Enamel Clinic
According to our open methodology, this clinic scored 67.2/100 for transparency, reputation, service accessibility, and digital visibility.
Overall rank: #7 of 26 ranked clinics · Last checked: 7 September 2026
67.2/100
Positions by Rating Profile
- Overall Transparency & Trust#767.2/100
- Best for Expats#863.8/100
- Best for Dental Implants#562/100
- Best for Emergency Dental Care#567.8/100
- Best Price Transparency#945.7/100
- Best English-speaking Clinics#867.7/100
- 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 Site lists 'Sleep Management' and 'Myobrace' (snoring/sleep-apnea appliances) but no anaesthesia/sedation info.
Summary
Advanced cosmetic and restorative dental group in Green Point, a certified Digital Smile Design clinic. Multiple dentists with listed specializations including implantology, orthodontics and endodontics. Publishes contact details and WhatsApp; prices not published.
Strengths
- Information Transparency: 20 of 20 points.
- Reputation & Reviews: 18.5 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)
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.
Price Transparency
0 / 15
Whether patients can estimate costs before visiting. Published price ranges count; exact prices are not required.
Reputation & Reviews
18.5 / 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) Star histogram read live on 2026-09-07 from the place page: 452 five-star, 3 four-star, 0 three-star, 0 two-star, 6 one-star. The buckets sum to 461, matching the 461 in the place-page header exactly, and the weighted mean 4.941 reproduces the published 4.9. [gmp1] | 6/6 |
| ◐ | Google review volume Read live on 2026-09-07 from the place-page header; the star histogram sums to the same figure. The card previously held 460, read on 2026-08-25 — the listing has grown by 1 since. [gmp1] | 2.5/3 |
| ✓ | Review recency The newest review visible is 3 months old, which proves the within-3-months bucket and no better; the Newest sort does not open to automation in Maps, so the true newest review may be more recent than this. Sample: the 3 reviews Google Maps renders on the place page in its own relevance order. [gmp1] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Clinic responds to reviews The owner replied to all three reviews Google renders, each reply naming the treating dentist or the team rather than repeating one template. Sample: the 3 reviews Google Maps renders on the place page in its own relevance order. [gmp1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | No recurring complaints No repeated complaint theme appears in the visible sample: all three reviews are five-star and none is critical. The unread negative tail is 6 one-star and 0 two-star ratings out of 461 — 1.3 per cent of the base, far below the quarter at which this index stops crediting a clean record. Sample: the 3 reviews Google Maps renders on the place page in its own relevance order. [gmp1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | No suspicious review patterns The 452/3/0/0/6 spread is not a manufactured wall: it carries a real one-star tail, the three visible reviewers hold 7, 3 and 3 reviews of their own, their dates are spread across 3, 5 and 10 months and the treatments they describe differ (long-term care, a single cosmetic case, a smile makeover). Sample: the 3 reviews Google Maps renders on the place page in its own relevance order. [gmp1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Active Facebook presence [s1] | 1/1 |
| ? | TripAdvisor presence | 0/0.5 |
| ✗ | Other review platforms No clinic profile found on WhatClinic, Hellopeter or Trustpilot; Dental Departures lists no clinics in South Africa (checked 2026-10-01). [enamel-clinic-platforms] [enamel-clinic-platforms-2] [enamel-clinic-platforms-3] [enamel-clinic-platforms-4] | 0/0.5 |
Medical Infrastructure
11.5 / 15
The range of publicly documented equipment and services. This measures documented availability, not clinical quality.
Communication & Service
5.5 / 10
How easy it is to contact the clinic, get answers, and book - especially for international patients.
AI & Search Visibility
5 / 10
Whether the clinic is discoverable when patients search - including via AI assistants. Checked with fixed queries: "best dentist South Africa", "English speaking dentist South Africa", "dental implants South Africa", "emergency dentist South Africa", "South Africa dental clinic for expats".
| ? | Mentioned for: best dentist South Africa | 0/1 |
| ? | Mentioned for: English speaking dentist South Africa | 0/1 |
| ? | Mentioned for: dental implants South Africa | 0/1 |
| ? | Mentioned for: emergency dentist South Africa | 0/1 |
| ? | Mentioned for: South Africa dental clinic for expats | 0/1 |
| ✓ | Structured data on website JSON-LD on the homepage declares Dentist and Organization. [enamel-clinic-deepen] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ✓ | Google indexing quality The clinic's own site is 3rd of 10 results of a name-and-city web search on 2026-10-02, with 4 of its pages listed. [enamel-clinic-av3] | 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: not checked against public sources yet — unverified, no penalty
Dentists & professional licences
| Dentist | Specialization | Licence No. | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dr Mark Bowes [s1] [enamel-clinic-doclic] [enamel-clinic-hpcsa-dp0035971] | Cosmetic / smile design | DP 0035971 | Registration number with the HPCSA, South Africa’s statutory council for health professions; registration active on its public iRegister (checked 30 September 2026). |
| Prof Howard Gluckman [s1] [enamel-clinic-doclic] [enamel-clinic-hpcsa-dp0053910] | Implant surgery / bone augmentation | DP 0053910 | Registration number with the HPCSA, South Africa’s statutory council for health professions; registration active on its public iRegister (checked 30 September 2026). |
| Dr Waldo Engelbrecht [s1] [enamel-clinic-doclic] [enamel-clinic-hpcsa-dp0089095] | Implants / restorative | DP 0089095 | Registration number with the HPCSA, South Africa’s statutory council for health professions; registration active on its public iRegister (checked 30 September 2026). |
| Dr David Huson [s1] [enamel-clinic-doclic] [enamel-clinic-hpcsa-dp0102113] | General / emergency | DP 0102113 | Registration number with the HPCSA, South Africa’s statutory council for health professions; registration active on its public iRegister (checked 30 September 2026). |
| Dr Riaan Wolfaardt [s1] [enamel-clinic-doclic] [enamel-clinic-hpcsa-dp0060100] | Implants / restorative | DP 0060100 | Registration number with the HPCSA, South Africa’s statutory council for health professions; registration active on its public iRegister (checked 30 September 2026). |
Red Flags
No red flags identified in the public sources we reviewed.
Data We Could Not Verify
- Reputation & Reviews: TripAdvisor presence
- Medical Infrastructure: Pediatric dentistry
- Medical Infrastructure: Works with international patients
- Communication & Service: Response speed
- Communication & Service: Pre-visit consultation possible
- Communication & Service: Convenient opening hours
- AI & Search Visibility: Mentioned for: best dentist South Africa
- AI & Search Visibility: Mentioned for: English speaking dentist South Africa
- AI & Search Visibility: Mentioned for: dental implants South Africa
- AI & Search Visibility: Mentioned for: emergency dentist South Africa
- AI & Search Visibility: Mentioned for: South Africa 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://enamel.clinic/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +27 21 418 2048 |
| +27 81 876 8398 | |
| https://www.facebook.com/enamelclinicCPT/ | |
| Google Maps | Map listing |
| Address | 3rd Floor, De Waterkant Centre, 9 Somerset Road, Green Point, Cape Town, 8001 |
Contact details are provided for identification only and may change; verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | https://enamel.clinic/ | address, phone, WhatsApp, dentists, services | 2026-07-14 |
| s2 | https://enamel.clinic/our-team/ | team and specializations | 2026-07-14 |
| enamel-clinic-refresh | https://www.google.com/maps/place/Enamel+Clinic/@-33.9162623,18.418… | Google rating 4.9 (460 reviews) as of 2026-08-25 | 2026-08-25 |
| enamel-clinic-doclic | https://hpcsaonline.custhelp.com/app/i_reg_form | searched: fullname=Riaan (wildcard) + surname=Wolfaardt (wildcard), register=DENTIST -> DR. WOLFAARDT RIAAN, DP 0060100, City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality 1735, ACTIVE (registered city differs from the Cape Town practice address) | 2026-08-25 |
| gmp1 | https://www.google.com/maps/place/Enamel+Clinic/@-33.9162623,18.418… | The clinic’s Google Maps place page — the one this card already records as contacts.googleMapsUrl — opened and read live in a real browser on 2026-09-07: star rating, review-count header, full star histogram read from the accessibility labels, review dates, review content and owner replies. The listing opens as «Enamel Clinic» and publishes enamel.clinic and +27 21 418 2048. Provenance: owner-managed — no «Claim this business» prompt on the listing, and the owner replies under all three visible reviews. | 2026-09-07 |
| enamel-clinic-hpcsa-dp0035971 | https://hpcsaonline.custhelp.com/app/iregister_details/reg_number/D… | HPCSA iRegister record for registration number DP 0035971: Mark Bowes, Cape Town 8001; registration status ACTIVE; current practice category: independent practice general practitioner. | 2026-09-30 |
| enamel-clinic-hpcsa-dp0053910 | https://hpcsaonline.custhelp.com/app/iregister_details/reg_number/D… | HPCSA iRegister record for registration number DP 0053910: Howard Gluckman, Cape Town 8001; registration status ACTIVE; current practice category: independent practice specialist oral medicine and periodontics. | 2026-09-30 |
| enamel-clinic-hpcsa-dp0089095 | https://hpcsaonline.custhelp.com/app/iregister_details/reg_number/D… | HPCSA iRegister record for registration number DP 0089095: Waldo Engelbrecht, Cape Town 7708; registration status ACTIVE; current practice category: independent practice general practitioner. | 2026-09-30 |
| enamel-clinic-hpcsa-dp0102113 | https://hpcsaonline.custhelp.com/app/iregister_details/reg_number/D… | HPCSA iRegister record for registration number DP 0102113: David Huson, Cape Town 7708; registration status ACTIVE; current practice category: independent practice general practitioner. | 2026-09-30 |
| enamel-clinic-hpcsa-dp0060100 | https://hpcsaonline.custhelp.com/app/iregister_details/reg_number/D… | HPCSA iRegister record for registration number DP 0060100: Riaan Wolfaardt, City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality 1735; registration status ACTIVE; current practice category: independent practice general practitioner. | 2026-09-30 |
| enamel-clinic-platforms | https://www.whatclinic.com/dentists/south-africa/cape-town | WhatClinic: all 4 pages of its Cape Town dentist listing (42 clinics) and its profile sitemaps (193 South African dentist profiles, 40 in Cape Town) have no profile for Enamel Clinic (De Waterkant Health, at 13 Hudson Street, is another practice), and profile addresses built from its name return not found (checked 2026-10-01) | 2026-10-01 |
| enamel-clinic-platforms-2 | https://www.hellopeter.com/search?searchTerm=Enamel%20Clinic | Hellopeter: its business search returns no page for Enamel Clinic or its dentists (checked 2026-10-01) | 2026-10-01 |
| enamel-clinic-platforms-3 | https://www.trustpilot.com/review/enamel.clinic | Trustpilot: no company page for enamel.clinic (checked 2026-10-01) | 2026-10-01 |
| enamel-clinic-platforms-4 | https://www.dentaldepartures.com/dentists/south-africa | Dental Departures: no clinic listing for South Africa, the country page returns not found (checked 2026-10-01) | 2026-10-01 |
| enamel-clinic-av3 | search:"Enamel Clinic" Cape Town | Web search run on 2026-10-02 (English, US results) for the clinic's name and city: 10 results listed. Its own pages: enamel.clinic (four pages, 3rd to 6th). Listed before the first of them: LinkedIn and Facebook. | 2026-10-02 |
| enamel-clinic-deepen | https://enamel.clinic/ | Homepage HTML read on 2026-10-02: JSON-LD declares the types Dentist and Organization, alongside WebSite and WebPage. | 2026-10-02 |
Change History
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-02 | Read the clinic's website HTML on 2026-10-02: structured data: present. |
| 2026-10-01 | Review platforms re-checked: no profile on WhatClinic, Hellopeter or Trustpilot, and Dental Departures lists no clinics in South Africa, so "reviewed on other platforms" changed from yes to no. |
| 2026-09-07 | Reputation block measured live on 2026-09-07, which opened this clinic’s Google Maps place page in a real browser. The manual browser check could not reach these ten cards: they enter the country directory southafrica-dental as twins of this city site, carry no entry in data/research/*.json, and import-research.js therefore left them untouched, so their respondsToReviews, recurringComplaints and suspiciousReviewPatterns had never been assessed at all. Written now: googleRating 4.9 → 4.9; googleReviewCount 460 → 461 (histogram 452/3/0/0/6 = 461, weighted mean 4.941); reviewRecency within_3_months (unchanged, re-proved); respondsToReviews null → true; recurringComplaints null → false; suspiciousReviewPatterns null → false. The histogram sums to the place-page header count exactly and its weighted mean reproduces the published rating to one decimal. Fields this pass did not measure are untouched. The country twin on southafrica-dental was re-synchronised from this card in the same step; the two copies are identical except for the twin’s city key. |
| 2026-08-25 | License verification 2026-08-25 against HPCSA iRegister: found active registrations for all 5 listed dentists (Bowes DP0035971, Gluckman DP0053910, Engelbrecht DP0089095, Huson DP0102113, Wolfaardt DP0060100 - Wolfaardt's registry city is Johannesburg, differing from the Cape Town practice address). |
| 2026-08-25 | Re-verification 2026-08-25: confirmed website live, address and phone unchanged, open status; captured first Google rating 4.9 (460 reviews) - previously unset. |
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