Kent Street Dental Centre
According to our open methodology, this clinic scored 66.1/100 for transparency, reputation, service accessibility, and digital visibility.
Overall rank: #11 of 29 ranked clinics · Last checked: 8 September 2026
66.1/100
Positions by Rating Profile
- Overall Transparency & Trust#1166.1/100
- Best for Expatsnot ranked
- Best for Dental Implants#1160.5/100
- Best for Emergency Dental Care#1462.8/100
- Best Price Transparency#1844.4/100
- Best English-speaking Clinics#1862.8/100
- Best for Families / Children#1167.1/100
- 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) — No general anaesthesia or deep sedation documented The clinic publishes its sedation services in its own words as "Nitrous Oxide" and "Oral Sedation", and the Ontario register, read on 2026-09-07, records the dentist sedation authorisation as "Oral Moderate Sedation". Methodology 1.4.0 counts only general anaesthesia or deep intravenous / twilight sedation, so no qualifying level is documented. [s1] [regd1]
Summary
Single-dentist practice in Centretown, in the Ottawa downtown core, operating under the dentalcorp network whose recruitment pages and campaign tags identify it. The site publishes one named dentist with a detailed biography; his Ontario registration names this practice and address. Weekday daytime hours only, and no fees published. The Ontario register also publishes, on the record of the named dentist, a Complaints and Reports Outcomes entry dated 21 August 2026 (case 25-0723) requiring a continuing-education course in dental record-keeping; his status on the register is Member, the entitled-to-practise status.
Strengths
- Information Transparency: 20 of 20 points.
- Reputation & Reviews: 19 of 20 points.
- No red flags identified in public sources.
Weaknesses
- Price Transparency: 0 of 15 verifiable points (missing: prices or price ranges published; cleaning price listed; filling price listed; crown price listed; implant price listed; consultation price listed; x-ray / imaging price listed)
- Communication & Service: 3.5 of 8.5 verifiable points (missing: whatsApp / LINE available; pre-visit consultation possible; convenient opening hours)
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 Live on 2026-09-07: HTTP 200 with the practice content in the body. [s1] | 4/4 |
| ✓ | Dentist names listed The dentists page names Dr. Rami Yassine as the practising general dentist with a biography. [s2] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Dentist specializations listed The biography states his McGill University degree and year, a one-year general practice residency, and that he places and restores implants as part of daily practice. [s2] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Real clinic photos Confirmed on the place page in a browser on 2026-09-08: the lead owner photograph is the practice's own reception and waiting room at 381 Kent Street — its timber desk with staff behind it, its own seating and framed prints. Premises, so the existing value is evidenced rather than inferred. [s1] [gmpb] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Service list published Service menu covering general dentistry, cosmetic services, oral surgery and dental implants, with patient sections for families, older adults and anxious patients. [s1] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Clear contact details Address with suite, phone (613) 237-2677 and full office hours on the contact page. [s3] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | English website version The site is published in English. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Address and map published Full street address with suite and postcode plus an embedded map. [s3] | 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 Homepage, service pages, patient pages and contact page read on 2026-09-07: no fee list, no ranges and no fee-guide figures anywhere on the clinic site. [s1] [s4] | 0/3 |
| ✗ | Cleaning price listed No cleaning fee is published on the clinic site. [s1] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Filling price listed No filling fee is published on the clinic site. [s1] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Crown price listed No crown fee is published on the clinic site. [s1] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Implant price listed No implant fee is published on the clinic site. [s1] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Consultation price listed No consultation fee is published on the clinic site. [s4] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | X-ray / imaging price listed No radiography fee is published on the clinic site. [s1] | 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) Read live on the place page in a browser on 2026-09-08. Unchanged from the automated reading of 2026-09-07. The star histogram — 241 five-star, 9 four-star, 1 three-star, 0 two-star and 2 one-star — sums to 253, matching the 253 in the place-page header exactly, and its weighted mean 4.925 reproduces the published 4.9. The telephone question the open question raised is narrowed but not closed: the place record publishes **+1 343-429-8437**, which is the third of the three numbers in play — the RCDSO register carries 613-232-5319 and the clinic's own site 613-237-2677, which is the number the card holds. All three are published for this practice by different channels; nothing in a browser can establish which is answered, and no number was rung. [gmp1] [gmpb] | 6/6 |
| ◐ | Google review volume Read live on 2026-09-08 from the place-page header, and the star histogram sums to the same figure. The card held 253 and the listing has not moved since. [gmp1] [gmpb] | 2.5/3 |
| ✓ | Review recency The newest review visible is one month old, which proves the within_3_months bucket and no better. Visible dates: 1, 1, 2, 2, 4, 6, 6 and 7 months. Sample: the eight reviews Google Maps renders on the place page in its own relevance order; a newest-first list was not available, so a review more recent than the newest one visible may exist. [gmpb] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Clinic responds to reviews The owner answers all eight of the reviews visible on the place page on 2026-09-08. Sample: the eight reviews Google Maps renders on the place page in its own relevance order; a newest-first list was not available, so a review more recent than the newest one visible may exist. [gmpb] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | No recurring complaints Google's relevance ordering surfaces eight five-star accounts and no critical text, so nothing readable establishes a theme and the criterion is false with the unread mass stated: the one- and two-star share is 2 of 253 = 0.8 %. Sample: the eight reviews Google Maps renders on the place page in its own relevance order; a newest-first list was not available, so a review more recent than the newest one visible may exist. [gmpb] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | No suspicious review patterns Judged on the histogram shape, the spread of dates, the variety of reviewers and the wording, on 2026-09-08. The histogram fills four of five buckets (241/9/1/0/2) on a base of 253 — an ordinary distribution rather than a wall. The visible dates spread across seven months, several accounts describe switching from a long-standing dentist and name the principal and different hygienists, and the owner answers all eight individually. [gmpb] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Active Facebook presence The clinic links its own Facebook page; the page was opened on 2026-09-07 and carries the practice name and city. [s1] [fb1] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | TripAdvisor presence TripAdvisor's own search index was queried in a real browser on 2026-09-10, under the clinic name and again with the city appended; it carries no listing for this practice. [kent-street-dental-centre-ottawa-deepen] | 0/0.5 |
| ✓ | Other review platforms A hellodent practice profile for this clinic was read live on 2026-09-07. Its syndicated review figures are deliberately not used as the review count. [mir1] | 0.5/0.5 |
Medical Infrastructure
11 / 15
The range of publicly documented equipment and services. This measures documented availability, not clinical quality.
| ✓ | On-site X-ray The new-patient page states that the practice will perform a complete oral exam including X-rays — a first-person statement about work done on site, read live on 2026-09-10. [kent-street-dental-centre-ottawa-deepen-2] | 2/2 |
| ✗ | CBCT (3D imaging) The Ontario register publishes a CT Scanner Facility Permit flag for every practice address on a dentist record. Read on 2026-09-07, the record for this practice (Kent Street Dental, 381 Kent St #326) carries "CT Scanner Facility Permit: No". A dental cone-beam scanner in Ontario requires that permit, so this is a checked negative from the statutory regulator rather than an unchecked field. [regd1] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Implantology A dental implants section; the Google place record also carries a dental implants provider category. [s1] [gmp1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Orthodontics The Google place record, which is the clinic own business profile, carries an orthodontist category; the site service menu does not name orthodontics separately. [gmp1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Oral surgery An oral surgery section; the Google place record also carries an oral surgeon category. [s1] [gmp1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Pediatric dentistry A families patient section covering children; the Google place record also carries a pediatric dentist category. [s1] [gmp1] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ✓ | Emergency care The Google place record, which is the clinic own business profile, carries an emergency dental service category. [gmp1] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ✗ | Works with international patients The clinic addresses a domestic Canadian patient base and documents no international-patient provision. [s1] [s3] | 0/2 |
Communication & Service
3.5 / 10
How easy it is to contact the clinic, get answers, and book - especially for international patients.
| ✗ | WhatsApp / LINE available No WhatsApp or LINE contact is published; the site offers a phone line and a contact form with file upload. [s3] | 0/2 |
| ? | Response speed | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | English spoken The practice operates and publishes in English. [s1] | 2.5/2.5 |
| ✗ | Pre-visit consultation possible A contact form asking the reason for the visit exists, but the clinic does not offer a preliminary estimate through it. [s3] | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | Clear service explanations Each service group and each patient group has its own explanatory page. [s1] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | Convenient opening hours Confirmed as a checked negative on the clinic's own Google Business Profile, read in a browser on 2026-09-08: Monday to Thursday 08:00–16:00, with Friday, Saturday and Sunday all closed. That agrees with the clinic's own site, which adds that only selected Fridays are open. Neither channel publishes an evening close or a regular weekend opening. [s3] [gmpb] | 0/1.5 |
AI & Search Visibility
6 / 10
Whether the clinic is discoverable when patients search - including via AI assistants. Checked with fixed queries: "best dentist Canada", "English speaking dentist Canada", "dental implants Canada", "emergency dentist Canada", "Canada dental clinic for expats".
| ✗ | Mentioned for: best dentist Canada Canonical visibility query best dentist Ottawa, run in the AI-visibility pass on 2026-09-07: the clinic own domain does not appear in the recorded result set. The Ottawa result set of this query is partly occupied by same-name results from Ottawa, Illinois; five of the nine recorded results are unambiguously Ottawa, Ontario, which is enough to read the clinic absence or presence. [av1] | 0/1 |
| ✓ | Mentioned for: English speaking dentist Canada Canonical visibility query English speaking dentist Ottawa, run in the AI-visibility pass on 2026-09-07: the clinic own domain kentstreetdental.ca appears in the recorded result set. [av2] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: dental implants Canada Canonical visibility query dental implants Ottawa, run in the AI-visibility pass on 2026-09-07: the clinic own domain does not appear in the recorded result set. [av3] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: emergency dentist Canada Canonical visibility query emergency dentist Ottawa, run in the AI-visibility pass on 2026-09-07: the clinic own domain does not appear in the recorded result set. [av4] | 0/1 |
| ? | Mentioned for: Canada dental clinic for expats The fifth canonical query was run only for the first research city of each country in the AI-visibility pass, so no result set exists for this city: query not run in the AI-visibility pass. | 0/1 |
| ✓ | Structured data on website The site ships schema.org WebSite and Dentist markup. [s1] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ✓ | Google indexing quality A name query on 2026-09-07 returned the clinic own domain in first place with three further own pages inside the first fourteen results, alongside a hellodent practice profile, Facebook, Yelp and a Sun Life provider entry. [sx1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Dedicated service pages Individual pages exist for general dentistry, cosmetic services, oral surgery, implants, crowns and preventive services. [s1] | 1.5/1.5 |
Ranking leaders in AI answers
The queries above are this index's own check. The three leading clinics have also been measured in full: how often ChatGPT and Gemini name them when a patient asks them to recommend a dentist.
- #1Haysboro Dental Care5.3 of 100View report →
- #1Beacon Hill Dental2.9 of 100View report →
- #3Hemlock Dental Clinic21 of 100View report →
Measured by Ansmeter, 7 October 2026. Ansmeter is an affiliated service. Its figure is not part of this rating and does not affect positions — scores change only when public data changes.
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
Red Flags
No red flags identified in the public sources we reviewed.
Data We Could Not Verify
- Communication & Service: Response speed
- AI & Search Visibility: Mentioned for: Canada dental clinic for expats
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://www.kentstreetdental.ca/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +1 613-237-2677 |
| https://www.facebook.com/p/Kent-Street-Dental-Centre-100032787201812/ | |
| Google Maps | Map listing |
| Address | 381 Kent Street, Suite 326, Ottawa, ON K2P 2A8, Canada |
Contact details are provided for identification only and may change; verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | https://www.kentstreetdental.ca/site/home | Clinic website read live: service menu, patient sections, structured data, own premises imagery | 2026-09-07 |
| s2 | https://www.kentstreetdental.ca/site/our-dentists-ottawa | Named dentist with degree, residency and clinical experience | 2026-09-07 |
| s3 | https://www.kentstreetdental.ca/site/contact-ottawa-dentist | Address, phone, full office hours and contact form | 2026-09-07 |
| s4 | https://www.kentstreetdental.ca/site/ottawa-dentist-new-patients | New-patient and patient-group pages with no fees | 2026-09-07 |
| gmp1 | https://www.google.com/maps/preview/place/Kent+Street+Dental+Centre… | Live Google place record and clinic business profile: rating, categories, pin coordinates, address, phone, website and the dentalcorp campaign tag on the listed website URL | 2026-09-07 |
| reg1 | https://www.rcdso.org/find-a-dentist/search-results?Alpha=Yassine&C… | RCDSO public register, live query: registration number, status, primary practice and published concern link | 2026-09-07 |
| reg3 | https://cdsa.portalca.thentiacloud.net/rest/public/facility/search/… | Provincial facility-register check evidencing that no public clinic register exists | 2026-09-07 |
| fb1 | https://www.facebook.com/p/Kent-Street-Dental-Centre-100032787201812/ | Clinic Facebook page, opened live | 2026-09-07 |
| mir1 | https://www.hellodent.com/site/dentist-office/kent-street-dental-ce… | Independent practice directory profile confirming the clinic and its named dentist, used only as evidence of platform presence | 2026-09-07 |
| sx1 | search:"Kent Street Dental Centre" Ottawa | Name query: own domain ranks first with several own pages; independent listings on hellodent, Yelp, Facebook and Sun Life, plus the dentalcorp recruitment page identifying the network | 2026-09-07 |
| av1 | search:best dentist Ottawa | Canonical visibility query recorded in the AI-visibility pass | 2026-09-07 |
| av2 | search:English speaking dentist Ottawa | Canonical visibility query recorded in the AI-visibility pass | 2026-09-07 |
| av3 | search:dental implants Ottawa | Canonical visibility query recorded in the AI-visibility pass | 2026-09-07 |
| av4 | search:emergency dentist Ottawa | Canonical visibility query recorded in the AI-visibility pass | 2026-09-07 |
| regd1 | https://www.rcdso.org/find-a-dentist/search-results/dentist?id=101239 | The Ontario register publishes a CT Scanner Facility Permit flag for every practice address on a dentist record. Read on 2026-09-07, the record for this practice (Kent Street Dental, 381 Kent St #326) carries "CT Scanner Facility Permit: No". A dental cone-beam scanner in Ontario requires that permit, so this is a checked negative from the statutory regulator rather than an unchecked field. (The supports text of this source was missing from the card; it was written on 2026-09-10 from the finding the card itself records for it, and the page was not re-read on that date.) | 2026-09-07 |
| gmpb | https://www.google.com/maps/place/x/@45.412859,-75.696745,17z/data=… | The clinic’s Google Maps place page, opened in a real browser on 2026-09-08. The Reviews tab (this URL) gives the headline rating, the review-count header, the five star-histogram buckets read whole from their accessibility labels, and the eight most-relevant reviews with their star values, dates, text and owner replies; the sibling Overview URL https://www.google.com/maps/place/x/@45.412859,-75.696745,17z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x4cce05b27839ba0d:0xf6b2a079f838b96a!8m2!3d45.412859!4d-75.696745?hl=en gives the listing name, address, telephone, website, business category, the full published opening week and the lead owner photograph. The listing opens as «Kent Street Dental Centre», category Dentist, at 381 Kent Street, Ottawa ON · kentstreetdental.ca — the identifiers the card itself carries, so the place identifier resolves to this practice and not to a neighbour. | 2026-09-08 |
| kent-street-dental-centre-ottawa-deepen | https://www.tripadvisor.ca/TypeAheadJson?action=API&query=Kent+Stre… | TripAdvisor's own type-ahead search endpoint, the one its search box calls, opened directly in a real browser on 2026-09-10. Queried under the clinic name alone and again with the city appended, it returns no listing for this practice; the query broadens to dental-clinic listings in other countries instead. A control query for an existing dental-clinic listing (Old Igarashi Dental Clinic, Shizuoka) returns that listing at rank 1, so the method does surface dental clinics when they are in the index. The /Search results page itself never resolves past its loading spinner for a signed-out session, which is why the search endpoint is cited. | 2026-09-10 |
| kent-street-dental-centre-ottawa-deepen-2 | https://www.kentstreetdental.ca/site/patients-ottawa-dentist/new-pa… | Read in a real browser on 2026-09-10 after a 21-page read of the site. Under the heading 'Complete Oral Exam including X-Rays' the page states 'We'll perform a complete oral exam, including X-rays to help us assess the overall health of your smile.' That is a statement about radiography performed at this practice, unlike the request to bring previous records that earlier passes had found. | 2026-09-10 |
Change History
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-10 | Checked by hand in a browser on 2026-09-10: TripAdvisor carries no listing; hasXray moves null to true after the new-patient page was found to state that the practice performs a complete oral exam including X-rays. |
| 2026-09-08 | Checked by hand in a browser: the clinic’s Google Maps place page was opened in a real browser and read on both its Reviews and Overview tabs. Recorded from it: the rating re-verified against the star histogram, the review count, the histogram itself (241/9/1/0/2 = 253, weighted mean 4.925), review recency, the owner-reply state, the complaint reading and the manipulation reading from the eight most-relevant reviews, the lead owner photograph and the full published opening week. Fields this pass did not measure are untouched. |
| 2026-09-07 | Adversarial verification (no browser): all four mandatory sweeps run on the card; every cited URL re-fetched for liveness; the Google rating and coordinates re-read independently from the live place record and confirmed; the licensing block re-run against the province statutory register; TripAdvisor probed directly and found unreadable to an automated client. On this card, the review count missing from the earlier run was read from the live place record (253, matching the hellodent syndication), the Ontario register record was opened and cited — it settles cone-beam CT and the sedation level as checked negatives and publishes a 2026 complaints-and-reports outcome on the named dentist, now disclosed in the summary — and the clinic licence citation now names the Ontario regulator. |
| 2026-09-07 | Initial data collection (no browser): clinic site read page by page for services, the named dentist, contacts, hours and fees; the live Google place record read through the automated map endpoint for rating, categories and pin coordinates, which also carries the network campaign tag on the listed website URL; the named dentist matched in the Royal College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario public register by the practice name and suite address printed on his record, with the three different published phone numbers and the register concern link disclosed; a name query used for indexing quality and independent listings; the four canonical visibility queries taken from the AI-visibility pass. Review count, recency and the complaint and manipulation readings are left null and queued for a manual browser check. |
A question or a correction?
Have a question, a suggestion, or a correction to this page? Get in touch — we read every message. Verified data corrections are reviewed against sources and applied with a public change-history entry.