Dr. Bracket's
According to our open methodology, this clinic scored 52.4/100 for transparency, reputation, service accessibility, and digital visibility.
Overall rank: #3 of 15 ranked clinics · Last checked: 26 August 2026
Positions by Rating Profile
- Overall Transparency & Trust#352.4/100
- Best for Expats#449.3/100
- Best for Dental Implants#249/100
- Best for Emergency Dental Care#155/100
- Best Price Transparency#635/100
- Best English-speaking Clinicsnot ranked
- Best for Families / Children#157.1/100
- 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 Website (drbrackets.com) unreachable as of 2026-08-26 (connection refused); no alternative source located
Summary
Multi-branch dental practice in the Carapungo-Calderón area of Quito specializing in orthodontics and aesthetic dentistry, and also offering surgery, implants, pediatric dentistry, endodontics and an emergency line. Weekend and holiday hours available. No prices published.
Strengths
- Information Transparency: 18 of 20 points.
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: 1.5 of 6.5 verifiable points (missing: mentioned for: best dentist quito; mentioned for: english speaking dentist quito; mentioned for: dental implants quito; mentioned for: emergency dentist quito; mentioned for: quito 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
Whether basic facts about the clinic - its team, premises, services, and location - are publicly verifiable.
| ✓ | Has a working website [s1] | 4/4 |
| ✓ | Dentist names listed [s1] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Dentist specializations listed [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Real clinic photos [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Service list published [s1] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Clear contact details [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✗ | English website version [s1] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Address and map published [s1] | 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 [s1] | 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
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 2026-08-26 (was unset); very large review volume for this cohort [dr-bracket-s-deepen] | 6/6 |
| ✓ | Google review volume as of 2026-08-26 [dr-bracket-s-deepen] | 3/3 |
| ◐ | Review recency most recent review ~4 months old [dr-bracket-s-deepen] | 1.5/3 |
| ✓ | Clinic responds to reviews [dr-bracket-s-deepen] | 2/2 |
| ? | No recurring complaints | 0/2 |
| ? | No suspicious review patterns | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Active Facebook presence [s1] | 1/1 |
| ? | TripAdvisor presence | 0/0.5 |
| ✓ | Other review platforms [s1] | 0.5/0.5 |
Medical Infrastructure
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) | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Implantology [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Orthodontics [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Oral surgery [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Pediatric dentistry [s1] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ✓ | Emergency care [s1] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ? | 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 [s1] | 2/2 |
| ? | Response speed | 0/1.5 |
| ? | English spoken | 0/2.5 |
| ? | Pre-visit consultation possible | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | Clear service explanations [s1] | 1/1 |
| ✓ | Convenient opening hours [s1] | 1.5/1.5 |
AI & Search Visibility
Whether the clinic is discoverable when patients search - including via AI assistants. Checked with fixed queries: "best dentist Quito", "English speaking dentist Quito", "dental implants Quito", "emergency dentist Quito", "Quito dental clinic for expats".
| ✗ | Mentioned for: best dentist Quito [dr-bracket-s-deepen-2] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: English speaking dentist Quito [dr-bracket-s-deepen-3] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: dental implants Quito [dr-bracket-s-deepen-4] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: emergency dentist Quito [dr-bracket-s-deepen-5] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: Quito dental clinic for expats [dr-bracket-s-deepen-6] | 0/1 |
| ? | Structured data on website | 0/1.5 |
| ? | Google indexing quality | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Dedicated service pages [s1] | 1.5/1.5 |
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. Pedro Aponte [s1] | — | not verified |
| Dr. Jorge Agurto [s1] | — | not verified |
| Dr. Edgar Rodriguez [s1] | — | not verified |
| Dra. Angellis Sanchez [s1] | — | not verified |
| Dra. Valentina López [s1] | — | not verified |
Dentists are named; their licence numbers have not been checked against public sources yet — unverified, no penalty.
Red Flags
- low Opaque or bait pricing (-2 pts) — No prices or price ranges published (derived from data).
Red-flag penalty applied: -2 points (capped at -20).
Data We Could Not Verify
- Reputation & Reviews: No recurring complaints
- Reputation & Reviews: No suspicious review patterns
- Reputation & Reviews: TripAdvisor presence
- Medical Infrastructure: CBCT (3D imaging)
- Medical Infrastructure: Works with international patients
- Communication & Service: Response speed
- Communication & Service: English spoken
- Communication & Service: Pre-visit consultation possible
- AI & Search Visibility: Structured data on website
- 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://www.drbrackets.com/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +593 98 083 8353 |
| +593 98 083 8353 | |
| https://www.facebook.com/dr.brackets_ec | |
| Google Maps | Map listing |
| Address | Avenida Padre Luis Vaccari N15-286 y Calle Rumiñahui, Carapungo-Calderón, Quito, Ecuador |
Contact details are provided for identification only and may change; verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | https://www.drbrackets.com/ | name, branches, phones, email, named dentists, services, emergency line | 2026-07-14 |
| dr-bracket-s-deepen | https://www.google.com/maps/place/Dr.+Bracket's+-+Cl%C3%ADnica+Dent… | Newest visible review photo/reviews dated within the last ~18 days to ~4 months of 2026-08-26 | 2026-08-26 |
| dr-bracket-s-deepen-2 | search:best dentist Quito | AI/search visibility scout 2026-08-26: not present in top-10 organic Google results. | 2026-08-26 |
| dr-bracket-s-deepen-3 | search:english speaking dentist Quito | AI/search visibility scout 2026-08-26: not present in top-10 organic Google results. | 2026-08-26 |
| dr-bracket-s-deepen-4 | search:dental implants Quito | AI/search visibility scout 2026-08-26: not present in top-10 organic Google results. | 2026-08-26 |
| dr-bracket-s-deepen-5 | search:emergency dentist Quito | AI/search visibility scout 2026-08-26: not present in top-10 organic Google results. | 2026-08-26 |
| dr-bracket-s-deepen-6 | search:dentist for expats Quito | AI/search visibility scout 2026-08-26: not present in top-10 organic Google results. | 2026-08-26 |
Change History
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-26 | Link-rot cleanup 2026-08-26: pruning 1 dead source(s) confirmed unreachable in the fleet external-link sweep (checked 2026-08-26) and re-confirmed dead by direct recheck where applicable. s1 [https://www.drbrackets.com/]: https://www.drbrackets.com/ (attempt1: connect ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:443; attempt2 (+30s): connect ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:443, other->stable-dead on recheck) |
| 2026-08-26 | Deepen 2026-08-26: RECHECK FINDING - clinic website drbrackets.com is currently unreachable (connection refused/error page, tested both with and without www, via two independent tools) as of 2026-08-26, despite the business itself being clearly very active on Google Maps (5.0/999 reviews at the matched 'matriz' branch, plus two sibling GBP-listed branches with 545 and 554 reviews); added Google rating + pin coords + place URL (was unset, matched by exact address+phone); could not render the clinic's own Facebook page via available tools (content did not load) so only 1 clean independent external source (Google Maps) was obtained this session for the >=2 target; visibility scout 0/5 true; no uncited sources existed (only s1); sedation researched, no info found - website unreachable, no other source located (see sedation/out/quito.json). |
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