Van Dental Clinic
According to our open methodology, this clinic scored 65.6/100 for transparency, reputation, service accessibility, and digital visibility.
Overall rank: #14 of 29 ranked clinics · Last checked: 8 September 2026
65.6/100
Positions by Rating Profile
- Overall Transparency & Trust#1465.6/100
- Best for Expatsnot ranked
- Best for Dental Implants#1458/100
- Best for Emergency Dental Care#1562.5/100
- Best Price Transparency#1245.3/100
- Best English-speaking Clinics#1466/100
- Best for Families / Children#1266.8/100
- 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 No sedation or anaesthesia service is published. [s1]
Summary
Two-dentist general and emergency practice on the top floor of the Vancouver Medical Association building on West Broadway, describing itself as fully digital and paperless. It accepts the Canadian Dental Care Plan and publishes both dentists with photographs, biographies and the languages they speak.
Strengths
- Information Transparency: 20 of 20 points.
- Reputation & Reviews: 19 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
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: services, team, hours, gallery and CDCP information. [s1] | 4/4 |
| ✓ | Dentist names listed Dr. Justin Ficor and Dr. Jaskamal (Jesse) Singh, each with a photograph and a full biography. [s2] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Dentist specializations listed Both are published as general dentists, with their training, board certifications and areas of practice stated. [s2] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Real clinic photos Confirmed on the place page in a browser on 2026-09-08: the lead owner photograph is one of the practice's own surgeries on the sixth floor at 1665 W Broadway — its chair, delivery unit and cabinetry with the window behind. Premises and equipment. [s2] [gmpb] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Service list published General, cosmetic and restorative service menus with individual pages. [s1] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Clear contact details Phone, e-mail (info@vandental.ca) and suite address in the header and footer of every page. [s1] [s3] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | English website version [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Address and map published Contact page with the suite address and an embedded map, and a matching Google place. [s3] [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 [s1] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Filling price listed [s1] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Crown price listed [s1] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Implant price listed [s1] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Consultation price listed [s1] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | X-ray / imaging price listed [s1] | 0/2 |
Reputation & Reviews
19 / 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 — 269 five-star, 8 four-star, 0 three-star, 1 two-star and 1 one-star — sums to 279, matching the 279 in the place-page header exactly, and its weighted mean 4.946 reproduces the published 4.9. [g1] [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 279 and the listing has not moved since. [g1] [gmpb] | 2.5/3 |
| ✓ | Review recency Newest Google review is dated 2026-08-21 (listing read 2026-09-25). [van-dental-clinic-vancouver-gbp-2026-09-25] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Clinic responds to reviews The owner answers seven of the eight of the reviews visible on the place page on 2026-09-08. 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 recurring complaints One critical account is visible, an edited one-star seven months old: the reviewer raised a concern that an implant crown was too short, says the dentist declined to adjust the implant and proposed crowning a healthy lower natural tooth to make it fit, and says he refused. The rest is behind Google's truncation. It is recorded as an unproven patient account and without repeating the clinician's name, following the methodology's convention. It stands alone — no second negative is readable — so the criterion is false. The one- and two-star mass is 2 of 279 = 0.7 %, the smallest negative share in the Canadian cohort, and this account is the only one of the two left unanswered. 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 269/8/0/1/1 on 279 — a long tail rather than a wall — and the visible dates run from seven months to seven years, several accounts describing fifteen, twenty and twenty-seven years as patients of the practice. Wording and length vary widely and the owner answers seven of the eight. [gmpb] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Active Facebook presence [s4] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | 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. [van-dental-clinic-vancouver-deepen] | 0/0.5 |
| ✓ | Other review platforms TrustAnalytica publishes a reviews page for the practice (98 reviews), opened and read on 2026-09-07. The 123Dentist network directory also republishes the Google rating and count for it. [p1] | 0.5/0.5 |
Medical Infrastructure
9 / 15
The range of publicly documented equipment and services. This measures documented availability, not clinical quality.
| ✓ | On-site X-ray The practice states that it is fully digital and that all X-rays are taken digitally. [s2] | 2/2 |
| ✗ | CBCT (3D imaging) No cone-beam CT is claimed anywhere on the site. [s1] [s2] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Implantology Dental implants under restorative dentistry. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Orthodontics Invisalign; Dr. Singh is published as Align-certified. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✗ | Oral surgery The published service menu stops at general, cosmetic and restorative dentistry; no extractions, wisdom teeth or oral surgery are offered on it. [s1] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Pediatric dentistry Dr. Singh is published as serving adult, paediatric and geriatric patients. [s2] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ✓ | Emergency care Emergency dentistry has its own service page, and the clinic's own Google Business categories include emergency dental service. [s1] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ✗ | Works with international patients Nothing on the site addresses international patients, foreign insurance or paperwork in another language. [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 [s1] [s3] | 0/2 |
| ? | Response speed | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | English spoken [s1] | 2.5/2.5 |
| ✓ | Pre-visit consultation possible Online booking portal published site-wide. [s1] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ✓ | Clear service explanations Each service has its own plain-language page. [s1] | 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 to Friday 08:00–16:00, Saturday and Sunday closed. Neither an evening close nor any weekend opening is published on the clinic's own record. [s2] [gmpb] | 0/1.5 |
AI & Search Visibility
6 / 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, which returned at least three Vancouver, British Columbia results and is therefore on target. [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 vandental.ca ranks second in the results of the canonical query and is one of only two British Columbia results on an otherwise Washington-state page. [sq4] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: Canada dental clinic for expats The clinic and its domain do not appear in the results of the canonical query. [sq5] | 0/1 |
| ✓ | Structured data on website JSON-LD Dentist object with postal address, coordinates and a contact point. [s1] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ✓ | Google indexing quality The practice domain takes rank one and five further own pages (our clinic, contact, about, new patients, services) in the first twenty results of the name-quoted query (web search, 2026-09-07). [giq1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Dedicated service pages Individual pages for emergency dentistry, implants, Invisalign, whitening and oral cancer screening. [s1] | 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. Justin Ficor [s2] [reg1] | General dentist; University of Saskatchewan 2016; joined the practice in 2019 | not published | Confirmed on the British Columbia college’s public register, which publishes no licence numbers. |
| Dr. Jaskamal (Jesse) Singh [s2] [reg1] | General dentist; Boston University DMD; prosthodontics, endodontics and cosmetic dentistry; Align-certified; Hindi, Punjabi and Urdu | not published | Confirmed on the British Columbia college’s public register, which publishes no licence numbers. |
Red Flags
No red flags identified in the public sources we reviewed.
Data We Could Not Verify
- Communication & Service: Response speed
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://vandental.ca/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +1 604-736-7781 |
| https://www.facebook.com/vandentalclinic/ | |
| Google Maps | Map listing |
| Address | 1665 W Broadway #650, Vancouver, BC V6J 1X1, 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://vandental.ca/ | Clinic home page: services, phone, address, CDCP information | 2026-09-07 |
| s2 | https://vandental.ca/about/our-clinic/ | Our clinic page: both dentists with biographies, gallery, opening hours, digital-radiography statement | 2026-09-07 |
| s3 | https://vandental.ca/contact-us/ | Contact page: address, phone, e-mail, embedded map | 2026-09-07 |
| s4 | https://www.facebook.com/vandentalclinic/ | The clinic Facebook page linked from its own site | 2026-09-07 |
| g1 | https://www.google.com/maps/place/Van+Dental+Clinic%2C+1665+W+Broad… | Google place page read on 2026-09-07: rating 4.9, 279 reviews, address, coordinates, phone, categories and the clinic-written business description | 2026-09-07 |
| reg1 | https://apps.oralhealthbc.ca/apps/public-register/ | BCCOHP public register, class Dentist, searched by surname on 2026-09-07 (ASP.NET form; results are readable, registrant cards are not linkable) | 2026-09-07 |
| sq1 | search:best dentist Vancouver BC Canada | Canonical visibility query - best dentist Vancouver BC Canada (AI-visibility pass, re-run with a country qualifier because the first run was dominated by Vancouver, Washington) | 2026-09-07 |
| sq2 | search:English speaking dentist Vancouver | Canonical visibility query - English speaking dentist Vancouver (AI-visibility pass) | 2026-09-07 |
| sq3 | search:dental implants Vancouver BC Canada | Canonical visibility query - dental implants Vancouver BC Canada (AI-visibility pass, re-run with a country qualifier) | 2026-09-07 |
| sq4 | search:emergency dentist Vancouver | Canonical visibility query - emergency dentist Vancouver (AI-visibility pass) | 2026-09-07 |
| sq5 | search:Vancouver dental clinic for expats | Canonical visibility query - Vancouver dental clinic for expats (AI-visibility pass) | 2026-09-07 |
| giq1 | search:"Van Dental Clinic" Vancouver | A quoted search for the clinic's name (twenty results reviewed) | 2026-09-07 |
| p1 | https://trustanalytica.org/ca/bc/vancouver/reviews/van-dental-clinic | TrustAnalytica publishes a reviews page for the practice (98 reviews), opened and read on 2026-09-07. The 123Dentist network directory also republishes the Google rating and count for it. (The supports text of this source was missing from the card; it was written on 2026-09-10 from the finding the card itself records for it, and the page was not re-read on that date.) | 2026-09-07 |
| gmpb | https://www.google.com/maps/place/x/@49.2638789,-123.1425223,17z/da… | 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/@49.2638789,-123.1425223,17z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x548673b814425d85:0x31104f2cb5e29f18!8m2!3d49.2638789!4d-123.1425223?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 «Van Dental Clinic», category Dentist, at 1665 W Broadway #650, Vancouver BC · +1 604-736-7781 · vandental.ca — the identifiers the card itself carries, so the place identifier resolves to this practice and not to a neighbour. | 2026-09-08 |
| van-dental-clinic-vancouver-deepen | https://www.tripadvisor.ca/TypeAheadJson?action=API&query=Van+Denta… | 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 |
| van-dental-clinic-vancouver-gbp-2026-09-25 | https://www.google.com/maps?cid=3535412760934522648&hl=en | Google listing read on 2026-09-25: rating 4.9 from 278 reviews; star histogram 1★ 1 / 2★ 1 / 3★ 0 / 4★ 8 / 5★ 268; newest review dated 2026-08-21; 5 of the 5 newest reviews carry an owner reply, latest dated 2026-08-22. | 2026-09-25 |
Change History
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-29 | Corrected 2026-09-29: review recency within 3 months (newest review dated 2026-08-21). |
| 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 (269/8/0/1/1 = 279, weighted mean 4.946), 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 platform-presence field was re-sourced from the TrustAnalytica 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 the our-clinic and contact pages; Google place page read automatically; both named dentists confirmed in the BCCOHP public register; the five canonical visibility queries taken from the AI-visibility 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. |
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