Baraka Smiles Dental Clinic
According to our open methodology, this clinic scored 42.2/100 for transparency, reputation, service accessibility, and digital visibility.
Overall rank: #16 of 22 ranked clinics · Last checked: 25 August 2026
Positions by Rating Profile
- Overall Transparency & Trust#1642.2/100
- Best for Expats#1741.8/100
- Best for Dental Implants#1343/100
- Best for Emergency Dental Carenot ranked
- Best Price Transparency#1727/100
- Best English-speaking Clinics#1842.8/100
- Best for Families / Children#1247.7/100
- 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
- No red flags identified in public sources.
Weaknesses
- AI & Search Visibility: 3 of 7 verifiable points (missing: mentioned for: best dentist nairobi; mentioned for: english speaking dentist nairobi; mentioned for: dental implants nairobi; mentioned for: nairobi dental clinic for expats)
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 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 public via directories; on-site contact presentation not verifiable | 0/2 |
| ✓ | English website version Indexed site content in English [s1] | 2/2 |
| ? | Address and map published | 0/2 |
Price Transparency
Whether patients can estimate costs before visiting. Published price ranges count; exact prices are not required.
| ? | Prices or price ranges published Site not fetchable; no published prices found via search | 0/3 |
| ? | Cleaning price listed | 0/2 |
| ? | Filling price listed | 0/2 |
| ? | Crown price listed | 0/2 |
| ? | Implant price listed | 0/2 |
| ? | Consultation price listed | 0/2 |
| ? | X-ray / imaging price listed | 0/2 |
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) 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 | 0/2 |
| ? | No recurring complaints Aggregated review themes positive; complaints not systematically checkable | 0/2 |
| ? | No suspicious review patterns | 0/2 |
| ? | Active Facebook presence | 0/1 |
| ? | TripAdvisor presence | 0/0.5 |
| ✓ | Other review platforms [s2] [s3] | 0.5/0.5 |
Medical Infrastructure
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) | 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
How easy it is to contact the clinic, get answers, and book - especially for non-Thai speakers.
| ? | WhatsApp / LINE available | 0/2 |
| ? | 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 | 0/1 |
| ✓ | Convenient opening hours Mon-Fri 8AM-6PM, Sat 8AM-5PM, Sun closed per directory listing [s3] | 1.5/1.5 |
AI & Search Visibility
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 | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | Google indexing quality Homepage, about-us and reviews pages indexed despite fetch-blocking [s1] | 2/2 |
| ? | Dedicated service pages | 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: 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. |
|---|---|---|
| Dr. Nicholas Mwangi [Llic] [baraka-smiles-dental-clinic-doclic] | Resident dentist | B1**6 (KMPDC – Register of Licensed Dental Practitioners) |
| 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
- Information Transparency: Clear contact details
- Information Transparency: Address and map published
- Price Transparency: Prices or price ranges published
- Price Transparency: Cleaning price listed
- Price Transparency: Filling price listed
- Price Transparency: Crown price listed
- Price Transparency: Implant price listed
- Price Transparency: Consultation price listed
- Price Transparency: X-ray / imaging price listed
- Reputation & Reviews: Clinic responds to reviews
- Reputation & Reviews: No recurring complaints
- Reputation & Reviews: No suspicious review patterns
- Reputation & Reviews: Active Facebook presence
- Reputation & Reviews: TripAdvisor presence
- 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: Pre-visit consultation possible
- Communication & Service: Clear service explanations
- AI & Search Visibility: Structured data on website
- AI & Search Visibility: Dedicated service pages
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/ | Official site exists (HTTP 403 to automated fetch); search-indexed pages show 10+ years operation, 5 surgeries, digital X-ray, service list | 2026-07-04 |
| s2 | https://www.top-rated.online/cities/Kahawa+Wendani+ward/place/p/140… | well-reviewed.Online (already-cited live source): Google rating 4.90 from 597 reviews, highest-ranked listing in its ward on a third-party ratings aggregator. | 2026-08-26 |
| 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/english/implants/emergency/expats dentist Nairobi | 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 |
Change History
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 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 the fleet external-link sweep (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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