Smile Dental Clinics
According to our open methodology, this clinic scored 43.9/100 for transparency, reputation, service accessibility, and digital visibility.
Overall rank: #16 of 21 ranked clinics · Last checked: 24 September 2026
43.9/100
Positions by Rating Profile
- Overall Transparency & Trust#1643.9/100
- Best for Expats#1540.5/100
- Best for Dental Implants#1538/100
- Best for Emergency Dental Carenot ranked
- Best Price Transparency#1530.8/100
- Best English-speaking Clinicsnot ranked
- Best for Families / Children#844.7/100
- Sleep Dentistry (GA / deep sedation)not ranked
General Anaesthesia & Deep Sedation
Whether the clinic documents treatment under general anaesthesia or deep / twilight sedation — "sleep dentistry", where the patient is asleep and unaware (does not feel, see, or hear the procedure). Ordinary conscious sedation, where the patient stays awake and responsive, does not count here. This is informational and does not affect the transparency score.
- ? General anaesthesia / deep sedation (sleep dentistry) — Not verified
Summary
Single-founder dental practice in central Tripoli run by Dr. Fadi Samad, offering a general restorative and cosmetic service menu with a free initial consultation.
The clinic's own Facebook page and its Google listing both give the address Al Marrad Street, facing Banque Societe Generale, Lina Center Building, 3rd floor, and the phone +961 6 628 280. The clinic has no website; its Facebook page links an Instagram account instead.
Strengths
- 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)
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
14 / 20
Whether basic facts about the clinic - its team, premises, services, and location - are publicly verifiable.
| ✗ | Has a working website No website: the clinic's Google listing has no website field, its Facebook page links only an Instagram account, and its e-mail domain does not resolve. [smile-dental-clinics-tripoli-deepen-2] [smile-dental-clinics-tripoli-deepen-5] [smile-dental-clinics-tripoli-deepen-6] [s1] | 0/4 |
| ✓ | Dentist names listed The clinic's Google listing is titled "Smile Dental Clinics by Dr. Fadi Samad", naming its dentist. [smile-dental-clinics-tripoli-deepen-2] [smile-dental-clinics-tripoli-deepen-5] [s1] [s2] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Dentist specializations listed The clinic's Instagram profile presents its dentist, Dr Fadi Samad, as an aesthetic dentist. [smile-dental-clinics-tripoli-deepen-7] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Real clinic photos [gm-replies] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Service list published The clinic's Instagram profile carries an album per treatment: orthodontics, whitening, implants, children's dentistry, aesthetic dentistry, root canals, veneers. [smile-dental-clinics-tripoli-deepen-7] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Clear contact details Phone +961 6 628 280 on both the clinic's Google listing and its Facebook page, which also gives an e-mail address. [smile-dental-clinics-tripoli-deepen-2] [smile-dental-clinics-tripoli-deepen-5] [s1] [s2] | 2/2 |
| ✗ | English website version The clinic has no website, so no English website version: its Google listing has no website field and its Facebook page links only its Instagram. [smile-dental-clinics-tripoli-deepen-2] [smile-dental-clinics-tripoli-deepen-5] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Address and map published Lina Center Building, Al Marrad St, Tripoli, on the clinic's Facebook page and its Google listing, which carries the map pin. [smile-dental-clinics-tripoli-deepen-5] [smile-dental-clinics-tripoli-deepen-2] [s1] | 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 No price list or price on the clinic's Instagram or Facebook page (every post of the past 12 months) or its Google listing; it has no website. [smile-dental-clinics-tripoli-deepen-7] [smile-dental-clinics-tripoli-deepen-5] [smile-dental-clinics-tripoli-deepen-2] | 0/3 |
| ✗ | Cleaning price listed No cleaning or scaling price on the clinic's Instagram or Facebook page (every post of the past 12 months) or its Google listing; it has no website. [smile-dental-clinics-tripoli-deepen-7] [smile-dental-clinics-tripoli-deepen-5] [smile-dental-clinics-tripoli-deepen-2] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Filling price listed No filling price on the clinic's Instagram or Facebook page (every post of the past 12 months) or its Google listing; it has no website. [smile-dental-clinics-tripoli-deepen-7] [smile-dental-clinics-tripoli-deepen-5] [smile-dental-clinics-tripoli-deepen-2] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Crown price listed No crown price on the clinic's Instagram or Facebook page (every post of the past 12 months) or its Google listing; it has no website. [smile-dental-clinics-tripoli-deepen-7] [smile-dental-clinics-tripoli-deepen-5] [smile-dental-clinics-tripoli-deepen-2] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Implant price listed No implant price on the clinic's Instagram or Facebook page (every post of the past 12 months) or its Google listing; it has no website. [smile-dental-clinics-tripoli-deepen-7] [smile-dental-clinics-tripoli-deepen-5] [smile-dental-clinics-tripoli-deepen-2] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Consultation price listed No consultation fee (nor a free one) on the clinic's Instagram or Facebook page (every post of the past 12 months) or its Google listing; it has no website. [smile-dental-clinics-tripoli-deepen-7] [smile-dental-clinics-tripoli-deepen-5] [smile-dental-clinics-tripoli-deepen-2] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | X-ray / imaging price listed No X-ray or imaging price on the clinic's Instagram or Facebook page (every post of the past 12 months) or its Google listing; it has no website. [smile-dental-clinics-tripoli-deepen-7] [smile-dental-clinics-tripoli-deepen-5] [smile-dental-clinics-tripoli-deepen-2] | 0/2 |
Reputation & Reviews
14 / 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) As of 2026-09-03, live Google Maps listing (browser): 4.9 stars, unchanged since 2026-09-02. Star histogram on the same page: 30 five-star, 0 four-star, 0 three-star, 1 two-star, 0 one-star. [sm] | 4/6 |
| ◐ | Google review volume As of 2026-09-03, live Google Maps listing (browser): 31 reviews, unchanged since 2026-09-02. [sm] | 1/3 |
| ◐ | Review recency Newest Google review is dated 2026-06-23 (listing read 2026-09-26). [smile-dental-clinics-tripoli-gbp-2026-09-26] | 1.5/3 |
| ✓ | Clinic responds to reviews Read on the clinic's own Google listing on 2026-09-11: the practice has answered 2 of the 5 reviews shown there (31 published in total), most recently on 2023-12-12. One reply reads: "We highly appreciated for this lovely feedback Thank you so much for your trust and we are so happy to know you". [sm] [gm-replies] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | No recurring complaints None of the 8 visible reviews is negative and no concrete issue recurs. The histogram holds one two-star review that relevance order did not surface. Sample: the 8 reviews Google Maps rendered on the place page's Reviews tab on 2026-09-03, read in a browser, in Google's relevance order — Maps' "Sort reviews" control would not open (clicked by element reference and by a dispatched in-page click(); the menu never opened), so no newest-first ordering was available. Published star histogram 5★→1★: 30/0/0/1/0, which sums to the 31 reviews in the place header. [sm] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | No suspicious review patterns The histogram keeps a two-star review unremoved, dates run from two months to five years with no burst, the eight visible reviews are individually worded and several name the practice's dentist by name, and the accounts hold 1-18 reviews. Published as a caveat rather than a clean bill: five of the eight visible reviewers hold a single review of their own - on the smile-poly precedent this is read as Google's relevance bias, not as manipulation. Sample: the 8 reviews Google Maps rendered on the place page's Reviews tab on 2026-09-03, read in a browser, in Google's relevance order — Maps' "Sort reviews" control would not open (clicked by element reference and by a dispatched in-page click(); the menu never opened), so no newest-first ordering was available. Published star histogram 5★→1★: 30/0/0/1/0, which sums to the 31 reviews in the place header. [sm] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Active Facebook presence Own Facebook page found by name search [smile-dental-clinics-tripoli-deepen-4] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | TripAdvisor presence No listing found for the clinic; no website to check for a link [smile-dental-clinics-tripoli-deepen] [smile-dental-clinics-tripoli-deepen-3] | 0/0.5 |
| ✓ | Other review platforms WhatClinic ServiceScore 6.1/10 from 6 interactions. [s1] | 0.5/0.5 |
Medical Infrastructure
5.5 / 15
The range of publicly documented equipment and services. This measures documented availability, not clinical quality.
| ? | On-site X-ray | 0/2 |
| ? | CBCT (3D imaging) | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Implantology [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Orthodontics Braces listed. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ? | Oral surgery | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Pediatric dentistry The clinic's Instagram profile keeps a highlight album of its children's dentistry. [smile-dental-clinics-tripoli-deepen-7] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ? | Emergency care | 0/1.5 |
| ? | Works with international patients | 0/2 |
Communication & Service
3 / 10
How easy it is to contact the clinic, get answers, and book - especially for international patients.
AI & Search Visibility
3 / 10
Whether the clinic is discoverable when patients search - including via AI assistants. Checked with fixed queries: "best dentist Lebanon", "English speaking dentist Lebanon", "dental implants Lebanon", "emergency dentist Lebanon", "Lebanon dental clinic for expats".
| ✓ | Mentioned for: best dentist Lebanon [sq1] | 1/1 |
| ✓ | Mentioned for: English speaking dentist Lebanon [sq2] | 1/1 |
| ✓ | Mentioned for: dental implants Lebanon [sq3] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: emergency dentist Lebanon [sq4] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: Lebanon dental clinic for expats [sq5] | 0/1 |
| ? | Structured data on website No independent website to check. | 0/1.5 |
| ? | Google indexing quality | 0/2 |
| ? | Dedicated service pages | 0/1.5 |
Licensing & Credentials
Whether the clinic publishes its operating licence and the dentists working there together with their professional licence numbers. A verified “not published” is recorded as a red flag; data we have not checked yet is shown as unverified and carries no penalty.
Clinic operating licence: not checked against public sources yet — unverified, no penalty
Dentists & professional licences
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
- Medical Infrastructure: On-site X-ray
- Medical Infrastructure: CBCT (3D imaging)
- Medical Infrastructure: Oral surgery
- Medical Infrastructure: Emergency care
- Medical Infrastructure: Works with international patients
- Communication & Service: WhatsApp / LINE available
- Communication & Service: Response speed
- Communication & Service: English spoken
- Communication & Service: Clear service explanations
- AI & Search Visibility: Structured data on website
- AI & Search Visibility: Google indexing quality
- AI & Search Visibility: Dedicated service pages
Unverified items score 0 points but are not treated as negative findings. If you can document any of them, please send a correction.
Contact Information
| Phone | +961 6 628 280 |
|---|---|
| https://www.facebook.com/DrFadiSamad | |
| Google Maps | Map listing |
| Address | Al Maarad Street, facing SGBL bank, Lina Center, 3rd Floor, Tripoli, Lebanon |
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.whatclinic.com/dentists/lebanon/tripoli/smile-dental-cl… | Address, dentist name, services, prices, rating | 2026-09-02 |
| s2 | https://www.yelleb.com/companies/Dentists/city:Tripoli | Cross-check of dentist name and phone number ("Samad Fadi Hachem") | 2026-09-02 |
| sm | https://www.google.com/maps/place/Smile+Dental+Clinics+by+Dr.+Fadi+… | Maps listing name: "Smile Dental Clinics by Dr. Fadi Samad"; Google rating 4.9 (31 reviews) | 2026-09-03 |
| sq1 | search:best dentist Tripoli | Canonical query 1: Query relevant as-is (AI Overview explicitly scoped to "Tripoli (Lebanon)"). AI Overview named Smile Poly Clinic and Smile Dental Clinics by name; Dr. Ahmad El Zein Dental Care Clinic appeared as an organic Facebook result. | 2026-09-02 |
| sq2 | search:English speaking dentist Tripoli | Canonical query 2: Plain "Tripoli" query returned a majority of irrelevant results (Tripoli, Peloponnese/Greece dominated); re-run as "English speaking dentist Tripoli Lebanon". AI Overview named Smile Dental Clinics; Smile Poly Clinic appeared in the Maps local pack; Ahmad El Zein appeared as an organic Facebook result. | 2026-09-02 |
| sq3 | search:dental implants Tripoli | Canonical query 3: Query relevant as-is (Lebanon-specific related questions/results). No AI Overview; Smile Poly Clinic and Smile Dental Clinics named inside a WhatClinic aggregator snippet listing Tripoli, Lebanon clinics. | 2026-09-02 |
| sq4 | search:emergency dentist Tripoli | Canonical query 4: Query relevant as-is (LDA-Tripoli, drc-lb.com Beirut/Tripoli results). None of the 5 research clinics named in the visible results. | 2026-09-02 |
| sq5 | search:Tripoli dental clinic for expats | Canonical query 5: Query relevant as-is. Smile Poly Clinic (as "Smilepolycliniclb") appeared in the Maps local pack and as a dedicated WhatClinic review-page organic result. | 2026-09-02 |
| gm-replies | https://www.google.com/maps?cid=1200593539723942571&hl=en | Google listing read 2026-09-24: 4.9 from 31 reviews; 2 of 5 readable reviews carry a reply from the practice (2023-12-12); no website field, no price information and no TripAdvisor reference; photo strip shows a real reception/waiting area with glass-walled office, uploaded 2023-11 to 2023-12 | 2026-09-24 |
| smile-dental-clinics-tripoli-deepen | https://www.tripadvisor.com/TypeAheadJson?action=API&query=Smile+De… | Name search returns 12 unrelated results worldwide, none in Lebanon | 2026-09-24 |
| smile-dental-clinics-tripoli-deepen-3 | https://www.google.com/maps?cid=1200593539723942571&hl=en | Google listing read 2026-09-24: no website field and no TripAdvisor reference on the clinic's own profile | 2026-09-24 |
| smile-dental-clinics-tripoli-gbp-2026-09-26 | https://www.google.com/maps?cid=1200593539723942571&hl=en | Google listing read on 2026-09-26: rating 4.9 from 31 reviews; star histogram 1★ 0 / 2★ 1 / 3★ 0 / 4★ 0 / 5★ 30; newest review dated 2026-06-23. | 2026-09-26 |
| smile-dental-clinics-tripoli-deepen-4 | https://www.facebook.com/DrFadiSamad | Facebook page "Smile Dental Clinics" (cosmetic dentist, 6,500 followers) lists the address "Al Marrad St, facing Banque Societe General, Lina Center Bldg, 3rd Floor" in Tripoli, matching the clinic | 2026-09-29 |
| smile-dental-clinics-tripoli-deepen-2 | https://www.google.com/maps?cid=1200593539723942571&hl=en | Google listing "Smile Dental Clinics by Dr. Fadi Samad", managed by the business, read on 2026-09-30: address facing Banque Societe Generale, Lina Center Building, 3rd floor, Al Marrad St, Tripoli, with its map pin; phone +961 6 628 280; category Dental clinic; no website field, no business description and no prices | 2026-09-30 |
| smile-dental-clinics-tripoli-deepen-5 | https://www.facebook.com/DrFadiSamad/ | Facebook page "Smile Dental Clinics" (read 2026-09-30): its About section gives the address Al Marrad St, facing Banque Societe Generale, Lina Center Building, 3rd floor, Tripoli, phone +961 6 628 280, an e-mail address and, as its only web link, an Instagram account; its services tab is empty; its 16 posts of the past year (2025-10-06 to 2026-09-29) are smile photos with no treatment list and no price | 2026-09-30 |
| smile-dental-clinics-tripoli-deepen-6 | https://smiledclb.com/ | The domain of the clinic's e-mail address, smiledclb.com, does not resolve (checked 2026-09-30) | 2026-09-30 |
| smile-dental-clinics-tripoli-deepen-7 | https://www.instagram.com/drfadisamad/ | Clinic's Instagram account @drfadisamad ("Smile Dental Clinics"; bio "Aesthetic Dentist" with three phone numbers; linked from its Facebook page), read 2026-09-30: 8,979 followers, 404 posts; the 16 posts of the past 12 months (2025-10-06 to 2026-09-29; every image viewed) are before-and-after smile photos with no price; its 13 highlight albums, shown on the profile, are titled by treatment - Orthodontist, Whitening, Implants, Pediatric, Aesthetic dentistry, Endodontist, Veneers, Gummy smile, The mouth guard, Panoramic X-ray - with stories of 2018 to 2024 and none from the past 12 months | 2026-09-30 |
Change History
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-30 | Read the clinic's Instagram in full on 2026-09-30 (every post of the past 12 months and its highlight albums): no prices are published there or on its Facebook page; its highlight albums list its treatments by name, including children's dentistry, and its profile presents the dentist as an aesthetic dentist; with no website, there is no English website version. |
| 2026-09-30 | Re-read on 2026-09-30 on the clinic's own Google listing and Facebook page (About and the posts of the past year): phone and Facebook page added to the contacts; the dentist's name, contacts, address and the absence of a website now rest on them. Corrected: service list and consultation price now unverified, as neither channel publishes them and the clinic's Instagram could not be read in full. |
| 2026-09-29 | Corrected 2026-09-29: published prices and the cleaning, filling, crown, implant and X-ray prices now unverified: the clinic has no website and its social page was not checked for this. |
| 2026-09-29 | Found the clinic's own Facebook page by name search; the listed address matches the card. Recorded a confirmed Facebook presence. |
| 2026-09-29 | Corrected 2026-09-29: review recency within a year (newest review dated 2026-06-23). |
| 2026-09-24 | Re-read on 2026-09-24: the clinic's Google listing (photos, reviews) as it has no website. Recorded genuine premises photos on the Google listing. No prices are published anywhere reachable (no website; Google profile carries none), and no TripAdvisor listing was found. Most other facts remain unverified because the clinic has no website or social page to read. |
| 2026-09-11 | Rechecked whether this practice answers its Google reviews by reading the reviews on its own Google listing on 2026-09-11: confirmed, 2 of the 5 reviews read carry a dated reply from the practice, the newest dated 2023-12-12. |
| 2026-09-03 | Reputation pass: the Maps place page's Reviews tab was read in a browser (8 reviews visible in relevance order, histogram 30/0/0/1/0); complaints=false, suspicious=false. Rating and review count reproduced from the histogram, unchanged. |
| 2026-09-03 | Browser spot-check: Google rating and review count re-read live (4.9 / 31, unchanged); reviewRecency and respondsToReviews set from the Maps review list. |
| 2026-09-02 | Live Google Maps rating/review-count/geo re-verification and 5-canonical-query aiVisibility pass. |
| 2026-09-02 | Initial data collection for the Lebanon Dental Transparency & Trust Index (Tripoli): verified via WhatClinic and a Yelleb directory cross-check. |
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