House of Dentistry
According to our open methodology, this clinic scored 56.3/100 for transparency, reputation, service accessibility, and digital visibility.
Overall rank: #5 of 22 ranked clinics · Last checked: 25 August 2026
Positions by Rating Profile
- Overall Transparency & Trust#556.3/100
- Best for Expats#358.8/100
- Best for Dental Implants#651/100
- Best for Emergency Dental Carenot ranked
- Best Price Transparency#538.8/100
- Best English-speaking Clinics#364.3/100
- Best for Families / Children#362.3/100
- 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 No sedation/GA info found on clinic website
Summary
House of Dentistry is a dental clinic on the 2nd floor of The Mall in Westlands, Nairobi, led by chief dentist and CEO Dr. Mercy Oira Abenga. Services include OPG X-rays, root canal therapy, Invisalign and braces, implants, veneers, pediatric dentistry, extractions and cleanings, and the clinic lists more than 15 insurance partners with cash, card and mobile payment options. It carries a 4.9 Google rating across 231 reviews per an aggregator listing and is open Sunday through Friday.
Second phone +254 733 654 317. Insurance partners include Eagle Africa, Old Mutual, Britam, CIC and AAR. Registered in the Kenya Master Health Facility Registry as House Of Dentistry Limited. Saturday closed; open Sundays.
Strengths
- Information Transparency: 18 of 20 points.
- Communication & Service: 8.5 of 10 points.
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)
- AI & Search Visibility: 3.5 of 8.5 verifiable points (missing: mentioned for: best dentist nairobi; mentioned for: english speaking dentist nairobi; mentioned for: dental implants nairobi; mentioned for: emergency dentist nairobi; mentioned for: nairobi dental clinic for expats)
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 Dr. Mercy Oira Abenga (Chief Dentist, CEO) [s1] | 3/3 |
| ? | Dentist specializations listed Chief dentist named but formal specializations not detailed on pages checked | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Real clinic photos Multiple clinic images present [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Service list published [s1] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Clear contact details Two phones, email, WhatsApp widget [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | English website version [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Address and map published 'Find us' section with address [s1] | 2/2 |
Price Transparency
Whether patients can estimate costs before visiting. Published price ranges count; exact prices are not required.
| ✗ | Prices or price ranges published [s1] | 0/3 |
| ✗ | Cleaning price listed [s1] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Filling price listed [s1] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Crown price listed [s1] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Implant price listed [s1] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Consultation price listed [s1] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | X-ray / imaging price listed [s1] | 0/2 |
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 2026-08-25 [house-of-dentistry-refresh] | 6/6 |
| ◐ | Google review volume [house-of-dentistry-refresh] | 2.5/3 |
| ✓ | Review recency [house-of-dentistry-refresh] | 3/3 |
| ? | Clinic responds to reviews | 0/2 |
| ? | No recurring complaints Search-surfaced testimonials positive; complaints not systematically checkable | 0/2 |
| ? | No suspicious review patterns | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Active Facebook presence 100% recommend from 12 Facebook reviews [s3] | 1/1 |
| ? | TripAdvisor presence | 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 OPG X-ray listed as a service [s1] | 2/2 |
| ? | CBCT (3D imaging) | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Implantology [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Orthodontics Braces and Invisalign [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Oral surgery Tooth extraction listed [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Pediatric dentistry [s1] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ? | Emergency care | 0/1.5 |
| ? | Works with international patients | 0/2 |
Communication & Service
How easy it is to contact the clinic, get answers, and book - especially for non-Thai speakers.
| ✓ | WhatsApp / LINE available WhatsApp widget on site [s1] | 2/2 |
| ? | Response speed | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | English spoken Site entirely in English [s1] | 2.5/2.5 |
| ✓ | Pre-visit consultation possible Online appointment booking link [s1] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ✓ | Clear service explanations Individual pages per service [s1] | 1/1 |
| ✓ | Convenient opening hours Sun-Fri 8AM-6PM; Saturday closed [s1] | 1.5/1.5 |
AI & Search Visibility
Whether the clinic is discoverable when patients search - including via AI assistants. Checked with fixed queries: "best dentist Nairobi", "English speaking dentist Nairobi", "dental implants Nairobi", "emergency dentist Nairobi", "Nairobi dental clinic for expats".
| ✗ | Mentioned for: best dentist Nairobi [sq] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: English speaking dentist Nairobi [sq] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: dental implants Nairobi [sq] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: emergency dentist Nairobi [sq] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: Nairobi dental clinic for expats [sq] | 0/1 |
| ? | Structured data on website | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | Google indexing quality Homepage, about and contact pages indexed [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Dedicated service pages [s1] | 1.5/1.5 |
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: 01***8 (KMPDC – Register of Licensed Private Health Facilities) (KMPDC facility register searched 2026-08-25 for 'House of Dentistry' — matched 'HOUSE OF DENTISTRY LIMITED', Dental Clinic, Nairobi, ACTIVE, consistent with the clinic's own notes stating it is registered as 'House Of Dentistry Limited'.) [house-of-dentistry-lic]
Dentists & professional licences
| Dentist | Specialization | Licence No. |
|---|---|---|
| Dr Mercy Oira Abenga [Llic] | Chief Dentist / CEO | not verified |
| Dr Priscah Maoga [Llic] [house-of-dentistry-doclic] | Dental Surgeon | B1**1 (KMPDC – Register of Licensed Dental Practitioners) |
Dentists are named; their licence numbers have not been checked against public sources yet — unverified, no penalty.
Red Flags
- low Opaque or bait pricing (-2 pts) — No prices or price ranges published (derived from data).
Red-flag penalty applied: -2 points (capped at -20).
Data We Could Not Verify
- Information Transparency: Dentist specializations listed
- Reputation & Reviews: Clinic responds to reviews
- Reputation & Reviews: No recurring complaints
- Reputation & Reviews: No suspicious review patterns
- Reputation & Reviews: TripAdvisor presence
- Medical Infrastructure: CBCT (3D imaging)
- Medical Infrastructure: Emergency care
- Medical Infrastructure: Works with international patients
- Communication & Service: Response speed
- AI & Search Visibility: Structured data on website
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://houseofdentistry.co.ke |
|---|---|
| Phone | +254 700 654 317 |
| available via website widget | |
| https://www.facebook.com/HouseOfDentistry/ | |
| Address | The Mall, 2nd Floor, Westlands, Nairobi |
Contact details are provided for identification only and may change; verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | https://houseofdentistry.co.ke/ | Official site: address, contacts, chief dentist, services incl. OPG X-ray, hours, insurance partners, booking, no prices | 2026-07-04 |
| s2 | https://www.top-rated.online/countries/Kenya/cities/Nairobi/@dental… | well-reviewed.Online (already-cited live source): Google rating 4.90 with 231 reviews for House of Dentistry - independent third-party ratings platform presence. | 2026-08-26 |
| s3 | https://www.facebook.com/HouseOfDentistry/ | Facebook presence; 100% recommend from 12 reviews (via web search) | 2026-07-04 |
| sq | search:best/english/implants/emergency/expats dentist Nairobi | AI/search visibility scout check 2026-07-04: presence or absence in top results for the five fixed methodology queries | 2026-07-04 |
| Llic | https://houseofdentistry.co.ke/our-team/ | Licensing & credentials check (clinic licence, dentists, licence numbers) | 2026-07-08 |
| house-of-dentistry-refresh | https://www.google.com/maps/place/House+of+Dentistry/@-1.2643019,36… | Google rating 4.9 (237 reviews) as of 2026-08-25 | 2026-08-25 |
| house-of-dentistry-lic | https://registers.kmpdc.go.ke/healthFacilities/getLicensedPrivateHe… | Row: HOUSE OF DENTISTRY LIMITED | 01***8 | DENTAL CLINIC | NAIROBI | ACTIVE | 2026-08-25 |
| house-of-dentistry-doclic | https://registers.kmpdc.go.ke/localPractitioners/getLicensedDentalP… | Register row: 'Dr PRISCAH MOIGE MAOGA', BDS(Nairobi)2021, General Practice, status ACTIVE (matched by name/surname tokens; searched 2026-08-25) | 2026-08-25 |
Change History
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-26 | Link-rot cleanup 2026-08-26: KMHFR registry page (s4) confirmed dead. Kenya Master Health Facility Registry (kmhfr.health.go.ke / kmhfl.health.go.ke) confirmed genuinely dead (ECONNREFUSED, both subdomains resolve to the same unreachable IP 41.89.93.173 - looks like the whole government registry is down) - no live successor found. Its sole citation (onOtherPlatforms) re-declared onto the already-live well-reviewed.Online source (s2); s4 pruned. |
| 2026-08-26 | Link-rot cleanup 2026-08-26: pruning 1 dead source(s) confirmed unreachable in the fleet external-link sweep (checked 2026-08-26) and re-confirmed dead by direct recheck where applicable. s4 [https://kmhfr.health.go.ke/public/facilities/f1c6f818-b839-428c-a20e-9f07685f8505]: https://kmhfr.health.go.ke/public/facilities/f1c6f818-b839-428c-a20e-9f07685f8505 (attempt1: Connect Timeout Error (attempted address: kmhfr.health.go.ke:443, timeout: 10000ms); attempt2 (+30s): Connect Timeout Error (attempted address: kmhfr.health.go.ke:443, timeout: 10000ms), other->stable-dead on recheck) |
| 2026-08-25 | License verification 2026-08-25 against KMPDC registers: clinic facility license found under 'House Of Dentistry Limited'; Dr. Priscah Maoga matched, but chief dentist/CEO Dr. Mercy Oira Abenga left null as the closest register entry (Mercy Nyanchama Oira) does not carry the surname 'Abenga'. |
| 2026-08-25 | Re-verification 2026-08-25: confirmed website live, address/phone unchanged, not permanently closed; recorded Google review count increase 231->237 (rating steady 4.9) and pin coordinates. |
| 2026-07-08 | Added Licensing & Credentials (methodology v1.1): clinic licence and dentists/their licence numbers. |
| 2026-07-04 | Initial data collection. |
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