About Dr. Rafif Tayara
Co-Founder & Pediatric Dentist at JuniorDental. Specialist Pediatric Dentistry, Dubai. Author of “Danny and Sarah Go to Dr. Smile”.
Awarded: Best Pediatric Dentist 2025
Recognised as the Best Pediatric Dentist in 2025 — a reflection of trusted, child-centred care delivered at JuniorDental Dubai.
Professional profile
Dr. Rafif Tayara is a Specialist Pediatric Dentist practising in Dubai and Co-Founder of JuniorDental in Umm Suqeim 2. Her clinical work is focused on children: prevention, first visits, dental anxiety, oral habits, and early awareness of how a child’s teeth and jaws are developing — set out in full on her areas of pediatric dental expertise.
Alongside clinical practice she writes and teaches for parents and professionals: see her articles for parents and her media and speaking work. Her children’s book “Danny and Sarah Go to Dr. Smile” gives young children a story to rehearse a dental visit before they ever sit in the chair.
Philosophy
A child who trusts the dentist becomes an adult who keeps going to the dentist. That is why appointments are paced to the child rather than to the schedule, why language matters as much as instruments, and why parents are treated as part of the clinical team rather than as spectators.
Care is explained in plain language: what is happening, what the options are, what happens if nothing is done, and what the honest uncertainty is.
Professional journey
Dr. Rafif holds an active Specialist Pediatric Dentistry licence with the Dubai Health Authority (registration 00189850 - 007). The DHA registry currently lists this licence under Invisalign Center LLC; the public clinic brand is JuniorDental, which is located in the Invisalign Center Building.
Full academic history, memberships, training and languages are being verified from primary documents before publication — nothing unverified appears on this page.
Where Dr. Rafif practises
All patient care and all appointments run through JuniorDental. This personal website is an author, media and education platform; it is not a licensed clinic and it does not schedule appointments itself.
JuniorDental · 697 Jumeira Street, Umm Suqeim 2, Dubai, UAE · Located in the Invisalign Center Building