DMC Dental
According to our open methodology, this clinic scored 57.2/100 for transparency, reputation, service accessibility, and digital visibility.
Overall rank: #4 of 11 ranked clinics · Last checked: 11 September 2026
57.2/100
Positions by Rating Profile
- Overall Transparency & Trust#457.2/100
- Best for Expats#259.3/100
- Best for Dental Implants#551/100
- Best for Emergency Dental Carenot ranked
- Best Price Transparency#341.3/100
- Best English-speaking Clinics#265.3/100
- Best for Families / Children#163.2/100
- Sleep Dentistry (GA / deep sedation)#157.2/100
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) — General anaesthesia / deep sedation documented The paediatric entry on the clinic's own services page publishes "Sedation under General Anesthesia or Nitrous Oxide Gas Sedation". The homepage separately offers conscious nitrous-oxide inhalation sedation, which on its own would not qualify; it is the general-anaesthesia option that does. [s3]
Summary
Dental practice inside DMC Hospital in Kicukiro, established in 2018 by the Canadian-trained dental surgeon Dr. Jesse Wong after four years at Kibogora mission hospital. Three dental surgeons and a dental therapist are named with full biographies; the clinic publishes 3D and 2D panoramic imaging, orthodontics, endodontics and children's treatment under general anaesthesia or nitrous-oxide sedation.
Strengths
- Information Transparency: 20 of 20 points.
- Communication & Service: 8.5 of 10 points.
- No red flags identified in public sources.
Weaknesses
- Price Transparency: 0 of 3 verifiable points (missing: prices or price ranges published)
- AI & Search Visibility: 2 of 10 verifiable points (missing: mentioned for: English speaking dentist Rwanda; mentioned for: dental implants Rwanda; mentioned for: emergency dentist Rwanda; mentioned for: Rwanda 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
20 / 20
Whether basic facts about the clinic - its team, premises, services, and location - are publicly verifiable.
| ✓ | Has a working website [s1] | 4/4 |
| ✓ | Dentist names listed Four practitioners named with photographs and full biographies on the clinic's own "Our Dentists" page. [s2] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Dentist specializations listed Degrees, universities and post-graduate training are published for each: DDS Western Ontario with an SUNY residency; BDS Madras Medical College with implantology training; BDS Makerere with post-graduate orthodontics and implantology; BDT University of Rwanda. [s2] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Real clinic photos The clinic’s own services page publishes ten before-and-after photographs of composite veneers, chipped-tooth repairs, a fibre-bonded bridge and root-canal work under its own heading "All the cases below are taken from treatments performed at DMC Dental". [s3] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Service list published Own services page listing white fillings, veneers, bleaching, cleaning, periodontal surgery, digital and panoramic X-rays, braces, crowns, bridges, dentures, paediatric dentistry, root canals, apicoectomy and wisdom-tooth extraction. [s3] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Clear contact details Phone and WhatsApp number, e-mail, driving directions and hours on the clinic's own contact page. [s4] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | English website version [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Address and map published Written directions published by the clinic; pin read from the live Google place listing. [s4] [gmp1] | 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 Neither the services page nor any other page of the five-page site carries a price or a price range. [s1] [s3] | 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
11.5 / 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 live from the Google place listing on 2026-09-10. The star histogram published on the same page is 21 five-star, 4 four-star, 1 three-star, 0 two-star and 2 one-star: it sums to the 28 the page reports and averages 4.50, which reproduces the published rating. [gmp1] | 3/6 |
| ◐ | Google review volume Read live from the Google place listing on 2026-09-10. [gmp1] | 1/3 |
| ◐ | Review recency The newest review the place page renders is 6 months old; the rendered sample runs from 6 months to 3 years. [gmp1] | 1.5/3 |
| ✓ | Clinic responds to reviews Four of the eight reviews the review panel of the clinic’s Google listing renders carry an individually written reply from the owner. [gmp1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | No recurring complaints The star histogram is twenty-one five-star, four four-star, one three-star and two one-star reviews. Only two reviews in the base of twenty-eight sit below three stars, so they cannot by themselves make three dated complaints from different reviewers about the same thing, and none of the eight reviews the panel renders raises a complaint. The text of the two low reviews is not among what Google serves. [gmp1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | No suspicious review patterns The reviews shown run from 6 months to 3 years, differ in wording, length and the clinicians they name, and come from distinct accounts. [gmp1] | 2/2 |
| ✗ | Active Facebook presence The clinic's Facebook page "DMC Dental Rwanda" is inactive: newest post 2020-11-04, under 10 reviews, nothing in the last 24 months (checked 2026-10-02). [dmc-dental-clinic-kigali-deepen-9] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | TripAdvisor presence No TripAdvisor listing found via its search for "DMC Dental Kigali" and "DMC dental"; the clinic's site does not link to TripAdvisor (checked 2026-10-02). [dmc-dental-clinic-kigali-deepen] [dmc-dental-clinic-kigali-deepen-2] [dmc-dental-clinic-kigali-deepen-3] | 0/0.5 |
| ✗ | Other review platforms No profile found on WhatClinic, Dental Departures, Bookimed, RwandaYP or Trustpilot (checked 2026-10-02). [dmc-dental-clinic-kigali-deepen-4] [dmc-dental-clinic-kigali-deepen-5] [dmc-dental-clinic-kigali-deepen-6] [dmc-dental-clinic-kigali-deepen-7] [dmc-dental-clinic-kigali-deepen-8] | 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 The clinic publishes digital X-rays and 3D and 2D panoramic X-rays. [s3] | 2/2 |
| ? | CBCT (3D imaging) | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Implantology The site's own page description names implants among the treatments offered; one of the named dentists holds advanced implantology training. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Orthodontics Braces are on the service list and an orthodontics-focused dental surgeon is named on the team. [s2] [s3] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Oral surgery Wisdom-tooth extraction, periodontal (gum) surgery and root-end surgery (apicoectomy). [s3] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Pediatric dentistry Children's dentistry with space maintainers, stainless-steel crowns and child root canals. [s3] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ? | Emergency care | 0/1.5 |
| ? | Works with international patients | 0/2 |
Communication & Service
8.5 / 10
How easy it is to contact the clinic, get answers, and book - especially for international patients.
| ✓ | WhatsApp / LINE available The contact page publishes one number as "Phone/Whatsapp". [s4] | 2/2 |
| ? | Response speed | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | English spoken [s1] [s2] | 2.5/2.5 |
| ✓ | Pre-visit consultation possible The clinic publishes its own enquiry form. [s4] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ✓ | Clear service explanations Treatments are named in plain language and illustrated with the clinic's own before/after cases. [s3] | 1/1 |
| ✓ | Convenient opening hours Published hours are Mon–Sat 08:00–17:00 with a lunch break, so Saturday is covered. [s4] | 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 Rwanda", "English speaking dentist Rwanda", "dental implants Rwanda", "emergency dentist Rwanda", "Rwanda dental clinic for expats".
| ✓ | Mentioned for: best dentist Rwanda Web search first page for "best dentist Kigali Rwanda" read on 2026-09-10 (the AI-visibility run for Rwanda). The clinic's own site ranks 8th, and a directory round-up of five Kigali dental clinics that names it ranks 2nd. [sqa] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: English speaking dentist Rwanda Web search first page for "English speaking dentist Kigali" read on 2026-09-10 (the AI-visibility run for Rwanda). [sqb] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: dental implants Rwanda Web search first page for "dental implants Kigali" read on 2026-09-10 (the AI-visibility run for Rwanda). [sqc] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: emergency dentist Rwanda Web search first page for "emergency dentist Kigali" read on 2026-09-10 (the AI-visibility run for Rwanda). [sqd] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: Rwanda dental clinic for expats Web search first page for "Kigali dental clinic for expats" read on 2026-09-10 (the AI-visibility run for Rwanda). [sqe] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Structured data on website The site serves Open Graph meta tags but no schema.org markup. [s1] | 0/1.5 |
| ◐ | Google indexing quality The clinic's own site takes ranks 1 and 3 for its own name, but the rest of the first page is its Facebook page, Waze and half a dozen directory copies rather than its own pages. [giq1] | 1/2 |
| ✗ | Dedicated service pages All treatments live on one services page. [s3] | 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: not checked against public sources yet — unverified, no penalty
Dentists & professional licences
| Dentist | Specialization | Licence No. | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dr Jesse Wong [s2] [reg1] [dmc-dental-clinic-kigali-rmdc-6854-2481] | Dental surgeon; DDS, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Western Ontario; Advanced Education in General Dentistry residency, State University of New York (clinic's own dentists page) | RMDC 6854 - 2481 | Registration number in the Rwanda Medical and Dental Council register of licensed doctors and dentists for June 2021 – July 2022, which lists this practitioner as a dental surgeon; it is the newest edition the council publishes (checked 30 September 2026). |
| Dr K.K. Sivagnanam [s2] [reg1] [dmc-dental-clinic-kigali-rmdc-7717-3272] | Dental surgeon; BDS, Madras Medical College; advanced implantology training at Pearl Dental Academy (clinic's own dentists page) | RMDC 7717 - 3272 | Registration number in the Rwanda Medical and Dental Council register of licensed doctors and dentists for June 2021 – July 2022, which lists this practitioner as a dental surgeon; it is the newest edition the council publishes (checked 30 September 2026). |
| Dr Kizito Iratsinze [s2] [reg1] | Dental surgeon and orthodontist; BDS Makerere University 2018; post-graduate training in implantology and orthodontics; reading for an MSc in orthodontics at the University of Plymouth (clinic's own dentists page) | not verified | — |
| Oliver Mutoni [s2] | Dental therapist; BDT, University of Rwanda Faculty of Medical and Dental Sciences, 2021 (clinic's own dentists page) | 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
- 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
- Medical Infrastructure: CBCT (3D imaging)
- Medical Infrastructure: Emergency care
- 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 | http://dmcdental.weebly.com/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +250 783 793 303 |
| +250 783 793 303 | |
| https://www.facebook.com/p/DMC-Dental-Rwanda-100036326926039/ | |
| Google Maps | Map listing |
| Address | KK 15 Rd (Kicukiro Road), near the Africa New Life Ministries campus, Kigarama, Kicukiro, Kigali, Rwanda |
Contact details are provided for identification only and may change; verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | http://dmcdental.weebly.com/ | Clinic's own homepage: location, sedation offer, own page description naming the treatments offered | 2026-09-10 |
| s2 | https://dmcdental.weebly.com/our-dentists.html | Four named practitioners with degrees, universities and post-graduate training | 2026-09-10 |
| s3 | https://dmcdental.weebly.com/services.html | Full service list including digital and panoramic X-rays, braces, paediatric treatment under general anaesthesia or nitrous oxide, root canals, apicoectomy, wisdom-tooth extraction | 2026-09-10 |
| s4 | https://dmcdental.weebly.com/contact.html | Directions, opening hours, phone/WhatsApp number, e-mail and enquiry form | 2026-09-10 |
| gmp1 | https://www.google.com/maps?cid=11442621348843344818 | Live Google place listing: rating, review count, pin coordinates, phone, website link | 2026-09-10 |
| reg1 | https://rmdc.rw/IMG/pdf/licensed_mds_october_2021.pdf | Rwanda Medical and Dental Council — static register of licensed doctors and dentists, document period June 2021 – July 2022; downloaded and read in full (614,171 bytes, matching Content-Length) | 2026-09-10 |
| reg2 | https://licensing.moh.gov.rw/check-validity | Ministry of Health Private Health Facilities Licensing Platform — verify-by-licence-number only, no name or city search, no public list of licensed facilities | 2026-09-10 |
| sqa | search:best dentist Kigali | AI/search visibility scout — best dentist Kigali | 2026-09-10 |
| sqb | search:English speaking dentist Kigali | AI/search visibility scout — English speaking dentist Kigali | 2026-09-10 |
| sqc | search:dental implants Kigali | AI/search visibility scout — dental implants Kigali | 2026-09-10 |
| sqd | search:emergency dentist Kigali | AI/search visibility scout — emergency dentist Kigali | 2026-09-10 |
| sqe | search:Kigali dental clinic for expats | AI/search visibility scout — Kigali dental clinic for expats | 2026-09-10 |
| giq1 | search:"DMC Dental" Kigali Rwanda | Own-name search: own site at ranks 1 and 3, the rest of the page Facebook, Waze and directory copies | 2026-09-10 |
| dmc-dental-clinic-kigali-rmdc-6854-2481 | https://rmdc.rw/IMG/pdf/licensed_mds_october_2021.pdf | Rwanda Medical and Dental Council register of licensed doctors and dentists, edition June 2021 - July 2022 (the only edition rmdc.rw publishes), read in full: row 565, registration 6854 - 2481, SEEJIN WONG JESSE, qualification Dental Surgeon. | 2026-09-30 |
| dmc-dental-clinic-kigali-rmdc-7717-3272 | https://rmdc.rw/IMG/pdf/licensed_mds_october_2021.pdf | Rwanda Medical and Dental Council register of licensed doctors and dentists, edition June 2021 - July 2022 (the only edition rmdc.rw publishes), read in full: row 1860, registration 7717 - 3272, K.K SIVAGNANAM, qualification Dental Surgeon. | 2026-09-30 |
| dmc-dental-clinic-kigali-deepen | https://www.tripadvisor.com/TypeAheadJson?action=API&query=DMC%20De… | TripAdvisor's own search, queried for "DMC Dental Kigali" and read 2026-10-02: no listing for the clinic among its results, only unrelated hotels, attractions and places | 2026-10-02 |
| dmc-dental-clinic-kigali-deepen-2 | https://www.tripadvisor.com/TypeAheadJson?action=API&query=DMC%20de… | TripAdvisor's own search, queried for "DMC dental" and read 2026-10-02: no listing for the clinic among its results, only unrelated hotels, attractions and places | 2026-10-02 |
| dmc-dental-clinic-kigali-deepen-3 | http://dmcdental.weebly.com/ | The clinic's website, read 2026-10-02: no link to TripAdvisor | 2026-10-02 |
| dmc-dental-clinic-kigali-deepen-4 | https://www.whatclinic.com/dentists/rwanda | WhatClinic: its Rwanda dentist page reads "No information on Dentists in Rwanda", and none of the 22,054 dentist profiles in its profile sitemaps is in Rwanda — no profile for this clinic (checked 2026-10-02) | 2026-10-02 |
| dmc-dental-clinic-kigali-deepen-5 | https://www.dentaldepartures.com/dentists/rwanda | Dental Departures: its Rwanda page returns "not found" and its clinic search does not recognise Rwanda, Kigali or Huye as a location — no clinic listed there (checked 2026-10-02) | 2026-10-02 |
| dmc-dental-clinic-kigali-deepen-6 | https://bookimed.com/clinics/country=rwanda/ | Bookimed: its Rwanda clinic page has been removed ("410 — Page removed"), and none of the 2,127 clinic pages in its clinic sitemap is in Rwanda (checked 2026-10-02) | 2026-10-02 |
| dmc-dental-clinic-kigali-deepen-7 | https://www.rwandayp.com/category/dentists | RwandaYP (Rwanda Yellow Pages): its dentist category (1 listings declared; all 1 page read, 1 listings) has no listing with this clinic's name, address or phone — its one entry is Kigali Adventist Dental Clinic (checked 2026-10-02) | 2026-10-02 |
| dmc-dental-clinic-kigali-deepen-8 | https://www.trustpilot.com/review/dmcdental.weebly.com | Trustpilot: no company page for dmcdental.weebly.com ("Whoops! … could not be found", checked 2026-10-02) | 2026-10-02 |
| dmc-dental-clinic-kigali-deepen-9 | https://www.facebook.com/p/DMC-Dental-Rwanda-100036326926039/ | Facebook page "DMC Dental Rwanda", read 2026-10-02: 588 followers, 1 review, newest post 2020-11-04; it gives KK 15 Road, Kicukiro, the clinic's phone +250 783 793 303 and website dmcdental.weebly.com — no post in the last 24 months | 2026-10-02 |
Change History
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-02 | Platform presence checked 2026-10-02: no profile on WhatClinic, Dental Departures, Bookimed, RwandaYP or Trustpilot; no TripAdvisor listing; its Facebook page has had no post since November 2020. |
| 2026-09-11 | Editorial review of the licence column: each registration now shows the registration number the Rwanda Medical and Dental Council register carries for the practitioner, and the description of the register itself - its edition, its size and the name spelling it uses - moved out of the identifier field, where it was printed in full on this page. The register, its edition and the reading remain cited as the source of the number. |
| 2026-09-11 | Browser reading of the clinic’s Google review panel and of its own services page (2026-09-11). Eight of the twenty-eight reviews were read and four carry owner replies. The services page was opened for the real-photo check: it publishes its own before-and-after case photographs, and the same page names digital and panoramic radiography, which had not been recorded. |
| 2026-09-10 | Adversarial verification. The place-detail record carried a review block on re-reading, which it had not before: reviewRecency (within_year), respondsToReviews (true), recurringComplaints (false) and suspiciousReviewPatterns (false) are now read from the live place page. Services page re-read and the general-anaesthesia sedation line confirmed verbatim; the homepage meta description that carries implants confirmed. RMDC register re-extracted independently: both licence numbers reproduce, and neither IRATSINZE nor a dental KIZITO appears in the edition. |
| 2026-09-10 | Initial data collection: all five pages of the clinic site read; live Google place listing read for rating, review count and pin; two of three named dental surgeons found in the RMDC register snapshot; five canonical visibility queries taken from the AI-visibility file. Review dates, owner replies and complaint reading could not be obtained — the place-detail record Google returned for this listing carries no review block;. |
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