Master Dental Care Centre
According to our open methodology, this clinic scored 58.3/100 for transparency, reputation, service accessibility, and digital visibility.
Overall rank: #1 of 14 ranked clinics · Last checked: 10 September 2026
58.3/100
Positions by Rating Profile
- Overall Transparency & Trust#158.3/100
- Best for Expats#160.3/100
- Best for Dental Implants#154/100
- Best for Emergency Dental Care#163.5/100
- Best Price Transparency#140.1/100
- Best English-speaking Clinics#165.7/100
- 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) — No general anaesthesia or deep sedation documented The group documents Conscious Sedation (introduced at its Dental Studio branch) and Nitrous Oxide at Centro. Both keep the patient awake and responsive, so neither meets the general-anaesthesia / deep-sedation definition; no general anaesthesia is documented anywhere on the site. [s1] [s5]
Summary
Flagship Malé branch of the Master Dental Care group, opened in 2011 and licensed as an Area Specific Clinic. The group publishes an 18-strong roster of general dentists and specialists (periodontics, orthodontics, endodontics, oral surgery) shared across its four branches, and documents 3D CBCT imaging, digital CAD/CAM work, implantology, laser dentistry and orthodontics. It also runs Master Dental Care Centro and Dental Studio in Hulhumalé and a branch in G.Dh. Gadhdhoo.
Strengths
- Information Transparency: 20 of 20 points.
- Communication & Service: 8.5 of 10 points.
- No red flags identified in public sources.
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)
- Reputation & Reviews: 6 of 16 verifiable points (missing: no recurring complaints; tripAdvisor presence; other review platforms)
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
20 / 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 group's /doctors/ page names 18 dentists, e.g. Dr. Ahmed Saleem (Managing Director & Senior Dental Surgeon, BDS, DS), Dr. Philip John (Consultant Periodontist & Implantologist, BDS, MDS), Dr. Asjad Nizar (Consultant Orthodontist and Dentofacial Orthopedist, BDS, MDS, FPFA (USA)), Dr. Nuha Abdul Guddoos (Senior Registrar Consultant Surgeon & HOD, BDS, MSc). The roster is published group-wide; the site does not state unambiguously which of the four branches each dentist works at, so no per-branch attribution is claimed here. [s3] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Dentist specializations listed [s3] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Real clinic photos The branch page opens with a photograph of this clinic’s own reception — staircase, reception desk with a staff member, the group’s logo on the wall and its waiting sofa. It is a phone photo (the file is named WhatsApp-Image-2026-02-08), not stock. Verified in a browser on 2026-09-10; the group’s two Hulhumalé branch pages carry no premises image at all. [s2] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Service list published Dedicated service pages for dental implants, laser dental surgery, root canal treatment, dentures/crowns/bridges, digital & OPG X-rays, orthodontics, teeth whitening and smile enhancement. [s1] [s2] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Clear contact details [s2] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | English website version The whole site is published in English only. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Address and map published Corrected on 2026-09-10 by the verification pass: the branch page embeds a Google Maps iframe of this exact place (ftid 0x3b3f7e565e65d9c1:0x67bd673bbcd7fa46, the same place the card cites), and the group's /contacts/ page embeds a second map. The street address is published beside it and matches the Ministry of Health register entry and the Google place record. [s2] [s6] | 2/2 |
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 price list, ranges or figures anywhere on the site: the homepage, the branch page and the dental-implants service page were all read on 2026-09-10 and none carries a price. The booking form asks for a treatment but quotes nothing. [s1] [s2] [s4] | 0/3 |
| ✗ | Cleaning price listed [s1] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Filling price listed [s1] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Crown price listed [s1] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Implant price listed [s4] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Consultation price listed [s1] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | X-ray / imaging price listed [s1] | 0/2 |
Reputation & Reviews
6 / 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] | 1/6 |
| ◐ | Google review volume 49 reviews, read live on 2026-09-10 from the clinic's own Google place record through the place-detail endpoint (verification pass); the same figure is carried by the place row in the "dentist Male Maldives" map result. Star histogram read in a browser on 2026-09-10 from the review-summary bars on the clinic’s own place page: 5★ 29 · 4★ 5 · 3★ 3 · 2★ 0 · 1★ 12. The five bars sum to 49, the published count, and their weighted mean is 3.80, matching the published rating. Only eight reviews are reachable (Google’s most-relevant sample; the panel’s lazy loader never advances past eight and the sort control does not open), so suspiciousReviewPatterns stays unset: that criterion needs twenty or more reviews read. The distribution is strongly bimodal — 29 five-star against 12 one-star and nothing at two stars. [sm] | 1/3 |
| ✓ | Review recency Lower bound, re-read in a browser on 2026-09-10: the newest of the eight reviews Google renders is one month old, five stars and written in the first person. Google renders its most-relevant sample rather than the newest reviews, so this is a floor, not a full recency reading. [sm] | 3/3 |
| ? | Clinic responds to reviews 11 reviews were read (9 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. [master-dental-care-centre-male-deepen] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | No recurring complaints Three of the five lowest-rated Google reviews concern high or unfair prices (too expensive, overpriced, a bill that differed from the quote); 1–2★ are 24 % of 50 (1★ 12 / 2★ 0 / 3★ 3 / 4★ 6 / 5★ 29). [master-dental-care-centre-male-deepen] | 0/2 |
| ? | No suspicious review patterns 6 of the 11 reviews read come from accounts with a single review, but there is no burst of five-star reviews or repeated wording, so no pattern is recorded. [master-dental-care-centre-male-deepen] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Active Facebook presence The site's own header and footer link a Facebook, an Instagram and a Twitter profile. [s1] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | TripAdvisor presence No TripAdvisor listing found via its search for "Master Dental Care Centre Male" and "Master Dental Care"; the clinic's site does not link to TripAdvisor (checked 2026-10-02 and 2026-10-05). [master-dental-care-centre-male-tripadvisor] [master-dental-care-centre-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). [master-dental-care-centre-male-platforms] [master-dental-care-centre-male-platforms-2] [master-dental-care-centre-male-platforms-3] | 0/0.5 |
Medical Infrastructure
11.5 / 15
The range of publicly documented equipment and services. This measures documented availability, not clinical quality.
| ✓ | On-site X-ray "Digital & OPG XRays" is a published service line. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | CBCT (3D imaging) Branch page: "Equipped with state-of-the-art 3D CBCT imaging for high-precision treatment planning." [s2] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Implantology [s2] [s4] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Orthodontics [s1] [s3] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Oral surgery Branch page lists complex oral surgeries and laser dental surgeries; the roster includes a consultant surgeon and a periodontist/implantologist. [s2] | 2/2 |
| ? | Pediatric dentistry | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | Emergency care Homepage carries a dedicated "Tooth Emergency? Need to come ASAP?" call-to-action. [s1] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ? | Works with international patients | 0/2 |
Communication & Service
8.5 / 10
How easy it is to contact the clinic, get answers, and book - especially for international patients.
| ✓ | WhatsApp / LINE available Branch page publishes a Viber / WhatsApp number, +960 782 0090. [s2] | 2/2 |
| ? | Response speed | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | English spoken [s1] | 2.5/2.5 |
| ✓ | Pre-visit consultation possible Online "Book a Consultation" form selecting clinic, treatment, doctor and date. [s2] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ✓ | Clear service explanations [s4] | 1/1 |
| ✓ | Convenient opening hours Read live on 2026-09-10 from the clinic's own Google Business Profile: Saturday to Thursday 08:00-23:00, Friday closed — evening cover on all six days of the Maldivian working week. The group's own website publishes no treatment hours for this branch at all: its /contacts/ page carries only head-office administrative hours (Sunday-Thursday 08:30-17:00, Friday closed), which are not clinic hours, so the Business Profile is the only channel of the clinic's own that publishes a week. [sm] | 1.5/1.5 |
AI & Search Visibility
6.5 / 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 masterdentalcare.com ranks 1st and the Malé branch page 10th. [sqbest] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: English speaking dentist Maldives [sqeng] | 0/1 |
| ✓ | Mentioned for: dental implants Maldives The group's dental-implants service page ranks 1st. [sqimp] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: emergency dentist Maldives [sqemg] | 0/1 |
| ✓ | Mentioned for: Maldives dental clinic for expats [sqexp] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | Structured data on website The site emits schema.org JSON-LD, but only the generic WordPress/Yoast graph — WebPage, ImageObject, BreadcrumbList, WebSite and an Organization node carrying nothing but name, logo and social profiles. There is no LocalBusiness or Dentist markup and no address, geo or opening hours in structured data anywhere on the site. [s1] [s2] | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | Google indexing quality The clinic's own pages — homepage, branch page and service page — rank for its brand and for its core services. [sqbest] [sqimp] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Dedicated service pages [s1] [s4] | 1.5/1.5 |
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-22-189-00 (Ministry of Health operating licence PVT-ASC-22-189-00, facility registration number HF-11/ALP/PVT/319, level Area Specific Clinic, licensee Dent Care Maldives Pvt Ltd (C-0440/2011). Read live on 2026-09-10 from the ministry's HEMS Registered Health Establishments directory, and corroborated by the ministry's "Operating Private Health Facilities" list in the edition stamped "Last updated on 23.07.2026" (issued 29 March 2022).) [reg1] [reg2]
Dentists & professional licences
| Dentist | Specialization | Licence No. |
|---|---|---|
| Ahmed Saleem [s3] [regpro] | Managing Director & Senior Dental Surgeon, BDS, DS | PL00600 |
| Philip John [s3] [regpro] | Consultant Periodontist & Implantologist, BDS, MDS | PL01473 |
| Asjad Nizar [s3] [regpro] | Consultant Orthodontist and Dentofacial Orthopedist, BDS, MDS, FPFA (USA) | PL05429 |
| Nuha Abdul Guddoos [s3] [regpro] | Senior Registrar Consultant Surgeon & HOD, BDS, MSc (Dentistry) | PL00573 |
| Madhuri Gubbala [s3] [regpro] | Consultant Periodontist and Implantologist, BDS, MDS | PL03866 |
| Shahla Hashim [regpro] | Dentist, Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopaedics Specialist | PL06474 |
| Geethu Maria Jose [regpro] | Dentist, Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopaedician | PL06540 |
| Rayya Rasheed [regpro] | Medicine/Dentistry | PL01422 |
Red Flags
No red flags identified in the public sources we reviewed.
Data We Could Not Verify
- Reputation & Reviews: Clinic responds to reviews
- Reputation & Reviews: No suspicious review patterns
- Medical Infrastructure: Pediatric dentistry
- Medical Infrastructure: Works with international patients
- 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://masterdentalcare.com/clinics/master-dental-care-centre/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +960 330 0090 |
| +960 782 0090 | |
| Google Maps | Map listing |
| Address | G. Kudhithiyara, Rahdhebai Hingun, Malé 20152, 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://masterdentalcare.com/ | Group homepage: service lines, CBCT/CAD-CAM claim, emergency call-to-action, social profiles, English-only site, legal entity in the footer (Dent Care Maldives Pvt. Ltd.) | 2026-09-10 |
| s2 | https://masterdentalcare.com/clinics/master-dental-care-centre/ | Malé branch page: street address, phones, Viber/WhatsApp number, 3D CBCT, specialist-led care, no prices, no map | 2026-09-10 |
| s3 | https://masterdentalcare.com/doctors/ | Group roster of 18 named dentists with qualifications and specializations | 2026-09-10 |
| s4 | https://masterdentalcare.com/services/dental-implants/ | Dedicated implant service page; confirms no prices published | 2026-09-10 |
| s5 | https://masterdentalcare.com/clinics/master-dental-care-centro/ | Group-wide sedation statement: Nitrous Oxide (laughing gas) at Centro, Conscious Sedation at Dental Studio — awake sedation only | 2026-09-10 |
| sm | https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJwdllXlZ-PzsRRvrXv… | Google place record read 2026-09-10: rating 3.8, 49 reviews, coordinates 4.1716471 / 73.5096619, address "Master Dental Care Center, G. Kudhithiyara, Rahdhebai Hingun, Malé 20152, Maldives", ward Galolhu, categories Dental clinic / Hospital, phone +960 330-0090. Rating, coordinates and place identity re-read independently on 2026-09-10 by the verification pass and matched to the digit; review count and the most-recent-review age 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★ 29 · 4★ 5 · 3★ 3 · 2★ 0 · 1★ 12). | 2026-09-10 |
| reg1 | https://hems.health.gov.mv/establishments?search=dental | Ministry of Health HEMS "Registered Health Establishments" live directory (Act 29/2015): Master Dental Care Centre — Dent Care Maldives Pvt Ltd (C-0440/2011), Area Specific Clinic, Reg. No HF-11/ALP/PVT/319, Licence No PVT-ASC-22-189-00 | 2026-09-10 |
| reg2 | https://health.gov.mv/en/publications/operating-private-health-faci… | Ministry of Health, Quality Assurance Regulations Division, "Operating Private Health Facilities", edition stamped "Last updated on 23.07.2026": row 186, Master Dental Care Centre, HF-11/ALP/PVT/319, PVT-ASC-22-189-00, issued 29 March 2022, G. Kudhithiyara, Male' | 2026-09-10 |
| s6 | https://masterdentalcare.com/contacts/ | Group contacts page: embedded Google map, head-office address G. Tinuvehi 1st Floor Alikilegefaanu Magu, head-office hours Sunday-Thursday 08:30-17:00 (Friday closed), and the list of the group's four clinics | 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 Master Dental Care Centre: the "practising professionals" panel, which renders client-side and was expanded in a real browser on 2026-09-10, names all 4 registered professionals with profession/speciality, registration number and practising licence number. | 2026-09-10 |
| master-dental-care-centre-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 Master Dental Care Centre (checked 2026-10-01) | 2026-10-01 |
| master-dental-care-centre-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 |
| master-dental-care-centre-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 Master Dental Care Centre (checked 2026-10-01) | 2026-10-01 |
| master-dental-care-centre-male-deepen | https://www.google.com/maps?cid=ChIJwdllXlZ-PzsRRvrXvDtnvWc&hl=en | Google listing "Master Dental Care Center" (Dental clinic, Hospital), read 2026-10-02 in three review orders (the five lowest-rated, the five newest and the five most relevant): rated 3.8 from 50 reviews (1★ 12 / 2★ 0 / 3★ 3 / 4★ 6 / 5★ 29); 11 distinct reviews read, dated 2022-05-08 to 2026-09-13, 0 with an owner reply | 2026-10-02 |
| master-dental-care-centre-male-tripadvisor | https://www.tripadvisor.com/TypeAheadJson?action=API&query=Master%2… | TripAdvisor's own search, read 2026-10-02: 12 suggestions for "Master Dental Care Centre Male" (11 attractions, 1 hotel), none of them a dental practice in or near Malé; 12 suggestions for "Master Dental Care" (5 attractions, 7 hotels), none of them a dental practice in or near Malé; no listing for this clinic | 2026-10-02 |
| master-dental-care-centre-male-tripadvisor-2 | https://masterdentalcare.com/clinics/master-dental-care-centre/ | Clinic's website, the page at this address 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 | Read the clinic's Google listing on 2026-10-02 (its lowest-rated and newest reviews with the star histogram): a repeated complaint among the lowest-rated reviews. |
| 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. |
| 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 for the Maldives Dental Transparency & Trust Index: clinic website read page by page (homepage, Malé branch page, doctors roster, implant service page, Centro branch page for the sedation statement); Google place record read directly for rating, coordinates and address; operating licence read from the Ministry of Health HEMS live establishments directory and cross-checked against the ministry's "Operating Private Health Facilities" list stamped 23.07.2026. Review count, recency, owner replies and complaint patterns left unset — the automated place record does not carry them. Dentist licences left null: the Maldives Medical and Dental Council publishes no practitioner register at all. |
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