Dr. Shem Rakewa Dental Centre

Positions by Rating Profile

• Overall Transparency & Trust#758.3/100
• Best for Expats#756.3/100
• Best for Dental Implants#851/100
• Best for Emergency Dental Carenot ranked
• Best Price Transparency#741/100
• Best English-speaking Clinics#761/100
• Best for Families / Children#760.5/100
• 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

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Summary

Dr. Shem Rakewa Dental Centre, founded 2017, operates from Kisumu Megacity with a second branch at Freedom Heights, Langata Road, Nairobi. The clinic lists over 10 staff and offers pediatric, general, orthodontic, implant and cosmetic dentistry, accepting a broad range of Kenyan insurers.

Secondary phone 0768 020 319. Hours: Mon-Fri 9:00am-6:00pm, Sat-Sun 8:00am-1:00pm. The site states its main facility is registered with the Medical Practitioners and Dentists Board as “Dr.Shem Rakewa Dental centre”, and the KMPDC facility register confirms exactly that (see licensing), as well as Dr. Rakewa's own practitioner licence. Live Google Maps has a listing titled "Dr. Shem Dental :Kisumu" (4.9, 69 reviews) whose phone (+254 732 224624) matches exactly; a separate, lower-rated Maps profile "Dr. Shem Rakewa Dental Clinic" (4.2, 6 reviews, Market Milimani) also exists under the practice's own name but with a non-matching phone — treated as a namesake/duplicate listing, not used here. Checked 2026-09-02: the Maps URL cited on this card is a Plus Code location page rather than the business listing — flagged for a browser spot-check. Parts of the site are unfinished template placeholder (Lorem ipsum in the hero and testimonial blocks); no weight was given to any of it. Browser spot-check 2026-09-03: the business listing was opened and its place URL recovered - it publishes 4.9 / 69, the phone +254 732 224624, the site drshemdental.com and the location "VQVC+49, Kisumu, located in Mega City Mall", confirming the identity the 2026-09-02 pass could only infer. The citation defect is closed. The owner replies to reviews on that page (three of three visible reviews carry an owner response), which is recorded here rather than scored, since respondsToReviews was outside this pass.

Score Breakdown

Every criterion below is scored from public sources. ✓ verified yes · ✗ verified no / not found · ◐ partial · ? unverified (scores 0, not a negative finding).

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: 01***1 (KMPDC – Register of Licensed Private Health Facilities) (KMPDC Register of Licensed Private Health Facilities, re-parsed in full 2026-09-02: 'DR. SHEM RAKEWA DENTAL CLINIC' | 01***1 | Dental Clinic | Level 2 | County KISUMU | postal 386 40100 KISUMU | ACTIVE. The clinic's own site states the same thing in its own words: 'Our main dental health care facility is registered by the medical practitioners and dentists board as “Dr.Shem Rakewa Dental centre”.' The earlier 'not found' verdict on this card was an artefact of a truncated read of the register (only the first ~1,000 of 7,170 rows were visible); this row is at a later index.) [shem-rakewa-dental-centre-lic]

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
• Medical Infrastructure: On-site X-ray
• Medical Infrastructure: CBCT (3D imaging)
• Medical Infrastructure: Emergency care
• Medical Infrastructure: Works with international patients
• Communication & Service: WhatsApp / LINE available
• Communication & Service: Response speed
• Communication & Service: Clear service explanations
• AI & Search Visibility: Mentioned for: emergency dentist Kenya
• AI & Search Visibility: Mentioned for: Kenya dental clinic for expats
• 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

Contact details are provided for identification only and may change; verify with the clinic directly.

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