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| تاریخ | موضوع | تبدیلی |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-16 | طریقۂ کار نسخہ 1.4.2 | 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. |
| 2026-10-13 | Altamash Dental Clinic | Visibility re-checked on 2026-10-13 with the five canonical Karachi queries, read once for every clinic of the Karachi list; AI Overviews, local results and the first page of web results all counted. The clinic appears in 3 of the five. |
| 2026-10-13 | Dr. Irfan Qureshi's Team of Professionals | Visibility re-checked on 2026-10-13 with the five canonical Karachi queries, read once for every clinic of the Karachi list; AI Overviews, local results and the first page of web results all counted. The clinic appears in 0 of the five. |
| 2026-10-13 | Dr. Saad Irfan & Associates Dentistry | Visibility re-checked on 2026-10-13 with the five canonical Karachi queries, read once for every clinic of the Karachi list; AI Overviews, local results and the first page of web results all counted. The clinic appears in 4 of the five. |
| 2026-10-13 | Dr. Shahid Islam Dental Clinic | Visibility re-checked on 2026-10-13 with the five canonical Karachi queries, read once for every clinic of the Karachi list; AI Overviews, local results and the first page of web results all counted. The clinic appears in 1 of the five. |
| 2026-10-13 | NRQ Dental & Medical Center | Visibility re-checked on 2026-10-13 with the five canonical Karachi queries, read once for every clinic of the Karachi list; AI Overviews, local results and the first page of web results all counted. The clinic appears in 4 of the five. |
| 2026-10-13 | The Dental Clinic Dr. Saqib Minhas & Associates | Visibility re-checked on 2026-10-13 with the five canonical Karachi queries, read once for every clinic of the Karachi list; AI Overviews, local results and the first page of web results all counted. The clinic appears in 1 of the five. |
| 2026-10-13 | Zia Dental Care & Aesthetics | Re-read on 2026-10-13: the clinic's website in full (all 58 pages in its sitemap, its booking pages and every dentist page), its Google listing with the star histogram, dated reviews in four orders, practice replies, opening hours and photographs, and the PMDC register. Recorded: Google 4.9 from 1,331 reviews, newest 2026-10-06; one- and two-star ratings at 2.3% of the base, with no repeated complaint among the lowest-rated reviews; a second published price, light-activated whitening at around Rs. 20,000 a visit, next to scaling and polishing from Rs. 15,000; the Google listing now shows the clinic's first number, +92 300 2278864. Filled: the clinic's own statements on international and overseas patients (payment in foreign currency, retainers made from the last records for patients abroad). Corrected: the review-manipulation check is left open again, because six of the ten positive reviews read come from accounts with a single review. The address now follows the wording the clinic's own pages use, at the clinic's request. The dentists listed now follow the clinic's team page (nine dentists), with a register number only where the PMDC register ties one to the dentist the clinic names. Still unverified: the clinic's Facebook and Instagram pages. Visibility re-checked on 2026-10-13 with the five canonical Karachi queries, read once for every clinic of the Karachi list; AI Overviews, local results and the first page of web results all counted. The clinic appears in 5 of the five. |
| 2026-10-07 | طریقۂ کار نسخہ 1.4.1 | 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 | Altamash Dental Clinic | Read the clinic's Google listing on 2026-10-05 (its lowest-rated and newest reviews with the star histogram): no owner replies found; no sign of manipulated reviews. |
| 2026-10-05 | Altamash Dental Clinic | TripAdvisor presence checked on 2026-10-05: no listing found for this clinic. |
| 2026-10-05 | Dental Care Center | Facebook presence checked on 2026-10-05: the clinic's own page is active (latest post 2026-09-30). |
| 2026-10-05 | Dental Care Center | TripAdvisor presence checked on 2026-10-05: no listing found for this clinic. |
| 2026-10-05 | Dental Heaven | Read the clinic's Google listing on 2026-10-05 (its lowest-rated and newest reviews with the star histogram): the owner replies to reviews; no repeated complaint. |
| 2026-10-05 | Dental Heaven | TripAdvisor presence checked on 2026-10-05: no listing found for this clinic. |
| 2026-10-05 | Dental Professionals | Read the clinic's Google listing on 2026-10-05 (its lowest-rated and newest reviews with the star histogram): no owner replies found; a repeated complaint among the lowest-rated reviews. |
| 2026-10-05 | Dental Professionals | TripAdvisor presence checked on 2026-10-05: no listing found for this clinic. |
| 2026-10-05 | Dentistry32 | TripAdvisor presence checked on 2026-10-05: no listing found for this clinic. |
| 2026-10-05 | Dr. Irfan Qureshi's Team of Professionals | TripAdvisor presence checked on 2026-10-05: no listing found for this clinic. |
| 2026-10-05 | Dr. Saad Irfan & Associates Dentistry | Read the clinic's Google listing on 2026-10-05 (its lowest-rated and newest reviews with the star histogram): no sign of manipulated reviews. |
| 2026-10-05 | Dr. Shahid Islam Dental Clinic | TripAdvisor presence checked on 2026-10-05: no listing found for this clinic. |
| 2026-10-05 | Hassaan Dental Clinic | TripAdvisor presence checked on 2026-10-05: no listing found for this clinic. |
| 2026-10-05 | Hope Dental Centre | Read the clinic's Google listing on 2026-10-05 (its lowest-rated and newest reviews with the star histogram): the owner replies to reviews. |
| 2026-10-05 | Hope Dental Centre | TripAdvisor presence checked on 2026-10-05: no listing found for this clinic. |
| 2026-10-05 | Implant & Dental Art | Read the clinic's Google listing on 2026-10-05 (its lowest-rated and newest reviews with the star histogram): a repeated complaint among the lowest-rated reviews. |
| 2026-10-05 | Implant & Dental Art | TripAdvisor presence checked on 2026-10-05: no listing found for this clinic. |
| 2026-10-05 | Kensington Dental & Implant Centre Islamabad | TripAdvisor presence checked on 2026-10-05: no listing found for this clinic. |
| 2026-10-05 | Malik Dental Associates (Blue Area) | Read the clinic's Google listing on 2026-10-05 (its lowest-rated and newest reviews with the star histogram): no owner replies found. |
| 2026-10-05 | Malik Dental Associates (Blue Area) | TripAdvisor presence checked on 2026-10-05: no listing found for this clinic. |
| 2026-10-05 | NorthWestern Dental Clinic | TripAdvisor presence checked on 2026-10-05: no listing found for this clinic. |
| 2026-10-05 | NRQ Dental & Medical Center | Read the clinic's Google listing on 2026-10-05 (its lowest-rated and newest reviews with the star histogram): a repeated complaint among the lowest-rated reviews; no sign of manipulated reviews. |
| 2026-10-05 | NRQ Dental & Medical Center | TripAdvisor presence checked on 2026-10-05: no listing found for this clinic. |
| 2026-10-05 | Perfect Teeth | Read the clinic's Google listing on 2026-10-05 (its lowest-rated and newest reviews with the star histogram): a repeated complaint among the lowest-rated reviews. |
| 2026-10-05 | Perfect Teeth | TripAdvisor presence checked on 2026-10-05: no listing found for this clinic. |
| 2026-10-05 | Smile Hub Clinics | Read the clinic's Google listing on 2026-10-05 (its lowest-rated and newest reviews with the star histogram): no repeated complaint; no sign of manipulated reviews. |
| 2026-10-05 | Smile Hub Clinics | TripAdvisor presence checked on 2026-10-05: no listing found for this clinic. |
| 2026-10-05 | Smile Pod Dental Clinic | TripAdvisor presence checked on 2026-10-05: no listing found for this clinic. |
| 2026-10-05 | SmileOn Dental | Read the clinic's Google listing on 2026-10-05 (its lowest-rated and newest reviews with the star histogram): the owner replies to reviews. |
| 2026-10-05 | SmileOn Dental | TripAdvisor presence checked on 2026-10-05: no listing found for this clinic. |
| 2026-10-05 | Teeth and Smile Dental Clinic | Read the clinic's Google listing on 2026-10-05 (its lowest-rated and newest reviews with the star histogram): no repeated complaint. |
| 2026-10-05 | Teeth and Smile Dental Clinic | TripAdvisor presence checked on 2026-10-05: no listing found for this clinic. |
| 2026-10-05 | The Dental Clinic Dr. Saqib Minhas & Associates | TripAdvisor presence checked on 2026-10-05: no listing found for this clinic. |
| 2026-10-05 | The Perfect Smile Dental Clinic | TripAdvisor presence checked on 2026-10-05: no listing found for this clinic. |
| 2026-10-05 | Tooth Crew Clinic | TripAdvisor presence checked on 2026-10-05: no listing found for this clinic. |
| 2026-10-05 | Z Dental Studio | Read the clinic's Google listing on 2026-10-05 (its lowest-rated and newest reviews with the star histogram): no repeated complaint. |
| 2026-10-05 | Z Dental Studio | TripAdvisor presence checked on 2026-10-05: no listing found for this clinic. |
| 2026-10-05 | Zia Dental Care & Aesthetics | Read the clinic's Google listing on 2026-10-05 (its lowest-rated and newest reviews with the star histogram): no sign of manipulated reviews. |
| 2026-10-05 | Zia Dental Care & Aesthetics | TripAdvisor presence checked on 2026-10-05: no listing found for this clinic. |
| 2026-10-02 | Dental Heaven | Facebook presence re-checked on 2026-10-02: live Facebook page confirmed. |
| 2026-10-02 | Dental Heaven | Presence on review sites re-read on 2026-10-02: no profile on the review platforms checked. |
| 2026-10-02 | Dentistry32 | Presence on review sites re-read on 2026-10-02: profile on another review platform found. |
| 2026-10-02 | Implant & Dental Art | Presence on review sites re-read on 2026-10-02: no profile on the review platforms checked. |
| 2026-10-02 | Implant & Dental Art | General anaesthesia / deep sedation corrected to not offered: the clinic describes conscious sedation with nitrous oxide only (read 2026-10-02). |
| 2026-10-02 | Kensington Dental & Implant Centre Islamabad | Facebook presence re-checked on 2026-10-02: live Facebook page confirmed. |
| 2026-10-02 | Kensington Dental & Implant Centre Islamabad | Presence on review sites re-read on 2026-10-02: profile on another review platform found. |
| 2026-10-02 | Kensington Dental & Implant Centre Islamabad | General anaesthesia / deep sedation changed to not established: the site mentions sedation options without saying what kind (read 2026-10-02). |
| 2026-10-02 | Malik Dental Associates (Blue Area) | Facebook presence re-checked on 2026-10-02: live Facebook page confirmed. |
| 2026-10-02 | Malik Dental Associates (Blue Area) | Presence on review sites re-read on 2026-10-02: no profile on the review platforms checked. |
| 2026-10-02 | Smile Pod Dental Clinic | Presence on review sites re-read on 2026-10-02: no profile on the review platforms checked. |
| 2026-10-02 | SmileOn Dental | Presence on review sites re-read on 2026-10-02: no profile on the review platforms checked. |
| 2026-10-02 | Teeth and Smile Dental Clinic | Presence on review sites re-read on 2026-10-02: no profile on the review platforms checked. |
| 2026-10-02 | The Perfect Smile Dental Clinic | Facebook presence re-checked on 2026-10-02: live Facebook page confirmed. |
| 2026-10-02 | The Perfect Smile Dental Clinic | Presence on review sites re-read on 2026-10-02: profile on another review platform found. |
| 2026-10-02 | Tooth Crew Clinic | Facebook presence re-checked on 2026-10-02: live Facebook page confirmed. |
| 2026-10-02 | Tooth Crew Clinic | Presence on review sites re-read on 2026-10-02: profile on another review platform found. |
| 2026-10-02 | Z Dental Studio | Facebook presence re-checked on 2026-10-02: the clinic's Facebook page is inactive. |
| 2026-10-02 | Z Dental Studio | Presence on review sites re-read on 2026-10-02: profile on another review platform found. |
| 2026-09-29 | Altamash Dental Clinic | Corrected 2026-09-29: clinic responds to reviews now unverified: only 5 reviews were checked for owner replies. |
| 2026-09-29 | Dental Care Center | Corrected 2026-09-29: clinic responds to reviews now unverified: only 5 reviews were checked for owner replies; review recency within 3 months (newest review dated 2026-09-03). |
| 2026-09-29 | Dental Heaven | Corrected 2026-09-29: clinic responds to reviews now unverified: only 5 reviews were checked for owner replies; review recency within 3 months (newest review dated 2026-09-22). |
| 2026-09-29 | Dental Professionals | Corrected 2026-09-29: clinic responds to reviews now unverified: only 5 reviews were checked for owner replies; review recency within 3 months (newest review dated 2026-09-09). |
| 2026-09-29 | Hope Dental Centre | Corrected 2026-09-29: clinic responds to reviews now unverified: only 5 reviews were checked for owner replies. |
| 2026-09-29 | Malik Dental Associates (Blue Area) | Corrected 2026-09-29: clinic responds to reviews now unverified: only 5 reviews were checked for owner replies. |
| 2026-09-29 | NorthWestern Dental Clinic | Corrected 2026-09-29: review recency within 3 months (newest review dated 2026-09-24). |
| 2026-09-29 | Smile Pod Dental Clinic | Corrected 2026-09-29: clinic responds to reviews now unverified: only 5 reviews were checked for owner replies; review recency within a year (newest review dated 2026-01-01). |
| 2026-09-29 | SmileOn Dental | Corrected 2026-09-29: clinic responds to reviews now unverified: only 5 reviews were checked for owner replies. |
| 2026-09-29 | Teeth and Smile Dental Clinic | Corrected 2026-09-29: review count 208 (was 197) from the Google listing on 2026-09-26; owner replies to reviews confirmed on the Google listing (owner reply dated 2026-09-21). |
| 2026-09-29 | The Perfect Smile Dental Clinic | Corrected 2026-09-29: review recency within 3 months (newest review dated 2026-09-07). |
| 2026-09-29 | Z Dental Studio | Corrected 2026-09-29: clinic responds to reviews now unverified: only 5 reviews were checked for owner replies. |
| 2026-09-23 | Altamash Dental Clinic | Re-read on 2026-09-23: the clinic's website (about 75 pages, including the front, team, New Patients, emergency, treatment and article pages), its Google listing, its oladoc.com profile, the national dentists' register and the Sindh Healthcare Commission licence lists. Recorded: Google 4.2 from 117 reviews, newest readable review 2026-08-15, no replies from the practice on the readable reviews; in-house OPG and CBCT; documented care for patients from abroad; the clinic's provisional licence SHCC/DLA/PL/0914 in the Commission's list. Corrected: the review-pattern check is left open, because three of the five readable reviews praise one dentist from new accounts, two posted the same day. Still unverified: TripAdvisor presence and sedation. |
| 2026-09-23 | Altamash Dental Clinic | Visibility re-checked on 2026-09-23 with the five canonical Karachi queries, run once for every card compared in this pass; local results, the first page of web results and AI Overviews all counted. The clinic appears in 3 of the five. |
| 2026-09-23 | Dr. Saad Irfan & Associates Dentistry | Listed at the request of a representative of the clinic (form message to Pakistan Dental Rating, 2026-09-22). Researched from the clinic's website (all 84 pages: doctors, pricing, every treatment and location page, technology), its three Google listings, its Marham profile, the PMDC practitioners register and the Sindh Healthcare Commission register snapshot. The five canonical Karachi visibility queries were run the same day; the clinic's site reaches the first page of web results for four of them. |
| 2026-09-23 | Dr. Shahid Islam Dental Clinic | Re-read on 2026-09-23: the clinic's website in full (all 51 pages in its sitemap and the three dentist profiles), its Google listing with the star histogram, dated reviews, practice replies, opening hours and photographs, the PMDC register by registration number and the Sindh Healthcare Commission list. Recorded: Google 5.0 from 14 reviews, all five-star, the newest readable review dated 2026-07-01 and answered by the practice. Corrected: the clinic publishes standing prices on its service pages - scaling and polishing PKR 8,000, composite filling from PKR 8,000, zirconia crowns PKR 45,000-65,000, implants from PKR 120,000, consultation and exam from PKR 1,500, periapical X-ray PKR 1,000 - so the price list and all six item prices are now recorded as published; the review-manipulation check is now left open, because three of the five readable reviewers have posted no other review; the cone-beam CT entry now states that the implant pages mention CBCT planning while the X-ray page refers even panoramic imaging out. Still unverified: TripAdvisor presence and whether a CBCT scanner is on site. |
| 2026-09-23 | Dr. Shahid Islam Dental Clinic | Visibility re-checked on 2026-09-23 with the five canonical Karachi queries, run once for every card compared in this pass; local results, the first page of web results and AI Overviews all counted. The clinic appears in 1 of the five. |
| 2026-09-23 | Hassaan Dental Clinic | Re-read on 2026-09-23: every page in the clinic's sitemap (price table, treatment, contact and dental-tourism pages and their structured data), its Google listing, its WhatClinic and Marham profiles, the IHRA register and the PMDC register. Recorded: Google 4.8 from 476 reviews, newest dated 2026-07-15, with a practice reply dated 2026-05-26; 16 low ratings of 476 and no repeated complaint in the readable reviews; the clinic's own Facebook page, linked from its site; WhatClinic and Marham profiles; a WhatsApp route to a preliminary plan and cost estimate before a visit. Corrected: the site's pages carry schema.org Dentist and LocalBusiness markup with the clinic's address and telephone, so structured data is now recorded as present. Unchanged: the price table, the IHRA registration and the PMDC number. Still unverified: TripAdvisor presence. |
| 2026-09-23 | Hassaan Dental Clinic | Visibility re-checked on 2026-09-23 with the five canonical Islamabad queries, run once for every card compared in this pass; local results, the first page of web results and AI Overviews all counted. The clinic appears in 2 of the five. |
| 2026-09-23 | NRQ Dental & Medical Center | Re-read on 2026-09-23: the clinic's website (about 250 pages in its site map, including the Gulshan-e-Iqbal team, contact, children's, emergency and dentist profile pages), its Google listing, its oladoc.com profile and the national dentists' register. Recorded: Google 4.9 from 190 reviews, newest readable review 2026-08-25, owner replies on all readable reviews; a WhatsApp number for this branch; sedation or general anaesthesia offered to children when needed; registration 23038-D for the oral surgeon, whom the clinic's own profile names Dr. Ahmer Javaid Khan. Corrected: the site carries no business markup with an address or telephone, so structured data is not met; the review-pattern check is left open because nearly all ratings are five or one star and the low ones cannot be read. Still unverified: TripAdvisor presence, cone-beam CT, work with foreign patients and the Sindh Healthcare Commission licence. |
| 2026-09-23 | NRQ Dental & Medical Center | Visibility re-checked on 2026-09-23 with the five canonical Karachi queries, run once for every card compared in this pass; local results, the first page of web results and AI Overviews all counted. The clinic appears in 3 of the five. |
| 2026-09-23 | Smile Hub Clinics | Re-read on 2026-09-23: all 40 pages of the clinic's website (services, prices, team, contact and patient guides, with their structured data), its Google listing, its WhatClinic and Marham profiles, the Punjab Healthcare Commission register and the PMDC register. Recorded: Google 4.8 from 230 reviews, newest dated 2026-07-09, with practice replies under all five readable reviews; the same four named dentists; standing prices for implants, crowns, veneers, clear aligners and whitening; new treatment pages for pediatric and emergency dentistry. Corrected: the Izen implant is now PKR 85,000 with abutment (earlier PKR 80,000); the free consultation includes X-rays, so an imaging price is now recorded; the review-pattern check is no longer recorded as clear, because 9 one-star and 218 five-star ratings leave almost nothing in between and three of the five readable reviews come from single-review accounts. Still unverified: TripAdvisor presence. |
| 2026-09-23 | Smile Hub Clinics | Visibility re-checked on 2026-09-23 with the five canonical Lahore queries, run once for every card compared in this pass; local results, the first page of web results and AI Overviews all counted. The clinic appears in 1 of the five. |
| 2026-09-23 | The Dental Clinic Dr. Saqib Minhas & Associates | Re-read on 2026-09-23: the clinic's website (about 160 pages in its site map, including its service pages, its own price guides and its team, profile and general-anaesthesia pages), its Google listing, its oladoc.com profile and the national dentists' register. Recorded: Google 4.7 from 258 reviews, newest readable review 2026-09-08, owner replies on three of five readable reviews; no recurring complaint; the fields of its dentists; treatment under general anaesthesia; cone-beam CT planning for implants; documented care for patients who live abroad; a WhatsApp number. Corrected: the clinic now publishes its own fees from its 2025 rate list, including scaling, fillings, crowns, implants and X-rays, so prices are published. Still unverified: TripAdvisor presence, same-day or emergency appointments and the Sindh Healthcare Commission licence. |
| 2026-09-23 | The Dental Clinic Dr. Saqib Minhas & Associates | Visibility re-checked on 2026-09-23 with the five canonical Karachi queries, run once for every card compared in this pass; local results, the first page of web results and AI Overviews all counted. The clinic appears in 2 of the five. |
| 2026-09-23 | Zia Dental Care & Aesthetics | Re-read on 2026-09-23: the clinic's website in full (all 69 pages in its sitemap, including every treatment and dentist page), its Google listing with the star histogram, dated reviews, practice replies, opening hours and photographs, the PMDC register by registration number and the Sindh Healthcare Commission list. Recorded: Google 4.9 from 1,304 reviews; no recurring complaint, with one- and two-star ratings at 2.2% of the base and none in the readable reviews; the X-ray page states that only panoramic X-rays are offered, so no cone-beam CT. Corrected: a scaling and polishing price (from Rs. 15,000) is published; the site's structured data is a bare Organization node rather than practice markup; the review-manipulation check is now left open, because three of the five readable reviewers have posted no other review. The dentist roster now names nine dentists, and both telephone numbers appear on the contact page. Still unverified: TripAdvisor presence. |
| 2026-09-23 | Zia Dental Care & Aesthetics | Visibility re-checked on 2026-09-23 with the five canonical Karachi queries, run once for every card compared in this pass; local results, the first page of web results and AI Overviews all counted. The clinic appears in 5 of the five. |
| 2026-09-11 | Altamash Dental Clinic | Reputation review: the clinic's own Google listing was read again, this time with its star histogram, its reviews with exact dates and any replies from the practice, its published opening week and its photographs, which were downloaded at full size and looked at. On this card the age of the newest readable review was dated exactly and recorded; the practice was found not to answer reviews on its own listing; the star distribution and the readable reviews were checked for signs of manipulation and none was found; the photographs on the clinic's listing were downloaded and looked at, and they show the premises. |
| 2026-09-11 | Dental Care Center | Reputation review: the clinic's own Google listing was read again, this time with its star histogram, its reviews with exact dates and any replies from the practice, its published opening week and its photographs, which were downloaded at full size and looked at. On this card the age of the newest readable review was dated exactly and recorded; the practice was found not to answer reviews on its own listing; the star distribution and the readable reviews were checked for signs of manipulation and none was found; the photographs on the clinic's listing were downloaded and looked at, and they show the premises. |
| 2026-09-11 | Dental Heaven | Reputation review: the clinic's own Google listing was read again, this time with its star histogram, its reviews with exact dates and any replies from the practice, its published opening week and its photographs, which were downloaded at full size and looked at. On this card the age of the newest readable review was dated exactly and recorded; the practice was found not to answer reviews on its own listing; the star distribution and the readable reviews were checked for signs of manipulation and none was found; the photographs on the clinic's listing were downloaded and looked at, and they show the premises; the opening week published in the clinic's own Google Business Profile was read and the hours criterion settled on it. |
| 2026-09-11 | Dental Professionals | Reputation review: the clinic's own Google listing was read again, this time with its star histogram, its reviews with exact dates and any replies from the practice, its published opening week and its photographs, which were downloaded at full size and looked at. On this card the age of the newest readable review was dated exactly and recorded; the practice was found not to answer reviews on its own listing; the photographs on the clinic's listing were downloaded and looked at, and they show the premises. |
| 2026-09-11 | Dental Professionals | The review-pattern row was settled after re-reading the listing: the star histogram, every review Google renders with its exact date, and each reviewer's account history. The reading and what it does not cover are written into the row itself. |
| 2026-09-11 | Dental Professionals | A contradiction between the clinic's own pages was recorded: the team page names five dentists, while the reviews the clinic republishes on its own front page credit a sixth named clinician with years of treatment here. She is not added to the licence table, because the clinic publishes no qualification or registration number for her and a patient's words are not a roster entry. The quotation from the team-page heading was also corrected to the exact wording on the page. |
| 2026-09-11 | Dentistry32 | Reputation review: the clinic's own Google listing was read again, this time with its star histogram, its reviews with exact dates and any replies from the practice, its published opening week and its photographs, which were downloaded at full size and looked at. On this card the age of the newest readable review was dated exactly and recorded; the practice was found to answer reviews on its own listing; the star distribution and the readable reviews were checked for signs of manipulation and none was found; the photographs on the clinic's listing were downloaded and looked at, and they show the premises; the opening hours published on the clinic's own site were read and the hours criterion settled on them. |
| 2026-09-11 | Dr. Irfan Qureshi's Team of Professionals | Reputation review: the clinic's own Google listing was read again, this time with its star histogram, its reviews with exact dates and any replies from the practice, its published opening week and its photographs, which were downloaded at full size and looked at. On this card the age of the newest readable review was dated exactly and recorded; the practice was found to answer reviews on its own listing; the star distribution and the readable reviews were checked for signs of manipulation and none was found; the photographs on the clinic's listing and site were downloaded and looked at, and none of them is a photograph of the premises; the opening week published in the clinic's own Google Business Profile was read and the hours criterion settled on it; the address the practice publishes on its own front page was read and matched against its listing and the register. |
| 2026-09-11 | Dr. Irfan Qureshi's Team of Professionals | The dentist roster was completed from the practice's own channels. The doctors page that an earlier check had recorded as missing answers normally and carries four dentists with their degrees, and the front page names a fifth, so the card now lists six dentists instead of one. Each of the five was searched by name in the federal PMDC practitioners register: two resolve to a current dental registration, one is absent from the register under every spelling tried, one has three same-name records that the register gives no way to tell apart, and one has a single same-name record whose registered degree does not match the college the practice publishes. |
| 2026-09-11 | Dr. Shahid Islam Dental Clinic | Reputation review: the clinic's own Google listing was read again, this time with its star histogram, its reviews with exact dates and any replies from the practice, its published opening week and its photographs, which were downloaded at full size and looked at. On this card the age of the newest readable review was dated exactly and recorded; the practice was found to answer reviews on its own listing; the photographs on the clinic's listing were downloaded and looked at, and they show the premises. |
| 2026-09-11 | Dr. Shahid Islam Dental Clinic | The review-pattern row was settled after re-reading the listing: the star histogram, every review Google renders with its exact date, and each reviewer's account history. The reading and what it does not cover are written into the row itself. |
| 2026-09-11 | Hassaan Dental Clinic | Reputation review: the clinic's own Google listing was read again, this time with its star histogram, its reviews with exact dates and any replies from the practice, its published opening week and its photographs, which were downloaded at full size and looked at. On this card the age of the newest readable review was dated exactly and recorded; the practice was found to answer reviews on its own listing; the star distribution and the readable reviews were checked for signs of manipulation and none was found; the photographs on the clinic's listing were downloaded and looked at, and they show the premises; the opening week published in the clinic's own Google Business Profile was read and the hours criterion settled on it. |
| 2026-09-11 | Hope Dental Centre | First entry for this clinic in the Pakistan Dental Transparency & Trust Index. It was added because two independent channels could be read and checked against each other: the clinic's own site, whose visible text had to be recovered from the script file behind an empty page, and its own Google place record, which the site links and whose pin matches the site's to within metres. The dentists were then searched one by one in the federal PMDC practitioners register, and the Punjab Healthcare Commission register of healthcare establishments was pulled in full for Faisalabad district and searched for the practice. |
| 2026-09-11 | Implant & Dental Art | Reputation review: the clinic's own Google listing was read again, this time with its star histogram, its reviews with exact dates and any replies from the practice, its published opening week and its photographs, which were downloaded at full size and looked at. On this card the age of the newest readable review was dated exactly and recorded; the practice was found to answer reviews on its own listing; the star distribution and the readable reviews were checked for signs of manipulation and none was found; the photographs on the clinic's listing were downloaded and looked at, and they show the premises; the opening week published in the clinic's own Google Business Profile was read and the hours criterion settled on it. |
| 2026-09-11 | Implant & Dental Art | The clinic's website was checked again and is still answering with a server error, two days running. The note now says so, and records that while the site is down the clinic's own Google listing and the signboard photographed on it still publish its dentists, their qualifications, its telephone numbers and its opening times. |
| 2026-09-11 | Kensington Dental & Implant Centre Islamabad | Reputation review: the clinic's own Google listing was read again, this time with its star histogram, its reviews with exact dates and any replies from the practice, its published opening week and its photographs, which were downloaded at full size and looked at. On this card the age of the newest readable review was dated exactly and recorded; the practice was found to answer reviews on its own listing; the star distribution and the readable reviews were checked for signs of manipulation and none was found; the photographs on the clinic's listing were downloaded and looked at, and they show the premises; the opening week published in the clinic's own Google Business Profile was read and the hours criterion settled on it. |
| 2026-09-11 | Malik Dental Associates (Blue Area) | Reputation review: the clinic's own Google listing was read again, this time with its star histogram, its reviews with exact dates and any replies from the practice, its published opening week and its photographs, which were downloaded at full size and looked at. On this card the age of the newest readable review was dated exactly and recorded; the practice was found not to answer reviews on its own listing; the photographs on the clinic's listing were downloaded and looked at, and they show the premises; the opening week published in the clinic's own Google Business Profile was read and the hours criterion settled on it. |
| 2026-09-11 | Malik Dental Associates (Blue Area) | The review-pattern row was settled after re-reading the listing: the star histogram, every review Google renders with its exact date, and each reviewer's account history. The reading and what it does not cover are written into the row itself. |
| 2026-09-11 | NorthWestern Dental Clinic | Reputation review: the clinic's own Google listing was read again, this time with its star histogram, its reviews with exact dates and any replies from the practice, its published opening week and its photographs, which were downloaded at full size and looked at. On this card the clinic's own claim of more than 1,000 reviews was measured against the listing's star histogram, which sums to 115; the age of the newest readable review was dated exactly and recorded; the practice was found to answer reviews on its own listing; signs of manipulation were recorded against the review history; the photographs on the clinic's listing and site were downloaded and looked at, and none of them is a photograph of the premises. |
| 2026-09-11 | NorthWestern Dental Clinic | The clinic's site was read after all: it is a JavaScript application that serves an empty page, and its text lives in the script file behind it, which was downloaded and read in full. It publishes no prices, no dentist besides the founder and only two images, neither of them a photograph of these rooms. The summary was corrected: it no longer says the site could not be read, and the clinic's claim of more than a thousand reviews is now set against the 115 its own Google listing carries. |
| 2026-09-11 | NorthWestern Dental Clinic | The price rows and the service-page row were settled by reading the script file that carries the site's whole visible text, instead of recording them as unread. The file holds no currency token at all, so all seven price rows are a verified absence; the same file's router gives each treatment its own address, so the service-page row is a verified yes. |
| 2026-09-11 | NRQ Dental & Medical Center | Reputation review: the clinic's own Google listing was read again, this time with its star histogram, its reviews with exact dates and any replies from the practice, its published opening week and its photographs, which were downloaded at full size and looked at. On this card the review count was corrected from 186 to 188 against the listing's own star histogram; the age of the newest readable review was dated exactly and recorded; the practice was found to answer reviews on its own listing; the star distribution and the readable reviews were checked for signs of manipulation and none was found; the photographs on the clinic's listing were downloaded and looked at, and they show the premises; the opening week published in the clinic's own Google Business Profile was read and the hours criterion settled on it. |
| 2026-09-11 | Perfect Teeth | Reputation review: the clinic's own Google listing was read again, this time with its star histogram, its reviews with exact dates and any replies from the practice, its published opening week and its photographs, which were downloaded at full size and looked at. On this card the age of the newest readable review was dated exactly and recorded; the practice was found to answer reviews on its own listing; signs of manipulation were recorded against the review history; the photographs on the clinic's listing were downloaded and looked at, and they show the premises. |
| 2026-09-11 | Perfect Teeth | The clinic publishes two different opening weeks on its own site — 2 to 10 in the afternoon on the about page and 5 to 9 in the evening in the footer of every page. Its own Google Business Profile publishes 5 to 9, Monday to Saturday, which settles it: the footer is current and the about page is stale. Recorded on the hours criterion so a reader is not sent at the wrong time. |
| 2026-09-11 | Perfect Teeth | These two cards are two premises of one brand, kept separate because they are separate clinics: different addresses in different parts of Lahore, separate Google listings with their own hours and their own review bases, and each scored only on what it publishes itself. The link is stated so the two are not read as independent opinions of the same market: Smile Pod's own shopfront sign reads "Perfect Teeth's SMILE POD", the Perfect Teeth site describes its Lahore studio as its founder's first branch outside the country, two consultants appear on both rosters, and the same named dentist turns up in the reviews of both. |
| 2026-09-11 | Smile Hub Clinics | Reputation review: the clinic's own Google listing was read again, this time with its star histogram, its reviews with exact dates and any replies from the practice, its published opening week and its photographs, which were downloaded at full size and looked at. On this card the age of the newest readable review was dated exactly and recorded; the practice was found to answer reviews on its own listing; the star distribution and the readable reviews were checked for signs of manipulation and none was found; the photographs on the clinic's listing were downloaded and looked at, and they show the premises. |
| 2026-09-11 | Smile Hub Clinics | A cross-card claim in the summary was corrected. It said this was the only clinic here publishing real figures; four of the twenty-four cards publish prices, so the sentence now states that instead. The clinic's own published figures are unchanged. |
| 2026-09-11 | Smile Pod Dental Clinic | Reputation review: the clinic's own Google listing was read again, this time with its star histogram, its reviews with exact dates and any replies from the practice, its published opening week and its photographs, which were downloaded at full size and looked at. On this card the practice was found not to answer reviews on its own listing; the star distribution and the readable reviews were checked for signs of manipulation and none was found; the photographs on the clinic's listing were downloaded and looked at, and they show the premises; the opening week published in the clinic's own Google Business Profile was read and the hours criterion settled on it. |
| 2026-09-11 | Smile Pod Dental Clinic | These two cards are two premises of one brand, kept separate because they are separate clinics: different addresses in different parts of Lahore, separate Google listings with their own hours and their own review bases, and each scored only on what it publishes itself. The link is stated so the two are not read as independent opinions of the same market: Smile Pod's own shopfront sign reads "Perfect Teeth's SMILE POD", the Perfect Teeth site describes its Lahore studio as its founder's first branch outside the country, two consultants appear on both rosters, and the same named dentist turns up in the reviews of both. |
| 2026-09-11 | SmileOn Dental | Reputation review: the clinic's own Google listing was read again, this time with its star histogram, its reviews with exact dates and any replies from the practice, its published opening week and its photographs, which were downloaded at full size and looked at. On this card the review count was corrected from 566 to 567 against the listing's own star histogram; the age of the newest readable review was dated exactly and recorded; the practice was found not to answer reviews on its own listing; the star distribution and the readable reviews were checked for signs of manipulation and none was found; the photographs on the clinic's listing were downloaded and looked at, and they show the premises. |
| 2026-09-11 | Teeth and Smile Dental Clinic | Reputation review: the clinic's own Google listing was read again, this time with its star histogram, its reviews with exact dates and any replies from the practice, its published opening week and its photographs, which were downloaded at full size and looked at. On this card the review widget on the clinic's front page was measured against the live listing and found to be out of date; the age of the newest readable review was dated exactly and recorded; the practice was found not to answer reviews on its own listing; the star distribution and the readable reviews were checked for signs of manipulation and none was found; the photographs on the clinic's listing were downloaded and looked at, and they show the premises. |
| 2026-09-11 | Teeth and Smile Dental Clinic | The clinic's own sedation page, which had not opened a day earlier, was read in full. It explains the types of sedation in general terms without saying which of them this practice provides, so the sedation criterion stays unanswered and the note now says why. |
| 2026-09-11 | Teeth and Smile Dental Clinic | The opening sentence of the summary was reworded. It listed the practice lead and then three more people, one of them a ceramist rather than a dentist, which made the later statement that all three dentists on the roster hold current registrations read as an arithmetic error. The roster has exactly three dentists; the sentence now says so. |
| 2026-09-11 | The Dental Clinic Dr. Saqib Minhas & Associates | Reputation review: the clinic's own Google listing was read again, this time with its star histogram, its reviews with exact dates and any replies from the practice, its published opening week and its photographs, which were downloaded at full size and looked at. On this card the rating and review count were confirmed against the listing's own star histogram; the age of the newest readable review was dated exactly and recorded; the practice was found to answer reviews on its own listing; the star distribution and the readable reviews were checked for signs of manipulation and none was found; the photographs on the clinic's listing were downloaded and looked at, and they show the premises. |
| 2026-09-11 | The Dental Clinic Dr. Saqib Minhas & Associates | The profile page the clinic links for its principal was opened: the route serves a photograph rather than a page, and the photograph carries no text, so it adds no qualifications. The note now says what is actually there instead of recording the page as unread. |
| 2026-09-11 | The Perfect Smile Dental Clinic | Reputation review: the clinic's own Google listing was read again, this time with its star histogram, its reviews with exact dates and any replies from the practice, its published opening week and its photographs, which were downloaded at full size and looked at. On this card the age of the newest readable review was dated exactly and recorded; the practice was found to answer reviews on its own listing; signs of manipulation were recorded against the review history; the photographs on the clinic's listing were downloaded and looked at, and they show the premises; the opening week published in the clinic's own Google Business Profile was read and the hours criterion settled on it. |
| 2026-09-11 | Tooth Crew Clinic | Reputation review: the clinic's own Google listing was read again, this time with its star histogram, its reviews with exact dates and any replies from the practice, its published opening week and its photographs, which were downloaded at full size and looked at. On this card the age of the newest readable review was dated exactly and recorded; the practice was found to answer reviews on its own listing; the star distribution and the readable reviews were checked for signs of manipulation and none was found; the photographs on the clinic's listing were downloaded and looked at, and they show the premises. |
| 2026-09-11 | Z Dental Studio | Reputation review: the clinic's own Google listing was read again, this time with its star histogram, its reviews with exact dates and any replies from the practice, its published opening week and its photographs, which were downloaded at full size and looked at. On this card the age of the newest readable review was dated exactly and recorded; the practice was found not to answer reviews on its own listing; the star distribution and the readable reviews were checked for signs of manipulation and none was found; the photographs on the clinic's listing were downloaded and looked at, and they show the premises; the opening week published in the clinic's own Google Business Profile was read and the hours criterion settled on it. |
| 2026-09-11 | Zia Dental Care & Aesthetics | Reputation review: the clinic's own Google listing was read again, this time with its star histogram, its reviews with exact dates and any replies from the practice, its published opening week and its photographs, which were downloaded at full size and looked at. On this card the review count was corrected from 1289 to 1293 against the listing's own star histogram; the age of the newest readable review was dated exactly and recorded; the practice was found to answer reviews on its own listing; the star distribution and the readable reviews were checked for signs of manipulation and none was found; the photographs on the clinic's listing were downloaded and looked at, and they show the premises. |
| 2026-09-11 | Zia Dental Care & Aesthetics | The two channels the clinic controls publish different weeks - a 9:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. day on its contact page and an around-the-clock week on its Google Business Profile. Both are now stated on the card rather than one being chosen silently. |
| 2026-09-10 | Altamash Dental Clinic | Initial data collection: the clinic's own front page, team page, a dentist profile, contact, new-patient, emergency and CBCT pages were read; the Google place record was read on both the English and Urdu surfaces; all nine named dentists were looked up by name in the PMDC practitioners register through its public JSON API; the Sindh Healthcare Commission's 2025-05-21 PDF snapshot was downloaded in full and searched for the establishment. Review-side fields and the premises-photograph field were left unset with reasons and queued for a further check. |
| 2026-09-10 | Dental Care Center | Initial data collection for the Pakistan Dental Transparency & Trust Index: verified via dentalcarecentre.pk, the Google Maps place page and the Punjab Healthcare Commission register of healthcare establishments. |
| 2026-09-10 | Dental Heaven | Initial data collection for the Pakistan Dental Transparency & Trust Index: verified via dentalheaven.pk, the Google Maps place page, the Punjab Healthcare Commission register of healthcare establishments and the PMDC practitioners register. |
| 2026-09-10 | Dental Professionals | Initial data collection: the clinic's own front, about and team pages were read; the Google place record was read automatically on both language surfaces, which also yielded its Urdu display name; four of the five named dentists were looked up in the PMDC practitioners register, two of them under alternative spellings, and the fifth was left explicitly unchecked with the reason; the establishment was found in the Punjab Healthcare Commission register as R-05517, with the name mismatch on its council number and a same-name neighbouring establishment both recorded. Review-side fields were left unset with reasons and queued for a manual browser check. |
| 2026-09-10 | Dentistry32 | Initial data collection for the Pakistan Dental Transparency & Trust Index: verified via dentistry32.com, the Google Maps place page, the Punjab Healthcare Commission register of healthcare establishments and the PMDC practitioners register. |
| 2026-09-10 | Dr. Irfan Qureshi's Team of Professionals | Initial data collection: the practice's own front page, about page and principal's profile were read, and its /doctors/ page was found to answer 404; the Google place record was read automatically on both language surfaces; the principal was looked up by name in the PMDC practitioners register; the practice was found in the Sindh Healthcare Commission's 2025-05-21 snapshot as SHCC/P-KHI/08726. The address field was left unassessed because the site's own map embed and its two register entries disagree, and review-side fields were queued for a manual browser check. |
| 2026-09-10 | Dr. Shahid Islam Dental Clinic | Initial data collection: the clinic's own front, team and services pages were read; the Google place record was read automatically on both language surfaces, the rating pair coming from the Urdu surface; the three named dentists were looked up in the PMDC practitioners register, the third under two spellings and on the family name; the Sindh Healthcare Commission's 2025-05-21 snapshot was searched by trading name, principal and street, and a same-building near miss was recorded. Review-side fields were left unset with reasons and queued for a manual browser check. |
| 2026-09-10 | Hassaan Dental Clinic | Initial data collection for the Pakistan Dental Transparency & Trust Index: verified via hassaandental.pk, the Google Maps place page, the IHRA register of registered healthcare establishments and the PMDC practitioners register. |
| 2026-09-10 | Implant & Dental Art | Initial data collection for the Pakistan Dental Transparency & Trust Index: verified via idart.org.pk, the clinic's own Google Business listing, the Punjab Healthcare Commission register of healthcare establishments and the PMDC practitioners register. |
| 2026-09-10 | Kensington Dental & Implant Centre Islamabad | Initial data collection for the Pakistan Dental Transparency & Trust Index: verified via kdicislamabad.com, the Google Maps place page, the IHRA register of registered healthcare establishments and the PMDC practitioners register. |
| 2026-09-10 | Malik Dental Associates (Blue Area) | Initial data collection for the Pakistan Dental Transparency & Trust Index: verified via malikdental.com.pk, the Google Maps place page, the IHRA register of registered healthcare establishments and the PMDC practitioners register. |
| 2026-09-10 | NorthWestern Dental Clinic | Initial data collection for the Pakistan Dental Transparency & Trust Index: verified via the clinic's own structured data on northwesterndental-isb.com, the Google Maps place page, the IHRA register of registered healthcare establishments and the PMDC practitioners register. |
| 2026-09-10 | NRQ Dental & Medical Center | Initial data collection: the clinic's own front, about, Gulshan-e-Iqbal roster and emergency pages were read; the Google place record for the Gulshan-e-Iqbal centre was read automatically; all six named dentists were looked up in the PMDC practitioners register, three of them under several spellings; the Sindh Healthcare Commission's 2025-05-21 snapshot was searched by clinic name, founder name and address. Review-side fields, the premises-photograph field and the opening week were left unset with reasons and queued for a manual browser check. |
| 2026-09-10 | Perfect Teeth | Initial data collection: the clinic's own front, about and team pages were read; the Google place record was read automatically on both language surfaces; the three named dentists were looked up in the PMDC practitioners register, the founder additionally by the council number the provincial register holds for him; the establishment was found in the Punjab Healthcare Commission register as R-30995. The shared founder with Smile Pod Dental Clinic in Gulberg III was recorded on both cards. Review-side fields were left unset with reasons and queued for a manual browser check. |
| 2026-09-10 | Smile Hub Clinics | Initial data collection: the clinic's own front, team, services, contact, implants and cost-guide pages were read; the Google place record was read automatically on both language surfaces; all four named dentists were looked up in the PMDC practitioners register; the establishment was found in the Punjab Healthcare Commission register as R-87707 and its council number joined back to the PMDC register. Review-side fields and the premises-photograph field were left unset with reasons and queued for a manual browser check. |
| 2026-09-10 | Smile Pod Dental Clinic | Initial data collection: the clinic's own front, about and services pages were read and the /our-team/ route in its own navigation was found to answer 404; the Google place record was read automatically on both language surfaces, which also yielded its Urdu display name; all six named dentists were looked up in the PMDC practitioners register, two of them under several forms; the establishment was found in the Punjab Healthcare Commission register as R-72473 and its council number joined back to the PMDC register, revealing that the responsible practitioner also appears on SmileOn Dental's roster. The shared founder with Perfect Teeth in Johar Town was recorded on both cards. Review-side fields, the messenger field and the opening week were left unset with reasons and queued for a manual browser check. |
| 2026-09-10 | SmileOn Dental | Initial data collection: the clinic's own front, about and team pages were read; the Google place record was read automatically on both language surfaces; seven of the named dentists were looked up in the PMDC practitioners register; the establishment was found in the Punjab Healthcare Commission register as R-85160 by pulling the whole Lahore district list, and the responsible practitioner's council number was joined back to the PMDC register. Review-side fields and the premises-photograph field were left unset with reasons and queued for a manual browser check. |
| 2026-09-10 | Teeth and Smile Dental Clinic | Initial data collection: the clinic's own front, about and contact pages were read; the Google place record was read automatically on both language surfaces and the discrepancy with the clinic's own embedded review widget was recorded; all three named dentists were looked up in the PMDC practitioners register; the establishment was found in the Punjab Healthcare Commission register as R-90732 and its council number joined back to the PMDC register. Review-side fields were left unset with reasons and queued for a manual browser check. |
| 2026-09-10 | The Dental Clinic Dr. Saqib Minhas & Associates | Initial data collection: the clinic's own front, about and team pages were read, and its principal's profile page was found to serve an image instead of a document; the Google place record was read automatically on both language surfaces, the rating pair coming from the Urdu surface; the three named dentists were looked up in the PMDC practitioners register; the Sindh Healthcare Commission's 2025-05-21 snapshot was searched by trading name, principal and building, with two near misses recorded. Review-side fields and the specialisation field were left unset with reasons and queued for a manual browser check. |
| 2026-09-10 | The Perfect Smile Dental Clinic | Initial data collection for the Pakistan Dental Transparency & Trust Index: verified via theperfectsmileclinic.com, the Google Maps place page, the Punjab Healthcare Commission register of healthcare establishments and the PMDC practitioners register. |
| 2026-09-10 | Tooth Crew Clinic | Initial data collection for the Pakistan Dental Transparency & Trust Index: verified via toothcrewclinic.com, the Google Maps place page, the IHRA register of registered healthcare establishments and the PMDC practitioners register. |
| 2026-09-10 | Z Dental Studio | Initial data collection for the Pakistan Dental Transparency & Trust Index: verified via islamabaddentist.net, the Google Maps place page, the IHRA register of registered healthcare establishments and the PMDC practitioners register. |
| 2026-09-10 | Zia Dental Care & Aesthetics | Initial data collection: the clinic's own front page, dentist roster, contact page and three treatment pages were read; the Google place record was read automatically on both the English and Urdu surfaces; eight named dentists were looked up by name in the PMDC practitioners register; the establishment was found in the Sindh Healthcare Commission's 2025-05-21 snapshot as SHCC/P/KHI/11395. Review-side fields were left unset with reasons, and the 4.9-on-1,289 review shape was raised as a priority question for a manual browser check. |
| 2026-09-07 | طریقۂ کار نسخہ 1.4.0 | 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 | طریقۂ کار نسخہ 1.3.1 | 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 | طریقۂ کار نسخہ 1.3.0 | 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 | طریقۂ کار نسخہ 1.2.0 | 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 | طریقۂ کار نسخہ 1.1.0 | 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 | طریقۂ کار نسخہ 1.0.0 | Initial public methodology. |