미시건치과의원 (Michigan Dental Clinic)
According to our open methodology, this clinic scored 25.2/100 for transparency, reputation, service accessibility, and digital visibility.
Overall rank: #24 of 26 ranked clinics · Last checked: 6 September 2026
Positions by Rating Profile
- Overall Transparency & Trust#2425.2/100
- Best for Expats#2119.8/100
- Best for Dental Implants#2219.5/100
- Best for Emergency Dental Carenot ranked
- Best Price Transparency#2418.2/100
- Best English-speaking Clinicsnot ranked
- Best for Families / Children#1323.2/100
- 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
General practice near Jungangno station in central Daegu, registered since 2005, covering caries treatment, aesthetics, implants, clear-aligner orthodontics, periodontal care and children's dentistry. Runs a single bilingual Korean/English page and uses a 3Shape intraoral scanner.
Strengths
- Information Transparency: 17 of 20 points.
Weaknesses
- Price Transparency: 0 of 3 verifiable points (missing: prices or price ranges published)
- Reputation & Reviews: 1 of 10 verifiable points (missing: google review volume; tripAdvisor presence; other review platforms)
- Communication & Service: 1 of 6 verifiable points (missing: whatsApp / LINE available; pre-visit consultation possible; convenient opening hours)
- AI & Search Visibility: 0 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; structured data on website; google indexing quality; dedicated service pages)
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
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 The medical-team section describes a head director and a deputy director by role and qualification only; no dentist is named anywhere on the clinic's own site. [s1] | 0/3 |
| ✓ | Dentist specializations listed Qualifications are stated without names: board-certified specialist in Advanced General Dentistry with a US dental licence (director), master's in dentistry with an orthodontic focus (deputy director). [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Real clinic photos Equipment section shows the clinic interior with its 3Shape scanner (captioned, in translation, "Michigan Dental interior view"). [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Service list published [s1] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Clear contact details Phone 053-255-2080 and the Dalgubeol-daero address match the HIRA institution record. [s1] [reg1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | English website version The page carries a KO/EN switch with English strings held in data-en attributes; the English rendering was not separately verified. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Address and map published Address, transit directions and a parking note published. [s1] | 2/2 |
Price Transparency
Whether patients can estimate costs before visiting. Published price ranges count; exact prices are not required.
| ✗ | Prices or price ranges published No fee schedule. The notice board carries time-limited promotions only (in translation, "special implant discount event", "scaling + oral check-up package"), which are not a price list. [s1] | 0/3 |
| ? | Cleaning price listed | 0/2 |
| ? | Filling price listed | 0/2 |
| ? | Crown price listed | 0/2 |
| ? | Implant price listed | 0/2 |
| ? | Consultation price listed | 0/2 |
| ? | X-ray / imaging price listed | 0/2 |
Reputation & Reviews
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) Star histogram read live on 2026-09-06 from the place page: 0 five-star, 0 four-star, 0 three-star, 0 two-star, 1 one-star. The buckets sum to 1, matching the 1 in the place-page header exactly, and the weighted mean 1.000 reproduces the published 1. [gmp1] | 1/6 |
| ✗ | Google review volume Read live on 2026-09-06 from the place-page header; the star histogram sums to the same figure. [gmp1] | 0/3 |
| ? | Review recency The clinic's entire review base is one review, five years old, so no recency bucket is proven. Sample: the 1 review Google Maps renders on the place page in its own relevance order. A newest-first sort was not available; a re-check on the Reviews tab returned the same three reviews, so no fresher slice is available. | 0/3 |
| ? | Clinic responds to reviews | 0/2 |
| ? | No recurring complaints The entire review base is a single one-star review posted 5 years ago. The published facts are recorded (1.0 from 1 review; the engine's googleRating is Bayesian-adjusted for review volume, so a single rating is shrunk toward the prior rather than taken at face value), but recurringComplaints and suspiciousReviewPatterns are left null rather than false: one review can neither demonstrate a repeated theme nor demonstrate the absence of one, and one rating is not a distribution. This follows I-2's n=1 rule, with one difference recorded deliberately - I-2's n=1 case was a star-only rating with nothing to answer, whereas this review carries text and went unanswered, so respondsToReviews is recorded as false rather than null. The single review, five years old, says the reviewer's parents were treated for eight years without being told about their periodontitis and were then offered implants. It is recorded here because it is the only review the clinic has, not because it establishes a pattern. | 0/2 |
| ? | No suspicious review patterns The entire review base is a single one-star review posted 5 years ago. The published facts are recorded (1.0 from 1 review; the engine's googleRating is Bayesian-adjusted for review volume, so a single rating is shrunk toward the prior rather than taken at face value), but recurringComplaints and suspiciousReviewPatterns are left null rather than false: one review can neither demonstrate a repeated theme nor demonstrate the absence of one, and one rating is not a distribution. This follows I-2's n=1 rule, with one difference recorded deliberately - I-2's n=1 case was a star-only rating with nothing to answer, whereas this review carries text and went unanswered, so respondsToReviews is recorded as false rather than null. | 0/2 |
| ? | Active Facebook presence Not established: the clinic's website (1 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 "Michigan Dental Clinic Daegu" and "Michigan Dental"; the clinic's site does not link to TripAdvisor (checked 2026-10-05). [michigan-dental-daegu-tripadvisor] [michigan-dental-daegu-tripadvisor-2] | 0/0.5 |
| ✗ | Other review platforms [reg1] | 0/0.5 |
Medical Infrastructure
The range of publicly documented equipment and services. This measures documented availability, not clinical quality.
Communication & Service
How easy it is to contact the clinic, get answers, and book - especially for international patients.
| ✗ | WhatsApp / LINE available Phone and KakaoTalk booking only. [s1] | 0/2 |
| ? | Response speed | 0/1.5 |
| ? | English spoken | 0/2.5 |
| ✗ | Pre-visit consultation possible Booking is by phone or KakaoTalk; no online consultation or pre-visit estimate is offered. [s1] | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | Clear service explanations [s1] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | Convenient opening hours Weekdays 10:00–18:00 and Saturday mornings only; closed Sundays and holidays, no evening clinic. [s1] | 0/1.5 |
AI & Search Visibility
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 [sq2] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: Korea dental clinic for expats [sq2] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Structured data on website No schema.org JSON-LD block in the page source. [s1] | 0/1.5 |
| ✗ | Google indexing quality the clinic's own domain (michiganclinic.co.kr) does not appear anywhere in 10 results; the search surfaced only unrelated Daegu dental competitors (MIR Dental Hospital, Royce Dental), skin clinics and colleges (web search 2026-09-07) [giq1] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Dedicated service pages All treatments are described in sections of a single page; there are no per-service URLs. [s1] | 0/1.5 |
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 37512838 — dental clinic, opened 2005-09-21; as listed in the live Health Insurance Review & Assessment Service institution finder on 2026-09-04. [reg1]
Dentists & professional licences
No published dentist roster is recorded for this clinic yet — unverified, no penalty.
Red Flags
- low No dentists identified anywhere (-2 pts) — No dentist names published (derived from data).
Red-flag penalty applied: -2 points (capped at -20).
Data We Could Not Verify
- Price Transparency: Cleaning price listed
- Price Transparency: Filling price listed
- Price Transparency: Crown price listed
- Price Transparency: Implant price listed
- Price Transparency: Consultation price listed
- Price Transparency: X-ray / imaging price listed
- 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: On-site X-ray
- Medical Infrastructure: CBCT (3D imaging)
- Medical Infrastructure: Oral surgery
- 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 | http://www.michiganclinic.co.kr/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +82-53-255-2080 |
| Google Maps | Map listing |
| Address | 대구광역시 중구 달구벌대로 2120, 한언빌딩 5층 (봉산동) / 5F Haneon Building, 2120 Dalgubeol-daero, Jung-gu, Daegu, 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 | http://www.michiganclinic.co.kr/ | Clinic name, address, phone, opening hours, service list, equipment, unnamed team descriptions, promotional notices, KO/EN switch | 2026-09-04 |
| reg1 | https://www.hira.or.kr/ra/hosp/getHealthMap.do?pgmid=HIRAA030002010000 | HIRA institution record: Michigan Dental Clinic, institution code 37512838, dental clinic, Daegu, Jung-gu, Dalgubeol-daero 2120, 5F, 053-255-2080, opened 2005-09-21, WGS84 coordinates | 2026-09-04 |
| sq1 | search:best dentist Daegu / English speaking dentist Daegu / dental implants Daegu | AI/search visibility scout 2026-09-04 | 2026-09-04 |
| sq2 | search:emergency dentist Daegu / Daegu dental clinic for expats | AI/search visibility scout 2026-09-04 | 2026-09-04 |
| gmp1 | https://www.google.com/maps/place/%EB%AF%B8%EC%8B%9C%EA%B1%B4%EC%B9… | Live Google Maps place page read in a browser: rating, review count, star histogram, review dates, owner replies, listing website, phone, address and pin coordinates | 2026-09-06 |
| giq1 | search:미시건치과의원 대구 Michigan Dental Clinic Daegu | the clinic's own domain (michiganclinic.co.kr) does not appear anywhere in 10 results; the search surfaced only unrelated Daegu dental competitors (MIR Dental Hospital, Royce Dental), skin clinics and colleges | 2026-09-07 |
| michigan-dental-daegu-tripadvisor | https://www.tripadvisor.com/TypeAheadJson?action=API&details=true&q… | TripAdvisor's own search, read 2026-10-05: 12 suggestions for "Michigan Dental Clinic Daegu" (3 places, 5 attractions, 4 hotels), none of them a dental practice in or near Daegu; 12 suggestions for "Michigan Dental" (3 places, 4 attractions, 5 hotels), none of them a dental practice in or near Daegu; no listing for this clinic | 2026-10-05 |
| michigan-dental-daegu-tripadvisor-2 | http://www.michiganclinic.co.kr/ | 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: clinic responds to reviews now unverified: with 1 Google review a missing owner reply shows nothing yet; 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 michiganclinic.co.kr and the HIRA national institution register. |
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