뉴욕치과의원 (New York Dental Clinic)
According to our open methodology, this clinic scored 80/100 for transparency, reputation, service accessibility, and digital visibility.
Overall rank: #3 of 26 ranked clinics · Last checked: 6 September 2026
Positions by Rating Profile
- Overall Transparency & Trust#380/100
- Best for Expats#476.8/100
- Best for Dental Implants#475.7/100
- Best for Emergency Dental Carenot ranked
- Best Price Transparency#479.3/100
- Best English-speaking Clinics#378/100
- 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) — No general anaesthesia or deep sedation documented The Korean fee table prices "sleep anaesthesia" (the table's own term) at 200,000 won and the clinic's own English site presents the same service as "Conscious Sedation"; on the practice's own wording the patient stays conscious, which does not meet this criterion. [s3] [s4]
Summary
Implant- and oral-surgery-focused clinic opposite Dongdaegu Station, open since 2010 and occupying three floors of the New York Building. Four named dentists, led by an oral & maxillofacial surgery specialist who trained on New York University's implant programme. Evening hours on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
Ranking-domain settlement (2026-09-07): the indexing-quality note flagged that "the clinic's English-facing site (daegudentist.com) holds 3 dedicated pages" while "the site on file (nydental.kr) did not appear at all" in a web search. Investigated 2026-09-07: daegudentist.com is not live. a direct check returns HTTP 404 on the bare domain, the www subdomain and both http/https; fetching /robots.txt returns a Duda website-builder 404 page reading "Site not found — This site is not published or does not have a domain assigned to it." The domain was evidently indexed at some past point (hence the web search hits) but is now an unpublished/unassigned Duda site, not a live channel of the clinic. contacts.website stays http://www.nydental.kr/, which is independently confirmed correct: the clinic's own Facebook page (source fb1, read live 2026-09-06) lists nydental.kr in its Links field, and the clinic's genuine English site is a separate, distinct domain, nydentalen.com (source s4), already cited and unaffected by this finding.
Strengths
- Information Transparency: 20 of 20 points.
- Reputation & Reviews: 17 of 20 points.
- No red flags identified in public sources.
Weaknesses
No category fell below the weakness threshold (50% of verifiable points).
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 Four dentists named on the clinic's own medical-team page: Yun Hong-sik (head director), Gwak Myeong-gyu, Park Jin-ho, Yun Ho-jun. [s2] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Dentist specializations listed Yun Hong-sik — board-certified oral surgeon; Park Jin-ho — accredited by the Korean societies of oral and maxillofacial surgery and of orthodontics; each entry carries a full training record. [s2] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Real clinic photos Dedicated clinic tour page in the site navigation. [s2] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Service list published [s1] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Clear contact details Phone 053-252-0500 and fax 053-255-0053 in the clinic’s own site footer alongside its business registration number and representative; the phone matches the HIRA institution record. Re-read 2026-09-04. [s1] [reg1] [s3] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | English website version Confirmed 2026-09-06 by rendering nydentalen.com in a browser: about 6,200 characters of English covering services, implant explanation, sedation, whitening and a dentist roster with credentials. This is a full parallel site, not a landing page. [s4] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Address and map 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 Filled 2026-09-06. The non-covered items page /info/price.php serves its table as a single flat JPEG with no text, which is why the research pass left this unchecked. Rendered and read in a browser, the image is a standing three-column fee table (name / category / price) covering implants, GBR, crowns, inlays, resin, whitening, dentures, scaling, splints, gum grafting, sedation and orthodontics, with a won figure or a range against every line. [s3] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Cleaning price listed Scaling KRW 50,000; laser scaling KRW 50,000 per 1/3 arch. [s3] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Filling price listed Resin: anterior KRW 100,000, posterior KRW 80,000, CRF KRW 60,000, sealant KRW 30,000. [s3] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Crown price listed Crown: zirconia KRW 600,000, laminate KRW 450,000, PFM KRW 400,000, Gold KRW 1,000,000, implant prosthesis KRW 500,000, Post KRW 200,000. [s3] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Implant price listed Implant: imported KRW 1,700,000~2,000,000, domestic KRW 790,000~1,200,000. GBR is priced separately (sinus KRW 1,000,000~2,000,000, standard KRW 300,000~500,000). [s3] | 2/2 |
| ✗ | Consultation price listed The fee table was read in full and carries no consultation or examination line. [s3] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | X-ray / imaging price listed The fee table was read in full and carries no imaging line - neither an X-ray nor a CT scan is priced. [s3] | 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: 49 five-star, 0 four-star, 1 three-star, 0 two-star, 1 one-star. The buckets sum to 51, matching the 51 in the place-page header exactly, and the weighted mean 4.882 reproduces the published 4.9. [gmp1] | 5/6 |
| ◐ | Google review volume Read live on 2026-09-06 from the place-page header; the star histogram sums to the same figure. [gmp1] | 1.5/3 |
| ✓ | Review recency The newest review visible is 1 month old, which proves the within-3-months bucket and no better. Sample: the 3 reviews 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. [gmp1] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Clinic responds to reviews The owner replies to Google reviews: 2 of the 7 reviews read carry an owner reply, the latest dated 2025-11-29. [new-york-dental-daegu-deepen] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | No recurring complaints None of the three reviews Google renders is critical. The histogram carries one one-star and one three-star rating out of 51, both outside the visible sample. Sample: the 3 reviews 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. [gmp1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | No suspicious review patterns All three visible reviews are recent (one to two months), in English, and written by accounts holding 1, 2 and 1 reviews - a low-count profile that was considered as a manipulation signal and rejected: the clinic is a TRICARE network provider serving foreign patients, for whom a single review from a travel account is the normal pattern, and the histogram still carries a genuine one-star and a genuine three-star rather than the clean five-star wall manipulation produces. Sample: the 3 reviews 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. [gmp1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Active Facebook presence Reinstated 2026-09-06 with evidence a second check could not obtain (Facebook answers automated requests with HTTP 400). A Facebook search for 'Daegu Nyuyok Chigwa' (Daegu New York Dental, typed in Hangul), read in a browser, returns two pages for this practice. The one at /ny0500 - the handle is the clinic's own phone extension, 053-252-0500 - is named 'Daegu Nyuyok Chigwa NewYork Dental clinic', carries one review, posts from the practice, and lists nydental.kr, the card's exact website, in its Links field. Its published address is the clinic's former Gongpyeong-dong, Jung-gu premises. The second page, with the current address (415 Dongdaegu-ro, 3F~5F, Dong-gu) and a bio that reads, in translation, 'Daegu New York Dental Clinic, a dental clinic always working for its patients' tomorrow', is newer and smaller. Either way the practice has an identifiable Facebook page. [fb1] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | TripAdvisor presence No TripAdvisor listing found via its search for "New York Dental Clinic Daegu" and "York Dental"; the clinic's site does not link to TripAdvisor (checked 2026-10-05). [new-york-dental-daegu-tripadvisor] [new-york-dental-daegu-tripadvisor-2] | 0/0.5 |
| ✓ | Other review platforms Listed on Naver Place, South Korea's main local review platform, with 411 visitor reviews. [new-york-dental-daegu-presence] | 0.5/0.5 |
Medical Infrastructure
The range of publicly documented equipment and services. This measures documented availability, not clinical quality.
| ? | On-site X-ray | 0/2 |
| ✓ | CBCT (3D imaging) The clinic sells "3D volumetric implant analysis" as a dedicated service, which requires cone-beam imaging. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Implantology [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Orthodontics Adult, partial, paediatric, protrusion and surgical orthodontics pages. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Oral surgery Wisdom-tooth surgery pages; HIRA records one oral and maxillofacial surgery specialist among the clinic's three registered dentists. [s1] [reg1] | 2/2 |
| ✗ | Pediatric dentistry Only paediatric orthodontics is offered; no general children's dentistry section. [s1] | 0/1.5 |
| ? | Emergency care | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | Works with international patients Filled 2026-09-06 from the clinic's own English site, which the research pass could not render (it answered a cookie challenge with an empty body). It states TRICARE Preferred Network Provider and We Proudly Accept TRICARE - membership of the United States military health plan, which is a documented arrangement for treating foreign patients rather than a general claim. [s4] | 2/2 |
Communication & Service
How easy it is to contact the clinic, get answers, and book - especially for international patients.
| ✗ | WhatsApp / LINE available KakaoTalk and Naver booking only. [s1] | 0/2 |
| ? | Response speed | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | English spoken Upgraded 2026-09-06. Beyond the existence of an English site, the clinic publishes its membership of the TRICARE network for United States service families and describes its treatment process in English throughout, and a review in English from a foreign patient records that some staff and doctors speak English. [s4] | 2.5/2.5 |
| ✓ | Pre-visit consultation possible Online SMS consultation form and KakaoTalk consultation on the clinic's own site. [s1] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ✓ | Clear service explanations [s1] | 1/1 |
| ✓ | Convenient opening hours Saturdays 09:30–15:00 and evening clinics until 20:30 on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, published on the site. [s1] | 1.5/1.5 |
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] | 1/1 |
| ✓ | Mentioned for: English speaking dentist Korea [sq1] | 1/1 |
| ✓ | Mentioned for: dental implants Korea [sq1] | 1/1 |
| ✓ | Mentioned for: emergency dentist Korea [sq2] | 1/1 |
| ✓ | Mentioned for: Korea dental clinic for expats [sq2] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | Structured data on website No schema.org JSON-LD block in the page source. [s1] | 0/1.5 |
| ◐ | Google indexing quality the clinic's English-facing site (daegudentist.com) holds 3 dedicated pages, but ranks behind Facebook and is diluted by unrelated Daegu-institution Wikipedia results; note the site on file (nydental.kr) did not appear at all (web search 2026-09-07) [giq1] | 1/2 |
| ✓ | Dedicated service 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 37520334 — dental clinic, opened 2010-02-26, three registered dentists of whom one is an oral and maxillofacial surgery specialist; as listed in the live Health Insurance Review & Assessment Service institution finder on 2026-09-04. Business registration number 504-30-23666, representative Yun Hong-sik, published by the clinic in its own site footer, which also gives the Latin trade name "Daegu New York Dental Clinic" and the address "3, 4, 5th floor of New York Building, 415 Dongdaegu-ro, Dong-gu, Daegu". [reg1] [s3]
Dentists & professional licences
| Dentist | Specialization | Licence No. |
|---|---|---|
| 윤홍식 (Yun Hong-sik — Revised Romanization) [s2] | Chief director — board-certified specialist in oral surgery; certified specialist, Korean Society of Maxillofacial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery; completed New York University's (USA) standard implant training course; PhD in Dentistry, Kyungpook National University | not verified |
| 곽명규 (Gwak Myeong-gyu — Revised Romanization) [s2] | Director — periodontics and implantology (Loma Linda University); PhD in Dentistry, Kyungpook National University | not verified |
| 박진호 (Park Jin-ho — Revised Romanization) [s2] | Director — certified specialist, Korean Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons, certified specialist, Korean Association of Orthodontists | not verified |
| 윤호준 (Yun Ho-jun — Revised Romanization) [s2] | Director — general dentistry, endodontics and third-molar surgery courses | 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
- Medical Infrastructure: On-site X-ray
- Medical Infrastructure: Emergency care
- Communication & Service: Response speed
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.nydental.kr/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +82-53-252-0500 |
| Google Maps | Map listing |
| Address | 대구광역시 동구 동대구로 415, 뉴욕빌딩 3~5층 (신천동) / 415 Dongdaegu-ro, Dong-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.nydental.kr/ | Clinic name, address, phone, opening hours, service list, English-site link, online consultation | 2026-09-04 |
| s2 | https://www.nydental.kr/info/doctor.php | Named dentist roster with specializations and training records | 2026-09-04 |
| s3 | https://www.nydental.kr/info/price.php | Non-covered items page (published as an image; figures not machine-readable) | 2026-09-04 |
| reg1 | https://www.hira.or.kr/ra/hosp/getHealthMap.do?pgmid=HIRAA030002010000 | HIRA institution record: New York Dental Clinic, institution code 37520334, dental clinic, Daegu, Dong-gu, Dongdaegu-ro 415, 053-252-0500, opened 2010-02-26, three dentists incl. one oral & maxillofacial surgery specialist, 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%89%B4%EC%9A%95%EC%B9%98%EA%B3… | 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 |
| s4 | http://nydentalen.com/ | The clinic's own English-language site, rendered in a browser: dentist roster with credentials, TRICARE network membership and a conscious-sedation service | 2026-09-06 |
| fb1 | https://www.facebook.com/ny0500 | The clinic's own Facebook page, identified by the nydental.kr address in its Links field | 2026-09-06 |
| giq1 | search:뉴욕치과 대구 New York Dental Clinic Daegu | the clinic's English-facing site (daegudentist.com) holds 3 dedicated pages, but ranks behind Facebook and is diluted by unrelated Daegu-institution Wikipedia results; note the site on file (nydental.kr) did not appear at all | 2026-09-07 |
| y13-1 | https://daegudentist.com/robots.txt | REJECTED as the clinic's English site: checked 2026-09-07 across https/http, bare and www — every path 404s, and robots.txt returns a Duda-platform "Site not found / not published or does not have a domain assigned to it" page. Not a live channel; contacts.website stays nydental.kr | 2026-09-07 |
| new-york-dental-daegu-presence | https://m.place.naver.com/hospital/13458237/home | Naver Place page of New York Dental Clinic (category: dentist), 3-5F, 415 Dongdaegu-ro, Dong-gu, Daegu — the card's address: 411 visitor reviews; phone 0507-1391-0501, a Naver forwarding number (read 2026-10-02) | 2026-10-02 |
| new-york-dental-daegu-deepen | https://www.google.com/maps?cid=9376800527576536510&hl=en | Google listing (Dentist), read 2026-10-02 in two review orders (newest, lowest-rated first): 4.9 from 51 reviews (1★ 1 / 2★ 0 / 3★ 1 / 4★ 0 / 5★ 49); 7 distinct reviews read, dated 2025-04-27 to 2026-08-27; owner replies on 2 of them | 2026-10-02 |
| new-york-dental-daegu-tripadvisor | https://www.tripadvisor.com/TypeAheadJson?action=API&details=true&q… | TripAdvisor's own search, read 2026-10-05: 12 suggestions for "New York Dental Clinic Daegu" (5 places, 7 hotels), none of them a dental practice in or near Daegu; 12 suggestions for "York Dental" (4 places, 3 attractions, 5 hotels), none of them a dental practice in or near Daegu; no listing for this clinic | 2026-10-05 |
| new-york-dental-daegu-tripadvisor-2 | http://www.nydental.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. |
| 2026-10-02 | Read 7 of the clinic's Google reviews on 2026-10-02: the owner replies to reviews. |
| 2026-10-02 | Presence re-checked: presence on other review platforms — yes. |
| 2026-09-29 | Corrected 2026-09-29: clinic responds to reviews now unverified: only 3 reviews were checked for owner replies. |
| 2026-09-09 | Sedation criterion re-read against methodology 1.4.0, which counts only general anaesthesia or deep intravenous sedation where the patient is asleep and unaware. The Korean fee table prices "sleep anaesthesia" (the table's own term) at 200,000 won and the clinic's own English site presents the same service as "Conscious Sedation"; on the practice's own wording the patient stays conscious, which does not meet this criterion. The value moves from true to false: what this practice offers is published, and it is not sleep dentistry. |
| 2026-09-07 | Ranking-domain settlement: investigated the candidate surfaced by the indexing-quality check daegudentist.com. Confirmed dead — every path 404s and robots.txt returns a Duda "site not published / no domain assigned" page, i.e. an unpublished website-builder site, not a live clinic channel. contacts.website is unchanged (nydental.kr), independently corroborated by the clinic's own Facebook Links field (source fb1). No relation to the clinic's genuine English site nydentalen.com (source s4). |
| 2026-09-06 | Checked by hand in a browser: Google Maps place page read live; the image-only non-covered fee table read from the image; the English site nydentalen.com rendered, establishing TRICARE network membership, a conscious-sedation service and the dentist roster; the clinic's own Facebook page found by browser search. |
| 2026-09-04 | Initial data collection for the Korea Dental Transparency & Trust Index: verified via nydental.kr (including the clinic's own dentist roster) and the HIRA national institution register. |
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