Barada Dental Center
According to our open methodology, this clinic scored 50.6/100 for transparency, reputation, service accessibility, and digital visibility.
Overall rank: #9 of 19 ranked clinics · Last checked: 3 September 2026
50.6/100
Positions by Rating Profile
- Overall Transparency & Trust#950.6/100
- Best for Expats#948.5/100
- Best for Dental Implants#748.5/100
- Best for Emergency Dental Carenot ranked
- Best Price Transparency#355.6/100
- Best English-speaking Clinics#948.5/100
- 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 red flags identified in public sources.
Weaknesses
- AI & Search Visibility: 1 of 7 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; 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
12 / 20
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 The clinic's Facebook page lists its treatments: orthodontics, scaling and whitening, Hollywood smile, zirconia crowns and root canal treatment (post of 2025-10-25 and the page intro). [barada-dental-center-muharraq-fb-2] [barada-dental-center-muharraq-fb] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Clear contact details [sm] | 2/2 |
| ? | English website version | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Address and map published [sm] | 2/2 |
Price Transparency
9 / 15
Whether patients can estimate costs before visiting. Published price ranges count; exact prices are not required.
| ✓ | Prices or price ranges published The clinic posts its prices on its Facebook page: eight treatments with prices in BD in its post of 2026-10-01, after single prices earlier in the year (teeth cleaning 10 BD in October 2025). [barada-dental-center-muharraq-fb-3] [barada-dental-center-muharraq-fb-4] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Cleaning price listed Regular teeth cleaning 10 BD on the clinic's Facebook page (posts of 2025-10-10 and 2026-10-01). [barada-dental-center-muharraq-fb-3] [barada-dental-center-muharraq-fb-4] | 2/2 |
| ✗ | Filling price listed No price for a standard filling on the clinic's Facebook page, read in full for the past 12 months; only children's preventive fillings are priced (10 BD, post of 2026-10-01). [barada-dental-center-muharraq-fb] [barada-dental-center-muharraq-fb-3] [sm] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Crown price listed Zirconia crowns 69 BD and porcelain crowns 45 BD in the clinic's Facebook post of 2026-10-01. [barada-dental-center-muharraq-fb-3] | 2/2 |
| ✗ | Implant price listed No implant price on the clinic's Facebook page: its About section, services tab and all posts and images of the past 12 months carry none. [barada-dental-center-muharraq-fb] [sm] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Consultation price listed The clinic's Facebook posts offer a free consultation with file opening for orthodontic treatment (October 2025 and October 2026). [barada-dental-center-muharraq-fb-3] | 2/2 |
| ✗ | X-ray / imaging price listed No X-ray price on the clinic's Facebook page, read in full for the past 12 months: an X-ray is mentioned only inside a 7 BD check-up offer of December 2025. [barada-dental-center-muharraq-fb] [sm] | 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) 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 Owner replies on the Google listing: 2 of the 2 reviews from the last 12 months that were read carry one, the latest reply dated 2026-07-09 (read 2026-10-02). [barada-dental-center-muharraq-r6rep] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | 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 The clinic's own Facebook page (Avenue 1, Muharraq, with the clinic's phone) is active: latest post 2026-10-03 (checked 2026-10-05). [barada-dental-center-muharraq-fb] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | TripAdvisor presence No TripAdvisor listing found via its search for "Barada Dental Center Muharraq" and "Barada Dental"; the clinic has no website that could link one (checked 2026-10-05). [barada-dental-center-muharraq-tripadvisor] | 0/0.5 |
| ✗ | Other review platforms No profile found on WhatClinic, Dental Departures, Bookimed, Hospital Examiner (checked 2026-10-01). [barada-dental-center-muharraq-platforms] [barada-dental-center-muharraq-platforms-2] [barada-dental-center-muharraq-platforms-3] [barada-dental-center-muharraq-platforms-4] | 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 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
4 / 10
How easy it is to contact the clinic, get answers, and book - especially for international patients.
AI & Search Visibility
1 / 10
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 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. [barada-dental-center-muharraq-av4] | 0/2 |
| ? | Dedicated service pages | 0/1.5 |
Ranking leaders in AI answers
The queries above are this index's own check. The three leading clinics have also been measured in full: how often ChatGPT and Gemini name them when a patient asks them to recommend a dentist.
- #1Al Rabeeh Dental Center - Muharraq57 of 100View report →
- #2Al Rabeea Dental Center Isa Town57 of 100View report →
- #3The Best Dental Center (Al Haddad Plaza)18.1 of 100View report →
Measured by Ansmeter, 9 October 2026. Ansmeter is an affiliated service. Its figure is not part of this rating and does not affect positions — scores change only when public data changes.
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 (Waelmk078@gmail.com), 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
Red Flags
No red flags identified in the public sources we reviewed.
Data We Could Not Verify
- Information Transparency: Real clinic photos
- Information Transparency: English website version
- 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: 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 |
|---|---|
| https://www.facebook.com/baradadentalcenter/ | |
| 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 |
| barada-dental-center-muharraq-platforms | https://www.whatclinic.com/dentists/bahrain | WhatClinic: its Bahrain dentist catalogue (1 page, 3 clinics) and its profile sitemap (3 Bahrain profiles) list no profile of this clinic, and a profile address under its name (bahrain/al-manamah/barada-dental-center) returns "page not found" (checked 2026-10-01) | 2026-10-01 |
| barada-dental-center-muharraq-platforms-2 | https://www.dentaldepartures.com/ | Dental Departures: none of the 1,106 clinics its search returns is in Bahrain (checked 2026-10-01) | 2026-10-01 |
| barada-dental-center-muharraq-platforms-3 | https://bookimed.com/clinics/country=bahrain/ | Bookimed: its Bahrain clinics page has been removed (HTTP 410); it lists no clinic in Bahrain (checked 2026-10-01) | 2026-10-01 |
| barada-dental-center-muharraq-platforms-4 | https://hospitalexaminer.com/countries/bahrain/ | Hospital Examiner: its Bahrain list (226 pages, about 35 of them dental) and a search of the site by the clinic's name show no page for this clinic (checked 2026-10-01) | 2026-10-01 |
| barada-dental-center-muharraq-r6rep | https://www.google.com/maps?cid=5909388718766277315&hl=en | Google listing "Barada Dental Center", read 2026-10-02 with its reviews sorted lowest first and newest first: rating 4.7 from 40 reviews, histogram 2 one-star, 0 two-star, 1 three-star, 1 four-star, 36 five-star; 9 distinct reviews read (dated 2023-09-14 to 2026-04-06), 2 with an owner reply; the lowest-rated reviews read are dated 2023-2025. | 2026-10-02 |
| barada-dental-center-muharraq-av4 | search:"Barada Dental Center" Muharraq | 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: the results are job-board, venue-directory, government health-centre and business-directory pages for Muharraq and a UAE medical centre of a similar name. Listed: a job-board page, a venue directory, a property-portal blog post, an orthodontist locator page, three Ministry of Health centre pages and a business directory. | 2026-10-05 |
| barada-dental-center-muharraq-fb | https://www.facebook.com/baradadentalcenter/ | Facebook page "Barada Dental Center" (Muharraq, 278 followers) read on 2026-10-05: About section (Avenue 1, Muharraq; phone +973 3345 5883, the clinic's phone), details, services tab and all 109 posts from October 2025 to October 2026 with their images; latest post 2026-10-03 | 2026-10-05 |
| barada-dental-center-muharraq-fb-2 | https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1119513947013606&set=a.4262… | Facebook post of the clinic, 2025-10-25 (read 2026-10-05): lists its treatments - orthodontics, scaling and whitening, Hollywood smile, zirconia crowns, root canal treatment (in Arabic) | 2026-10-05 |
| barada-dental-center-muharraq-fb-3 | https://www.facebook.com/baradadentalcenter/posts/pfbid0vb6Sg3kpcTb… | Facebook post of the clinic, 2026-10-01 (read 2026-10-05): prices in BD - children's preventive fillings 10, fluoride per jaw 15, Hollywood smile 200, zirconia crowns 69, porcelain crowns 45, regular teeth cleaning 10, laser cleaning 20, orthodontics 20 monthly with no down payment and free file opening and consultation (text in Arabic) | 2026-10-05 |
| barada-dental-center-muharraq-fb-4 | https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1106424114989256&set=a.4262… | Facebook post of the clinic, 2025-10-10 (read 2026-10-05): image "teeth cleaning 10 dinars" (in Arabic) | 2026-10-05 |
| barada-dental-center-muharraq-tripadvisor | https://www.tripadvisor.com/TypeAheadJson?action=API&details=true&q… | TripAdvisor's own search, read 2026-10-05: 12 suggestions for "Barada Dental Center Muharraq" (2 places, 6 attractions, 4 hotels), none of them a dental practice in or near Muharraq; 12 suggestions for "Barada Dental" (1 place, 4 attractions, 6 hotels, 1 restaurant), none of them a dental practice in or near Muharraq; no listing for this clinic | 2026-10-05 |
Change History
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-05 | TripAdvisor presence checked on 2026-10-05: no listing found for this clinic. |
| 2026-10-05 | Read the clinic's Facebook page in full on 2026-10-05: the page is active, lists its treatments and posts prices in BD for eight treatments; Facebook presence, service-list and price criteria updated. |
| 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 | Reputation check 2026-10-02 on the clinic's Google listing (9 reviews read): owner replies to reviews yes. |
| 2026-10-01 | Other review platforms re-checked on 2026-10-01: no profile of the clinic on WhatClinic, Dental Departures, Bookimed, Hospital Examiner; the Zavis page cited before only repeats Google data and is not a review platform; changed from yes to no. |
| 2026-09-29 | Corrected 2026-09-29: clinic responds to reviews now unverified: only 8 reviews were checked for owner replies. |
| 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; the Google Business profile carries no service-list source of its own. 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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