Tana Dental Specialty Clinic
According to our open methodology, this clinic scored 7.4/100 for transparency, reputation, service accessibility, and digital visibility.
Overall rank: #19 of 22 ranked clinics · Last checked: 24 September 2026
Positions by Rating Profile
- Overall Transparency & Trust#197.4/100
- Best for Expats#205.5/100
- Best for Dental Implantsnot ranked
- Best for Emergency Dental Carenot ranked
- Best Price Transparency#205/100
- 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 kebele 12 of central Bahir Dar, registered in the Master Facility Registry snapshot as Tana Dental Specialty Clinic and present on Google Maps with a telephone number and a single review. It publishes no website, no team and no fees. A second, unrelated Google listing under the name Tana Dental Clinic exists about two kilometres to the south-west with a different telephone number; this card is the central-city clinic that matches the register.
Strengths
No categories reached the strength threshold (80%).
Weaknesses
- Information Transparency: 4 of 20 verifiable points (missing: has a working website; dentist names listed; dentist specializations listed; real clinic photos; 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: 4.5 of 16 verifiable points (missing: google review volume; clinic responds to reviews; active Facebook presence; tripAdvisor presence; other review platforms)
- AI & Search Visibility: 0 of 10 verifiable points (missing: mentioned for: best dentist Ethiopia; mentioned for: English speaking dentist Ethiopia; mentioned for: dental implants Ethiopia; mentioned for: emergency dentist Ethiopia; mentioned for: Ethiopia dental clinic for expats; 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
Whether basic facts about the clinic - its team, premises, services, and location - are publicly verifiable.
| ✗ | Has a working website No website field on the clinic's own Google listing and no clinic-owned domain found in search. [gm] | 0/4 |
| ✗ | Dentist names listed [gm] | 0/3 |
| ✗ | Dentist specializations listed [gm] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Real clinic photos The listing publishes no photographs - an empty photo section on 2026-09-11 - and the clinic has no website, so no imagery of the premises is published anywhere readable. [gm] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Service list published The listing carries the single category "Dental clinic" and no service list. [gm] | 0/3 |
| ✓ | Clear contact details Telephone number and located address published on the clinic's own Google Business listing. [gm] | 2/2 |
| ✗ | English website version No independent website exists. [tana-dental-specialty-clinic-bahir-dar-deepen-2] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Address and map published [gm] | 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) Re-read on 2026-09-10 from the place-detail record, which publishes a 5.0 average from a single review, so the Bayesian adjustment matters. An earlier read the same day surfaced neither figure. [gm] | 3/6 |
| ✗ | Google review volume Re-read live on 2026-09-10. [gm] | 0/3 |
| ◐ | Review recency Newest Google review is dated 2026-06-25 (listing read 2026-09-26). [tana-dental-specialty-clinic-bahir-dar-gbp-2026-09-26] | 1.5/3 |
| ✗ | Clinic responds to reviews The Google listing is unclaimed (it offers "Claim this business"), so no owner replies to reviews (read 2026-09-26). [tana-dental-specialty-clinic-bahir-dar-gbp-2026-09-26] | 0/2 |
| ? | No recurring complaints Only 1 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 1 Google review (2026-06-25 to 2026-06-25), fewer than the ten needed to judge a pattern, so the criterion is left unassessed (read 2026-10-05). | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Active Facebook presence Facebook searches by its name with the city, by its phone number and by its name with "clinic" found no page of the clinic [tana-dental-specialty-clinic-bahir-dar-deepen-6] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | TripAdvisor presence TripAdvisor's own search has no listing for the clinic; only unrelated destinations match. Its Google Business listing carries no TripAdvisor reference either. [tana-dental-specialty-clinic-bahir-dar-deepen] [tana-dental-specialty-clinic-bahir-dar-deepen-5] | 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) [tana-dental-specialty-clinic-bahir-dar-deepen-7] [tana-dental-specialty-clinic-bahir-dar-deepen-8] [tana-dental-specialty-clinic-bahir-dar-deepen-9] | 0/0.5 |
Medical Infrastructure
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
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 | 0/2.5 |
| ? | Pre-visit consultation possible | 0/1.5 |
| ? | Clear service explanations | 0/1 |
| ? | Convenient opening hours No opening hours are published on any channel. The clinic has no website, and its Google Business Profile carries no weekly grid: the place record, read again on 2026-09-11, returns the listing's rating, its one-review star histogram and that review in full, but no hours, while the profiles of eleven other Ethiopian clinics in this directory did return one on the same day. Recorded as unverified rather than as inconvenient hours. [gm] | 0/1.5 |
AI & Search Visibility
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 [sq1] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | 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 [sq5] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Structured data on website No website exists to carry structured data. [tana-dental-specialty-clinic-bahir-dar-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. [tana-dental-specialty-clinic-bahir-dar-av4] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Dedicated service pages No website exists to carry service pages. [tana-dental-specialty-clinic-bahir-dar-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 1075025, registered name "Tana Dental Specialty Clinic", type Specialty Clinic, Bahir Dar town, kebele 12, status Approved, as of the 20 February 2025 public extract (Matched on an exact name match plus location: the register's row sits 32 m from this clinic's mapped Google place, in the same kebele. Location mattered here rather than name alone, because Google carries two places called Tana Dental Clinic in Bahir Dar; the other one, about two kilometres away with a different telephone number, does not correspond to this register row. 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 Bahir Dar clinics are issued by the Amhara Regional Health Bureau, which has no public web presence.) [mfr] [gm] [gm2]
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: 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: WhatsApp / LINE available
- Communication & Service: Response speed
- Communication & Service: English spoken
- Communication & Service: Pre-visit consultation possible
- Communication & Service: Clear service explanations
- Communication & Service: Convenient opening hours
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 91 180 6169 |
|---|---|
| Google Maps | Map listing |
| Address | Kebele 12, Bahir Dar, Amhara, 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=12800043549529632223 | Google place record read live 2026-09-10: "Tana Dental Clinic", Bahir Dar, coordinates 11.5893333/37.3881938, phone +251 91 180 6169, category Dental clinic, rating 5.0 from 1 review dated two months ago, no website field Re-read 2026-09-11: star histogram 0/0/0/0/1, the single review read in full and dated 2026-06-25, no opening hours and no photographs on the listing. | 2026-09-17 |
| gm2 | https://www.google.com/maps?cid=10245855188222068678 | Google place record read live 2026-09-10 for the other, unrelated "Tana Dental Clinic" at 11.5742086/37.3613533 with phone +251 91 159 2368 - used only to establish that the two listings are distinct places | 2026-09-10 |
| mfr | https://data.humdata.org/dataset/ethiopian-health-facilities | Ministry of Health Master Facility Registry public extract (snapshot 2025-02-20), row Id 1075025 "Tana Dental Specialty Clinic", Bahir Dar town, kebele 12, coordinates 11.5892515/37.3879103, status Approved | 2026-09-10 |
| sq1 | search:best dentist Bahir Dar Ethiopia | AI/search visibility check 2026-09-10: clinic absent from the top ten and no clinic-owned website found for it | 2026-09-10 |
| sq2 | search:English speaking dentist Bahir Dar | AI/search visibility check 2026-09-10: clinic absent from the top ten | 2026-09-10 |
| sq3 | search:dental implants Bahir Dar | AI/search visibility check 2026-09-10: clinic absent from the top ten | 2026-09-10 |
| sq4 | search:emergency dentist Bahir Dar | AI/search visibility check 2026-09-10: clinic absent from the top ten | 2026-09-10 |
| sq5 | search:Bahir Dar dental clinic for expats | AI/search visibility check 2026-09-10: clinic absent from the top ten | 2026-09-10 |
| tana-dental-specialty-clinic-bahir-dar-deepen | https://www.tripadvisor.com/TypeAheadJson?action=API&query=Tana%20D… | TripAdvisor's own search index, queried for "Tana Dental Specialty Bahir Dar" and read 2026-09-17: it answered with twelve results - Bahir Dar, Tana Toraja in Indonesia, Tana Bru in Norway and hotels - and no business listing for the clinic. | 2026-09-17 |
| tana-dental-specialty-clinic-bahir-dar-deepen-2 | https://www.google.com/maps?cid=12800043549529632223&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 |
| tana-dental-specialty-clinic-bahir-dar-deepen-3 | https://www.google.com/maps?cid=12800043549529632223&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 |
| tana-dental-specialty-clinic-bahir-dar-deepen-4 | https://www.google.com/maps?cid=12800043549529632223&hl=en | No website exists (re-confirmed 2026-09-24) to host individual service pages. | 2026-09-24 |
| tana-dental-specialty-clinic-bahir-dar-deepen-5 | https://www.google.com/maps?cid=12800043549529632223 | Google place record, re-read 2026-09-17: no TripAdvisor link or mention anywhere on the listing. | 2026-09-17 |
| tana-dental-specialty-clinic-bahir-dar-gbp-2026-09-26 | https://www.google.com/maps?cid=12800043549529632223&hl=en | Google listing read on 2026-09-26: rating 5 from 1 reviews; star histogram 1★ 0 / 2★ 0 / 3★ 0 / 4★ 0 / 5★ 1; newest review dated 2026-06-25; the listing is unclaimed (it offers "Claim this business"). | 2026-09-26 |
| tana-dental-specialty-clinic-bahir-dar-deepen-6 | https://www.facebook.com/ | Facebook searches on 2026-09-30 by its name with the city, by its phone number and by its name with "clinic": only unrelated "Tana Dental Clinic" pages abroad (Thailand, Mongolia, Cambodia, Iran); no page of the clinic in Bahir Dar | 2026-09-30 |
| tana-dental-specialty-clinic-bahir-dar-deepen-7 | 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 |
| tana-dental-specialty-clinic-bahir-dar-deepen-8 | 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 |
| tana-dental-specialty-clinic-bahir-dar-deepen-9 | 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 |
| tana-dental-specialty-clinic-bahir-dar-av4 | search:"Tana Dental Specialty Clinic" Bahir Dar | Web search run on 2026-10-05 (English, US results) for the clinic's name and city: 9 results listed. no page of an own site: the results are Saudi ministry news pages and clinics in other countries. Listed: four Saudi ministry news pages, a Tanzanian clinic page, two WhatClinic Tanzania pages and two Bookimed pages. | 2026-10-05 |
Change History
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-05 | Reputation check 2026-10-05 on the clinic's Google listing (1 reviews read): nothing settled; recurring complaints, 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. |
| 2026-09-30 | Searched Facebook for the clinic by its name with the city, by its phone number and by its name with "clinic"; none of the searches found a page of the clinic. Recorded absence from Facebook. |
| 2026-09-29 | Corrected 2026-09-29: no recurring complaints now unverified: 1 Google review is too few to show a pattern; review recency within a year (newest review dated 2026-06-25); no owner replies to reviews: the Google listing is unclaimed. |
| 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: Facebook presence and other review platforms. |
| 2026-09-17 | Checked TripAdvisor's own search index for the clinic: no listing exists there, and its Google Business profile carries no TripAdvisor reference either. Recorded: no TripAdvisor presence. Still unverified: other review platforms, and any equipment, service or communication details - the clinic publishes none of these on a channel of its own. |
| 2026-09-11 | Editorial review: the opening-hours criterion, previously left blank, now records that the clinic publishes no hours on any channel, checked against the live place record on 2026-09-11. The website criterion no longer cites a search query as evidence. |
| 2026-09-11 | Reputation pass: the one-review base with its exact date, the star histogram and the empty photo section read from the live place record. |
| 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; a same-name listing elsewhere in the city was checked and excluded. |
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