Clifton Dental Practice sits at 67 Clifton Terrace in Newtown, a market town in Powys, and has been treating the town for more than thirty years. It changed hands relatively recently and is now run by two principal dentists who own it together. Patients who have been going there for years refer to the practice as better "under new management", which is the kind of detail a clinic cannot write about itself.

What makes this profile unusually solid is that an independent regulator has been through the building and published what it found. Healthcare Inspectorate Wales carried out an announced inspection on 23 September 2025. It raised no immediate concerns, required no immediate improvement plan, and described the clinical records as excellent and the leadership as strong. Twenty-three patients filled in the inspection questionnaire and every single one rated the service very good.

The practice treats both NHS and private patients, under Powys Teaching Health Board, and works in Welsh as well as English with Welsh-language information available. Treatment runs from check-ups, hygiene and root canal work through to implants, porcelain veneers, composite bonding, Invisalign and whitening, so a patient in Mid Wales can have cosmetic and restorative work done locally rather than driving to a city for it.

Access was specifically noted by the inspectors: there is good disabled access with two ground floor surgeries, and private areas where patients can talk without being overheard. A third surgery was being prepared at the time of the inspection, which suggests the practice is growing rather than standing still.

Dental practices in Wales are inspected by Healthcare Inspectorate Wales rather than the CQC, which covers England. HIW published its report on this practice on 31 December 2025. These are its findings, not the clinic's description of them.

Dr.Visor publishes regulator findings in full, including the actions raised, rather than only the favourable parts. The full report is public and can be read on the HIW website.

General and restorative

Cosmetic

Four clinicians are named by the practice. Dr Usman Ahmed is also recorded by Healthcare Inspectorate Wales as the registered manager, which means he is the clinician formally accountable to the regulator for how care is delivered here.

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Dr Usman Ahmed

Principal Dentist, Owner & Registered Manager

Co-owner of the practice and the clinician named on the Healthcare Inspectorate Wales register as registered manager. He signed off the practice's response to the September 2025 inspection. The practice describes its dentists as working across general and cosmetic dentistry.

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Dr Muhammad Ansaar Malik

Principal Dentist & Owner

Co-owner of the practice alongside Dr Ahmed, working across general and cosmetic dentistry.

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Dr Hassan Ahmed

Dentist

Dentist at the practice, working across general and cosmetic treatment.

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Malaika Chahil

Dental Therapist

Dental therapist at the practice. A therapist can carry out hygiene treatment, fillings and a defined range of restorative work in her own right, which is why a practice with one on the team can usually offer shorter waits for routine appointments.

Dr.Visor is confirming the GDC registration number, qualifications and biography for each clinician directly with the practice, along with photographs for the two principal dentists, and will publish them here once received. We do not publish clinician credentials before they are confirmed.

The strongest patient evidence for this practice is the regulator's own survey, where all twenty-three respondents rated the service very good. The quotes below are testimonials published by the practice on its own website rather than collected by a review platform, so read them as the practice's own selection.

Worth asking about out-of-hours arrangements when you register. The inspectors noted that six of the twenty-three patients surveyed did not know how to access care outside opening hours, so ask the question rather than assume.