BPI Dental
According to our open methodology, this clinic scored 85/100 for transparency, reputation, service accessibility, and digital visibility.
Overall rank: #10 of 25 ranked clinics · Last checked: 8 September 2026
85/100
Positions by Rating Profile
- Overall Transparency & Trust#1085/100
- Best for Expats#1081.3/100
- Best for Dental Implants#1281.5/100
- Best for Emergency Dental Carenot ranked
- Best Price Transparency#892.1/100
- Best English-speaking Clinics#781.2/100
- 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) — No general anaesthesia or deep sedation documented The practice's own sedation page describes intravenous midazolam whose dose "is determined by each patient's response" — conscious sedation — and the named sedation-qualified clinician holds an IACSD (conscious sedation) qualification. The fee page's phrase "pain free dentistry whilst you sleep" is marketing wording; no general anaesthesia or deep/twilight sedation is documented (23 pages read 2026-09-07). [s5]
Summary
Private specialist referral practice in Harborne, registered with the CQC as The Birmingham Periodontal and Implant Centre. It takes no NHS patients, publishes an itemised fee guide and lists seven dentists with their GDC registration numbers, several of them on specialist lists.
Strengths
- Information Transparency: 20 of 20 points.
- Price Transparency: 15 of 15 points.
- Reputation & Reviews: 19 of 20 points.
- No red flags identified in public sources.
Weaknesses
No category fell below the weakness threshold (50% of verifiable points).
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 Body read on 2026-09-07: live content site with treatment, team, fee and referral pages. [s1] | 4/4 |
| ✓ | Dentist names listed [s3] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Dentist specializations listed Specialist Periodontist and Implant Surgeon, Specialist in Restorative Dentistry, endodontic and periodontal interests, and a consultant oral and maxillofacial surgeon (Dr Prav Praveen) are published beside the named clinicians; two of the team, Dr Prav Praveen and Dr Monica Campos, are published with an empty GDC registration field. [s3] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Real clinic photos The lead owner photograph is the practice's own exterior fascia, its "bpi dental" sign over a board listing dental implants, gum treatments and cosmetic dentistry — its own premises and signage. [gmpb] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Service list published [s1] [s2] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Clear contact details Address, phone and a call-back request form on the clinic's own site. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | English website version [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Address and map published The practice's own contact page publishes the address with a "Go to Map" link and an embedded Google map. [s4] | 2/2 |
Price Transparency
15 / 15
Whether patients can estimate costs before visiting. Published price ranges count; exact prices are not required.
| ✓ | Prices or price ranges published Standing fee guide grouped by consultations, implants, periodontal treatment, prosthodontics, bonding, orthodontics, endodontics, laser dentistry, hygiene and general dentistry. [s2] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Cleaning price listed Hygiene maintenance and oral scale and polish from GBP 98. [s2] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Filling price listed Composite filling from GBP 225. [s2] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Crown price listed Single unit crown from GBP 895. [s2] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Implant price listed Single implant including crown from GBP 2,800. [s2] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Consultation price listed General dentistry consultation GBP 79; specialist consultation GBP 155. [s2] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | X-ray / imaging price listed Digital X-rays GBP 14.50 for periapicals and bitewings, GBP 65 for larger films; CT scan from GBP 190. [s2] | 2/2 |
Reputation & Reviews
19 / 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) Read live on the place page in a browser on 2026-09-08. Unchanged from the automated reading of 2026-09-07. The star histogram — 579 five-star, 31 four-star, 3 three-star, 2 two-star and 18 one-star — sums to 633, matching the 633 in the place-page header exactly, and its weighted mean 4.818 reproduces the published 4.8. [g1] [gmpb] | 6/6 |
| ✓ | Google review volume Read live on 2026-09-08 from the place-page header, and the star histogram sums to the same figure. The card carried no count before this pass: the automated map method used in the initial data collection returns the rating but never the review count, which is why every French card was queued for a manual browser check. The self-published figure the open question warned against copying is now measurable: the practice's site states 402 reviews as at 27 June 2024 and the live place page carries 633. Nothing of the clinic's own figure was adopted; the live count is the one recorded, and the difference is an eighteen-month gap rather than a discrepancy. [gmpb] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Review recency The newest review visible is one month old, which proves the within_3_months bucket and no better. Visible dates: 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 4 and 4 months. Sample: the eight reviews Google Maps renders on the place page in its own relevance order — the "Newest" sort does not open to automation, so a review more recent than the newest one visible may exist. [gmpb] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Clinic responds to reviews The owner answers 8 of 8 of the reviews visible on the place page on 2026-09-08. Sample: the eight reviews Google Maps renders on the place page in its own relevance order — the "Newest" sort does not open to automation, so a review more recent than the newest one visible may exist. [gmpb] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | No recurring complaints No criticism appears in the visible sample; the one- and two-star mass is 20 of 633 ratings, 3.2 %. Sample: the eight reviews Google Maps renders on the place page in its own relevance order — the "Newest" sort does not open to automation, so a review more recent than the newest one visible may exist. [gmpb] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | No suspicious review patterns Judged on the histogram shape, the spread of dates, the variety of reviewers and the wording, on 2026-09-08. 579 five-star with a substantial genuine 31-strong four-star tail and 18 one-star; the visible reviews name several clinicians, include patients of twenty years' standing and every one carries an individual owner reply. [gmpb] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Active Facebook presence The practice's own site links its Facebook page. [s1] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | TripAdvisor presence No TripAdvisor listing found via its search for "BPI Dental Birmingham" and "BPI Dental"; the clinic's site does not link to TripAdvisor (checked 2026-10-02 and 2026-10-05). [bpi-dental-birmingham-tripadvisor] [bpi-dental-birmingham-tripadvisor-2] | 0/0.5 |
| ✗ | Other review platforms Its Doctify entry is unclaimed and has no reviews. No profile found on WhatClinic or Trustpilot (checked 2026-10-05). [bpi-dental-birmingham-platforms-3] [bpi-dental-birmingham-deepen-2] [bpi-dental-birmingham-deepen-3] | 0/0.5 |
Medical Infrastructure
10 / 15
The range of publicly documented equipment and services. This measures documented availability, not clinical quality.
| ✓ | On-site X-ray [s2] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | CBCT (3D imaging) CT scan, described on the fee guide as a 3D X-ray, from GBP 190. [s2] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Implantology [s1] [s2] [s3] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Orthodontics Invisalign from GBP 3,250. [s2] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Oral surgery Surgical periodontal therapy, mucogingival surgery and apicectomy priced; the team includes a consultant oral and maxillofacial surgeon. [s2] [s3] | 2/2 |
| ? | Pediatric dentistry | 0/1.5 |
| ✗ | Emergency care Navigation, the full fee guide, the contact page and the post archive were read on 2026-09-10: no emergency or same-day appointment is published. The one mention is an "Emergency Patients" form entry. [s2] [s4] [bpi-dental-birmingham-deepen] | 0/1.5 |
| ? | Works with international patients | 0/2 |
Communication & Service
6.5 / 10
How easy it is to contact the clinic, get answers, and book - especially for international patients.
| ✗ | WhatsApp / LINE available No WhatsApp or messenger link in the pages read on 2026-09-07. [s1] | 0/2 |
| ? | Response speed | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | English spoken [s1] | 2.5/2.5 |
| ✓ | Pre-visit consultation possible Call-back request form with a treatment selector and a preferred time slot. [s1] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ✓ | Clear service explanations Separate explanatory pages per implant, gum, laser and cosmetic procedure. [s1] | 1/1 |
| ✓ | Convenient opening hours Published opening times on the practice's own contact page: Monday 09:00-18:00, Tuesday 08:00-17:00, Wednesday to Friday 09:00-17:00 and Saturday 09:00-17:00, Sunday closed. [s4] | 1.5/1.5 |
AI & Search Visibility
6 / 10
Whether the clinic is discoverable when patients search - including via AI assistants. Checked with fixed queries: "best dentist UK", "English speaking dentist UK", "dental implants UK", "emergency dentist UK", "UK dental clinic for expats".
| ✗ | Mentioned for: best dentist UK Checked in the AI-visibility pass of 2026-09-07 (country-qualified re-run, all eight results on target); the clinic does not appear. [av1] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: English speaking dentist UK Checked in the AI-visibility pass of 2026-09-07; the clinic does not appear. Three of the eight results relate to Birmingham, United Kingdom, so the result set is usable. [av4] | 0/1 |
| ✓ | Mentioned for: dental implants UK The practice's implant domain dentalimplantsbirmingham.com, published under the BPI Dental name, appears in the results for the canonical query in the AI-visibility pass of 2026-09-07 (country-qualified re-run). [av2] | 1/1 |
| ? | Mentioned for: emergency dentist UK SERP off-target (namesake towns): every result returned for the canonical query in the AI-visibility pass relates to Birmingham, Alabama or Birmingham, Michigan. No conclusion drawn. | 0/1 |
| ? | Mentioned for: UK dental clinic for expats Query not run in the AI-visibility pass: the expat query was run only for the first research city of each country. | 0/1 |
| ✓ | Structured data on website JSON-LD covering Dentist, Place, Organization, Person, Article and VideoObject. [s1] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ✓ | Google indexing quality Name search returns the clinic's own home page first plus its contact and team pages in the top eight (web search, 2026-09-07). [giq1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | 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.
- #1Deansgate Dental Studio19.2 of 100View report →
- #2Manchester City Centre Dental & Implant Clinic26.2 of 100View report →
- #3Integrated Dentalcare0 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: CQC-registered dental location "The Birmingham Periodontal and Implant Centre", location ID 1-204437584, provider The Birmingham Periodontal and Implant Centre Ltd (provider ID 1-153016982), service type Dentist, 115 Court Oak Road, Harborne, Birmingham B17 9AA. (From the CQC care directory bulk extract, snapshot produced 02 September 2026; date of latest check 17 September 2024. BPI Dental is the trading name.) [reg1]
Dentists & professional licences
| Dentist | Specialization | Licence No. |
|---|---|---|
| Dr Boota Singh Ubhi [s3] [reg2] | Specialist Periodontist and Implant Surgeon; BDS Liverpool 1992, FDS RCS Edinburgh, MDentSci Liverpool, MRD RCS England | GDC 68294 |
| Dr Sukhdev Singh [s3] [reg2] | Special interest in endodontics; BChD Leeds 1991, MFGDP (UK), PG Cert Endodontics | GDC 67291 |
| Dr Praveen Sharma [s3] [reg2] | Specialist in Restorative Dentistry; also Associate Professor and Honorary Consultant at Birmingham Dental Hospital | GDC 112879 |
| Dr Harpreet Mandair [s3] [reg2] | Implant Surgeon; BDS University of Birmingham 2012 | GDC 228596 |
| Dr Wasim Idoo [s3] [reg2] | Special interest in periodontics, implant surgeon, IACSD sedation qualified; BDS University of Glasgow 2016 | GDC 265949 |
| Dr Zeeshan Chawdhri [s3] [reg2] | Cosmetic and restorative dentistry; BDS Birmingham 2013, MSc Restorative Dentistry, Eastman Dental Institute UCL | GDC 249033 |
| Dr Karen Sidhu [s3] [reg2] | Restorative Dentist; MFDS RCS England 2006, BDS University of Sheffield 2004 | GDC 83841 |
Red Flags
No red flags identified in the public sources we reviewed.
Data We Could Not Verify
- Medical Infrastructure: Pediatric dentistry
- Medical Infrastructure: Works with international patients
- Communication & Service: Response speed
- AI & Search Visibility: Mentioned for: emergency dentist UK
- AI & Search Visibility: Mentioned for: UK 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://www.bpidental.co.uk/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +44 121 427 3210 |
| https://www.facebook.com/thebpic/ | |
| Google Maps | Map listing |
| Address | 115 Court Oak Road, Harborne, Birmingham B17 9AA, United Kingdom |
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.bpidental.co.uk/ | Address, phone, treatment list, headline prices, private-only status, structured data | 2026-09-07 |
| s2 | https://www.bpidental.co.uk/dental-treatments/dental-treatment-costs/ | The practice's complete published fee guide, read in a real browser on 2026-09-10: eleven priced sections from consultations through laser dentistry, hygiene and the consultant oral surgeon's list. It contains no emergency appointment, no out-of-hours item and no same-day fee of any kind. It opens "This is a private practice, we do not offer NHS treatments". Also confirms the CBCT entries already on the card - CT scan (3D X-ray) from GBP 190 and Small Cone Beam CT Scan from GBP 185. | 2026-09-10 |
| s3 | https://www.bpidental.co.uk/our-team/ | Named clinicians with specialities, qualifications and GDC registration numbers | 2026-09-07 |
| g1 | https://www.google.com/maps/place/BPI+Dental/@52.4599379,-1.9674156… | Google place record: rating, coordinates, phone, website | 2026-09-07 |
| reg1 | https://www.cqc.org.uk/system/files/2026-09/02_september_2026_CQC_d… | CQC registered dental location, provider name, location ID (snapshot of 02 September 2026) | 2026-09-07 |
| reg2 | https://olr.gdc-uk.org/SearchRegister/SearchResult?RegistrationNumb… | GDC register entries for the named dentists; every registration number was opened individually through this per-registrant deep link on 2026-09-07 | 2026-09-07 |
| giq1 | search:"BPI Dental" Birmingham | Name search: own domain first plus its contact and team pages; own Facebook and Instagram accounts | 2026-09-07 |
| av1 | search:best dentist Birmingham UK | Canonical visibility query, AI-visibility pass | 2026-09-07 |
| av2 | search:dental implants Birmingham UK | Canonical visibility query, AI-visibility pass | 2026-09-07 |
| av4 | search:English speaking dentist Birmingham | Canonical visibility query, AI-visibility pass | 2026-09-07 |
| s4 | https://www.bpidental.co.uk/contact-bpi-dental-birmingham/ | The contact page's enquiry form, read on 2026-09-10: the required question "What treatment interests you?" offers thirteen options, of which one is "Emergency Patients", alongside the practice's real treatment list. The page publishes opening hours Mon-Sat with Sunday closed and no out-of-hours or emergency telephone arrangement. This dropdown option is the only occurrence of the word on the site. | 2026-09-10 |
| s5 | https://www.bpidental.co.uk/sedation/ | The practice's own sedation page: intravenous midazolam titrated to the patient's response | 2026-09-07 |
| gmpb | https://www.google.com/maps/place/x/@52.4599379,-1.9674156,17z/data… | The clinic’s Google Maps place page, opened in a real browser on 2026-09-08. The Reviews tab (this URL) gives the headline rating, the review-count header, the five star-histogram buckets read whole from their accessibility labels, and the eight most-relevant reviews with their star values, dates, text and owner replies; the sibling Overview URL https://www.google.com/maps/place/x/@52.4599379,-1.9674156,17z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x4870bd8fd6030c0b:0x9ffc50b85cf6dab6!8m2!3d52.4599379!4d-1.9674156?hl=en gives the listing name, address, telephone, website, business category, the full published opening week and the lead owner photograph. The listing opens as «BPI Dental», category Dental clinic, at 115 Court Oak Rd, Harborne, Birmingham B17 9AA · +44 121 427 3210 · bpidental.co.uk — the card’s own name, street, telephone and website, so the place identifier resolves to this practice. | 2026-09-08 |
| bpi-dental-birmingham-deepen | https://www.bpidental.co.uk/wp-sitemap-posts-post-1.xml | The site's own post sitemap, 39 entries, read on 2026-09-10: practice news, treatment guides, patient testimonials, oral-health posts and two March-2020 coronavirus notices. No post is about emergency or same-day dental care. The site navigation, read on the same visit, lists eleven treatment pages (implants, gum problems, laser dentistry, smile makeovers, composite bonding, cosmetic dentistry, nervous patients, tooth whitening, oral surgery, root canal, Invisalign) and no emergency page. | 2026-09-10 |
| bpi-dental-birmingham-platforms | https://www.whatclinic.com/dentists/uk/west-midlands/birmingham | WhatClinic: its Birmingham dentist catalog, all 6 pages (77 profiles), and its profile sitemaps (83 Birmingham profiles together) have no profile for BPI Dental at 115 Court Oak Road (checked 2026-10-01) | 2026-10-01 |
| bpi-dental-birmingham-platforms-2 | https://www.trustpilot.com/review/www.bpidental.co.uk | Trustpilot: the page for www.bpidental.co.uk is unclaimed, has no reviews and no business details, and was created on 2026-09-30 (checked 2026-10-01) | 2026-10-01 |
| bpi-dental-birmingham-platforms-3 | https://www.doctify.com/uk/practice/bpi-dental | Doctify, read 2026-10-05: its practice search lists "BPI Dental" (doctify.com/uk/practice/bpi-dental) as an unclaimed profile with 0 reviews | 2026-10-05 |
| bpi-dental-birmingham-tripadvisor | https://www.tripadvisor.com/TypeAheadJson?action=API&query=BPI%20De… | TripAdvisor's own search, read 2026-10-02: 12 suggestions for "BPI Dental Birmingham" (8 attractions, 4 hotels), none of them a dental practice in or near Birmingham; 12 suggestions for "BPI Dental" (7 attractions, 5 hotels), none of them a dental practice in or near Birmingham; no listing for this clinic | 2026-10-02 |
| bpi-dental-birmingham-tripadvisor-2 | https://www.bpidental.co.uk/ | Clinic's website, home page read 2026-10-05: no link to a TripAdvisor page | 2026-10-05 |
| bpi-dental-birmingham-deepen-2 | https://www.whatclinic.com/dentists/uk | WhatClinic, read 2026-10-05: its profile sitemap (4546 dentist profiles in the United Kingdom, read 2026-09-30) has none under the clinic's name; the profile address bpi-dental now redirects to the country catalogue, as WhatClinic does for a profile it has removed | 2026-10-05 |
| bpi-dental-birmingham-deepen-3 | https://www.trustpilot.com/review/bpidental.co.uk | Trustpilot, read 2026-10-05: no company page for bpidental.co.uk | 2026-10-05 |
Change History
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-05 | onOtherPlatforms true → false: the Doctify entry it rested on is unclaimed and has no reviews. No profile found on WhatClinic or Trustpilot. |
| 2026-10-05 | TripAdvisor presence checked on 2026-10-05: no listing found for this clinic. |
| 2026-10-01 | Read on 2026-10-01: the clinic has its own page on a review platform (doctify.com), so it is present on other review platforms. |
| 2026-10-01 | Review platforms re-checked: no WhatClinic profile, only an empty Trustpilot page, and a Doctify entry that could not be read, so "reviewed on other platforms" changed from yes to not established. |
| 2026-09-10 | Checked by hand in a browser on 2026-09-10: the site answered a real browser where it had answered a bot challenge to the automated pass, so offersEmergency moves from null to a checked negative. The full navigation, the complete fee guide, the contact page and the 39-entry post archive were read and none documents an emergency or same-day appointment; the published note names the one thing that does exist - an "Emergency Patients" option in the enquiry form's treatment picker - so the reader can weigh it. The same visit re-confirmed the card's CBCT entry from the fee guide. |
| 2026-09-08 | Checked by hand in a browser: the clinic’s Google Maps place page was opened in a real browser and read on both its Reviews and Overview tabs. Recorded from it: the rating re-verified against the star histogram, the review count (previously unknown — the automated map method never returns it), the histogram itself (579/31/3/2/18 = 633, weighted mean 4.818), review recency, the owner-reply state, the complaint reading and the manipulation reading from the eight most-relevant reviews, the lead owner photograph and the full published opening week. Fields this pass did not measure are untouched. |
| 2026-09-08 | Checked by hand in a browser: the clinic’s Google Maps place page was opened in a real browser and read on both its Reviews and Overview tabs. Recorded from it: the rating re-verified against the star histogram, the review count (previously unknown — the automated map method never returns it), the histogram itself (579/31/3/2/18 = 633, weighted mean 4.818), review recency, the owner-reply state, the complaint reading and the manipulation reading from the eight most-relevant reviews, the lead owner photograph and the full published opening week. Fields this pass did not measure are untouched. |
| 2026-09-08 | Checked by hand in a browser: the clinic’s Google Maps place page was opened in a real browser and read on both its Reviews and Overview tabs. Recorded from it: the rating re-verified against the star histogram, the review count (previously unknown — the automated map method never returns it), the histogram itself (579/31/3/2/18 = 633, weighted mean 4.818), review recency, the owner-reply state, the complaint reading and the manipulation reading from the eight most-relevant reviews, the lead owner photograph and the full published opening week. Fields this pass did not measure are untouched. |
| 2026-09-07 | Adversarial verification (no browser): six GDC numbers re-opened and confirmed, a seventh named clinician with a published number added (Karen Sidhu 83841); the contact page read, which publishes Saturday opening and an embedded map, correcting convenientHours and addressAndMap from unresolved to true; sedation corrected to a published negative after reading the practice's own sedation page; the Facebook and Instagram evidence moved off the search pseudo-source onto the practice's own site. Recorded for the gate: the team page prints the same registration number, 227598, against two different hygienists. |
| 2026-09-07 | Initial data collection (research, no browser): home, fee-guide and team pages read; six GDC registration numbers verified one by one; CQC registration taken from the 02 September 2026 care-directory extract; Google place record read automatically, rating captured but the review count not returned. The self-published Google rating widget on the clinic's home page carries a snapshot date of 27 June 2024 and its review count was not adopted. |
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