Master Dental Care Centro
According to our open methodology, this clinic scored 48.3/100 for transparency, reputation, service accessibility, and digital visibility.
Overall rank: #5 of 14 ranked clinics · Last checked: 10 September 2026
48.3/100
Positions by Rating Profile
- Overall Transparency & Trust#548.3/100
- Best for Expats#351.8/100
- Best for Dental Implantsnot ranked
- Best for Emergency Dental Carenot ranked
- Best Price Transparency#436.1/100
- Best English-speaking Clinics#258.7/100
- Best for Families / Children#351.4/100
- 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 branch documents Nitrous Oxide ("Laughter Gas") only. Inhalation sedation keeps the patient awake and responsive and therefore does not meet the general-anaesthesia / deep-sedation definition. [s1]
Summary
Family-dentistry branch of the Master Dental Care group inside Centro Mall in Hulhumalé, opened in 2017 and licensed by the Ministry of Health as an Area Specific Clinic since February 2023. The branch page emphasises paediatric and family care, specialist orthodontic consultations and nitrous-oxide relaxation for anxious patients. Its Google rating is the lowest of the Hulhumalé clinics carded here.
Strengths
- Information Transparency: 18 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: 8 of 18 verifiable points (missing: no recurring complaints; tripAdvisor presence; other review platforms)
- AI & Search Visibility: 3.5 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)
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] [s2] | 4/4 |
| ✓ | Dentist names listed The group publishes an 18-name roster with qualifications. The roster is group-wide and 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 group’s branch page for this clinic carries no photograph of the premises — the slot that holds a reception photo on the Malé branch page is empty here. Checked in a browser on 2026-09-10. [s1] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Service list published [s1] [s2] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Clear contact details Branch page publishes the mall address, phone +960 33 500 96 and a Viber/WhatsApp number. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | English website version [s2] | 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 0x3b3f7f58da01d68d:0xcc56a8a8cb7f4844, the same place the card cites), with the mall address published beside it. [s1] | 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 prices, ranges or figures on the branch page or anywhere else on the group site. [s1] [s2] | 0/3 |
| ✗ | Cleaning price listed [s1] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Filling price listed [s1] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Crown price listed [s1] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Implant price listed [s1] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Consultation price listed [s1] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | X-ray / imaging price listed [s1] | 0/2 |
Reputation & Reviews
8 / 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 23 reviews, read live on 2026-09-10 from the branch's own Google place record (verification pass) — 23 reviews behind the lowest rating in this index (3.3). Star histogram read in a browser on 2026-09-10 from the review-summary bars on the clinic’s own place page: 5★ 12 · 4★ 2 · 3★ 0 · 2★ 0 · 1★ 9. The five bars sum to 23, the published count, and their weighted mean is 3.35, matching the published rating. Nine of the twenty-three reviews are one star against twelve five-star — the second-heaviest negative tail in the country and the lowest carded rating. Three of the nine one-star reviews were read: two of them, by different authors, are about being kept waiting long past a booked appointment time (one waited an hour and forty-five minutes, another from 21:45 to 23:00 before leaving), which is two dated instances of one complaint, not the three the criterion requires. Six one-star reviews stay unreachable, so recurringComplaints stays unset rather than false, and suspiciousReviewPatterns needs twenty reviews read against the eight available. [sm] | 1/3 |
| ✓ | Review recency The newest review rendered on the place page on 2026-09-10 is two months old, and a second was edited three months ago; both are five stars and written in the first person. Read in a browser — the verification pass reading, from the automated place-detail sample, put the newest review shown at a year old. [sm] | 3/3 |
| ? | Clinic responds to reviews 11 reviews were read (8 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-centro-hulhumale-deepen] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | No recurring complaints Three of the five lowest-rated Google reviews concern waiting and booking: long waits past the booked time (two) and booking calls that go unanswered (one); 1–2★ are 39.1 % of 23 (1★ 9 / 2★ 0 / 3★ 0 / 4★ 2 / 5★ 12). [master-dental-care-centro-hulhumale-deepen] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | No suspicious review patterns The 11 Google reviews read (dated 2020-09-16 to 2026-08-29, from accounts with 1–131 reviews) show no burst of five-star reviews and no repeated opening wording; star histogram 1★ 9 / 2★ 0 / 3★ 0 / 4★ 2 / 5★ 12. [master-dental-care-centro-hulhumale-deepen] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Active Facebook presence Group-level Facebook, Instagram and Twitter profiles are linked from every page of the site. [s2] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | TripAdvisor presence No TripAdvisor listing found via its search for "Master Dental Care Centro" and "Master Dental Care Hulhumale"; the clinic's site does not link to TripAdvisor (checked 2026-10-02 and 2026-10-05). [master-dental-care-centro-hulhumale-tripadvisor] [master-dental-care-centro-hulhumale-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-centro-hulhumale-platforms] [master-dental-care-centro-hulhumale-platforms-2] [master-dental-care-centro-hulhumale-platforms-3] | 0/0.5 |
Medical Infrastructure
5.5 / 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 group service line. [s2] | 2/2 |
| ? | CBCT (3D imaging) 3D CBCT is documented for the group's Malé flagship; the Centro branch page makes no imaging claim of its own. | 0/2 |
| ? | Implantology Implants are a group service line but the Centro branch page lists only family dentistry, orthodontics and sedation among its own specialities. | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Orthodontics "Orthodontic Excellence: Specialist consultations for braces and smile alignment." [s1] | 2/2 |
| ? | Oral surgery | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Pediatric dentistry "Family Dentistry: Gentle care for patients of all ages, including pediatric dentistry." [s1] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ? | Emergency care | 0/1.5 |
| ? | 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 Viber / WhatsApp +960 784 0090 published on the branch page. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ? | Response speed | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | English spoken [s2] | 2.5/2.5 |
| ✓ | Pre-visit consultation possible [s1] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ✓ | Clear service explanations [s1] | 1/1 |
| ✓ | Convenient opening hours Read live on 2026-09-10 from the branch's own Google Business Profile: Saturday to Thursday 09:00-22:00, 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: its contacts page carries only head-office administrative hours (Sunday-Thursday 08:30-17:00, Friday closed), which are not clinic hours. [sm] | 1.5/1.5 |
AI & Search Visibility
3.5 / 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 The branch's own page ranks 10th; the group homepage also ranks 3rd, but only branch-specific URLs are counted here. [sqbest] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: English speaking dentist Maldives [sqeng] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: dental implants Maldives The group homepage ranks 2nd but no Centro page appears. [sqimp] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: emergency dentist Maldives The group homepage ranks 2nd but no Centro page appears. [sqemg] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: Maldives dental clinic for expats The group homepage ranks 1st but no Centro page appears. [sqexp] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Structured data on website The group site emits only the generic WordPress/Yoast JSON-LD graph (WebPage, ImageObject, BreadcrumbList, WebSite, Organization); there is no LocalBusiness or Dentist markup and no address, geo or opening hours in structured data. [s1] [s2] | 0/1.5 |
| ◐ | Google indexing quality The branch page reaches the top ten for one of the five queries; the rest of the group's visibility is carried by the homepage. [sqbest] [sqimp] | 1/2 |
| ✓ | Dedicated service pages [s2] | 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-23-355-00 (Ministry of Health operating licence PVT-ASC-23-355-00, facility registration number HF-17/ALP/PVT/473, level Area Specific Clinic, licensee Dent Care Maldives Pvt Ltd (C-0440/2011), 2 registered practising professionals. Read live on 2026-09-10 from the ministry's HEMS Registered Health Establishments directory, and present with the same numbers in the ministry's Maaharaa facility record and in the "Operating Private Health Facilities" list stamped "Last updated on 23.07.2026" (issued 5 February 2023).) [reg1] [reg2] [reg3]
Dentists & professional licences
Red Flags
No red flags identified in the public sources we reviewed.
Data We Could Not Verify
- Reputation & Reviews: Clinic responds to reviews
- Medical Infrastructure: CBCT (3D imaging)
- Medical Infrastructure: Implantology
- Medical Infrastructure: Oral surgery
- Medical Infrastructure: Emergency care
- 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-centro/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +960 335 0096 |
| +960 784 0090 | |
| Google Maps | Map listing |
| Address | Centro Mall, 2nd Floor, Unit 17, Huvandhumaa Hingun, Hulhumalé, 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/clinics/master-dental-care-centro/ | Branch page: opened 2017, family and paediatric dentistry, specialist orthodontic consultations, nitrous-oxide sedation, address, phone and Viber/WhatsApp number, no prices | 2026-09-10 |
| s2 | https://masterdentalcare.com/ | Group homepage: service lines including Digital & OPG XRays, social profiles, English-only site, legal entity Dent Care Maldives Pvt. Ltd. | 2026-09-10 |
| s3 | https://masterdentalcare.com/doctors/ | Group roster of 18 named dentists with qualifications and specializations | 2026-09-10 |
| sm | https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJjdYB2lh_PzsRREh_y… | Google place record read 2026-09-10: "Master Dental Care Centro", category Dental clinic, rating 3.3, 23 reviews, coordinates 4.2159666 / 73.5425629, place "Unit 17, 2nd floor, Centro Mall, Huvandhumaa Hingun, Male' City, Maldives", phone +960 335-0096. Rating, coordinates and place identity re-read independently on 2026-09-10 by the verification pass and matched to the digit; review count 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★ 12 · 4★ 2 · 3★ 0 · 2★ 0 · 1★ 9). | 2026-09-10 |
| reg1 | https://hems.health.gov.mv/establishments?search=dental | Ministry of Health HEMS live directory: Master Dental Care Centro — Dent Care Maldives Pvt Ltd (C-0440/2011), Area Specific Clinic, Reg. No HF-17/ALP/PVT/473, Licence No PVT-ASC-23-355-00, 2 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": row 199, Master Dental Care Centro, HF-17/ALP/PVT/473, PVT-ASC-23-355-00, issued 5 February 2023, Centro Mini Hall, Hulhumale' | 2026-09-10 |
| reg3 | https://maaharaa.health.gov.mv/Public/Home/ListHealthCare | Ministry of Health Maaharaa public facility record: Master Dental Care Centro (23355), registration HF-17/ALP/PVT/473, licence PVT-ASC-23-355-00 | 2026-09-10 |
| sqbest | search:best dentist Hulhumalé Maldives | AI/search visibility scout 2026-09-10 | 2026-09-10 |
| sqeng | search:English speaking dentist Hulhumalé | AI/search visibility scout 2026-09-10 | 2026-09-10 |
| sqimp | search:dental implants Hulhumalé | AI/search visibility scout 2026-09-10 | 2026-09-10 |
| sqemg | search:emergency dentist Hulhumalé | AI/search visibility scout 2026-09-10 | 2026-09-10 |
| sqexp | search:Hulhumalé 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 Centro: the "practising professionals" panel, which renders client-side and was expanded in a real browser on 2026-09-10, names all 2 registered professionals with profession/speciality, registration number and practising licence number. | 2026-09-10 |
| master-dental-care-centro-hulhumale-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 Centro (checked 2026-10-01) | 2026-10-01 |
| master-dental-care-centro-hulhumale-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-centro-hulhumale-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 Centro (checked 2026-10-01) | 2026-10-01 |
| master-dental-care-centro-hulhumale-deepen | https://www.google.com/maps?cid=ChIJjdYB2lh_PzsRREh_y6ioVsw&hl=en | Google listing "Master Dental Care Centro" (Dental clinic), read 2026-10-02 in three review orders (the five lowest-rated, the five newest and the five most relevant): rated 3.3 from 23 reviews (1★ 9 / 2★ 0 / 3★ 0 / 4★ 2 / 5★ 12); 11 distinct reviews read, dated 2020-09-16 to 2026-08-29, 0 with an owner reply | 2026-10-02 |
| master-dental-care-centro-hulhumale-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 Centro" (5 attractions, 7 hotels), none of them a dental practice in or near Hulhumalé; 12 suggestions for "Master Dental Care Hulhumale" (5 attractions, 7 hotels), none of them a dental practice in or near Hulhumalé; no listing for this clinic | 2026-10-02 |
| master-dental-care-centro-hulhumale-tripadvisor-2 | https://masterdentalcare.com/clinics/master-dental-care-centro/ | 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; no sign of manipulated 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: branch page, group homepage and group roster read; Google place record read live for name, category, rating and coordinates; licence, licensee and professional count read from the Ministry of Health HEMS live establishments directory and cross-checked against the ministry's Maaharaa record and the 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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