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| التاريخ | الموضوع | التغيير |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-07 | Al Rabeeh Dental Center | Re-checked on 2026-10-07, limited to the price entries: the clinic's site gives one price range, a scaling session from OMR 20 to 40, and offers new patients a free consultation with an X-ray. One priced treatment is not a price list, so the general entry on published prices stays at no; its note said no figure was published anywhere and now says what is. Nothing else on the card was re-read. |
| 2026-10-07 | المنهجية الإصدار 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 | Al-Waqaiabah Dental Specialty 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. |
| 2026-10-02 | Harub Dental Surgery Qurum | Presence on review sites re-read on 2026-10-02: no profile on the review platforms checked. |
| 2026-10-02 | Kenz Dental and Orthodontic Center | Facebook presence re-checked on 2026-10-02: live Facebook page confirmed. |
| 2026-10-02 | Kids Paradise Dental Center | Presence on review sites re-read on 2026-10-02: no profile on the review platforms checked. |
| 2026-10-02 | Neena Shinas Dental Clinic | Presence on review sites re-read on 2026-10-02: no profile on the review platforms checked. |
| 2026-10-01 | Wassan Specialty Dental Centre | Read the clinic's whole website and a year of its Facebook posts on 2026-10-01: it advertises free implant and gum consultations, and documents no care for foreign patients, so both are now recorded. |
| 2026-09-30 | Al-Waqaiabah Dental Specialty Clinic | Searched Facebook for the clinic by its name with the city, by its Arabic name with the city and by its phone number; none of the searches found a page of the clinic. Recorded absence from Facebook. |
| 2026-09-30 | Al-Waqaiabah Dental Specialty Clinic | Re-read 2026-09-30 on the clinic's own Google listing, its only channel: dentist names, specializations and service list corrected to not published (they came from a directory), contact details corrected to clear (its phone is on the listing); the dentist entries that rested on the directory were removed. |
| 2026-09-30 | Sundental Centre | Re-read 2026-09-30 on the clinic's own website (all pages), Facebook page and Google listing: dentist names, service list, contacts and the absence of a general price list now rest on them; the summary no longer lists implants and gum surgery, which its own channels do not mention; the dentist entry corrected to Dr. Suhail Saiyad, family dentist; Facebook page recorded. |
| 2026-09-29 | Al-Waqaiabah Dental Specialty Clinic | Corrected 2026-09-29: clinic responds to reviews now unverified: only 8 reviews were checked for owner replies; review recency within 3 months (newest review dated 2026-09-09). |
| 2026-09-29 | Confidental Clinic | Corrected 2026-09-29: review count 59 (was 56) from the Google listing on 2026-09-26. |
| 2026-09-29 | Confidental Clinic | Found the clinic's Facebook page on 2026-09-29 via a name search; its listed services and cross-referenced phone number (matched through the clinic's own Instagram profile) confirm it as the same business. |
| 2026-09-29 | Crown Dental Muscat | Corrected 2026-09-29: review count 51 (was 46) from the Google listing on 2026-09-26. |
| 2026-09-29 | Harub Dental Surgery Qurum | Added to the directory on 2026-09-29 after reading the clinic's website (home, about, doctors, all eleven service pages, the technology page, the booking page, its Arabic-language home page and the contact page) and its Google Business Profile (read sorted by newest and by lowest rating). Recorded: three Muscat branches (Qurum, Shatti Al Qurum, Mawaleh) operating since 1977; twelve named dentists with their qualifications; an in-house CBCT scanner, CEREC same-visit crowns and digital panoramic X-ray; a dedicated page for each service; an online booking form with branch, doctor and time selection; a WhatsApp number for each branch; a Google rating of 4.9 from 68 reviews with recent owner replies; and no match for the clinic in TripAdvisor's own search. No price figures are published on the site in English or Arabic. Not verified: presence on other review platforms, same-day emergency appointments, work with international patients, and sedation or general anaesthesia availability. |
| 2026-09-29 | Harub Dental Surgery Qurum | Search visibility checked on 2026-09-29 for the five standard Muscat queries: not present for "best dentist Muscat", "English speaking dentist Muscat", "dental implants Muscat", "emergency dentist Muscat" and "Muscat dental clinic for expats". |
| 2026-09-29 | Kenz Dental and Orthodontic Center | Added to the directory on 2026-09-29: the clinic's website (services, team, hours, contact) and its Google listing (rating, reviews, photos) were read. Recorded four named specialists with credentials, a WhatsApp contact, a free initial consultation, documented implantology, orthodontics, oral surgery, pediatric and emergency care, and a listing on a review platform. No price list and no signs of review manipulation were found; the site's own booking form does not actually transmit an enquiry. International-patient services and general-anaesthesia/sedation availability were not documented on the clinic's own channels and remain unverified. |
| 2026-09-29 | Kenz Dental and Orthodontic Center | Search visibility checked on 2026-09-29 for the five standard Muscat queries: not present for "best dentist Muscat", "English speaking dentist Muscat", "dental implants Muscat", "emergency dentist Muscat" and "Muscat dental clinic for expats". |
| 2026-09-29 | Kids Paradise Dental Center | Added to the directory on 2026-09-29: the clinic's website (home, about, contact, appointment, services overview and all 8 service pages, team overview and the 4 dentists' individual pages) and its Google Business Profile were read. Recorded: 4 named dentists with stated qualifications; no published prices anywhere on the site; general anaesthesia and nitrous oxide documented for children; the clinic's own reply to a review states that it receives emergency cases; genuine own-hosted photos of the clinic's waiting areas; no structured data; a Google rating of 4.7 from 390 reviews with prompt owner replies; three independent reviews describing booked appointments not honored; the site's own online appointment form states it is in test mode and will not be fulfilled. Not found on TripAdvisor. Still unverified: presence on other review platforms, on-site X-ray/CBCT equipment, and whether the clinic works with international patients. |
| 2026-09-29 | Kids Paradise Dental Center | Search visibility checked on 2026-09-29 for the five standard Muscat queries: not present for "best dentist Muscat", "English speaking dentist Muscat", "dental implants Muscat", "emergency dentist Muscat" and "Muscat dental clinic for expats". |
| 2026-09-29 | Neena Shinas Dental Clinic | Added to the directory on 2026-09-29: research covered the clinic’s website (home, about, services, the five dedicated treatment pages, team, contact and appointment pages, in English and Arabic), its Google listing (newest, lowest-rated and default reviews) and a TripAdvisor name search. Recorded: a 13-name dentist team with qualifications, none with a published licence number; digital X-ray, OPG/cephalometry, intraoral cameras and laser equipment, no CBCT; implants, orthodontics, oral surgery, paediatric dentistry, emergency visits for urgent tooth pain and sedation/general anaesthesia documented; no published prices beyond a free check-up; WhatsApp and Facebook presence; Google rating 4.8 from 149 reviews, newest 2026-09-28, with owner replies on both positive and critical reviews; several reviews across different dates describe long waits and front-desk communication issues. Still unverified: presence on other review platforms. |
| 2026-09-29 | Neena Shinas Dental Clinic | Search visibility checked on 2026-09-29 for the five standard Muscat queries: present for "dental implants Muscat"; not present for "best dentist Muscat", "English speaking dentist Muscat", "emergency dentist Muscat" and "Muscat dental clinic for expats". |
| 2026-09-29 | Sundental Centre | Corrected 2026-09-29: review count 248 (was 233) from the Google listing on 2026-09-26. |
| 2026-09-29 | Tamyuz Dental Clinic | Added to the directory on 2026-09-29: the clinic's own website (home, contact, services overview and six individual treatment pages: root canal, scaling & polishing, zirconia/porcelain crowns, Zoom teeth whitening, fillings, tooth extraction) and its Google Business listing were read. Recorded: the founder and a named female dentist on the clinic's own home page; a published street address with an embedded map; WhatsApp and a booking form with an appointment-date field; Facebook and Instagram links; Saturday opening hours and evening hours to 9:30pm; a schema.org Organization entity; Google rating 4.7 from 92 reviews, newest review 2026-08-11; the clinic responds to reviews; no recurring complaint pattern or signs of review manipulation; no TripAdvisor or WhatClinic listing found. No price figures are published for any treatment, including cleaning, fillings, crowns, consultations or X-rays; implants, orthodontics and emergency care are not among the listed services. Not verified: the operating licence and the named dentists' professional licence numbers (Oman's registries require a login); on-site X-ray/CBCT equipment; a dedicated children's dentistry service; sedation or general anaesthesia availability; and whether the clinic works with international patients. |
| 2026-09-29 | Tamyuz Dental Clinic | Search visibility checked on 2026-09-29 for the five standard Salalah queries: not present for "best dentist Salalah", "English speaking dentist Salalah", "dental implants Salalah", "emergency dentist Salalah" and "Salalah dental clinic for expats". |
| 2026-09-25 | Al Rabeeh Dental Center | Re-read on 2026-09-25: the clinic's website (home, about, all eight service pages, gallery, facilities, contact page, sitemap and blog, in English and Arabic), its Google listing (newest and lowest-rated reviews), TripAdvisor and the WhatClinic Muscat and Seeb directories. Recorded: free consultation and X-ray for new patients; a scaling price (from OMR 20 to 40) on the gum-treatment page; no filling, crown or implant price anywhere on the site; CBCT used for implant planning; same-day emergency appointments; an English-language article for expat patients; genuine team photos; per-service explanations; schema.org Dentist markup; a general enquiry form rather than online booking with an estimate; not listed on TripAdvisor or WhatClinic. Corrected: recurring complaints are now recorded - three 2024 reviews describe the same unannounced closure under previous management. Google rating 4.9 from 970 reviews, newest review 2026-09-24. |
| 2026-09-25 | Al-Waqaiabah Dental Specialty Clinic | Re-read on 2026-09-25: the clinic's Google listing (reviews, photos and contact details) and its WhatClinic profile. Recorded: no independent website - neither the Google profile nor WhatClinic lists one - so no prices, WhatsApp number, English site version, structured data or service pages are published; visitor photos of the treatment room and reception; wisdom-tooth removals described in two independent reviews; phone +968 7999 1362 from the Google profile. Google rating 4.9 from 188 reviews, newest review 2026-09-09. Still unverified: Facebook and TripAdvisor presence, X-ray and CBCT equipment, and pediatric care. |
| 2026-09-25 | Confidental Clinic | Re-read on 2026-09-25: the clinic's one-page website, its Google listing (reviews and photos) and TripAdvisor. Recorded: digital X-rays; dental implants placed at the clinic, which count as oral surgery; a WhatsApp link matching the phone on file; evening hours to 8:30 PM; plain-language service descriptions; genuine photos of the waiting room uploaded by the clinic to its Google listing (the website gallery uses stock images); no price for any treatment and no consultation offer; no structured data and no separate service pages; booking by WhatsApp only; not listed on TripAdvisor. Google rating 4.9 from 59 reviews, newest review 2026-09-24. Still unverified: Facebook presence and CBCT. |
| 2026-09-25 | Crown Dental Muscat | Re-read on 2026-09-25: the clinic's website (home, services, the five treatment pages, about, contact and all 17 blog posts), its Google listing (newest and lowest-rated reviews) and TripAdvisor. Recorded: free consultation; urgent cases accepted during clinic hours; patients travelling from the UAE and insurance-claim documentation; own photo of the branded reception; own Facebook page; orthodontics; explained treatments on separate pages; schema.org Organization markup; evening hours to 9 PM; no price for cleaning, fillings, crowns or implants on any page (costs are quoted at the consultation); not listed on TripAdvisor. Google rating 4.8 from 50 reviews. Still unverified: X-ray and CBCT equipment, X-ray pricing and online booking. |
| 2026-09-25 | Sundental Centre | Re-read on 2026-09-25: found the clinic's own website through its Google listing and read all 17 of its pages, plus the Google listing (reviews and photos) and TripAdvisor. Recorded: a live English-language site with a team page naming a specialist orthodontist and each dentist's qualifications; a power cleaning package at RO 15; own Facebook page; explained treatments on separate pages; evening hours to 8-8:30 PM; reception photos with the clinic's signage on its Google listing; the clinic's address is Al Khuwair Plaza, next to McDonald's and the Shell station. No price for fillings, crowns, implants, consultation or X-rays; no WhatsApp link; contact by phone and e-mail only; no structured data; not listed on TripAdvisor. The site says the clinic opens on Fridays while the Google listing shows Friday closed. Google rating 4.8 from 248 reviews. Still unverified: CBCT and whether staff speak English beyond the English website. |
| 2026-09-25 | Wassan Specialty Dental Centre | Re-read on 2026-09-25: the clinic's website (home, all service and technology pages, gallery, FAQ, information, contact page and 110 blog posts, in English and Arabic), its Google listing (newest and lowest-rated reviews) and TripAdvisor. Recorded: Galileos CBCT and 3D X-ray; emergency services; an online booking form with treatment, date and time; own photos of the premises; explained treatments on separate service pages; no price for cleaning, fillings, crowns, implants, consultation or X-rays anywhere on the site; no schema.org business markup; not listed on TripAdvisor. Corrected: recurring complaints are now recorded - two reviews describe charges above the price first quoted. Google rating 4.9 from 1,198 reviews, newest review 2026-09-14. Still unverified: work with international patients. |
| 2026-09-07 | المنهجية الإصدار 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 | Al Rabeeh Dental Center | Reputation pass 2026-09-03 (browser): the clinic's Google Maps place page was reopened on its Reviews tab and the star histogram, the visible reviews, their dates, their reviewer profiles and the owner replies were read. reviewRecency, respondsToReviews, recurringComplaints and suspiciousReviewPatterns set from that read, each carrying the sample size and the read order on the criterion itself. reviewRecency null -> within_3_months. recurringComplaints false; suspiciousReviewPatterns false. |
| 2026-09-03 | Al-Waqaiabah Dental Specialty Clinic | aiMention top-up: ran the five canonical city queries fresh (2026-09-03) to settle the remaining null aiMention_* values (1 true / 0 false). |
| 2026-09-03 | Al-Waqaiabah Dental Specialty Clinic | Reputation pass 2026-09-03 (browser): the clinic's Google Maps place page was reopened on its Reviews tab and the star histogram, the visible reviews, their dates, their reviewer profiles and the owner replies were read. reviewRecency, respondsToReviews, recurringComplaints and suspiciousReviewPatterns set from that read, each carrying the sample size and the read order on the criterion itself. googleReviewCount 184 -> 185 (histogram sum on the live page); reviewRecency null -> within_year. recurringComplaints false; suspiciousReviewPatterns false. |
| 2026-09-03 | Confidental Clinic | aiMention top-up: ran the five canonical city queries fresh (2026-09-03) to settle the remaining null aiMention_* values (1 true / 3 false). |
| 2026-09-03 | Confidental Clinic | Reputation pass 2026-09-03 (browser): the clinic's Google Maps place page was reopened on its Reviews tab and the star histogram, the visible reviews, their dates, their reviewer profiles and the owner replies were read. reviewRecency, respondsToReviews, recurringComplaints and suspiciousReviewPatterns set from that read, each carrying the sample size and the read order on the criterion itself. reviewRecency null -> within_3_months. recurringComplaints false; suspiciousReviewPatterns false. |
| 2026-09-03 | Crown Dental Muscat | aiMention top-up: ran the five canonical city queries fresh (2026-09-03) to settle the remaining null aiMention_* values (0 true / 1 false). |
| 2026-09-03 | Crown Dental Muscat | Reputation pass 2026-09-03 (browser): the clinic's Google Maps place page was reopened on its Reviews tab and the star histogram, the visible reviews, their dates, their reviewer profiles and the owner replies were read. reviewRecency, respondsToReviews, recurringComplaints and suspiciousReviewPatterns set from that read, each carrying the sample size and the read order on the criterion itself. reviewRecency null -> within_3_months. recurringComplaints false; suspiciousReviewPatterns false. |
| 2026-09-03 | Sundental Centre | aiMention top-up: ran the five canonical city queries fresh (2026-09-03) to settle the remaining null aiMention_* values (1 true / 3 false). |
| 2026-09-03 | Sundental Centre | Google rating and review count re-read live in a browser on the Maps place page (cid 7799207420710770939, "Sun Dental Centre"): 4.8 / 233, unchanged and therefore corroborated against the older 4.7 / 169 third-party snapshot. |
| 2026-09-03 | Sundental Centre | Reputation pass 2026-09-03 (browser): the clinic's Google Maps place page was reopened on its Reviews tab and the star histogram, the visible reviews, their dates, their reviewer profiles and the owner replies were read. reviewRecency, respondsToReviews, recurringComplaints and suspiciousReviewPatterns set from that read, each carrying the sample size and the read order on the criterion itself. reviewRecency null -> within_3_months. recurringComplaints false; suspiciousReviewPatterns false. |
| 2026-09-03 | Wassan Specialty Dental Centre | aiMention top-up: ran the five canonical city queries fresh (2026-09-03) to settle the remaining null aiMention_* values (0 true / 1 false). |
| 2026-09-03 | Wassan Specialty Dental Centre | Reputation pass 2026-09-03 (browser): the clinic's Google Maps place page was reopened on its Reviews tab and the star histogram, the visible reviews, their dates, their reviewer profiles and the owner replies were read. reviewRecency, respondsToReviews, recurringComplaints and suspiciousReviewPatterns set from that read, each carrying the sample size and the read order on the criterion itself. reviewRecency null -> within_3_months. recurringComplaints false; suspiciousReviewPatterns false. |
| 2026-09-03 | Wassan Specialty Dental Centre | Maps citation upgraded (browser, 2026-09-03): contacts.googleMapsUrl and the sm source moved from a google.co.in URL of the /maps/place/.../data=!1m2!2m1!1swassan+dental form - a stored *search*, which re-runs a query rather than naming a place and can silently drift onto a different business to the resolved place page the listing actually opens as. geo re-taken from that page's !3d/!4d map pin: {"lat":23.5952291,"lng":58.4225276} -> {"lat":23.5952371,"lng":58.4225876} (a few metres; the previous pair came from the @ viewport centre, not the pin). Old URL kept verbatim here so the provenance chain is readable: https://www.google.co.in/maps/place/Wassan+Specialty+Dental+Clinic/@23.5953852,58.422482,18z/data=!4m8!1m2!2m1!1swassan+dental!3m4!1s0x3e91ff0c008323ab:0xbcae79eb80457125!8m2!3d23.5953852!4d58.422482 |
| 2026-09-03 | المنهجية الإصدار 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. |
| 2026-09-02 | Al Rabeeh Dental Center | Initial data collection for the Oman Dental Transparency & Trust Index. |
| 2026-09-02 | Al Rabeeh Dental Center | Top-up: live Google Maps rating/review-count captured (4.9, 963 reviews); AI-visibility re-verified across all 5 canonical Muscat queries (implants query added). |
| 2026-09-02 | Al-Waqaiabah Dental Specialty Clinic | Initial data collection for the Oman Dental Transparency & Trust Index. |
| 2026-09-02 | Al-Waqaiabah Dental Specialty Clinic | Top-up: live Google Maps card found by name+city search — rating 4.9 (184 reviews) and precise geo captured (previously no Maps URL/geo at all); AI-visibility re-verified across all 5 canonical Sohar queries (the five canonical city queries found; no implants-specific mention). |
| 2026-09-02 | Confidental Clinic | Initial data collection for the Oman Dental Transparency & Trust Index. |
| 2026-09-02 | Confidental Clinic | Top-up: live Google Maps card found by name+city search — rating 4.9 (56 reviews) and precise geo captured; AI-visibility checked across all 5 canonical Muscat queries (emergency-dentist mention found). |
| 2026-09-02 | Crown Dental Muscat | Initial data collection for the Oman Dental Transparency & Trust Index. |
| 2026-09-02 | Crown Dental Muscat | Top-up: live Google Maps card found (as "Crown Dental Centre") by name+city search — rating 4.8 (46 reviews) and precise geo captured; AI-visibility re-verified across all 5 canonical Muscat queries (the five canonical city queries added). |
| 2026-09-02 | Sundental Centre | Initial data collection for the Oman Dental Transparency & Trust Index. |
| 2026-09-02 | Sundental Centre | Top-up: live Google Maps card found by name+city search (phone match) — rating 4.8 (233 reviews) and precise geo captured; AI-visibility checked across all 5 canonical Muscat queries (emergency-dentist mention found). |
| 2026-09-02 | Wassan Specialty Dental Centre | Initial data collection for the Oman Dental Transparency & Trust Index. |
| 2026-09-02 | Wassan Specialty Dental Centre | Top-up: live Google Maps rating/review-count captured (4.9, 1,191 reviews); AI-visibility re-verified across all 5 canonical Muscat queries (English-speaking and implants queries added). |
| 2026-08-25 | المنهجية الإصدار 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 | المنهجية الإصدار 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 | المنهجية الإصدار 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 | المنهجية الإصدار 1.0.0 | Initial public methodology. |