Gorgeous Smile / Smile Center - Dr Walid Zalaket
According to our open methodology, this clinic scored 53.9/100 for transparency, reputation, service accessibility, and digital visibility.
Overall rank: #12 of 18 ranked clinics · Last checked: 25 August 2026
Positions by Rating Profile
- Overall Transparency & Trust#1253.9/100
- Best for Expats#1256.3/100
- Best for Dental Implants#1244.5/100
- Best for Emergency Dental Carenot ranked
- Best Price Transparency#1140.6/100
- Best English-speaking Clinics#863.5/100
- 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 mentions sleep-apnea oral-appliance therapy (unrelated to procedural sedation); no dental sedation/anaesthesia method specified.
Summary
Gorgeous Smile / Smile Center is the Hamra (Ras Beirut) cosmetic dental practice of Dr Walid Zalaket, promoting holistic, mercury-free and ceramic-implant dentistry to local and international patients. The English-language website lists services, doctor credentials, contacts, working hours and a WhatsApp line but does not publish prices. Dr Zalaket is listed in the Lebanese Dental Association registry.
Strengths
- Information Transparency: 20 of 20 points.
- Communication & Service: 8.5 of 10 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
Whether basic facts about the clinic - its team, premises, services, and location - are publicly verifiable.
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 2026-09-25; previously 4.9 [gorgeous-smile-smile-center-dr-walid-zalaket-gbp-2026-09-25] | 5/6 |
| ◐ | Google review volume as of 2026-09-25; previously 39 [gorgeous-smile-smile-center-dr-walid-zalaket-gbp-2026-09-25] | 1/3 |
| ✓ | Review recency [gorgeous-smile-smile-center-dr-walid-zalaket-refresh] | 3/3 |
| ✗ | Clinic responds to reviews The Google listing is unclaimed (it carries a "Claim this business" prompt), so no owner can reply to reviews; none of the 10 reviews read has a reply. [gorgeous-smile-smile-center-dr-walid-zalaket-r6rep] [gorgeous-smile-smile-center-dr-walid-zalaket-gbp-2026-09-25] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | No recurring complaints Of 48 Google reviews, 2 are one- or two-star (4.2 %); only one carries text (2026, about one doctor's treatment and manner) and the other dates from 2016 with no text, so no complaint recurs (read 2026-10-02). [gorgeous-smile-smile-center-dr-walid-zalaket-r6rep] | 2/2 |
| ? | No suspicious review patterns 5 five-star reviews were posted between 2026-09-17 and 2026-09-17 (10 % of the 48 on the listing), 2 of them from single-review accounts; the evidence is not conclusive, so the criterion is left unassessed (read 2026-10-02). | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Active Facebook presence [s1] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | TripAdvisor presence [s1] | 0/0.5 |
| ✓ | Other review platforms WhatClinic: profile, no reviews yet; AdvisorLB: profile, no reviews listed. [gorgeous-smile-smile-center-dr-walid-zalaket-deepen] [gorgeous-smile-smile-center-dr-walid-zalaket-deepen-2] | 0.5/0.5 |
Medical Infrastructure
The range of publicly documented equipment and services. This measures documented availability, not clinical quality.
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 Beirut", "English speaking dentist Beirut", "dental implants Beirut", "emergency dentist Beirut", "Beirut dental clinic for expats".
| ? | Mentioned for: best dentist Beirut | 0/1 |
| ? | Mentioned for: English speaking dentist Beirut | 0/1 |
| ? | Mentioned for: dental implants Beirut | 0/1 |
| ? | Mentioned for: emergency dentist Beirut | 0/1 |
| ? | Mentioned for: Beirut dental clinic for expats | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Structured data on website No JSON-LD or microdata found on the homepage or the 3 inner pages read. [gorgeous-smile-smile-center-dr-walid-zalaket-r6s] | 0/1.5 |
| ? | Google indexing quality | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Dedicated service pages [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.
- #1Smile Avenue Dental Clinic26.4 of 100View report →
- #2Samarani Clinic7.7 of 100View report →
- #2Lounge Dental Clinic25.2 of 100View report →
Measured by Ansmeter, 8 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
| Dentist | Specialization | Licence No. |
|---|---|---|
| Dr Walid Georges Zalaket [s1] | Cosmetic dentistry, holistic/mercury-free dentistry, orthodontics, ceramic implants | not verified |
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
- Reputation & Reviews: No suspicious review patterns
- Medical Infrastructure: On-site X-ray
- Medical Infrastructure: CBCT (3D imaging)
- Medical Infrastructure: Oral surgery
- Medical Infrastructure: Pediatric dentistry
- Medical Infrastructure: Emergency care
- Communication & Service: Response speed
- AI & Search Visibility: Mentioned for: best dentist Beirut
- AI & Search Visibility: Mentioned for: English speaking dentist Beirut
- AI & Search Visibility: Mentioned for: dental implants Beirut
- AI & Search Visibility: Mentioned for: emergency dentist Beirut
- AI & Search Visibility: Mentioned for: Beirut dental clinic for expats
- 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.drzalaket.com/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +961 3 742339 |
| +961 3 339120 | |
| https://www.facebook.com/SmilesByDrWalidZalaket/ | |
| Google Maps | Map listing |
| Address | Specialty Clinics Center, 6th Floor, Maamari Street 102, Hamra, Ras Beirut, Beirut, 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.drzalaket.com/ | Services, doctor, address, hours, contacts | 2026-07-14 |
| s2 | https://smilecenterclinics.com/ | Hamra address, phone/WhatsApp | 2026-07-14 |
| s3 | https://www.lda.org.lb/dentists/dr-walid-georges-zalaket/ | LDA registration of Dr Walid Zalaket | 2026-07-14 |
| gorgeous-smile-smile-center-dr-walid-zalaket-refresh | https://www.google.com/maps/place/Smile+Center+Clinics/@33.897571,3… | most recent review 1 month ago (as of 2026-08-25) | 2026-08-25 |
| gorgeous-smile-smile-center-dr-walid-zalaket-gbp-2026-09-25 | https://www.google.com/maps?cid=11392897794656827346&hl=en | Google listing read on 2026-09-25: rating 4.8 from 48 reviews; star histogram 1★ 1 / 2★ 1 / 3★ 1 / 4★ 0 / 5★ 45; newest review dated 2026-09-17; the listing is unclaimed (it offers "Claim this business"). | 2026-09-25 |
| gorgeous-smile-smile-center-dr-walid-zalaket-deepen | https://www.whatclinic.com/dentists/lebanon/beirut/smile-center-cli… | WhatClinic: profile 'Smile Center Clinics' at Maamari Street 102, Hamra, open for patient reviews, none posted yet (checked 2026-10-01) | 2026-10-01 |
| gorgeous-smile-smile-center-dr-walid-zalaket-deepen-2 | https://advisorlb.com/en/professionals/dr-walid-zalaket-smile-center | AdvisorLB: profile 'Dr. Walid Zalaket Smile Center' at the Specialty Clinics Center, Maamari Street 102, with a review form; it shows a score of 3.1 'based on 11 reviews' but lists no reviews ('No reviews yet') (checked 2026-10-01) | 2026-10-01 |
| gorgeous-smile-smile-center-dr-walid-zalaket-r6s | https://www.drzalaket.com/ | HTML of the homepage and 3 inner pages (/en/dentistry/TeethWhiteningBeirut, /en/dentistry/CosmeticDentistryBeirut, /en/dentistry/OrthoBracesBeirut) read 2026-10-02: no application/ld+json block and no schema.org itemtype attribute. | 2026-10-02 |
| gorgeous-smile-smile-center-dr-walid-zalaket-r6rep | https://www.google.com/maps?cid=11392897794656827346&hl=en | Google listing "Smile Center Clinics", read 2026-10-02 with its reviews sorted lowest first and newest first: rating 4.8 from 48 reviews, histogram 1 one-star, 1 two-star, 1 three-star, 0 four-star, 45 five-star; 10 distinct reviews read (dated 2016-08-23 to 2026-09-17), 0 with an owner reply; the lowest-rated reviews read are dated 2016-2026. | 2026-10-02 |
Change History
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-02 | Reputation check 2026-10-02 on the clinic's Google listing (10 reviews read): recurring complaints no; suspicious review patterns left unassessed. |
| 2026-10-02 | Read the clinic website (homepage, sitemap and service pages): no structured data found. |
| 2026-10-01 | Other review platforms re-checked on 2026-10-01: WhatClinic (profile, no reviews yet); AdvisorLB (profile, no reviews listed). |
| 2026-09-29 | Corrected 2026-09-29: Google rating 4.8 (was 4.9) and review count 48 (was 39) from the Google listing on 2026-09-25; no owner replies to reviews: the Google listing is unclaimed. |
| 2026-08-25 | License verification 2026-08-25: MOPH registry has no dental-clinic category so clinicLicense is null; the LDA dentists registry returned HTTP 403 on every path, soDr Walid Georges Zalaket's license is null. |
| 2026-08-25 | Re-verification 2026-08-25: confirmed drzalaket.com live, phone matching site (+961 3 742339), clinic open. The clinic's Google Maps presence is under a related 'Smile Center Clinics' listing (smilecenterclinics.com, +961 1 746 288) - captured that listing's rating 4.9 (39 reviews) as the best-matching Maps profile for this brand; kept the stored primary website/phone unchanged since they match the clinic's own site. |
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