Family Dental Care
According to our open methodology, this clinic scored 38/100 for transparency, reputation, service accessibility, and digital visibility.
Overall rank: #9 of 14 ranked clinics · Last checked: 10 September 2026
38/100
Positions by Rating Profile
- Overall Transparency & Trust#938/100
- Best for Expats#941/100
- Best for Dental Implants#834.5/100
- Best for Emergency Dental Carenot ranked
- Best Price Transparency#926/100
- Best English-speaking Clinics#945/100
- 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
General and cosmetic dental clinic in Galolhu, Malé, licensed by the Ministry of Health since September 2022 and operated by Mau Holding Pvt Ltd, with five registered practising professionals. It publishes a small English website with services, opening hours and a street address, and shares the highest Google rating of the Malé clinics in this index, 4.9, with Hope Dental Care and My Family Dentist Malé — on fourteen reviews. The site is thin and internally inconsistent: its services page still shows a template placeholder phone number and opening days that contradict the rest of the site.
Strengths
No categories reached the strength threshold (80%).
Weaknesses
- Price Transparency: 0 of 15 verifiable points (missing: prices or price ranges published; cleaning price listed; filling price listed; crown price listed; implant price listed; consultation price listed; x-ray / imaging price listed)
- AI & Search Visibility: 2 of 10 verifiable points (missing: mentioned for: English speaking dentist Maldives; mentioned for: dental implants Maldives; mentioned for: emergency dentist Maldives; mentioned for: Maldives dental clinic for expats; structured data on website; 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
11 / 20
Whether basic facts about the clinic - its team, premises, services, and location - are publicly verifiable.
| ✓ | Has a working website [s1] [s2] | 4/4 |
| ✗ | Dentist names listed The whole site — home, about, services, contact — was read on 2026-09-10 and names no dentist. There is no team or doctors page in the navigation. A patient testimonial on the homepage mentions "Dr Renjith", but a review is not a publication by the clinic. [s1] [s2] [s3] [s4] | 0/3 |
| ✗ | Dentist specializations listed [s1] [s2] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Real clinic photos The About page publishes a photograph of this clinic’s own treatment room — dental chair, operating light and instrument tray — with an inset shot of its reception desk carrying the clinic’s own logo. Verified in a browser on 2026-09-10. [s2] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Service list published Cosmetic dentistry, dental implants, dental bridges, teeth whitening, dental restorations, tooth extraction, bridges and crowns, root canal treatment, braces and Invisalign. [s1] [s4] | 3/3 |
| ✗ | Clear contact details Phone and e-mail are published and consistent on the home and contact pages (+960 7954089, info@familydentalcare.com.mv), but the services page still carries the unedited template placeholder "+012 345 6789" in the same header slot, and the ministry register holds a different number for the facility (9904089). [s1] [s3] [s4] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | English website version The site is published in English only. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✗ | Address and map published A full street address is published on the contact page and matches the ministry register and the Google place record. A map IS embedded beside it — but it is the unedited template default, a Google Maps iframe centred on New York, USA, not on the clinic. Re-read on 2026-09-10 by the verification pass; a map of somewhere else is not a published map location, so this stays unearned. Re-checked in a browser on 2026-09-10: the contact page still embeds the unedited template default — a Google Maps embed whose query reads 2sNew%20York%2C%20USA and centres on -78.01 / 42.73, with the template author's own locale (2sbd) still in it. Nothing on the page maps the Malé address printed beside it. [s3] | 0/2 |
Price Transparency
0 / 15
Whether patients can estimate costs before visiting. Published price ranges count; exact prices are not required.
| ✗ | Prices or price ranges published No prices, ranges or fee figures on any page; the site's own pitch is the unquantified claim "very cost effective treatment, and flexible payment options". Checked adversarially on 2026-09-10: the template's price tags ($35, $49, $99) are still in the homepage markup but every one of them is commented out, so nothing is published to a reader. [s1] [s3] [s4] | 0/3 |
| ✗ | Cleaning price listed [s4] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Filling price listed [s4] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Crown price listed [s4] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Implant price listed [s4] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Consultation price listed [s4] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | X-ray / imaging price listed [s4] | 0/2 |
Reputation & Reviews
10.5 / 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 2026-09-10 [sm] | 4/6 |
| ◐ | Google review volume as of 2026-09-26; previously 14 [family-dental-care-male-gbp-2026-09-26] | 0.5/3 |
| ✓ | Review recency Lower bound, re-read in a browser on 2026-09-10: the newest of the eight reviews shown is one month old and written in the first person by a Local Guide. [sm] | 3/3 |
| ? | Clinic responds to reviews 8 reviews were read (7 from the last 24 months) and none has an owner reply, but fewer than 10 reviews from the last 24 months could be read, too few to record that the owner does not reply. [family-dental-care-male-deepen] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | No recurring complaints The star histogram read on 2026-09-10 shows thirteen five-star and one four-star review and nothing below four stars, so three dated complaints about the same thing cannot exist. [sm] | 2/2 |
| ? | No suspicious review patterns Only 8 Google reviews could be read for this listing (15 on the listing), fewer than the 10 needed to assess review patterns. [family-dental-care-male-deepen] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Active Facebook presence Facebook page "Family Dental Care" (1,489 followers) with posts up to 2026-10-01, found under the clinic's name; its About section gives the clinic's address and phone. [family-dental-care-male-presence] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | TripAdvisor presence No TripAdvisor listing found via its search for "Family Dental Care Male" and "Family Dental Care Maldives"; the clinic's site does not link to TripAdvisor (checked 2026-10-02 and 2026-10-05). [family-dental-care-male-tripadvisor] [family-dental-care-male-tripadvisor-2] | 0/0.5 |
| ✗ | Other review platforms No profile found on WhatClinic, Dental Departures or Bookimed, and none of them lists any clinic in the Maldives (checked 2026-10-01). [family-dental-care-male-platforms] [family-dental-care-male-platforms-2] [family-dental-care-male-platforms-3] | 0/0.5 |
Medical Infrastructure
6 / 15
The range of publicly documented equipment and services. This measures documented availability, not clinical quality.
| ? | On-site X-ray | 0/2 |
| ? | CBCT (3D imaging) | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Implantology [s1] [s4] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Orthodontics "Braces and Invisalign" and "even orthodontics" on the homepage and about page. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Oral surgery Tooth extraction is listed among the published treatments. [s4] | 2/2 |
| ? | Pediatric dentistry | 0/1.5 |
| ? | Emergency care | 0/1.5 |
| ? | Works with international patients | 0/2 |
Communication & Service
6.5 / 10
How easy it is to contact the clinic, get answers, and book - especially for international patients.
| ? | WhatsApp / LINE available | 0/2 |
| ? | Response speed | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | English spoken [s1] | 2.5/2.5 |
| ✓ | Pre-visit consultation possible "Send Message" enquiry form on the contact page plus an appointment call-to-action on every page. [s3] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ✓ | Clear service explanations Each treatment on the homepage carries a short plain-language explanation of what it is and when it is used. [s1] | 1/1 |
| ✓ | Convenient opening hours Published week on the clinic's own site, Saturday to Thursday 09:00-13:00 and 16:00-21:00, Friday closed: evening cover on all six days of the Maldivian working week. Re-scored at the E2 gate from `false` to `true` for consistency with the rest of the country — the earlier `false` rested on Friday being closed, which is the Maldivian weekend day and is not by itself an inconvenience, and on the site contradicting itself. The contradiction is real and is disclosed rather than penalised (methodology rule: a clinic contradicting itself about price or qualifications earns a flag, about opening hours only a disclosure): the services page states a different week, "Mon-Sat", against the Saturday-Thursday week the rest of the site publishes. [s1] [s3] [s4] | 1.5/1.5 |
AI & Search Visibility
2 / 10
Whether the clinic is discoverable when patients search - including via AI assistants. Checked with fixed queries: "best dentist Maldives", "English speaking dentist Maldives", "dental implants Maldives", "emergency dentist Maldives", "Maldives dental clinic for expats".
| ✓ | Mentioned for: best dentist Maldives familydentalcare.com.mv ranks 2nd for the query under both the "Malé" and the "Male" spelling. [sqbest] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: English speaking dentist Maldives [sqeng] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: dental implants Maldives [sqimp] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: emergency dentist Maldives [sqemg] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: Maldives dental clinic for expats [sqexp] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Structured data on website All four pages were re-read on 2026-09-10: no JSON-LD block, no microdata itemtype and no schema.org reference of any kind. [s1] [s2] [s3] [s4] | 0/1.5 |
| ◐ | Google indexing quality The homepage ranks second for the clinic-finding query, but no page of the site appears for any of the four service-specific queries. [sqbest] [sqimp] | 1/2 |
| ✗ | Dedicated service pages One combined services page; no page exists for an individual treatment. [s4] | 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: PVT-ASC-22-313-00 (Ministry of Health operating licence PVT-ASC-22-313-00, facility registration number HF-22-ALP/PVT/669, level Area Specific Clinic, licensee Mau Holding Pvt Ltd, 5 registered practising professionals. Read live on 2026-09-10 from the ministry's HEMS Registered Health Establishments directory. The ministry's "Operating Private Health Facilities" list in the edition stamped "Last updated on 23.07.2026" carries the same registration number against the older licence code PVT-SC-22-313-00, issued 28 September 2022.) [reg1] [reg2]
Dentists & professional licences
| Dentist | Specialization | Licence No. |
|---|---|---|
| Asif Shamsudeen [regpro] | Dentist | PL04912 |
| Niyaz Muhammed Nazeer [regpro] | Dentist, Orthodontist & Dentofacial Orthopaedician | PL04849 |
| Renjith Pavithra Rajan [regpro] | Dentist | PL04210 |
| Greeshma Pottammal Mattil [regpro] | Dentist | PL06733 |
| Shynu Sahib [regpro] | Dentist, Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeon | PL03762 |
Red Flags
- low No dentists identified anywhere (-2 pts) — No dentist names published (derived from data).
Red-flag penalty applied: -2 points (capped at -20).
Data We Could Not Verify
- Reputation & Reviews: Clinic responds to reviews
- Reputation & Reviews: No suspicious review patterns
- Medical Infrastructure: On-site X-ray
- Medical Infrastructure: CBCT (3D imaging)
- Medical Infrastructure: Pediatric dentistry
- Medical Infrastructure: Emergency care
- Medical Infrastructure: Works with international patients
- Communication & Service: WhatsApp / LINE available
- Communication & Service: Response speed
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://familydentalcare.com.mv/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +960 795 4089 |
| https://www.facebook.com/p/Family-Dental-Care-100087633074719/ | |
| Google Maps | Map listing |
| Address | G. Sun East, 2nd Floor, Nirolhu Magu, Malé 20089, Maldives |
Contact details are provided for identification only and may change; verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | https://familydentalcare.com.mv/ | Homepage: services, opening hours, phone, e-mail, orthodontics and implant claims, no prices, no team page | 2026-09-10 |
| s2 | https://familydentalcare.com.mv/about.html | About page: no dentist named, no qualifications published | 2026-09-10 |
| s3 | https://familydentalcare.com.mv/contact.html | Contact page: street address G. Sun East, 2nd Floor, Nirolhu Magu, 20089, Malé; enquiry form; no map | 2026-09-10 |
| s4 | https://familydentalcare.com.mv/service.html | Services page: treatment list, no prices, template placeholder phone "+012 345 6789" and contradictory "Mon-Sat" opening days | 2026-09-10 |
| sm | https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJ16K5fVV_PzsRAAONz… | Google place record read 2026-09-10: "Family Dental Care", category Dental clinic, rating 4.9, 14 reviews, newest review shown one month old, coordinates 4.1738447 / 73.5137409, address Nirolhu Magu, Malé 20089, ward Galolhu, phone +960 795-4089. Rating, coordinates and place identity re-read independently on 2026-09-10 by the verification pass and matched to the digit; review count and recency floor added by that pass Star histogram, owner-reply state and the eight most-relevant reviews read from the same place page in a real browser on 2026-09-10 (5★ 13 · 4★ 1 · 3★ 0 · 2★ 0 · 1★ 0). | 2026-09-10 |
| reg1 | https://hems.health.gov.mv/establishments?search=dental | Ministry of Health HEMS live directory: Family Dental Care — Mau Holding Pvt Ltd, Area Specific Clinic, Reg. No HF-22-ALP/PVT/669, Licence No PVT-ASC-22-313-00, phone 9904089, 5 registered professionals | 2026-09-10 |
| reg2 | https://health.gov.mv/en/publications/operating-private-health-faci… | Ministry of Health "Operating Private Health Facilities", edition stamped "Last updated on 23.07.2026": Family Dental Care, HF-22-ALP/PVT/669, PVT-SC-22-313-00, issued 28 September 2022, Sun East 2nd Floor, Nirolhu Magu | 2026-09-10 |
| sqbest | search:best dentist Malé Maldives | AI/search visibility scout 2026-09-10 | 2026-09-10 |
| sqeng | search:English speaking dentist Malé | AI/search visibility scout 2026-09-10 | 2026-09-10 |
| sqimp | search:dental implants Malé | AI/search visibility scout 2026-09-10 | 2026-09-10 |
| sqemg | search:emergency dentist Malé | AI/search visibility scout 2026-09-10 | 2026-09-10 |
| sqexp | search:Malé dental clinic for expats | AI/search visibility scout 2026-09-10 | 2026-09-10 |
| regpro | https://hems.health.gov.mv/establishments?search=dental | Ministry of Health HEMS establishment record for Family Dental Care: the "practising professionals" panel, which renders client-side and was expanded in a real browser on 2026-09-10, names all 5 registered professionals with profession/speciality, registration number and practising licence number. | 2026-09-10 |
| family-dental-care-male-gbp-2026-09-26 | https://www.google.com/maps?cid=13904960068845896448&hl=en | Google listing read on 2026-09-26: rating 4.9 from 15 reviews; star histogram 1★ 0 / 2★ 0 / 3★ 0 / 4★ 1 / 5★ 14; newest review dated 2026-09-12. | 2026-09-26 |
| family-dental-care-male-platforms | https://www.whatclinic.com/dentists/maldives | WhatClinic: its Maldives dentist page and its Malé and Hulhumalé pages return "not found", none of the 22,037 dentist profiles in its profile sitemaps is in the Maldives, and the profile addresses built from the clinic's name under Malé and Hulhumalé return "not found"; no profile for Family Dental Care (checked 2026-10-01) | 2026-10-01 |
| family-dental-care-male-platforms-2 | https://www.dentaldepartures.com/dentists/maldives | Dental Departures: has no Maldives location (its Maldives page returns "not found" and its search recognises no Maldives or Malé location); no profile for this clinic (checked 2026-10-01) | 2026-10-01 |
| family-dental-care-male-platforms-3 | https://us-uk.bookimed.com/sitemap-us-uk-clinics-country.xml | Bookimed: none of the 53 countries in its clinic sitemaps is the Maldives, and its clinic sitemap (2,127 clinics) has no Family Dental Care (checked 2026-10-01) | 2026-10-01 |
| family-dental-care-male-presence | https://www.facebook.com/p/Family-Dental-Care-100087633074719/ | Facebook page "Family Dental Care" (1,489 followers, Dentist and dental surgery), read 2026-10-02; newest post 2026-10-01; Not yet rated (1 review); address G. Sun East (2nd Floor), Nirolhu Magu, Male; phone +960 795-4089; e-mail info@familydentalcare.com.mv, the clinic's own domain | 2026-10-02 |
| family-dental-care-male-deepen | https://www.google.com/maps?cid=ChIJ16K5fVV_PzsRAAONz4JX-MA&hl=en | Google listing "Family Dental Care" (Dental clinic), read 2026-10-02 in three review orders (the five lowest-rated, the five newest and the five most relevant): rated 4.9 from 15 reviews (1★ 0 / 2★ 0 / 3★ 0 / 4★ 1 / 5★ 14); 8 distinct reviews read, dated 2023-06-09 to 2026-09-12, 0 with an owner reply | 2026-10-02 |
| family-dental-care-male-tripadvisor | https://www.tripadvisor.com/TypeAheadJson?action=API&query=Family%2… | TripAdvisor's own search, read 2026-10-02: 12 suggestions for "Family Dental Care Male" (5 attractions, 7 hotels), none of them a dental practice in or near Malé; 12 suggestions for "Family Dental Care Maldives" (5 attractions, 7 hotels), none of them a dental practice in or near Malé; no listing for this clinic | 2026-10-02 |
| family-dental-care-male-tripadvisor-2 | https://familydentalcare.com.mv/ | Clinic's website, home page read 2026-10-05: no link to a TripAdvisor page | 2026-10-05 |
Change History
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-05 | TripAdvisor presence checked on 2026-10-05: no listing found for this clinic. |
| 2026-10-02 | Facebook presence re-checked on 2026-10-02: live Facebook page confirmed. |
| 2026-10-01 | Presence on other review platforms re-read: WhatClinic, Dental Departures and Bookimed list no clinic in the Maldives and have no profile for this clinic, so this criterion is now no. |
| 2026-09-29 | Corrected 2026-09-29: clinic responds to reviews now unverified: only 8 reviews were checked for owner replies; review count 15 (was 14) from the Google listing on 2026-09-26. |
| 2026-09-10 | Editorial gate, 2026-09-10: convenientHours normalised across the country under one written rule. The criterion is scored from the week the clinic itself publishes — on its own site where it publishes one, and otherwise on its own Google Business Profile, which the methodology counts as a channel of the clinic. `true` where the published week gives evening cover on the Saturday-Thursday Maldivian working week; Friday, the weekend day, being closed does not on its own make a week inconvenient. `null` only where no week is published on any channel of the clinic's own, or where the only week published belongs to a wider facility and cannot be attributed to its dental unit. The week recorded in the criterion note was read live from the place-detail record behind the clinic's own Google place page on 2026-09-10. |
| 2026-09-10 | Checked by hand in a browser on 2026-09-10: the clinic's own Google place page opened in a real browser — star histogram read from the review-summary bars and reconciled against the published count and rating, the eight most-relevant reviews read for owner replies, recency and complaint patterns; the Ministry of Health HEMS establishment record expanded to read its practising-professionals panel, which renders client-side and names each practitioner with a registration number and a practising licence number; website pages that only render client-side opened and read. |
| 2026-09-10 | Adversarial verification (no browser, no web search): the Google rating, coordinates and place identity were re-read from an independent, direct read of the Google listing and matched the earlier reading to the digit on all fourteen cards; the review count was added from the place-detail endpoint, which the earlier pass could not reach; the operating licence, registration number, licensee and professional count were re-read live from the ministry's HEMS directory; every cited non-search URL was re-fetched for liveness. |
| 2026-09-10 | Initial data collection: the clinic's four-page website read in full; Google place record read live for rating, address and coordinates; licence, licensee and professional count read from the Ministry of Health HEMS live establishments directory and cross-checked against the ministry's 23.07.2026 list. Review count, recency, owner replies and complaint patterns left unset — the automated place record does not carry them. |
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