Designer's Clinic
According to our open methodology, this clinic scored 57.8/100 for transparency, reputation, service accessibility, and digital visibility.
Overall rank: #15 of 19 ranked clinics · Last checked: 25 September 2026
57.8/100
Positions by Rating Profile
- Overall Transparency & Trust#1557.8/100
- Best for Expats#1654.3/100
- Best for Dental Implants#1651.7/100
- Best for Emergency Dental Carenot ranked
- Best Price Transparency#1345.4/100
- Best English-speaking Clinicsnot ranked
- Best for Families / Childrennot ranked
- 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
Summary
Cosmetic and restorative dental clinic on King Abdullah Road in Riyadh with a 12-dentist team (oral & maxillofacial surgery, implantology, orthodontics, endodontics); Arabic-only site with modern scanning equipment referenced.
Strengths
- Information Transparency: 18 of 20 points.
- Reputation & Reviews: 18 of 20 points.
- No red flags identified in public sources.
Weaknesses
- Price Transparency: 2 of 15 verifiable points (missing: prices or price ranges published; cleaning price listed; filling price listed; crown price listed; implant price listed; x-ray / imaging price listed)
- AI & Search Visibility: 1.5 of 8 verifiable points (missing: mentioned for: best dentist Saudi Arabia; mentioned for: English speaking dentist Saudi Arabia; mentioned for: dental implants Saudi Arabia; mentioned for: emergency dentist Saudi Arabia; mentioned for: Saudi Arabia dental clinic for expats; 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
18 / 20
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 12-dentist team with named specializations (oral & maxillofacial surgery, implantology, orthodontics, endodontics). [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Real clinic photos Google Business Profile photo shows the clinic's own building facade with branded signage [designers-clinic-riyadh-deepen-8] | 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] [s2] | 2/2 |
Price Transparency
2 / 15
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 No price figures found anywhere on the site [designers-clinic-riyadh-deepen-9] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Filling price listed No filling price found [designers-clinic-riyadh-deepen-9] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Crown price listed No crown price found [designers-clinic-riyadh-deepen-9] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Implant price listed No implant price found [designers-clinic-riyadh-deepen-9] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Consultation price listed Corrected: the clinic's pages invite patients to book a free consultation [designers-clinic-riyadh-deepen-3] | 2/2 |
| ✗ | X-ray / imaging price listed No X-ray price found [designers-clinic-riyadh-deepen-9] | 0/2 |
Reputation & Reviews
18 / 20
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 2026-09-25 [designers-clinic-riyadh-deepen] | 5/6 |
| ✓ | Google review volume as of 2026-09-25 [designers-clinic-riyadh-deepen] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Review recency Newest visible review dated "2 months ago". Sample: 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. [sm] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Clinic responds to reviews The owner replies to Google reviews: 2 of the 10 reviews read carry an owner reply, 2 of them recent (within the last 12 months), the latest reply dated 2026-09-08. [designers-clinic-riyadh-deepen-13] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | No recurring complaints No repeated issue across the 8 visible reviews. Sample: 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. [sm] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | No suspicious review patterns The histogram keeps 95 one-star, 15 two-star, 10 three-star and 33 four-star reviews (12% of the total); visible dates span 2 months to 3 years; reviewers hold 1-37 reviews with three Local Guides among the eight. Sample: 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. [sm] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Active Facebook presence Facebook pages for two of the clinic's own doctors linked from the clinic's site [designers-clinic-riyadh-deepen-4] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | TripAdvisor presence No TripAdvisor listing found [designers-clinic-riyadh-deepen-5] | 0/0.5 |
| ✗ | Other review platforms No profile found on WhatClinic, Dental Departures, Bookimed or Trustpilot (checked 2026-10-01). [designers-clinic-riyadh-deepen-6] [designers-clinic-riyadh-platforms] [designers-clinic-riyadh-platforms-2] [designers-clinic-riyadh-platforms-3] | 0/0.5 |
Medical Infrastructure
8 / 15
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 Services page and the eight named dentists' own profile pages read; no pediatric dentistry offered or named as a specialty [designers-clinic-riyadh-deepen-10] | 0/1.5 |
| ? | Emergency care | 0/1.5 |
| ? | Works with international patients | 0/2 |
Communication & Service
4.5 / 10
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 [s1] | 0/2.5 |
| ✗ | Pre-visit consultation possible No booking form found on the contact page; booking runs through per-doctor WhatsApp links only [designers-clinic-riyadh-deepen-7] | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | Clear service explanations [s1] | 1/1 |
| ✓ | Convenient opening hours Open on Friday and Saturday-Wednesday hours run to 8 PM, past the 19:00 threshold [designers-clinic-riyadh-deepen-11] | 1.5/1.5 |
AI & Search Visibility
1.5 / 10
Whether the clinic is discoverable when patients search - including via AI assistants. Checked with fixed queries: "best dentist Saudi Arabia", "English speaking dentist Saudi Arabia", "dental implants Saudi Arabia", "emergency dentist Saudi Arabia", "Saudi Arabia dental clinic for expats".
| ✗ | Mentioned for: best dentist Saudi Arabia [sqa] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: English speaking dentist Saudi Arabia [sqb] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: dental implants Saudi Arabia [sqc] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: emergency dentist Saudi Arabia [sqd] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: Saudi Arabia dental clinic for expats [sqe] | 0/1 |
| ✓ | Structured data on website Organization business entity present in JSON-LD [designers-clinic-riyadh-deepen-12] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ? | Google indexing quality | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Dedicated service pages Services content is a thin overview page and one veneers stub, not distinct in-depth per-treatment pages [designers-clinic-riyadh-deepen-2] | 0/1.5 |
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. Fadil Saramijo [s1] | Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery | not verified |
| Dr. Mazen Al-Mazloom [s1] | Gum Specialist and Implantologist | not verified |
| Dr. Essam Al-Khatib [s1] | Orthodontics Specialist | not verified |
| Dr. Rana Baraka [s1] | Orthodontics Specialist | not verified |
| Dr. Fatema Al-Kharboosh [s1] | Endodontist | not verified |
Dentists are named; their licence numbers have not been checked against public sources yet — unverified, no penalty.
Red Flags
No red flags identified in the public sources we reviewed.
Data We Could Not Verify
- Medical Infrastructure: CBCT (3D imaging)
- Medical Infrastructure: Emergency care
- Medical Infrastructure: Works with international patients
- Communication & Service: Response speed
- 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://ddclinic.sa/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +966 55 476 6000 |
| https://wa.me/966554766000 | |
| Google Maps | Map listing |
| Address | King Abdullah Rd, Al Mursilat, Riyadh 14813, Saudi Arabia |
Contact details are provided for identification only and may change; verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | https://ddclinic.sa/ | Own-site homepage links to this dentist's own bio page (ddclinic.sa/dr-fatemah/) under her Arabic name "Dr. Fatema Al-Kharboosh", read 2026-09-10. | 2026-09-25 |
| s2 | https://www.zavis.ai/sa/directory/riyadh/dental/designers-clinic | Independent corroboration of address and clinic identity | 2026-09-02 |
| sm | https://www.google.com/maps/place/Designer's+clinic/@24.7380271,46.… | Live Google rating 4.6 (1277 reviews), address/phone match, read 2026-09-02 | 2026-09-03 |
| sqa | search:best dentist Riyadh | Canonical query check | 2026-09-02 |
| sqb | search:English speaking dentist Riyadh | Canonical query check | 2026-09-02 |
| sqc | search:dental implants Riyadh | Canonical query check | 2026-09-02 |
| sqd | search:emergency dentist Riyadh | Canonical query check | 2026-09-02 |
| sqe | search:Riyadh dental clinic for expats | Canonical query check | 2026-09-02 |
| designers-clinic-riyadh-deepen | https://www.google.com/maps?cid=17713381263310356449&hl=en | Google listing 2026-09-25: 4.6 from 1288 reviews; histogram 5-star 1132 / 4-star 34 / 3-star 10 / 2-star 15 / 1-star 97 | 2026-09-25 |
| designers-clinic-riyadh-deepen-2 | https://ddclinic.sa/services/ | Services overview (160 words) and its only sub-page, dental-veneers (64 words), are both very thin; most of the site's real content is doctor-profile pages, not service pages | 2026-09-25 |
| designers-clinic-riyadh-deepen-3 | https://ddclinic.sa/dr-tajo/ | Page header call to action "book your free consultation now", repeated on the doctor pages and the GBT cleaning page | 2026-09-25 |
| designers-clinic-riyadh-deepen-4 | https://ddclinic.sa/dr-fadil/ | Doctor-profile pages link to https://www.facebook.com/dr.fadil.clinic and https://www.facebook.com/DrEssam-alkhatib-.../ — individual doctors' Facebook pages, not one central clinic account | 2026-09-25 |
| designers-clinic-riyadh-deepen-5 | https://www.tripadvisor.com/TypeAheadJson?action=API&query=Designer… | TripAdvisor's own search returned 12 results, none referring to this clinic | 2026-09-25 |
| designers-clinic-riyadh-deepen-6 | https://www.whatclinic.com/dentists/saudi-arabia/riyadh | WhatClinic: its Riyadh dentist listing (3 pages, 16 clinics shown) and its Saudi Arabia listing (5 pages, 55 clinics), checked against its profile sitemaps (63 dentist profiles in Saudi Arabia, 20 of them in Riyadh; the 8 not shown in the listings opened one by one) and the profile addresses built from the clinic's name (not found), have no profile for Designer's Clinic and none at King Abdullah Road, Al Mursilat (checked 2026-10-01) | 2026-10-01 |
| designers-clinic-riyadh-deepen-7 | https://ddclinic.sa/contact-us/ | Contact page read in full: no <form>; every "Book Now" link across the site opens a WhatsApp chat to one of several personal numbers, with no service- or time-selection step | 2026-09-25 |
| designers-clinic-riyadh-deepen-8 | https://www.google.com/maps?cid=17713381263310356449&hl=en | Listing photo: a lit building facade reading "DESIGNER'S CLINIC" with a palm tree in front | 2026-09-25 |
| designers-clinic-riyadh-deepen-9 | https://ddclinic.sa/services/ | Services page, service stubs, offers pages and the doctor pages (48 pages, Arabic) read: no price figure anywhere on the site | 2026-09-25 |
| designers-clinic-riyadh-deepen-10 | https://ddclinic.sa/services/ | Services overview and profile pages for all eight named dentists (cosmetic dentistry, orthodontics, gum disease, oral surgery) read; none mention pediatric dentistry | 2026-09-25 |
| designers-clinic-riyadh-deepen-11 | https://www.google.com/maps?cid=17713381263310356449&hl=en | Google Business Profile hours: Friday 10 AM-4 PM, Saturday-Wednesday 12-8 PM, Thursday 10 AM-6 PM | 2026-09-25 |
| designers-clinic-riyadh-deepen-12 | https://ddclinic.sa/ | JSON-LD includes @type Organization alongside WebPage/MedicalWebPage/BreadcrumbList markup on the homepage and other pages read | 2026-09-25 |
| designers-clinic-riyadh-platforms | https://www.dentaldepartures.com/ | Dental Departures: its clinic search does not recognise Saudi Arabia as a location and lists no clinic there (checked 2026-10-01) | 2026-10-01 |
| designers-clinic-riyadh-platforms-2 | https://bookimed.com/clinics/country=saudi-arabia/ | Bookimed: its Saudi Arabia clinic page has been removed (HTTP 410), and none of the 2,127 clinic pages in its clinic sitemap carries this clinic's name (checked 2026-10-01) | 2026-10-01 |
| designers-clinic-riyadh-platforms-3 | https://www.trustpilot.com/review/ddclinic.sa | Trustpilot: no company page for ddclinic.sa (checked 2026-10-01) | 2026-10-01 |
| designers-clinic-riyadh-deepen-13 | https://www.google.com/maps?cid=17713381263310356449&hl=en | Google listing "Designer's clinic" (Dental clinic; King Abdullah Rd, Al Mursilat, Riyadh 14813, Saudi Arabia), read 2026-10-02 in 2 review orders (lowest-rated first, newest first): 4.6 from 1294 reviews (1★ 97 / 2★ 15 / 3★ 10 / 4★ 34 / 5★ 1138); 10 distinct reviews read, dated 2023-02-16 to 2026-10-01, 2 with an owner reply. | 2026-10-02 |
Change History
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-02 | 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. |
| 2026-09-29 | Corrected 2026-09-29: clinic responds to reviews now unverified: only 8 reviews were checked for owner replies. |
| 2026-09-25 | 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. |
| 2026-09-10 | 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. |
| 2026-09-03 | 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). |
| 2026-09-02 | 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 | 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. |
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