VitalCare Dental
According to our open methodology, this clinic scored 18.9/100 for transparency, reputation, service accessibility, and digital visibility.
Overall rank: #12 of 14 ranked clinics · Last checked: 10 September 2026
18.9/100
Positions by Rating Profile
- Overall Transparency & Trust#1218.9/100
- Best for Expats#1218.8/100
- Best for Dental Implantsnot ranked
- Best for Emergency Dental Carenot ranked
- Best Price Transparency#1213.6/100
- Best English-speaking Clinicsnot ranked
- 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
Dental clinic on Lonuziyaarai Magu in Malé, registered with the Ministry of Health as an Area Specific Clinic in 2024 and operated by Vitalcare Private Limited, with six registered practising dentists between them covering prosthodontics, orthodontics, endodontics and paediatric dentistry. Its Google place carries 4.6 on 368 reviews, the largest review base of the fifteen clinics in this index and one that includes twenty-five one-star reviews alongside three hundred and nineteen five-star. The clinic publishes no website of its own: the domain vitalcaremaldives.com that its Google listing points at is a parked domain carrying a United States emergency-dental lead-generation template, and the ministry register records no website against the facility either, so everything on this card comes from the ministry register and from the clinic's own Google place record.
Strengths
- No red flags identified in public sources.
Weaknesses
- Information Transparency: 2 of 6 verifiable points (missing: has a working website)
- AI & Search Visibility: 0 of 2 verifiable points (missing: google indexing quality)
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
2 / 20
Whether basic facts about the clinic - its team, premises, services, and location - are publicly verifiable.
| ✗ | Has a working website The clinic has no website. The domain its Google listing points at, vitalcaremaldives.com, is not the clinic's: fetched on 2026-09-10 it answers HTTP 200 with a parked-domain page whose banner reads "Parked domain, buy it here. Links to independent local providers, no affiliation with prior owner or business", whose title is "Emergency Dental Service | Professional & Fast | Call (888) 523-3417", and whose body is a United States emergency-dental lead-generation template repeating the toll-free numbers (888) 523-3417 and (877) 813-2829. The words "Maldives", "VitalCare", the clinic's street and the clinic's phone number appear nowhere in it, and further down the page the template still carries its unedited home-appliance-repair boilerplate. The same page was opened in a real browser with the same result. The ministry's HEMS register also records no website against the facility (the Website column is empty). [sdom] [sm] [reg1] | 0/4 |
| ? | Dentist names listed Unset rather than denied. The clinic has no website and no social profile was found for it, so its only channel is its Google place record, which carries no team section; the six dentists on this card come from the ministry register, not from the clinic. Nothing the clinic controls was found and read to the end, so this is recorded as unassessed rather than as a negative. Patients name Dr Ifran, Dr Denny, Dr Tazein and Dr Sidhik in their reviews, and three of those four match the register, but a review is not a channel of the clinic. | 0/3 |
| ? | Dentist specializations listed | 0/2 |
| ? | Real clinic photos | 0/2 |
| ? | Service list published | 0/3 |
| ✓ | Clear contact details The clinic's own Google place record publishes a full street address (G. Kanduvaige, Lonuziyaarai Magu, Malé 20142) and a phone number, +960 332-1315, both read live on 2026-09-10. The ministry register carries a different contact number for the facility, 9694873; both are recorded here rather than reconciled, as elsewhere in this index, and the number on the card is the one the clinic itself publishes. [sm] [reg1] | 2/2 |
| ? | English website version | 0/2 |
| ? | Address and map published | 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 | 0/3 |
| ? | Cleaning price listed | 0/2 |
| ? | Filling price listed | 0/2 |
| ? | Crown price listed | 0/2 |
| ? | Implant price listed | 0/2 |
| ? | Consultation price listed | 0/2 |
| ? | X-ray / imaging price listed | 0/2 |
Reputation & Reviews
13.5 / 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] | 5/6 |
| ◐ | Google review volume 368 reviews, read live on 2026-09-10 from the clinic's own Google place record — the largest review base of the fifteen clinics in this index, by a factor of more than three over the next one. Star histogram read in a browser on 2026-09-10 from the review-summary bars on the clinic’s own place page: 5★ 319 · 4★ 14 · 3★ 4 · 2★ 6 · 1★ 25. The five bars sum to 368, the published count, and their weighted mean is 4.62, matching the published rating. Thirty-one of the 368 reviews are one or two stars, 8.4 per cent of the base; none of them is among the seven Google renders, so neither pattern criterion below can be assessed from what is readable. [sm] | 2.5/3 |
| ✓ | Review recency The newest review rendered on the place page on 2026-09-10 is one month old and five stars, written in the first person. This is a floor rather than a maximum: Google renders its most-relevant sample rather than its newest reviews. [sm] | 3/3 |
| ✗ | Clinic responds to reviews None of the 10 reviews read, 10 of them dated within the last 24 months (newest 2026-10-01), carries an owner reply, and the reply block of the listing was readable. [vitalcare-dental-male-deepen] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | No recurring complaints Three of the five lowest-rated Google reviews concern appointments: slow booking replies, cancellations by the clinic and rescheduling without notice; 1–2★ are 8.5 % of 390 (1★ 26 / 2★ 7 / 3★ 4 / 4★ 16 / 5★ 337). [vitalcare-dental-male-deepen] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | No suspicious review patterns The 10 Google reviews read (dated 2026-01-04 to 2026-10-01, from accounts with 1–3 reviews) show no burst of five-star reviews and no repeated opening wording; star histogram 1★ 26 / 2★ 7 / 3★ 4 / 4★ 16 / 5★ 337. [vitalcare-dental-male-deepen] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Active Facebook presence Facebook page "VitalCare Dental" (21,786 followers) with posts up to 2026-09-29, found under the clinic's name; its About section gives the clinic's address and phone. [vitalcare-dental-male-presence] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | TripAdvisor presence No TripAdvisor listing found via its search for "VitalCare Dental Male" and "VitalCare Maldives"; the clinic has no website that could link one (checked 2026-10-02). [vitalcare-dental-male-tripadvisor] | 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). [vitalcare-dental-male-platforms] [vitalcare-dental-male-platforms-2] [vitalcare-dental-male-platforms-3] | 0/0.5 |
Medical Infrastructure
0 / 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 | 0/2 |
| ? | Orthodontics | 0/2 |
| ? | Oral surgery | 0/2 |
| ? | Pediatric dentistry | 0/1.5 |
| ? | Emergency care | 0/1.5 |
| ? | Works with international patients | 0/2 |
Communication & Service
1.5 / 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 | 0/2.5 |
| ? | Pre-visit consultation possible | 0/1.5 |
| ? | Clear service explanations | 0/1 |
| ✓ | Convenient opening hours Read live on 2026-09-10 from the clinic's own Google Business Profile: Saturday to Thursday 08:30-24:00 and Friday 14:30-22:30 — open into the evening seven days a week, Friday included, and the longest published week of any clinic in this index. The clinic has no website, so the Business Profile is its only channel that publishes a week. [sm] | 1.5/1.5 |
AI & Search Visibility
0 / 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 | 0/1 |
| ? | Mentioned for: English speaking dentist Maldives | 0/1 |
| ? | Mentioned for: dental implants Maldives | 0/1 |
| ? | Mentioned for: emergency dentist Maldives | 0/1 |
| ? | Mentioned for: Maldives dental clinic for expats | 0/1 |
| ? | Structured data on website | 0/1.5 |
| ✗ | Google indexing quality The clinic has no website of its own; a name-and-city web search on 2026-10-05 lists only directory, news and third-party pages. [vitalcare-dental-male-av4] | 0/2 |
| ? | Dedicated service pages | 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-24-519-00 (Ministry of Health operating licence PVT-ASC-24-519-00, facility registration number HF-24/ALP/PVT/800, level Area Specific Clinic, licensee Vitalcare Private Limited, 6 registered practising professionals, no website recorded. Read live on 2026-09-10 from the ministry's HEMS Registered Health Establishments directory, where the facility is registered under the same name it trades under. The register carries the contact number 9694873 for the facility, where the clinic's own Google place publishes +960 332-1315. A separately licensed facility, Vitalcare Huvadhoo (PVT-GC-23-341-00), belongs to the same licensee but is a general clinic in another atoll and is not this establishment.) [reg1]
Dentists & professional licences
| Dentist | Specialization | Licence No. |
|---|---|---|
| Kanimozhi Selvam [regpro] | Prosthodontist | PL05990 |
| Tazein Hussain [regpro] | Orthodontics | PL06206 |
| Giftlin Denny Xavier [regpro] | Endodontist | PL05438 |
| Shine Philip Mathews [regpro] | Orthodontist | PL05687 |
| Siddik Abdul Jalal [regpro] | Pedodontist | PL04583 |
| Kiran Kumar Krishnamurthy [regpro] | Dentist | PL03435 |
Red Flags
No red flags identified in the public sources we reviewed.
Data We Could Not Verify
- Information Transparency: Dentist names listed
- Information Transparency: Dentist specializations listed
- Information Transparency: Real clinic photos
- Information Transparency: Service list published
- Information Transparency: English website version
- Information Transparency: Address and map published
- Price Transparency: Prices or price ranges published
- Price Transparency: Cleaning price listed
- Price Transparency: Filling price listed
- Price Transparency: Crown price listed
- Price Transparency: Implant price listed
- Price Transparency: Consultation price listed
- Price Transparency: X-ray / imaging price listed
- Medical Infrastructure: On-site X-ray
- Medical Infrastructure: CBCT (3D imaging)
- Medical Infrastructure: Implantology
- Medical Infrastructure: Orthodontics
- Medical Infrastructure: Oral surgery
- Medical Infrastructure: Pediatric dentistry
- Medical Infrastructure: Emergency care
- Medical Infrastructure: Works with international patients
- Communication & Service: WhatsApp / LINE available
- Communication & Service: Response speed
- Communication & Service: English spoken
- Communication & Service: Pre-visit consultation possible
- Communication & Service: Clear service explanations
- AI & Search Visibility: Mentioned for: best dentist Maldives
- AI & Search Visibility: Mentioned for: English speaking dentist Maldives
- AI & Search Visibility: Mentioned for: dental implants Maldives
- AI & Search Visibility: Mentioned for: emergency dentist Maldives
- AI & Search Visibility: Mentioned for: Maldives dental clinic for expats
- AI & Search Visibility: Structured data on website
- AI & Search Visibility: Dedicated service pages
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
| Phone | +960 332 1315 |
|---|---|
| https://www.facebook.com/vitalcaredental/ | |
| Google Maps | Map listing |
| Address | G. Kanduvaige, Lonuziyaarai Magu, Malé 20142, Maldives |
Contact details are provided for identification only and may change; verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| sm | https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJc_3Zbf9-PzsRMTUmj… | Google place record read live 2026-09-10 (two-step place-detail route, no browser): "VitalCare Dental", categories Dental clinic / Dentist / Dental hygienist / Dental radiology / Dental supply store / Emergency dental service / Pharmacy, rating 4.6, 368 reviews, coordinates 4.1726362 / 73.5106969, address "G. Kanduvaige, Lonuziyaarai Magu Male', Republic of Maldives, 20142", phone +960 332-1315, plus code 5GF6+37, feature id 0x3b3f7eff6dd9fd73:0xa406e7ba8c263531, opening week Saturday-Thursday 08:30-24:00 and Friday 14:30-22:30, seven reviews rendered of which the newest is one month old. The website field of the listing points at vitalcaremaldives.com, which is a parked domain and not the clinic's site (see the hasWebsite note). Star histogram (5★ 319 · 4★ 14 · 3★ 4 · 2★ 6 · 1★ 25) read from the review-summary bars of the same place page in a real browser on 2026-09-10; rating, count, coordinates, phone and the full opening week were re-read independently and automatically at the E2 gate on the same date and matched. | 2026-09-10 |
| reg1 | https://hems.health.gov.mv/establishments?search=VitalCare | Ministry of Health HEMS live directory, read 2026-09-10: "VitalCare Dental | Vitalcare Private Limited | Area Specific Clinic | HF-24/ALP/PVT/800 | PVT-ASC-24-519-00 | 9694873 | 6 | —" — the Website column is empty. The same query also returns the licensee's other facility, Vitalcare Huvadhoo (HF-23-ALP/PVT/685, PVT-GC-23-341-00, General Clinic, 9 professionals). | 2026-09-10 |
| regpro | https://hems.health.gov.mv/establishments?search=dental&page=2 | Ministry of Health HEMS establishment record for VitalCare Dental: the "practising professionals" panel, which renders client-side and was expanded in a real browser on 2026-09-10, names all six registered professionals with profession or speciality, registration number and practising licence number. | 2026-09-10 |
| sdom | https://vitalcaremaldives.com/ | The domain the clinic's Google listing points at, fetched 2026-09-10: HTTP 200, 119 813 bytes, title "Emergency Dental Service | Professional & Fast | Call (888) 523-3417", banner "Parked domain, buy it here. Links to independent local providers, no affiliation with prior owner or business", body a United States emergency-dental lead-generation template with the toll-free numbers (888) 523-3417 and (877) 813-2829 and unedited home-appliance-repair boilerplate further down. Zero occurrences of "Maldives", "VitalCare", the clinic's street or the clinic's phone number. Independently opened in a real browser on the same date, with the same result. | 2026-09-10 |
| vitalcare-dental-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 VitalCare Dental (checked 2026-10-01) | 2026-10-01 |
| vitalcare-dental-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 |
| vitalcare-dental-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 VitalCare Dental (checked 2026-10-01) | 2026-10-01 |
| vitalcare-dental-male-presence | https://www.facebook.com/vitalcaredental/ | Facebook page "VitalCare Dental" (21,786 followers, Dentist and dental surgery), read 2026-10-02; newest post 2026-09-29; 92% recommend (36 reviews); address G. Kanduvaige, Lonuziyaarai Magu, Male 20142; phone +960 332-1315 | 2026-10-02 |
| vitalcare-dental-male-av4 | search:"VitalCare Dental" Male Maldives | Web search run on 2026-10-05 (English, US results) for the clinic's name and city: 9 results listed. no page of an own site: a Maldives news item and a job-centre employer page that name the company, and health-ministry PDFs. Listed: a Maldives news item, a job-centre employer page and seven health-ministry PDFs. | 2026-10-05 |
| vitalcare-dental-male-deepen | https://www.google.com/maps?cid=ChIJc_3Zbf9-PzsRMTUmjLrnBqQ&hl=en | Google listing "VitalCare Dental" (Dental clinic, Dental hygienist, Dental radiology), read 2026-10-02 in two review orders (the five lowest-rated and the five newest): rated 4.6 from 390 reviews (1★ 26 / 2★ 7 / 3★ 4 / 4★ 16 / 5★ 337); 10 distinct reviews read, dated 2026-01-04 to 2026-10-01, 0 with an owner reply | 2026-10-02 |
| vitalcare-dental-male-tripadvisor | https://www.tripadvisor.com/TypeAheadJson?action=API&query=VitalCar… | TripAdvisor's own search, read 2026-10-02: 12 suggestions for "VitalCare Dental Male" (9 attractions, 3 hotels), none of them a dental practice in or near Malé; 12 suggestions for "VitalCare Maldives" (1 place, 11 hotels), none of them a dental practice in or near Malé; no listing for this clinic | 2026-10-02 |
Change History
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-05 | TripAdvisor presence checked on 2026-10-02: no listing found for this clinic. |
| 2026-10-05 | Google indexing quality measured as poor after a name-and-city web search on 2026-10-05 (no website of its own, none listed). |
| 2026-10-02 | Read the clinic's Google listing on 2026-10-02 (its lowest-rated and newest reviews with the star histogram): no owner replies found; a repeated complaint among the lowest-rated reviews; no sign of manipulated reviews. |
| 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. |
| 2026-09-10 | Card created on 2026-09-10 at the editorial gate, to close a gap this index's own research had recorded: the Malé clinic with the largest number of Google reviews was missing from an index that ranks Malé dentistry. The licence, registration number, licensee and professional count were read live from the Ministry of Health HEMS directory; the six named dentists with their registration and practising-licence numbers come from the same register's client-rendered professionals panel, read in a real browser; the rating, review count, histogram, coordinates, phone, address and full opening week come from the clinic's own Google place record, read live twice on the same day by two independent routes that agreed. The clinic publishes no website — the domain its listing points at is a parked lead-generation page belonging to someone else — so every website-dependent criterion is left unset, and the AI-visibility queries were not run at this gate. |
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