Grupo Odontológico Floresta
According to our open methodology, this clinic scored 12.8/100 for transparency, reputation, service accessibility, and digital visibility.
Overall rank: #28 of 28 ranked clinics · Last checked: 18 August 2026
Positions by Rating Profile
- Overall Transparency & Trust#2812.8/100
- Best for Expats#2811.8/100
- Best for Dental Implants#2813/100
- Best for Emergency Dental Carenot ranked
- Best Price Transparency#283.4/100
- Best English-speaking Clinicsnot ranked
- Best for Families / Children#1315.6/100
Summary
Grupo Odontológico Floresta is a private dental clinic in the Floresta neighborhood of Belo Horizonte. The clinic lists named specialist dentists including an orthodontist and Invisalign provider (Dr. Rodrigo de Oliveira Almada) and a speech pathologist. Services span implants, orthodontics, pediatric dentistry, whitening, endodontics, periodontics, prosthetics, dental sleep, and ENT consultations. The clinic is listed on WhatClinic but has not yet accumulated a WhatClinic ServiceScore. The clinic website URL was not found accessible during checks; contact details (phone, email) were not surfaced.
This clinic appears only on WhatClinic as an international-facing listing with opening hours and a full service description. No official website or Brazilian directory listings with phone numbers were found during checks. Phone number was listed as a clickable WhatClinic link but the actual number was not rendered in accessible content. Google Maps rating, review count, and Facebook presence were not found. The clinic should be regarded as having limited independent source coverage compared to the other five clinics in this file. Contact details must be obtained directly via the WhatClinic listing. Karina Cardoso Gesualdi (Speech pathology/oral motricity) is listed as staff but is not a dentist.
Strengths
No categories reached the strength threshold (80%).
Weaknesses
- Price Transparency: 0 of 3 verifiable points (missing: prices or price ranges published)
- AI & Search Visibility: 0 of 8.5 verifiable points (missing: mentioned for: best dentist brazil; mentioned for: english speaking dentist brazil; mentioned for: dental implants brazil; mentioned for: emergency dentist brazil; mentioned for: brazil dental clinic for expats; 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 no accessible official clinic website found; WhatClinic is the primary public source [s1] | 0/4 |
| ✓ | Dentist names listed Dr. Rodrigo de Oliveira Almada (orthodontist, Invisalign, sleep dentistry) named on WhatClinic listing [s1] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Dentist specializations listed orthodontist, Invisalign provider, dental sleep specialist documented [s1] | 2/2 |
| ? | Real clinic photos | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Service list published Invisalign, implants, orthodontics, whitening, cleaning, endodontics, periodontics, prosthetics, pediatric dentistry, orofacial pain, dental sleep, ENT consultations [s1] | 3/3 |
| ? | Clear contact details phone listed on WhatClinic but number not rendered in accessible content; no email or WhatsApp found | 0/2 |
| ? | English website version no official website; language capability undocumented | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Address and map published Rua Ponte Nova 857 Salas 201/205 Floresta BH 31110150 per WhatClinic [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 no prices listed on WhatClinic listing [s1] | 0/3 |
| ? | Cleaning price listed | 0/2 |
| ? | Filling price listed | 0/2 |
| ? | Crown price listed | 0/2 |
| ? | Implant price listed | 0/2 |
| ? | Consultation price listed | 0/2 |
| ? | X-ray / imaging price listed | 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) | 0/6 |
| ? | Google review volume | 0/3 |
| ? | Review recency | 0/3 |
| ? | Clinic responds to reviews | 0/2 |
| ? | No recurring complaints | 0/2 |
| ? | No suspicious review patterns | 0/2 |
| ? | Active Facebook presence | 0/1 |
| ? | TripAdvisor presence | 0/0.5 |
| ✓ | Other review platforms WhatClinic listing found (no ServiceScore yet); also appeared in WhatClinic search results for Belo Horizonte dentists [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 | 0/2 |
| ? | CBCT (3D imaging) | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Implantology [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Orthodontics Invisalign and orthodontics; Dr. Rodrigo Almada is an Invisalign provider [s1] | 2/2 |
| ? | Oral surgery | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Pediatric dentistry pediatric dentistry listed [s1] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ? | Emergency care | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | Works with international patients listed on WhatClinic which serves international medical tourists; private patients explicitly welcomed [s1] | 2/2 |
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 | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | Clear service explanations service categories listed with descriptions on WhatClinic [s1] | 1/1 |
| ✓ | Convenient opening hours Mon-Wed 8am until approximately 8pm, Thu-Fri 8am-7pm, Sat 8am-12pm per WhatClinic [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 Brazil", "English speaking dentist Brazil", "dental implants Brazil", "emergency dentist Brazil", "Brazil dental clinic for expats".
| ✗ | Mentioned for: best dentist Brazil [s2] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: English speaking dentist Brazil [s2] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: dental implants Brazil [s2] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: emergency dentist Brazil [s2] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: Brazil dental clinic for expats [s2] | 0/1 |
| ? | Structured data on website no official website accessible to check | 0/1.5 |
| ✗ | Google indexing quality no own-domain pages found; clinic appears only via WhatClinic listing in searches [s2] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Dedicated service pages no official website; WhatClinic listing is not a clinic-owned page [s1] | 0/1.5 |
Licensing & Credentials
Whether the clinic publishes its operating licence and the dentists working there together with their professional licence numbers. Missing items are penalised.
Clinic operating licence: not published on the clinic’s website — penalty applied
Dentists & professional licences
| Dentist | Specialization | Licence No. |
|---|---|---|
| Dr. Rodrigo de Oliveira Almada [s1] | Ortodontia, Invisalign, Dental Sleep Medicine | not published |
Dentists are named, but their professional licence numbers are not published — penalty applied.
Red Flags
- medium Clinic operating licence not published (-4 pts) — The clinic does not publish its operating licence or registration number (derived from data).
- medium Dentists / their licences not listed (-4 pts) — The clinic does not publish its dentists with their professional licence numbers (derived from data).
- low Opaque or bait pricing (-2 pts) — No prices or price ranges published (derived from data).
Red-flag penalty applied: -10 points (capped at -20).
Data We Could Not Verify
- Information Transparency: Real clinic photos
- Information Transparency: Clear contact details
- Information Transparency: English website version
- Price Transparency: Cleaning price listed
- Price Transparency: Filling price listed
- Price Transparency: Crown price listed
- Price Transparency: Implant price listed
- Price Transparency: Consultation price listed
- Price Transparency: X-ray / imaging price listed
- Reputation & Reviews: Google rating (Bayesian-adjusted)
- Reputation & Reviews: Google review volume
- Reputation & Reviews: Review recency
- Reputation & Reviews: Clinic responds to reviews
- Reputation & Reviews: No recurring complaints
- Reputation & Reviews: No suspicious review patterns
- Reputation & Reviews: Active Facebook presence
- Reputation & Reviews: TripAdvisor presence
- Medical Infrastructure: On-site X-ray
- Medical Infrastructure: CBCT (3D imaging)
- Medical Infrastructure: Oral surgery
- Medical Infrastructure: Emergency care
- Communication & Service: WhatsApp / LINE available
- Communication & Service: Response speed
- Communication & Service: English spoken
- Communication & Service: Pre-visit consultation possible
- AI & Search Visibility: Structured data on website
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
| Address | Rua Ponte Nova, 857 - Salas 201/205, Floresta, Belo Horizonte - MG, 31110-150 |
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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.whatclinic.com/dentists/brazil/minas-gerais/belo-horizo… | clinic name, address Rua Ponte Nova 857 Salas 201/205 Floresta BH 31110150, hours Mon-Wed 8-20 Thu-Fri 8-19 Sat 8-12, service list (Invisalign, implants, orthodontics, whitening, cleaning, endodontics, periodontics, prosthetics, pediatric, orofacial pain, sleep dentistry, ENT), Dr. Rodrigo de Oliveira Almada (orthodontist, Invisalign, sleep dentistry), Karina Cardoso Gesualdi (speech pathology), private patients welcomed; no ServiceScore yet | 2026-08-18 |
| s2 | search:the five canonical city queries | visibility checks 2026-08-18: Grupo Odontológico Floresta does not appear in top results for any of the five canonical Belo Horizonte dental queries | 2026-08-18 |
Change History
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-18 |
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