Clinique dentaire de la Montagne
According to our open methodology, this clinic scored 49.4/100 for transparency, reputation, service accessibility, and digital visibility.
Overall rank: #26 of 29 ranked clinics · Last checked: 8 September 2026
49.4/100
Positions by Rating Profile
- Overall Transparency & Trust#2649.4/100
- Best for Expatsnot ranked
- Best for Dental Implants#2740/100
- Best for Emergency Dental Care#2345/100
- Best Price Transparency#2536.1/100
- Best English-speaking Clinics#2652.7/100
- Best for Families / Childrennot ranked
- 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 No sedation or anaesthesia service is published. [s3]
Summary
Downtown practice of nearly forty years, originally in the heritage Drummond Medical Building and now on rue Peel. Its owner, Dr. Laurent Tran-Jolicoeur, sits on the board of the Ordre des dentistes du Québec. The published review base is small: nine Google reviews at an average of 3.8.
Strengths
- Information Transparency: 20 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)
- Medical Infrastructure: 5.5 of 15 verifiable points (missing: on-site X-ray; cBCT (3D imaging); orthodontics; pediatric dentistry; works with international patients)
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
20 / 20
Whether basic facts about the clinic - its team, premises, services, and location - are publicly verifiable.
| ✓ | Has a working website Read live on 2026-09-07 in French and English: team, services, emergency and contact pages. The footer of the French pages also carries an injected block of unrelated pharmaceutical link text, which is a sign of a compromised or unmaintained template rather than clinic content. [s1] | 4/4 |
| ✓ | Dentist names listed Dr. Laurent T. Jolicoeur and Dre Thi-Minh-Nguyet Ngo, plus a retired dentist, Dr. Nairi Kalanian, and the named support team. [s2] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Dentist specializations listed Degrees, an implantology residency, a London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine master's and professional fellowships are published for the owner; the DMD and memberships are published for Dre Ngo. [s2] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Real clinic photos The site serves its own lobby photograph and portraits of the two practising dentists with matching alt text. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Service list published Ten services, each with its own page: examination, prevention, gum treatment, restorative dentistry, implantology, extraction, whitening, root canal, mouthguards and emergencies. [s3] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Clear contact details Two phone numbers, an e-mail address, the suite address and the full weekly opening hours. [s2] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | English website version An English version of the site is published alongside the French one. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Address and map published Address published with an embedded map, and a matching Google place. [s1] [g1] | 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 No figure for any treatment anywhere on the site; read in full on 2026-09-07. [s1] [s2] [s3] | 0/3 |
| ✗ | Cleaning price listed [s3] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Filling price listed [s3] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Crown price listed [s3] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Implant price listed [s3] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Consultation price listed [s3] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | X-ray / imaging price listed [s3] | 0/2 |
Reputation & Reviews
9 / 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 — 6 five-star, 0 four-star, 0 three-star, 1 two-star and 2 one-star — sums to 9, matching the 9 in the place-page header exactly, and its weighted mean 3.778 reproduces the published 3.8. [g1] [gmpb] | 1/6 |
| ◐ | 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 9 and the listing has not moved since. [g1] [gmpb] | 0.5/3 |
| ✓ | Review recency The newest review visible is one month old, which proves the within_3_months bucket and no better. Visible dates: 1, 1, 1, 3, 7 and 11 months, then 1 and 2 years — eight of the nine reviews the listing holds. 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 7 reviews from the last 24 months were read on the Google listing, none with an owner reply, too few to say the clinic does not answer reviews (read 2026-10-02). | 0/2 |
| ✓ | No recurring complaints The base is nine and eight of the nine are visible, so this is close to a complete reading rather than a sample. Both one-star accounts are surfaced and they do not share a theme. One, three months old, is four words long — «Run away from this place!» — and establishes no subject at all. The other, eleven months old, is a serious allegation of discriminatory treatment addressed «to all visible minorities», describing an hour-long ordeal with the dental hygienist; the rest of it is behind Google's truncation. It is recorded here as an unproven patient account, without repeating any individual's name, following the methodology's convention for serious single allegations. With one account carrying no subject and one standing alone, no theme repeats and the criterion is false. **The share is nonetheless the highest of any Canadian card and is stated for the gate: 3 of 9 = 33.3 % of the base is at one or two stars.** The methodology's null branch requires a base of at least ten, which this listing does not reach, and the one review not visible is the two-star. None of the eight is answered by the owner. 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. Nine ratings spread from one month to two years on a small downtown practice, with three of the nine at one or two stars. A base of nine is too thin to carry a manipulation signature in either direction, and the owner answers none of the reviews at all, which is the opposite of a curated record. [gmpb] | 2/2 |
| ? | Active Facebook presence Not established: no Facebook page is linked from the clinic's own channels, and none was found under its name (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. [clinique-dentaire-de-la-montagne-montreal-deepen] | 0/0.5 |
| ✓ | Other review platforms Has a Yelp business page claimed by the clinic, with its own description, services, hours, website and phone at 2055 rue Peel; no reviews there yet. [clinique-dentaire-de-la-montagne-montreal-deepen-6] [clinique-dentaire-de-la-montagne-montreal-deepen-7] | 0.5/0.5 |
Medical Infrastructure
5.5 / 15
The range of publicly documented equipment and services. This measures documented availability, not clinical quality.
| ✗ | On-site X-ray No radiography or imaging service is published among the ten service pages. [s3] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | CBCT (3D imaging) [s3] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Implantology Implantology has its own service page, and the owner completed an implantology residency. [s3] | 2/2 |
| ✗ | Orthodontics No orthodontic or aligner service is published. [s3] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Oral surgery Tooth extraction has its own service page. [s3] | 2/2 |
| ✗ | Pediatric dentistry No paediatric service is published. [s3] | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | Emergency care Emergencies have their own published page in the main navigation. [s3] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ✗ | Works with international patients Nothing on the site addresses international patients, foreign insurance or paperwork. [s1] [s2] | 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 [s1] [s2] | 0/2 |
| ? | Response speed | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | English spoken A full English version of the site. [s1] | 2.5/2.5 |
| ✓ | Pre-visit consultation possible Online appointment booking and a medical questionnaire published in both languages. [s1] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ✓ | Clear service explanations Each of the ten services has its own explanatory page. [s3] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | Convenient opening hours Confirmed as a checked negative on the clinic's own Google Business Profile, read in a browser on 2026-09-08: Monday 09:00–18:00, Tuesday to Thursday 08:00–17:00, Friday 08:00–14:00, Saturday and Sunday closed. An 18:00 close is not evening surgery under the methodology's numeric rule and no weekend opening is published. [s2] [gmpb] | 0/1.5 |
AI & Search Visibility
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 The clinic and its domain do not appear in the results of the canonical query. [sq1] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: English speaking dentist Canada The clinic and its domain do not appear in the results of the canonical query. [sq2] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: dental implants Canada The clinic and its domain do not appear in the results of the canonical query. [sq3] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: emergency dentist Canada The clinic and its domain do not appear in the results of the canonical query. [sq4] | 0/1 |
| ? | Mentioned for: Canada dental clinic for expats The expat query was not run for Montreal in the AI-visibility pass (it was run for one research city per country only), so the field is unchecked rather than checked-and-absent. | 0/1 |
| ✓ | Structured data on website JSON-LD with WebPage, Organization, BreadcrumbList and WebSite objects. [s1] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ✓ | Google indexing quality The clinic domain takes rank one and six further own pages (booking, team, services, emergencies, examination, prevention) in the first twenty results of the name-quoted query (web search, 2026-09-07). [giq1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Dedicated service pages Ten individual service pages. [s3] | 1.5/1.5 |
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 Laurent T. Jolicoeur [s2] [reg1] [reg2] | General dentist and owner; DMD and implantology residency, Université Laval; MSc in global health policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; board member of the Ordre des dentistes du Québec; FRSPH, FAGD | ODQ 22318 | Registered and active on the ordre’s tableau; no practice limitation and no disciplinary decision on file. |
| Dre Thi-Minh-Nguyet Ngo [s2] [reg1] [reg2] | General dentist; DMD Université de Montréal; previously in independent practice in Côte-des-Neiges | ODQ 82195 | Registered and active on the ordre’s tableau; no practice limitation and no disciplinary decision on file. |
Red Flags
No red flags identified in the public sources we reviewed.
Data We Could Not Verify
- Reputation & Reviews: Clinic responds to reviews
- 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://cliniquedelamontagne.com/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +1 514-844-2334 |
| Google Maps | Map listing |
| Address | 2055 rue Peel, suite 810, Montréal, QC H3A 1V4, 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://cliniquedelamontagne.com/ | Clinic home page: navigation, address, map, online booking, English version | 2026-09-07 |
| s2 | https://cliniquedelamontagne.com/notre-equipe/ | Team page: two practising dentists with qualifications, a retired dentist, support staff, opening hours, phones and e-mail | 2026-09-07 |
| s3 | https://cliniquedelamontagne.com/tous-nos-services/ | Services index with ten individual service pages including emergencies and implantology | 2026-09-07 |
| g1 | https://www.google.com/maps/place/Clinique+dentaire+de+la+Montagne%… | Google place page read on 2026-09-07: rating 3.8, 9 reviews, address, coordinates, phone and categories | 2026-09-07 |
| reg1 | https://odqplatine-front-door-gxffe3f5fkdfh6as.z01.azurefd.net/regi… | Ordre des dentistes du Quebec public member index (anonymous OData), searched by surname on 2026-09-07 | 2026-09-07 |
| reg2 | https://odqplatine-front-door-gxffe3f5fkdfh6as.z01.azurefd.net/regi… | Ordre des dentistes du Quebec full public member record (permit number, status, work addresses, limitations, disciplinary decisions), read per member on 2026-09-07 | 2026-09-07 |
| sq1 | search:best dentist Montreal | Canonical visibility query - best dentist Montreal (AI-visibility pass) | 2026-09-07 |
| sq2 | search:English speaking dentist Montreal | Canonical visibility query - English speaking dentist Montreal (AI-visibility pass) | 2026-09-07 |
| sq3 | search:dental implants Montreal | Canonical visibility query - dental implants Montreal (AI-visibility pass) | 2026-09-07 |
| sq4 | search:emergency dentist Montreal | Canonical visibility query - emergency dentist Montreal (AI-visibility pass) | 2026-09-07 |
| giq1 | search:"Clinique dentaire de la Montagne" Montréal | A quoted search for the clinic's name (twenty results reviewed) | 2026-09-07 |
| gmpb | https://www.google.com/maps/place/x/@45.5015765,-73.5755787,17z/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/@45.5015765,-73.5755787,17z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x4cc91babd79b5755:0x22f46237f495f834!8m2!3d45.5015765!4d-73.5755787?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 «Clinique dentaire de la Montagne», category Dentist, at 2055 rue Peel, Suite 810, Montréal QC · +1 514-844-2334 · cliniquedelamontagne.com — the identifiers the card itself carries, so the place identifier resolves to this practice and not to a neighbour. | 2026-09-08 |
| clinique-dentaire-de-la-montagne-montreal-deepen | https://www.tripadvisor.ca/TypeAheadJson?action=API&query=Clinique+… | 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 |
| clinique-dentaire-de-la-montagne-montreal-deepen-6 | https://www.yelp.ca/biz/clinique-dentaire-de-la-montagne-montr%C3%A… | Yelp business page "Clinique dentaire de la Montagne" (copy of 4 February 2026, read 2026-10-02): marked "Claimed", with the business's own description, services marked "Verified by Business", opening hours, the clinic's website cliniquedelamontagne.com, phone (514) 844-2334 and address 2055 Rue Peel, Suite 810, Montréal; no reviews yet | 2026-10-02 |
| clinique-dentaire-de-la-montagne-montreal-deepen-7 | https://web.archive.org/web/20260204203924/https://www.yelp.ca/biz/… | Archived copy of the clinic's Yelp page, 4 February 2026 (read 2026-10-02): the page as described above | 2026-10-02 |
Change History
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-05 | Reputation check 2026-10-02 on the clinic's Google listing (7 reviews read): nothing settled; owner replies to reviews left unassessed. |
| 2026-10-02 | Other review platforms checked on 2026-10-02: a Yelp business page claimed by the clinic. |
| 2026-10-01 | Other review platforms re-checked on 2026-10-01: no RateMDs, WhatClinic or Trustpilot profile and Yelp unreadable, so onOtherPlatforms is now unknown; the Birdeye page, which only repeats Google reviews, is no longer cited for this. |
| 2026-09-29 | Corrected 2026-09-29: clinic responds to reviews now unverified: with 9 Google reviews a missing owner reply shows nothing yet. |
| 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 (6/0/0/1/2 = 9, weighted mean 3.778), review recency, the owner-reply state, the complaint reading and the manipulation reading from the eight most-relevant reviews 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 platform-presence field was re-sourced from the Birdeye review page instead of a search-result snippet and the TripAdvisor field was returned to unchecked. |
| 2026-09-07 | Initial data collection (automated): clinic site read in full including team and services pages; Google place page read automatically; both practising dentists confirmed by permit number in the Ordre des dentistes du Québec public register through its anonymous member API, the owner only after searching the hyphenated surname Tran-Jolicoeur; four canonical visibility queries taken from the AI-visibility pass (the expat query was not run for Montreal in that pass); index quality probed with a name-quoted search query. Reputation fields other than the rating and the count are left for a manual browser check; with a base of nine reviews the complaint field is deliberately left unasserted. |
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