility pass on 2026-09-07: the clinic own domain does not appear in the recorded result set. [av1] | 0/1 |
| ✓ | Mentioned for: English speaking dentist Canada Canonical visibility query English speaking dentist Calgary, run in the AI-visibility pass on 2026-09-07: the clinic own domain centrestreetdentalclinic.ca appears in the recorded result set. [av2] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: dental implants Canada Canonical visibility query dental implants Calgary, run in the AI-visibility pass on 2026-09-07: the clinic own domain does not appear in the recorded result set. [av3] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: emergency dentist Canada Canonical visibility query emergency dentist Calgary, run in the AI-visibility pass on 2026-09-07: the clinic own domain does not appear in the recorded result set. [av4] | 0/1 |
| ? | Mentioned for: Canada dental clinic for expats The fifth canonical query was run only for the first research city of each country in the AI-visibility pass, so no result set exists for this city: query not run in the AI-visibility pass. | 0/1 |
| ✓ | Structured data on website The site ships schema.org WebSite, Organization and LocalBusiness markup. [s1] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ✓ | Google indexing quality A name query on 2026-09-07 returned the clinic own domain in first place with five further own pages inside the first fourteen results, alongside Yelp, Birdeye and the Alberta Dental Association directory. [sx1] | 2/2 |
| ✗ | Dedicated service pages All treatments are described on a single services page; no per-service pages exist. [s3] | 0/1.5 |
Ranking leaders in AI answers
The queries above are this index's own check. The three leading clinics have also been measured in full: how often ChatGPT and Gemini name them when a patient asks them to recommend a dentist.
- #1Haysboro Dental Care5.3 of 100View report →
- #1Beacon Hill Dental2.9 of 100View report →
- #3Hemlock Dental Clinic21 of 100View report →
Measured by Ansmeter, 7 October 2026. Ansmeter is an affiliated service. Its figure is not part of this rating and does not affect positions — scores change only when public data changes.
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
| Dentist | Specialization | Licence No. | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dr. Zhendan Pan [reg1] [centre-street-dental-clinic-calgary-cdsa-08187] | General dentist | CDSA 08187 | Permit number in the public register of the College of Dental Surgeons of Alberta; general dentist, permit active (checked 30 September 2026). |
| Dr. Belinda Le [reg1] [centre-street-dental-clinic-calgary-cdsa-06206] | General dentist | CDSA 06206 | Permit number in the public register of the College of Dental Surgeons of Alberta; general dentist, permit active (checked 30 September 2026). |
| Dr. Harris Zou [reg1] | General dentist | not found in the public register (checked 7 September 2026) | — |
One or more named dentists could not be found in the public register on the date checked — recorded as unverified, no penalty.
Red Flags
No red flags identified in the public sources we reviewed.
Data We Could Not Verify
- Reputation & Reviews: Active Facebook presence
- Communication & Service: Response speed
- AI & Search Visibility: Mentioned for: Canada dental clinic for expats
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://centrestreetdentalclinic.ca/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +1 403-290-0303 |
| Google Maps | Map listing |
| Address | Unit 101, 303 Centre Street SW, Calgary, AB T2G 2B9, Canada |
Contact details are provided for identification only and may change; verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | https://centrestreetdentalclinic.ca/ | Clinic website read live: practice history since 1986, staff languages, fee-guide statement, own premises photography | 2026-09-07 |
| s2 | https://centrestreetdentalclinic.ca/meet-the-team | Named dentists, denturist and hygiene team, with roles only | 2026-09-07 |
| s3 | https://centrestreetdentalclinic.ca/our-services | Full service list with explanations, digital imaging, fee-guide statement without figures | 2026-09-07 |
| s4 | https://centrestreetdentalclinic.ca/contact | Address, phone, e-mail and full opening hours | 2026-09-07 |
| gmp1 | https://www.google.com/maps/preview/place/Centre+Street+Dental+Clin… | Live Google place record: rating, categories, pin coordinates, address, phone and website | 2026-09-07 |
| reg1 | https://cdsa.portalca.thentiacloud.net/rest/public/profile/search/?… | CDSA public register, live query: permit number, type and status for the named dentists, and the absence of the third | 2026-09-07 |
| reg3 | https://cdsa.portalca.thentiacloud.net/rest/public/facility/search/… | CDSA facility register endpoint returning zero rows, evidencing that no public clinic register exists in Alberta | 2026-09-07 |
| sx1 | search:"Centre Street Dental" Calgary | Name query: own domain ranks first with several own pages; independent listings on Yelp, Birdeye and the Alberta Dental Association directory | 2026-09-07 |
| av1 | search:best dentist Calgary | Canonical visibility query recorded in the AI-visibility pass | 2026-09-07 |
| av2 | search:English speaking dentist Calgary | Canonical visibility query recorded in the AI-visibility pass | 2026-09-07 |
| av3 | search:dental implants Calgary | Canonical visibility query recorded in the AI-visibility pass | 2026-09-07 |
| av4 | search:emergency dentist Calgary | Canonical visibility query recorded in the AI-visibility pass | 2026-09-07 |
| gmpb | https://www.google.com/maps/place/x/@51.0500938,-114.062946,17z/dat… | The clinic’s Google Maps place page, opened in a real browser on 2026-09-08. The Reviews tab (this URL) gives the headline rating, the review-count header, the five star-histogram buckets read whole from their accessibility labels, and the eight most-relevant reviews with their star values, dates, text and owner replies; the sibling Overview URL https://www.google.com/maps/place/x/@51.0500938,-114.062946,17z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x53716ff933e67d85:0x2fdffa19cb5d4569!8m2!3d51.0500938!4d-114.062946?hl=en gives the listing name, address, telephone, website, business category, the full published opening week and the lead owner photograph. The listing opens as «Centre Street Dental Clinic», category Dental clinic, at 303 Centre St S #101, Calgary AB · +1 403-290-0303 · centrestreetdentalclinic.ca — the identifiers the card itself carries, so the place identifier resolves to this practice and not to a neighbour. | 2026-09-08 |
| centre-street-dental-clinic-calgary-deepen | https://www.tripadvisor.ca/TypeAheadJson?action=API&query=Centre+St… | TripAdvisor's own type-ahead search endpoint, the one its search box calls, opened directly in a real browser on 2026-09-10. Queried under the clinic name alone and again with the city appended, it returns no listing for this practice; the query broadens to dental-clinic listings in other countries instead. A control query for an existing dental-clinic listing (Old Igarashi Dental Clinic, Shizuoka) returns that listing at rank 1, so the method does surface dental clinics when they are in the index. The /Search results page itself never resolves past its loading spinner for a signed-out session, which is why the search endpoint is cited. | 2026-09-10 |
| centre-street-dental-clinic-calgary-cdsa-08187 | https://cdsa.portalca.thentiacloud.net/rest/public/profile/search/?… | College of Dental Surgeons of Alberta public register (Thentia public API), search by permit number 08187: one record — Zhendan Pan, General Dentist, status Active, no practice address published; no disciplinary action flagged. | 2026-09-30 |
| centre-street-dental-clinic-calgary-cdsa-06206 | https://cdsa.portalca.thentiacloud.net/rest/public/profile/search/?… | College of Dental Surgeons of Alberta public register (Thentia public API), search by permit number 06206: one record — Belinda Le, General Dentist, status Active, no practice address published; no disciplinary action flagged. | 2026-09-30 |
| centre-street-dental-clinic-calgary-deepen-2 | https://dentist365.ca/clinic/650/Centre_Street_Dental_Clinic/685 | Dentist 365: clinic profile "Centre Street Dental Clinic", 303 Centre St S #101, Calgary, phone +1 403 290 0303, hours and team (Dr. Belinda Le, Dr. Zhendan Pan); online booking not activated by the clinic, no reviews (checked 2026-10-01) | 2026-10-01 |
| centre-street-dental-clinic-calgary-r6rep | https://www.google.com/maps?cid=3449750828282103145&hl=en | Google listing "Centre Street Dental Clinic", read 2026-10-05 with its reviews sorted highest first, lowest first, newest first and by relevance: rating 4.9 from 126 reviews, histogram 3 one-star, 0 two-star, 0 three-star, 3 four-star, 120 five-star; 15 distinct reviews read (dated 2017-04-06 to 2026-08-23), 1 with an owner reply; the lowest-rated reviews read are dated 2017-2026. | 2026-10-05 |
Change History
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-05 | Reputation check 2026-10-05 on the clinic's Google listing (15 reviews read): owner replies to reviews no. |
| 2026-10-01 | Other review platforms re-checked on 2026-10-01: Dentist 365 clinic profile (no reviews); its Birdeye page only repeats Google reviews and is not counted; the datum previously rested on the clinic's own site or a professional-association listing. |
| 2026-09-29 | Corrected 2026-09-29: clinic responds to reviews now unverified: only 8 reviews were checked for owner replies; active Facebook presence now unverified: no Facebook search is on record, so the absence of a page is not established. |
| 2026-09-10 | Checked by hand in a browser on 2026-09-10: onTripAdvisor moves null to false — TripAdvisor's own search index, queried in a real browser under two query forms, carries no listing for this practice. |
| 2026-09-08 | Checked by hand in a browser: the clinic’s Google Maps place page was opened in a real browser and read on both its Reviews and Overview tabs. Recorded from it: the rating re-verified against the star histogram, the review count, the histogram itself (120/3/0/0/3 = 126, weighted mean 4.881), review recency, the owner-reply state, the complaint reading and the manipulation reading from the eight most-relevant reviews, the lead owner photograph and the full published opening week. Fields this pass did not measure are untouched. |
| 2026-09-07 | Adversarial verification (no browser): all four mandatory sweeps run on the card; every cited URL re-fetched for liveness; the Google rating and coordinates re-read independently from the live place record and confirmed; the licensing block re-run against the province statutory register; TripAdvisor probed directly and found unreadable to an automated client. On this card, the review count missing from the earlier run was read from the live place record (126), cone-beam CT was settled as a checked negative, and the Harris Zou search was re-run against the Alberta register under three spellings and its disclosure rewritten. |
| 2026-09-07 | Initial data collection (no browser): clinic site read page by page for services, named staff, contacts, hours and fees; the live Google place record read through the automated map endpoint for rating, categories and pin coordinates; all three named dentists searched in the College of Dental Surgeons of Alberta public register, two found and one recorded as searched and not found on this date; a name query used for indexing quality and independent listings; the four canonical visibility queries taken from the AI-visibility pass. Review count, recency and the complaint and manipulation readings are left null and queued for a manual browser check. |
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