Changelog
Every data update, correction, and methodology change is logged here and in each clinic's own change history. The rating updates whenever the underlying public data changes.
| Date | Subject | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-07 | Methodology v1.4.1 | Added a limit on re-checks made at a clinic's request: the next request from the same clinic about its own page is taken up no sooner than one month after the last re-check made at its request, which is dated in the clinic's change history; requests sent earlier are not processed. Corrections reported by anyone else are handled as before. No score changes. |
| 2026-10-05 | Bona Specialist Dental and Implant Center | onOtherPlatforms true → false: the BusinessList Nigeria page it rested on is an unverified listing without reviews. No profile found on WhatClinic, Dental Departures or Trustpilot. |
| 2026-10-05 | Schubbs Dental Clinic | 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 | Smile 360 Dental Specialists Lagos | 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 | Smile Dental Practice | Presence on review platforms checked on 2026-10-05: only an unverified BusinessList entry with no reviews; no profile on WhatClinic, Dental Departures, Bookimed or Trustpilot. |
| 2026-10-02 | AskTheDentist Clinics | Other-platform presence checked 2026-10-02: no profile on WhatClinic, Dental Departures, Bookimed, BusinessList Nigeria or Trustpilot. |
| 2026-10-02 | AskTheDentist Clinics | Facebook presence changed to not established: the page address on record is not available, which does not show that the clinic has no page; the dead link is removed (2026-10-02). |
| 2026-10-02 | Bellevue Dental Clinic | Other-platform presence checked 2026-10-02: no profile on WhatClinic, Dental Departures, Bookimed, BusinessList Nigeria or Trustpilot. |
| 2026-10-02 | Blanche Dental Clinic | Other-platform presence checked 2026-10-02: no profile on WhatClinic, Dental Departures, Bookimed, BusinessList Nigeria or Trustpilot; no TripAdvisor listing. |
| 2026-10-02 | Bona Specialist Dental and Implant Center | Other-platform presence checked 2026-10-02: no profile on WhatClinic, Dental Departures, Bookimed, BusinessList Nigeria or Trustpilot. |
| 2026-10-02 | Bona Specialist Dental and Implant Center | Other-platform presence checked 2026-10-02: listed on BusinessList Nigeria at the clinic's Trans Amadi address. |
| 2026-10-02 | Dr. Reach Dental Clinic | Other-platform presence checked 2026-10-02: no profile on WhatClinic, Dental Departures, Bookimed, BusinessList Nigeria or Trustpilot. |
| 2026-10-02 | Exclusive Smile | Other-platform presence checked 2026-10-02: no profile on WhatClinic, Dental Departures, Bookimed, BusinessList Nigeria or Trustpilot; no TripAdvisor listing. |
| 2026-10-02 | Mariyam Dental Clinic | Other-platform presence checked 2026-10-02: no profile on WhatClinic, Dental Departures, Bookimed, BusinessList Nigeria or Trustpilot. |
| 2026-10-02 | Mimi Dental Clinic | Other-platform presence checked 2026-10-02: no profile on WhatClinic, Dental Departures, Bookimed, BusinessList Nigeria or Trustpilot. |
| 2026-10-02 | Prandelli Dental Clinic | Other-platform presence checked 2026-10-02: no profile on WhatClinic, Dental Departures, Bookimed, BusinessList Nigeria or Trustpilot. |
| 2026-10-02 | Schubbs Dental Clinic | Other-platform presence checked 2026-10-02: no profile on WhatClinic, Dental Departures, Bookimed, BusinessList Nigeria or Trustpilot. |
| 2026-10-02 | Smile 360 Dental Specialists Abuja | Other-platform presence checked 2026-10-02: no profile on WhatClinic, Dental Departures, Bookimed, BusinessList Nigeria or Trustpilot. |
| 2026-10-02 | Smile 360 Dental Specialists Lagos | Other-platform presence checked 2026-10-02: listed on BusinessList Nigeria (verified business page at 40A Cameron Road, Ikoyi). |
| 2026-10-02 | Smile Dental Practice | Other-platform presence checked 2026-10-02: not established (a same-name BusinessList Nigeria entry with another address and phone). |
| 2026-10-02 | Smile Evolution Dental Clinic | Other-platform presence checked 2026-10-02: no profile on WhatClinic, Dental Departures, Bookimed, BusinessList Nigeria or Trustpilot. |
| 2026-10-02 | Smile Evolution Dental Clinic | Facebook presence changed to not established: the page address on record is not available, which does not show that the clinic has no page; the dead link is removed (2026-10-02). |
| 2026-10-02 | Veritas Dental Clinic | Other-platform presence checked 2026-10-02: no profile on WhatClinic, Dental Departures, Bookimed, BusinessList Nigeria or Trustpilot. |
| 2026-10-02 | Zoom Exclusive Dental Care | Other-platform presence checked 2026-10-02: no profile on WhatClinic, Dental Departures, Bookimed, BusinessList Nigeria or Trustpilot; no TripAdvisor listing. |
| 2026-10-02 | Zoom36 Dental Care | Other-platform presence checked 2026-10-02: no profile on WhatClinic, Dental Departures, Bookimed, BusinessList Nigeria or Trustpilot. |
| 2026-10-02 | Zoom36 Dental Care Abuja | Other-platform presence checked 2026-10-02: no profile on WhatClinic, Dental Departures, Bookimed, BusinessList Nigeria or Trustpilot. |
| 2026-09-29 | AskTheDentist Clinics | Corrected 2026-09-29: review count 1638 (was 1514) from the Google listing on 2026-09-26. |
| 2026-09-29 | Bona Specialist Dental and Implant Center | Corrected 2026-09-29: no owner replies to reviews: the Google listing is unclaimed. |
| 2026-09-29 | Bona Specialist Dental and Implant Center | Corrected 2026-09-29: no owner replies to reviews: the Google listing is unclaimed. |
| 2026-09-29 | Dr. Reach Dental Clinic | Corrected 2026-09-29: review count 64 (was 59) from the Google listing on 2026-09-26. |
| 2026-09-29 | Mimi Dental Clinic | Corrected 2026-09-29: clinic responds to reviews now unverified: only 3 reviews were checked for owner replies. |
| 2026-09-29 | Prandelli Dental Clinic | Corrected 2026-09-29: no recurring complaints and no suspicious review patterns now unverified: 3 Google reviews are too few to show a pattern; clinic responds to reviews now unverified: with 3 Google reviews a missing owner reply shows nothing yet. |
| 2026-09-29 | Schubbs Dental Clinic | Corrected 2026-09-29: clinic responds to reviews now unverified: only 3 reviews were checked for owner replies. |
| 2026-09-29 | Smile 360 Dental Specialists Lagos | Corrected 2026-09-29: clinic responds to reviews now unverified: only 3 reviews were checked for owner replies. |
| 2026-09-29 | Smile Dental Practice | Corrected 2026-09-29: clinic responds to reviews now unverified: only 3 reviews were checked for owner replies; review recency within 3 months (newest review dated 2026-07-31). |
| 2026-09-29 | Smile Evolution Dental Clinic | Corrected 2026-09-29: review count 17 (was 16) from the Google listing on 2026-09-26. |
| 2026-09-29 | Zoom Exclusive Dental Care | Corrected 2026-09-29: clinic responds to reviews now unverified: only 3 reviews were checked for owner replies. |
| 2026-09-24 | AskTheDentist Clinics | Re-read on 2026-09-24 and 2026-09-25: the clinic's website (pricing table, services, appointments, FAQ, implants, tooth-removal and cost articles) and its Google listing. Recorded: genuine team photo; no standing dental price list - the "Pricing Table" and "Our Services" pages carry unrelated generic medical-theme demo content (lab tests, vaccinations), the cost articles give city-wide market ranges, and scaling and polishing is priced only as an introductory offer (N10,000, with a N5,000 consultation); no filling, crown, implant or X-ray fee of the clinic's own; tooth extraction documented as a clinic procedure; an online booking form lets patients pick a treatment and a time of day; clinic-published articles explain procedures. Not found on TripAdvisor. Still unverified: X-ray/CBCT equipment and work with international patients. |
| 2026-09-24 | Bellevue Dental Clinic | Re-read on 2026-09-24 and 2026-09-25: the clinic's website (home, services, oral surgery, booking, about, contact and shop pages, and the pages its sitemap lists) and its Google listing. Recorded: genuine patient-in-chair photo; no price figures published on any readable page (the sitemap's price-guide page renders empty); an online booking form lets patients pick a treatment, a doctor, a date and a time; Sunday opening hours. Not found on TripAdvisor. Still unverified: CBCT/3D imaging and work with international patients (the site describes the clinical team's international training, not international-patient services). |
| 2026-09-24 | Blanche Dental Clinic | Re-read on 2026-09-24 and 2026-09-25: the clinic's Google listing (photos, categories, reviews). The clinic's own website (blanchedentalclinic.com) returned a server error on both days and could not be read. Recorded from the Google listing: genuine patient photos; a claimed profile listing "Dental implants provider" among its categories, documenting in-house implant surgery. Not found in TripAdvisor's search. Still unverified: prices, CBCT/3D imaging, emergency care, WhatsApp contact, online booking and work with international patients - all of these depend on the clinic's own website. |
| 2026-09-24 | Bona Specialist Dental and Implant Center | Re-read on 2026-09-24: the clinic's website (services, about, book-appointment pages and staff photos) and its Google listing. Recorded: a genuine, named staff photo hosted on the clinic's own domain; no prices published for any service, though each is explained in detail (whitening, implants, orthodontics, root canal, dentures, oral surgery, imaging); an online booking widget offers selectable appointment types; no WhatsApp/LINE contact found; Saturday opening hours. Not found on TripAdvisor. Still unverified: work with international patients (a listed credential is an international professional membership, not a statement about treating patients from abroad). |
| 2026-09-24 | Bona Specialist Dental and Implant Center | Re-read on 2026-09-24: the shared company website (services, about, book-appointment pages) and the Port Harcourt branch's Google listing. Recorded: genuine branch-building and interior photos; no prices published for any service, though each is explained in detail (whitening, implants, orthodontics, root canal, dentures, oral surgery, imaging); the newest review on the listing is from 2024, more than a year old; an online booking widget offers selectable appointment types; no WhatsApp/LINE contact found; Saturday opening hours. Not found on TripAdvisor. Still unverified: work with international patients (a listed credential is an international professional membership, not a statement about treating patients from abroad). |
| 2026-09-24 | Dr. Reach Dental Clinic | Re-read on 2026-09-24 and 2026-09-25: the clinic's website (all 23 service pages in its sitemap, contact and booking pages, and its braces and deep-cleaning articles) and its Google listing. Corrected: prices are published - the orthodontic braces page gives the clinic's own ranges for braces (N950,000-N2,500,000) and for simple and surgical extractions. Recorded: genuine reception photo; no figure for cleaning, filling, crown or implant; X-rays documented as part of check-ups; milk-teeth extraction for children; a WhatsApp chat button. Not found on TripAdvisor. Still unverified: CBCT (the implant page mentions advanced scans for bone assessment), consultation and X-ray fees (shown in brackets on the braces page), work with international patients. |
| 2026-09-24 | Mariyam Dental Clinic | Re-read on 2026-09-24: the clinic's one-page website (its only content page, read in full) and its Google listing. Recorded: genuine team photo; no prices published for any service; dental implants documented as an in-house tooth-replacement option; an online booking widget lets patients choose a treatment; FAQ answers explain what visits and procedures involve rather than just naming them. Not found on TripAdvisor. Still unverified: CBCT/3D imaging and work with international patients (the page mentions general X-rays but no CBCT, and no foreign-patient wording). |
| 2026-09-24 | Mimi Dental Clinic | Re-read on 2026-09-24 and 2026-09-25: the clinic's website (home, about, services and contact pages, the FAQ and the blog) and its Google listing. Recorded: genuine reception photo; no prices published for any service; the FAQ documents dental implants, extractions, oral surgery and paediatric care; blog articles explain procedures rather than just listing them. Not found on TripAdvisor. Still unverified: X-ray/CBCT equipment, work with international patients, and whether the appointment button leads to a booking form with service or time selection. |
| 2026-09-24 | Prandelli Dental Clinic | Re-read on 2026-09-24: the clinic's website (services, implants, contact and about pages, and its filling/crown cost blog articles) and its Google listing. Recorded: genuine treatment-room photo; no clinic-specific figure for cleaning, filling, crown, implant, consultation or CT scan - the filling and crown blog articles give only general Port Harcourt market ranges; a dental CT scan and X-ray imaging are offered; extraction, wisdom-tooth removal and gum surgery are offered; contact is by phone or email only, with no online booking form; the periodontics and implant pages explain the procedures; Saturday opening hours. Not found on TripAdvisor. Still unverified: work with international patients (no foreign-patient wording found on the pages read). |
| 2026-09-24 | Schubbs Dental Clinic | Re-read on 2026-09-24: the clinic's website (services, dental plans, seasonal offers, appointments, about and contact pages) and its Google listing. Recorded: genuine exterior-signage photo; no prices published for any service - the dental-plans and seasonal-offers pages describe bundles and promotions without figures; the appointment form lets patients pick a specific reason for visit and a branch; a WhatsApp contact link on the FAQ page. Not found on TripAdvisor. Still unverified: CBCT/3D imaging (no equipment page found) and work with international patients (the site speaks of matching international-quality standards at home, not of treating patients living abroad; the booking form's country-of-residence field alone is not a clinic statement). |
| 2026-09-24 | Smile 360 Dental Specialists Abuja | Re-read on 2026-09-24: the clinic's website (services, orthodontics, oral surgery, preventive care, dental repair, emergency care, cosmetic dentistry, about, contact pages, and its full sitemap) and its Google listing photo strip. Recorded: genuine clinic photos on the Google listing; no prices published for any service on the English-language site; pediatric orthodontic care documented; booking is by phone or message rather than a service-selection widget. Not found on TripAdvisor. Still unverified: X-ray/CBCT equipment, WhatsApp contact, work with international patients (no equipment or foreign-patient wording found on the site). |
| 2026-09-24 | Smile 360 Dental Specialists Lagos | Re-read on 2026-09-24: the shared company website (services, orthodontics, oral surgery, preventive care, dental repair, emergency care, cosmetic dentistry, about, contact pages, and its full sitemap) and the Lagos branch's Google listing. Recorded: genuine reception photo; no prices published for any service on the English-language site; pediatric orthodontic care documented; booking is by phone or message rather than a service-selection widget; no WhatsApp/LINE contact. Not found on TripAdvisor. Still unverified: X-ray/CBCT equipment and work with international patients (no equipment or foreign-patient wording found on the site). |
| 2026-09-24 | Smile Dental Practice | Re-read on 2026-09-24: the clinic's website (oral surgery and restorative dentistry service pages, the booking form and contact page) and its Google listing. Recorded: genuine waiting-room photo; no prices published for any service; an online booking form lets patients pick a treatment and a branch; service pages explain the procedures rather than just naming them. Not found on TripAdvisor. Still unverified: X-ray/CBCT equipment and work with international patients (no equipment or foreign-patient wording found on the pages read). |
| 2026-09-24 | Smile Evolution Dental Clinic | Re-read on 2026-09-24: the clinic's website (services, about and contact pages) and its Google listing. Recorded: genuine treatment-room photo; no prices published for any service; the services page explains each treatment rather than just naming it; no emergency or same-day care found despite a detailed and otherwise comprehensive service list; no WhatsApp/LINE contact found. Not found on TripAdvisor. Still unverified: X-ray/CBCT equipment (no equipment page found) and work with international patients (the site speaks of matching international-quality standards at home, not of treating patients living abroad). |
| 2026-09-24 | Veritas Dental Clinic | Re-read on 2026-09-24 and 2026-09-25: the clinic's website (price guide, doctor profile, service pages for fillings, crowns, implants, radiographs and extractions, booking pages) and its Google listing. Corrected: a profile page on the site names Dr. Modupe Soyinka, a restorative dentistry specialist, so named dentists and specializations are published. Recorded: genuine treatment-room photo; the price guide publishes naira registration and consultation fees (adult consultation NGN5,000) but no filling or crown fee; surgical tooth extraction documented; digital X-rays but no CBCT; an online booking form lets patients pick a procedure, a time and a branch; service pages explain procedures. Not found on TripAdvisor. Still unverified: cleaning, implant and X-ray fees (the price guide also shows a US-dollar table carried over from the site template), work with international patients. |
| 2026-09-24 | Zoom36 Dental Care | Re-read on 2026-09-24: the shared company website (implants, digital X-rays, emergency care, cost-of-treatment and contact pages) and the Port Harcourt branch's Google listing. Recorded: genuine branch waiting-area photo; no prices published for any service; implants and emergency care documented as performed in-house company-wide; digital X-rays, with 3D imaging mentioned for implant planning; WhatsApp offered as a contact channel; contact form has no service-selection booking widget. Not found on TripAdvisor. Still unverified: work with international patients (no foreign-patient wording found on the site). |
| 2026-09-24 | Zoom36 Dental Care Abuja | Re-read on 2026-09-24: the clinic's website (implants, digital X-rays, emergency care, cost-of-treatment, contact and branch pages) and its Google listing. Recorded: genuine premises photo; no prices published for any service; implants and emergency care documented as performed in-house; digital X-rays, with 3D imaging mentioned for implant planning; WhatsApp offered as a contact channel; contact form has no service-selection booking widget; Saturday opening hours. Not found on TripAdvisor. Still unverified: work with international patients (no foreign-patient wording found on the site). |
| 2026-09-10 | Schubbs Dental Clinic | Name-verification pass 2026-09-10: Dr. Asushei Amune, Dr. Abisola Musah, Dr. Yinka Lesi, Dr. Chika Ibeh, Dr. Adeniyi Adewusi, Dr. Taofeek Akinniyi confirmed via own-site roster page(s) not read in the original check (or matched under a spelling/transliteration variant). Source(s) added; license value(s) left exactly as on record. |
| 2026-09-10 | Smile Dental Practice | Name-verification pass 2026-09-10: Dr Dahiru S. Labo, Dr. Olatoke O. Olayemi, Dr Nadine Domingo, Dr Jimoh Oludoun, Dr Moiz Abdul, Dr. Imad Rekab confirmed via own-site roster page(s) not read in the original check (or matched under a spelling/transliteration variant). Source(s) added; license value(s) left exactly as on record. |
| 2026-09-09 | Prandelli Dental Clinic | Sedation criterion re-read against methodology 1.4.0, which counts only general anaesthesia or deep intravenous sedation where the patient is asleep and unaware. "Sedation Dentistry" appears in the service list with no page describing it and no statement of depth. The value moves from true to unknown: the earlier reading credited sedation that is not documented as deep enough, and the published wording settles the question neither way. |
| 2026-09-09 | Schubbs Dental Clinic | Sedation criterion re-read against methodology 1.4.0, which counts only general anaesthesia or deep intravenous sedation where the patient is asleep and unaware. "Sedation & Anesthesia" is published as medication that helps the patient relax and numbs pain during treatment — anxiolysis, not general anaesthesia or asleep-and-unaware sedation. The value moves from true to false: what this practice offers is published, and it is not sleep dentistry. |
| 2026-09-07 | Methodology v1.4.0 | Narrowed the "Opaque or bait pricing" red flag to what its published definition describes. Until now the flag was applied automatically to every clinic that does not publish a price list — a harsher statement than the evidence supports, since the catalogue defines the flag as complaints about final bills materially exceeding quoted prices, or advertised prices that are not honoured. Not publishing prices is already scored: it costs the clinic points in the price transparency category, and it is not, on its own, evidence of bait pricing. The automatic rule is removed, so the flag and its 2-point penalty come off about 1,300 clinic pages across the index; no clinic gains a flag, and no weight, severity or other scoring rule changed. The flag can still be recorded against a clinic by hand with cited sources, and about 210 clinics carry such an entry today; we are reviewing those entries in a follow-up pass, because some of them were also written for nothing more than an unpublished price list. |
| 2026-09-07 | Schubbs Dental Clinic | Close-out, 2026-09-07: the client-side pager on the clinic's own /dentists directory was followed to its second page, confirming the chain-wide roster as sixteen named dentists and adding the four the first page did not show. |
| 2026-09-07 | Smile 360 Dental Specialists Abuja | Display name disambiguated by city (chain branch); slug unchanged. |
| 2026-09-07 | Smile 360 Dental Specialists Lagos | Display name disambiguated by city (chain branch); slug unchanged. |
| 2026-09-07 | Zoom Exclusive Dental Care | Close-out, 2026-09-07: the previously-unreadable service index for zoomexclusive.com was read and the two fields it was holding open were filled. |
| 2026-09-07 | Zoom36 Dental Care Abuja | Ranking-domain settlement: contacts.website changed from https://brightondentalng.com/ (retired "Brighton Dental" brand, still live but not the entity that ranks) to https://zoom36dentalcare.com/category/zoom36-abuja (the Zoom36-branded Abuja page, confirmed live and matching the card's address and phone verbatim), consistent with the display name already carrying the Zoom36 identity and with the 2026-09-07 web search finding that zoom36dentalcare.com ranks under the current name while brightondentalng.com does not appear in results. brightondentalng.com remains live (not parked) and is kept as a secondary source; infoTransparency/priceTransparency/infrastructure/communication fields evidenced from it were not re-evidenced since it is not dead. |
| 2026-09-06 | Zoom36 Dental Care Abuja | Data gate: display name changed from "Brighton Dental" to the trading name the practice itself uses, Zoom36 Dental Care Abuja. The URL slug is unchanged and the former brand is recorded in the summary. |
| 2026-09-05 | AskTheDentist Clinics | Checked by hand in a browser: Google Maps place page read live for rating, review count, star histogram, review recency, owner replies, complaint and manipulation reading and pin coordinates; the clinic Facebook page opened for reputation.onFacebook; the five canonical visibility queries re-run as browser SERPs. |
| 2026-09-05 | Bellevue Dental Clinic | Checked by hand in a browser: Google Maps place page read live for rating, review count, star histogram, review recency, owner replies, complaint and manipulation reading and pin coordinates; the clinic Facebook page opened for reputation.onFacebook; the five canonical visibility queries re-run as browser SERPs. |
| 2026-09-05 | Blanche Dental Clinic | Checked by hand in a browser: Google Maps place page read live for rating, review count, star histogram, review recency, owner replies, complaint and manipulation reading and pin coordinates; the clinic Facebook page opened for reputation.onFacebook; the five canonical visibility queries re-run as browser SERPs. |
| 2026-09-05 | Bona Specialist Dental and Implant Center | Checked by hand in a browser: Google Maps place page read live for rating, review count, star histogram, review recency, owner replies, complaint and manipulation reading and pin coordinates; the clinic Facebook page opened for reputation.onFacebook; the five canonical visibility queries re-run as browser SERPs. |
| 2026-09-05 | Bona Specialist Dental and Implant Center | Checked by hand in a browser: Google Maps place page read live for rating, review count, star histogram, review recency, owner replies, complaint and manipulation reading and pin coordinates; the clinic Facebook page opened for reputation.onFacebook; the five canonical visibility queries re-run as browser SERPs. |
| 2026-09-05 | Dr. Reach Dental Clinic | Checked by hand in a browser: Google Maps place page read live for rating, review count, star histogram, review recency, owner replies, complaint and manipulation reading and pin coordinates; the clinic Facebook page opened for reputation.onFacebook; the five canonical visibility queries re-run as browser SERPs. |
| 2026-09-05 | Exclusive Smile | Checked by hand in a browser: Google Maps place page read live for rating, review count, star histogram, review recency, owner replies, complaint and manipulation reading and pin coordinates; the clinic Facebook page opened for reputation.onFacebook; the five canonical visibility queries re-run as browser SERPs. |
| 2026-09-05 | Mariyam Dental Clinic | Checked by hand in a browser: Google Maps place page read live for rating, review count, star histogram, review recency, owner replies, complaint and manipulation reading and pin coordinates; the clinic Facebook page opened for reputation.onFacebook; the five canonical visibility queries re-run as browser SERPs. |
| 2026-09-05 | Mimi Dental Clinic | Checked by hand in a browser: Google Maps place page read live for rating, review count, star histogram, review recency, owner replies, complaint and manipulation reading and pin coordinates; the clinic Facebook page opened for reputation.onFacebook; the five canonical visibility queries re-run as browser SERPs. |
| 2026-09-05 | Prandelli Dental Clinic | Checked by hand in a browser: Google Maps place page read live for rating, review count, star histogram, review recency, owner replies, complaint and manipulation reading and pin coordinates; the clinic Facebook page opened for reputation.onFacebook; the five canonical visibility queries re-run as browser SERPs. |
| 2026-09-05 | Schubbs Dental Clinic | Checked by hand in a browser: Google Maps place page read live for rating, review count, star histogram, review recency, owner replies, complaint and manipulation reading and pin coordinates; the clinic Facebook page opened for reputation.onFacebook; the five canonical visibility queries re-run as browser SERPs. |
| 2026-09-05 | Smile 360 Dental Specialists Abuja | Checked by hand in a browser: Google Maps place page read live for rating, review count, star histogram, review recency, owner replies, complaint and manipulation reading and pin coordinates; the clinic Facebook page opened for reputation.onFacebook; the five canonical visibility queries re-run as browser SERPs. |
| 2026-09-05 | Smile 360 Dental Specialists Lagos | Checked by hand in a browser: Google Maps place page read live for rating, review count, star histogram, review recency, owner replies, complaint and manipulation reading and pin coordinates; the clinic Facebook page opened for reputation.onFacebook; the five canonical visibility queries re-run as browser SERPs. |
| 2026-09-05 | Smile Dental Practice | Checked by hand in a browser: Google Maps place page read live for rating, review count, star histogram, review recency, owner replies, complaint and manipulation reading and pin coordinates; the clinic Facebook page opened for reputation.onFacebook; the five canonical visibility queries re-run as browser SERPs. |
| 2026-09-05 | Smile Evolution Dental Clinic | Checked by hand in a browser: Google Maps place page read live for rating, review count, star histogram, review recency, owner replies, complaint and manipulation reading and pin coordinates; the clinic Facebook page opened for reputation.onFacebook; the five canonical visibility queries re-run as browser SERPs. |
| 2026-09-05 | Veritas Dental Clinic | Checked by hand in a browser: Google Maps place page read live for rating, review count, star histogram, review recency, owner replies, complaint and manipulation reading and pin coordinates; the clinic Facebook page opened for reputation.onFacebook; the five canonical visibility queries re-run as browser SERPs. |
| 2026-09-05 | Zoom Exclusive Dental Care | Checked by hand in a browser: Google Maps place page read live for rating, review count, star histogram, review recency, owner replies, complaint and manipulation reading and pin coordinates; the clinic Facebook page opened for reputation.onFacebook; the five canonical visibility queries re-run as browser SERPs. |
| 2026-09-05 | Zoom36 Dental Care | Checked by hand in a browser: Google Maps place page read live for rating, review count, star histogram, review recency, owner replies, complaint and manipulation reading and pin coordinates; the clinic Facebook page opened for reputation.onFacebook; the five canonical visibility queries re-run as browser SERPs. |
| 2026-09-05 | Zoom36 Dental Care Abuja | Checked by hand in a browser: Google Maps place page read live for rating, review count, star histogram, review recency, owner replies, complaint and manipulation reading and pin coordinates; the clinic Facebook page opened for reputation.onFacebook; the five canonical visibility queries re-run as browser SERPs. |
| 2026-09-05 | Zoom36 Dental Care Abuja | Checked by hand in a browser: established that this practice now trades as Zoom36 Dental Care Abuja and attributed that Google Maps place page - rating, review count, histogram, recency, owner replies and coordinates - to the card. Identification rests on a matching address and phone across three sites plus the clinic's own Facebook post equating the two names. |
| 2026-09-04 | AskTheDentist Clinics | Initial data collection for the Nigeria Dental Transparency & Trust Index: verified via askthedentistclinics.com, the National Health Facility Registry, and the MDCN public verification portal. |
| 2026-09-04 | Bellevue Dental Clinic | Initial data collection for the Nigeria Dental Transparency & Trust Index: verified via bellevuedental.care, the National Health Facility Registry, and the MDCN public verification portal. |
| 2026-09-04 | Blanche Dental Clinic | Initial data collection for the Nigeria Dental Transparency & Trust Index: verified via blanchedentalclinic.com, the National Health Facility Registry, and the MDCN public verification portal. |
| 2026-09-04 | Bona Specialist Dental and Implant Center | Initial data collection for the Nigeria Dental Transparency & Trust Index: verified via bonaspecialistdental.com, the National Health Facility Registry, and the MDCN public verification portal. |
| 2026-09-04 | Bona Specialist Dental and Implant Center | Initial data collection for the Nigeria Dental Transparency & Trust Index: verified via bonaspecialistdental.com, the National Health Facility Registry, and the MDCN public verification portal. |
| 2026-09-04 | Dr. Reach Dental Clinic | Initial data collection for the Nigeria Dental Transparency & Trust Index: verified via reachdentalclinic.com, the National Health Facility Registry, and the MDCN public verification portal. |
| 2026-09-04 | Exclusive Smile | Initial data collection for the Nigeria Dental Transparency & Trust Index: verified via exclusivesmileng.com, the National Health Facility Registry, and the MDCN public verification portal. |
| 2026-09-04 | Mariyam Dental Clinic | Initial data collection for the Nigeria Dental Transparency & Trust Index: verified via mariyamdentalclinic.com.ng, the National Health Facility Registry, and the MDCN public verification portal. |
| 2026-09-04 | Mimi Dental Clinic | Initial data collection for the Nigeria Dental Transparency & Trust Index: verified via mimidentalclinic.com and the National Health Facility Registry; team-page names withheld from licensing.doctors as apparent template placeholder content. |
| 2026-09-04 | Prandelli Dental Clinic | Initial data collection for the Nigeria Dental Transparency & Trust Index: verified via prandellidental.com.ng, the National Health Facility Registry, and the MDCN public verification portal. |
| 2026-09-04 | Schubbs Dental Clinic | Initial data collection for the Nigeria Dental Transparency & Trust Index: verified via schubbsdental.com, the National Health Facility Registry, and the MDCN public verification portal. |
| 2026-09-04 | Smile 360 Dental Specialists Abuja | Initial data collection for the Nigeria Dental Transparency & Trust Index: verified via smile360ng.com, the National Health Facility Registry, and the MDCN public verification portal. |
| 2026-09-04 | Smile 360 Dental Specialists Lagos | Initial data collection for the Nigeria Dental Transparency & Trust Index: verified via smile360ng.com, the National Health Facility Registry, and the MDCN public verification portal. |
| 2026-09-04 | Smile Dental Practice | Initial data collection for the Nigeria Dental Transparency & Trust Index: verified via smiledentalgrp.com, the National Health Facility Registry, and the MDCN public verification portal. |
| 2026-09-04 | Smile Evolution Dental Clinic | Initial data collection for the Nigeria Dental Transparency & Trust Index: verified via smileevolutiondentalcare.com, the National Health Facility Registry, and the MDCN public verification portal. |
| 2026-09-04 | Veritas Dental Clinic | Initial data collection for the Nigeria Dental Transparency & Trust Index: verified via veritasdentalclinic.com and the National Health Facility Registry; not reached by the AI-visibility search pass before the web search budget was exhausted (see researchDate note). |
| 2026-09-04 | Zoom Exclusive Dental Care | Initial data collection for the Nigeria Dental Transparency & Trust Index: verified via zoomexclusive.com, the National Health Facility Registry, and the MDCN public verification portal. |
| 2026-09-04 | Zoom36 Dental Care | Initial data collection for the Nigeria Dental Transparency & Trust Index: verified via zoom36dentalcare.com, the National Health Facility Registry, and the MDCN public verification portal. |
| 2026-09-04 | Zoom36 Dental Care Abuja | Initial data collection for the Nigeria Dental Transparency & Trust Index: verified via brightondentalng.com, the National Health Facility Registry, and the MDCN public verification portal. |
| 2026-09-03 | Methodology v1.3.1 | Clarified that the publication criteria refer to the clinic’s own channels: a service list, the names of the dentists and a price list count when the clinic itself publishes them (its website, its social profiles or its own Google Business profile) — registers, directories and review sites do not, and a time-limited promotional offer is not a price list. Added a third state for a dentist’s licence, "checked, not found in the public register": a dentist we searched for in the national register and did not find is now recorded as checked-but-unverified with the date of the check, instead of being shown either as "not checked yet" or as the "not published" red flag. Neither change alters any weight or penalty; the red-flag rule still fires only on a verified negative. Also corrected the wording of the penalty note under the ranking table, which rendered as "20−" in right-to-left dictionaries. |
| 2026-08-25 | Methodology v1.3.0 | Corrected how the two licensing red flags are applied ("Clinic operating licence not published" and "Dentists / their licences not listed"). Previously they were applied whenever licensing data was absent from our records, which treated unchecked data as a negative finding — contrary to the methodology's own rule that unverified data is a fact about our coverage, not about the clinic. Both flags now apply only where we have verified that the information is not published. Manual licensing flags that rested on unverified data were removed from the affected clinics. No other scoring rules changed; most scores rise because the incorrect penalty is removed. |
| 2026-08-23 | Methodology v1.2.0 | Added an informational "Sedation & general anaesthesia" availability field to every clinic and a new "Sleep Dentistry (Sedation / GA)" list, for patients who cannot tolerate — or would rather not be awake for — treatment. This field is informational and does not change any transparency score. |
| 2026-07-08 | Methodology v1.1.0 | Added licensing transparency: clinics are now penalised when they do not publish their operating licence, or do not list their dentists together with their professional licence numbers. Each clinic page now shows a Licensing & Credentials section. |
| 2026-07-03 | Methodology v1.0.0 | Initial public methodology. |