Cadbury Dental Practice
According to our open methodology, this clinic scored 77.8/100 for transparency, reputation, service accessibility, and digital visibility.
Overall rank: #17 of 25 ranked clinics · Last checked: 8 September 2026
77.8/100
Positions by Rating Profile
- Overall Transparency & Trust#1777.8/100
- Best for Expats#1972.5/100
- Best for Dental Implants#1873.8/100
- Best for Emergency Dental Care#1669.7/100
- Best Price Transparency#1882.5/100
- Best English-speaking Clinics#1772.5/100
- 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.
Summary
Long-standing practice on Sycamore Road in Bournville, CQC-registered as Cadbury Dental Practice under the individual provider Kuldip Singh Gakhal. It publishes both an NHS and a private price list, names eight dentists, and states that it is currently taking private patients only.
Strengths
- Information Transparency: 20 of 20 points.
- Price Transparency: 13 of 15 points.
- Reputation & Reviews: 16.5 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, NHS and private price pages. [s1] | 4/4 |
| ✓ | Dentist names listed Practice owner, seven further dentists, a hygienist-therapist and the management team are named. [s3] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Dentist specializations listed Two of the named dentists are described as implantologists; a hygienist and therapist is named separately. [s3] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Real clinic photos The lead owner photograph is the practice's own red-brick premises on Sycamore Road, its shopfront windows and entrance. [gmpb] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Service list published [s1] [s2] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Clear contact details Address, phone and contact page published on the clinic's own site. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | English website version [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Address and map published Address published with a contact and directions page on the clinic's own site. [s1] | 2/2 |
Price Transparency
13 / 15
Whether patients can estimate costs before visiting. Published price ranges count; exact prices are not required.
| ✓ | Prices or price ranges published Two standing price pages, one for private treatment and one for the NHS bands. [s2] [s4] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Cleaning price listed Hygiene appointment GBP 69; direct access hygiene GBP 84; airflow GBP 98. [s2] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Filling price listed Composite single surface from GBP 105; multi-surface from GBP 135. [s2] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Crown price listed Standard crown from GBP 510. [s2] | 2/2 |
| ✗ | Implant price listed Implants are offered and have their own treatment page, but neither the private nor the NHS price page read on 2026-09-07 carries an implant fee. [s2] [s4] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Consultation price listed Examination GBP 75; emergency appointment including temporary treatment and X-rays GBP 120. [s2] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | X-ray / imaging price listed Bitewing X-rays GBP 10; panoral X-rays GBP 30. [s2] | 2/2 |
Reputation & Reviews
16.5 / 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) 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 — 92 five-star, 3 four-star, 1 three-star, 0 two-star and 9 one-star — sums to 105, matching the 105 in the place-page header exactly, and its weighted mean 4.610 reproduces the published 4.6. [g1] [gmpb] | 4/6 |
| ◐ | 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. [gmpb] | 2/3 |
| ✓ | Review recency The newest review visible is one month old, which proves the within_3_months bucket and no better. Visible dates: 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 7, 7 and 10 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 9 of 105 ratings, 8.6 %, and those nine accounts are not readable because Maps does not let the review list be filtered by star rating. 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. 92 five-star with a genuine tail at four, three and one star; the visible reviews name four members of staff, describe different treatments and run from one to ten months, each with its own 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 "Cadbury Dental Practice Birmingham" and "Cadbury Dental"; the clinic's site does not link to TripAdvisor (checked 2026-10-02 and 2026-10-05). [cadbury-dental-practice-bournville-tripadvisor] [cadbury-dental-practice-bournville-tripadvisor-2] | 0/0.5 |
| ✓ | Other review platforms Has a WhatClinic profile filled in by the clinic (its own description, its staff, photos, opening hours); no patient reviews there yet. [cadbury-dental-practice-bournville-platforms] | 0.5/0.5 |
Medical Infrastructure
9.5 / 15
The range of publicly documented equipment and services. This measures documented availability, not clinical quality.
| ✓ | On-site X-ray Bitewing and panoral X-rays are priced items on the clinic's own price page. [s2] | 2/2 |
| ✗ | CBCT (3D imaging) No cone-beam scan is priced or described anywhere in the practice's own 24-page sitemap, including its dental-implants page (read 2026-09-07); the price page carries bitewing and panoral X-rays only. [s1] [s2] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Implantology Dedicated implant page and two named implantologists on the team. [s1] [s3] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Orthodontics Invisalign full and lite priced at GBP 3,900 and GBP 2,900. [s1] [s2] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Oral surgery Extraction GBP 100; surgical extraction from GBP 200. [s2] | 2/2 |
| ✗ | Pediatric dentistry The practice's own 24-page sitemap carries no children's dentistry page and neither price page publishes a child examination or child treatment fee (read 2026-09-07). [s1] [s2] | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | Emergency care Emergency appointment including temporary treatment and X-rays, GBP 120. [s2] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ? | 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 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 Enquiry form and appointment booking on the clinic's own site. [s1] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ✓ | Clear service explanations [s1] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | Convenient opening hours Revised from true after the full published week was read on the practice's Google record on 2026-09-08: Monday to Thursday 09:00-12:50 and 13:30-17:00, Friday to 16:00, Saturday and Sunday closed. The practice's own contact page publishes Monday to Thursday 09:00-17:40, Friday 09:00-16:30 and "Saturday by appointment only", and the earlier true rested entirely on that Saturday line. The two channels the clinic controls disagree about Saturday, and "by appointment only" is not an opening the criterion can read as published clearly, so the more favourable reading is not credited. Both versions are recorded. [s5] [gmpb] | 0/1.5 |
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 clinic's own domain 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 Two JSON-LD blocks covering Organization, ContactPoint, Dentist, PostalAddress, GeoCoordinates and OpeningHoursSpecification. [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 "Cadbury Dental Practice", location ID 1-6608809862, provider Mr Kuldip Singh Gakhal (provider ID 1-6302653095), service type Dentist, 29 Sycamore Road, Bournville, Birmingham B30 2AA. (From the CQC care directory bulk extract, snapshot produced 02 September 2026; date of latest check 28 July 2025. The registered provider is the practice owner in person, whose name matches the owner published on the clinic's team page.) [reg1]
Dentists & professional licences
| Dentist | Specialization | Licence No. |
|---|---|---|
| Kuldip Gakhal [s3] [reg2] | Practice Owner; MFGDP (UK) 1999 | GDC 72291 |
| Robert Tennet [s3] [reg2] | Dentist and implantologist | GDC 63293 |
| Abrar Ahmed [s3] | Dentist and implantologist | not verified |
| Andrew Wheeler [s3] [reg2] | Dentist; LDS Royal College of Surgeons of England 1988 | GDC 63561 |
| Fareed Kayani [s3] [reg2] | Dental hygienist and therapist; BSc (Hons) Dental Hygiene and Dental Therapy University of Portsmouth 2024 | GDC 318376 |
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: 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.cadburydental.co.uk/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +44 121 348 8800 |
| https://www.facebook.com/cadburydental/ | |
| Google Maps | Map listing |
| Address | 29 Sycamore Road, Bournville, Birmingham B30 2AA, 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.cadburydental.co.uk/ | Address, phone, service list, structured data | 2026-09-07 |
| s2 | https://www.cadburydental.co.uk/private-treatment-birmingham | Published private price list including examinations, hygiene, restorations, crowns, extractions, X-rays and orthodontics | 2026-09-07 |
| s3 | https://www.cadburydental.co.uk/our-team | Named dentists, hygienist-therapist and managers | 2026-09-07 |
| s4 | https://www.cadburydental.co.uk/nhs-treatments-birmingham | Published NHS band pricing and the notice that the practice is currently taking private patients only | 2026-09-07 |
| g1 | https://www.google.com/maps/place/Cadbury+Dental+Practice/@52.43008… | Google place record: rating, coordinates, address, 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; each registration number was opened individually through this per-registrant deep link on 2026-09-07 | 2026-09-07 |
| giq1 | search:"Cadbury Dental" Bournville | 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 |
| s5 | https://www.cadburydental.co.uk/contact | Published opening times including Saturday by appointment; free initial consultation | 2026-09-07 |
| gmpb | https://www.google.com/maps/place/x/@52.430087,-1.934361,17z/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/@52.430087,-1.934361,17z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x4870be7e571c1ebf:0xae5ba6a4f2e7532!8m2!3d52.430087!4d-1.934361?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 «Cadbury Dental Practice - Cosmetic & General Dentistry, Dental Implants & Invisalign Diamond Expert Provider in Birmingham», category Dentist, at 29 Sycamore Rd, Bournville, Birmingham B30 2AA · +44 121 348 8800 · cadburydental.co.uk — the card’s own name, street, telephone and website, so the place identifier resolves to this practice. | 2026-09-08 |
| cadbury-dental-practice-bournville-platforms | https://www.whatclinic.com/dentists/uk/west-midlands/birmingham/cad… | WhatClinic profile "Cadbury Dental Practice", 29 Sycamore Road, Bournville, Birmingham, read 2026-10-02: filled in by the clinic — a description written in the first person ("Around May 2017 we are planning to relocate from inside the factory to the…"), its staff named (Dr Robert Tennet, Dr Andrew Wheeler, Dr Abrar Ahmed and 1 more), 3 photos of the clinic, its opening hours; no patient reviews yet | 2026-10-05 |
| cadbury-dental-practice-bournville-tripadvisor | https://www.tripadvisor.com/TypeAheadJson?action=API&query=Cadbury%… | TripAdvisor's own search, read 2026-10-02: 12 suggestions for "Cadbury Dental Practice Birmingham" (2 places, 6 attractions, 4 hotels), none of them a dental practice in or near Birmingham; 12 suggestions for "Cadbury Dental" (3 places, 4 attractions, 5 hotels), none of them a dental practice in or near Birmingham; no listing for this clinic | 2026-10-02 |
| cadbury-dental-practice-bournville-tripadvisor-2 | https://www.cadburydental.co.uk/ | Clinic's website, home page read 2026-10-05: no link to a TripAdvisor page | 2026-10-05 |
Change History
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-05 | TripAdvisor presence checked on 2026-10-05: no listing found for this clinic. |
| 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 (92/3/1/0/9 = 105, weighted mean 4.610), 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 (92/3/1/0/9 = 105, weighted mean 4.610), 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 (92/3/1/0/9 = 105, weighted mean 4.610), 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): the two recorded GDC numbers re-opened and confirmed and two further clinicians attributed after fresh register searches returned a single candidate each (Andrew Gerard Wheeler 63561, Fareed Kayani 318376); the whole 24-page sitemap read, settling cone-beam imaging, children's dentistry and sedation as published negatives; opening times found on the contact page, correcting convenientHours from unresolved to true; the Facebook and Instagram evidence moved off the search pseudo-source onto the practice's own site. |
| 2026-09-07 | Initial data collection (research, no browser): home, private-treatment, NHS-pricing and team pages read; two of the named dentists matched to GDC registration numbers and each number opened individually, one left unattributed because the register holds two dentists with exactly that name; CQC registration taken from the 02 September 2026 care-directory extract, where the registered provider is the practice owner in person; Google place record read automatically. |
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