Alif Dental Care
According to our open methodology, this clinic scored 54.4/100 for transparency, reputation, service accessibility, and digital visibility.
Overall rank: #18 of 20 ranked clinics · Last checked: 11 September 2026
54.4/100
Positions by Rating Profile
- Overall Transparency & Trust#1854.4/100
- Best for Expats#1854.3/100
- Best for Dental Implants#1549/100
- Best for Emergency Dental Care#1357.8/100
- Best Price Transparency#1738.6/100
- Best English-speaking Clinics#1859/100
- Best for Families / Children#1259.4/100
- 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) — No general anaesthesia or deep sedation documented The published service descriptions document no general anaesthesia or deep sedation. [s1]
Summary
Multi-speciality practice on O.R. Nizam Road opposite Premier University, trading since 2005 and named on its Google listing after its principal, Dr. Abdullah M. H. Chowdhury. Its published range covers maxillofacial surgery, orthodontic braces, implant prosthesis and child and family dentistry, with sterilisation equipment named as part of the clinic's own hygiene claim. Appointments are by arrangement, including Fridays, and an emergency number is published. Prices and dentist registration numbers are not published, and its Google review base is small.
Strengths
- Information Transparency: 18 of 20 points.
- No red flags identified in public sources.
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)
- AI & Search Visibility: 2 of 10 verifiable points (missing: mentioned for: best dentist Bangladesh; mentioned for: English speaking dentist Bangladesh; mentioned for: dental implants Bangladesh; mentioned for: Bangladesh dental clinic for expats; structured data on website; 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
18 / 20
Whether basic facts about the clinic - its team, premises, services, and location - are publicly verifiable.
| ✓ | Has a working website Read on 2026-09-10: a current site with service descriptions, testimonials, an appointment route and contact details — substantial body content. [s1] | 4/4 |
| ✓ | Dentist names listed The clinic's own testimonials and its Google listing name the principal as Dr. Abdullah M. H. Chowdhury; no other clinician is named on the site. [s1] [gm1] | 3/3 |
| ✗ | Dentist specializations listed No degree, postgraduate qualification or stated speciality is published for the named principal anywhere on the clinic's own site. [s1] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Real clinic photos The listing's photographs were downloaded at full size and looked at on 2026-09-11. They show these premises: a treatment room with an orange chair against tropical-leaf wallpaper, photographed by the practice itself from two angles in 2021; the same chair close up with the equipment trolley and monitor; and the small consulting office with a clinician's coat over the chair. A modest fit-out, photographed as it is — genuine premises, not stock imagery. [gm2] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Service list published The clinic publishes its treatment range with a description each: maxillofacial surgery, orthodontic braces, implant prosthesis, child and family dentistry, and general restorative work. [s1] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Clear contact details A booking number, a separate emergency number and the full building address with landmarks are published on the clinic's own site; the booking number matches the Google listing. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | English website version The site is published in English and carries an explicit English language option. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Address and map published The building, road and landmarks are published on the clinic's own site and agree with the Google listing. [s1] | 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 price list, ranges or fee page anywhere on the clinic's own site. [s1] | 0/3 |
| ✗ | Cleaning price listed No cleaning or scaling price is published. [s1] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Filling price listed No filling price is published. [s1] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Crown price listed No crown price is published. [s1] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Implant price listed Implant prosthesis is described without a price. [s1] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Consultation price listed No consultation fee is published. [s1] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | X-ray / imaging price listed No imaging price is published. [s1] | 0/2 |
Reputation & Reviews
13.5 / 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) Read from the live Google Maps place record on 2026-09-10 (automated tile read, hl=en). [gm1] | 3/6 |
| ◐ | Google review volume Six reviews, re-read from the listing's own place record on 2026-09-11; the star histogram (1★=0, 2★=0, 3★=0, 4★=1, 5★=5) sums to exactly that figure. A very small base for a practice trading since 2005. [gm1] [gm2] | 0.5/3 |
| ✓ | Review recency Dated from the listing's own review records on 2026-09-11, which carry exact timestamps rather than rounded labels: the newest review with a date is 3 August 2026, 39 days before the check. The other four readable reviews are much older — two from July 2019, one from July 2019 as edited, and one from April 2022 — so this listing collects reviews very slowly, but it is current. [gm2] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Clinic responds to reviews Read on 2026-09-11: all five readable reviews carry a reply from the practice, and the way they were posted is worth stating. Four of the five replies are dated 3 August 2026 and answer reviews from 2019 and 2022 — the practice answered years of accumulated reviews in a single sitting, on the same day it answered a new one. The replies are short ("It's an pleasure & honour to serve you") but individually posted. The practice does answer its reviews; it simply did not do so for a long time. [gm2] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | No recurring complaints Settled by arithmetic on 2026-09-11. The listing's star histogram is 1★=0, 2★=0, 3★=0, 4★=1, 5★=5: there is not one review below four stars in the whole base. The criterion needs at least three dated reviews by different authors describing the same complaint, and with no critical review in existence that threshold cannot be met. No repeated complaint, proven on the full distribution — though on a base of six that says little about the practice either way. [gm2] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | No suspicious review patterns Six reviews is too small a base for a histogram to mean much, so the dates were read instead on 2026-09-11. They spread over seven years, from July 2019 to August 2026, which rules out a burst outright: a base that takes seven years to reach six reviews is not being built. One four-star rating stands among the five-star ones. No repeated wording. [gm2] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Active Facebook presence The clinic links its own Facebook page from its site. [fb1] [s1] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | TripAdvisor presence No TripAdvisor listing found via its search for "Alif Dental Care Chattogram" and "Alif Dental"; the clinic's site does not link to TripAdvisor (checked 2026-10-05). [alif-dental-care-chattogram-tripadvisor] [alif-dental-care-chattogram-tripadvisor-2] | 0/0.5 |
| ✗ | Other review platforms No profile of the clinic on WhatClinic, Healtha, Dental Departures, Bookimed or Trustpilot (checked 2026-10-02). [alif-dental-care-chattogram-platforms] [alif-dental-care-chattogram-platforms-2] [alif-dental-care-chattogram-platforms-3] [alif-dental-care-chattogram-platforms-4] [alif-dental-care-chattogram-platforms-5] | 0/0.5 |
Medical Infrastructure
9 / 15
The range of publicly documented equipment and services. This measures documented availability, not clinical quality.
| ? | On-site X-ray The clinic claims the latest dental and sterilisation equipment without naming an imaging unit. Left unset rather than recorded as a denial. [s1] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | CBCT (3D imaging) No cone-beam CT or 3D imaging is claimed anywhere on the clinic's own site. [s1] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Implantology Implant prosthesis treatment is a published service with a description of the surgical placement. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Orthodontics Orthodontic braces treatment is a published service. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Oral surgery Maxillofacial surgery — jaw realignment, facial trauma repair and implant placement — is a published service. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Pediatric dentistry Child and family dentistry is a published service line with a stated focus on making young patients comfortable. [s1] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ✓ | Emergency care The clinic publishes a separate emergency telephone number alongside its booking number. [s1] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ? | Works with international patients Nothing about international patients, insurance or language support is published. Left unset. | 0/2 |
Communication & Service
6.5 / 10
How easy it is to contact the clinic, get answers, and book - especially for international patients.
| ✗ | WhatsApp / LINE available The site publishes voice numbers and a booking form; no WhatsApp or messenger link appears in its markup. [s1] | 0/2 |
| ? | Response speed | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | English spoken The clinic's own site is published in English and offers an explicit English language option. [s1] | 2.5/2.5 |
| ✓ | Pre-visit consultation possible An appointment booking route is published on the clinic's own site, and the practice states it works by appointment. [s1] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ✓ | Clear service explanations Each treatment is explained in plain English — what maxillofacial surgery covers, how braces move teeth, how implants are placed. [s1] | 1/1 |
| ✓ | Convenient opening hours Settled on 2026-09-11 from the practice's own Google Business Profile, which publishes Saturday to Thursday 09:00–14:00 and 16:00–22:00 with Friday closed. Evening sessions run to 22:00 six days a week. One divergence is worth recording: the clinic's own site offers appointments on Fridays by arrangement, while its Business Profile marks Friday closed, so a patient wanting a Friday appointment should telephone rather than rely on either listing. [s1] [gm2] | 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 Bangladesh", "English speaking dentist Bangladesh", "dental implants Bangladesh", "emergency dentist Bangladesh", "Bangladesh dental clinic for expats".
| ✗ | Mentioned for: best dentist Bangladesh The canonical city query was run in the AI-visibility pass on 2026-09-10 (web search); the clinic does not appear. [bsq1] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: English speaking dentist Bangladesh The canonical query was run on 2026-09-10; the clinic does not appear. [bsq2] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: dental implants Bangladesh The canonical query was run on 2026-09-10; the clinic does not appear. [bsq3] | 0/1 |
| ✓ | Mentioned for: emergency dentist Bangladesh The clinic's own front page appears at rank 7 for this canonical query on 2026-09-10. [bsq4] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: Bangladesh dental clinic for expats The canonical query was run on 2026-09-10; the clinic does not appear. [bsq5] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Structured data on website No schema.org JSON-LD or microdata was found on the clinic's own front page. [s1] | 0/1.5 |
| ◐ | Google indexing quality A name-and-city search on 2026-09-10 returns the clinic’s own front page first, but that single page is the only result from its own domain in the first eleven; the rest are its Facebook page and third-party directories, which is what a one-page site produces. [giq1] | 1/2 |
| ✗ | Dedicated service pages The treatments are sections of a single long front page rather than separate service URLs. [s1] | 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.
- #1Dr. Teeth Family Dental Clinic (Chandgaon)33.4 of 100View report →
- #2Fouzia Dental Care27.5 of 100View report →
- #3Dr. Rizwan's Iconic Dental Laser & Implant Center45.4 of 100View report →
Measured by Ansmeter, 8 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: not checked against public sources yet — unverified, no penalty
Dentists & professional licences
| Dentist | Specialization | Licence No. |
|---|---|---|
| Dr. Abdullah M. H. Chowdhury [s1] [gm1] | Principal dentist; no degree or speciality published by the clinic | not verified |
Dentists are named; their licence numbers have not been checked against public sources yet — unverified, no penalty.
Red Flags
No red flags identified in the public sources we reviewed.
Data We Could Not Verify
- Medical Infrastructure: On-site X-ray
- Medical Infrastructure: Works with international patients
- Communication & Service: Response speed
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.alif-dental.com/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +880 1611-022280 |
| https://www.facebook.com/AlifDentalCare | |
| Google Maps | Map listing |
| Address | Chowdhury Bhaban (1st Floor), 1284 O.R. Nizam Road, opposite Premier University, Probartak Circle, Chattogram 4203, Bangladesh |
Contact details are provided for identification only and may change; verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | https://www.alif-dental.com/index.html | Clinic's own site: founding year, service descriptions, sterilisation claim, testimonials naming the principal, booking and emergency numbers, address | 2026-09-10 |
| gm1 | https://www.google.com/maps/place/x/@22.36063,91.8281818,17z/data=!… | Live Google Maps place record read automatically on 2026-09-10: listing name including the principal, address, categories, website, phone, rating, review count, coordinates | 2026-09-10 |
| fb1 | https://www.facebook.com/AlifDentalCare | Clinic's own Facebook page, linked from its site | 2026-09-10 |
| dghs1 | http://103.247.238.81/hsmdghs/registration/hsm_facility_show_public… | DGHS Hospital Services Management public facility list, read in full on 2026-09-10 | 2026-09-10 |
| giq1 | search:"Alif Dental Care" Chittagong | Name-and-city search used to judge how well the clinic’s own pages rank for its own name (web search) | 2026-09-10 |
| bsq1 | search:best dentist Chattogram Bangladesh | Canonical visibility query, AI-visibility pass (web search) | 2026-09-10 |
| bsq2 | search:English speaking dentist Chattogram | Canonical visibility query, AI-visibility pass (web search) | 2026-09-10 |
| bsq3 | search:dental implants Chattogram | Canonical visibility query, AI-visibility pass (web search) | 2026-09-10 |
| bsq4 | search:emergency dentist Chattogram | Canonical visibility query, AI-visibility pass (web search) | 2026-09-10 |
| bsq5 | search:Chattogram dental clinic for expats | Canonical visibility query, AI-visibility pass (web search) | 2026-09-10 |
| gm2 | https://www.google.com/maps?cid=6132194124472343528&hl=en | Live Google Maps place record for this listing, re-read on 2026-09-11: the star histogram behind the published rating, the review records Google renders with their exact dates, reviewer account histories and any reply from the practice, the opening week published in the clinic's own Google Business Profile, and the listing's photographs with the date and uploader of each | 2026-09-11 |
| alif-dental-care-chattogram-platforms | https://www.whatclinic.com/dentists/bangladesh | WhatClinic, read 2026-10-02: every page of its Bangladesh dentist listing (2 pages, 37 clinics), its Chittagong listing (1 page, 2 clinics) and its profile sitemaps (38 dentist profiles in Bangladesh) have no profile for Alif Dental Care; the profile addresses built from its name (/dentists/bangladesh/alif-dental-care, /dentists/bangladesh/alif-dental-care-chattogram) return not found | 2026-10-02 |
| alif-dental-care-chattogram-platforms-2 | https://healtha.io/sitemap_index.xml | Healtha, read 2026-10-02: its sitemaps (2,267 hospital pages, 7,353 doctor pages) have no page for Alif Dental Care or for the dentists named on its card | 2026-10-02 |
| alif-dental-care-chattogram-platforms-3 | https://www.dentaldepartures.com/ | Dental Departures: its clinic search does not recognise Bangladesh or Chittagong as a location (it answers with its whole list of 1,106 clinics), so it lists no clinic there (checked 2026-10-02) | 2026-10-02 |
| alif-dental-care-chattogram-platforms-4 | https://us-uk.bookimed.com/clinics/country=bangladesh/ | Bookimed: its Bangladesh clinics page has been removed (HTTP 410), and its clinic sitemap (2,127 clinics) carries no clinic of this name (checked 2026-10-02) | 2026-10-02 |
| alif-dental-care-chattogram-platforms-5 | https://www.trustpilot.com/review/alif-dental.com | Trustpilot: no business page for alif-dental.com, the clinic's website (the address returns "page not found") (checked 2026-10-02) | 2026-10-02 |
| alif-dental-care-chattogram-tripadvisor | https://www.tripadvisor.com/TypeAheadJson?action=API&details=true&q… | TripAdvisor's own search, read 2026-10-05: 12 suggestions for "Alif Dental Care Chattogram" (9 attractions, 3 hotels), none of them a dental practice in or near Chattogram; 12 suggestions for "Alif Dental" (1 place, 4 attractions, 6 hotels, 1 restaurant), none of them a dental practice in or near Chattogram; no listing for this clinic | 2026-10-05 |
| alif-dental-care-chattogram-tripadvisor-2 | https://www.alif-dental.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. |
| 2026-10-02 | Presence on review sites re-read on 2026-10-02: no profile on the review platforms checked. |
| 2026-09-11 | Reputational check against the listing's own place record, which returned the star histogram, five reviews with exact dates and owner replies, the published opening week and the listing's photographs. Review recency, owner replies, repeated complaints and review patterns were all settled for the first time. The practice answers its reviews, though four of the five replies were posted on a single day in August 2026 against reviews from 2019 and 2022, which is recorded on the card. Opening hours were recorded as published for the first time, from the clinic's own Business Profile, along with the divergence over Fridays. The photographs were downloaded and examined and show the treatment room and consulting office. |
| 2026-09-10 | Adversarial verification. Every claim on the card was re-read against its sources and none was refuted; the live place page rendered no reviews for this listing, so the review-side fields stay unset and on the record on file. The note recording the state of the register was taken out of the published doctors table, where it had made the licence cell read "not published" instead of "not verified" — a denial the data never made. |
| 2026-09-10 | Initial data collection: the clinic's own site was read in full and the Google Maps place record was read directly; the five canonical city queries came from the AI-visibility pass. Review-side fields, clinic photographs and the opening week were left unset with reasons and queued for a manual browser check; both licence layers unset for register reasons. |
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