Al Amal Smile Centre
According to our open methodology, this clinic scored 27.2/100 for transparency, reputation, service accessibility, and digital visibility.
Overall rank: #19 of 19 ranked clinics · Last checked: 3 September 2026
Positions by Rating Profile
- Overall Transparency & Trust#1927.2/100
- Best for Expats#1828/100
- Best for Dental Implantsnot ranked
- Best for Emergency Dental Care#629.8/100
- Best Price Transparency#1719.5/100
- Best English-speaking Clinics#1730.3/100
- Best for Families / Childrennot ranked
- Sleep Dentistry (GA / deep sedation)not ranked
General Anaesthesia & Deep Sedation
Whether the clinic documents treatment under general anaesthesia or deep / twilight sedation — "sleep dentistry", where the patient is asleep and unaware (does not feel, see, or hear the procedure). Ordinary conscious sedation, where the patient stays awake and responsive, does not count here. This is informational and does not affect the transparency score.
- ? General anaesthesia / deep sedation (sleep dentistry) — Not verified
Summary
Family-run general dental center in Muharraq (NHRA licence 150201-0005), founded and led by Dr. Aqeel Isa Hasan Abdulla, with his son Dr. Isa Aqeel now treating patients there too.
Strengths
- No red flags identified in public sources.
Weaknesses
- Information Transparency: 7 of 16 verifiable points (missing: has a working website; dentist specializations listed; service list published)
- Price Transparency: 0 of 15 verifiable points (missing: prices or price ranges published; cleaning price listed; filling price listed; crown price listed; implant price listed; consultation price listed; x-ray / imaging price listed)
- AI & Search Visibility: 0 of 7 verifiable points (missing: mentioned for: best dentist Bahrain; mentioned for: English speaking dentist Bahrain; mentioned for: dental implants Bahrain; mentioned for: emergency dentist Bahrain; mentioned for: Bahrain dental clinic for expats; google indexing quality)
Score Breakdown
Every criterion below is scored from public sources. ✓ verified yes · ✗ verified no / not found · ◐ partial · ? unverified (scores 0, not a negative finding).
Information Transparency
Whether basic facts about the clinic - its team, premises, services, and location - are publicly verifiable.
| ✗ | Has a working website [sm] | 0/4 |
| ✓ | Dentist names listed Reviews name "Dr. Issa/Essa Akeel/Aqeel" as treating dentist. [sm] | 3/3 |
| ✗ | Dentist specializations listed [sm] | 0/2 |
| ? | Real clinic photos | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Service list published [sm] | 0/3 |
| ✓ | Clear contact details [sm] | 2/2 |
| ? | English website version | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Address and map published [sm] | 2/2 |
Price Transparency
Whether patients can estimate costs before visiting. Published price ranges count; exact prices are not required.
Reputation & Reviews
Public review signals. The Google rating is adjusted with a Bayesian prior (rating 4.0, weight 25) so a 5.0 from a handful of reviews does not outrank a 4.8 from hundreds.
| ◐ | Google rating (Bayesian-adjusted) As of 2026-09-03, live Google Maps place page, re-read in a browser: 4.1 / 17 reviews - re-read live 2026-09-03, unchanged from the 2026-09-02 reading. Re-read 2026-09-03 on the place page's Reviews tab: unchanged, and the published rating reproduces from the star histogram 12/0/1/2/2 (5*->1*). [sm] | 3/6 |
| ◐ | Google review volume As of 2026-09-03, live Google Maps place page, re-read in a browser; unchanged. Re-read 2026-09-03 on the place page's Reviews tab: unchanged; the star histogram 12/0/1/2/2 (5*->1*) sums to the published count. [sm] | 0.5/3 |
| ✓ | Review recency Newest Google review is dated 2026-08-20 (listing read 2026-09-25). [al-amal-smile-centre-muharraq-gbp-2026-09-25] | 3/3 |
| ✗ | Clinic responds to reviews The Google listing is unclaimed (it offers "Claim this business"), so no owner replies to reviews (read 2026-09-25). [al-amal-smile-centre-muharraq-gbp-2026-09-25] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | No recurring complaints No repeated issue class. One of the eight visible reviews is two-star and concerns hygiene practice - gloves not changed between patients, and doubt about whether the rinsing cup is changed. It appears once. The histogram carries 5 further reviews below four stars that the relevance-ordered preview did not surface. Sample: 8 visible reviews, order relevance (Maps' sort control could not be operated in this browser session - four click strategies were tried), star histogram 12/0/1/2/2 (5*->1*), read 2026-09-03. [sm] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | No suspicious review patterns The distribution is the broadest in the country relative to its size - 5 of 17 reviews sit below four stars (2 one-star, 2 two-star, 1 three-star) - the visible reviews span three months to nine years, and reviewer accounts run from 1 to 179 reviews including three Local Guides. Sample: 8 visible reviews, order relevance (Maps' sort control could not be operated in this browser session - four click strategies were tried), star histogram 12/0/1/2/2 (5*->1*), read 2026-09-03. [sm] | 2/2 |
| ? | Active Facebook presence Not established: the Facebook page under the clinic's name (with its phone) has not posted since September 2019, and the clinic keeps no other channel of its own to compare with (checked 2026-10-02). | 0/1 |
| ✗ | TripAdvisor presence No TripAdvisor listing found via its search for "Al Amal Smile Centre Muharraq" and "Al Amal Dental"; the clinic has no website that could link one (checked 2026-10-05). [al-amal-smile-centre-muharraq-tripadvisor] | 0/0.5 |
| ✗ | Other review platforms No profile of the clinic on WhatClinic, Hospital Examiner, Dental Departures or Bookimed (checked 2026-10-02). [al-amal-smile-centre-muharraq-platforms] [al-amal-smile-centre-muharraq-platforms-2] [al-amal-smile-centre-muharraq-platforms-3] [al-amal-smile-centre-muharraq-platforms-4] | 0/0.5 |
Medical Infrastructure
The range of publicly documented equipment and services. This measures documented availability, not clinical quality.
| ✓ | On-site X-ray NHRA facility record lists Intra-Oral Dental X-Ray as a support service. [reg1] | 2/2 |
| ✗ | CBCT (3D imaging) [reg1] | 0/2 |
| ? | Implantology | 0/2 |
| ? | Orthodontics | 0/2 |
| ? | Oral surgery | 0/2 |
| ? | Pediatric dentistry | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | Emergency care A review describes a last-minute emergency filling replacement being accommodated. [sm] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ? | Works with international patients | 0/2 |
Communication & Service
How easy it is to contact the clinic, get answers, and book - especially for international patients.
| ? | WhatsApp / LINE available | 0/2 |
| ? | Response speed | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | English spoken Reviews are in fluent English from expatriate patients. [sm] | 2.5/2.5 |
| ? | Pre-visit consultation possible | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | Clear service explanations Review: "explaining process and options" praised. [sm] | 1/1 |
| ? | Convenient opening hours | 0/1.5 |
AI & Search Visibility
Whether the clinic is discoverable when patients search - including via AI assistants. Checked with fixed queries: "best dentist Bahrain", "English speaking dentist Bahrain", "dental implants Bahrain", "emergency dentist Bahrain", "Bahrain dental clinic for expats".
| ✗ | Mentioned for: best dentist Bahrain [sqa] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: English speaking dentist Bahrain [sqb] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: dental implants Bahrain [sqc] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: emergency dentist Bahrain [sqd] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: Bahrain dental clinic for expats [sqe] | 0/1 |
| ? | Structured data on website | 0/1.5 |
| ✗ | Google indexing quality The clinic has no website of its own; a name-and-city web search on 2026-10-05 lists only directory, news and third-party pages. [al-amal-smile-centre-muharraq-av4] | 0/2 |
| ? | Dedicated service pages | 0/1.5 |
Ranking leaders in AI answers
The queries above are this index's own check. The three leading clinics have also been measured in full: how often ChatGPT and Gemini name them when a patient asks them to recommend a dentist.
- #1Al Rabeeh Dental Center - Muharraq57 of 100View report →
- #2Al Rabeea Dental Center Isa Town57 of 100View report →
- #3The Best Dental Center (Al Haddad Plaza)18.1 of 100View report →
Measured by Ansmeter, 9 October 2026. Ansmeter is an affiliated service. Its figure is not part of this rating and does not affect positions — scores change only when public data changes.
Licensing & Credentials
Whether the clinic publishes its operating licence and the dentists working there together with their professional licence numbers. A verified “not published” is recorded as a red flag; data we have not checked yet is shown as unverified and carries no penalty.
Clinic operating licence: Licence 150201-0005 (AL AMAL SMILE CENTER), Active, expires 06-11-2026 — NHRA Healthcare Facilities Finder, Area: Muharraq, Facility_Category: General Dental Center. (Verified 2026-09-02: exact facility-name, phone and email match.) [reg1]
Dentists & professional licences
Red Flags
No red flags identified in the public sources we reviewed.
Data We Could Not Verify
- Information Transparency: Real clinic photos
- Information Transparency: English website version
- Reputation & Reviews: Active Facebook presence
- Medical Infrastructure: Implantology
- Medical Infrastructure: Orthodontics
- Medical Infrastructure: Oral surgery
- Medical Infrastructure: Pediatric dentistry
- Medical Infrastructure: Works with international patients
- Communication & Service: WhatsApp / LINE available
- Communication & Service: Response speed
- Communication & Service: Pre-visit consultation possible
- Communication & Service: Convenient opening hours
- AI & Search Visibility: Structured data on website
- AI & Search Visibility: Dedicated service pages
Unverified items score 0 points but are not treated as negative findings. If you can document any of them, please send a correction.
Contact Information
| Phone | +973 1733 0300 |
|---|---|
| Google Maps | Map listing |
| Address | 7J66+93F, Muharraq, Bahrain |
Contact details are provided for identification only and may change; verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| sm | https://www.google.com/maps/place/Al+Amal+Smile+Centre/@26.2609329,… | Live Google rating 4.1 (17 reviews), address, phone, reviews naming Dr. Essa Aqeel, read 2026-09-02 | 2026-09-03 |
| sqa | search:best dentist Muharraq | Canonical query check | 2026-09-02 |
| sqb | search:English speaking dentist Muharraq | Canonical query check | 2026-09-02 |
| sqc | search:dental implants Muharraq | Canonical query check | 2026-09-02 |
| sqd | search:emergency dentist Muharraq | Canonical query check | 2026-09-02 |
| sqe | search:Muharraq dental clinic for expats | Canonical query check | 2026-09-02 |
| reg1 | https://www.nhra.bh/OpenData/Licensed%20Facilities/ | NHRA facility register: AL AMAL SMILE CENTER, licence 150201-0005, Active, expires 06-11-2026 | 2026-09-02 |
| reg2 | https://www.nhra.bh/OpenData/Licensed%20Professionals/ | NHRA dental practitioners list: 3 dentists registered at AL AMAL SMILE CENTER facility | 2026-09-02 |
| al-amal-smile-centre-muharraq-gbp-2026-09-25 | https://www.google.com/maps?cid=11050565448065806450&hl=en | Google listing read on 2026-09-25: rating 4.1 from 17 reviews; star histogram 1★ 2 / 2★ 2 / 3★ 1 / 4★ 0 / 5★ 12; newest review dated 2026-08-20; the listing is unclaimed (it offers "Claim this business"). | 2026-09-25 |
| al-amal-smile-centre-muharraq-platforms | https://www.whatclinic.com/dentists/bahrain | WhatClinic, read 2026-10-02: its Bahrain dentist listing (1 page, 3 clinics) and its profile sitemaps (3 Bahrain profiles) have no profile for Al Amal Smile Centre; the profile addresses built from its name (/dentists/bahrain/al-amal-smile-centre) return not found | 2026-10-02 |
| al-amal-smile-centre-muharraq-platforms-2 | https://hospitalexaminer.com/countries/bahrain/ | Hospital Examiner, read 2026-10-02: its Bahrain list (225 pages, 39 of them dental or orthodontic) has no page for Al Amal Smile Centre (its "Dr. Amal Dental Center" is a different clinic in Manama) | 2026-10-02 |
| al-amal-smile-centre-muharraq-platforms-3 | https://www.dentaldepartures.com/ | Dental Departures: none of the 1,106 clinics its search returns is in Bahrain, and it does not recognise Bahrain as a location (checked 2026-10-02) | 2026-10-02 |
| al-amal-smile-centre-muharraq-platforms-4 | https://bookimed.com/clinics/country=bahrain/ | Bookimed: its Bahrain clinics page has been removed (HTTP 410); it lists no clinic in Bahrain (checked 2026-10-02) | 2026-10-02 |
| al-amal-smile-centre-muharraq-av4 | search:"Al Amal Smile Centre" Muharraq | Web search run on 2026-10-05 (English, US results) for the clinic's name and city: 10 results listed. no page of an own site: the results concern other facilities named Al Amal and health-ministry lists. Listed: hospital pages and health-institution lists, an orthodontics magazine profile, a construction-news topic page, a health-authority PDF and a directory page. | 2026-10-05 |
| al-amal-smile-centre-muharraq-tripadvisor | https://www.tripadvisor.com/TypeAheadJson?action=API&details=true&q… | TripAdvisor's own search, read 2026-10-05: 12 suggestions for "Al Amal Smile Centre Muharraq" (2 places, 4 attractions, 5 hotels, 1 restaurant), none of them a dental practice in or near Muharraq; 12 suggestions for "Al Amal Dental" (3 places, 4 attractions, 5 hotels), none of them a dental practice in or near Muharraq; no listing for this clinic | 2026-10-05 |
Change History
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-05 | TripAdvisor presence checked on 2026-10-05: no listing found for this clinic. |
| 2026-10-05 | Google indexing quality measured as poor after a name-and-city web search on 2026-10-05 (no website of its own, none listed). |
| 2026-10-02 | Presence on review sites re-read on 2026-10-02: no profile on the review platforms checked. |
| 2026-09-29 | Corrected 2026-09-29: review recency within 3 months (newest review dated 2026-08-20); no owner replies to reviews: the Google listing is unclaimed. |
| 2026-09-03 | Reputation pass 2026-09-03 (browser): the clinic's Google Maps place page was reopened on its Reviews tab and the star histogram, the visible reviews, their dates, their reviewer profiles and the owner replies were read. reviewRecency, respondsToReviews, recurringComplaints and suspiciousReviewPatterns set from that read, each carrying the sample size and the read order on the criterion itself. Rating and review count reproduced unchanged from the histogram. recurringComplaints false; suspiciousReviewPatterns false. |
| 2026-09-03 | Google rating and review count re-read live in a browser on the Maps place page (4.1 / 17): unchanged from the 2026-09-02 reading, which is therefore corroborated. |
| 2026-09-02 | Initial data collection for the Bahrain Dental Transparency & Trust Index: verified via Google Maps and the NHRA Open Data facility and dental-practitioner registers. |
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