Baraka Smiles Dental Clinic
According to our open methodology, this clinic scored 70.6/100 for transparency, reputation, service accessibility, and digital visibility.
Overall rank: #8 of 20 ranked clinics · Last checked: 17 September 2026
70.6/100
Positions by Rating Profile
- Overall Transparency & Trust#870.6/100
- Best for Expats#870.8/100
- Best for Dental Implants#769.5/100
- Best for Emergency Dental Carenot ranked
- Best Price Transparency#467.4/100
- Best English-speaking Clinics#1171.3/100
- Best for Families / Children#972.3/100
- 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 Site blocked automated access (403); no sedation info found elsewhere
Summary
Baraka Smiles Dental Clinic is located in the Magunas Supermarket building in Kahawa Wendani along Thika Road, on Nairobi's north-eastern edge. Search-indexed pages from its website describe a practice of over 10 years with five equipped surgeries including digital X-ray, offering cosmetic dentistry, whitening, dentures, implants, pediatric dentistry, extractions, braces and root canal treatment. An aggregator ranks it first in its ward, showing a 4.9 Google rating across 597 reviews, though the website itself blocked automated verification of its content.
barakasmiles.com returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching on 2026-07-04, so on-site details are drawn from search-indexed snippets of the site (about-us, reviews pages) and directories. A second domain, barakasmilesdental.com, also appears in search results. One aggregator search snippet showed an implausible review count (286,343), which contradicts the directly fetched listing page (597 reviews); the fetched figure is used. Registered in the Kenya Master Health Facility Registry.
Strengths
- Reputation & Reviews: 19 of 20 points.
- No red flags identified in public sources.
Weaknesses
No category fell below the weakness threshold (50% of verifiable points).
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
13 / 20
Whether basic facts about the clinic - its team, premises, services, and location - are publicly verifiable.
| ✓ | Has a working website Site exists and is indexed; returned HTTP 403 to automated fetch [s1] | 4/4 |
| ? | Dentist names listed | 0/3 |
| ? | Dentist specializations listed | 0/2 |
| ? | Real clinic photos | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Service list published Service list visible in search-indexed site snippets [s1] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Clear contact details Phone, WhatsApp and an email contact channel, consistent site-wide [baraka-smiles-dental-clinic-deepen-4] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | English website version Indexed site content in English [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Address and map published Address text plus a dedicated branch-map section [baraka-smiles-dental-clinic-deepen-5] | 2/2 |
Price Transparency
9 / 15
Whether patients can estimate costs before visiting. Published price ranges count; exact prices are not required.
| ✓ | Prices or price ranges published A "Treatment Cost Transparency" section prices four services [baraka-smiles-dental-clinic-deepen-2] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Cleaning price listed KSh 3,500-5,000 [baraka-smiles-dental-clinic-deepen-2] | 2/2 |
| ✗ | Filling price listed Cost list does not include fillings [baraka-smiles-dental-clinic-deepen-6] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Crown price listed KSh 25,000-45,000 [baraka-smiles-dental-clinic-deepen-2] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Implant price listed KSh 80,000-120,000 [baraka-smiles-dental-clinic-deepen-2] | 2/2 |
| ✗ | Consultation price listed Consultation is described as included in treatment cost, not priced separately [baraka-smiles-dental-clinic-deepen-7] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | X-ray / imaging price listed X-rays described as included in treatment cost, not priced separately [baraka-smiles-dental-clinic-deepen-8] | 0/2 |
Reputation & Reviews
19 / 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) as of 2026-08-25 [baraka-smiles-dental-clinic-refresh] | 6/6 |
| ✓ | Google review volume [baraka-smiles-dental-clinic-refresh] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Review recency [baraka-smiles-dental-clinic-refresh] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Clinic responds to reviews Owner reply found on one of eight readable reviews [baraka-smiles-dental-clinic-deepen-3] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | No recurring complaints no recurring complaints [baraka-smiles-dental-clinic-deepen-9] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | No suspicious review patterns no signs of manipulation [baraka-smiles-dental-clinic-deepen-10] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Active Facebook presence Facebook page linked from the clinic's own JSON-LD [baraka-smiles-dental-clinic-deepen-11] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | TripAdvisor presence No TripAdvisor listing found; site does not link to TripAdvisor [baraka-smiles-dental-clinic-deepen-15] [baraka-smiles-dental-clinic-deepen-16] | 0/0.5 |
| ✗ | Other review platforms No profile on WhatClinic, Dental Departures, Bookimed, Doctor254 or Trustpilot (checked 2026-10-01). [baraka-smiles-dental-clinic-platforms] [baraka-smiles-dental-clinic-platforms-2] [baraka-smiles-dental-clinic-platforms-3] [baraka-smiles-dental-clinic-platforms-4] [baraka-smiles-dental-clinic-platforms-5] | 0/0.5 |
Medical Infrastructure
9.5 / 15
The range of publicly documented equipment and services. This measures documented availability, not clinical quality.
| ✓ | On-site X-ray Digital X-ray and processor machines per site about-us content (search-indexed) [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✗ | CBCT (3D imaging) Full X-ray sub-service list published without CBCT [baraka-smiles-dental-clinic-deepen-12] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Implantology [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Orthodontics Braces [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Oral surgery Tooth extraction [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Pediatric dentistry [s1] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ? | Emergency care | 0/1.5 |
| ? | 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 wa.me WhatsApp link site-wide [baraka-smiles-dental-clinic-deepen-13] | 2/2 |
| ? | Response speed | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | English spoken All indexed content in English [s1] | 2.5/2.5 |
| ? | Pre-visit consultation possible | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | Clear service explanations Dedicated pages explain each procedure in plain language [baraka-smiles-dental-clinic-deepen] | 1/1 |
| ✓ | Convenient opening hours Mon-Fri 8AM-6PM, Sat 8AM-5PM, Sun closed per directory listing [s3] | 1.5/1.5 |
AI & Search Visibility
6 / 10
Whether the clinic is discoverable when patients search - including via AI assistants. Checked with fixed queries: "best dentist Nairobi", "English speaking dentist Nairobi", "dental implants Nairobi", "emergency dentist Nairobi", "Nairobi dental clinic for expats".
| ✗ | Mentioned for: best dentist Nairobi [sq] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: English speaking dentist Nairobi [sq] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: dental implants Nairobi [sq] | 0/1 |
| ✓ | Mentioned for: emergency dentist Nairobi [s5] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: Nairobi dental clinic for expats [sq] | 0/1 |
| ✓ | Structured data on website Dentist schema.org markup [baraka-smiles-dental-clinic-deepen-14] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ✓ | Google indexing quality The clinic's own site is 3rd of 9 results of a name-and-city web search on 2026-10-02. [baraka-smiles-dental-clinic-av3] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Dedicated service pages Dozens of distinct per-treatment pages [s1] | 1.5/1.5 |
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: 00***8 (KMPDC – Register of Licensed Private Health Facilities) (KMPDC facility register searched 2026-08-25 for 'Baraka Smiles Dental Clinic' — matched 'BARAKA SMILES DENTAL CLINIC', Dental Clinic, Kiambu County, ACTIVE (Kahawa Wendani, on Thika Road, falls within Kiambu County despite being described on the clinic's own site as 'Nairobi').) [baraka-smiles-dental-clinic-lic]
Dentists & professional licences
| Dentist | Specialization | Licence No. | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dr. Nicholas Mwangi [Llic] [baraka-smiles-dental-clinic-doclic] | Resident dentist | KMPDC B1**6 | The KMPDC public register prints practitioner numbers partly masked; the number is shown here exactly as the register prints it. |
| Dr. Sharon Kwangu [Llic] | — | not verified | — |
| Dr. Ann Mwangi [Llic] | — | 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
- Information Transparency: Dentist names listed
- Information Transparency: Dentist specializations listed
- Information Transparency: Real clinic photos
- Medical Infrastructure: Emergency care
- Medical Infrastructure: Works with international patients
- Communication & Service: Response speed
- Communication & Service: Pre-visit consultation possible
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://barakasmiles.com |
|---|---|
| Phone | +254 745 200000 |
| Address | Magunas Supermarket Building, Kahawa Wendani, Thika Road, Nairobi |
Contact details are provided for identification only and may change; verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | https://barakasmiles.com/ | Site publishes separate pages for individual treatments under Fillings, General, Orthodontic Appliances, Teeth Cleaning, Teeth Extraction, Teeth Whitening, Teeth Replacement and X-Rays categories | 2026-09-17 |
| s3 | https://www.kenyabizlist.com/business/438-baraka-smile-clinic | kenyabizlist.com directory listing (already-cited live source): opening hours and business details. | 2026-08-26 |
| s5 | search:emergency dentist Nairobi | AI/search visibility check 2026-07-04: appears in top results | 2026-07-04 |
| sq | search:best dentist Nairobi / English speaking dentist Nairobi / dental implants Nairobi / emergency dentist Nairobi / Nairobi dental clinic for expats | AI/search visibility scout check 2026-07-04: presence or absence in top results for the five fixed methodology queries | 2026-07-04 |
| Llic | https://barakasmiles.com/about-us/meet-the-doctors | Licensing & credentials check (clinic licence, dentists, licence numbers) | 2026-07-08 |
| baraka-smiles-dental-clinic-refresh | https://www.google.com/maps/place/Baraka+Smiles+Dental+Clinic/@-1.1… | Google rating 4.9 (601 reviews) as of 2026-08-25 | 2026-08-25 |
| baraka-smiles-dental-clinic-lic | https://registers.kmpdc.go.ke/healthFacilities/getLicensedPrivateHe… | Row: BARAKA SMILES DENTAL CLINIC | 00***8 | DENTAL CLINIC | KIAMBU | ACTIVE | 2026-08-25 |
| baraka-smiles-dental-clinic-doclic | https://registers.kmpdc.go.ke/localPractitioners/getLicensedDentalP… | Register row: 'Dr NICHOLAS GITHOME MWANGI', BDS(Nairobi)2019, General Practice, status ACTIVE (matched by name/surname tokens; searched 2026-08-25) | 2026-08-25 |
| baraka-smiles-dental-clinic-deepen | https://barakasmiles.com/contact-us | Site's per-service descriptions (e.g. "Teeth Filling — ...Our skilled dentists remove the decayed portion of the tooth and fill the space with safe, durable materials...") explain the procedure, not just its name | 2026-09-17 |
| baraka-smiles-dental-clinic-deepen-2 | https://barakasmiles.com/patient-resources/payment-options | "Sample Treatment Costs — Dental Cleaning KSh 3,500-5,000, Teeth Whitening KSh 15,000-25,000, Dental Crown KSh 25,000-45,000, Dental Implant KSh 80,000-120,000" | 2026-09-17 |
| baraka-smiles-dental-clinic-deepen-3 | https://www.google.com/maps?cid=14975336607737761491&hl=en | Review by Kenn Ramah (2025-08-12) carries an owner reply dated 2025-08-20: "Hi Kenn. We're so glad to hear that each of your visits has been met with professionalism and care." | 2026-09-17 |
| baraka-smiles-dental-clinic-deepen-4 | https://barakasmiles.com/contact-us | Contact section, read 2026-09-17: "Say hello" with an email address, "Phone number +254745200000" and a WhatsApp button (wa.me/254745200000), repeated identically in the footer of every page checked | 2026-09-17 |
| baraka-smiles-dental-clinic-deepen-5 | https://barakasmiles.com/contact-us | "Locations — Kahawa Wendani, Magunas Supermarket Building Nairobi-Kenya" published under a "Kahawa Wendani Branch Map" section with an interactive map widget | 2026-09-17 |
| baraka-smiles-dental-clinic-deepen-6 | https://barakasmiles.com/patient-resources/payment-options | The page's "Sample Treatment Costs" list covers cleaning, whitening, crown and implant only; no filling price | 2026-09-17 |
| baraka-smiles-dental-clinic-deepen-7 | https://barakasmiles.com/patient-resources/payment-options | "What's Included in Your Treatment — Comprehensive consultation and examination..." — no standalone price or free statement | 2026-09-17 |
| baraka-smiles-dental-clinic-deepen-8 | https://barakasmiles.com/patient-resources/payment-options | "What's Included in Your Treatment — Digital X-rays and imaging when necessary..." — no standalone price | 2026-09-17 |
| baraka-smiles-dental-clinic-deepen-9 | https://www.google.com/maps?cid=14975336607737761491&hl=en | One isolated post-extraction pain complaint among eight readable reviews; no repeated theme | 2026-09-17 |
| baraka-smiles-dental-clinic-deepen-10 | https://www.google.com/maps?cid=14975336607737761491&hl=en | Histogram 9/2/4/19/567 (94% 5-star, not 100%); dates spread from 2025-08 to 2026-04; reviewer accounts vary 1-12 prior reviews | 2026-09-17 |
| baraka-smiles-dental-clinic-deepen-11 | https://barakasmiles.com/ | Homepage JSON-LD (schema.org Dentist) "sameAs" includes "https://www.facebook.com/BarakaSmilesDentals" | 2026-09-17 |
| baraka-smiles-dental-clinic-deepen-12 | https://barakasmiles.com/contact-us | Site-wide footer service menu lists the X-Rays sub-items: "2D Cephalometric Xray, Bitewings (D0272), Bitewings (D0274), Iopa (D0230), Iopa (D0220), Opg" — no CBCT/cone-beam entry | 2026-09-17 |
| baraka-smiles-dental-clinic-deepen-13 | https://barakasmiles.com/ | Persistent "WhatsApp Us" button links to wa.me/254745200000 | 2026-09-17 |
| baraka-smiles-dental-clinic-deepen-14 | https://barakasmiles.com/ | Homepage JSON-LD: {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Dentist","name":"Baraka Smiles Dental Clinic",...} | 2026-09-17 |
| baraka-smiles-dental-clinic-deepen-15 | https://www.tripadvisor.com/TypeAheadJson?action=API&query=Baraka%2… | TripAdvisor's own search for "Baraka Smiles Dental Clinic" returned 5 results, none a match: only unrelated riads, bungalows and hotels named "Baraka" abroad | 2026-09-29 |
| baraka-smiles-dental-clinic-deepen-16 | https://barakasmiles.com/ | Clinic's own homepage HTML read in full; no tripadvisor.com link anywhere on the page | 2026-09-29 |
| baraka-smiles-dental-clinic-platforms | https://www.whatclinic.com/dentists/kenya/nairobi | WhatClinic: its Nairobi dentist directory (1 page) lists a single clinic, Dean's Dental Implants, its clinic-profile sitemaps hold that one profile for all of Kenya, and a direct profile address for the clinic's name returns "not found" (checked 2026-10-01) | 2026-10-01 |
| baraka-smiles-dental-clinic-platforms-2 | https://www.dentaldepartures.com/dentists/kenya | Dental Departures: its Kenya page returns "not found" and its clinic search does not recognise Nairobi or Kenya as a location — no clinic in Kenya (checked 2026-10-01) | 2026-10-01 |
| baraka-smiles-dental-clinic-platforms-3 | https://bookimed.com/clinics/country=kenya/ | Bookimed: its Kenya clinic listing returns "410 - Page removed", and none of the 2,127 clinic pages in its clinic sitemap is in Kenya (checked 2026-10-01) | 2026-10-01 |
| baraka-smiles-dental-clinic-platforms-4 | https://www.doctor254.com/search_results?q=Baraka+Smiles | Doctor254: searches for "Baraka Smiles", "Baraka" and "Kahawa", and for its dentists Nicholas Mwangi and Sharon Kwangu, find no dental clinic of that name (the "Baraka" results are dispensaries, medical clinics and hospitals) (checked 2026-10-01) | 2026-10-01 |
| baraka-smiles-dental-clinic-platforms-5 | https://www.trustpilot.com/review/barakasmiles.com | Trustpilot: no company page for barakasmiles.com (checked 2026-10-01) | 2026-10-01 |
| baraka-smiles-dental-clinic-av3 | search:"Baraka Smiles Dental Clinic" Nairobi | Web search run on 2026-10-02 (English, US results) for the clinic's name and city: 9 results listed. Its own pages: barakasmiles.com (blog page 3rd, news page 7th). Listed before the first of them: a health-facility directory and KenyaBizList. | 2026-10-02 |
Change History
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-01 | Reviews on other platforms re-checked: no profile on WhatClinic, Dental Departures, Bookimed, Doctor254 or Trustpilot; the ratings page cited earlier only repeated the clinic's Google reviews and the business directory listing carries no reviews, so this is now marked no. |
| 2026-09-29 | Checked TripAdvisor's own search and the clinic's website for a TripAdvisor profile: none found on either channel. |
| 2026-09-17 | Re-read on 2026-09-17: the clinic's website (its payment-options, contact, diaspora and gallery pages, in English) and its Google listing. Recorded: a published cost-transparency section pricing cleaning, crowns and implants but not fillings, consultation or X-ray; phone, WhatsApp and email consistent; address published with a branch-map section; a full X-ray sub-service list without CBCT; a Facebook page linked from the site's own structured data. The site's "diaspora" programme is a referral scheme for Kenyans abroad paying for relatives' care in Kenya, not documented treatment of foreign patients, so international-patient work stays unconfirmed. Google reviews show one owner reply among eight readable reviews, no recurring complaints or suspicious patterns. Still unverified: TripAdvisor presence, documented emergency care and named dentists (the team page loads its content through the site's own script and did not expose individual names to this check). |
| 2026-08-26 | Link-rot cleanup 2026-08-26: KMHFR registry page (s4) confirmed dead. Kenya Master Health Facility Registry (kmhfr.health.go.ke / kmhfl.health.go.ke) confirmed genuinely dead (ECONNREFUSED, both subdomains resolve to the same unreachable IP 41.89.93.173 - looks like the whole government registry is down) - no live successor found. Its citation (onOtherPlatforms) re-declared onto the already-live well-reviewed.Online and kenyabizlist.com sources (already co-citing this fact); s4 pruned. The team page (Llic, barakasmiles.com/about-us/meet-the-doctors) is also dead and still cites 3 doctors (Nicholas Mwangi - also independently backed by the live KMPDC doclic source; Sharon Kwangu and Ann Mwangi - null license, no other source) - no live replacement found for the team page itself, left unresolved, Llic not pruned (still cited). |
| 2026-08-26 | Link-rot cleanup 2026-08-26: pruning 2 dead source(s) confirmed unreachable in an external-link check (checked 2026-08-26) and re-confirmed dead by direct recheck where applicable. Llic [https://barakasmiles.com/about-us/meet-the-doctors]: https://barakasmiles.com/about-us/meet-the-doctors (HTTP 404, rotten) | s4 [https://kmhfr.health.go.ke/public/facilities/0b364f19-eb55-452b-8b63-b3df881bb5fb]: https://kmhfr.health.go.ke/public/facilities/0b364f19-eb55-452b-8b63-b3df881bb5fb (attempt1: Connect Timeout Error (attempted address: kmhfr.health.go.ke:443, timeout: 10000ms); attempt2 (+30s): Connect Timeout Error (attempted address: kmhfr.health.go.ke:443, timeout: 10000ms), other->stable-dead on recheck) |
| 2026-08-25 | License verification 2026-08-25 against KMPDC registers: clinic facility license found under 'Baraka Smiles Dental Clinic' (Kiambu County registration). 1 of 3 named dentists matched (Nicholas Mwangi, same register entry as a same-named dentist listed at Dental Smiles); 2 (Sharon Kwangu, Ann Mwangi) not found. |
| 2026-08-25 | Re-verification 2026-08-25: address/phone unchanged, not permanently closed (site itself returned HTTP 403 to automated fetch, so 'website live' not independently confirmed by direct open); recorded Google review count increase 597->601 (rating steady 4.9) and pin coordinates. |
| 2026-07-08 | Added Licensing & Credentials (methodology v1.1): clinic licence and dentists/their licence numbers. |
| 2026-07-04 | Initial data collection. |
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