The 2026 Canadian readiness study audited 11,820 dental practice websites across the provinces. As in the UK — and unlike the US — the weakest scored category was patient trust: 78.52% of audited sites had no detectable insurance or payment information, 73.93% no FAQ page, and 62.03% no contact or inquiry form the scan could find.
Those are the questions a prospective patient wants answered before they call — and 67.50% of audited sites did not even link a privacy policy, the kind of basic reassurance visitors increasingly expect. None of these gaps require a redesign; they require a list.
The free DentalPresence check runs the same 37-check scan the study used, so a Canadian practice can see exactly which gaps apply to its own website, benchmarked against the published Canadian data.