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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-07 | 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we are reviewing those entries in a follow-up pass, because some of them were also written for nothing more than an unpublished price list.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 | 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. |
| 2026-08-25 | 24 Dental Clinic | Re-verification 2026-08-25: 24dentalclinic.com returned HTTP 503 (Service Unavailable) on two separate attempts, so it could not be confirmed live directly; however Google Maps still links to that same domain and shows the business open 24/7 with photo activity 6 days old, so this looks like a temporary outage rather than a dead site or closure — flagging for a follow-up check rather than marking dead. Address and phone unchanged; Google (listed there as '24 Hours Dental Clinic') rating unchanged at 4.8, review count 257→478. |
| 2026-08-25 | 24 Dental Clinic | License verification 2026-08-25 against Dubai Medical Registry: clinic confirmed as registered facility '24 Hours Dental Clinic L L C' at the identical Al Barsha Third address and phone number as this worklist entry; no separate numeric facility license code is published on the public page. No named doctors to verify (clinic website does not list individual dentists, per prior research). |
| 2026-08-25 | Bay Avenue Dental Centre | Re-verification 2026-08-25: confirmed website live (bayavenuedentalcentre.com), address unchanged, business open. Google rating unchanged at 4.8; recorded review count 156 (previously unset). Note: Google's listed primary contact is a mobile number (+971 55 146 5512); the worklist's stored landline (+971 4 277 0247) still appears on the clinic's own site as an alternate number, so it was left unchanged. |
| 2026-08-25 | Bay Avenue Dental Centre | License verification 2026-08-25 against Dubai Medical Registry: clinic confirmed as registered facility 'Bay Avenue Dental Centre' (Polyclinic, Burj Dubai) with matching address/email; no separate numeric facility license code published. All 5 named doctors confirmed with individual DHA license numbers at this facility. |
| 2026-08-25 | Dr. Joy Dental Clinic | Re-verification 2026-08-25: drjoydentalclinic.com returned HTTP 403 (Forbidden) on two attempts (with and without www), so it could not be confirmed live directly — likely bot-blocking rather than a closure, since Google Maps confirms the business open at the stored address (villa 1021, Al Wasl Rd, matching 'Villa 1021, Al Wasl Road, Jumeirah'). Phone was not re-confirmed today. Recorded Google rating 4.8 and review count 2271 (both previously unset). |
| 2026-08-25 | Dr. Joy Dental Clinic | License verification 2026-08-25 against Dubai Medical Registry: clinic confirmed as registered facility 'DR JOY DENTAL CLINIC L.L.C' at the identical Al Wasl Road villa address and email as this worklist entry; no separate numeric facility license code is published on the public page. No named doctors to verify (prior research found no individual dentist names published for this multi-branch operator). |
| 2026-08-25 | Dr. Michael's Dental Clinic | Re-verification 2026-08-25: confirmed website live (drmichaels.com), address and phone unchanged, business open. Updated Google rating 4.9→4.8 and review count 1235→1264 for the 'Dr. Michael's Dental Clinic - Umm Suqeim' listing, whose place link matches the one embedded on the clinic's own site for this branch (a separate 'Jumeirah Branch' listing at a different address/review count exists but is not this worklist entry). |
| 2026-08-25 | Dr. Paul's Dental Clinic | Re-verification 2026-08-25: confirmed website live (drpaulsdentalclinic.com), address and phone unchanged, business open. Recorded Google rating 4.8 and review count 493 (both previously unset). |
| 2026-08-25 | Dr. Paul's Dental Clinic | License verification 2026-08-25 against Dubai Medical Registry (DHA/Sheryan, open registry): all 3 named doctors confirmed with individual DHA license numbers at Dr Paul Dental Clinic LLC. |
| 2026-08-25 | Drs. Nicolas & Asp | Re-verification 2026-08-25: confirmed website live (nicolasandasp.com), address (Villa 446, Jumeirah Beach Road, Jumeirah 3) and phone (+971 4 394 7777) unchanged and matching the Google listing exactly, business open. Updated Google rating 4.9→4.7 and review count 3000→950. A separate same-brand 'Pediatric Dentistry Center' listing nearby is marked permanently closed on Maps, but that is not this worklist location. |
| 2026-08-25 | Drs. Nicolas & Asp | License verification 2026-08-25 against Dubai Medical Registry (DHA/Sheryan): all 4 named doctors confirmed as registered dentists at Dr. Nicolas and Asp Centre with matching specialties/facility; the public directory's list view does not expose numeric license codes (only individual detail pages do, and those could not be reached before the registry became temporarily unresponsive). |
| 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. |
| 2026-08-25 | NOA Dental Clinic | Re-verification 2026-08-25: confirmed website live (noadentalclinic.com) and address unchanged (Unit 3808, Jumeirah Bay X2 Tower, JLT), business open. Corrected phone to +971521290431: the worklist's stored +97143987075 is, per the clinic's own website, the number for NOA's separate Trade Centre branch, not this JLT address — both the site and this Maps listing show +971 52 129 0431 for the JLT location. Updated Google rating 4.8→4.9 and recorded review count 143 (previously unset). |
| 2026-08-25 | NOA Dental Clinic | License verification 2026-08-25 against Dubai Medical Registry (DHA/Sheryan, open registry): all 5 named doctors confirmed with individual DHA license numbers at Noa Dental Clinic. |
| 2026-08-25 | Oris Dental Center | Re-verification 2026-08-25: confirmed website live (orisdentalcenter.ae), address and phone unchanged, business open. Google rating unchanged at 4.9; recorded review count 308 (previously unset). |
| 2026-08-25 | Oris Dental Center | License verification 2026-08-25 against Dubai Medical Registry (DHA/Sheryan, open registry): all 4 named doctors confirmed with individual DHA license numbers at Oris Dental Center branches. |
| 2026-08-25 | Pearl Dental Clinic Dubai | Re-verification 2026-08-25: confirmed website live (pearldentalclinics.com), address (Citadel Tower, Shop# 3, Ground Floor, Business Bay) and phone (800 732757) unchanged and matching the Google listing exactly, business open. Recorded Google rating 4.9 and review count 1715 (both previously unset). |
| 2026-08-25 | Pearl Dental Clinic Dubai | License verification 2026-08-25 against Dubai Medical Registry: clinic confirmed as registered facility 'Pearl Dental Clinic' (General Dental Clinic) matching website pearldentalclinics.com; no separate numeric facility license code published. All 4 named doctors confirmed with individual DHA license numbers at this facility (Dr. Ahmad Deeb and Dr. Mahmood Alrayes and Dr. Divya Nair registered under slightly different name renderings). |
| 2026-08-25 | SameDay Dental Clinic | Re-verification 2026-08-25: confirmed website live (samedayme.com), address and phone unchanged, business open. Recorded Google rating 4.8 and review count 299 (both previously unset). Note: Google lists this business as 'SameDay Dental Implants' (category: maxillofacial surgeon) at the identical address, phone, and website rather than 'SameDay Dental Clinic'. |
| 2026-08-25 | SameDay Dental Clinic | License verification 2026-08-25 against Dubai Medical Registry (DHA/Sheryan, open, dentist-scope): none of the 3 named doctors could be matched — 'Costa Nicolopoulos' (tried 'Nicolopoulos' and 'Nicolopoulo'), 'Petros Yuvanoglu' (tried 'Yuvanoglu'), and 'Ramy Tamzouk' (tried 'Tamzouk') all returned zero results. Recorded null, not false, given the Greek/international transliterated surnames and possibility of registration under an alternate name form; no clinic-scope lookup was needed as clinicLicense was already set from the clinic's own website. |
| 2026-08-25 | Sky Clinic Dental Center | Re-verification 2026-08-25: confirmed website live (skyclinicdentalcenter.com), address and phone unchanged, business open. Updated Google rating 4.8→4.9 and review count 769→786. |
| 2026-08-25 | Sky Clinic Dental Center | License verification 2026-08-25 against Dubai Medical Registry: Dr. Maysoun Ahmad confirmed as Specialist Endodontics at Sky Clinic Dental Center Dmcc (facility-filtered roster search, 32 staff reviewed). Dr. Rabih Mahfouz (searched 'Rabih Mahfouz'/'Mahfouz'), Dr. Rabih Abi Nader (searched 'Abi Nader') and Dr. Sami Awa (searched 'Sami Awa'/'Awa') could not be matched under any searched name variant against the same open, dentist-scope registry — recorded null, not false, given the international/transliterated surnames and no exact or partial match found. |
| 2026-08-25 | Versailles Dental Clinic | Re-verification 2026-08-25: confirmed website live (versaillesdentalclinic.com) and phone unchanged (+971 4 429 8288), business open. Refined address to the full Al Razi Medical Complex suite address shown on Google Maps (worklist only had the generic 'Dubai Healthcare City, Dubai, UAE'). Recorded Google rating 4.9 and review count 349 (both previously unset). |
| 2026-08-25 | Versailles Dental Clinic | License verification 2026-08-25 against Dubai Medical Registry (DHA/Sheryan): clinic confirmed as registered facility 'Versailles Dental Clinic FZ-LLC' (Polyclinic, Dubai Healthcare City) with matching address/phone/email; no separate numeric facility license code is published on the public page. Dr. Dominique Caron (Medical Director) and Dr. Issam Naamo confirmed as registered dentists at this facility. Dr. Julie Su and Dr. Joanna Maalouf could not be matched in the registry (searched 'Julie Su'/'Su' and 'Maalouf'/'Malouf', with and without facility filter) — recorded null, not false, due to possible name/transliteration variance; registry covers this clinic with clinic+dentist scope and is open access. |
| 2026-08-23 | Dr. Joy Dental Clinic | Recorded sedation / general anaesthesia availability (informational): documented as available. In-house IV sedation supervised by UK General Anaesthetist; complex/paediatric cases treated under GA in hospital via tie-ups. |
| 2026-08-23 | Dr. Michael's Dental Clinic | Recorded sedation / general anaesthesia availability (informational): documented as available. Dedicated GA page: patient is put to sleep, completely unconscious, unlikely to remember treatment; for adults and children. |
| 2026-08-23 | Dr. Paul's Dental Clinic | Recorded sedation / general anaesthesia availability (informational): documented as available. Wisdom-tooth page: for apprehensive/complex cases 'we can even consider general anesthesia'; FAQ says GA preferred to remove all four teeth. |
| 2026-08-23 | Drs. Nicolas & Asp | Recorded sedation / general anaesthesia availability (informational): documented as available. Sedation page offers GA for adults and children: complete unconsciousness, pain-free, performed in hospital setting with anaesthesiologist. |
| 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. |
| 2026-08-23 | NOA Dental Clinic | Recorded sedation / general anaesthesia availability (informational): not documented in public sources. Offers conscious sedation (nitrous, oral, IV) at JLT branch; patient stays awake/responsive; no GA or deep/twilight sedation documented. |
| 2026-08-23 | Oris Dental Center | Recorded sedation / general anaesthesia availability (informational): documented as available. Blog documents deep sedation/general anaesthesia: patient almost or totally unconscious and does not know or feel the procedure. |
| 2026-08-23 | Pearl Dental Clinic Dubai | Recorded sedation / general anaesthesia availability (informational): not documented in public sources. Only nitrous oxide inhalational sedation documented; no IV/deep/general anaesthesia found on site or third-party listings. |
| 2026-08-23 | SameDay Dental Clinic | Recorded sedation / general anaesthesia availability (informational): documented as available. Dedicated GA page: patient is 'completely asleep and unaware of the procedure,' monitored by specialist anaesthesiologist. |
| 2026-08-23 | Versailles Dental Clinic | Recorded sedation / general anaesthesia availability (informational): documented as available. Own sedation page documents GA: 'patient will be completely asleep during the whole procedure,' plus deep 'sleep dentistry' tier above nitrous oxide. |
| 2026-07-10 | 24 Dental Clinic | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-10 | Bay Avenue Dental Centre | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-10 | Dr. Joy Dental Clinic | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-10 | Dr. Michael's Dental Clinic | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-10 | Dr. Paul's Dental Clinic | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-10 | Drs. Nicolas & Asp | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-10 | NOA Dental Clinic | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-10 | Oris Dental Center | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-10 | Pearl Dental Clinic Dubai | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-10 | SameDay Dental Clinic | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-10 | Sky Clinic Dental Center | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-10 | Versailles Dental Clinic | Initial data collection. |
| 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. |