高美牙醫診所 (Dainty Dental Clinic)
According to our open methodology, this clinic scored 57.8/100 for transparency, reputation, service accessibility, and digital visibility.
Overall rank: #14 of 21 ranked clinics · Last checked: 6 September 2026
57.8/100
Positions by Rating Profile
- Overall Transparency & Trust#1457.8/100
- Best for Expats#1355/100
- Best for Dental Implants#1154.5/100
- Best for Emergency Dental Carenot ranked
- Best Price Transparency#1739.1/100
- Best English-speaking Clinics#1258.2/100
- Best for Families / Children#761.9/100
- 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 The homepage service strip includes outpatient sedation but the site does not state whether this is deep / intravenous sedation or general anaesthesia, so it is not recorded either way.
Summary
Twelve-dentist practice beside the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, founded in 2005 and run as the Kao Mei dental alliance together with a second site, Hsin Kao Mei Dental Clinic, on Longsheng Rd. The clinic publishes the full roster for this site with qualifications and an equipment page listing a ProMax 3D Classic cone-beam CT, a digital panoramic unit, a 3Shape intraoral scanner and a separate sterile surgical room. The American Institute in Taiwan lists it under Dentistry as Dainty Dental Clinic, the English name the clinic itself uses on its Facebook page.
Strengths
- Information Transparency: 18 of 20 points.
- No red flags identified in public sources.
Weaknesses
- Price Transparency: 0 of 3 verifiable points (missing: prices or price ranges published)
- AI & Search Visibility: 3.5 of 10 verifiable points (missing: mentioned for: dental implants Taiwan; mentioned for: emergency dentist Taiwan; mentioned for: Taiwan dental clinic for expats; structured data on website; 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 Twelve dentists named on the clinic’s own medical-team page, headed by Hung Yi-Yu (director). The MOHW institution record counts 7 dentists registered at these premises (checked 2026-09-04); the register never publishes their names, so the published roster and the registration count cannot be reconciled from any official source. [s2] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Dentist specializations listed Every entry carries a specialty line and society credentials, e.g. Chen Liang-Yao — MOHW-certified orthodontic specialist; Li Tzu-Ying — specialist of the Republic of China paediatric dentistry society. [s2] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Real clinic photos Read in a browser on 2026-09-06, which the initial data collection could not do. The clinic-environment page carries three photographs of this practice's own premises - the shopfront under its awning bearing the clinic's Chinese name with the treatment list posted beside the door, the building from the street, and the entrance with the clinic's sign - not stock imagery. They are exterior rather than surgery photographs, which is what the page is for; the criterion asks whether the clinic publishes real photographs of itself, and it does. [br2] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Service list published Homepage lists prosthodontics, dental implants, all-ceramic crowns, clear aligners, orthodontics, cosmetic dentistry, a "happy children" paediatric service, periodontics, full-mouth reconstruction. [s1] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Clear contact details Phone, fax and street address for both alliance sites in the footer of every page. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✗ | English website version Traditional Chinese only; the site offers no English version or language switch. [s1] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Address and map published Street address published site-wide and matching the MOHW register entry. [s1] [reg1] | 2/2 |
Price Transparency
0 / 15
Whether patients can estimate costs before visiting. Published price ranges count; exact prices are not required.
| ✗ | Prices or price ranges published No price list or price ranges anywhere on the site: the navigation has no fees / price-list section and the service, case and equipment pages carry no figures. [s1] [s3] | 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
14 / 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) as of 2026-10-05 [dainty-dental-kaohsiung-deepen] | 5/6 |
| ◐ | Google review volume [dainty-dental-kaohsiung-deepen] | 2/3 |
| ◐ | Review recency The newest review visible is 4 months old, which proves the within-a-year bucket and no better. Sample: the three reviews Google Maps renders on the place page in its own relevance order; a newest-first list was not available. [gmp1] | 1.5/3 |
| ✗ | Clinic responds to reviews None of the 10 reviews read (dated 2024-10-28 to 2026-09-29) carries an owner reply on Google. [dainty-dental-kaohsiung-deepen] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | No recurring complaints One critical review in the visible sample, four months old and rated one star: the patient says she had an appointment but still waited thirty minutes, that the treatment time was then severely compressed because she had other commitments, and that the practice disregarded the patient's rights. It is a single grievance and the other two visible reviews are five-star and detailed. The histogram carries 15 one-star and 1 two-star ratings out of 188 (8.5 per cent) that the visible sample cannot reach, so this reading rests on the sample and the size of the unread tail is stated here. Sample: the three reviews Google Maps renders on the place page in its own relevance order; a newest-first list was not available. [gmp1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | No suspicious review patterns The 162/8/2/1/15 shape carries a genuine graded tail rather than the clean wall manipulation produces, and the visible reviewers are Local Guides holding 286, 5 and 32 reviews. Sample: the three reviews Google Maps renders on the place page in its own relevance order; a newest-first list was not available. [gmp1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Active Facebook presence The clinic links its own page, facebook.com/DaintyDentalClinic, from its site header. [s1] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | TripAdvisor presence No TripAdvisor listing found via its search for "Dainty Dental Clinic Kaohsiung" and "Dainty Dental"; the clinic's site does not link to TripAdvisor (checked 2026-10-05). [dainty-dental-kaohsiung-tripadvisor] [dainty-dental-kaohsiung-tripadvisor-2] | 0/0.5 |
| ✓ | Other review platforms Dent&Co profile carries a public patient review. [s5] | 0.5/0.5 |
Medical Infrastructure
11.5 / 15
The range of publicly documented equipment and services. This measures documented availability, not clinical quality.
| ✓ | On-site X-ray A full-function digital panoramic X-ray unit on the equipment page. [s3] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | CBCT (3D imaging) Dental digital 3D CT X-ray unit, model ProMax 3D Classic. [s3] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Implantology [s1] [s3] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Orthodontics Clear aligners and orthodontics on the service list; Chen Liang-Yao holds the MOHW orthodontic specialty. [s1] [s2] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Oral surgery A separate sterile operating room plus a multifunction piezosurgery unit and an electrosurgical unit on the equipment page. [s3] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Pediatric dentistry The "happy children" paediatric service on the service list; Li Tzu-Ying is a paediatric dentistry specialist. [s1] [s2] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ? | Emergency care | 0/1.5 |
| ? | Works with international patients | 0/2 |
Communication & Service
5 / 10
How easy it is to contact the clinic, get answers, and book - especially for international patients.
| ✗ | WhatsApp / LINE available No LINE or WhatsApp channel on the site; contact is by phone or the on-site booking form. [s1] | 0/2 |
| ? | Response speed | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | English spoken Listed by the American Institute in Taiwan among Kaohsiung health care providers for US citizens, under Dentistry. [s6] | 2.5/2.5 |
| ? | Pre-visit consultation possible | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | Clear service explanations Equipment and treatment pages explain each item in plain language. [s3] | 1/1 |
| ✓ | Convenient opening hours Read in a browser on 2026-09-06. The open question queued the monthly clinic-schedule news post, but the site also carries a standing clinic-hours page for this branch, and that is what was read: a permanent weekly grid, Monday to Saturday, in three sessions - 09:00-11:30, 14:30-17:00 and 18:30-21:00 - with the Saturday evening session marked closed. Evening clinics to 21:00 five days a week plus Saturday morning and afternoon. The grid also names the dentist on duty in every session. [br1] | 1.5/1.5 |
AI & Search Visibility
3.5 / 10
Whether the clinic is discoverable when patients search - including via AI assistants. Checked with fixed queries: "best dentist Taiwan", "English speaking dentist Taiwan", "dental implants Taiwan", "emergency dentist Taiwan", "Taiwan dental clinic for expats".
| ✓ | Mentioned for: best dentist Taiwan Named as Dainty Dental Clinic in the top answer. [sq1] | 1/1 |
| ✓ | Mentioned for: English speaking dentist Taiwan Named as Dainty Dental Clinic with its phone number. [sq2] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: dental implants Taiwan Web search 2026-09-06: not among results for "dental implants Kaohsiung" (top results were Kaohsiung VGH International Medical Center, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, and generic Taiwan implant-cost articles). [sq3] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: emergency dentist Taiwan Web search 2026-09-06: not among results for "emergency dentist Kaohsiung" (top results were Big W Dental Clinic, AIT health-provider directory, and Kaohsiung VGH). [sq4] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: Taiwan dental clinic for expats Web search 2026-09-06: not among results for "Kaohsiung dental clinic for expats" (top results were Kaohsiung VGH International Medical Center and Big W Dental Clinic). [sq5] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Structured data on website No schema.org JSON-LD in the page source. [s1] | 0/1.5 |
| ✗ | Google indexing quality the clinic's own domain does not appear anywhere in 10 results; Facebook, Instagram, unrelated Wikipedia entries and directory listings for a differently-branded clinic dominate (web search 2026-09-07) [giq1] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Dedicated service pages Separate pages per treatment area under "Services and cases" (dental implants, full-mouth reconstruction, orthodontics, cosmetic dentistry, myofunctional orthodontics). [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: 3702021415 — MOHW institution code; ownership class private dental clinic, facility type dental clinic, operating status operating, NHI-contracted. Checked in the MOHW institution register on 2026-09-04. [reg1] [reg3]
Dentists & professional licences
| Dentist | Specialization | Licence No. |
|---|---|---|
| 洪怡育 [s2] [reg2] | Director; implant dentistry, periodontal treatment — Master's degree in periodontology, Kaohsiung Medical University College of Oral Medicine; postgraduate implant-dentistry training, New York University, USA | not verified |
| 陳亮瑤 [s2] [reg2] | Orthodontics, all-ceramic aesthetics, invisible braces — MOHW-certified orthodontics specialist | not verified |
| 李姿瑩 [s2] [reg2] | Paediatric dentistry, early orthodontic treatment — board-certified specialist, Republic of China Paediatric Dentistry Association | 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
- 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
- Medical Infrastructure: Emergency care
- Medical Infrastructure: Works with international patients
- Communication & Service: Response speed
- Communication & Service: Pre-visit consultation possible
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://www.xn--z1xr5zr7nnui.tw/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +886 7 555 5898 |
| https://www.facebook.com/DaintyDentalClinic | |
| Google Maps | Map listing |
| Address | 高雄市鼓山區美術館路32號 (No. 32, Meishuguan Rd., Gushan Dist., Kaohsiung, Taiwan) |
Contact details are provided for identification only and may change; verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | https://www.xn--z1xr5zr7nnui.tw/index.php | Clinic homepage (the clinic's own Chinese-script .tw domain name): service list, contacts, addresses of both alliance sites, Facebook link, absence of an English version and of any price page | 2026-09-04 |
| s2 | https://www.xn--z1xr5zr7nnui.tw/compshow.php?ProdId=180103020622&La… | Own-site roster page names this dentist (re-read 2026-09-10; already cited as source s2, "the roster of twelve dentists for this site"): the page states this dentist's specialties as orthodontics, all-ceramic aesthetics and invisible braces, and gives the Kaohsiung Medical University School of Dentistry as her degree-granting school. The earlier automated read only cached the homepage, which does not list staff by name. | 2026-09-10 |
| s3 | https://www.xn--z1xr5zr7nnui.tw/compshow.php?ProdId=180110111829&La… | Advanced-equipment page — CBCT (ProMax 3D Classic), panoramic X-ray, 3Shape intraoral scanner, sterile surgical room, piezosurgery; no prices | 2026-09-04 |
| reg1 | https://ma.mohw.gov.tw/Accessibility/BASSearch/MASearchBAS | MOHW medical institution search (Ministry of Health and Welfare medical institution register): institution code, ownership class, facility type, operating status, phone, street address and NHI-contract flag | 2026-09-04 |
| reg2 | https://ma.mohw.gov.tw/Accessibility/DOCSearch/MASearchDOC | MOHW medical personnel search (Ministry of Health and Welfare medical personnel register): confirms that a named person is a currently registered practising dentist and the county of practice. The register publishes no licence number and no person-to-clinic link. | 2026-09-04 |
| reg3 | https://info.nhi.gov.tw/api/iode0000s01/Dataset?rId=A21030000I-D210… | National Health Insurance Administration open dataset (NHI-contracted institutions – clinics; daily refresh, file timestamp 2026-09-04): institution code, name, phone, address, contract start date and contract-end / closure date | 2026-09-04 |
| s5 | https://www.dentco.tw/clinic/3702021415 | Dent&Co ("Dentist's Helper") directory profile: corroborates address and phone and carries one public patient reviews (existence and third-party review presence only; not a clinic channel) | 2026-09-04 |
| s6 | https://www.ait.org.tw/services/medical-assistance/kaohsiung-medica… | American Institute in Taiwan list of health care providers in the Southern Taiwan consular district: the clinic is listed under Dentistry with the English name it uses, its address and phone | 2026-09-04 |
| sq1 | search:best dentist Kaohsiung | Canonical visibility query run 2026-09-04 | 2026-09-04 |
| sq2 | search:English speaking dentist Kaohsiung | Canonical visibility query run 2026-09-04 | 2026-09-04 |
| sq3 | search:dental implants Kaohsiung | AI/search visibility scout — canonical query | 2026-09-06 |
| sq4 | search:emergency dentist Kaohsiung | AI/search visibility scout — canonical query | 2026-09-06 |
| sq5 | search:Kaohsiung dental clinic for expats | AI/search visibility scout — canonical query | 2026-09-06 |
| gmp1 | https://www.google.com/maps/search/%E9%AB%98%E7%BE%8E%E7%89%99%E9%8… | 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 |
| br1 | https://www.xn--z1xr5zr7nnui.tw/compshow.php?ProdId=230829045658&La… | The clinic's own standing clinic-hours page for the Dainty Dental Clinic branch, rendered in a browser: the permanent weekly session grid with the dentist on duty in each session | 2026-09-06 |
| br2 | https://www.xn--z1xr5zr7nnui.tw/compshow.php?ProdId=171218043142&La… | The clinic's own "Dainty Environment" premises page rendered in a browser: photographs of the premises | 2026-09-06 |
| giq1 | search:高美牙醫診所 高雄 Dainty Dental Clinic Kaohsiung | the clinic's own domain does not appear anywhere in 10 results; Facebook, Instagram, unrelated Wikipedia entries and directory listings for a differently-branded clinic dominate | 2026-09-07 |
| dainty-dental-kaohsiung-tripadvisor | https://www.tripadvisor.com/TypeAheadJson?action=API&details=true&q… | TripAdvisor's own search, read 2026-10-05: 12 suggestions for "Dainty Dental Clinic Kaohsiung" (6 attractions, 6 hotels), none of them a dental practice in or near Kaohsiung; 12 suggestions for "Dainty Dental" (6 attractions, 2 hotels, 4 restaurants), none of them a dental practice in or near Kaohsiung; no listing for this clinic | 2026-10-05 |
| dainty-dental-kaohsiung-tripadvisor-2 | https://www.xn--z1xr5zr7nnui.tw/ | Clinic's website, home page read 2026-10-05: no link to a TripAdvisor page | 2026-10-05 |
| dainty-dental-kaohsiung-deepen | https://www.google.com/maps?cid=13400704862008106401&hl=en | The clinic's own Google listing (Dental clinic; No. 32, Meishuguan Rd, Longzi Village, Gushan District, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan 804; telephone +886 7 555 5898), read 2026-10-05 in 6 review orders (lowest-rated first, newest first, most relevant first, highest-rated first, newest first in the local-language interface, most relevant first in the local-language interface): 4.6 from 189 reviews (1★ 15 / 2★ 1 / 3★ 2 / 4★ 9 / 5★ 162); 14 distinct reviews read, dated 2022-08-22 to 2026-09-29, 0 with an owner reply. | 2026-10-05 |
Change History
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-05 | Tied this card to the clinic's own Google listing (same street address and telephone number) and read it on 2026-10-05 in 6 review orders (14 distinct reviews, dated 2022-08-22 to 2026-09-29; 4.6 from 189): owner replies false. Google rating and review count updated to 4.6 from 189 (was 4.6 from 188). |
| 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: only 3 reviews were checked for owner replies. |
| 2026-09-10 | Name-verification re-read 2026-09-10: both remaining dentists re-confirmed on the clinic's own already-cited roster page (source s2); the automated name-match read had only cached the homepage. |
| 2026-09-06 | Checked by hand in a browser: the Google Maps place page was read for the whole reputation block and the pin, and the two image-only pages the open question queued - the standing clinic-hours grid and the clinic-environment photographs - were rendered and read, filling convenientHours and realClinicPhotos. |
| 2026-09-04 | Initial data collection for the Taiwan Dental Transparency & Trust Index: verified against the clinic’s own site, the MOHW institution and personnel registers, the NHI daily open dataset and the AIT provider list. |
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