Changelog
Every data update, correction, and methodology change is logged here and in each clinic's own change history. The rating updates whenever the underlying public data changes.
| Date | Subject | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-16 | Lúna Dental Clinic | Dentist names reassessed on 2026-10-16 under the clarified rule (methodology 1.4.2): a name counts when the clinic itself publishes it and it lets a patient find the dentist in a professional register. Dentists are named only by first name, in patients' reviews, so dentist names no longer count. |
| 2026-10-16 | Methodology v1.4.2 | Clarified when dentist names count: a name published by the clinic counts when it lets a patient find the dentist in a professional register; a first name alone is not enough, nor is a first name with a patronymic where surnames are in use. Applied the same day to the clinics whose own channels name their dentists by first name only, which lose the points for dentist names. No other score changes. |
| 2026-10-16 | Müasir Stomatologiya | Corrected 2026-10-16: dentist names listed now unverified: the clinic has no website and its social page was not checked for this. |
| 2026-10-16 | Stomadent | Corrected 2026-10-16: dentist names listed now unverified: the clinic has no website and its social page was not checked for this. |
| 2026-10-13 | 5A Dent Esthetic Dental Clinic | Visibility re-checked on 2026-10-13 with the five canonical Baku queries, read once for every clinic of the Baku list; AI Overviews, local results and the first page of web results all counted. The clinic appears in 4 of the five. |
| 2026-10-13 | BeSmile Dental Clinic | Visibility re-checked on 2026-10-13 with the five canonical Baku queries, read once for every clinic of the Baku list; AI Overviews, local results and the first page of web results all counted. The clinic appears in 3 of the five. The query for an emergency dentist was read before most clinics open and its earlier reading is kept for this clinic. |
| 2026-10-13 | Dental Club | Visibility re-checked on 2026-10-13 with the five canonical Baku queries, read once for every clinic of the Baku list; AI Overviews, local results and the first page of web results all counted. The clinic appears in 1 of the five. The query for an emergency dentist was read before most clinics open and its earlier reading is kept for this clinic. |
| 2026-10-13 | German Dental Clinic Baku | Visibility re-checked on 2026-10-13 with the five canonical Baku queries, read once for every clinic of the Baku list; AI Overviews, local results and the first page of web results all counted. The clinic appears in 5 of the five. |
| 2026-10-13 | Lovely Dent Ganjlik | Visibility re-checked on 2026-10-13 with the five canonical Baku queries, read once for every clinic of the Baku list; AI Overviews, local results and the first page of web results all counted. The clinic appears in 5 of the five. |
| 2026-10-13 | Pro Dental | Visibility re-checked on 2026-10-13 with the five canonical Baku queries, read once for every clinic of the Baku list; AI Overviews, local results and the first page of web results all counted. The clinic appears in 0 of the five. The query for an emergency dentist was read before most clinics open and its earlier reading is kept for this clinic. |
| 2026-10-13 | RealDent Müasir Stomatoloji Klinika (Modern Dental Clinic) | Visibility re-checked on 2026-10-13 with the five canonical Baku queries, read once for every clinic of the Baku list; AI Overviews, local results and the first page of web results all counted. The clinic appears in 4 of the five. |
| 2026-10-13 | Sağlam Diş Yasamal | Visibility re-checked on 2026-10-13 with the five canonical Baku queries, read once for every clinic of the Baku list; AI Overviews, local results and the first page of web results all counted. The clinic appears in 0 of the five. The query for an emergency dentist was read before most clinics open and its earlier reading is kept for this clinic. |
| 2026-10-13 | Smile by Dr Bakhtiyar | Re-read on 2026-10-13: the clinic's website (home, services, prices, team, about, documents, booking, emergency, sedation, dental-tourism and our-work pages, in English and Azerbaijani with the Russian, Hebrew and Arabic versions), its Google listing (newest, lowest, highest and most relevant reviews) and its WhatClinic profile. Recorded: Google 4.9 from 131 reviews, newest 2026-10-12, owner replies dated 2026-10-05; prices unchanged; a link to the clinic's Facebook page. Newly documented: same-day urgent appointments on a new emergency page, and treatment under general anaesthesia with an anaesthesiologist on the team. Corrected: work with patients from abroad now rests on the clinic's dental-tourism page (remote plan and estimate from X-rays before arrival) rather than on the English version of the site. Corrected: the clinic's licence (EL-113/2019, granted) was found in the Unified Registry of Licences and Permits under the tax number the clinic publishes; the earlier reading had searched by name and brand only and recorded it as not found. The dentists' state certificate numbers are now recorded as the clinic publishes them. Visibility re-checked on 2026-10-13 with the five canonical Baku queries, read once for every clinic of the Baku list; AI Overviews, local results and the first page of web results all counted. The clinic appears in 1 of the five. |
| 2026-10-13 | SwissDent | Visibility re-checked on 2026-10-13 with the five canonical Baku queries, read once for every clinic of the Baku list; AI Overviews, local results and the first page of web results all counted. The clinic appears in 0 of the five. The query for an emergency dentist was read before most clinics open and its earlier reading is kept for this clinic. |
| 2026-10-07 | Methodology v1.4.1 | Added a limit on re-checks made at a clinic's request: the next request from the same clinic about its own page is taken up no sooner than one month after the last re-check made at its request, which is dated in the clinic's change history; requests sent earlier are not processed. Corrections reported by anyone else are handled as before. No score changes. |
| 2026-10-05 | CK Dental Klinik | Other review platforms re-checked on 2026-10-05: the Yandex Maps place cited before has no reviews and no verified owner, its 2GIS listing has no reviews, and no profile of the clinic was found on WhatClinic, Dental Departures or Bookimed; changed from yes to no. |
| 2026-10-05 | German Dental Clinic Baku | Other review platforms re-checked on 2026-10-05: the Yandex Maps place cited before has no reviews and no verified owner, its 2GIS listing has no reviews, and no profile of the clinic was found on WhatClinic, Dental Departures, Bookimed or Trustpilot; changed from yes to no. |
| 2026-10-02 | 5A Dent Esthetic Dental Clinic | Reputation check 2026-10-02 on the clinic's Google listing (5 reviews read): nothing settled; owner replies to reviews left unassessed. |
| 2026-10-02 | 5A Dent Esthetic Dental Clinic | Reputation check 2026-10-05 on the clinic's Google listing (9 reviews read): owner replies to reviews yes. |
| 2026-10-02 | AQS Dental Center | Reputation check 2026-10-02 on the clinic's Google listing (15 reviews read): owner replies to reviews no; suspicious review patterns left unassessed. |
| 2026-10-02 | AQS Dental Center | Reputation check 2026-10-02 on the clinic's Google listing (15 reviews read): nothing settled; suspicious review patterns left unassessed. |
| 2026-10-02 | BeSmile Dental Clinic | Reputation check 2026-10-02 on the clinic's Google listing (14 reviews read): nothing settled; owner replies to reviews, suspicious review patterns left unassessed. |
| 2026-10-02 | BeSmile Dental Clinic | Reputation check 2026-10-05 on the clinic's Google listing (17 reviews read): owner replies to reviews no, suspicious review patterns no. |
| 2026-10-02 | CK Dental Klinik | Reputation check 2026-10-02 on the clinic's Google listing (5 reviews read): nothing settled; recurring complaints left unassessed. |
| 2026-10-02 | Ganja Dental (Stomatoloji Klinika by Dr. Samir Verdiyev) | Corrected the sedation entry: the clinic offers nitrous-oxide sedation with the patient awake, which is not general anaesthesia or deep sedation. |
| 2026-10-02 | Ganja Dental (Stomatoloji Klinika by Dr. Samir Verdiyev) | Reviews on other platforms re-checked: the 2GIS listing cited earlier does not accept reviews, and there is no profile on WhatClinic, Dental Departures, Bookimed, Booking Dentist or Yandex Maps, so this is now marked no. |
| 2026-10-02 | Ganja Dental (Stomatoloji Klinika by Dr. Samir Verdiyev) | Facebook presence re-checked on 2026-10-02: live Facebook page confirmed. |
| 2026-10-02 | German Dental Clinic Baku | Reputation check 2026-10-02 on the clinic's Google listing (10 reviews read): owner replies to reviews yes, suspicious review patterns no. |
| 2026-10-02 | Lúna Dental Clinic | Reputation check 2026-10-02 on the clinic's Google listing (6 reviews read): nothing settled; owner replies to reviews left unassessed. |
| 2026-10-02 | Medial Dental Sumqayit 7/24 | Reputation check 2026-10-02 on the clinic's Google listing (7 reviews read): nothing settled; recurring complaints, owner replies to reviews, suspicious review patterns left unassessed. |
| 2026-10-02 | Medial Dental Sumqayit 7/24 | Reputation check 2026-10-05 on the clinic's Google listing (7 reviews read): nothing settled; recurring complaints, owner replies to reviews, suspicious review patterns left unassessed. |
| 2026-10-02 | Müasir Stomatologiya | Reputation check 2026-10-02 on the clinic's Google listing (11 reviews read): owner replies to reviews no. |
| 2026-10-02 | Pro Dental | Reputation check 2026-10-02 on the clinic's Google listing (8 reviews read): nothing settled; owner replies to reviews left unassessed. |
| 2026-10-02 | ProImplant Sumqayit Stomatoloji Klinika | Reputation check 2026-10-02 on the clinic's Google listing (8 reviews read): nothing settled; owner replies to reviews left unassessed. |
| 2026-10-02 | ProImplant Sumqayit Stomatoloji Klinika | Reputation check 2026-10-05 on the clinic's Google listing (11 reviews read): nothing settled; owner replies to reviews left unassessed. |
| 2026-10-02 | Smile by Dr Bakhtiyar | Reputation check 2026-10-02 on the clinic's Google listing (14 reviews read): owner replies to reviews yes, suspicious review patterns no. |
| 2026-10-02 | Stomadent | Facebook presence re-checked on 2026-10-02: live Facebook page confirmed. |
| 2026-10-02 | Stomadent | Reputation check 2026-10-02 on the clinic's Google listing (10 reviews read): nothing settled; owner replies to reviews, suspicious review patterns left unassessed. |
| 2026-10-02 | Stomadent | Reputation check 2026-10-05 on the clinic's Google listing (12 reviews read): nothing settled; owner replies to reviews, suspicious review patterns left unassessed. |
| 2026-10-02 | TV Dental Estetik ve Stomatoloji Klinik | Reputation check 2026-10-02 on the clinic's Google listing (4 reviews read): nothing settled; recurring complaints, owner replies to reviews, suspicious review patterns left unassessed. |
| 2026-10-02 | Z-Dental | Reputation check 2026-10-02 on the clinic's Google listing (2 reviews read): nothing settled; recurring complaints, suspicious review patterns left unassessed. |
| 2026-10-01 | Ganja Dental (Stomatoloji Klinika by Dr. Samir Verdiyev) | Checked the Facebook page linked from the clinic's Instagram on 2026-10-01: it is no longer available, so Facebook presence is left unconfirmed. |
| 2026-10-01 | Ganja Dental (Stomatoloji Klinika by Dr. Samir Verdiyev) | Read the clinic's Instagram in full on 2026-10-01 (every post and highlight story of the past 12 months) and its Google listing: no prices and no WhatsApp contact are published; its posts show 3D and panoramic imaging, nitrous oxide sedation, children's treatment, its orthodontist and surgical work, and explain treatments in plain words. |
| 2026-09-29 | 5A Dent Esthetic Dental Clinic | Corrected 2026-09-29: review count 117 (was 102) from the Google listing on 2026-09-25. |
| 2026-09-29 | AQS Dental Center | Re-read the clinic's own website and public listings on 2026-09-29. Recorded: offersOrthodontics, offersPediatric, offersSurgery. Not found on the checked pages: hasWhatsAppOrLine and any price. Corrected: englishVersion - the English switch leads to a stub page, not to English content. |
| 2026-09-29 | CK Dental Klinik | Read the clinic's own Instagram; it names the treating dentist (Dr. Kərimli Elvin) and keeps a dedicated X-ray highlight. No prices, hours, other equipment or a linked Facebook page found. |
| 2026-09-29 | Dental Club | Added to the directory on 2026-09-29 after reading the clinic's website (about, doctors, contact and gallery pages, plus six service pages), its Google Business Profile (rating, hours, newest, lowest, highest and most-relevant reviews, photos), 2GIS, WhatClinic and TripAdvisor. Recorded an eight-doctor team with individual specializations; a dedicated 3D-imaging service and general anesthesia documented for jaw surgery; a 4.7 rating from 29 reviews on an unclaimed listing, with no recurring complaint and a cluster of five short five-star reviews on 2026-09-11 to 2026-09-19, one under the same name as a team dentist; no price figures, WhatsApp contact, working online-booking form or English translation on the site; a 2GIS listing; no TripAdvisor or WhatClinic profile. Still unverified: the operating licence, and the street address — the contact page gives Bakıxanov Street 758/759, while its embedded map, Google and 2GIS place the clinic on Ceyhunbəy Hacıbəyli Street. |
| 2026-09-29 | Dental Club | Search visibility checked for the five standard baku queries (reusing the 2026-09-29 run recorded for this city): not present for "best dentist Baku", "English speaking dentist Baku", "dental implants Baku", "emergency dentist Baku" and "Baku dental clinic for expats". |
| 2026-09-29 | German Dental Clinic Baku | Corrected 2026-09-29: review count 153 (was 125) from the Google listing on 2026-09-25. |
| 2026-09-29 | Lovely Dent Ganjlik | Added to the directory on 2026-09-29 after reading the clinic's five-language website (services, doctors, contacts and price-related blog posts), its Google Business Profile (rating, hours, newest, lowest and most-relevant reviews, photos), TripAdvisor and 2GIS. Recorded an eleven-dentist team headed by CEO Dr. Xəyal Səmədov; implant, crown, All-on-4 and dental-grillz price ranges on the clinic's blog; a free consultation; a dental-tourism program; digital X-ray and CBCT; a 4.8 rating from 68 reviews with no owner replies and a cluster of eight five-star reviews on 2025-10-06 to 2025-10-07, six of them from single-review accounts; a 2GIS listing; no TripAdvisor profile. Still unverified: the operating licence, and the branch's house number (31 on the clinic's website, 18 on Google). |
| 2026-09-29 | Lovely Dent Ganjlik | Search visibility checked on 2026-09-29 for the five standard Baku queries: present for "best dentist Baku", "emergency dentist Baku" and "Baku dental clinic for expats"; not present for "English speaking dentist Baku" and "dental implants Baku". |
| 2026-09-29 | Medial Dental Sumqayit 7/24 | Corrected 2026-09-29: Google rating 4.5 (was 4.7) and review count 16 (was 15) from the Google listing on 2026-09-25. |
| 2026-09-29 | Pro Dental | Added to the directory on 2026-09-29 after reading the clinic's trilingual website (about, history, team and contact pages, plus ten service pages), its Google Business Profile (rating, hours, all eight reviews, photos), 2GIS, WhatClinic and TripAdvisor. Recorded a five-dentist team without individual specializations; general anesthesia, X-ray and 3D-imaging diagnostics, and urgent dental care; a WhatsApp contact and an appointment form with a preferred time; a 5.0 rating from 8 reviews on a claimed listing, with owner replies that stopped in February 2024 and four five-star reviews from single-review accounts in the first week of February 2024; no price figures on any service page; a 2GIS listing; no TripAdvisor or WhatClinic profile; an insurance-partner directory names the legal entity PRO DENTAL MMC. Still unverified: the operating licence. |
| 2026-09-29 | Pro Dental | Search visibility checked for the five standard baku queries (reusing the 2026-09-29 run recorded for this city): not present for "best dentist Baku", "English speaking dentist Baku", "dental implants Baku", "emergency dentist Baku" and "Baku dental clinic for expats". |
| 2026-09-29 | Sağlam Diş Yasamal | Added to the directory on 2026-09-29 after reading the clinic's website (home, about, services, doctors, seven individual service pages, the instalment-payment page and the FAQ), the Google Business Profile of its Yeni Yasamal branch (rating, hours, newest, lowest, highest and most-relevant reviews, photos), 2GIS, WhatClinic and TripAdvisor. Recorded: the clinic names its dentists by branch but gives no specialization for any of them; implantology, orthodontics, prosthetics, pediatric dentistry, whitening and three types of X-ray including 3D tomography; a free-examination offer and an in-house instalment credit plan, but no published price for cleaning, fillings, crowns, implants or X-rays; a 3.8 rating from 23 reviews, no owner reply on the 12 reviews read, and three 1-star reviews about appointments cancelled or reassigned; 2GIS and WhatClinic listings under the branch's address; a Facebook page; no TripAdvisor profile. Still unverified: the operating licence. |
| 2026-09-29 | Sağlam Diş Yasamal | Search visibility checked for the five standard baku queries (reusing the 2026-09-29 run recorded for this city): present for "best dentist Baku"; not present for "English speaking dentist Baku", "dental implants Baku", "emergency dentist Baku" and "Baku dental clinic for expats". |
| 2026-09-29 | Smile by Dr Bakhtiyar | Corrected 2026-09-29: review count 123 (was 112) from the Google listing on 2026-09-25. |
| 2026-09-29 | Stomadent | Re-read the clinic's own Instagram (its Google listing's only website field points to this account). Recorded a published service list including orthodontic braces and children's dentistry. No numeric prices or WhatsApp contact found in the bio. |
| 2026-09-29 | SwissDent | Added to the directory on 2026-09-29 after reading the clinic's website (home, services, contact and two blog posts), the Google Business Profile of its Baku branch (rating, hours, newest, lowest and most-relevant reviews, photos), 2GIS, WhatClinic and TripAdvisor. Recorded: implantology, orthodontics, maxillofacial surgery, pediatric dentistry and 3D tomography, described mostly on one combined services page rather than separate pages; a WhatsApp booking form with branch and treatment selection; open seven days a week; no price published for any treatment; a 4.7 rating from 470 reviews with dated owner replies including to a critical review, and three reviews describing sales pressure, an inconsistent price quote and a 'money trap'; a 2GIS listing and a Facebook page; no dentist named on the site, where the doctors page returns a 404 error; not in WhatClinic's Baku catalog and no TripAdvisor profile. Still unverified: the operating licence. |
| 2026-09-29 | SwissDent | Search visibility checked for the five standard baku queries (reusing the 2026-09-29 run recorded for this city): not present for "best dentist Baku", "English speaking dentist Baku", "dental implants Baku", "emergency dentist Baku" and "Baku dental clinic for expats". |
| 2026-09-25 | 5A Dent Esthetic Dental Clinic | Re-read on 2026-09-25: the clinic's website (all 96 sitemap pages, including nine service pages, appointment and contacts), its Google listing (newest and lowest reviews, 117 reviews now) and its 2GIS listing. Recorded: no price figures for any treatment - the 'Pricing' page carries only template placeholder packages; 3D CBCT imaging on the radiology page; booking by phone or WhatsApp only, no online scheduling; genuine before/after case photos; Organization structured data and dedicated service pages; two independent reviews call the clinic overpriced; the homepage states Monday-Friday 9am-7pm while the Google profile lists 09:00-18:00; listed on 2GIS; not found on TripAdvisor. Corrected: review recency - the newest review is dated 2026-09-25. Still unverified: owner replies to reviews. |
| 2026-09-25 | AQS Dental Center | Re-read on 2026-09-25: the clinic's website (home, department and specialty pages, campaigns, contact and gallery pages - an older mirrored build that is still live) and its Google listing (newest and lowest reviews, 57 reviews now, hours); TripAdvisor and 2GIS searched. Recorded: no dental price figures anywhere on the site (the campaigns page advertises only laboratory test packages); a genuine photo gallery of the premises; dedicated specialty pages with explanatory text but no structured data; Sunday opening hours; not found on TripAdvisor or 2GIS. Corrected: recurring complaints - two reviews report fillings failing within a month and three call the clinic overpriced (previously recorded as none); review recency - the newest review is dated 2026-07-09. Still unverified: equipment, online registration form, English-language content, WhatsApp. |
| 2026-09-25 | BeSmile Dental Clinic | Re-read on 2026-09-25: the clinic's website (services, doctors, diagnostics subpage, before/after gallery, price list) and its Google listing (newest and lowest reviews, 274 reviews now). Recorded: targeted, panoramic and CT (CBCT) diagnostics on a dedicated page; two named orthodontists and a dedicated pediatric-dentistry service; WhatsApp and Facebook links self-published in the site's own structured data; full English site; open seven days, past 19:00; Dentist/MedicalBusiness structured data; genuine case photos on the clinic's own portal; no recurring-complaint pattern (four low reviews on four unrelated topics); not found on TripAdvisor. Still unverified: owner replies to reviews, same-day emergency care. |
| 2026-09-25 | CK Dental Klinik | Re-checked on 2026-09-25: Google listing re-read (all five reviews, hours, claimed status) and the 2GIS directory searched; the clinic's only other channel remains its Instagram page. Recorded: the listing is unclaimed, so owner replies are not possible; Saturday opening; the two 1-star reviews carry no text; no manipulation signals; listed on 2GIS (same phone number); not found on TripAdvisor; no structured data or dedicated service pages without a website. Corrected: review recency - the newest review is dated 2026-08-31. Still unverified: Instagram content (prices, services, team, photos). |
| 2026-09-25 | Ganja Dental (Stomatoloji Klinika by Dr. Samir Verdiyev) | Re-checked on 2026-09-25: Google listing re-read (newest, lowest, highest and most relevant reviews - 11 of 17 seen, hours, claimed status, photos) and the 2GIS directory searched; no clinic website (Instagram and Facebook only, unchanged). Recorded: the listing is unclaimed, so owner replies are not possible; a genuine team photo on the listing; no 1-2-star reviews; eight of the 17 reviews were posted within three days (20-22 September 2025), five of them from accounts with no other review, all five-star - recorded as a suspicious review pattern; listed on 2GIS; not found on TripAdvisor; no structured data or dedicated service pages without a website. Corrected: review recency - the newest review is dated 2026-07-16. Still unverified: Instagram and Facebook content. |
| 2026-09-25 | German Dental Clinic Baku | Re-read on 2026-09-25: the clinic's website (all 174 sitemap pages in Azerbaijani, Russian and English, including diagnostics, implant, services, booking, contact and blog pages), its Google listing (newest and lowest reviews, 151 reviews now) and its 2GIS listing. Recorded: digital, panoramic and CBCT imaging; urgent care for acute pain and dental trauma; online booking with date and time selection; the first aesthetic consultation is free, but no price figures for cleaning, fillings, crowns, implants or X-ray anywhere on the site; Sunday opening (the contact page states Monday-Saturday 09:00-21:00 and Sunday 09:00-18:00, the Google profile 09:00-18:00 daily); Dentist/MedicalBusiness structured data; genuine equipment photos; one low review only, no recurring theme; listed on 2GIS; not found on TripAdvisor. Still unverified: owner replies to reviews. |
| 2026-09-25 | Lúna Dental Clinic | Re-checked on 2026-09-25: Google listing re-read (lowest reviews, hours, photos, claimed status) and the 2GIS directory searched; the Google profile carries no website or phone. Recorded: a genuine storefront photo; Saturday opening; no 1-2-star reviews and no manipulation signals (eight reviews spread over a year, mostly from accounts with review history); listed on 2GIS; not found on TripAdvisor; no structured data or dedicated service pages without a website. Still unverified: social-media presence, prices, services. |
| 2026-09-25 | Medial Dental Sumqayit 7/24 | Re-checked on 2026-09-25: Google listing re-read (newest and lowest reviews, 16 reviews now, hours, photos, claimed status); TripAdvisor and 2GIS searched; no clinic website. Recorded: a genuine storefront photo; round-the-clock hours matching the clinic's '7/24' name; the two 1-star reviews carry no text, so recurring complaints could not be assessed; not found on TripAdvisor or 2GIS; no structured data or dedicated service pages without a website. Still unverified: social-media presence, prices, services, equipment. |
| 2026-09-25 | Müasir Stomatologiya | Re-checked on 2026-09-25: no clinic website (the Google profile links only to Instagram; Facebook page unchanged); Google listing re-read (newest and lowest reviews, 43 reviews now, hours, claimed status); TripAdvisor and 2GIS searched. Recorded: a genuine storefront photo; open daily to 23:00 including Sunday; recurring complaints - three reviews call the clinic overpriced and three question the doctors' competence; no manipulation signals (a genuinely mixed histogram); not found on TripAdvisor or 2GIS. Corrected: review recency - the newest review is dated 2026-08-08. Still unverified: Instagram and Facebook content. |
| 2026-09-25 | ProImplant Sumqayit Stomatoloji Klinika | Re-checked on 2026-09-25: the Google-listed domain proimplant.az still does not resolve; Google listing re-read (newest and lowest reviews, 34 reviews now, hours, photos, claimed status); TripAdvisor and 2GIS searched. Recorded: a genuine storefront photo; Saturday hours and a 19:00 weekday close; no recurring complaints (two 1-star reviews, one without text); no manipulation signals; the Sumqayıt clinic is not found on TripAdvisor or 2GIS; no structured data or dedicated service pages without a working website. Corrected: review recency - the newest review is dated 2026-01-23 (previously recorded as older than a year). Still unverified: any working website or social-media presence. |
| 2026-09-25 | RealDent Müasir Stomatoloji Klinika (Modern Dental Clinic) | Re-read on 2026-09-25: the clinic's website (service, price-guide, team, blog and contact pages in Azerbaijani, English and Russian), its Google listing (newest and lowest reviews, hours, photos) and its 2GIS listing. Recorded: no clinic-specific prices for cleaning, fillings, crowns, implants, consultation or X-ray - the price-guide pages quote only general Azerbaijan market ranges; the clinic states it uses 3D X-rays; no same-day emergency care described; WhatsApp chat widget; Saturday hours to 20:00; LocalBusiness structured data and dedicated service pages; a genuine treatment-room photo on the Google listing; no recurring complaints (two low reviews on unrelated topics) and no manipulation signals; listed on 2GIS; not found on TripAdvisor. Still unverified: online booking. |
| 2026-09-25 | Smile by Dr Bakhtiyar | Re-read on 2026-09-25: the clinic's website (price list in Azerbaijani and English, booking, FAQ and technology pages) and its Google listing (newest and lowest reviews, 123 reviews now). Corrected: the clinic does publish a full itemized price list (11 categories, in AZN with approximate USD amounts and a stated exchange-rate date) - cleaning, filling, crown, implant, consultation and X-ray/CBCT prices are all listed; previously recorded as unpublished. Also recorded: online booking with date, time, service and doctor selection; Facebook page declared in the site's structured data; WhatClinic listing; weekday hours to 19:00 and Saturday opening; only one low review, no recurring theme; not found on TripAdvisor. Corrected: review recency - the newest review is dated 2026-09-17. Still unverified: same-day emergency care, owner replies to reviews. |
| 2026-09-25 | Stomadent | Re-checked on 2026-09-25: no clinic website (the Google Business Profile links only to Instagram); Google listing re-read (newest and lowest reviews, 90 reviews now, hours, claimed status); TripAdvisor and 2GIS searched. Recorded: Saturday hours and a 22:00 weekday close; no recurring complaints (no 1-2-star reviews); not found on TripAdvisor or 2GIS; no structured data or dedicated service pages without a website. Still unverified: Instagram content (prices, services, team). |
| 2026-09-25 | TV Dental Estetik ve Stomatoloji Klinik | Re-checked on 2026-09-25: Google listing re-read (all four reviews, hours, photos, claimed status); TripAdvisor and 2GIS searched; no clinic website. Recorded: a genuine interior photo; Saturday opening hours; not found on TripAdvisor or 2GIS; no structured data or dedicated service pages without a website. Recurring complaints and review manipulation left unassessed: four reviews are too few. Still unverified: social-media presence, prices, services. |
| 2026-09-25 | Z-Dental | Re-checked on 2026-09-25: Google listing re-read (both reviews, claimed status); TripAdvisor and 2GIS searched; the profile still carries no phone number, hours or website. Recorded: the listing is unclaimed, so owner replies are not possible; newest review dated 2026-02-16; not found on TripAdvisor or 2GIS; no structured data or dedicated service pages without a website. Recurring complaints and review manipulation left unassessed: two reviews are too few. Still unverified: any other contact channel. |
| 2026-09-09 | Smile by Dr Bakhtiyar | Sedation criterion re-read against methodology 1.4.0, which counts only general anaesthesia or deep intravenous sedation where the patient is asleep and unaware. The site lists "Sedasiya ilə Diş Müalicəsi" (sedation dentistry) without saying how deep the sedation goes; nothing published says the patient is asleep and unaware. The value moves from true to unknown: the earlier reading credited sedation that is not documented as deep enough, and the published wording settles the question neither way. |
| 2026-09-07 | Methodology v1.4.0 | Narrowed the "Opaque or bait pricing" red flag to what its published definition describes. Until now the flag was applied automatically to every clinic that does not publish a price list — a harsher statement than the evidence supports, since the catalogue defines the flag as complaints about final bills materially exceeding quoted prices, or advertised prices that are not honoured. Not publishing prices is already scored: it costs the clinic points in the price transparency category, and it is not, on its own, evidence of bait pricing. The automatic rule is removed, so the flag and its 2-point penalty come off about 1,300 clinic pages across the index; no clinic gains a flag, and no weight, severity or other scoring rule changed. The flag can still be recorded against a clinic by hand with cited sources, and about 210 clinics carry such an entry today; we are reviewing those entries in a follow-up pass, because some of them were also written for nothing more than an unpublished price list. |
| 2026-09-03 | Methodology v1.3.1 | Clarified that the publication criteria refer to the clinic’s own channels: a service list, the names of the dentists and a price list count when the clinic itself publishes them (its website, its social profiles or its own Google Business profile) — registers, directories and review sites do not, and a time-limited promotional offer is not a price list. Added a third state for a dentist’s licence, "checked, not found in the public register": a dentist we searched for in the national register and did not find is now recorded as checked-but-unverified with the date of the check, instead of being shown either as "not checked yet" or as the "not published" red flag. Neither change alters any weight or penalty; the red-flag rule still fires only on a verified negative. Also corrected the wording of the penalty note under the ranking table, which rendered as "20−" in right-to-left dictionaries. |
| 2026-09-01 | 5A Dent Esthetic Dental Clinic | Initial research |
| 2026-09-01 | AQS Dental Center | Initial research |
| 2026-09-01 | BeSmile Dental Clinic | Initial research |
| 2026-09-01 | CK Dental Klinik | Initial research |
| 2026-09-01 | Ganja Dental (Stomatoloji Klinika by Dr. Samir Verdiyev) | Initial research |
| 2026-09-01 | German Dental Clinic Baku | Initial research |
| 2026-09-01 | Lúna Dental Clinic | Initial research |
| 2026-09-01 | Medial Dental Sumqayit 7/24 | Initial research |
| 2026-09-01 | Müasir Stomatologiya | Initial research |
| 2026-09-01 | ProImplant Sumqayit Stomatoloji Klinika | Initial research |
| 2026-09-01 | RealDent Müasir Stomatoloji Klinika (Modern Dental Clinic) | Initial research |
| 2026-09-01 | Smile by Dr Bakhtiyar | Initial research |
| 2026-09-01 | Stomadent | Initial research |
| 2026-09-01 | TV Dental Estetik ve Stomatoloji Klinik | Initial research |
| 2026-09-01 | Z-Dental | Initial research |
| 2026-08-25 | Methodology v1.3.0 | Corrected how the two licensing red flags are applied ("Clinic operating licence not published" and "Dentists / their licences not listed"). Previously they were applied whenever licensing data was absent from our records, which treated unchecked data as a negative finding — contrary to the methodology's own rule that unverified data is a fact about our coverage, not about the clinic. Both flags now apply only where we have verified that the information is not published. Manual licensing flags that rested on unverified data were removed from the affected clinics. No other scoring rules changed; most scores rise because the incorrect penalty is removed. |
| 2026-08-23 | Methodology v1.2.0 | Added an informational "Sedation & general anaesthesia" availability field to every clinic and a new "Sleep Dentistry (Sedation / GA)" list, for patients who cannot tolerate — or would rather not be awake for — treatment. This field is informational and does not change any transparency score. |
| 2026-07-08 | Methodology v1.1.0 | Added licensing transparency: clinics are now penalised when they do not publish their operating licence, or do not list their dentists together with their professional licence numbers. Each clinic page now shows a Licensing & Credentials section. |
| 2026-07-03 | Methodology v1.0.0 | Initial public methodology. |