Nakuru Dental Centre
According to our open methodology, this clinic scored 47.7/100 for transparency, reputation, service accessibility, and digital visibility.
Overall rank: #12 of 18 ranked clinics · Last checked: 3 September 2026
47.7/100
Positions by Rating Profile
- Overall Transparency & Trust#1247.7/100
- Best for Expats#1049/100
- Best for Dental Implants#1142/100
- Best for Emergency Dental Care#750/100
- Best Price Transparency#1531.5/100
- Best English-speaking Clinics#1054/100
- 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
Nakuru Dental Centre is a dental practice at Giddo Plaza on George Morara Avenue West, Nakuru. Its treating dentist is named in Google reviews as Dr. Silvanus Barasa.
The clinic's own website was found and read on 2026-09-02 at nakudent.com (a single-page React app; its content was read from the published bundle). It names its dentist as Dr. Barasa — matching the Dr. Silvanus Barasa named in Google reviews, and matching 'Dr SILVANOS IWOUN BARASA' (B5*5, BDS Nairobi 1995, General Practice, ACTIVE) in the KMPDC practitioner register; the spelling differs across all three sources, so he is recorded here with that disclosure. The site's own embedded map is centred on the exact coordinates recorded on this card, and its published phone (+254 722 375 820, also its WhatsApp number) differs from the 2011-vintage directory number, +254 51 2214193.
Strengths
- Information Transparency: 16 of 20 points.
Weaknesses
- 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)
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
16 / 20
Whether basic facts about the clinic - its team, premises, services, and location - are publicly verifiable.
| ✓ | Has a working website Site is live, canonical-tagged and indexable (https://www.nakudent.com/). This card already cited the same domain five times under aiVisibility while recording 'no website', which was an internal contradiction. [site] | 4/4 |
| ✓ | Dentist names listed The clinic's own site names its dentist throughout ('Dr. Barasa AI Bot', 'Meet Dr. Barasa AI Assistant', 'Dr. Barasa's Favourites', channel @drbarasa1), and Google reviews name him as Dr. Silvanus Barasa. [site] [gmaps1] | 3/3 |
| ? | Dentist specializations listed | 0/2 |
| ? | Real clinic photos | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Service list published Seven named services, each with a description: general cleaning, root canals, crowns and bridges, extractions, orthodontics, implants, cosmetic dentistry. [site] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Clear contact details Phone and WhatsApp +254 722 375 820 on every page of the clinic's website, and the same number on its Google listing. [nakuru-dental-centre-deepen-2] [nakuru-dental-centre-deepen-3] [dir1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | English website version [site] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Address and map published The site publishes a 'Find Us' section with an embedded Google map centred on -0.2876837, 36.0590067 — the exact coordinates recorded on this card — plus a maps.app.goo.gl link to the same listing. [site] | 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 No figures anywhere on the site; the only money on it is the M-Pesa paybill for settling an existing balance. [site] | 0/3 |
| ✗ | Cleaning price listed [site] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Filling price listed [site] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Crown price listed [site] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Implant price listed [site] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Consultation price listed [site] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | X-ray / imaging price listed [site] | 0/2 |
Reputation & Reviews
11 / 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) [gmaps1] | 3/6 |
| ◐ | Google review volume [gmaps1] | 1/3 |
| ✓ | Review recency Newest review rendered on the Maps place page on 2026-09-03 is dated "a month ago"; the bucket recorded is never better than the page proves. Sample: the 8 reviews Google Maps rendered on the place page's Reviews tab on 2026-09-03, read in a browser, in Google's relevance order — Maps' "Sort reviews" control would not open (clicked by element reference and by a dispatched in-page click(); the menu never opened), so no newest-first ordering was available. Published star histogram 5★→1★: 24/0/1/0/4, which sums to the 29 reviews in the place header. [gmaps1] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Clinic responds to reviews Read on the clinic's own Google listing on 2026-09-11: the practice has answered 5 of the 5 reviews shown there (29 published in total), most recently on 2026-07-10. One reply reads: "Most welcome to visit us again all the way from china accross the seas". [gmaps1] [gm-replies] | 2/2 |
| ? | No recurring complaints | 0/2 |
| ✓ | No suspicious review patterns The histogram keeps four one-star reviews (14% of 29) unremoved and the owner has answered all eight visible reviews including the three-star. Published as a caveat rather than a clean bill: seven of the eight visible reviews fall in the seven-to-ten-months band. Against reading that as a burst - Maps' granularity there is months, not days, the eight describe different treatments in individual wording, and the one-star block stands. Sample: the 8 reviews Google Maps rendered on the place page's Reviews tab on 2026-09-03, read in a browser, in Google's relevance order — Maps' "Sort reviews" control would not open (clicked by element reference and by a dispatched in-page click(); the menu never opened), so no newest-first ordering was available. Published star histogram 5★→1★: 24/0/1/0/4, which sums to the 29 reviews in the place header. [gmaps1] | 2/2 |
| ? | Active Facebook presence Not established: the Facebook account under the clinic's name (facebook.com/nakudent) is a personal profile, not a page of the clinic, and the clinic's website links no Facebook page (checked 2026-10-05). [nakuru-dental-centre-fb] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | TripAdvisor presence No TripAdvisor listing found via its search for "Nakuru Dental Centre" and "Dental Centre"; the clinic's site does not link to TripAdvisor (checked 2026-10-02 and 2026-10-05). [nakuru-dental-centre-tripadvisor] [nakuru-dental-centre-tripadvisor-2] | 0/0.5 |
| ✗ | Other review platforms No profile found on WhatClinic, Dental Departures, Bookimed or Trustpilot; Doctor254 and BusinessList Kenya carry only unclaimed directory entries without reviews (checked 2026-10-02). [nakuru-dental-centre-presence] [nakuru-dental-centre-presence-2] [nakuru-dental-centre-presence-3] [nakuru-dental-centre-presence-4] [nakuru-dental-centre-presence-5] [nakuru-dental-centre-presence-6] | 0/0.5 |
Medical Infrastructure
7.5 / 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 Implants listed as a service with its own description. [site] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Orthodontics Orthodontics listed as a service with its own description. [site] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Oral surgery Extractions and root canal therapy listed as services. [site] | 2/2 |
| ? | Pediatric dentistry | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | Emergency care Site states '24/7 emergency care' with a dedicated number, repeats 'Emergency: 24/7' in the footer contact block, and lists Sunday as 'Closed (Emergency 24/7)'. [site] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ? | Works with international patients | 0/2 |
Communication & Service
7 / 10
How easy it is to contact the clinic, get answers, and book - especially for international patients.
| ✓ | WhatsApp / LINE available WhatsApp is the clinic’s primary channel: wa.me/254722375820 for booking, balance checks and queue check-in, with a floating chat button on every page. [site] | 2/2 |
| ? | Response speed | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | English spoken [site] | 2.5/2.5 |
| ? | Pre-visit consultation possible | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | Clear service explanations Each of the seven services carries its own plain-language description. [site] | 1/1 |
| ✓ | Convenient opening hours Open 7 am-7 pm Monday to Saturday, so both evening and weekend hours are published; closed Sunday. [nakuru-dental-centre-deepen] | 1.5/1.5 |
AI & Search Visibility
5 / 10
Whether the clinic is discoverable when patients search - including via AI assistants. Checked with fixed queries: "best dentist Kenya", "English speaking dentist Kenya", "dental implants Kenya", "emergency dentist Kenya", "Kenya dental clinic for expats".
| ✓ | Mentioned for: best dentist Kenya [search-best] | 1/1 |
| ✓ | Mentioned for: English speaking dentist Kenya [search-english] | 1/1 |
| ✓ | Mentioned for: dental implants Kenya [search-implants] | 1/1 |
| ✓ | Mentioned for: emergency dentist Kenya [search-emergency] | 1/1 |
| ✓ | Mentioned for: Kenya dental clinic for expats [search-expats] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | Structured data on website No JSON-LD in the served page; the app ships Open Graph and Twitter card meta only. [site] | 0/1.5 |
| ? | Google indexing quality | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Dedicated service pages Services are listed together on one Services page (seven services, a paragraph each); the menu links no separate service pages. [nakuru-dental-centre-deepen-4] | 0/1.5 |
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: not published on the clinic’s website — red flag applied [nakuru-dental-centre-lic]
Dentists & professional licences
| Dentist | Specialization | Licence No. | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dr. Silvanus Barasa [site] [gmaps1] [nakuru-dental-centre-doclic] | General Practice | KMPDC B5*5 | The KMPDC public register prints practitioner numbers partly masked; the number is shown here exactly as the register prints it. |
Red Flags
- medium Clinic operating licence not published (-4 pts) — The clinic does not publish its operating licence or registration number (derived from data).
Red-flag penalty applied: -4 points (capped at -20).
Data We Could Not Verify
- Information Transparency: Dentist specializations listed
- Information Transparency: Real clinic photos
- Reputation & Reviews: No recurring complaints
- Reputation & Reviews: Active Facebook presence
- Medical Infrastructure: On-site X-ray
- Medical Infrastructure: CBCT (3D imaging)
- Medical Infrastructure: Pediatric dentistry
- Medical Infrastructure: Works with international patients
- Communication & Service: Response speed
- Communication & Service: Pre-visit consultation possible
- AI & Search Visibility: Google indexing quality
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
| Website | https://www.nakudent.com/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +254 722 375 820 |
| +254 722 375 820 | |
| Google Maps | Map listing |
| Address | Giddo Plaza, George Morara Avenue West, Nakuru, Kenya |
Contact details are provided for identification only and may change; verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| dir1 | https://www.businesslist.co.ke/category/dentists/city:nakuru | Address, phone, practice name | 2026-09-02 |
| nakuru-dental-centre-lic | https://registers.kmpdc.go.ke/healthFacilities/getLicensedPrivateHe… | Registry search outcome over the complete 7,170-row register (independent parse, 2026-09-02): no facility matching 'NAKURU DENTAL', 'GIDDO' and 'NAKUDENT'; NAKURU County holds 28 dental-typed or dental-named facilities, none of them this practice | 2026-09-02 |
| gmaps1 | https://www.google.com/maps/place/Nakuru+Dental+Centre/@-0.2876837,… | Live Google Maps place card: rating 4.4, 29 reviews; matched on distinctive practice+building name (Giddo Plaza); reviews name dentist Dr. Silvanus Barasa | 2026-09-03 |
| search-best | https://www.google.com/search?q=best+dentist+Nakuru | search: clinic's own domain nakudent.com in page-1 organic results | 2026-09-02 |
| search-english | https://www.google.com/search?q=English+speaking+dentist+Nakuru | search: clinic's own domain nakudent.com in page-1 organic results | 2026-09-02 |
| search-implants | https://www.google.com/search?q=dental+implants+Nakuru | search: clinic's own domain nakudent.com in page-1 organic results | 2026-09-02 |
| search-emergency | https://www.google.com/search?q=emergency+dentist+Nakuru | search: clinic's own domain nakudent.com in page-1 organic results (explicit 24/7 emergency line) | 2026-09-02 |
| search-expats | https://www.google.com/search?q=Nakuru+dental+clinic+for+expats | search: appears in Local Pack and page-1 organic results | 2026-09-02 |
| site | https://www.nakudent.com/ | Clinic's own site, read 2026-09-02 (single-page React app; content read from its published bundle): services, hours, emergency line, WhatsApp channel, embedded map, dentist name | 2026-09-02 |
| nakuru-dental-centre-doclic | https://registers.kmpdc.go.ke/localPractitioners/getLicensedDentalP… | Register row: 'Dr SILVANOS IWOUN BARASA', B5*5, BDS(Nairobi) 1995, General Practice, status ACTIVE (independent parse, 2026-09-02) | 2026-09-02 |
| gm-replies | https://www.google.com/maps?cid=6269472802829130297&hl=en | Reviews read on the clinic's Google listing 2026-09-11: 5 of 5 carry a reply from the practice, newest 2026-07-10 | 2026-09-17 |
| nakuru-dental-centre-deepen | https://www.google.com/maps?cid=6269472802829130297&hl=en | Google listing hours read 2026-09-17: Mon-Sat 7 AM-7 PM, Sun closed. | 2026-09-17 |
| nakuru-dental-centre-deepen-2 | https://www.nakudent.com/ | The clinic's website read on 2026-09-30 (all seven pages in its sitemap; content from its published script): phone and WhatsApp +254 722 375 820, with a WhatsApp link on every page, a Telegram channel and a "Find Us" map | 2026-09-30 |
| nakuru-dental-centre-deepen-3 | https://www.google.com/maps?cid=6269472802829130297&hl=en | Google listing read on 2026-09-30: Giddo Plaza, Harvester Rd, Nakuru, with its map pin; phone +254 722 375820; website nakudent.com | 2026-09-30 |
| nakuru-dental-centre-presence | https://www.whatclinic.com/dentists/kenya | WhatClinic: its Kenya dentist directory lists a single clinic (Dean's Dental Implants, Kiambu Road), and its profile sitemaps hold one Kenyan dentist profile, the same clinic — no profile for this clinic (checked 2026-10-02) | 2026-10-02 |
| nakuru-dental-centre-presence-2 | https://www.dentaldepartures.com/ | Dental Departures: its clinic search does not recognise Kenya or Nakuru as a location and falls back to its worldwide list — no clinic listed in Kenya (checked 2026-10-02) | 2026-10-02 |
| nakuru-dental-centre-presence-3 | https://bookimed.com/clinics/country=kenya/ | Bookimed: its Kenya clinic page has been removed ("410 — Page removed"), and none of the 2,127 clinic pages in its clinic sitemap is in Kenya (checked 2026-10-02) | 2026-10-02 |
| nakuru-dental-centre-presence-4 | https://www.trustpilot.com/review/nakudent.com | Trustpilot: no page for nakudent.com (checked 2026-10-02) | 2026-10-02 |
| nakuru-dental-centre-presence-5 | https://www.doctor254.com/kenya/nakuru/dentist/nakuru-dental-centre | Doctor254: "Nakuru Dental Centre" directory entry, Harvester Rd, Giddo Plaza, Nakuru, read 2026-10-02: unclaimed ("Are you Nakuru Dental Centre? Claim this profile now"), no reviews, phone numbers 0721 378488 / 0733 715370 (different from the clinic's listed phone, +254 722 375 820) — not a profile kept by the clinic | 2026-10-02 |
| nakuru-dental-centre-presence-6 | https://www.businesslist.co.ke/company/28538/nakuru-dental-centre | BusinessList Kenya company page "Nakuru Dental Centre", read 2026-10-02: unverified entry at Giddo Plaza, George Morara Ave West, Nakuru, no phone, no reviews — not a profile kept by the clinic | 2026-10-02 |
| nakuru-dental-centre-deepen-4 | https://www.nakudent.com/services | The /services page lists seven services (cleaning, root canals, crowns and bridges, extractions, orthodontics, implants, cosmetic dentistry) with a short paragraph each on one page; its only link is the booking page, and the menu has no per-service pages (read 2026-10-05). | 2026-10-05 |
| nakuru-dental-centre-fb | https://www.facebook.com/nakudent/ | Facebook address facebook.com/nakudent opened on 2026-10-05: a personal profile named "Nakuru Dental Centre" ("is on Facebook. Join Facebook to connect"), with no page details, reviews or public posts | 2026-10-05 |
| nakuru-dental-centre-tripadvisor | https://www.tripadvisor.com/TypeAheadJson?action=API&query=Nakuru%2… | TripAdvisor's own search, read 2026-10-02: 12 suggestions for "Nakuru Dental Centre" (2 places, 4 attractions, 6 hotels), none of them a dental practice in or near Nakuru; read 2026-10-05: 12 suggestions for "Dental Centre" (10 attractions, 2 hotels), none of them a dental practice in or near Nakuru; no listing for this clinic | 2026-10-05 |
| nakuru-dental-centre-tripadvisor-2 | https://www.nakudent.com/ | Clinic's website, home page read 2026-10-05: no link to a TripAdvisor page | 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 | Read the clinic website (menu and Services page): no separate service pages. |
| 2026-10-02 | Presence on review platforms checked 2026-10-02: no profile on WhatClinic, Dental Departures, Bookimed or Trustpilot; Doctor254 and BusinessList Kenya carry only unclaimed directory entries without reviews. |
| 2026-09-30 | Re-read 2026-09-30 on the clinic's website and Google listing: contacts now rest on them, and the phone is updated to the clinic's own number, +254 722 375 820. |
| 2026-09-29 | Corrected 2026-09-29: no recurring complaints now unverified: 1–2★ ratings are 4 of 29 and the low reviews themselves were not read. |
| 2026-09-17 | Opening hours re-read on 2026-09-17. Recorded: the clinic publishes Saturday opening hours, which counts as weekend availability. Open 7 am-7 pm Monday to Saturday, so both evening and weekend hours are published; closed Sunday. |
| 2026-09-11 | Rechecked whether this practice answers its Google reviews by reading the reviews on its own Google listing on 2026-09-11: confirmed, 5 of the 5 reviews read carry a dated reply from the practice, the newest dated 2026-07-10. |
| 2026-09-03 | Reputation pass: the Maps place page's Reviews tab was read in a browser (8 reviews visible in relevance order, histogram 24/0/1/0/4); reviewRecency=within_3_months, responds=true, complaints=false, suspicious=false. Rating and review count reproduced from the histogram, unchanged. |
| 2026-09-02 | Live Google Maps rating/review count and geo added, own website found; 5 canonical aiVisibility queries checked (all true). |
| 2026-09-02 | Initial research. |
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