AK Dental Clinic
According to our open methodology, this clinic scored 52.4/100 for transparency, reputation, service accessibility, and digital visibility.
Overall rank: #12 of 25 ranked clinics · Last checked: 1 September 2026
Positions by Rating Profile
- Overall Transparency & Trust#1252.4/100
- Best for Expats#754.3/100
- Best for Dental Implants#1350/100
- Best for Emergency Dental Care#358.5/100
- Best Price Transparency#1434.4/100
- Best English-speaking Clinics#457.8/100
- Best for Families / Childrennot ranked
- 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
AK Dental Clinic is a private dental clinic in Astana operating an English-language website aimed at international patients, offering therapy, orthodontics, oral surgery and prosthetics. It does not publish price figures or individual dentist names, and lists an operating licence number on its own site.
Strengths
No categories reached the strength threshold (80%).
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
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 Homepage and services pages describe the team collectively ("8+ years experience") without naming individual dentists; no team/doctors page found (akdental.kz/doctors returns 404). [s1] | 0/3 |
| ✗ | Dentist specializations listed [s1] | 0/2 |
| ? | Real clinic photos | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Service list published [s1] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Clear contact details [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | English website version [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Address and map published [s1] [maps1] | 2/2 |
Price Transparency
Whether patients can estimate costs before visiting. Published price ranges count; exact prices are not required.
Reputation & Reviews
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 2026-09-01 [maps1] | 5/6 |
| ◐ | Google review volume as of 2026-09-01 [maps1] | 1/3 |
| ✓ | Review recency Newest visible review dated 2026-09-01: ~2 months ago. [maps1] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Clinic responds to reviews Owner reply visible on a review in the sample viewed 2026-09-01 ("Thank you for choosing quality!"). [maps1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | No recurring complaints No low ratings to repeat a complaint: 1★ 0 / 2★ 0 / 3★ 0 / 4★ 0 / 5★ 48 on Google. [ak-dental-clinic-deepen] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | No suspicious review patterns 10 Google reviews read (2026-03-13 to 2026-09-28): no burst of five-star ratings (at most 2 on one day), no repeated wording; accounts hold 1-37 reviews, 3 single-review. [ak-dental-clinic-deepen] | 2/2 |
| ? | Active Facebook presence No Facebook page is linked from the clinic's own channels, so a page of the clinic could not be confirmed (checked 2026-10-02). [ak-dental-clinic-presence] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | TripAdvisor presence No TripAdvisor listing found via its search for "AK Dental Clinic Astana" and "AK Dental"; the clinic's site does not link to TripAdvisor (checked 2026-10-05). [ak-dental-clinic-tripadvisor] [ak-dental-clinic-tripadvisor-2] | 0/0.5 |
| ✓ | Other review platforms [s2] | 0.5/0.5 |
Medical Infrastructure
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 [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Oral surgery Sinus lifting, gum surgery, bone grafts. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ? | Pediatric dentistry | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | Emergency care [s1] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ✓ | Works with international patients Site markets itself to "local and international patients" with a full English version. [s1] | 2/2 |
Communication & Service
How easy it is to contact the clinic, get answers, and book - especially for international patients.
AI & Search Visibility
Whether the clinic is discoverable when patients search - including via AI assistants. Checked with fixed queries: "best dentist Kazakhstan", "English speaking dentist Kazakhstan", "dental implants Kazakhstan", "emergency dentist Kazakhstan", "Kazakhstan dental clinic for expats".
| ✓ | Mentioned for: best dentist Kazakhstan [sq1] | 1/1 |
| ✓ | Mentioned for: English speaking dentist Kazakhstan [sq2] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: dental implants Kazakhstan [sq3] | 0/1 |
| ✓ | Mentioned for: emergency dentist Kazakhstan [sq4] | 1/1 |
| ✓ | Mentioned for: Kazakhstan dental clinic for expats [sq5] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | Structured data on website No Dentist, MedicalBusiness, LocalBusiness, Organization or MedicalClinic markup: the home page and 1 service page carry only WebSite markup. [ak-dental-clinic-site] | 0/1.5 |
| ? | Google indexing quality | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Dedicated service pages [s1] | 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: № 21012498, issued 17.03.2021 (RNN/BIN 210140033637) (Published on the clinic's own website. The national registry elicense.kz (registryHint) is CAPTCHA-gated on both quick and advanced search tabs; opened 2026-09-01, could not cross-verify — see reg1.) [s1] [reg1]
Dentists & professional licences
No published dentist roster is recorded for this clinic yet — unverified, no penalty.
Red Flags
- low No dentists identified anywhere (-2 pts) — No dentist names published (derived from data).
Red-flag penalty applied: -2 points (capped at -20).
Data We Could Not Verify
- Information Transparency: Real clinic photos
- Reputation & Reviews: Active Facebook presence
- Medical Infrastructure: On-site X-ray
- Medical Infrastructure: CBCT (3D imaging)
- Medical Infrastructure: Pediatric dentistry
- Communication & Service: Response speed
- Communication & Service: Pre-visit consultation possible
- AI & Search Visibility: Google indexing quality
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.akdental.kz/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +7 708 101 88 01 |
| +7 708 101 88 01 | |
| Google Maps | Map listing |
| Address | ул. Анет баба, 5, Астана 010017, Казахстан |
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.akdental.kz/ | address, phone, whatsapp, services, English version, no prices, no named dentists, licence 21012498, hours, emergency/international marketing | 2026-09-01 |
| s2 | https://ak-dental-clinic.103.kz/ | onOtherPlatforms (103.kz copy listing with reviews) | 2026-09-01 |
| maps1 | https://www.google.com/maps/place/AK+Dental+Clinic/@51.1338039,71.3… | Google rating 5.0 (47 reviews) as of 2026-09-01, address, pin coordinates, newest review ~2 months ago. Owner replies visible in the reviewed sample. | 2026-09-01 |
| reg1 | https://elicense.kz/LicensingContent/SimpleSearchLicense?lang=ru | Registry access outcome: CAPTCHA-gated quick search, no query could be submitted | 2026-09-01 |
| sq1 | search:best dentist Astana | AI/search visibility: AK Dental Clinic appears among top results | 2026-09-01 |
| sq2 | search:English speaking dentist Astana | AI/search visibility: AK Dental Clinic appears among top results | 2026-09-01 |
| sq3 | search:dental implants Astana | AI/search visibility: AK Dental Clinic not present in top results | 2026-09-01 |
| sq4 | search:emergency dentist Astana | AI/search visibility: AK Dental Clinic appears among top results | 2026-09-01 |
| sq5 | search:Astana dental clinic for expats | AI/search visibility: AK Dental Clinic appears among top results | 2026-09-01 |
| ak-dental-clinic-site | https://www.akdental.kz/ | Home page HTML read 2026-10-02: JSON-LD types WebSite; none is a business type; no microdata | 2026-10-02 |
| ak-dental-clinic-presence | https://www.akdental.kz/ | The clinic's website, read 2026-10-02 (home page and contact or about pages): no link to a Facebook page | 2026-10-02 |
| ak-dental-clinic-tripadvisor | https://www.tripadvisor.com/TypeAheadJson?action=API&details=true&q… | TripAdvisor's own search, read 2026-10-05: 12 suggestions for "AK Dental Clinic Astana" (1 place, 4 attractions, 6 hotels, 1 restaurant), none of them a dental practice in or near Astana; 12 suggestions for "AK Dental" (2 places, 4 attractions, 6 hotels), none of them a dental practice in or near Astana; no listing for this clinic | 2026-10-05 |
| ak-dental-clinic-tripadvisor-2 | https://www.akdental.kz/ | Clinic's website, home page read 2026-10-05: no link to a TripAdvisor page | 2026-10-05 |
| ak-dental-clinic-deepen | https://www.google.com/maps?cid=12806553116388440608&hl=en | Google listing "AK Dental Clinic" (Dental clinic), read 2026-10-02 in two review orders (newest, lowest-rated first): 5.0 from 48 reviews (1★ 0 / 2★ 0 / 3★ 0 / 4★ 0 / 5★ 48); 10 distinct reviews read, dated 2026-03-13 to 2026-09-28; owner replies on 1 of them | 2026-10-05 |
Change History
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-05 | Read 10 of the clinic's Google reviews on 2026-10-02: no repeated complaint, no suspicious review pattern. |
| 2026-10-05 | TripAdvisor presence checked on 2026-10-05: no listing found for this clinic. |
| 2026-10-02 | Website structure read on 2026-10-02: no business structured data found. |
| 2026-09-01 | Google-reputation re-verification: opened the Maps place page live via browser. Rating 5 and review count 47 confirmed unchanged against today's listing; status open/normal-hours (not closed); reviewRecency and respondsToReviews set from the first reviews shown. |
| 2026-09-01 | Initial research |
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