돌담구강악안면외과치과의원 (Doldam Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Dental Clinic)
According to our open methodology, this clinic scored 48.9/100 for transparency, reputation, service accessibility, and digital visibility.
Overall rank: #21 of 26 ranked clinics · Last checked: 6 September 2026
48.9/100
Positions by Rating Profile
- Overall Transparency & Trust#2148.9/100
- Best for Expats#1645.5/100
- Best for Dental Implants#2146.7/100
- Best for Emergency Dental Carenot ranked
- Best Price Transparency#1459.2/100
- Best English-speaking Clinicsnot ranked
- 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) — Not verified
Summary
Surgery-focused single-dentist practice in Dunsan, Daejeon, opened in July 2026 and run by a Ministry of Health and Welfare board-certified oral & maxillofacial surgeon. Concentrates on impacted wisdom-tooth extraction, implant surgery, TMJ care and intra-oral minor surgery, and publishes its equipment inventory and the director's conference papers.
A very new institution: HIRA records the opening date as 2026-07-02, so review history and track record are necessarily thin. Latin name is the Revised Romanization of the Hangul name (Doldam, 'stone wall'); the clinic publishes no Latin form of its own, although the director's conference papers are credited as "Ji-Hun Chong".
Strengths
- Information Transparency: 18 of 20 points.
- No red flags identified in public sources.
Weaknesses
- Reputation & Reviews: 0 of 1 verifiable points (missing: tripAdvisor presence; other review platforms)
- AI & Search Visibility: 3 of 10 verifiable points (missing: mentioned for: best dentist Korea; mentioned for: English speaking dentist Korea; mentioned for: dental implants Korea; mentioned for: emergency dentist Korea; mentioned for: Korea dental clinic for expats; google indexing quality)
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
18 / 20
Whether basic facts about the clinic - its team, premises, services, and location - are publicly verifiable.
| ✓ | Has a working website [s1] | 4/4 |
| ✓ | Dentist names listed Director named on the clinic's own site as Jeong Ji-hun, head director, and again as the registered representative in the site footer. [s1] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Dentist specializations listed Ministry of Health and Welfare board-certified oral and maxillofacial surgeon; accredited by the Korean society of maxillofacial plastic and reconstructive surgery; residency at Chonnam National University Hospital; clinical adjunct professor, Chonnam National University School of Dentistry. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Real clinic photos Dedicated tour section and per-device equipment pages showing the practice. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Service list published Six treatment areas published: impacted wisdom-tooth extraction, implants, TMJ clinic, general dentistry, aesthetic treatment, intra-oral minor surgery. [s1] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Clear contact details Phone 042-483-2222, full address, business registration number 702-49-01079 and parking guidance published in the site footer; HIRA carries no phone for this institution, so no conflict arises. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✗ | English website version The site is Korean-only. [s1] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Address and map published Dedicated opening hours / directions page. [s1] | 2/2 |
Price Transparency
11 / 15
Whether patients can estimate costs before visiting. Published price ranges count; exact prices are not required.
| ✓ | Prices or price ranges published REFUTED the earlier reading "No fee schedule or price ranges anywhere on the clinic site". doldamdent.com publishes its full standing treatment fee schedule in the footer panel labelled 'non-covered treatment fees', and the whole table is present in the served page source; read 2026-09-04. Six sections - implants, prosthetic treatment, conservative treatment, extraction, other, document issue - with a figure or range against every line. A standing schedule, not a promotion. [s1] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Cleaning price listed Non-covered scaling 50,000 KRW. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Filling price listed Posterior resin (1~2 surfaces) 100,000-200,000 KRW; anterior resin 150,000-250,000; cervical resin 70,000; hybrid inlay 350,000. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Crown price listed Zirconia, posterior 500,000 KRW, anterior 600,000; laminate 600,000 (VAT extra); temporary tooth 100,000 per tooth. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Implant price listed Straumann 1,500,000 KRW; Osstem (SOI) 1,100,000; MegaGen Blue Diamond 1,000,000; Dentium SuperLine 900,000; alveolar bone graft 300,000-500,000; maxillary sinus bone graft 500,000-1,000,000. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✗ | Consultation price listed The schedule prices treatments and certificates but carries no consultation or first-visit line. [s1] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | X-ray / imaging price listed No standalone imaging line: periapical, panoramic and CT imaging are bundled into the extraction prices rather than priced on their own. [s1] | 0/2 |
Reputation & Reviews
0 / 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) No Google Business Profile could be found for this practice after four query variants: (1) the full registered name plus the street address, which Google answered with a different clinic entirely - Deobom Gugangaganmyeon-oegwa Chigwa-uiwon (an oral and maxillofacial surgery dental clinic) at 246 Daedeok-daero, moreudental.com, +82 42-710-2875, a pin 750 m away and none of the card's identifiers; (2) the quoted name fragment 'Doldam' plus 'chigwa Daejeon Dunsan-ro 123beon-gil' (dental clinic, city and street, typed in Hangul), which returned ten other Daejeon practices and no Doldam; (3) the name plus the card's phone 042-483-2222, whose only hit was a 'partial match' Doldam Chigwa at 684 Taewi-ro, Namwon-eup on Jeju, not Daejeon; (4) the card's exact street address 14 Dunsan-ro 123beon-gil, Dongyeon Building, at which Google places the street itself and no business. All six Google reputation fields therefore stay null. The clinic is otherwise plainly trading - a second check read its full non-covered fee schedule on doldamdent.com on 2026-09-04. | 0/6 |
| ? | Google review volume No Google Business Profile could be found for this practice after four query variants: (1) the full registered name plus the street address, which Google answered with a different clinic entirely - Deobom Gugangaganmyeon-oegwa Chigwa-uiwon (an oral and maxillofacial surgery dental clinic) at 246 Daedeok-daero, moreudental.com, +82 42-710-2875, a pin 750 m away and none of the card's identifiers; (2) the quoted name fragment 'Doldam' plus 'chigwa Daejeon Dunsan-ro 123beon-gil' (dental clinic, city and street, typed in Hangul), which returned ten other Daejeon practices and no Doldam; (3) the name plus the card's phone 042-483-2222, whose only hit was a 'partial match' Doldam Chigwa at 684 Taewi-ro, Namwon-eup on Jeju, not Daejeon; (4) the card's exact street address 14 Dunsan-ro 123beon-gil, Dongyeon Building, at which Google places the street itself and no business. All six Google reputation fields therefore stay null. The clinic is otherwise plainly trading - a second check read its full non-covered fee schedule on doldamdent.com on 2026-09-04. | 0/3 |
| ? | Review recency No Google Business Profile could be found for this practice after four query variants: (1) the full registered name plus the street address, which Google answered with a different clinic entirely - Deobom Gugangaganmyeon-oegwa Chigwa-uiwon (an oral and maxillofacial surgery dental clinic) at 246 Daedeok-daero, moreudental.com, +82 42-710-2875, a pin 750 m away and none of the card's identifiers; (2) the quoted name fragment 'Doldam' plus 'chigwa Daejeon Dunsan-ro 123beon-gil' (dental clinic, city and street, typed in Hangul), which returned ten other Daejeon practices and no Doldam; (3) the name plus the card's phone 042-483-2222, whose only hit was a 'partial match' Doldam Chigwa at 684 Taewi-ro, Namwon-eup on Jeju, not Daejeon; (4) the card's exact street address 14 Dunsan-ro 123beon-gil, Dongyeon Building, at which Google places the street itself and no business. All six Google reputation fields therefore stay null. The clinic is otherwise plainly trading - a second check read its full non-covered fee schedule on doldamdent.com on 2026-09-04. | 0/3 |
| ? | Clinic responds to reviews No Google Business Profile could be found for this practice after four query variants: (1) the full registered name plus the street address, which Google answered with a different clinic entirely - Deobom Gugangaganmyeon-oegwa Chigwa-uiwon (an oral and maxillofacial surgery dental clinic) at 246 Daedeok-daero, moreudental.com, +82 42-710-2875, a pin 750 m away and none of the card's identifiers; (2) the quoted name fragment 'Doldam' plus 'chigwa Daejeon Dunsan-ro 123beon-gil' (dental clinic, city and street, typed in Hangul), which returned ten other Daejeon practices and no Doldam; (3) the name plus the card's phone 042-483-2222, whose only hit was a 'partial match' Doldam Chigwa at 684 Taewi-ro, Namwon-eup on Jeju, not Daejeon; (4) the card's exact street address 14 Dunsan-ro 123beon-gil, Dongyeon Building, at which Google places the street itself and no business. All six Google reputation fields therefore stay null. The clinic is otherwise plainly trading - a second check read its full non-covered fee schedule on doldamdent.com on 2026-09-04. | 0/2 |
| ? | No recurring complaints No Google Business Profile could be found for this practice after four query variants: (1) the full registered name plus the street address, which Google answered with a different clinic entirely - Deobom Gugangaganmyeon-oegwa Chigwa-uiwon (an oral and maxillofacial surgery dental clinic) at 246 Daedeok-daero, moreudental.com, +82 42-710-2875, a pin 750 m away and none of the card's identifiers; (2) the quoted name fragment 'Doldam' plus 'chigwa Daejeon Dunsan-ro 123beon-gil' (dental clinic, city and street, typed in Hangul), which returned ten other Daejeon practices and no Doldam; (3) the name plus the card's phone 042-483-2222, whose only hit was a 'partial match' Doldam Chigwa at 684 Taewi-ro, Namwon-eup on Jeju, not Daejeon; (4) the card's exact street address 14 Dunsan-ro 123beon-gil, Dongyeon Building, at which Google places the street itself and no business. All six Google reputation fields therefore stay null. The clinic is otherwise plainly trading - a second check read its full non-covered fee schedule on doldamdent.com on 2026-09-04. | 0/2 |
| ? | No suspicious review patterns No Google Business Profile could be found for this practice after four query variants: (1) the full registered name plus the street address, which Google answered with a different clinic entirely - Deobom Gugangaganmyeon-oegwa Chigwa-uiwon (an oral and maxillofacial surgery dental clinic) at 246 Daedeok-daero, moreudental.com, +82 42-710-2875, a pin 750 m away and none of the card's identifiers; (2) the quoted name fragment 'Doldam' plus 'chigwa Daejeon Dunsan-ro 123beon-gil' (dental clinic, city and street, typed in Hangul), which returned ten other Daejeon practices and no Doldam; (3) the name plus the card's phone 042-483-2222, whose only hit was a 'partial match' Doldam Chigwa at 684 Taewi-ro, Namwon-eup on Jeju, not Daejeon; (4) the card's exact street address 14 Dunsan-ro 123beon-gil, Dongyeon Building, at which Google places the street itself and no business. All six Google reputation fields therefore stay null. The clinic is otherwise plainly trading - a second check read its full non-covered fee schedule on doldamdent.com on 2026-09-04. | 0/2 |
| ? | Active Facebook presence Not established: the clinic's website (26 pages read 2026-10-02) links no Facebook page and none was found under its website or Instagram name; Facebook itself could not be searched that day. | 0/1 |
| ✗ | TripAdvisor presence No TripAdvisor listing found via its search for the clinic's name and a short form of it; the clinic's site does not link to TripAdvisor (checked 2026-10-05). [doldam-omfs-dental-daejeon-tripadvisor] [doldam-omfs-dental-daejeon-tripadvisor-2] | 0/0.5 |
| ✗ | Other review platforms [reg1] | 0/0.5 |
Medical Infrastructure
8 / 15
The range of publicly documented equipment and services. This measures documented availability, not clinical quality.
| ✓ | On-site X-ray RAY portable X-ray listed in the clinic's own equipment inventory. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | CBCT (3D imaging) RAY QUANTUM CBCT listed in the clinic's own equipment inventory. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Implantology [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✗ | Orthodontics Orthodontics is not among the six published treatment areas. [s1] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Oral surgery Impacted third-molar extraction and intra-oral minor surgery, performed by the board-certified OMFS director. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✗ | Pediatric dentistry Children's dentistry is not among the six published treatment areas. [s1] | 0/1.5 |
| ? | Emergency care | 0/1.5 |
| ? | Works with international patients | 0/2 |
Communication & Service
4 / 10
How easy it is to contact the clinic, get answers, and book - especially for international patients.
| ✗ | WhatsApp / LINE available [s1] | 0/2 |
| ? | Response speed | 0/1.5 |
| ? | English spoken | 0/2.5 |
| ✓ | Pre-visit consultation possible Online consultation route (/consult) on the clinic's own site. [s1] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ✓ | Clear service explanations Plain-language FAQ on wisdom teeth, implants and TMJ disorders alongside per-device equipment explanations. [s1] | 1/1 |
| ✓ | Convenient opening hours Saturday clinic 09:00–13:00 without a lunch break, published with the weekday schedule. [s1] | 1.5/1.5 |
AI & Search Visibility
3 / 10
Whether the clinic is discoverable when patients search - including via AI assistants. Checked with fixed queries: "best dentist Korea", "English speaking dentist Korea", "dental implants Korea", "emergency dentist Korea", "Korea dental clinic for expats".
| ✗ | Mentioned for: best dentist Korea [sq1] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: English speaking dentist Korea [sq1] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: dental implants Korea [sq1] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: emergency dentist Korea Web search 2026-09-06: not among results for "emergency dentist Daejeon" (named results were Sun Dental Hospital, DIER Dental Clinic, Daejeon St. Mary's Hospital). [sq2] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: Korea dental clinic for expats Web search 2026-09-06: not among results for "Daejeon dental clinic for expats" (named results were DIER Dental Clinic and an unidentified renamed "Star White Dental Clinic" in Dunsan 2-dong, not attributable to any specific card). [sq3] | 0/1 |
| ✓ | Structured data on website Three schema.org JSON-LD blocks in the page source. [s1] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ✗ | Google indexing quality the clinic's own domain (doldamdent.com) does not appear anywhere in 10 results; the search surfaced no clinic-specific results at all, only unrelated Daejeon hospital dentistry pages and generic OMFS Wikipedia entries (web search 2026-09-07) [giq1] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Dedicated service pages Per-treatment /care-guide pages and per-device /equipment pages. [s1] | 1.5/1.5 |
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: HIRA national health-insurance provider code 34523219 — dental clinic, opened 2026-07-02; as listed in the live Health Insurance Review & Assessment Service institution finder on 2026-09-04. Business registration number 702-49-01079, published by the clinic in its own site footer. [reg1] [s1]
Dentists & professional licences
| Dentist | Specialization | Licence No. |
|---|---|---|
| 정지훈 (Ji-Hun Chong — Latin form as the clinic credits his conference papers) [s1] | Chief director — Ministry of Health and Welfare board-certified oral & maxillofacial surgeon; certified specialist, Korean Society of Maxillofacial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery | not verified |
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
- Reputation & Reviews: Google rating (Bayesian-adjusted)
- Reputation & Reviews: Google review volume
- Reputation & Reviews: Review recency
- Reputation & Reviews: Clinic responds to reviews
- Reputation & Reviews: No recurring complaints
- Reputation & Reviews: No suspicious review patterns
- Reputation & Reviews: Active Facebook presence
- Medical Infrastructure: Emergency care
- Medical Infrastructure: Works with international patients
- Communication & Service: Response speed
- Communication & Service: English spoken
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://doldamdent.com/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +82-42-483-2222 |
| Address | 대전광역시 서구 둔산로123번길 14, 동연빌딩 5층 (둔산동) / 5F Dongyeon Building, 14 Dunsan-ro 123beon-gil, Seo-gu, Daejeon, South Korea |
Contact details are provided for identification only and may change; verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | https://doldamdent.com/ | Clinic name, address, phone, business registration number, opening hours, named director with board certification and publication list, treatment areas, equipment inventory including CBCT and X-ray, FAQ, online consultation | 2026-09-04 |
| reg1 | https://www.hira.or.kr/ra/hosp/getHealthMap.do?pgmid=HIRAA030002010000 | HIRA institution record: Doldam Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Dental Clinic, institution code 34523219, dental clinic, Daejeon, Seo-gu, Dunsan-ro 123beon-gil 14, 5F, opened 2026-07-02, homepage doldamdent.com, WGS84 coordinates | 2026-09-04 |
| sq1 | search:best dentist Daejeon / English speaking dentist Daejeon / dental implants Daejeon | AI/search visibility scout 2026-09-04 | 2026-09-04 |
| sq2 | search:emergency dentist Daejeon | AI/search visibility scout — canonical query | 2026-09-06 |
| sq3 | search:Daejeon dental clinic for expats | AI/search visibility scout — canonical query | 2026-09-06 |
| giq1 | search:돌담구강악안면외과치과의원 대전 Doldam Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Dental Clinic Daejeon | the clinic's own domain (doldamdent.com) does not appear anywhere in 10 results; the search surfaced no clinic-specific results at all, only unrelated Daejeon hospital dentistry pages and generic OMFS Wikipedia entries | 2026-09-07 |
| doldam-omfs-dental-daejeon-tripadvisor | https://www.tripadvisor.com/TypeAheadJson?action=API&details=true&q… | TripAdvisor's own search, read 2026-10-05: 12 suggestions for "Doldam Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Dental Clinic Daejeon" (6 attractions, 6 hotels), none of them a dental practice in or near Daejeon; 12 suggestions for "Doldam Maxillofacial" (2 attractions, 8 hotels, 2 restaurants), none of them a dental practice in or near Daejeon; no listing for this clinic | 2026-10-05 |
| doldam-omfs-dental-daejeon-tripadvisor-2 | https://doldamdent.com/ | 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. |
| 2026-09-29 | Corrected 2026-09-29: active Facebook presence now unverified: no Facebook search is on record, so the absence of a page is not established. |
| 2026-09-06 | Checked by hand in a browser: the Google Maps place page was opened in a real browser and read for rating, review count, star histogram, review recency, owner replies, complaint and manipulation reading, listing website, phone, address and pin coordinates; the checks that needed a rendering browser were worked through on the clinic's own channels. |
| 2026-09-04 | Initial data collection for the Korea Dental Transparency & Trust Index: verified via doldamdent.com and the HIRA national institution register. |
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