Align Dental Care - Ward Place
According to our open methodology, this clinic scored 63.9/100 for transparency, reputation, service accessibility, and digital visibility.
Overall rank: #7 of 20 ranked clinics · Last checked: 6 September 2026
63.9/100
Positions by Rating Profile
- Overall Transparency & Trust#763.9/100
- Best for Expats#1060/100
- Best for Dental Implants#1055/100
- Best for Emergency Dental Carenot ranked
- Best Price Transparency#744.3/100
- Best English-speaking Clinics#1065/100
- Best for Families / Children#862.8/100
- 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
Colombo 7 branch of Align Dental Care, a three-location practice (Dehiwala, Piliyandala and Ward Place) founded in 2010 and headed by Dr. Nasar Abdul Wadood. The site publishes a structured treatment menu covering aesthetic and cosmetic dentistry, digital smile design, implants, bridges, root canal treatment, wisdom-tooth extraction, paediatric dentistry, braces and clear aligners, with per-branch addresses, phone numbers and opening hours. No prices are published.
Strengths
- Information Transparency: 20 of 20 points.
- Reputation & Reviews: 17 of 20 points.
- AI & Search Visibility: 8 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
20 / 20
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 One dentist is named for the practice as a whole - Dr. Nasar Abdul Wadood, Chairman and CEO; the site does not publish a per-branch roster. [s1] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Dentist specializations listed BDS (Sri Lanka), DSD Master (Spain), Associate Fellow AAID (USA), Diplomate GCOI, Fellow ICCDE (Singapore), Associate Fellow WCLI (USA). [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Real clinic photos TRUE, ON DIRECT VISUAL INSPECTION, AND THE BRANCH DISCIPLINE HOLDS. The Clinic Gallery page answered HTTP 406 to the initial data collection's plain client; it renders normally in a browser and was read on 2026-09-07. It publishes a large grid of genuine photographs of the practice - team photographs taken inside the clinic, reception areas, treatment rooms with chairs and equipment, and a training session gathered around a dental chair - fifteen or more images, none of them stock. Crucially for a card that describes one branch of a three-branch group, the gallery is FILTERED BY LOCATION and Wardplace is one of the three filter buttons, alongside Dehiwala and Piliyandala, so the Ward Place premises this card describes are covered by the gallery in their own right rather than by way of the group's other branches. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Service list published [s1] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Clear contact details The contact page gives a separate address, phone and opening hours for the Ward Place branch. [s2] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | English website version [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Address and map published [s2] | 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 page in the site navigation and no figures or ranges on the home or contact pages. [s1] [s2] | 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
17 / 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 2026-09-06 from the place page: 92 five-star, 1 four-star, 1 three-star, 1 two-star, 5 one-star. The buckets sum to 100, matching the 100 in the place-page header exactly, and the weighted mean 4.740 reproduces the published 4.7. [gmpI5b] | 5/6 |
| ◐ | Google review volume as of 2026-09-29; previously 100 [align-dental-care-ward-place-colombo-gbp-2026-09-29] | 2/3 |
| ✓ | Review recency The newest review visible is 2 months old, which proves the within-3-months bucket and no better. Sample: the 3 reviews Google Maps renders on the place page, in Google's relevance order; a newest-first list was not available. [gmpI5b] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Clinic responds to reviews The owner replied to every one of the three reviews Google renders - three replies under three reviews - and the replies are individual rather than templated (one opens by addressing the reviewer by name). This is a complete positive on the visible sample rather than a single instance. Sample: the 3 reviews Google Maps renders on the place page, in Google's relevance order; a newest-first list was not available. [gmpI5b] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | No recurring complaints None of the three reviews Google renders is critical; all three are five-star and they name two different dentists between them. The histogram carries 5 one-star and 1 two-star ratings out of 100, 6.0 per cent of the base, which the relevance-ordered sample cannot reach, so this reading rests on the sample rather than on the whole base. Sample: the 3 reviews Google Maps renders on the place page, in Google's relevance order; a newest-first list was not available. [gmpI5b] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | No suspicious review patterns The 92/1/1/1/5 shape populates every bucket and carries a genuine 6.0 per cent negative tail, which is the opposite of a manipulation signature. The three visible reviewers hold 1, 3 and 1 reviews - thin accounts, but thin accounts are the norm in this country set rather than an anomaly on this listing - they describe three different courses of treatment under two different named dentists, and their dates run two to three months. Sample: the 3 reviews Google Maps renders on the place page, in Google's relevance order; a newest-first list was not available. [gmpI5b] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Active Facebook presence Facebook page "Align Dental Care" (13,546 followers) with posts up to 2026-09-25, linked from the clinic's website. [align-dental-care-ward-place-colombo-facebook] [align-dental-care-ward-place-colombo-facebook-2] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | TripAdvisor presence No TripAdvisor listing: TripAdvisor's own search finds none for the clinic's name or a short form of it (checked 2026-10-02), and its website carries no TripAdvisor link. [align-dental-care-ward-place-colombo-tripadvisor] [align-dental-care-ward-place-colombo-tripadvisor-2] | 0/0.5 |
| ✗ | Other review platforms No profile of the clinic on WhatClinic, Dental Departures, Bookimed or Trustpilot (checked 2026-10-02). [align-dental-care-ward-place-colombo-platforms] [align-dental-care-ward-place-colombo-platforms-2] [align-dental-care-ward-place-colombo-platforms-3] [align-dental-care-ward-place-colombo-platforms-4] | 0/0.5 |
Medical Infrastructure
7.5 / 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, invisible aligners and a dedicated Invisalign section. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Oral surgery Wisdom-teeth extraction is listed under Comprehensive Dentistry. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Pediatric dentistry [s1] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ? | Emergency care | 0/1.5 |
| ? | Works with international patients | 0/2 |
Communication & Service
5 / 10
How easy it is to contact the clinic, get answers, and book - especially for international patients.
| ✗ | WhatsApp / LINE available The contact page lists phone numbers and an email address only; no WhatsApp or LINE link. [s2] | 0/2 |
| ? | Response speed | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | English spoken [s1] | 2.5/2.5 |
| ? | Pre-visit consultation possible | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | Clear service explanations [s1] | 1/1 |
| ✓ | Convenient opening hours Ward Place branch: Mon, Tue, Thu 08:00-17:00; Wed, Fri and Saturday 09:00-17:00. [s2] | 1.5/1.5 |
AI & Search Visibility
8 / 10
Whether the clinic is discoverable when patients search - including via AI assistants. Checked with fixed queries: "best dentist Sri Lanka", "English speaking dentist Sri Lanka", "dental implants Sri Lanka", "emergency dentist Sri Lanka", "Sri Lanka dental clinic for expats".
| ✓ | Mentioned for: best dentist Sri Lanka Web search 2026-09-06: named and described ("a prominent dental clinic in Colombo with a highly qualified dentistry team") in the answer for "best dentist Colombo", citing its own site aligndentalcare.lk. [sq1] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: English speaking dentist Sri Lanka Web search 2026-09-06: not among results for "English speaking dentist Colombo" (named results were Vasan Dental Care, Dental Square, Dental Holiday, My Dentist). [sq2] | 0/1 |
| ✓ | Mentioned for: dental implants Sri Lanka Web search 2026-09-06: named ("has been providing high quality dental care since 2010") in the answer for "dental implants Colombo", citing its own implants page (aligndentalcare.lk/services/dental-implants/). [sq3] | 1/1 |
| ✓ | Mentioned for: emergency dentist Sri Lanka Web search 2026-09-06: named with exact branch address and phone ("Colombo Branch at 0777242476, located at No 65/1, Muthiahpillai avenue ward place, colombo-7") in the answer for "emergency dentist Colombo", matching this card's Ward Place address; citing its own dental-emergency page (aligndentalcare.lk/dental-emergency/). [sq4] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: Sri Lanka dental clinic for expats Web search 2026-09-06: not among results for "Colombo dental clinic for expats" (named results were The Dental Clinic, Durdans, colombodental.com, Smile Dental Hospitals, Dental Holiday, My Dentist, Lanka Hospitals). [sq5] | 0/1 |
| ✓ | Structured data on website JSON-LD on the homepage declares Dentist. [align-dental-care-ward-place-colombo-deepen] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ✓ | Google indexing quality aligndentalcare.lk holds 4 of 10 results (consultation, cosmetic-dentistry, invisible-aligners, homepage) from position 5, behind Facebook and a press release (web search 2026-09-07) [giq1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Dedicated service pages Separate menu entries and pages for aesthetic, cosmetic, restorative, comprehensive and orthodontic treatments. [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: PHSRC/FDS/221 - Full time Dental Surgery, registered to Dr. M. A. W. M. Nasar at No. 65/1, Ward Place, Colombo 07 (Private Health Services Regulatory Council register of registered institutes, per the 2025 annual list read 2026-09-04; the same entry appears in the 2024 list). The practice's other two branches are registered separately as PHSRC/FDS/176 (Dehiwala) and PHSRC/FDS/15 (Piliyandala). (PHSRC publishes its register as an annual snapshot per calendar year, not as a live database; the entry above is from the 2025 list. Sri Lanka publishes no searchable register of individual dental practitioners - the Sri Lanka Medical Council issues certified extracts only against a posted or emailed paid application - so the practitioner registration below is recorded as unchecked.) [reg1] [s2]
Dentists & professional licences
| Dentist | Specialization | Licence No. |
|---|---|---|
| Dr. Nasar Abdul Wadood [s1] [reg1] | Chairman and CEO; BDS (Sri Lanka), DSD Master (Spain), Associate Fellow AAID (USA), Diplomate GCOI, Fellow ICCDE (Singapore), Associate Fellow WCLI (USA) | 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
- Medical Infrastructure: On-site X-ray
- Medical Infrastructure: CBCT (3D imaging)
- Medical Infrastructure: Emergency care
- Medical Infrastructure: Works with international patients
- Communication & Service: Response speed
- Communication & Service: Pre-visit consultation possible
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.aligndentalcare.lk/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +94 77 724 2476 |
| Google Maps | Map listing |
| Address | No. 65/1, Muthiahpillai Avenue, Ward Place, Colombo 00700, Sri Lanka |
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.aligndentalcare.lk/ | Service menu, named dentist and qualifications, galleries, English-language site, absence of prices | 2026-09-04 |
| s2 | https://www.aligndentalcare.lk/contact-us/ | Ward Place (Colombo 7) branch address, phone and opening hours; contact channels | 2026-09-04 |
| sm | https://www.google.com/maps/place/Align+Dental+Care+-+Ward+Place/@6… | Google Maps place record read 2026-09-04: rating 4.7, coordinates, address | 2026-09-04 |
| reg1 | https://www.phsrc.lk/mis/web/web/regInstitute25.php?ins=8&pro=0 | PHSRC 2025 register of Full time Dental Surgeries, island-wide (59 rows read in full): PHSRC/FDS/221, /176 and /15 | 2026-09-04 |
| sq1 | search:best dentist Colombo | AI/search visibility scout — canonical query | 2026-09-06 |
| sq2 | search:English speaking dentist Colombo | AI/search visibility scout — canonical query | 2026-09-06 |
| sq3 | search:dental implants Colombo | AI/search visibility scout — canonical query | 2026-09-06 |
| sq4 | search:emergency dentist Colombo | AI/search visibility scout — canonical query | 2026-09-06 |
| sq5 | search:Colombo dental clinic for expats | AI/search visibility scout — canonical query | 2026-09-06 |
| gmpI5b | https://www.google.com/maps/place/Align+Dental+Care+-+Ward+Place/@6… | Live Google Maps place page read in a browser: rating, review count, star histogram, review dates, owner replies, listing website, phone, address and pin coordinates | 2026-09-06 |
| giq1 | search:"Align Dental Care" Ward Place Colombo | aligndentalcare.lk holds 4 of 10 results (consultation, cosmetic-dentistry, invisible-aligners, homepage) from position 5, behind Facebook and a press release | 2026-09-07 |
| align-dental-care-ward-place-colombo-gbp-2026-09-29 | https://www.google.com/maps?cid=18200524595216322488&hl=en | Google listing read on 2026-09-29: rating 4.7 from 106 reviews; star histogram 1★ 5 / 2★ 1 / 3★ 1 / 4★ 2 / 5★ 97; newest review dated 2026-09-23; 5 of the 5 newest reviews carry an owner reply, latest dated 2026-09-28. | 2026-09-29 |
| align-dental-care-ward-place-colombo-tripadvisor | https://www.tripadvisor.com/TypeAheadJson?action=API&query=Align%20… | TripAdvisor's own search, 2026-10-02: 12 suggestions for "Align Dental Care Colombo", 1 in Sri Lanka (one of them another dental practice), none of them this clinic; 12 suggestions for "Align Dental Care", 1 in Sri Lanka (one of them another dental practice), none of them this clinic; no listing for this clinic | 2026-10-02 |
| align-dental-care-ward-place-colombo-tripadvisor-2 | https://www.aligndentalcare.lk/ | The clinic's website, home page read 2026-10-02: no link to TripAdvisor | 2026-10-02 |
| align-dental-care-ward-place-colombo-platforms | https://www.whatclinic.com/dentists/sri-lanka | WhatClinic: it has no dentist listing for Sri Lanka or for Colombo (/dentists/sri-lanka and /dentists/sri-lanka/colombo return not found); its profile sitemaps (22,064 dentist profiles) carry a single Sri Lankan dentist, Rosewood Dental & Medical Hospital in Kadawatha; the profile addresses built from the clinic's name (/dentists/sri-lanka/align-dental-care-ward-place, /dentists/sri-lanka/align-dental-care-ward-place-colombo) return not found (checked 2026-10-02) | 2026-10-02 |
| align-dental-care-ward-place-colombo-platforms-2 | https://www.dentaldepartures.com/dentists/sri-lanka | Dental Departures: the Sri Lanka page returns not found and its search does not recognise Sri Lanka or Colombo as a location (it answers with its whole list of 1,106 clinics), so it lists no clinic in Sri Lanka (checked 2026-10-02) | 2026-10-02 |
| align-dental-care-ward-place-colombo-platforms-3 | https://us-uk.bookimed.com/sitemap-us-uk-clinic.xml | Bookimed: its clinic sitemap (2,127 clinics) has no clinic in Sri Lanka and its Sri Lanka clinics page is removed (HTTP 410) (checked 2026-10-02) | 2026-10-02 |
| align-dental-care-ward-place-colombo-platforms-4 | https://www.trustpilot.com/review/aligndentalcare.lk | Trustpilot: no business page for aligndentalcare.lk, the clinic's website (the address returns "page not found") (checked 2026-10-02) | 2026-10-02 |
| align-dental-care-ward-place-colombo-facebook | https://www.facebook.com/aligndentalcareofficial/ | Facebook page "Align Dental Care" (13,546 followers, Orthodontist), read 2026-10-02; newest post 2026-09-25; 90% recommend (8 reviews); phone +94 77 724 2476; address 34C Sri Saranankara Road, Dehiwala, Sri Lanka, 10350; website aligndentalcare.lk; the page gives the practice's Dehiwala address with the clinic's phone | 2026-10-02 |
| align-dental-care-ward-place-colombo-facebook-2 | https://www.aligndentalcare.lk/ | The clinic's website, read 2026-10-02: links the Facebook page DentalCarelk-701956066588403, which opens "Align Dental Care" | 2026-10-02 |
| align-dental-care-ward-place-colombo-deepen | https://www.aligndentalcare.lk/ | Homepage HTML read on 2026-10-02: JSON-LD declares the type Dentist, alongside BreadcrumbList and FAQPage. | 2026-10-02 |
Change History
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-02 | Read the clinic's website HTML on 2026-10-02: structured data: present. |
| 2026-10-02 | Presence on review sites re-read on 2026-10-02: no TripAdvisor listing; no profile on the review platforms checked; live Facebook page. |
| 2026-09-29 | Corrected 2026-09-29: review count 106 (was 100) from the Google listing on 2026-09-29. |
| 2026-09-06 | Manual browser check follow-up (srilanka): www.aligndentalcare.lk/clinic-gallery/, which answered HTTP 406 to a plain client, was opened in a real browser and read. |
| 2026-09-06 | Checked by hand in a browser: the Google Maps place page was opened in a real browser and read for rating, review count, star histogram, review recency, owner replies, complaint and manipulation reading, listing website, phone, address and pin coordinates; the checks that needed a rendering browser were worked through on the clinic own channels. |
| 2026-09-04 | Initial data collection for the Sri Lanka Dental Transparency & Trust Index: verified via aligndentalcare.lk, the Google Maps place record for the Ward Place branch and the PHSRC register of registered institutes. |
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