Barada Dental Center
According to our open methodology, this clinic scored 32.4/100 for transparency, reputation, service accessibility, and digital visibility.
Overall rank: #15 of 19 ranked clinics · Last checked: 3 September 2026
Positions by Rating Profile
- Overall Transparency & Trust#1532.4/100
- Best for Expats#1532.8/100
- Best for Dental Implants#1130.5/100
- Best for Emergency Dental Carenot ranked
- Best Price Transparency#1621.4/100
- Best English-speaking Clinics#1535/100
- 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-speciality dental center in Muharraq (NHRA licence 150203-0117), owned and led by orthodontics specialist Dr. Wael Mohamad Khalouf, whom multiple Google reviews single out by name.
NHRA facility register specialties on file: General Dental Practice, Implantology, Orthodontic (a register fact, not a clinic-published service list — see serviceListPublished).
Strengths
No categories reached the strength threshold (80%).
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)
- AI & Search Visibility: 1 of 5 verifiable points (missing: mentioned for: best dentist Bahrain; mentioned for: English speaking dentist Bahrain; mentioned for: dental implants Bahrain; mentioned for: Bahrain dental clinic for expats)
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
Whether basic facts about the clinic - its team, premises, services, and location - are publicly verifiable.
| ✗ | Has a working website [sm] | 0/4 |
| ✓ | Dentist names listed Multiple reviews name "Dr Wael" as treating dentist. [sm] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Dentist specializations listed NHRA registry confirms Wael Mohamad Khalouf as an Orthodontics specialist. [reg2] | 2/2 |
| ? | Real clinic photos | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Service list published Rule A, Google Business profile read in a browser 2026-09-03: the clinic-managed Maps place page renders the tab strip Overview / Reviews / About only - there is no Services tab and no Products tab - and its Overview pane carries no 'From the business' description and no treatment list, only the Maps category 'Dental clinic'. Maps does render a Services affordance when a profile publishes one (a profile opened in the same session, Gentle Dental Abu Dhabi, showed exactly that), so the absence here is a read rather than a gap. The clinic's own Google Business profile therefore publishes no service list: verified false. Recorded rather than hidden: the About tab itself would not open - the extension's synthetic clicks do not reach Maps' own tab controls, the same limitation that blocked the review Sort menu - but the Maps About tab carries accessibility/amenity attributes, not treatment lists, so it is not where a service list would live. The profile does publish a channel the card did not carry: https://instagram.com/barada_center. Instagram cannot be read without an account, so that channel stays unchecked and this verdict rests on the Google Business profile alone - a later pass with Instagram access could revisit it. [sm] | 0/3 |
| ✓ | Clear contact details [sm] | 2/2 |
| ? | English website version | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Address and map published [sm] | 2/2 |
Price Transparency
Whether patients can estimate costs before visiting. Published price ranges count; exact prices are not required.
| ✗ | Prices or price ranges published [sm] | 0/3 |
| ✗ | Cleaning price listed [sm] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Filling price listed [sm] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Crown price listed [sm] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Implant price listed [sm] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Consultation price listed [sm] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | X-ray / imaging price listed [sm] | 0/2 |
Reputation & Reviews
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) Read live 2026-09-02. Re-read 2026-09-03 on the place page's Reviews tab: unchanged, and the published rating reproduces from the star histogram 36/1/1/0/2 (5*->1*). [sm] | 4/6 |
| ◐ | Google review volume Re-read 2026-09-03 on the place page's Reviews tab: unchanged; the star histogram 36/1/1/0/2 (5*->1*) sums to the published count. [sm] | 1/3 |
| ◐ | Review recency Newest visible review dated "11 months ago". Sample: 8 visible reviews, order relevance (Maps' sort control could not be operated in this browser session - four click strategies were tried), star histogram 36/1/1/0/2 (5*->1*), read 2026-09-03. [sm] | 1.5/3 |
| ✗ | Clinic responds to reviews None of the 8 visible reviews carries a reply from the owner. Absence from a relevance-ordered preview is weaker evidence than a positive finding, but with 8 reviews visible and none answered the criterion is recorded as not met. Sample: 8 visible reviews, order relevance (Maps' sort control could not be operated in this browser session - four click strategies were tried), star histogram 36/1/1/0/2 (5*->1*), read 2026-09-03. [sm] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | No recurring complaints No complaint appears among the eight visible reviews. The one three-star entry is not a complaint - it says the reviewer will return and give an honest review later. The histogram carries 2 one-star reviews that the relevance-ordered preview did not surface. Sample: 8 visible reviews, order relevance (Maps' sort control could not be operated in this browser session - four click strategies were tried), star histogram 36/1/1/0/2 (5*->1*), read 2026-09-03. [sm] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | No suspicious review patterns The distribution retains 2 one-star, 1 three-star and 1 four-star review of 40, and reviewer accounts run from 1 to 29 reviews including three Local Guides. Recorded rather than charged: five of the eight visible reviews are short praise clustered around the two-year mark and three of them name the same orthodontist, which on a 40-review listing reads as one satisfied cohort rather than a burst - the dates span eleven months to two years and the one-star block stands. Sample: 8 visible reviews, order relevance (Maps' sort control could not be operated in this browser session - four click strategies were tried), star histogram 36/1/1/0/2 (5*->1*), read 2026-09-03. [sm] | 2/2 |
| ? | Active Facebook presence | 0/1 |
| ? | TripAdvisor presence | 0/0.5 |
| ✓ | Other review platforms Listed with rating, review count, address and phone in the Zavis.ai Bahrain healthcare directory. [s1] | 0.5/0.5 |
Medical Infrastructure
The range of publicly documented equipment and services. This measures documented availability, not clinical quality.
| ✓ | On-site X-ray OPG and Intra-Oral Dental X-Ray listed as support services. [reg1] | 2/2 |
| ✗ | CBCT (3D imaging) [reg1] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Implantology [reg1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Orthodontics Registered Orthodontics specialty; reviews specifically praise Dr. Wael as orthodontist. [reg1] [sm] | 2/2 |
| ? | Oral surgery | 0/2 |
| ? | Pediatric dentistry | 0/1.5 |
| ? | Emergency care | 0/1.5 |
| ? | Works with international patients | 0/2 |
Communication & Service
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 Reviews are in fluent English. [sm] | 2.5/2.5 |
| ? | Pre-visit consultation possible | 0/1.5 |
| ? | Clear service explanations | 0/1 |
| ✓ | Convenient opening hours Open until 21:00. [sm] | 1.5/1.5 |
AI & Search Visibility
Whether the clinic is discoverable when patients search - including via AI assistants. Checked with fixed queries: "best dentist Bahrain", "English speaking dentist Bahrain", "dental implants Bahrain", "emergency dentist Bahrain", "Bahrain dental clinic for expats".
| ✗ | Mentioned for: best dentist Bahrain [sqa] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: English speaking dentist Bahrain [sqb] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: dental implants Bahrain [sqc] | 0/1 |
| ✓ | Mentioned for: emergency dentist Bahrain A Zavis.ai directory snippet naming this clinic's exact address appeared describing 24/7 emergency triage. [sqd] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: Bahrain dental clinic for expats [sqe] | 0/1 |
| ? | Structured data on website | 0/1.5 |
| ? | Google indexing quality | 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: NHRA facility register snapshot of 2026-02-04: Licence 150203-0117 (BARADA DENTAL CENTER W.L.L), Active, expires 17-07-2026 — NHRA Healthcare Facilities Finder, Area: Muharraq, Facility_Category: Multi-Speciality Dental Center. (Verified 2026-09-02: exact facility-name and owner-email match ([email protected]), confirming "Dr Wael" from the reviews is the registered owner. The NHRA Healthcare Facilities Finder file itself carries an HTTP Last-Modified date of 2026-02-04 (reconfirmed 2026-09-03), months before this snapshot's quoted expiry date; the licence may since have been renewed and the register simply hasn't caught up.) [reg1]
Dentists & professional licences
| Dentist | Specialization | Licence No. |
|---|---|---|
| Wael Mohamad Khalouf (Dr. Wael) [sm] [reg2] | Specialist, Orthodontics | Licence 11010066 — NHRA list September 2026, facility: BARADA DENTAL CENTER W.L.L; also the registered facility owner. |
| Hasan Ali Almasri [reg2] | General | Licence 11009770 — registered at this facility. |
| Ahmed Hamdy Fotouh Waly [reg2] | General | Licence 11010928 — registered at this facility. |
| Yasmin Amin Arafat Elaraby [reg2] | General | Licence 11003920 — registered at this facility. |
Red Flags
- low Opaque or bait pricing (-2 pts) — No prices or price ranges published (derived from data).
Red-flag penalty applied: -2 points (capped at -20).
Data We Could Not Verify
- Information Transparency: Real clinic photos
- Information Transparency: English website version
- Reputation & Reviews: Active Facebook presence
- Reputation & Reviews: TripAdvisor presence
- 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: Pre-visit consultation possible
- Communication & Service: Clear service explanations
- AI & Search Visibility: Structured data on website
- AI & Search Visibility: Google indexing quality
- 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 | +973 3345 5883 |
|---|---|
| Google Maps | Map listing |
| Address | Flat 25, Building 42, Avenue 1, Block 204, Muharraq, Bahrain |
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/Barada+Dental+Center/@26.2614204,… | Live Google rating 4.7 (40 reviews), address, phone, reviews naming Dr. Wael, read 2026-09-02; Google Business profile pane (tab strip, category, contact block, any services/description) read in a browser 2026-09-03 | 2026-09-03 |
| sqa | search:best dentist Muharraq | Canonical query check | 2026-09-02 |
| sqb | search:English speaking dentist Muharraq | Canonical query check | 2026-09-02 |
| sqc | search:dental implants Muharraq | Canonical query check | 2026-09-02 |
| sqd | search:emergency dentist Muharraq | Canonical query check — Zavis.ai directory snippet for this exact address appeared | 2026-09-02 |
| sqe | search:Muharraq dental clinic for expats | Canonical query check | 2026-09-02 |
| reg1 | https://www.nhra.bh/OpenData/Licensed%20Facilities/ | NHRA facility register: BARADA DENTAL CENTER W.L.L, licence 150203-0117, Active, expires 17-07-2026 | 2026-09-02 |
| reg2 | https://www.nhra.bh/OpenData/Licensed%20Professionals/ | NHRA dental practitioners list: 4 dentists registered at BARADA DENTAL CENTER W.L.L incl. Wael Mohamad Khalouf (Orthodontics) | 2026-09-02 |
| s1 | https://www.zavis.ai/bh/directory/muharraq/dental | Third-party Bahrain healthcare directory listing: "Barada Dental Center, Flat 25, Building, 42 Avenue 1, Muharraq — 4.7 (40 reviews), +973 3345 5883" | 2026-09-02 |
Change History
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-03 | Rule A via the Google Business profile (browser, 2026-09-03): serviceListPublished null -> false. The clinic-managed Maps place page was opened and read; it renders no Services or Products tab and no 'From the business' description, only the category 'Dental clinic'. This closes the "GBP not checkable without a browser" caveat left by the 2026-09-03 policy pass, which had left the value null for exactly that reason. |
| 2026-09-03 | Reputation pass 2026-09-03 (browser): the clinic's Google Maps place page was reopened on its Reviews tab and the star histogram, the visible reviews, their dates, their reviewer profiles and the owner replies were read. reviewRecency, respondsToReviews, recurringComplaints and suspiciousReviewPatterns set from that read, each carrying the sample size and the read order on the criterion itself. reviewRecency "older" -> within_year. recurringComplaints false; suspiciousReviewPatterns false. |
| 2026-09-03 | Rule A: serviceListPublished true->null — register-sourced only (reg1), the s1 source is a third-party zavis.ai directory listing not the clinic's own channel, and there is no website/Facebook to check; Google Business profile not checkable via curl. Rule E: NHRA facility register snapshot date (2026-02-04) prepended to the licence text so the 17-07-2026 expiry doesn't read as an unexplained lapse. |
| 2026-09-02 | Initial data collection for the Bahrain Dental Transparency & Trust Index: verified via Google Maps and the NHRA Open Data facility and dental-practitioner registers. |
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