About Dr. Rafif Tayara

Awarded: Best Pediatric Dentist 2025

Recognised as the Best Pediatric Dentist in 2025 — a reflection of trusted, child-centred care delivered at JuniorDental Dubai.

Who is Dr Tayara?

Dr. Rafif Tayara is a leading pediatric dentist, Sleep Dental Medicine specialist qualified from Tufts University, a top 1% Invisalign First Provider based in Dubai and Netherlands, and founder of JuniorDental and The Pediatric Academy. Voted “Best Pediatric Dentist 2025”, she’s a frequent speaker and educator, sharing on topics such as interceptive orthodontics, airway development, and modern pediatric dentistry.

She has practiced in both private clinics and hospital-based settings in North America, the Middle East, and GCC countries.

Her practice blends modern pediatric dentistry, with her own expansion protocols in interceptive orthodontics, and myofunctional therapy to address the root causes of dental and airway issues in growing children, and revolves around a multi-disciplinary team of ENT doctors, speech and feeding therapists, sleep surgeons and physiotherapists. She is also highly skilled in treating and managing special needs children and has played a significant role in raising oral health awareness in the Middle East and GCC region through various media channels, conferences and

She is also the author of the children’s book “Danny and Sarah Go to Dr. Smile,” which helps children overcome dental anxiety through an engaging and reassuring story — reflecting her commitment to making dental care a positive, empowering experience.

A proud mum of three, Dr. Tayara combines her professional expertise with a deeply personal understanding of what families need — creating an environment where every child feels safe, understood, and cared for. Her mission is simple yet powerful: to help children breathe, grow, and smile better for life.

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.

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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