Cabinet Dentaire Dr. Ridha Bessrour
According to our open methodology, this clinic scored 38.9/100 for transparency, reputation, service accessibility, and digital visibility.
Overall rank: #6 of 21 ranked clinics · Last checked: 18 August 2026
Positions by Rating Profile
- Overall Transparency & Trust#638.9/100
- Best for Expats#837/100
- Best for Dental Implants#538/100
- Best for Emergency Dental Care#144/100
- Best Price Transparency#820.6/100
- Best English-speaking Clinics#839.7/100
- Best for Families / Children#242.9/100
Summary
Cabinet Dentaire Dr. Ridha Bessrour is a single-practitioner specialist clinic in central Tunis (Tunis Centre), approximately 2 km from Tunis-Carthage International Airport. Dr. Bessrour is a dental surgeon with over 20 years of experience and more than 30 post-graduate training courses, covering general dentistry, implantology, fixed prosthodontics, periodontics, aesthetic dentistry, and pediatric care. SmileJet aggregates 56 reviews at 5.0 stars; this figure could not be verified through direct Google Maps access. The clinic accepts partnerships with insurance companies including Astrée Assurances and GMC Services, and is open Monday to Saturday.
A second email secretariat@dentistetunisie.com appears in search results. The SmileJet WhatsApp number +61 468 261 317 is an Australian-prefix booking proxy and is not the clinic's own WhatsApp. Saturday hours (07:30-17:00) make it one of the earlier-opening Saturday practices found in this research. No prices are published. CNOMDT licence number not published.
Strengths
- Information Transparency: 18 of 20 points.
- Medical Infrastructure: 13 of 15 points.
Weaknesses
- Price Transparency: 0 of 3 verifiable points (missing: prices or price ranges published)
- AI & Search Visibility: 3 of 7 verifiable points (missing: mentioned for: english speaking dentist tunisia; mentioned for: dental implants tunisia; mentioned for: emergency dentist tunisia; mentioned for: tunisia 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 Dr. Ridha Bessrour named as sole practitioner with experience and training details [s1] [s2] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Dentist specializations listed Dental surgeon; implantology, fixed prosthodontics, periodontics, aesthetic dentistry, pediatric dentistry, preventive care, emergency dentistry [s1] | 2/2 |
| ? | Real clinic photos | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Service list published Examinations, radiography, extractions, cosmetic treatments, implants, root canal, dental prosthetics, oral surgery, gum treatment, preventive counselling, pediatric, emergencies [s1] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Clear contact details Phone +216 71 259 855, email contact@dentistetunisie.com; second email secretariat@dentistetunisie.com; Facebook page [s1] [s2] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | English website version SmileJet and search results confirm multilingual service (French, Arabic, English); official site is French [s2] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Address and map published 5 Avenue de la Liberté, Le Passage, Tunis; consistent across official site, SmileJet, and search results [s1] [s2] | 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 price list on official site; free estimates available upon request [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) SmileJet reports 5.0 stars from 56 aggregated reviews; Wanderlog also shows a listing; no directly accessible Google Maps page verified | 0/6 |
| ? | Google review volume | 0/3 |
| ◐ | Review recency SmileJet listing shows active 2026 patient activity [s2] | 1.5/3 |
| ? | Clinic responds to reviews | 0/2 |
| ✓ | No recurring complaints No complaint patterns identified in accessible search snippets or SmileJet content [s2] [s3] | 2/2 |
| ? | No suspicious review patterns Review history not directly accessible for independent assessment | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Active Facebook presence facebook.com/tunisiedentiste confirmed [s3] | 1/1 |
| ? | TripAdvisor presence | 0/0.5 |
| ✓ | Other review platforms SmileJet (56 reviews), Wanderlog listing, Allo Docteur, med.tn [s2] [s3] | 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 Radiography listed as a service [s1] | 2/2 |
| ? | CBCT (3D imaging) 3D imaging not explicitly documented | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Implantology [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Orthodontics Invisalign mentioned in SmileJet listing description [s1] [s2] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Oral surgery Oral surgery listed as a service [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Pediatric dentistry Pediatric dentistry listed among services [s1] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ✓ | Emergency care Dental emergencies listed as a service on official site [s1] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ✓ | Works with international patients SmileJet states clinic welcomes overseas patients; multilingual team [s2] | 2/2 |
Communication & Service
How easy it is to contact the clinic, get answers, and book - especially for international patients.
| ? | WhatsApp / LINE available No clinic WhatsApp number independently confirmed; SmileJet proxy number is not the clinic's own | 0/2 |
| ? | Response speed | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | English spoken English spoken confirmed in SmileJet and search-result descriptions [s2] | 2.5/2.5 |
| ? | Pre-visit consultation possible | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | Clear service explanations Treatments described in plain language on official site [s1] | 1/1 |
| ✓ | Convenient opening hours Mon-Fri 08:00-18:00, Sat 07:30-17:00; open Saturdays including early-morning 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 Tunisia", "English speaking dentist Tunisia", "dental implants Tunisia", "emergency dentist Tunisia", "Tunisia dental clinic for expats".
| ✓ | Mentioned for: best dentist Tunisia Clinic appears in SmileJet top-15 Tunis dentists list, which surfaces for best-dentist Tunis searches [s4] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: English speaking dentist Tunisia [s4] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: dental implants Tunisia [s4] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: emergency dentist Tunisia [s4] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: Tunisia dental clinic for expats [s4] | 0/1 |
| ? | Structured data on website Structured data on official site not directly verified | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | Google indexing quality Clinic name and Tunis Centre dentist searches surface the official site and SmileJet listing [s4] | 2/2 |
| ? | Dedicated service pages Official site page structure not fully verified | 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. Ridha Bessrour [s1] | Dental surgeon; implantology, fixed prosthodontics, aesthetic and pediatric dentistry | 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
- 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: Clinic responds to reviews
- Reputation & Reviews: No suspicious review patterns
- Reputation & Reviews: TripAdvisor presence
- Medical Infrastructure: CBCT (3D imaging)
- Communication & Service: WhatsApp / LINE available
- Communication & Service: Response speed
- Communication & Service: Pre-visit consultation possible
- AI & Search Visibility: Structured data on website
- AI & Search Visibility: Dedicated service pages
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://dentistetunisie.com/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +216 71 259 855 |
| https://www.facebook.com/tunisiedentiste | |
| Address | 5 Avenue de la Liberté, Le Passage, 1000 Tunis, Tunisia |
Contact details are provided for identification only and may change; verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | https://dentistetunisie.com/ | Official site: address 5 Avenue de la Liberté Le Passage Tunis, phone +216 71 25 98 55, email contact@dentistetunisie.com, Dr Ridha Bessrour 20+ years experience 30+ training courses, services incl. radiography/implants/surgery/periodontics/aesthetics/pediatric/emergency, hours Mon-Fri 08:00-18:00 Sat 07:30-17:00, insurance partnerships (Astrée, GMC Services), free estimates; no prices listed | 2026-08-18 |
| s2 | https://smilejet.app/clinic/dr-ridha-bessrour-dental-clinic | 5.0 stars 56 aggregated reviews; address confirmed; multilingual (FR/AR/EN); Invisalign noted; overseas patients welcomed; active 2026 listing; review excerpt: 'A very skilful dental surgeon, who is fully reliable and a kind human being' | 2026-08-18 |
| s3 | search:Dr Ridha Bessrour dentiste Tunis avis Google rating reviews | Facebook page facebook.com/tunisiedentiste confirmed; Wanderlog listing found; Allo Docteur profile; med.tn profile; no complaint patterns in accessible content | 2026-08-18 |
| s4 | search:the five canonical city queries | AI/search visibility checks 2026-08-18: clinic appears in SmileJet top-15 results for best-dentist Tunis search; not prominent in English-speaking, implants, emergency, or expat top results | 2026-08-18 |
Change History
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-18 |
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