Changelog
Every data update, correction, and methodology change is logged here and in each clinic's own change history. The rating updates whenever the underlying public data changes.
| Date | Subject | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-16 | Methodology v1.4.2 | Clarified when dentist names count: a name published by the clinic counts when it lets a patient find the dentist in a professional register; a first name alone is not enough, nor is a first name with a patronymic where surnames are in use. Applied the same day to the clinics whose own channels name their dentists by first name only, which lose the points for dentist names. No other score changes. |
| 2026-10-07 | AQUA Dent Clinics | Corrected on 2026-10-07: the card already listed the clinic's prices for cleaning, a filling, a crown, an implant, a consultation and X-rays from its cost guide, while the general entry on published prices still said no. The cost guide was read again on 2026-10-07 and the entry now says yes. Nothing else on the card was re-read. |
| 2026-10-07 | Methodology v1.4.1 | Added a limit on re-checks made at a clinic's request: the next request from the same clinic about its own page is taken up no sooner than one month after the last re-check made at its request, which is dated in the clinic's change history; requests sent earlier are not processed. Corrections reported by anyone else are handled as before. No score changes. |
| 2026-10-05 | Green Dent Dental Clinics | Google indexing quality measured as partial after a name-and-city web search on 2026-10-05 (own site not listed, though indexed). |
| 2026-10-02 | Dentalia Clinics | Read the clinic's Google listing on 2026-10-02 in 2 review orders (10 distinct reviews, dated 2020-07-16 to 2026-09-30; 4.3 from 850): owner replies true. |
| 2026-10-02 | Designer's Clinic | Read the clinic's Google listing on 2026-10-02 in 2 review orders (10 distinct reviews, dated 2023-02-16 to 2026-10-01; 4.6 from 1294): owner replies true. |
| 2026-10-02 | Dima Dental Center | Read the clinic's Google listing on 2026-10-02 in 2 review orders (10 distinct reviews, dated 2026-01-24 to 2026-10-01; 4.4 from 1775): recurring complaints true. |
| 2026-10-02 | Durrat Alalami Dammam | Read the clinic's Instagram in full on 2026-10-02 (every post and story of the past 12 months), together with its Facebook page: its only prices are a dated National Day campaign; it lists its services and offers bone grafting and a free consultation, and shows no imaging, children's or emergency care. |
| 2026-10-02 | Durrat Alalami Dammam | Presence on review sites re-read on 2026-10-02: no profile on the review platforms checked. |
| 2026-10-02 | Green Dent Dental Clinics | Presence on review sites re-read on 2026-10-02: no profile on the review platforms checked. |
| 2026-10-02 | Green Dent Dental Clinics | Read the clinic's website HTML on 2026-10-02: structured data: absent, service pages: not assessed. |
| 2026-10-02 | Green Dent Dental Clinics | Read the clinic's website HTML on 2026-10-02: service pages: absent. |
| 2026-10-02 | Horizon Dental Clinics Center | Read the clinic's Google listing on 2026-10-02 in 3 review orders (15 distinct reviews, dated 2018-08-14 to 2026-10-01; 4.6 from 1103): owner replies false. |
| 2026-10-02 | Segal Dental (Adwaa Segal) | Read the clinic's website HTML on 2026-10-02: structured data: absent. |
| 2026-10-02 | Smile Design Dental Clinics | Read the clinic's website HTML on 2026-10-02: structured data: present. |
| 2026-10-01 | Durrat Alalami Dammam | Read the clinic's own Facebook page, Instagram account and Google listing on 2026-10-01 (it has no website of its own): recorded its WhatsApp number, English-language patient reviews, named dentists with their fields, orthodontic and implant treatment, and a free consultation. |
| 2026-10-01 | Green Dent Dental Clinics | Searched TripAdvisor on 2026-10-01 for the clinic by its name in three forms: no TripAdvisor listing, so TripAdvisor presence is recorded as absent. |
| 2026-10-01 | True Blue Dental | Re-read the clinic's whole website and its Google listing on 2026-10-01: the website names no dentists (the booking calendar has no individual staff), but the clinic names Dr. Jumana and Dr. Sa'ad in its replies on Google and states a cleaning price from 200 riyals there; no dentist's specialty is given anywhere. |
| 2026-09-30 | Tam Dental | Searched Facebook for the clinic by its name with the city, by its name with the country and by its phone number; none of the searches found a page of the clinic, and its website links none. Recorded absence from Facebook. |
| 2026-09-30 | True Blue Dental | Searched Facebook for the clinic by its name with the city, by its name with the area and by its phone number; none of the searches found a page of the clinic, and its website links none. Recorded absence from Facebook. |
| 2026-09-30 | Uranus Dental Center | Searched Facebook for the clinic by its name with the city, by its name with the country and by its phone number; none of the searches found a page of the clinic, and its website links none. Recorded absence from Facebook. |
| 2026-09-29 | Dentalia Clinics | Corrected 2026-09-29: no recurring complaints now unverified: 1–2★ ratings are 116 of 848 and the low reviews themselves were not read; clinic responds to reviews now unverified: only 8 reviews were checked for owner replies. |
| 2026-09-29 | Dentalia Clinics | Facebook presence re-checked directly on Facebook (the clinic's own site only links Instagram): a page under the clinic's name and matching address was found. |
| 2026-09-29 | Designer's Clinic | Corrected 2026-09-29: clinic responds to reviews now unverified: only 8 reviews were checked for owner replies. |
| 2026-09-29 | Dima Dental Center | Corrected 2026-09-29: no recurring complaints now unverified: 1–2★ ratings are 223 of 1770 and the low reviews themselves were not read. |
| 2026-09-29 | Dima Dental Center | Facebook presence re-checked directly on Facebook (no link on the clinic's site): a page under the clinic's exact name and matching address was found. |
| 2026-09-29 | Durrat Alalami Dammam | Facebook presence re-checked directly on Facebook after the clinic's website domain was lost to a third party: the clinic group's Dammam-branch page was found, with the same address and phone number as the clinic's own listing. |
| 2026-09-29 | Durrat Alalami Dammam | Corrected 2026-09-29: dentist names listed, dentist specializations listed, service list published and published prices now unverified: the clinic has no website and its social page was not checked for this. |
| 2026-09-29 | Green Dent Dental Clinics | Found the clinic's own Facebook page by name search: the page name matches the clinic's Arabic name and city, and the same handle's Instagram bio gives the clinic's Al Andalus, Jeddah address. Recorded a confirmed Facebook presence. |
| 2026-09-29 | Horizon Dental Clinics Center | Corrected 2026-09-29: clinic responds to reviews now unverified: only 8 reviews were checked for owner replies. |
| 2026-09-29 | Lazord Dental Clinic | Re-checked the clinic's website: a Facebook link is present on the homepage. |
| 2026-09-29 | Smile Design Dental Clinics | Facebook presence re-checked directly on Facebook (the clinic's own site only links a WhatsApp widget): a page under the clinic's exact name and address was found. |
| 2026-09-25 | AQUA Dent Clinics | Re-read on 2026-09-25: the clinic's website (services, cost guide, health-tourism, booking, contact pages in English and Arabic) and its Google listing. Recorded: a per-service price guide (consultation, cleaning, fillings, crowns, implants and X-rays all priced), a same-day emergency-appointment policy, a health-tourism program for international patients, an online booking portal with clinician selection, structured business data, a Facebook page, published Sunday-Wednesday evening hours, and a genuine reception photo on the Google listing. No listing found on TripAdvisor or other review platforms. |
| 2026-09-25 | Cham Dental & Derma Clinics | Re-read on 2026-09-25: the clinic's website (services, dental department list, offers shop, about, contact, book-now and doctor pages, Arabic) and its Google listing. Recorded: panoramic and 3D X-ray on the dental service list, pediatric dentistry and children's day surgery, a full online booking form with department/service/branch/doctor/time selection, Organization structured data site-wide, a Facebook page, published Saturday hours, and a genuine exterior photo on the Google listing. Prices: the online shop sells dental treatments as promotional offers (implant 1,696 SAR, zirconia crown 796 SAR, cleaning 96 SAR); no standing price list and no filling or X-ray price. The per-service pages carry no description. Not listed on TripAdvisor or WhatClinic; no emergency care documented. Still unverified: work with international patients. |
| 2026-09-25 | Creative Dental Center (Al-Ibda Medical Specialized Complex) | Re-read on 2026-09-25: the clinic's website (services, individual service pages, doctor pages, offers, news and contact, Arabic) and its Google listing. Recorded: digital X-ray equipment, dedicated service pages, an online appointment form with service and time selection, a free consultation offered on the implants page, a Facebook page, and a genuine exterior photo on the Google listing. No standing price for cleaning, fillings, crowns, implants or X-rays: cleaning, a zirconia crown and an implant "starting from" figure appear only on a National Day campaign page valid until 30 September 2026, and a separate list applies only to university staff and students. Not listed on TripAdvisor or WhatClinic. Still unverified: whether the clinic treats international patients. |
| 2026-09-25 | Dentalia Clinics | Re-read on 2026-09-25: the clinic's website (home, services, eight specialty pages, offers, booking form, team, news and contact, Arabic) and its Google listing. Recorded: dedicated pages for each dental specialty, an online booking form with specialty/doctor/branch/date selection, an in-house radiology department, a genuine photo of a named surgeon on the team page, and published Sunday-Wednesday evening hours. Prices: the home page prices bundled care packages (499, 799 and 150 SAR) and the offers page gives percentage discounts; no crown or implant price. No business-entity structured data and no emergency care documented. Not listed on TripAdvisor or WhatClinic. Still unverified: a Facebook presence, CBCT imaging, and work with international patients. |
| 2026-09-25 | Designer's Clinic | Re-read on 2026-09-25: the clinic's website (services, offers, doctor-profile pages and contact, Arabic) and its Google listing. Recorded: structured business data, a free consultation offered on the clinic's pages, published Friday and Saturday-Wednesday evening hours, individual doctors' Facebook pages, and a genuine building photo on the Google listing. No price figures for cleaning, fillings, crowns, implants or X-rays. No dedicated treatment pages (the services section is thin; most content is doctor profiles). No booking form: appointment requests go to individual doctors' WhatsApp numbers. Not listed on TripAdvisor or WhatClinic; pediatric dentistry is not offered by any of the named dentists. Still unverified: CBCT equipment, same-day emergency care and work with international patients. |
| 2026-09-25 | Dima Dental Center | Re-read on 2026-09-25: the clinic's website (services, twelve treatment pages, offers, booking, team and news, Arabic) and its Google listing. Recorded: dedicated treatment pages, an online booking form with a specialty selector, a free consultation stated by the clinic, structured business data, and a genuine reception photo (with wall-mounted licenses) on the Google listing. No price figures for cleaning, fillings, crowns, implants or X-rays (free imaging appears only as an online-booking offer). Not listed on TripAdvisor or WhatClinic. Still unverified: a Facebook presence, X-ray/CBCT equipment, and work with international patients. |
| 2026-09-25 | Durrat Alalami Dammam | Re-read on 2026-09-25: the clinic's Google listing. Recorded: Google 4.7 from 716 reviews and a genuine treatment-room photo on the listing. The web address shown on the listing now carries only a two-page directory-style card (name, address, phone, hours) instead of the clinic's former website, so no website facts were recorded. Still unverified: the clinic's own website, prices, equipment, emergency care, online booking and presence on review platforms. |
| 2026-09-25 | Durrat Alalami Dammam | Corrected: the web address on the clinic's Google listing was registered anew by a third party on 2026-05-01 and now shows a generated one-page card, so the clinic is recorded as having no website, and that web address is removed from its contact details. Entries that relied on that page are revised: dentist names and a service list are recorded as not published, the oral-surgery entry is withdrawn, and the phone, address, map and opening hours are now taken from the clinic's Google listing. |
| 2026-09-25 | Green Dent Dental Clinics | Re-read on 2026-09-25: the clinic's Google listing; the clinic's website returned a WordPress error page today, as it did at the previous check. Recorded: Google 4.7 from 759 reviews with a review dated 2026-09-16, published Saturday-Thursday evening hours, and a genuine branded building photo on the listing. Still unverified until the website is back: prices, equipment, emergency care, work with international patients, online booking, structured data, dedicated service pages and presence on TripAdvisor or Facebook. |
| 2026-09-25 | Horizon Dental Clinics Center | Re-read on 2026-09-25: the clinic's website (services, seven service pages, imaging page, FAQ, offers, booking and contact, English and Arabic) and its Google listing. Recorded: CBCT and panoramic imaging, same-day emergency care in the FAQ, an online booking form with service and time selection, a free consultation by phone or at the clinic, structured business data, and a genuine building photo on the Google listing. No price for cleaning, fillings, crowns, implants or X-rays. Not listed on TripAdvisor or WhatClinic. Still unverified: work with international patients. |
| 2026-09-25 | Lazord Dental Clinic | Re-read on 2026-09-25: the clinic's website (team, doctor profiles, services and booking, about, contact and blog pages, English and Arabic) and its Google listing. Recorded: emergency dental service as a category on the Google listing, a service-selecting online booking system, published evening hours, and a genuine reception photo on the Google listing. No structured business data and no dedicated treatment pages. No treatment prices: the booking list books each treatment as a check-up visit at "0 SAR" (a children's visit at 100 SAR). Not listed on TripAdvisor or WhatClinic. Still unverified: a Facebook presence, X-ray/CBCT equipment, and work with international patients. |
| 2026-09-25 | Ram Clinics - Azizia | Re-read on 2026-09-25: the chain's website (dental service pages, offers, booking page and the doctor list filtered to this branch) and this branch's Google listing. Recorded: two pediatric dentists and three oral-surgery/implant dentists at the Al-Aziziyah branch, dedicated pages for each dental specialty, emergency dental service as a category on the branch's Google listing, a full online booking form with branch/doctor/time selection, Organization structured data, a Facebook page, and a genuine storefront photo on the Google listing. No filling, consultation or X-ray price: the site's riyal figures are time-limited National Day offers. Not listed on TripAdvisor; WhatClinic lists other Ram branches in Al Khobar but not this one. Still unverified: imaging equipment and international-patient documentation at this branch. |
| 2026-09-25 | Ram Clinics (Marikbat) | Re-read on 2026-09-25: the chain's website (dental service pages, offers, booking page and the doctor list filtered to this branch) and this branch's Google listing. Recorded: two pediatric dentists and three oral-surgery/implant dentists at the Al-Muraikabat branch, dedicated pages for each dental specialty, a full online booking form with branch/doctor/time selection, Organization structured data, a Facebook page, a WhatClinic profile for this branch, and a genuine branch-exterior photo on the Google listing. No filling, consultation or X-ray price: the site's riyal figures are time-limited National Day offers. Not listed on TripAdvisor. Still unverified: imaging equipment, same-day emergency care and international-patient documentation at this branch. |
| 2026-09-25 | Segal Dental (Adwaa Segal) | Re-read on 2026-09-25: the clinic's website (home, about, services, six treatment pages, doctors, pricing, online shop, gallery, appointment and instructions pages, English and Arabic) and its Google listing. Recorded: X-ray/OPG imaging, a pediatric-orthodontics specialist on the team, six dedicated service pages, a Facebook page and a genuine reception photo on the Google listing. Corrected: a WhatsApp chat button is present on every page. Prices: the pricing page is a theme demo table in US dollars; the online shop sells a few treatments as one-off offers (scaling 90 SAR, one-surface composite filling 200 SAR, whitening 490 SAR), which are promotions rather than a standing price list; no crown, implant, consultation or X-ray price. Not listed on TripAdvisor or WhatClinic. Still unverified: CBCT imaging, work with international patients and same-day emergency care. |
| 2026-09-25 | Smile Design Dental Clinics | Re-read on 2026-09-25: the clinic's website (services and equipment page, home, blog posts and contact, Arabic and English) and its Google listing. Recorded: digital X-ray equipment described in detail, an online appointment form with a service selector, a free consultation offered to assess each case, published Saturday-Wednesday evening hours, and a genuine lounge photo on the Google listing. No price figures for cleaning, fillings, crowns, implants or X-rays; no same-day emergency care documented; services are covered on one combined page. Not listed on TripAdvisor. Still unverified: CBCT imaging (the equipment page lists none, while a surgery article mentions 3D imaging), a Facebook presence and work with international patients. |
| 2026-09-25 | Tam Dental | Re-read on 2026-09-25: the clinic's website (services, seven treatment pages, doctor profiles, articles and contact, English and Arabic) and its Google listing. Recorded: X-ray use across the treatment pages, CBCT imaging for implant planning, emergency care for children, seven dedicated service pages, MedicalClinic structured data on the Arabic pages, published Saturday-Wednesday evening hours, and a genuine building photo on the Google listing. No filling, crown, implant or X-ray price: the site's cost articles quote general market ranges, and its riyal figures are online-booking promotions. Not listed on TripAdvisor or WhatClinic. Still unverified: a Facebook presence (the site links to Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn and YouTube). |
| 2026-09-25 | True Blue Dental | Re-read on 2026-09-25: the clinic's website (booking, pricing, six service pages, FAQ, new-patient and treatment pages, Arabic and English) and its Google listing. Recorded: emergency care confirmed in the clinic's FAQ, 3D X-ray imaging on the new-patient page, pediatric dentistry as a category on the Google listing, six dedicated service pages, structured business data, and a genuine reception photo on the Google listing. No price for any of the six tracked services (the only figure on the site is root-canal treatment from 800 SAR). Not listed on TripAdvisor or WhatClinic. The site has no team or doctors page, so named dentists and their specializations remain unconfirmed. Still unverified: work with international patients. |
| 2026-09-25 | Uranus Dental Center | Re-read on 2026-09-25: the clinic's website (home, team, contact and the theme's demo about/services pages, English and Arabic) and its Google listing. Recorded: a genuine building-signage photo on the Google listing; a named dentist team with specialties. No structured business data, no dedicated service pages (the site's about and services sections are unfilled theme demo content) and no online booking form of any kind. No price figures for any of the six tracked services. No listing found on TripAdvisor or other review platforms. Still unverified: a Facebook presence, X-ray/CBCT equipment, and work with international patients. |
| 2026-09-25 | V Denti Clinic | Re-read on 2026-09-25: the clinic's website (service pages, emergency page, FAQ, blog, shop and contact, Arabic) and its Google listing. Recorded: a dedicated dental-emergency page offering immediate care, CBCT/3D X-ray used for implant planning, several dedicated service pages, structured business data, a Facebook page, and published evening hours. The service pages quote general cost ranges (fillings, cleaning, crowns, implants) that are not presented as the clinic's own price list; no standing consultation fee (a free examination comes with promotional offers) and no X-ray price. Not listed on TripAdvisor or WhatClinic. The Google review count moved from 664 to 649 between checks, recorded as read. Still unverified: work with international patients. |
| 2026-09-25 | Vitalia Dental & Derma Clinics | Re-read on 2026-09-25: the clinic's website (services, devices, gift-form, appointment and blog pages, English) and its Google listing. Corrected: a patient-referral gift form was found to carry a standing, non-promotional price list for several services, so prices are recorded as published; cleaning and consultation prices are recorded from that list. No filling, crown, implant or X-ray price found. Recorded: X-ray use in the clinic's own diagnostic workflow, tooth extraction, structured business data, dedicated department pages, a Facebook page, and no listing on TripAdvisor or other review platforms. The booking channel found is a plain contact form, not a service-selecting online booking widget. Still unverified: same-day emergency care and work with international patients. |
| 2026-09-10 | Cham Dental & Derma Clinics | Name-verification pass 2026-09-10: all 3 remaining doctors found named in Arabic on the clinic's own https://chamclinics.com/doctors/ listing (already fetched but not text-matched earlier); sources added. |
| 2026-09-10 | Creative Dental Center (Al-Ibda Medical Specialized Complex) | Name-verification pass 2026-09-10: all 4 previously silent-script doctors found named in Arabic on the clinic's own https://cmsc.com.sa/Home/doctors listing; sources added. |
| 2026-09-10 | Dentalia Clinics | Name-verification pass 2026-09-10: last remaining doctor found named in Arabic on the clinic's own team page; source added. |
| 2026-09-10 | Designer's Clinic | Name-verification pass 2026-09-10: all 5 doctors found named in Arabic in dedicated bio-page links embedded in the clinic's own homepage (only page fetched, previously classed silent-script); sources added. |
| 2026-09-10 | Dima Dental Center | Name-verification pass 2026-09-10: 4 of 5 doctors found named in Arabic on the clinic's own team page (fetched but not text-matched earlier); 1 remaining doctor (Khaled Al-Khudairi) is not on this page and is logged separately as a removal candidate. |
| 2026-09-10 | Dima Dental Center | Name-verification pass 2026-09-10 (N-R2): the clinic’s own Arabic team page was re-read on 2026-09-10 and names seven people, none of them Dr. Khaled Al-Khudairi. Saudi Arabia’s only national practitioner register is gated to a private identifier and cannot be searched by name, so there is no second independent check and the entry is left unchanged. |
| 2026-09-10 | Green Dent Dental Clinics | Name-verification pass 2026-09-10: all 5 remaining doctors found named in Arabic on the clinic's own homepage team section and/or social handles (page was already fetched under a #team anchor but not text-matched earlier); sources added. |
| 2026-09-10 | Smile Design Dental Clinics | Name-verification pass 2026-09-10: all 5 doctors found named in Arabic in the clinic's own homepage team section (only page fetched, previously classed silent-script); sources added. |
| 2026-09-10 | V Denti Clinic | Name-verification pass 2026-09-10: all 5 remaining doctors found named in Arabic on the clinic's own /team/ page (already fetched but not text-matched earlier); sources added. |
| 2026-09-10 | Vitalia Dental & Derma Clinics | Name-verification pass 2026-09-10: the card's only doctor (recorded only as "Dr. Balhadad") found under his full name "Dr. Abdulrahman Balhaddad" on the clinic's own site; source added. |
| 2026-09-07 | Methodology v1.4.0 | Narrowed the "Opaque or bait pricing" red flag to what its published definition describes. Until now the flag was applied automatically to every clinic that does not publish a price list — a harsher statement than the evidence supports, since the catalogue defines the flag as complaints about final bills materially exceeding quoted prices, or advertised prices that are not honoured. Not publishing prices is already scored: it costs the clinic points in the price transparency category, and it is not, on its own, evidence of bait pricing. The automatic rule is removed, so the flag and its 2-point penalty come off about 1,300 clinic pages across the index; no clinic gains a flag, and no weight, severity or other scoring rule changed. The flag can still be recorded against a clinic by hand with cited sources, and about 210 clinics carry such an entry today; we are reviewing those entries in a follow-up pass, because some of them were also written for nothing more than an unpublished price list. |
| 2026-09-03 | AQUA Dent Clinics | googleReviewCount 307 -> 308 (live re-read); reputation block assessed from live Maps: reviewRecency=within_3_months, respondsToReviews=true, recurringComplaints=false, suspiciousReviewPatterns=false (8 visible reviews, order relevance (Maps' sort control could not be operated in this browser session), histogram 288/5/1/4/10 (5*->1*), checked 2026-09-03). |
| 2026-09-03 | Cham Dental & Derma Clinics | googleReviewCount 3713 -> 3714 (live re-read); reputation block assessed from live Maps: reviewRecency=within_3_months, respondsToReviews=true, recurringComplaints=false, suspiciousReviewPatterns=false (8 visible reviews, order relevance (Maps' sort control could not be operated in this browser session), histogram 3052/160/85/61/356 (5*->1*), checked 2026-09-03). |
| 2026-09-03 | Creative Dental Center (Al-Ibda Medical Specialized Complex) | googleReviewCount 1393 -> 1394 (live re-read); reputation block assessed from live Maps: reviewRecency=within_3_months, respondsToReviews=true, recurringComplaints=false, suspiciousReviewPatterns=false (8 visible reviews, order relevance (Maps' sort control could not be operated in this browser session), histogram 1150/57/20/22/145 (5*->1*), checked 2026-09-03). |
| 2026-09-03 | Dentalia Clinics | reputation block assessed from live Maps: reviewRecency=within_3_months, respondsToReviews=false, recurringComplaints=false, suspiciousReviewPatterns=false (8 visible reviews, order relevance (Maps' sort control could not be operated in this browser session), histogram 678/27/12/13/116 (5*->1*), checked 2026-09-03). |
| 2026-09-03 | Designer's Clinic | reputation block assessed from live Maps: reviewRecency=within_3_months, respondsToReviews=false, recurringComplaints=false, suspiciousReviewPatterns=false (8 visible reviews, order relevance (Maps' sort control could not be operated in this browser session), histogram 1124/33/10/15/95 (5*->1*), checked 2026-09-03). |
| 2026-09-03 | Dima Dental Center | reputation block assessed from live Maps: reviewRecency=within_3_months, respondsToReviews=true, recurringComplaints=false, suspiciousReviewPatterns=false (8 visible reviews, order relevance (Maps' sort control could not be operated in this browser session), histogram 1422/64/20/21/223 (5*->1*), checked 2026-09-03). |
| 2026-09-03 | Durrat Alalami Dammam | reputation block assessed from live Maps: reviewRecency=within_3_months, respondsToReviews=true, recurringComplaints=false, suspiciousReviewPatterns=false (8 visible reviews, order relevance (Maps' sort control could not be operated in this browser session), histogram 632/9/5/3/47 (5*->1*), checked 2026-09-03). |
| 2026-09-03 | Green Dent Dental Clinics | googleReviewCount 760 -> 759 (live re-read); reputation block assessed from live Maps: reviewRecency=within_year, respondsToReviews=true, recurringComplaints=false, suspiciousReviewPatterns=false (8 visible reviews, order relevance (Maps' sort control could not be operated in this browser session), histogram 697/9/2/2/49 (5*->1*), checked 2026-09-03). |
| 2026-09-03 | Horizon Dental Clinics Center | googleReviewCount 1071 -> 1072 (live re-read); reputation block assessed from live Maps: reviewRecency=within_3_months, respondsToReviews=false, recurringComplaints=false, suspiciousReviewPatterns=false (8 visible reviews, order relevance (Maps' sort control could not be operated in this browser session), histogram 932/41/13/18/68 (5*->1*), checked 2026-09-03). |
| 2026-09-03 | Lazord Dental Clinic | reputation block assessed from live Maps: reviewRecency=within_year, respondsToReviews=true, recurringComplaints=false, suspiciousReviewPatterns=false (8 visible reviews, order relevance (Maps' sort control could not be operated in this browser session), histogram 269/5/3/4/19 (5*->1*), checked 2026-09-03). |
| 2026-09-03 | Methodology v1.3.1 | Clarified that the publication criteria refer to the clinic’s own channels: a service list, the names of the dentists and a price list count when the clinic itself publishes them (its website, its social profiles or its own Google Business profile) — registers, directories and review sites do not, and a time-limited promotional offer is not a price list. Added a third state for a dentist’s licence, "checked, not found in the public register": a dentist we searched for in the national register and did not find is now recorded as checked-but-unverified with the date of the check, instead of being shown either as "not checked yet" or as the "not published" red flag. Neither change alters any weight or penalty; the red-flag rule still fires only on a verified negative. Also corrected the wording of the penalty note under the ranking table, which rendered as "20−" in right-to-left dictionaries. |
| 2026-09-03 | Ram Clinics - Azizia | googleReviewCount 2058 -> 2059 (live re-read); reputation block assessed from live Maps: reviewRecency=within_3_months, respondsToReviews=true, recurringComplaints=false, suspiciousReviewPatterns=false (8 visible reviews, order relevance (Maps' sort control could not be operated in this browser session), histogram 1777/48/14/13/207 (5*->1*), checked 2026-09-03); owner rule B applied: pricesPublished true -> false (only promotional offers published); cleaningPriceListed, crownPriceListed, implantPriceListed true -> false. |
| 2026-09-03 | Ram Clinics (Marikbat) | googleReviewCount 2548 -> 2549 (live re-read); reputation block assessed from live Maps: reviewRecency=within_3_months, respondsToReviews=true, recurringComplaints=false, suspiciousReviewPatterns=false (8 visible reviews, order relevance (Maps' sort control could not be operated in this browser session), histogram 1895/100/68/35/451 (5*->1*), checked 2026-09-03); owner rule B applied: pricesPublished true -> false (only promotional offers published); cleaningPriceListed, crownPriceListed, implantPriceListed true -> false. |
| 2026-09-03 | Segal Dental (Adwaa Segal) | reputation block assessed from live Maps: reviewRecency=within_year, respondsToReviews=true, recurringComplaints=false, suspiciousReviewPatterns=false (8 visible reviews, order relevance (Maps' sort control could not be operated in this browser session), histogram 1121/52/11/12/100 (5*->1*), checked 2026-09-03). |
| 2026-09-03 | Smile Design Dental Clinics | Google rating and review count re-read live in a browser on the Maps place page (4.7 / 209): unchanged from the 2026-09-02 reading, which is therefore corroborated as a genuine live read. The gap against the March-2026 third-party copy is six months of real movement, not a stale copy. |
| 2026-09-03 | Smile Design Dental Clinics | reputation block assessed from live Maps: reviewRecency=within_3_months, respondsToReviews=true, recurringComplaints=false, suspiciousReviewPatterns=false (8 visible reviews, order relevance (Maps' sort control could not be operated in this browser session), histogram 184/10/4/4/7 (5*->1*), checked 2026-09-03). |
| 2026-09-03 | Tam Dental | reputation block assessed from live Maps: reviewRecency=within_year, respondsToReviews=true, recurringComplaints=false, suspiciousReviewPatterns=false (8 visible reviews, order relevance (Maps' sort control could not be operated in this browser session), histogram 412/18/11/9/52 (5*->1*), checked 2026-09-03); owner rule B applied: pricesPublished true -> false (only promotional offers published); cleaningPriceListed, consultationPriceListed true -> false. |
| 2026-09-03 | True Blue Dental | reputation block assessed from live Maps: reviewRecency=within_3_months, respondsToReviews=true, recurringComplaints=false, suspiciousReviewPatterns=false (8 visible reviews, order relevance (Maps' sort control could not be operated in this browser session), histogram 228/5/1/1/8 (5*->1*), checked 2026-09-03). |
| 2026-09-03 | Uranus Dental Center | googleReviewCount 1261 -> 1262 (live re-read); reputation block assessed from live Maps: reviewRecency=within_year, respondsToReviews=true, recurringComplaints=false, suspiciousReviewPatterns=false (8 visible reviews, order relevance (Maps' sort control could not be operated in this browser session), histogram 864/65/40/33/260 (5*->1*), checked 2026-09-03). |
| 2026-09-03 | V Denti Clinic | reputation block assessed from live Maps: reviewRecency=within_3_months, respondsToReviews=true, recurringComplaints=false, suspiciousReviewPatterns=false (8 visible reviews, order relevance (Maps' sort control could not be operated in this browser session), histogram 626/11/3/4/20 (5*->1*), checked 2026-09-03); owner rule B applied: pricesPublished true -> false (only promotional offers published). |
| 2026-09-03 | Vitalia Dental & Derma Clinics | Google rating and review count re-read live in a browser on the Maps place page (4.7 / 248): unchanged from the 2026-09-02 reading, which is therefore corroborated as a genuine live read. The gap against the March-2026 third-party copy is six months of real movement, not a stale copy. |
| 2026-09-03 | Vitalia Dental & Derma Clinics | reputation block assessed from live Maps: reviewRecency=within_3_months, respondsToReviews=true, recurringComplaints=false, suspiciousReviewPatterns=false (8 visible reviews, order relevance (Maps' sort control could not be operated in this browser session), histogram 224/4/2/1/17 (5*->1*), checked 2026-09-03). |
| 2026-09-02 | AQUA Dent Clinics | Initial data collection for the Saudi Arabia Dental Transparency & Trust Index: verified via aquadentistry.com and a business-directory profile; Google rating not independently confirmed via a live Maps page as of 2026-09-02. |
| 2026-09-02 | AQUA Dent Clinics | Live Google Maps re-verification (rating 4.8, 307 reviews, place URL + geo captured) and the five canonical AI-visibility search queries checked live for Jeddah. |
| 2026-09-02 | Cham Dental & Derma Clinics | Initial data collection for the Saudi Arabia Dental Transparency & Trust Index: verified via chamclinics.com and a business-directory profile; Google rating not independently confirmed via a live Maps page as of 2026-09-02. |
| 2026-09-02 | Cham Dental & Derma Clinics | Live Google Maps re-verification (rating 4.5, 3713 reviews, place URL + geo captured) and the five canonical AI-visibility search queries checked live for Dammam. |
| 2026-09-02 | Creative Dental Center (Al-Ibda Medical Specialized Complex) | Initial data collection for the Saudi Arabia Dental Transparency & Trust Index: verified via cmsc.com.sa and a business-directory profile; Google rating not independently confirmed via a live Maps page as of 2026-09-02. |
| 2026-09-02 | Creative Dental Center (Al-Ibda Medical Specialized Complex) | Live Google Maps re-verification (rating 4.5, 1393 reviews, place URL + geo captured) and the five canonical AI-visibility search queries checked live for Dammam. |
| 2026-09-02 | Dentalia Clinics | Initial data collection for the Saudi Arabia Dental Transparency & Trust Index: verified via dentaliaclinics.com.sa and a business-directory profile; Google rating not independently confirmed via a live Maps page as of 2026-09-02. |
| 2026-09-02 | Dentalia Clinics | Live Google Maps re-verification (rating 4.3, 846 reviews, place URL + geo captured) and the five canonical AI-visibility search queries checked live for Jeddah. |
| 2026-09-02 | Designer's Clinic | Initial data collection for the Saudi Arabia Dental Transparency & Trust Index: verified via ddclinic.sa and a business-directory profile; Google rating not independently confirmed via a live Maps page as of 2026-09-02. |
| 2026-09-02 | Designer's Clinic | Live Google Maps re-verification (rating 4.6, 1277 reviews, place URL + geo captured) and the five canonical AI-visibility search queries checked live for Riyadh. |
| 2026-09-02 | Dima Dental Center | Initial data collection for the Saudi Arabia Dental Transparency & Trust Index: verified via dimadental.com.sa and a business-directory profile; Google rating not independently confirmed via a live Maps page as of 2026-09-02. |
| 2026-09-02 | Dima Dental Center | Live Google Maps re-verification (rating 4.4, 1750 reviews, place URL + geo captured) and the five canonical AI-visibility search queries checked live for Riyadh. |
| 2026-09-02 | Durrat Alalami Dammam | Initial data collection for the Saudi Arabia Dental Transparency & Trust Index: verified via durratalaalmy.com and a business-directory profile giving dentist names; Google rating not independently confirmed via a live Maps page as of 2026-09-02. |
| 2026-09-02 | Durrat Alalami Dammam | Live Google Maps re-verification (rating 4.7, 696 reviews, place URL + geo captured) and the five canonical AI-visibility search queries checked live for Dammam. |
| 2026-09-02 | Green Dent Dental Clinics | Initial data collection for the Saudi Arabia Dental Transparency & Trust Index: verified via greendent.com.sa and a business-directory profile; Google rating not independently confirmed via a live Maps page as of 2026-09-02. |
| 2026-09-02 | Green Dent Dental Clinics | Live Google Maps re-verification (rating 4.7, 760 reviews, place URL + geo captured) and the five canonical AI-visibility search queries checked live for Jeddah. |
| 2026-09-02 | Horizon Dental Clinics Center | Initial data collection for the Saudi Arabia Dental Transparency & Trust Index: verified via horizondent.com and its Facebook page; Google rating not independently confirmed via a live Maps page as of 2026-09-02. |
| 2026-09-02 | Horizon Dental Clinics Center | Live Google Maps re-verification (rating 4.6, 1071 reviews, place URL + geo captured) and the five canonical AI-visibility search queries checked live for Riyadh. |
| 2026-09-02 | Lazord Dental Clinic | Initial data collection for the Saudi Arabia Dental Transparency & Trust Index: verified via lazordclinic.sa and a business-directory profile; Google rating not independently confirmed via a live Maps page as of 2026-09-02. |
| 2026-09-02 | Lazord Dental Clinic | Live Google Maps re-verification (rating 4.7, 300 reviews, place URL + geo captured) and the five canonical AI-visibility search queries checked live for Khobar. |
| 2026-09-02 | Ram Clinics - Azizia | Initial data collection for the Saudi Arabia Dental Transparency & Trust Index: verified via ramclinics.net (company-wide) and a business-directory profile giving the Al Khuzama branch address; Google rating not independently confirmed via a live Maps page as of 2026-09-02. |
| 2026-09-02 | Ram Clinics - Azizia | Live Google Maps re-verification (rating 4.5, 2058 reviews, place URL + geo captured) and the five canonical AI-visibility search queries checked live for Khobar. |
| 2026-09-02 | Ram Clinics (Marikbat) | Initial data collection for the Saudi Arabia Dental Transparency & Trust Index: verified via ramclinics.net (company-wide) and a business-directory profile giving the Marikbat branch address; Google rating not independently confirmed via a live Maps page as of 2026-09-02. |
| 2026-09-02 | Ram Clinics (Marikbat) | Live Google Maps re-verification (rating 4.2, 2548 reviews, place URL + geo captured) and the five canonical AI-visibility search queries checked live for Dammam. |
| 2026-09-02 | Segal Dental (Adwaa Segal) | Initial data collection for the Saudi Arabia Dental Transparency & Trust Index: verified via adwaasegal.com and a business-directory profile; Google rating not independently confirmed via a live Maps page as of 2026-09-02. |
| 2026-09-02 | Segal Dental (Adwaa Segal) | Live Google Maps re-verification (rating 4.6, 1296 reviews, place URL + geo captured) and the five canonical AI-visibility search queries checked live for Dammam. |
| 2026-09-02 | Smile Design Dental Clinics | Initial data collection for the Saudi Arabia Dental Transparency & Trust Index: verified via smiledesign.sa and a WhatClinic profile; Google rating not independently confirmed via a live Maps page as of 2026-09-02. |
| 2026-09-02 | Smile Design Dental Clinics | Live Google Maps re-verification (rating 4.7, 209 reviews, place URL + geo captured) and the five canonical AI-visibility search queries checked live for Riyadh. |
| 2026-09-02 | Tam Dental | Initial data collection for the Saudi Arabia Dental Transparency & Trust Index: verified via tamdental.sa and a business-directory profile; Google rating not independently confirmed via a live Maps page as of 2026-09-02. |
| 2026-09-02 | Tam Dental | Live Google Maps re-verification (rating 4.5, 502 reviews, place URL + geo captured) and the five canonical AI-visibility search queries checked live for Jeddah. |
| 2026-09-02 | True Blue Dental | Initial data collection for the Saudi Arabia Dental Transparency & Trust Index: verified via tblue.co and a business-directory profile; Google rating not independently confirmed via a live Maps page as of 2026-09-02. |
| 2026-09-02 | True Blue Dental | Live Google Maps re-verification (rating 4.8, 243 reviews, place URL + geo captured) and the five canonical AI-visibility search queries checked live for Khobar. |
| 2026-09-02 | Uranus Dental Center | Initial data collection for the Saudi Arabia Dental Transparency & Trust Index: verified via uranus.com.sa and a business-directory profile; Google rating not independently confirmed via a live Maps page as of 2026-09-02 (recorded as unverified/null per methodology). |
| 2026-09-02 | Uranus Dental Center | Live Google Maps re-verification (rating 4, 1261 reviews, place URL + geo captured) and the five canonical AI-visibility search queries checked live for Riyadh. |
| 2026-09-02 | V Denti Clinic | Initial data collection for the Saudi Arabia Dental Transparency & Trust Index: verified via vdenti.com and a business-directory profile; Google rating not independently confirmed via a live Maps page as of 2026-09-02. |
| 2026-09-02 | V Denti Clinic | Live Google Maps re-verification (rating 4.8, 664 reviews, place URL + geo captured) and the five canonical AI-visibility search queries checked live for Jeddah. |
| 2026-09-02 | Vitalia Dental & Derma Clinics | Initial data collection for the Saudi Arabia Dental Transparency & Trust Index: verified via vitalia-clinics.com and a business-directory profile; Google rating not independently confirmed via a live Maps page as of 2026-09-02. |
| 2026-09-02 | Vitalia Dental & Derma Clinics | Live Google Maps re-verification (rating 4.7, 248 reviews, place URL + geo captured) and the five canonical AI-visibility search queries checked live for Khobar. |
| 2026-08-25 | Methodology v1.3.0 | Corrected how the two licensing red flags are applied ("Clinic operating licence not published" and "Dentists / their licences not listed"). Previously they were applied whenever licensing data was absent from our records, which treated unchecked data as a negative finding — contrary to the methodology's own rule that unverified data is a fact about our coverage, not about the clinic. Both flags now apply only where we have verified that the information is not published. Manual licensing flags that rested on unverified data were removed from the affected clinics. No other scoring rules changed; most scores rise because the incorrect penalty is removed. |
| 2026-08-23 | Methodology v1.2.0 | Added an informational "Sedation & general anaesthesia" availability field to every clinic and a new "Sleep Dentistry (Sedation / GA)" list, for patients who cannot tolerate — or would rather not be awake for — treatment. This field is informational and does not change any transparency score. |
| 2026-07-08 | Methodology v1.1.0 | Added licensing transparency: clinics are now penalised when they do not publish their operating licence, or do not list their dentists together with their professional licence numbers. Each clinic page now shows a Licensing & Credentials section. |
| 2026-07-03 | Methodology v1.0.0 | Initial public methodology. |