ބަދަލުތަކުގެ ލޮގު
ކޮންމެ ޑޭޓާ އަދާހަމައެއް، ރަނގަޅުކުރުމެއް އަދި އުޞޫލުގެ ބަދަލެއް މިތާނގައާއި ކޮންމެ ކްލިނިކެއްގެ އަމިއްލަ ބަދަލުތަކުގެ ތާރީޚުގައި ރެކޯޑުކުރެއެވެ. އަސާސީ ޢާންމު ޑޭޓާ ބަދަލުވާ ކޮންމެ ފަހަރަކު ރޭޓިންގ އަދާހަމަކުރަމެވެ.
| ތާރީޚު | މައުޟޫޢު | ބަދަލު |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-16 | Vivadent Dental Care | Dentist names reassessed on 2026-10-16 under the clarified rule (methodology 1.4.2): a name counts when it lets a patient find the dentist in a professional register. The clinic names its dentists by first name only, so dentist names no longer count. |
| 2026-10-16 | އުޞޫލު v1.4.2 | Clarified when dentist names count: a name published by the clinic counts when it lets a patient find the dentist in a professional register; a first name alone is not enough, nor is a first name with a patronymic where surnames are in use. Applied the same day to the clinics whose own channels name their dentists by first name only, which lose the points for dentist names. No other score changes. |
| 2026-10-07 | އުޞޫލު v1.4.1 | Added a limit on re-checks made at a clinic's request: the next request from the same clinic about its own page is taken up no sooner than one month after the last re-check made at its request, which is dated in the clinic's change history; requests sent earlier are not processed. Corrections reported by anyone else are handled as before. No score changes. |
| 2026-10-05 | Dental Studio | TripAdvisor presence checked on 2026-10-05: no listing found for this clinic. |
| 2026-10-05 | Family Dental Care | TripAdvisor presence checked on 2026-10-05: no listing found for this clinic. |
| 2026-10-05 | Hope Dental Care | TripAdvisor presence checked on 2026-10-02: no listing found for this clinic. |
| 2026-10-05 | Master Dental Care Centre | TripAdvisor presence checked on 2026-10-05: no listing found for this clinic. |
| 2026-10-05 | Master Dental Care Centro | TripAdvisor presence checked on 2026-10-05: no listing found for this clinic. |
| 2026-10-05 | Mediflex Dental and Maxillofacial Surgery | TripAdvisor presence checked on 2026-10-02: no listing found for this clinic. |
| 2026-10-05 | My Family Dentist - Hulhumale | TripAdvisor presence checked on 2026-10-02: no listing found for this clinic. |
| 2026-10-05 | My Family Dentist - Male' | TripAdvisor presence checked on 2026-10-02: no listing found for this clinic. |
| 2026-10-05 | Oracare Dental | TripAdvisor presence checked on 2026-10-05: no listing found for this clinic. |
| 2026-10-05 | Smiles Dental Care Hulhumalé | Read more of the clinic's Google reviews on 2026-10-05 (10 distinct reviews in total): no sign of manipulated reviews. |
| 2026-10-05 | Unique Dental | TripAdvisor presence checked on 2026-10-05: no listing found for this clinic. |
| 2026-10-05 | VitalCare Dental | Google indexing quality measured as poor after a name-and-city web search on 2026-10-05 (no website of its own, none listed). |
| 2026-10-05 | VitalCare Dental | TripAdvisor presence checked on 2026-10-02: no listing found for this clinic. |
| 2026-10-05 | Vivadent Dental Care | TripAdvisor presence checked on 2026-10-05: no listing found for this clinic. |
| 2026-10-02 | Family Dental Care | Facebook presence re-checked on 2026-10-02: live Facebook page confirmed. |
| 2026-10-02 | Master Dental Care Centre | 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. |
| 2026-10-02 | Master Dental Care Centro | 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. |
| 2026-10-02 | Mediflex Dental and Maxillofacial Surgery | Facebook presence re-checked on 2026-10-02: live Facebook page confirmed. |
| 2026-10-02 | My Family Dentist - Hulhumale | 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. |
| 2026-10-02 | Unique Dental | 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. |
| 2026-10-02 | VitalCare Dental | Facebook presence re-checked on 2026-10-02: live Facebook page confirmed. |
| 2026-10-02 | VitalCare Dental | 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. |
| 2026-10-01 | Dental Studio | 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. |
| 2026-10-01 | Family Dental Care | 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. |
| 2026-10-01 | Hope Dental Care | 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. |
| 2026-10-01 | Master Dental Care Centre | 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. |
| 2026-10-01 | Master Dental Care Centro | 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. |
| 2026-10-01 | Mediflex Dental and Maxillofacial Surgery | 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. |
| 2026-10-01 | My Family Dentist - Hulhumale | 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. |
| 2026-10-01 | My Family Dentist - Male' | 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. |
| 2026-10-01 | Oracare Dental | 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. |
| 2026-10-01 | Smiles Dental Care | 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. |
| 2026-10-01 | Smiles Dental Care Hulhumalé | 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. |
| 2026-10-01 | Unique Dental | 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. |
| 2026-10-01 | VitalCare Dental | 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. |
| 2026-10-01 | Vivadent Dental Care | 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. |
| 2026-09-30 | Smiles Dental Care | Added to the directory on 2026-09-30 after reading the clinic's website (homepage and its full index of pages and posts, whose menu links return a server error), its Facebook page, its Google Business Profile, the Ministry of Health's HEMS establishment and professionals records, TripAdvisor's own search and the national WhatClinic catalogue. Recorded: nine treatments with descriptions, named dentists including a visiting orthodontic specialist, a WhatsApp booking number, six licensed practising dentists in the ministry register, an unclaimed Google listing rated 3.2 from 30 reviews spanning 2016-2026, and real premises photos on the Google listing. No standing price list is published; the only prices posted were a Ramadan promotion that ended on 18 February 2026. |
| 2026-09-30 | Smiles Dental Care Hulhumalé | Added to the directory on 2026-09-30 after reading the brand's shared website (homepage and its full index of pages and posts, whose menu links return a server error), the brand's Facebook page, this branch's own Google Business Profile, the Ministry of Health's HEMS establishment and professionals records, TripAdvisor's own search and the national WhatClinic catalogue. Recorded: a separate 2024 operating licence with six licensed practising dentists, named dentists including a visiting orthodontic specialist, a WhatsApp booking number, a claimed Google listing rated 4.0 from 12 reviews with no owner replies found, and 2024 photographs of the fitted premises. No standing price list is published; the only prices posted were a Ramadan promotion that ended on 18 February 2026. |
| 2026-09-29 | Dental Studio | Corrected 2026-09-29: clinic responds to reviews now unverified: only 8 reviews were checked for owner replies; Google rating 3.9 (was 3.8) and review count 11 (was 10) from the Google listing on 2026-09-26; review recency within 3 months (newest review dated 2026-09-24). |
| 2026-09-29 | Family Dental Care | 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. |
| 2026-09-29 | Hope Dental Care | Corrected 2026-09-29: clinic responds to reviews now unverified: only 8 reviews were checked for owner replies; review count 16 (was 13) from the Google listing on 2026-09-26. |
| 2026-09-29 | Master Dental Care Centre | Corrected 2026-09-29: clinic responds to reviews now unverified: only 8 reviews were checked for owner replies. |
| 2026-09-29 | Master Dental Care Centro | Corrected 2026-09-29: clinic responds to reviews now unverified: only 8 reviews were checked for owner replies. |
| 2026-09-29 | Mediflex Dental and Maxillofacial Surgery | Corrected 2026-09-29: clinic responds to reviews now unverified: only 8 reviews were checked for owner replies; review count 24 (was 20) from the Google listing on 2026-09-26. |
| 2026-09-29 | Unique Dental | Corrected 2026-09-29: no owner replies to reviews: the Google listing is unclaimed. |
| 2026-09-29 | Vivadent Dental Care | Corrected 2026-09-29: clinic responds to reviews now unverified: with 9 Google reviews a missing owner reply shows nothing yet; Google rating 4.2 (was 4.6) and review count 10 (was 9) from the Google listing on 2026-09-26. |
| 2026-09-11 | My Family Dentist - Male' | Rechecked whether this practice answers its Google reviews by reading the reviews on its own Google listing on 2026-09-11: confirmed, 5 of the 5 reviews read carry a dated reply from the practice, the newest dated 2026-05-13. |
| 2026-09-11 | Oracare Dental | Rechecked whether this practice answers its Google reviews by reading the reviews on its own Google listing on 2026-09-11: confirmed, 3 of the 5 reviews read carry a dated reply from the practice, the newest dated 2026-01-29. |
| 2026-09-10 | Dental Studio | 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. |
| 2026-09-10 | Dental Studio | 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 | Dental Studio | 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 | Dental Studio | 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 | Family Dental Care | 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. |
| 2026-09-10 | Family Dental Care | 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 | Family Dental Care | 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 | Family Dental Care | 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 | Hope Dental Care | Initial data collection: licence, licensee and professional count read from the Ministry of Health HEMS live establishments directory, cross-checked against the ministry's 23.07.2026 list and the ministry's Maaharaa facility record; Google place record read live for rating, current address and coordinates. The clinic has no website and publishes on Facebook and Instagram, which cannot be read automatically, so the roster, service list, prices and infrastructure criteria are left unset and queued for a manual browser check. |
| 2026-09-10 | Hope Dental Care | 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 | Hope Dental Care | 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 | Hope Dental Care | 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 | Master Dental Care Centre | 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. |
| 2026-09-10 | Master Dental Care Centre | 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 | Master Dental Care Centre | 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 | Master Dental Care Centre | 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 | Master Dental Care Centro | 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. |
| 2026-09-10 | Master Dental Care Centro | 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 | Master Dental Care Centro | 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 | Master Dental Care Centro | 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 | Mediflex Dental and Maxillofacial Surgery | Initial data collection: licence, licensee, level and professional count read from the Ministry of Health HEMS live establishments directory and cross-checked against the ministry's 23.07.2026 "Operating Private Health Facilities" list; Google place record read live for name, category, rating, address and coordinates. The clinic's own domain mediflex.mv did not answer on any of three attempts, so every website-dependent criterion is left unset rather than denied, and the domain is queued for a manual browser check. |
| 2026-09-10 | Mediflex Dental and Maxillofacial Surgery | 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 | Mediflex Dental and Maxillofacial Surgery | 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 | Mediflex Dental and Maxillofacial Surgery | 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 | Mediflex Dental and Maxillofacial Surgery | Editorial gate, 2026-09-10: the summary claimed the largest dental team in the country, which contradicted the licence note on the Dental Studio card recording 22 registered professionals there against 15 here. All 27 dental establishments on the ministry roll were re-read on 2026-09-10 and the claim was rewritten to what the register actually supports. |
| 2026-09-10 | My Family Dentist - Hulhumale | Initial data collection: 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; Google place record read live for name, category, rating, address and coordinates. The clinic has no website and publishes on Facebook and Instagram, which cannot be read automatically, so the roster, services, prices and infrastructure criteria are left unset and queued for a manual browser check. |
| 2026-09-10 | My Family Dentist - Hulhumale | 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 | My Family Dentist - Hulhumale | 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 | My Family Dentist - Hulhumale | 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 | My Family Dentist - Hulhumale | Editorial gate, 2026-09-10: the review-count note called this the largest review base in the index. VitalCare Dental, added to this index on the same date, carries 368 reviews against these 101, so the claim was rewritten as second-largest. |
| 2026-09-10 | My Family Dentist - Male' | Initial data collection: licence and licensee read from the Ministry of Health HEMS live establishments directory and cross-checked against the ministry's 23.07.2026 list, which disagrees with the ministry's own Maaharaa record on the street address; Google place record read live for rating, address and coordinates and used to settle the address. The clinic has no website and publishes on Facebook and Instagram, which cannot be read automatically, so the roster, services, prices and infrastructure criteria are left unset and queued for a manual browser check. |
| 2026-09-10 | My Family Dentist - Male' | 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 | My Family Dentist - Male' | 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 | My Family Dentist - Male' | 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 | Oracare Dental | Initial data collection: the clinic's published schema.org Dentist record read from its own site for address, coordinates, contacts, opening hours, social profiles and service catalogue; Google place record read live for rating and coordinates; licence 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. The site is a client-rendered single-page application, so the team page and any published prices could not be read automatically and are queued for a manual browser check. |
| 2026-09-10 | Oracare Dental | 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 | Oracare Dental | 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 | Unique Dental | 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. |
| 2026-09-10 | Unique Dental | 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 | Unique Dental | 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 | Unique Dental | 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 | Unique Dental | 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 | VitalCare Dental | 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. |
| 2026-09-10 | Vivadent Dental Care | Initial data collection: the clinic's website read for its service catalogue, named dentists and founding year; Google place record read live for name, category, 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. |
| 2026-09-10 | Vivadent Dental Care | 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 | Vivadent Dental Care | 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 | Vivadent Dental Care | 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 | Vivadent Dental Care | Editorial gate, 2026-09-10: the review-count note counted the index at fourteen clinics; a fifteenth, VitalCare Dental, was added to this index on the same date. This card still carries the smallest review base of the fifteen. |
| 2026-09-07 | އުޞޫލު v1.4.0 | Narrowed the "Opaque or bait pricing" red flag to what its published definition describes. Until now the flag was applied automatically to every clinic that does not publish a price list — a harsher statement than the evidence supports, since the catalogue defines the flag as complaints about final bills materially exceeding quoted prices, or advertised prices that are not honoured. Not publishing prices is already scored: it costs the clinic points in the price transparency category, and it is not, on its own, evidence of bait pricing. The automatic rule is removed, so the flag and its 2-point penalty come off about 1,300 clinic pages across the index; no clinic gains a flag, and no weight, severity or other scoring rule changed. The flag can still be recorded against a clinic by hand with cited sources, and about 210 clinics carry such an entry today; we are reviewing those entries in a follow-up pass, because some of them were also written for nothing more than an unpublished price list. |
| 2026-09-03 | އުޞޫލު v1.3.1 | Clarified that the publication criteria refer to the clinic’s own channels: a service list, the names of the dentists and a price list count when the clinic itself publishes them (its website, its social profiles or its own Google Business profile) — registers, directories and review sites do not, and a time-limited promotional offer is not a price list. Added a third state for a dentist’s licence, "checked, not found in the public register": a dentist we searched for in the national register and did not find is now recorded as checked-but-unverified with the date of the check, instead of being shown either as "not checked yet" or as the "not published" red flag. Neither change alters any weight or penalty; the red-flag rule still fires only on a verified negative. Also corrected the wording of the penalty note under the ranking table, which rendered as "20−" in right-to-left dictionaries. |
| 2026-08-25 | އުޞޫލު v1.3.0 | Corrected how the two licensing red flags are applied ("Clinic operating licence not published" and "Dentists / their licences not listed"). Previously they were applied whenever licensing data was absent from our records, which treated unchecked data as a negative finding — contrary to the methodology's own rule that unverified data is a fact about our coverage, not about the clinic. Both flags now apply only where we have verified that the information is not published. Manual licensing flags that rested on unverified data were removed from the affected clinics. No other scoring rules changed; most scores rise because the incorrect penalty is removed. |
| 2026-08-23 | އުޞޫލު v1.2.0 | Added an informational "Sedation & general anaesthesia" availability field to every clinic and a new "Sleep Dentistry (Sedation / GA)" list, for patients who cannot tolerate — or would rather not be awake for — treatment. This field is informational and does not change any transparency score. |
| 2026-07-08 | އުޞޫލު v1.1.0 | Added licensing transparency: clinics are now penalised when they do not publish their operating licence, or do not list their dentists together with their professional licence numbers. Each clinic page now shows a Licensing & Credentials section. |
| 2026-07-03 | އުޞޫލު v1.0.0 | Initial public methodology. |