Hawassa Specialty Dental Clinic
According to our open methodology, this clinic scored 14.1/100 for transparency, reputation, service accessibility, and digital visibility.
Overall rank: #16 of 22 ranked clinics · Last checked: 24 September 2026
14.1/100
Positions by Rating Profile
- Overall Transparency & Trust#1614.1/100
- Best for Expats#1513.3/100
- Best for Dental Implantsnot ranked
- Best for Emergency Dental Carenot ranked
- Best Price Transparency#169.9/100
- Best English-speaking Clinicsnot ranked
- 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
Specialty dental clinic in Admas Mall in the Millennium kebele of Hawassa, registered in the Master Facility Registry snapshot and present on Google Maps with a phone number and address but no website. Its Google Business profile is the one channel it maintains itself: it publishes opening hours of 08:00-20:00 seven days a week and four photographs of its own reception, all read on 2026-09-11. It also runs Facebook and TikTok accounts, the only other places it could publish a team, a service list or prices: its Facebook page was read in full on 11 September 2026 and carries none of the three, so those transparency criteria are recorded as published-nothing rather than unverified.
Strengths
No categories reached the strength threshold (80%).
Weaknesses
- Information Transparency: 6 of 20 verifiable points (missing: has a working website; dentist names listed; dentist specializations listed; service list published; english website version)
- 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)
- Reputation & Reviews: 5 of 14 verifiable points (missing: google review volume; tripAdvisor presence; other review platforms)
- Communication & Service: 1.5 of 3.5 verifiable points (missing: whatsApp / LINE available)
- AI & Search Visibility: 2 of 10 verifiable points (missing: mentioned for: English speaking dentist Ethiopia; mentioned for: dental implants Ethiopia; mentioned for: emergency dentist Ethiopia; structured data on website; google indexing quality; dedicated service pages)
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
6 / 20
Whether basic facts about the clinic - its team, premises, services, and location - are publicly verifiable.
| ✗ | Has a working website The clinic's Google listing carries no website field, and no clinic-owned domain was found for it in search. Its published presence is social only. [gm] [fb] | 0/4 |
| ✗ | Dentist names listed All three of the clinic's channels were read on 2026-09-11 - the Facebook page in full, including its About tab and photo grid, and its Google Business profile - and not one names a dentist. The clinic has no website. [fb] [gm] | 0/3 |
| ✗ | Dentist specializations listed Read 2026-09-11. Neither the Facebook page nor the Google Business profile attributes a qualification or a specialism to any named clinician; the Facebook category is the generic "Medical and health" and the Google category is "Dental clinic". The word "Speciality" in the clinic's name is a name, not a published credential. [fb] [gm] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Real clinic photos All four photographs on the listing were uploaded by the clinic itself on 2024-11-18 and show its own reception in Admas Mall: the desk under a branded wall carrying the clinic's Amharic name and the "HSDC" monogram, a patient at the counter, and the glazed frontage with its dental graphics. Genuine premises, and the first thing this clinic has been shown to publish about itself. [gm] | 2/2 |
| ✗ | Service list published Read 2026-09-11. The Facebook biography is a single line ("Dental and general oral health care centre") and the About tab adds nothing; the photo grid publishes clinical before-and-after images and oral-health education posters, which show what the clinic does but are not a list of treatments offered. The Google Business profile carries the bare category. No concrete service list is published on any channel. The post history could not be surveyed - only the newest post renders - so a treatment list buried in an old post cannot be excluded, but nothing a patient would find is published. [fb] [gm] | 0/3 |
| ✓ | Clear contact details Phone number and a located address (Admas Mall) published on the clinic's own Google Business listing. [gm] | 2/2 |
| ✗ | English website version No independent website exists. [hawassa-specialty-dental-clinic-hawassa-deepen-2] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Address and map published Address and map position published on the clinic's own Google Business listing. [gm] | 2/2 |
Price Transparency
0 / 15
Whether patients can estimate costs before visiting. Published price ranges count; exact prices are not required.
| ✗ | Prices or price ranges published Read 2026-09-11. No price or fee appears anywhere on the clinic's Facebook page profile or in its Google Business profile, and it has no website. [fb] [gm] | 0/3 |
| ✗ | Cleaning price listed No cleaning price appears on the clinic's Facebook page or its Google Business profile, and it has no website. [hawassa-specialty-dental-clinic-hawassa-deepen-5] [hawassa-specialty-dental-clinic-hawassa-deepen-6] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Filling price listed No filling price appears on the clinic's Facebook page or its Google Business profile, and it has no website. [hawassa-specialty-dental-clinic-hawassa-deepen-5] [hawassa-specialty-dental-clinic-hawassa-deepen-6] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Crown price listed No crown price appears on the clinic's Facebook page or its Google Business profile, and it has no website. [hawassa-specialty-dental-clinic-hawassa-deepen-5] [hawassa-specialty-dental-clinic-hawassa-deepen-6] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Implant price listed No implant price appears on the clinic's Facebook page or its Google Business profile, and it has no website. [hawassa-specialty-dental-clinic-hawassa-deepen-5] [hawassa-specialty-dental-clinic-hawassa-deepen-6] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Consultation price listed No consultation price appears on the clinic's Facebook page or its Google Business profile, and it has no website. [hawassa-specialty-dental-clinic-hawassa-deepen-5] [hawassa-specialty-dental-clinic-hawassa-deepen-6] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | X-ray / imaging price listed No X-ray price appears on the clinic's Facebook page or its Google Business profile, and it has no website. [hawassa-specialty-dental-clinic-hawassa-deepen-5] [hawassa-specialty-dental-clinic-hawassa-deepen-6] | 0/2 |
Reputation & Reviews
5 / 20
Public review signals. The Google rating is adjusted with a Bayesian prior (rating 4.0, weight 25) so a 5.0 from a handful of reviews does not outrank a 4.8 from hundreds.
| ◐ | Google rating (Bayesian-adjusted) Re-read on 2026-09-10 from the place-detail record, which does publish a 3.5 average across the two reviews. An earlier read the same day returned the review count without the average. [gm] | 1/6 |
| ✗ | Google review volume [gm] | 0/3 |
| ✓ | Review recency Both reviews carry exact timestamps: 2026-06-30 and 2025-01-24. The newer is 73 days old, inside three months. [gm] | 3/3 |
| ? | Clinic responds to reviews 2 reviews from the last 24 months were read on the Google listing, none with an owner reply, too few to say the clinic does not answer reviews (read 2026-10-05). | 0/2 |
| ? | No recurring complaints Only 2 Google reviews exist, too few to show whether a complaint recurs (read 2026-10-05). | 0/2 |
| ? | No suspicious review patterns The listing carries only 2 Google reviews (2025-01-24 to 2026-06-30), fewer than the ten needed to judge a pattern, so the criterion is left unassessed (read 2026-10-05). | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Active Facebook presence Page read in full in a logged-in browser session on 2026-09-11: it is unmistakably this clinic - same telephone number, Awassa, a dental biography and 5,000 followers - so the presence is identifiable. Its posting has lapsed, though: the newest post the page rendered is dated 2025-01-04, and it carries no page reviews. [fb] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | TripAdvisor presence TripAdvisor's own search index carries no listing for the clinic; only unrelated hotels and destinations match. [hawassa-specialty-dental-clinic-hawassa-deepen] | 0/0.5 |
| ✗ | Other review platforms No profile on another review platform: WhatClinic, Dental Departures and Bookimed list no clinic in Ethiopia (checked 2026-10-01) [hawassa-specialty-dental-clinic-hawassa-deepen-8] [hawassa-specialty-dental-clinic-hawassa-deepen-9] [hawassa-specialty-dental-clinic-hawassa-deepen-10] | 0/0.5 |
Medical Infrastructure
0 / 15
The range of publicly documented equipment and services. This measures documented availability, not clinical quality.
| ? | On-site X-ray | 0/2 |
| ? | CBCT (3D imaging) | 0/2 |
| ? | Implantology | 0/2 |
| ? | Orthodontics | 0/2 |
| ? | Oral surgery | 0/2 |
| ? | Pediatric dentistry | 0/1.5 |
| ? | Emergency care | 0/1.5 |
| ? | Works with international patients | 0/2 |
Communication & Service
1.5 / 10
How easy it is to contact the clinic, get answers, and book - especially for international patients.
| ✗ | WhatsApp / LINE available The clinic's Facebook page (read in full) offers a Messenger contact, not WhatsApp; its Google listing carries no WhatsApp number either. [hawassa-specialty-dental-clinic-hawassa-deepen-7] [hawassa-specialty-dental-clinic-hawassa-deepen-6] | 0/2 |
| ? | Response speed | 0/1.5 |
| ? | English spoken | 0/2.5 |
| ? | Pre-visit consultation possible | 0/1.5 |
| ? | Clear service explanations | 0/1 |
| ✓ | Convenient opening hours The clinic has no website, but its own Google Business Profile publishes hours, read 2026-09-11: Monday to Sunday 08:00-20:00. Seven days and evenings. Its Facebook page states "always open", which is the looser of the two claims; the Business Profile grid is the one recorded here. [gm] [fb] | 1.5/1.5 |
AI & Search Visibility
2 / 10
Whether the clinic is discoverable when patients search - including via AI assistants. Checked with fixed queries: "best dentist Ethiopia", "English speaking dentist Ethiopia", "dental implants Ethiopia", "emergency dentist Ethiopia", "Ethiopia dental clinic for expats".
| ✓ | Mentioned for: best dentist Ethiopia Surfaced through the clinic's Facebook page and its TikTok account. [sq1] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: English speaking dentist Ethiopia [sq2] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: dental implants Ethiopia [sq3] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: emergency dentist Ethiopia [sq4] | 0/1 |
| ✓ | Mentioned for: Ethiopia dental clinic for expats Surfaced through the clinic's Facebook page. [sq5] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | Structured data on website No website exists to carry structured data. [hawassa-specialty-dental-clinic-hawassa-deepen-3] | 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. [hawassa-specialty-dental-clinic-hawassa-av4] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Dedicated service pages No website exists to carry service pages. [hawassa-specialty-dental-clinic-hawassa-deepen-4] | 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.
- #1NovoCare Dental and Orthodontic Clinic55.4 of 100View report →
- #2TrueCare Dental and Implant Center24.9 of 100View report →
- #3Green Life Specialty Dental Clinic19.5 of 100View report →
Measured by Ansmeter, 7 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: Listed as an approved health facility in Ethiopia's Master Facility Registry (Ministry of Health), facility Id 1062453, registered name "Hawassa Specialty Dental Clinic", type Specialty Clinic, Hawasa town, Millennium kebele, status Approved, as of the 20 February 2025 public extract (Matched on an exact name match plus location: the register's row sits 24 m from the clinic's mapped Google place, in the same kebele, and is the only dental facility within 120 m. The Master Facility Registry carries no licence number and no expiry date, so none is claimed; "Approved" is a facility approval status recorded on the snapshot date. Practising licences for Hawassa clinics are issued by the Sidama Regional Health Bureau, which publishes nothing.) [mfr] [gm]
Dentists & professional licences
No published dentist roster is recorded for this clinic yet — unverified, no penalty.
Red Flags
- low No dentists identified anywhere (-2 pts) — No dentist names published (derived from data).
Red-flag penalty applied: -2 points (capped at -20).
Data We Could Not Verify
- Reputation & Reviews: Clinic responds to reviews
- Reputation & Reviews: No recurring complaints
- Reputation & Reviews: No suspicious review patterns
- Medical Infrastructure: On-site X-ray
- Medical Infrastructure: CBCT (3D imaging)
- Medical Infrastructure: Implantology
- Medical Infrastructure: Orthodontics
- Medical Infrastructure: Oral surgery
- Medical Infrastructure: Pediatric dentistry
- Medical Infrastructure: Emergency care
- Medical Infrastructure: Works with international patients
- Communication & Service: Response speed
- Communication & Service: English spoken
- Communication & Service: Pre-visit consultation possible
- Communication & Service: Clear service explanations
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 | +251 90 495 9697 |
|---|---|
| Google Maps | Map listing |
| Address | Admas Mall, Millennium kebele, Hawassa, Ethiopia |
Contact details are provided for identification only and may change; verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| gm | https://www.google.com/maps?cid=15832523055739176731 | Google place record read live 2026-09-10: "Hawassa Speciality Dental Clinic", Admas Mall, Hawassa, coordinates 7.041403/38.48027, phone +251 90 495 9697, category Dental clinic, rating 3.5 from 2 reviews, no website field Re-read 2026-09-11: star histogram 0/1/0/0/1 (sum 2, mean 3.5), both reviews read in full and dated 2026-06-30 (2 stars, no text) and 2025-01-24 (5 stars), Google Business Profile hours Mon-Sun 08:00-20:00, four clinic-uploaded photographs of the reception (2024-11-18). | 2026-09-17 |
| fb | https://www.facebook.com/p/Hawasa-speciality-dental-clinic-10008299… | Clinic Facebook page read in full in a logged-in session 2026-09-11: "Hawasa speciality dental clinic", category Medical and health, 5,000 followers, biography one line ("Dental and general oral health care centre"), no page reviews at all, hours shown as always open, location Awassa, telephone +251 90 495 9697 and a Messenger route. The About tab publishes no dentist, no service list and no prices; the photo grid carries clinical before-and-after images, paediatric oral-health education posters and the clinic logo. The newest post the page rendered is dated 2025-01-04. | 2026-09-17 |
| mfr | https://data.humdata.org/dataset/ethiopian-health-facilities | Ministry of Health Master Facility Registry public extract (snapshot 2025-02-20), row Id 1062453 "Hawassa Specialty Dental Clinic", Hawasa town, Millennium kebele, coordinates 7.0411957/38.4803445, status Approved | 2026-09-10 |
| sq1 | search:best dentist Hawassa Ethiopia | AI/search visibility check 2026-09-10: the clinic appeared in the top ten via its Facebook page and its TikTok account; no clinic-owned website appeared for it | 2026-09-10 |
| sq2 | search:English speaking dentist Hawassa | AI/search visibility check 2026-09-10: clinic absent from the top ten | 2026-09-10 |
| sq3 | search:dental implants Hawassa | AI/search visibility check 2026-09-10: clinic absent from the top ten | 2026-09-10 |
| sq4 | search:emergency dentist Hawassa | AI/search visibility check 2026-09-10: clinic absent from the top ten | 2026-09-10 |
| sq5 | search:Hawassa dental clinic for expats | AI/search visibility check 2026-09-10: the clinic appeared in the top ten via its Facebook page | 2026-09-10 |
| hawassa-specialty-dental-clinic-hawassa-deepen | https://www.tripadvisor.com/TypeAheadJson?action=API&query=Hawassa%… | TripAdvisor's own search index, queried for "Hawassa Specialty Dental Clinic" and read 2026-09-17: it answered with twelve results - Hawassa hotels and, abroad, two hotels that carry the word dental in their names - and no business listing for the clinic. | 2026-09-17 |
| hawassa-specialty-dental-clinic-hawassa-deepen-2 | https://www.google.com/maps?cid=15832523055739176731&hl=en | No website field on the clinic's Google Business Profile, re-read 2026-09-24, and no clinic-owned domain found; there is no site to carry an English version. | 2026-09-24 |
| hawassa-specialty-dental-clinic-hawassa-deepen-3 | https://www.google.com/maps?cid=15832523055739176731&hl=en | The clinic has no website (re-confirmed 2026-09-24); its Google Business Profile is a listing, not a page, and carries no schema.org markup. | 2026-09-24 |
| hawassa-specialty-dental-clinic-hawassa-deepen-4 | https://www.google.com/maps?cid=15832523055739176731&hl=en | No website exists (re-confirmed 2026-09-24) to host individual service pages. | 2026-09-24 |
| hawassa-specialty-dental-clinic-hawassa-deepen-5 | https://www.facebook.com/p/Hawasa-speciality-dental-clinic-10008299… | Clinic Facebook page, read in full 2026-09-11: no price or fee of any kind appears on the About tab or anywhere else on the page; it names no dentist and no service list either. | 2026-09-17 |
| hawassa-specialty-dental-clinic-hawassa-deepen-6 | https://www.google.com/maps?cid=15832523055739176731 | Google Business profile, re-read 2026-09-17: hours Monday to Sunday 08:00-20:00, four clinic photographs, rating 3.5 from two reviews, and no price list or fee of any kind. | 2026-09-17 |
| hawassa-specialty-dental-clinic-hawassa-deepen-7 | https://www.facebook.com/p/Hawasa-speciality-dental-clinic-10008299… | Clinic Facebook page, read in full 2026-09-11: the contact routes it offers are a telephone number and Facebook Messenger; no WhatsApp number, no "wa.me" link and no LINE reference appear on the page. | 2026-09-17 |
| hawassa-specialty-dental-clinic-hawassa-deepen-8 | https://www.whatclinic.com/dentists/ethiopia | WhatClinic's Ethiopia dentist page, read 2026-10-01: "No information on Dentists in Ethiopia" - the platform lists no dental clinic in the country | 2026-10-01 |
| hawassa-specialty-dental-clinic-hawassa-deepen-9 | https://www.dentaldepartures.com/dentists/ethiopia | Dental Departures, read 2026-10-01: its Ethiopia page returns "not found" and its clinic search recognises no Ethiopian location (Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, Adama, Bahir Dar, Hawassa) - no clinic listed in the country | 2026-10-01 |
| hawassa-specialty-dental-clinic-hawassa-deepen-10 | https://bookimed.com/clinics/country=ethiopia/ | Bookimed, read 2026-10-01: its Ethiopia clinic page has been removed ("Page removed", HTTP 410) - the platform lists no clinic in the country | 2026-10-01 |
| hawassa-specialty-dental-clinic-hawassa-av4 | search:"Hawassa Specialty Dental Clinic" Hawassa | 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 are a journal article on Hawassa clinics, other clinics' pages and unrelated dental pages. Listed: a dental-journal article, a university page, a WebMD listing in Hawaii, a church-journal article, a doctor-directory page, two Ethiopian map pages and a Saudi ministry page. | 2026-10-05 |
Change History
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-05 | Reputation check 2026-10-05 on the clinic's Google listing (2 reviews read): nothing settled; recurring complaints, owner replies to reviews, suspicious review patterns left unassessed. |
| 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). |
| 2026-10-01 | Searched the review platforms for the clinic (WhatClinic, Dental Departures, Bookimed): none lists it, the first three carry no Ethiopian clinic at all. |
| 2026-09-29 | Corrected 2026-09-29: no recurring complaints now unverified: 2 Google reviews are too few to show a pattern; clinic responds to reviews now unverified: with 2 Google reviews a missing owner reply shows nothing yet. |
| 2026-09-24 | Re-read on 2026-09-24: the clinic's Google Business Profile, which still carries no advertised website. Recorded: no English website version, no structured data and no dedicated service pages, all because the clinic has no website. Rating and review count unchanged. Still unverified: other review platforms beyond Facebook, and the clinic's services and equipment. |
| 2026-09-17 | Corrected the card's own description: it still said the clinic's Facebook page had not been read, while the evidence on the card records that page read in full on 11 September 2026, with no dentist, no service list and no prices on it. |
| 2026-09-17 | Checked TripAdvisor's own search and re-read the clinic's Google Business profile, alongside its Facebook page as read in full on 2026-09-11. Recorded: no TripAdvisor presence; no price is published for cleaning, fillings, crowns, implants, consultations or X-rays on either channel; contact is by phone or Facebook Messenger, not WhatsApp or LINE. Still unverified: on-site equipment, service explanations and English-language communication, none of which the clinic publishes anywhere else. |
| 2026-09-11 | Editorial review of the sourcing: the website criterion no longer cites a search query as evidence and rests on the clinic's own Google listing and its Facebook page. |
| 2026-09-11 | Reputation pass: the entire two-review base, the star histogram, four clinic-uploaded reception photographs and the Google Business Profile hours read live. Five criteria settled on the card that carried the most unknowns in the country; its Facebook and TikTok channels remain unread. Its Facebook page was then read in full - the last unread channel on this card - settling dentistNamesListed, specializationsListed, serviceListPublished and pricesPublished as published-nothing rather than unverified. |
| 2026-09-10 | Initial data collection for the Ethiopia Dental Transparency & Trust Index: verified via the live Google Maps place record and the Ministry of Health Master Facility Registry public extract. The clinic publishes only through social channels, which cannot be read without a browser session; those criteria are left unverified pending the reputation pass. |
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