Unique Dental
According to our open methodology, this clinic scored 48.1/100 for transparency, reputation, service accessibility, and digital visibility.
Overall rank: #7 of 14 ranked clinics · Last checked: 10 September 2026
48.1/100
Positions by Rating Profile
- Overall Transparency & Trust#748.1/100
- Best for Expats#651.3/100
- Best for Dental Implants#640/100
- Best for Emergency Dental Carenot ranked
- Best Price Transparency#733.7/100
- Best English-speaking Clinics#458/100
- 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
Multi-specialist dental clinic in Hulhumalé's Commercial Unit C1-03, licensed by the Ministry of Health as a General Clinic since July 2022 and operated by S.I.M.R Company Pvt Ltd. It publishes the fullest clinician roster of any Maldivian dental clinic read for this index — ten named dentists filterable by department and by specialization, from dental surgeons and general dentists to a prosthodontist, two orthodontists, an endodontist and an oral and maxillofacial surgeon — alongside a per-treatment service catalogue and a published opening week.
Strengths
- Information Transparency: 18 of 20 points.
- Communication & Service: 8.5 of 10 points.
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 20 verifiable points (missing: clinic responds to reviews; 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
18 / 20
Whether basic facts about the clinic - its team, premises, services, and location - are publicly verifiable.
| ✓ | Has a working website [s1] [s2] [s3] | 4/4 |
| ✓ | Dentist names listed Ten named dentists on the team page, each with an individual profile: Dr Amal Hamid, Dr George Mathew Kachappilly, Dr Mohamed Rasheed, Dr Saudhath Haleem, Dr Anoop Jayan, Dr Rishin Basheer, Dr Archa Anil, Dr Lamha Adam, Dr Gor Zalyan, Dr Sachin Verma. [s2] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Dentist specializations listed Each dentist carries a stated specialization, and the page filters by department (General Dentistry; Prosthodontics & Implantology; Orthodontics & Dentofacial Orthopaedics; Conservative Dentistry & Endodontics) and by title. [s2] | 2/2 |
| ✗ | Real clinic photos The homepage hero image slot renders empty, the service tiles are stock illustrations and the About page carries no photograph at all. The only clinic-specific images are the seven dentists’ portraits served from the clinic’s own Cloudinary namespace; no premises shot appears anywhere. Checked in a browser on 2026-09-10. [s1] [s2] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Service list published Services are grouped by discipline with individual treatments named — oral and maxillofacial surgery (TMJ disorder management, cleft palate and cleft lip surgery, cyst removal, wisdom-tooth and impacted-tooth surgery, tooth implant) and endodontics (apicectomy, apexogenesis and apexification) among them. [s1] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Clear contact details Address, phone +960 335-9005 and e-mail admin@uniquedental.mv are published in the site footer and on the contact page, and the same number is on the clinic's own Google place, read live on 2026-09-10. Corrected by the verification pass: it does NOT match the ministry register, which carries 7785400 for this facility in the live HEMS directory. [s3] [sm] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | English website version [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Address and map published Full street address plus an "Open in Maps" / "Directions" link in the footer and on the contact page. [s1] [s3] | 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 on the homepage, the services listing, the team page or the contact page; the site's pricing statement is limited to an accepted-insurance panel. [s1] [s3] | 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 40 reviews, read live on 2026-09-10 from the clinic's own Google place record (verification pass) — the largest review base of the Hulhumalé clinics apart from My Family Dentist, and it sits behind the second-lowest rating in this index (3.6, above the 3.3 of Master Dental Care Centro). Star histogram read in a browser on 2026-09-10 from the review-summary bars on the clinic’s own place page: 5★ 24 · 4★ 1 · 3★ 1 · 2★ 2 · 1★ 12. The five bars sum to 40, the published count, and their weighted mean is 3.58, matching the published rating. Fourteen of the forty reviews are one or two stars — the heaviest negative tail of any carded Maldivian clinic — against twenty-four five-star reviews. suspiciousReviewPatterns stays unset because only eight reviews are reachable and that criterion needs twenty read. [sm] | 1/3 |
| ✓ | Review recency The newest reviews rendered on the place page on 2026-09-10 are one month old. Read in a browser; this is a floor, since Google renders its most-relevant sample rather than the newest reviews. [sm] | 3/3 |
| ✗ | Clinic responds to reviews The Google listing is unclaimed (it carries a "Claim this business" prompt), so no owner can reply to reviews; none of the 11 reviews read has a reply. [unique-dental-hulhumale-deepen] [unique-dental-hulhumale-gbp-2026-09-26] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | No recurring complaints Three dated one-star reviews by three different authors, read on the place page on 2026-09-10, describe the same thing: the conduct of one named oral surgeon during procedures. One (eight months old) says he "was super super rude" and "kept shouting" at a patient who cannot open her mouth fully and "even at times threatened not to remove the tooth"; a second (one month old) calls him "the most impatient rude unprofessional doctor"; a third (one month old) says he "was so rude to my mom and he kept shouting during the procedure". The surgeon is named on the clinic’s own roster; the ministry register lists him at a different Malé establishment and registers only one professional at this clinic. [sm] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | No suspicious review patterns The 11 Google reviews read (dated 2021-03-13 to 2026-09-26, from accounts with 1–169 reviews) show no burst of five-star reviews and no repeated opening wording; star histogram 1★ 12 / 2★ 2 / 3★ 1 / 4★ 1 / 5★ 25. [unique-dental-hulhumale-deepen] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Active Facebook presence facebook.com/uniquedentalmv, posting through 2025-2026. [sfb] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | TripAdvisor presence No TripAdvisor listing found via its search for "Unique Dental Hulhumale" and "Unique Dental Maldives"; the clinic's site does not link to TripAdvisor (checked 2026-10-02 and 2026-10-05). [unique-dental-hulhumale-tripadvisor] [unique-dental-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). [unique-dental-hulhumale-platforms] [unique-dental-hulhumale-platforms-2] [unique-dental-hulhumale-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 Tooth implant is a published treatment and the roster includes a prosthodontist under a Prosthodontics & Implantology department. [s1] [s2] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Orthodontics Three orthodontists on the roster under an Orthodontics & Dentofacial Orthopaedics department. [s2] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Oral surgery A named oral and maxillofacial surgeon plus a published surgical catalogue including wisdom-tooth, impacted-tooth and cyst surgery and cleft lip/palate surgery. [s1] [s2] | 2/2 |
| ? | Pediatric dentistry | 0/1.5 |
| ? | 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 The site offers booking "via WhatsApp or Viber" and the contact page carries a Viber button. [s1] [s3] | 2/2 |
| ? | Response speed The site claims appointments are confirmed "within minutes", but that is the clinic's own promise, not measured evidence. | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | English spoken [s1] | 2.5/2.5 |
| ✓ | Pre-visit consultation possible Contact-page enquiry form plus per-doctor "Book Appointment" actions. [s3] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ✓ | Clear service explanations [s1] | 1/1 |
| ✓ | Convenient opening hours Published week: Saturday to Thursday 08:30-22:00, Friday closed — evenings and the Maldivian weekend working day covered. [s3] | 1.5/1.5 |
AI & Search Visibility
5.5 / 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 [sqbest] | 0/1 |
| ✓ | Mentioned for: English speaking dentist Maldives The clinic's own Facebook posts naming its Hulhumalé unit rank 2nd and 3rd. [sqeng] | 1/1 |
| ✓ | Mentioned for: dental implants Maldives uniquedental.mv ranks 5th. [sqimp] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: emergency dentist Maldives [sqemg] | 0/1 |
| ✓ | Mentioned for: Maldives dental clinic for expats The clinic's own Facebook posts rank 2nd and 5th. [sqexp] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | Structured data on website Homepage, team page and contact page were re-read on 2026-09-10: no JSON-LD block, no microdata itemtype and no schema.org reference anywhere, despite the site being otherwise the most complete clinic site in the country. [s1] [s2] [s3] | 0/1.5 |
| ◐ | Google indexing quality The clinic's own domain reaches the top ten only for the implants query; its other appearances are Facebook posts rather than site pages. [sqbest] [sqimp] [sqeng] | 1/2 |
| ✓ | Dedicated service pages Each treatment has its own "Read more" page under a discipline grouping. [s1] | 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-GC-22-244-00 (Ministry of Health operating licence PVT-GC-22-244-00, facility registration number HF-14/ALP/PVT/417, level General Clinic, licensee S.I.M.R Company Pvt Ltd (C-0805-2014). 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 7 July 2022). Note the mismatch worth flagging to patients: the live directory records only one practising professional against the facility, while the clinic's own team page names ten dentists.) [reg1] [reg2] [reg3]
Dentists & professional licences
| Dentist | Specialization | Licence No. |
|---|---|---|
| Amal Hamid [s2] | Dental Surgeon | not verified |
| George Mathew Kachappilly [s2] | Dental Surgeon | not verified |
| Mohamed Rasheed [s2] | Prosthodontist | not verified |
| Saudhath Haleem [s2] | General Dentist | not verified |
| Anoop Jayan [s2] | Orthodontist | not verified |
| Rishin Basheer [s2] | Orthodontist | not verified |
| Archa Anil [s2] [regpro] | Endodontist | PL06607 |
| Lamha Adam [s2] | General Dentist | not verified |
| Gor Zalyan [s2] [regpro] | Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeon | PL00276 |
| Sachin Verma [s2] | Orthodontist | not verified |
Dentists are named; their licence numbers have not been checked against public sources yet — unverified, no penalty.
Red Flags
- medium Recurring communication complaints (-3 pts) — Three dated one-star reviews by three different authors, read on the clinic's own Google place page on 2026-09-10, describe the same subject: the conduct of one named oral surgeon during procedures. One (eight months old) says he "was super super rude" and "kept shouting" at a patient who cannot open her mouth fully and "even at times threatened not to remove the tooth"; a second (one month old) calls him "the most impatient rude unprofessional doctor"; a third (one month old) says he "was so rude to my mom and he kept shouting during the procedure". The quotations and their dates are on this card, in the note to the recurring-complaints criterion. Recorded at medium rather than low severity because the evidence is neither thin nor stale: the review base is forty, not a handful; twelve of the forty reviews are one star and two more are two stars, the heaviest negative tail of any clinic in this index; two of the three complaints are one month old; and none of the eight reviews Google renders — these three included — carries a reply from the owner. [sm]
Red-flag penalty applied: -3 points (capped at -20).
Data We Could Not Verify
- 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: 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://uniquedental.mv/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +960 335 9005 |
| https://www.facebook.com/uniquedentalmv/ | |
| Google Maps | Map listing |
| Address | Hulhumalé Commercial Unit C1-03, 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://uniquedental.mv/ | Homepage: service catalogue by discipline, roster preview, insurance panel, footer address, phone and e-mail, WhatsApp/Viber booking, 14 years of service claim | 2026-09-10 |
| s2 | https://uniquedental.mv/team | Team page: ten named dentists with specializations, filterable by department and title | 2026-09-10 |
| s3 | https://uniquedental.mv/contact | Contact page: address, phone, e-mail, full published opening week, Viber and directions actions, enquiry form | 2026-09-10 |
| sm | https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJFwOgxFh_PzsRfKNG2… | Google place record read 2026-09-10: "Unique Dental", category Dental clinic, rating 3.6, 40 reviews, coordinates 4.2163967 / 73.5428561, phone +960 335-9005, website uniquedental.mv. 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★ 24 · 4★ 1 · 3★ 1 · 2★ 2 · 1★ 12). | 2026-09-10 |
| sfb | https://www.facebook.com/uniquedentalmv/ | Clinic-run Facebook page, posting through 2025-2026 and publishing the Hulhumalé Commercial Unit C1-03 address and phones 3359005 / 7909017; identified through the discovery index, page itself not opened automatically | 2026-09-10 |
| reg1 | https://hems.health.gov.mv/establishments?search=dental | Ministry of Health HEMS live directory: Unique Dental — S.I.M.R Company Pvt Ltd (C-0805-2014), General Clinic, Reg. No HF-14/ALP/PVT/417, Licence No PVT-GC-22-244-00, 1 registered professional | 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 50, Unique Dental, HF-14/ALP/PVT/417, PVT-GC-22-244-00, issued 7 July 2022, C1-03, Hulhumale' | 2026-09-10 |
| reg3 | https://maaharaa.health.gov.mv/Public/Home/ListHealthCare | Ministry of Health Maaharaa public facility record: Unique Dental (22244), registration HF-14/ALP/PVT/417, licence PVT-GC-22-244-00 | 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&page=2 | Ministry of Health HEMS establishment record for Unique Dental: the "practising professionals" panel, which renders client-side and was expanded in a real browser on 2026-09-10, names all 1 registered professionals with profession/speciality, registration number and practising licence number. | 2026-09-10 |
| unique-dental-hulhumale-gbp-2026-09-26 | https://www.google.com/maps?cid=16825966102952977276&hl=en | Google listing read on 2026-09-26: rating 3.6 from 40 reviews; star histogram 1★ 12 / 2★ 2 / 3★ 1 / 4★ 1 / 5★ 24; newest review dated 2026-09-01; the listing is unclaimed (it offers "Claim this business"). | 2026-09-26 |
| unique-dental-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 Unique Dental (checked 2026-10-01) | 2026-10-01 |
| unique-dental-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 |
| unique-dental-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 Unique Dental (checked 2026-10-01) | 2026-10-01 |
| unique-dental-hulhumale-deepen | https://www.google.com/maps?cid=ChIJFwOgxFh_PzsRfKNG2QXXgek&hl=en | Google listing "Unique Dental" (Dental clinic), read 2026-10-02 in three review orders (the five lowest-rated, the five newest and the five most relevant): rated 3.6 from 41 reviews (1★ 12 / 2★ 2 / 3★ 1 / 4★ 1 / 5★ 25); 11 distinct reviews read, dated 2021-03-13 to 2026-09-26, 0 with an owner reply; the listing carries a "Claim this business" prompt (unclaimed) | 2026-10-02 |
| unique-dental-hulhumale-tripadvisor | https://www.tripadvisor.com/TypeAheadJson?action=API&query=Unique%2… | TripAdvisor's own search, read 2026-10-02: 12 suggestions for "Unique Dental Hulhumale" (5 attractions, 7 hotels), none of them a dental practice in or near Hulhumalé; 12 suggestions for "Unique Dental Maldives" (5 attractions, 7 hotels), none of them a dental practice in or near Hulhumalé; no listing for this clinic | 2026-10-02 |
| unique-dental-hulhumale-tripadvisor-2 | https://uniquedental.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 | Read the clinic's Google listing on 2026-10-02 (its lowest-rated and newest reviews with the star histogram): 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: no owner replies to reviews: the Google listing is unclaimed. |
| 2026-09-10 | Editorial gate, 2026-09-10: the review-count note claimed this card carried the lowest Google rating in the index; the lowest is Master Dental Care Centro's 3.3, which that card's own note states. Corrected to second-lowest. |
| 2026-09-10 | Editorial gate, 2026-09-10: manual red flag `communication_complaints` recorded at medium severity, under the rule that three or more dated reviews by different authors about the same subject, with the quotations published on the card, warrant a flag that no automatic rule raises. The evidence is the three one-star reviews already quoted in the recurring-complaints note. |
| 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: homepage, team page and contact page read in full for the roster, service catalogue, contacts and opening week; 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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