Clínica Dental Bannavá Smiles
According to our open methodology, this clinic scored 51.7/100 for transparency, reputation, service accessibility, and digital visibility.
Overall rank: #9 of 16 ranked clinics · Last checked: 25 September 2026
51.7/100
Positions by Rating Profile
- Overall Transparency & Trust#951.7/100
- Best for Expatsnot ranked
- Best for Dental Implants#850/100
- Best for Emergency Dental Carenot ranked
- Best Price Transparency#1034.5/100
- Best English-speaking Clinicsnot ranked
- Best for Families / Children#856/100
- 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 Site (bannavasmiles.com) has no anesthesia/sedation info.
Summary
Orthodontics and aesthetics clinic with locations in Panama City (San Fernando) and La Chorrera. Offers traditional and invisible orthodontics (Invisalign), implants, cosmetic and pediatric dentistry, laser treatment, digital scanning and CBCT imaging. Publishes a WhatsApp link and service pages but no prices; site is Spanish-only.
Strengths
- Information Transparency: 16 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)
- AI & Search Visibility: 3 of 8 verifiable points (missing: mentioned for: best dentist Panama City; mentioned for: English speaking dentist Panama City; mentioned for: dental implants Panama City; mentioned for: emergency dentist Panama City; mentioned for: Panama City dental clinic for expats)
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
16 / 20
Whether basic facts about the clinic - its team, premises, services, and location - are publicly verifiable.
Price Transparency
0 / 15
Whether patients can estimate costs before visiting. Published price ranges count; exact prices are not required.
Reputation & Reviews
11.5 / 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) as of 2026-08-25 [clinica-dental-bannava-smiles-refresh] | 4/6 |
| ◐ | Google review volume [clinica-dental-bannava-smiles-refresh] | 1/3 |
| ◐ | Review recency [clinica-dental-bannava-smiles-refresh] | 1.5/3 |
| ? | Clinic responds to reviews 10 reviews were read (2 from the last 24 months) and none has an owner reply, but fewer than 10 reviews from the last 24 months could be read, too few to record that the owner does not reply. [clinica-dental-bannava-smiles-deepen-12] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | No recurring complaints Only one negative review found, no repeated theme [clinica-dental-bannava-smiles-deepen] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | No suspicious review patterns Rating not 100% 5★, dates spread over years, mixed reviewer histories [clinica-dental-bannava-smiles-deepen-8] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Active Facebook presence [s1] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | TripAdvisor presence No TripAdvisor listing found [clinica-dental-bannava-smiles-deepen-2] [clinica-dental-bannava-smiles-deepen-9] | 0/0.5 |
| ✗ | Other review platforms No profile found on WhatClinic, Dental Departures, Bookimed, Guías Médica or Trustpilot (checked 2026-10-01). The clinic's own website links to no review platform. [clinica-dental-bannava-smiles-deepen-11] [clinica-dental-bannava-smiles-platforms] [clinica-dental-bannava-smiles-platforms-2] [clinica-dental-bannava-smiles-platforms-3] [clinica-dental-bannava-smiles-platforms-4] [clinica-dental-bannava-smiles-platforms-5] | 0/0.5 |
Medical Infrastructure
11.5 / 15
The range of publicly documented equipment and services. This measures documented availability, not clinical quality.
| ✓ | On-site X-ray [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | CBCT (3D imaging) [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Implantology [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Orthodontics [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Oral surgery clinic places dental implants itself [clinica-dental-bannava-smiles-deepen-13] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Pediatric dentistry [s1] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ✗ | Emergency care Neither the website (read in full), the Facebook page (a year of posts) nor the Google listing offers emergency or same-day care; hours are Monday-Saturday daytime. [clinica-dental-bannava-smiles-deepen-14] [clinica-dental-bannava-smiles-deepen-15] [clinica-dental-bannava-smiles-deepen-16] | 0/1.5 |
| ✗ | Works with international patients The website (read in full), the Facebook page (a year of posts) and the Google listing say nothing about foreign or international patients. [clinica-dental-bannava-smiles-deepen-14] [clinica-dental-bannava-smiles-deepen-15] [clinica-dental-bannava-smiles-deepen-16] | 0/2 |
Communication & Service
4.5 / 10
How easy it is to contact the clinic, get answers, and book - especially for international patients.
| ✓ | WhatsApp / LINE available [s1] | 2/2 |
| ? | Response speed | 0/1.5 |
| ? | English spoken The website, Facebook page and Google reviews read are all in Spanish; none says whether English is spoken. [clinica-dental-bannava-smiles-deepen-14] [clinica-dental-bannava-smiles-deepen-16] | 0/2.5 |
| ✗ | Pre-visit consultation possible The site's only booking action is a WhatsApp link [clinica-dental-bannava-smiles-deepen-10] | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | Clear service explanations [s1] | 1/1 |
| ✓ | Convenient opening hours [s1] | 1.5/1.5 |
AI & Search Visibility
3 / 10
Whether the clinic is discoverable when patients search - including via AI assistants. Checked with fixed queries: "best dentist Panama City", "English speaking dentist Panama City", "dental implants Panama City", "emergency dentist Panama City", "Panama City dental clinic for expats".
| ✗ | Mentioned for: best dentist Panama City Not present for "best dentist Panama City, Panama", re-run as "best dentist Panama City, Republic of Panama" on 2026-09-25. [clinica-dental-bannava-smiles-deepen-3] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: English speaking dentist Panama City Not present in the top web results for "English speaking dentist Panama City, Panama" on 2026-09-25. [clinica-dental-bannava-smiles-deepen-4] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: dental implants Panama City Not present in the top web results for "dental implants Panama City, Panama" on 2026-09-25. [clinica-dental-bannava-smiles-deepen-5] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: emergency dentist Panama City Not present for "emergency dentist Panama City, Panama", re-run as "emergency dentist Panama City, Republic of Panama" on 2026-09-25. [clinica-dental-bannava-smiles-deepen-6] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: Panama City dental clinic for expats Not present in the top web results for "Panama City, Panama dental clinic for expats" on 2026-09-25. [clinica-dental-bannava-smiles-deepen-7] | 0/1 |
| ✓ | Structured data on website Organization entity in the site’s structured data [s1] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ? | Google indexing quality | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Dedicated service pages [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.
- #1Clínica Ford (Ford Dental Spa)49.5 of 100View report → report in Spanish
- #2Dental One34.1 of 100View report → report in Spanish
- #3Clínica Dental Obarrio29.6 of 100View report → report in Spanish
Measured by Ansmeter, 8 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. |
|---|---|---|
| Dr. Rita Marín [s1] | Orthodontics (Invisalign certified) | not verified |
Dentists are named; their licence numbers have not been checked against public sources yet — unverified, no penalty.
Red Flags
No red flags identified in the public sources we reviewed.
Data We Could Not Verify
- Reputation & Reviews: Clinic responds to reviews
- Communication & Service: Response speed
- Communication & Service: English spoken
- AI & Search Visibility: Google indexing quality
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://bannavasmiles.com/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +507 229-5029 |
| https://www.facebook.com/bannavasmiles/ | |
| Google Maps | Map listing |
| Address | Vía España con Calle La Loma, C.C. San Fernando, Piso 1, Oficina 14, Pueblo Nuevo, Panama City (branch in La Chorrera) |
Contact details are provided for identification only and may change; verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | https://bannavasmiles.com/ | Homepage page source, read as text on 2026-09-25: Yoast JSON-LD graph with "@type":"Organization" for Bannavá Smiles, alongside WebPage/WebSite | 2026-09-25 |
| s2 | https://www.facebook.com/bannavasmiles/ | Facebook page and branding | 2026-07-14 |
| clinica-dental-bannava-smiles-refresh | https://www.google.com/maps/place/Bannav%C3%A1+Smiles+%C2%B7+Cl%C3%… | Google rating 4.8 (31 reviews) as of 2026-08-25 | 2026-08-25 |
| clinica-dental-bannava-smiles-deepen | https://www.google.com/maps?cid=17088244540937696016&hl=en | Histogram 1★ 1 / 2★ 0 / 3★ 1 / 4★ 0 / 5★ 29; lowest-rated first: single 1★ review about a rude staff interaction at the Market Plaza branch (2023-01-28), no second matching complaint | 2026-09-25 |
| clinica-dental-bannava-smiles-deepen-2 | https://www.tripadvisor.com/TypeAheadJson?action=API&query=Bannava%… | TripAdvisor search 2026-09-25: 12 results, none matching (unrelated "Smiles"-named attractions in the US, Switzerland and Turkey) | 2026-09-25 |
| clinica-dental-bannava-smiles-deepen-3 | search:best dentist Panama City, Republic of Panama | Web search on 2026-09-25 for "best dentist Panama City, Republic of Panama" (re-run of "best dentist Panama City, Panama"): results 1–9 were whatclinic.com (x2), yelp.com (x3), arzuersoy.com, giannadentist.com, baytowndentalcenter.com, medicaltourismpackages.com; the clinic's site and name were not among them. | 2026-09-25 |
| clinica-dental-bannava-smiles-deepen-4 | search:English speaking dentist Panama City, Panama | Web search on 2026-09-25: results 1–10 were findadentist.ada.org, whatclinic.com (x2), pancarefl.org, panamarelocationtours.com, giannadentist.com, medicaltourismpackages.com (x3), allaboutpanamacity.com; the clinic's site and name were not among them. | 2026-09-25 |
| clinica-dental-bannava-smiles-deepen-5 | search:dental implants Panama City, Panama | Web search on 2026-09-25: results 1–9 were whatclinic.com (x2), baldwinfamilydental.com, oralsurgerypanamacity.com, baytowndentalcenter.com (x2), panamacitysmiles.com, panamacitygeneraldentist.com, medicaltourismpackages.com; the clinic's site and name were not among them. | 2026-09-25 |
| clinica-dental-bannava-smiles-deepen-6 | search:emergency dentist Panama City, Republic of Panama | Web search on 2026-09-25 for "emergency dentist Panama City, Republic of Panama" (re-run of "emergency dentist Panama City, Panama"): results 1–9 were whatclinic.com, emergencydentistsusa.com, marinapointedental.com, emergencydentistpanamacity.com, forestparkdentalpc.com, standrewsdentalcenter.com, en.wikipedia.org, lynnhavendentalspecialists.com, emergency-dentist.org; the clinic's site and name were not among them. | 2026-09-25 |
| clinica-dental-bannava-smiles-deepen-7 | search:Panama City, Panama dental clinic for expats | Web search on 2026-09-25: results 1–9 were vivatropical.com, tripadvisor.com, expatfocus.com, panamarelocationtours.com, panamaexpatexplorer.com (x3), worldpanamarealestate.com, medicaltourismpackages.com; the clinic's site and name were not among them. | 2026-09-25 |
| clinica-dental-bannava-smiles-deepen-8 | https://www.google.com/maps?cid=17088244540937696016&hl=en | Histogram 1★ 1 / 2★ 0 / 3★ 1 / 4★ 0 / 5★ 29 (93.5% 5★, not 100%); reviews dated 2022-2026 from accounts with 1-76 prior reviews | 2026-09-25 |
| clinica-dental-bannava-smiles-deepen-9 | https://bannavasmiles.com/ | Homepage read as text on 2026-09-25, including the page source: links to Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp only; no TripAdvisor link | 2026-09-25 |
| clinica-dental-bannava-smiles-deepen-10 | https://bannavasmiles.com/ | Homepage read as text on 2026-09-25: every "Agenda tu cita" button links to wa.link/0jso3v (WhatsApp); no booking form or widget | 2026-09-25 |
| clinica-dental-bannava-smiles-deepen-11 | https://bannavasmiles.com/ | Homepage read in full; no link to WhatClinic, Doctoralia, Trustpilot, Zocdoc, Yelp or any other review platform | 2026-09-29 |
| clinica-dental-bannava-smiles-deepen-13 | https://bannavasmiles.com/estetica-e-implantes-dentales-en-panama/ | Page describes the clinic's own dental-implant service in detail ("nuestros especialistas certificados... implantes dentales de alta calidad", titanium root placement) as a service it performs. | 2026-09-29 |
| clinica-dental-bannava-smiles-deepen-14 | https://bannavasmiles.com/ | Clinic website read in full on 2026-10-01 (all 28 pages in its sitemap: home, implants and aesthetics, children's dentistry, orthodontics, the Bannava club page and 23 blog posts): no emergency or same-day care is offered and foreign or international patients are not mentioned; all content is in Spanish. | 2026-10-01 |
| clinica-dental-bannava-smiles-deepen-15 | https://www.facebook.com/Bannavasmiles/ | Clinic's Facebook page read 2026-10-01: About (category General dentist, address in Centro Comercial San Fernando, phone, e-mail, website), an empty services tab and all 84 posts of the past 12 months (2025-10-01 to 2026-10-01), all in Spanish: no emergency or after-hours care and no service for foreign patients is mentioned. | 2026-10-01 |
| clinica-dental-bannava-smiles-deepen-16 | https://www.google.com/maps?cid=17088244540937696016&hl=en | Clinic's Google listing read 2026-10-01: categories Dental clinic, Cosmetic dentist, Dentist, Orthodontist; hours Monday-Friday 9 AM-6 PM, Saturday 9 AM-4 PM, Sunday closed; 4.8 from 31 reviews; nine reviews read across four sort orders (2021-04 to 2026-05), all in Spanish, none about an emergency visit or a patient from abroad. | 2026-10-01 |
| clinica-dental-bannava-smiles-platforms | https://www.whatclinic.com/dentists/panama/panama-city | WhatClinic: its Panama City dentist listing (3 pages, 24 clinics shown) and its Panama listing (3 pages, 26 clinics), checked against its profile sitemaps (36 dentist profiles in Panama, 29 of them in Panama City; the 10 not shown in the listings opened one by one) and the profile addresses built from the clinic's name (not found), have no profile for Clínica Dental Bannavá Smiles and none at C.C. San Fernando, office 14; the Dental Group Panama profile in the same San Fernando mall is another practice (checked 2026-10-01) | 2026-10-01 |
| clinica-dental-bannava-smiles-platforms-2 | https://www.dentaldepartures.com/ | Dental Departures: its clinic search does not recognise Panama as a location and lists no clinic there (checked 2026-10-01) | 2026-10-01 |
| clinica-dental-bannava-smiles-platforms-3 | https://bookimed.com/clinics/country=panama/ | Bookimed: its Panama page lists one clinic, DHI Panamá (hair restoration), and no dental clinic (checked 2026-10-01) | 2026-10-01 |
| clinica-dental-bannava-smiles-platforms-4 | https://guiasmedica.com/directorio/odontologos-en-panama/ | Guías Médica: none of the 268 pages of its directory (doctors, clinics and laboratories, sitemap read in full) and none of its Panama dentists pages is for Bannavá Smiles (checked 2026-10-01) | 2026-10-01 |
| clinica-dental-bannava-smiles-platforms-5 | https://www.trustpilot.com/review/bannavasmiles.com | Trustpilot: no company page for bannavasmiles.com (checked 2026-10-01) | 2026-10-01 |
| clinica-dental-bannava-smiles-deepen-12 | https://www.google.com/maps?cid=17088244540937696016&hl=en | Google listing "Bannavá Smiles · Clínica dental" (Dental clinic, Cosmetic dentist, Dentist), read 2026-10-05 in 6 review pages (the five lowest-rated, the five newest and 4 further sets of five by relevance, rating or interface language): rated 4.8 from 31 reviews (1★ 1 / 2★ 0 / 3★ 1 / 4★ 0 / 5★ 29); 10 distinct reviews read, dated 2021-04-13 to 2026-05-19, 0 with an owner reply | 2026-10-05 |
Change History
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-01 | Re-read the clinic's whole website, its Facebook page (a year of posts) and its Google listing on 2026-10-01: none offers emergency or same-day care or mentions foreign patients, so both are now recorded as not offered; whether English is spoken stays unknown. |
| 2026-09-29 | Read the clinic's website on 2026-09-29. Recorded: the clinic documents placing dental implants itself. Still unverified: emergency care, international patients, and whether English is spoken. |
| 2026-09-29 | The clinic's website opened normally on 2026-09-29 and was read in full: it links to no review platform, and the clinic is not in the WhatClinic directory for Panama. Recorded: not present on other review platforms. |
| 2026-09-25 | Search visibility checked on 2026-09-25 for the five standard Panama City, Panama queries: not present for "best dentist Panama City, Republic of Panama", "English speaking dentist Panama City, Panama", "dental implants Panama City, Panama", "emergency dentist Panama City, Republic of Panama", "Panama City, Panama dental clinic for expats". |
| 2026-09-25 | Re-read on 2026-09-25: the Google listing (newest and lowest-rated reviews, hours) and the clinic's homepage, read as text because the site shows a security challenge to direct requests; its inner pages stayed behind that challenge. Recorded: no recurring complaints or signs of manipulation; no TripAdvisor listing; every booking button opens WhatsApp; Organization structured data. Still unverified: surgery, emergency care, work with foreign patients, English and other review platforms. |
| 2026-08-25 | Re-verified live facts (website, contacts, operating status, Google reputation): no changes; captured rating 4.8 (31 reviews). |
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