Helios Dental Clinic
According to our open methodology, this clinic scored 6.3/100 for transparency, reputation, service accessibility, and digital visibility.
Overall rank: #20 of 20 ranked clinics · Last checked: 17 September 2026
Positions by Rating Profile
- Overall Transparency & Trust#206.3/100
- Best for Expats#174.5/100
- Best for Dental Implantsnot ranked
- Best for Emergency Dental Carenot ranked
- Best Price Transparency#204.2/100
- Best English-speaking Clinicsnot ranked
- 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) — Not verified
Summary
Small dental clinic on Triq il-Linja in Attard run by Dr Maria Borg, described in reviews as a homely, welcoming practice with reasonable prices. Google Maps lists a website domain for this clinic that, on inspection, is a third-party dental directory rather than a site the clinic runs, so no clinic-verified website could be confirmed.
Google Maps lists "cebudentalimplants.com" as this clinic's website (the same domain shown for Dental Care Centre in Birkirkara). That domain was opened directly: it is a Philippines-based dental directory that carries a write-up about this clinic, not a channel the clinic runs — it is not used as a source here and hasWebsite is recorded as false.
Strengths
No categories reached the strength threshold (80%).
Weaknesses
- Information Transparency: 4 of 16 verifiable points (missing: has a working website; dentist names listed; dentist specializations listed; service list published)
- 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)
- Reputation & Reviews: 3.5 of 18 verifiable points (missing: review recency; clinic responds to reviews; active Facebook presence; tripAdvisor presence; other review platforms)
- Communication & Service: 0 of 1.5 verifiable points (missing: pre-visit consultation possible)
- AI & Search Visibility: 0 of 10 verifiable points (missing: mentioned for: best dentist Malta; mentioned for: English speaking dentist Malta; mentioned for: dental implants Malta; mentioned for: emergency dentist Malta; mentioned for: Malta dental clinic for expats; structured data on website; google indexing quality; dedicated service pages)
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 [maps] [site-check] | 0/4 |
| ✗ | Dentist names listed No independent website; the linked page belongs to a third-party dental directory; the only name comes from patient reviews [helios-dental-clinic-attard-deepen] | 0/3 |
| ✗ | Dentist specializations listed No clinic-published specialization found [helios-dental-clinic-attard-deepen-4] | 0/2 |
| ? | Real clinic photos | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Service list published No independent website; GBP has no published service list [helios-dental-clinic-attard-deepen-5] | 0/3 |
| ✓ | Clear contact details [maps] | 2/2 |
| ? | English website version | 0/2 |
| ✓ | 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 No independent website; the clinic’s Google Business Profile lists no prices; its linked page belongs to a third-party dental directory [helios-dental-clinic-attard-deepen] [helios-dental-clinic-attard-deepen-6] | 0/3 |
| ✗ | Cleaning price listed No website; GBP has no prices [helios-dental-clinic-attard-deepen-6] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Filling price listed No website; GBP has no prices [helios-dental-clinic-attard-deepen-6] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Crown price listed No website; GBP has no prices [helios-dental-clinic-attard-deepen-6] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Implant price listed No website; GBP has no prices [helios-dental-clinic-attard-deepen-6] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Consultation price listed No website; GBP has no prices [helios-dental-clinic-attard-deepen-6] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | X-ray / imaging price listed No website; GBP has no prices [helios-dental-clinic-attard-deepen-6] | 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; based on only 7 reviews [maps] | 1/6 |
| ◐ | Google review volume [maps] | 0.5/3 |
| ✗ | Review recency as of 2026-09-17 [helios-dental-clinic-attard-deepen-7] | 0/3 |
| ✗ | Clinic responds to reviews The Google listing is unclaimed (it carries a "Claim this business" prompt), so no owner can reply to reviews; none of the 6 reviews read has a reply. [helios-dental-clinic-attard-deepen-15] [helios-dental-clinic-attard-deepen-8] | 0/2 |
| ? | No recurring complaints 1–2★ are 28.6 % of 7 Google reviews (1★ 2 / 2★ 0 / 3★ 0 / 4★ 0 / 5★ 5), but fewer than three of the lowest-rated reviews carry text, so no common theme can be read. [helios-dental-clinic-attard-deepen-15] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | No suspicious review patterns Not a 100% 5★ histogram; dates spread over years; reviewers with history including a Local Guide [helios-dental-clinic-attard-deepen-9] | 2/2 |
| ✗ | Active Facebook presence Facebook searches by its name with the city, by its name with the country and by its phone number found no page of the clinic; only unrelated Heliopolis/Helio-named clinics in Egypt [helios-dental-clinic-attard-deepen-14] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | TripAdvisor presence No TripAdvisor listing found [helios-dental-clinic-attard-deepen-2] | 0/0.5 |
| ✗ | Other review platforms Not in WhatClinic's Malta directory and no TripAdvisor listing; no review-platform link on the clinic's own channels [helios-dental-clinic-attard-deepen-10] [helios-dental-clinic-attard-deepen-11] [helios-dental-clinic-attard-deepen-3] | 0/0.5 |
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 | 0/2 |
| ? | Orthodontics | 0/2 |
| ? | Oral surgery | 0/2 |
| ? | Pediatric dentistry | 0/1.5 |
| ? | Emergency care | 0/1.5 |
| ? | Works with international patients | 0/2 |
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 | 0/2.5 |
| ✗ | Pre-visit consultation possible No independent website; no online consultation channel found [helios-dental-clinic-attard-deepen-12] | 0/1.5 |
| ? | Clear service explanations | 0/1 |
| ? | 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 [s_ai] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: English speaking dentist Malta [s_ai] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: dental implants Malta [s_ai] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: emergency dentist Malta [s_ai] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: Malta dental clinic for expats [s_ai] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Structured data on website No independent website exists to carry structured data [helios-dental-clinic-attard-deepen-13] | 0/1.5 |
| ✗ | Google indexing quality The clinic has no website of its own; a name-and-city web search on 2026-10-05 lists only directory, news and third-party pages. [helios-dental-clinic-attard-av4] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Dedicated service pages No independent website exists [helios-dental-clinic-attard-deepen] | 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.
- #1ForteDent Dental Clinic41.8 of 100View report →
- #2Regional Dental Centre43 of 100View report →
- #3Apex Dental39.7 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
Red Flags
- low No dentists identified anywhere (-2 pts) — No dentist names published (derived from data).
Red-flag penalty applied: -2 points (capped at -20).
Data We Could Not Verify
- Information Transparency: Real clinic photos
- Information Transparency: English website version
- Reputation & Reviews: No recurring complaints
- Medical Infrastructure: On-site X-ray
- Medical Infrastructure: CBCT (3D imaging)
- Medical Infrastructure: Implantology
- Medical Infrastructure: Orthodontics
- Medical Infrastructure: Oral surgery
- Medical Infrastructure: Pediatric dentistry
- Medical Infrastructure: Emergency care
- Medical Infrastructure: Works with international patients
- Communication & Service: WhatsApp / LINE available
- Communication & Service: Response speed
- Communication & Service: English spoken
- Communication & Service: Clear service explanations
- Communication & Service: Convenient opening hours
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
| Phone | +356 2141 8635 |
|---|---|
| Google Maps | Map listing |
| Address | Triq il-Linja, Attard, Malta |
Contact details are provided for identification only and may change; verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| maps | https://www.google.com/maps/place/Helios+Dental+Clinic/@35.8931149,… | address, phone, Google rating 3.9 (7 reviews) as of 2026-08-27, lists "cebudentalimplants.com" as the website, three reviews naming "Dr. Maria Borg" | 2026-08-27 |
| site-check | https://cebudentalimplants.com/ | Opened directly: a Philippines-based dental directory that carries a write-up about this clinic, not a channel the clinic runs, despite being linked from the Google Maps profile | 2026-08-27 |
| lic1 | https://mcmregistration.gov.mt/Search/Index | Medical Council of Malta Health Professional Search, surname Borg, name Maria → Reg. No. 0154, Dental Surgeons – Principal List, registered 01/12/1989 | 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 |
| helios-dental-clinic-attard-deepen | https://www.google.com/maps?cid=16012427298486021256&hl=en | Google Business Profile lists "cebudentalimplants.com" as its site, but that domain is a third-party dental directory, not a site run by the clinic; the name "Dr Maria Borg" comes only from patient review text | 2026-09-17 |
| helios-dental-clinic-attard-deepen-2 | https://www.tripadvisor.com/TypeAheadJson?action=API&query=Helios%2… | TripAdvisor’s own search returns unrelated hotels/attractions, no listing for this clinic | 2026-09-17 |
| helios-dental-clinic-attard-deepen-3 | https://www.whatclinic.com/dentists/malta | WhatClinic's own Malta dentist directory and its Attard listing, read 2026-09-17, do not include this practice | 2026-09-17 |
| helios-dental-clinic-attard-deepen-4 | https://www.google.com/maps?cid=16012427298486021256&hl=en | Profile has no business description; linked third-party directory is not a channel run by the clinic | 2026-09-17 |
| helios-dental-clinic-attard-deepen-5 | https://www.google.com/maps?cid=16012427298486021256&hl=en | Profile category is the generic "Dental clinic"; the linked page belongs to a third-party dental directory | 2026-09-17 |
| helios-dental-clinic-attard-deepen-6 | https://www.google.com/maps?cid=16012427298486021256&hl=en | No website; the clinic’s Google Business Profile lists no prices; social pages not readable | 2026-09-17 |
| helios-dental-clinic-attard-deepen-7 | https://www.google.com/maps?cid=16012427298486021256&hl=en | Newest readable review dated 2024-12-02 | 2026-09-17 |
| helios-dental-clinic-attard-deepen-8 | https://www.google.com/maps?cid=16012427298486021256&hl=en | "Claim this business" action link present in the listing data; none of the 5 readable reviews carry a reply | 2026-09-17 |
| helios-dental-clinic-attard-deepen-9 | https://www.google.com/maps?cid=16012427298486021256&hl=en | Sampled reviews dated 2021-2024 from accounts with 1-113 prior reviews | 2026-09-17 |
| helios-dental-clinic-attard-deepen-10 | https://www.google.com/maps?cid=16012427298486021256&hl=en | Profile’s only external link (cebudentalimplants.com) is a third-party dental directory, not a review aggregator | 2026-09-17 |
| helios-dental-clinic-attard-deepen-11 | https://www.tripadvisor.com/TypeAheadJson?action=API&query=Helios%2… | No TripAdvisor business match | 2026-09-17 |
| helios-dental-clinic-attard-deepen-12 | https://www.google.com/maps?cid=16012427298486021256&hl=en | Profile has no website or booking link, only a phone number | 2026-09-17 |
| helios-dental-clinic-attard-deepen-13 | https://www.google.com/maps?cid=16012427298486021256&hl=en | The only linked site is a third-party dental directory; the clinic has no site of its own | 2026-09-17 |
| helios-dental-clinic-attard-deepen-14 | https://www.facebook.com/ | Facebook searches on 2026-09-30 by its name with the city, by its name with the country and by its phone number: no page of the clinic; only unrelated Heliopolis/Helio-named clinics in Egypt | 2026-09-30 |
| helios-dental-clinic-attard-deepen-15 | https://www.google.com/maps?cid=16012427298486021256&hl=en | Google listing "Helios Dental Clinic" (Dental clinic), read 2026-10-02 in two review orders (the five lowest-rated and the five newest): rated 3.9 from 7 reviews (1★ 2 / 2★ 0 / 3★ 0 / 4★ 0 / 5★ 5); 6 distinct reviews read, dated 2021-01-08 to 2024-12-02, 0 with an owner reply; the listing carries a "Claim this business" prompt (unclaimed) | 2026-10-02 |
| helios-dental-clinic-attard-av4 | search:"Helios Dental Clinic" Attard Malta | Web search run on 2026-10-05 (English, US results) for the clinic's name and city: 9 results listed. no page of an own site: the results are encyclopedia, hospital, embassy and directory pages. Listed: a Wikipedia article on Attard, WhatClinic pages, a hospital page, two embassy pages, a rental-listing page and a Maltese health directory. | 2026-10-05 |
Change History
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-05 | Google indexing quality measured as poor after a name-and-city web search on 2026-10-05 (no website of its own, none listed). |
| 2026-09-30 | Searched Facebook for the clinic by its name with the city, by its name with the country and by its phone number; none of the searches found a page of the clinic. Recorded absence from Facebook. |
| 2026-09-17 | Re-read on 2026-09-17: the clinic's Google Business Profile (it has no independent website; the site link on the profile leads to a third-party dental directory). Recorded: no prices published; the listing is unclaimed, so no owner replies are possible; Google 3.9 from 7 reviews, newest 2024-12-02; no TripAdvisor or other aggregator listing. Everything that would normally come from the clinic's own site remains unchecked because none exists. |
| 2026-08-27 | Initial verification: confirmed address, phone and Google rating (3.9, 7 reviews); the website URL shown on Google Maps was checked and found to be the same unrelated Philippines directory seen on another clinic's listing, so hasWebsite is recorded as false; matched the dentist named in reviews to a Medical Council of Malta registration via a phone-number cross-reference. |
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