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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-03 | 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 | Dr. Haseena Mahomed | Correction of our own error and re-read of the practice's website following its 2026-08-19 message: the card said 'no website' although the site had been found on 2026-08-25 - website recorded; service list (general incl. extractions, root canal and geriatric care; cosmetic; paediatric; preventative), dentist qualifications and specialties, gallery photos, English version, dedicated service pages and WhatsApp contact recorded; the paediatric page's 'treatment under GA or sedation in the rooms' recorded; second location (Vogue Medical Clinic, Montgomery Park) added to the summary. Verified absences after checking all 27 pages: no prices (the pricing page is the theme's placeholder table), no emergency care mentioned, no structured data. Opening hours conflict between the contact page and the service pages - left unverified. Wisdom-tooth or surgical extractions and special-needs care, mentioned in the practice's message, do not appear on the site. |
| 2026-08-25 | Centre for Implantology and Oral Medicine (Dr Muhammed Hanif Abram) | Re-verification 2026-08-25: confirmed website, address, phone unchanged and clinic open; captured first Google rating 4.9 (164 reviews, latest review ~6 months ago). |
| 2026-08-25 | Centre for Implantology and Oral Medicine (Dr Muhammed Hanif Abram) | Recorded sedation / general anaesthesia availability (informational): documented as available. Site: most procedures use conscious sedation; gum graft surgery is performed under general anaesthetic. |
| 2026-08-25 | Centre for Implantology and Oral Medicine (Dr Muhammed Hanif Abram) | License verification 2026-08-25 against HPCSA iRegister (Dentist Register, open access): found active registration DP 0069949 for Dr Muhammed Hanif Abram. |
| 2026-08-25 | DentiCare Fourways | Re-verification 2026-08-25: confirmed website, address, phone unchanged and clinic open; captured first Google rating 4.3 (79 reviews, latest review ~6 months ago). |
| 2026-08-25 | Designer Smiles Inc. | Re-verified live facts (website, contacts, operating status): no changes to name/address/phone; site's treatment menu lists 'Sedation and General Anesthesia' and an 'IV Bar' (used for sleep-dentistry research). Google Maps showed a 5.0 rating (67 reviews) and confirmed open, but two similarly-named listings share this address and a compliant place-link (google.com/maps/place/... etc, not a bare search-results URL) could not be captured this session, so the rating was not recorded. |
| 2026-08-25 | Designer Smiles Inc. | Recorded sedation / general anaesthesia availability (informational): documented as available. Treatment menu on own site lists 'Sedation and General Anesthesia' and an 'IV Bar' as offered services. |
| 2026-08-25 | Designer Smiles Inc. | License verification 2026-08-25 against HPCSA iRegister (Dentist Register, open access): found active registration DP 0060224 for Dr. Sebasch Ranchod. |
| 2026-08-25 | Dr Avron Alter Dental Practice | Re-verification 2026-08-25: confirmed website, address, phone unchanged and clinic open; captured first Google rating 4.9 (58 reviews, latest review ~9 months ago). |
| 2026-08-25 | Dr Avron Alter Dental Practice | License verification 2026-08-25 against HPCSA iRegister: the sole matching registration for Dr. Avron Alter (DP 0028371, Abraham Judah Avron Alter) shows Status SUSPENDED — recorded as verified false per policy on lapsed/suspended registrations. |
| 2026-08-25 | Dr Danka Dentistry | Re-verification 2026-08-25: website live, clinic open; address corrected to precise 30 3rd Avenue, Corner 8th St, Linden, Randburg, 2195 (worklist only had 'Randburg / Rosebank area'); phone captured as 011 782 9714 (was unset); captured first Google rating 4.7 (64 reviews). |
| 2026-08-25 | Dr Danka Dentistry | License verification 2026-08-25 against HPCSA iRegister (Dentist Register, open access): found active registration DP 0067806 (Ebrahim Mohamed Danka) matching 'Dr Danka'. |
| 2026-08-25 | Dr Jack Shih Dental Practice | Re-verification 2026-08-25: confirmed website, address, phone unchanged and clinic open (Google Business Profile now lists it as 'Dr Jack Shih Dental Clinic Sandton'); captured Google rating 5.0 (148 reviews, latest review ~1 month ago). |
| 2026-08-25 | Dr Jack Shih Dental Practice | License verification 2026-08-25 against HPCSA iRegister: a same-surname, same-city active dentist record (Chih-Hsu Shih, DP 0108880) exists but the registered first name does not match 'Jack Shih'; recorded null due to unresolved name ambiguity, not false. |
| 2026-08-25 | Dr. Haseena Mahomed | Re-verification 2026-08-25: confirmed address, phone unchanged and clinic open; discovered and verified live website https://jhbdental.co.za/ (previously unset); Google rating changed to 4.6 (20 reviews, latest review ~7 months ago), was 4.5. |
| 2026-08-25 | Dr. Haseena Mahomed | License verification 2026-08-25 against HPCSA iRegister (Dentist Register, open access): found active registration DP 0092142 for Dr. Haseena Mahomed. |
| 2026-08-25 | Dr. Jonathan Miller | Re-verification 2026-08-25: confirmed address, phone unchanged and clinic open; discovered and verified live website https://dentistsmile.co.za/ (previously unset); Google rating refined to 4.5 (41 reviews, latest review ~3 months ago), was 4. |
| 2026-08-25 | Dr. Jonathan Miller | License verification 2026-08-25 against HPCSA iRegister (Dentist Register, open access): found active registration DP 0044784 for Dr. Jonathan Miller, postal code matching the practice address. |
| 2026-08-25 | Healthcubes | Re-verification 2026-08-25: confirmed website, address, phone unchanged and clinic open; captured first Google rating 3.8 (114 reviews, latest review ~3 months ago). |
| 2026-08-25 | Healthcubes | License verification 2026-08-25 against HPCSA iRegister: Kaye Padayachee found active on the Dental Therapist register (TT 0011274, not the Dentist register); Dr. Nthabiseng Metsing's sole matching Dentist-register record is SUSPENDED (verified false); no Dentist-register match found for Dr. Lerato Moshaoa after 2 name variants plus a check of the clinic's own site (verified false). |
| 2026-08-25 | Houghton Dental | Re-verification 2026-08-25: confirmed website, address, phone unchanged and clinic open; captured Google rating 5.0 (144 reviews, latest review ~1 month ago) and precise geo coordinates. |
| 2026-08-25 | Houghton Dental | License verification 2026-08-25 against HPCSA iRegister (Dentist Register, open access): found active registration DP 0108049 for Dr. Aadil Jeena. |
| 2026-08-25 | Intercare Sandton Dental | Re-verification 2026-08-25: confirmed address and phone unchanged via Google Maps and clinic open. Official website (intercare.co.za/facilities/intercare-sandton) returned HTTP 403 to automated access this session and could not be independently verified. Google Maps showed a 3.6 rating (85 reviews) but this search area lists both an 'Intercare Sandton Medical and Dental Centre' and an adjacent 'Intercare Day Hospital - Sandton' entry and a compliant place-link (not a bare search-results URL) could not be captured this session, so the rating was not recorded. |
| 2026-08-25 | Intercare Sandton Dental | License verification 2026-08-25 against HPCSA iRegister (Dentist Register, open access): active registrations found for all 4 named dentists (Naranbhai DP 0087149, Horwitz DP 0052019, Keevy DP 0049832, Mpungose DP 0086096). |
| 2026-08-25 | Melrose Dental Studio | Re-verification 2026-08-25: confirmed website, address, phone unchanged and clinic open; Google rating changed from 4.9 to 4.8 (132 reviews, latest review ~4 months ago). |
| 2026-08-25 | Melrose Dental Studio | License verification 2026-08-25 against HPCSA iRegister (Dentist Register, open access): found active registration DP 0105252 for Dr. Edwin Alberts. |
| 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. |
| 2026-08-25 | My Dental Clinic (Dr Richard Lombard) | Re-verification 2026-08-25: confirmed website, address, phone unchanged and clinic open (Google Business Profile lists it under 'Dr Richard Blake Lombard'); captured first Google rating 4.4 (27 reviews). |
| 2026-08-25 | My Dental Clinic (Dr Richard Lombard) | License verification 2026-08-25 against HPCSA iRegister (Dentist Register, open access): found active registration DP 0053651 for Dr. Richard (Blake) Lombard. |
| 2026-08-25 | Sandton Dental Clinic (Dr's Peer) | Re-verification 2026-08-25: confirmed website and address unchanged, clinic open; phone corrected to 011 783 4575 (Google Maps listing, was 011 783 4576); captured Google rating 4.7 (189 reviews, latest review ~3 months ago). |
| 2026-08-25 | Sandton Dental Studio | Re-verification 2026-08-25: confirmed website, address, phone unchanged and clinic open; captured first Google rating 4.7 (104 reviews, latest review ~3 months ago). |
| 2026-08-25 | Sandton Dental Studio | License verification 2026-08-25 against HPCSA iRegister (Dentist Register, open access): exhaustively searched 2 name variants for Dr. Wynand van der Merwe (full surname-scan of 83 'van der Merwe' records; full fullname-scan of 14 'Wynand' records); no matching practitioner found — recorded verified false per policy. |
| 2026-08-25 | The Smile Zone | Re-verification 2026-08-25: confirmed website, address, phone unchanged and clinic open; captured first Google rating 4.5 (51 reviews, latest review ~1 month ago). |
| 2026-08-25 | The Smile Zone | License verification 2026-08-25 against HPCSA iRegister (Dentist Register, open access): found active registration DP 0077976 for Dr. Vikash Naidoo. |
| 2026-08-25 | The Thinc Clinic Rosebank | Re-verification 2026-08-25: website live, clinic open; Google Maps address corrected to 28 Bolton Rd, Rosebank, 2193 (was 11 Selby Rd) and phone corrected to 011 788 6218 (was 011 788 2701) - listing now shows the practice under an 'AlphaHuman' branded post; Google rating 4.9 (355 reviews, latest review ~4 months ago). |
| 2026-08-25 | Ziyaad Dental Surgery | Re-verification 2026-08-25: website live, phone unchanged, clinic open; Google Maps address corrected to 19 Ameshoff St, Braamfontein, 2001 (was 80 Jorissen St); Google rating 4.9 (82 reviews, latest review ~1 month ago). |
| 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. |