Dr. Wells 維育牙醫診所
According to our open methodology, this clinic scored 59.4/100 for transparency, reputation, service accessibility, and digital visibility.
Overall rank: #12 of 21 ranked clinics · Last checked: 6 September 2026
Positions by Rating Profile
- Overall Transparency & Trust#1259.4/100
- Best for Expats#1454.5/100
- Best for Dental Implants#1551/100
- Best for Emergency Dental Carenot ranked
- Best Price Transparency#1042.1/100
- Best English-speaking Clinicsnot ranked
- Best for Families / Children#960.4/100
- Sleep Dentistry (GA / deep sedation)#459.4/100
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) — General anaesthesia / deep sedation documented "Sedation painless implants" — implant placement under sedation — is published in the clinic's own implant catalogue. [s1]
Summary
Shilin branch of the Dr. Wells dental group, descended from the Kuo Wei Dental Clinic practice founded on Zhongcheng Road in Tianmu in 1992 and now run under founder Tseng Yu-Hung. The branch site publishes a bilingual service catalogue covering digital implantology, orthodontics, cosmetic and paediatric dentistry, and the branch holds a National Health Insurance contract; ten dentists are registered to these premises.
Strengths
- Information Transparency: 20 of 20 points.
- Reputation & Reviews: 18.5 of 20 points.
- No red flags identified in public sources.
Weaknesses
- Price Transparency: 0 of 15 verifiable points (missing: prices or price ranges published; cleaning price listed; filling price listed; crown price listed; implant price listed; consultation price listed; x-ray / imaging price listed)
- AI & Search Visibility: 3.5 of 10 verifiable points (missing: mentioned for: best dentist Taiwan; mentioned for: English speaking dentist Taiwan; mentioned for: dental implants Taiwan; mentioned for: emergency dentist Taiwan; mentioned for: Taiwan dental clinic for expats; 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 branch site's dentist-team page names twenty dentists but does not state which of them practise at the Shilin premises; the MOHW staffing record for this institution counts ten registered dentists, so the roster is group-wide rather than branch-specific. [s2] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Dentist specializations listed Each named dentist carries a stated field, e.g. Tseng Yu-Hung implantology and full-mouth reconstruction, Huang Chi-Hsin paediatric dentistry, Hung Wei-Hsin orthodontics. Branch assignment is not published. [s2] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Real clinic photos Dedicated premises page on the branch's own site. [s3] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Service list published Catalogue grouped by cosmetic dentistry, fillings, orthodontics, digital implantology and a digital design centre. [s1] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Clear contact details Phone and address published on the branch site match the MOHW institution record. [s1] [reg1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | English website version Section headings and service categories are published bilingually; the substantive text is in Traditional Chinese. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Address and map published [s1] [reg1] | 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 The service catalogue was read in full; no price list, ranges or consultation fee is published. [s1] | 0/3 |
| ✗ | Cleaning price listed [s1] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Filling price listed [s1] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Crown price listed [s1] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Implant price listed [s1] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Consultation price listed [s1] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | X-ray / imaging price listed [s1] | 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: 1185 five-star, 76 four-star, 7 three-star, 14 two-star, 69 one-star. The buckets sum to 1351, matching the 1351 in the place-page header exactly, and the weighted mean 4.698 reproduces the published 4.7. [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. Read from the accessibility labels, not from a comma split: the four-digit bucket 1,185 and the header 1,351 both survive intact, and the buckets sum exactly to the header. [gmp1] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Review recency The newest review visible is 2 months old, which proves the within-3-months 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] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Clinic responds to reviews The owner replied to the visible reviews individually, in English under the English ones and at length under the critical one. 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 recurring complaints One critical review in the visible sample, six years old, from a Local Guide holding 465 reviews: it rates the receptionist 0/5 and says she refused to use his legal Chinese name and insisted on his English name. The clinic's customer-experience manager answered it. A single grievance six years old is not a repeated theme. The histogram carries 69 one-star and 14 two-star ratings out of 1,351 (6.1 per cent) that the visible sample cannot reach, and the size of that 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 1185/76/7/14/69 distribution carries a full, graded tail over a base of more than a thousand reviews - not the shape manipulation produces. 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 [s1] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | 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). [drwells-weiyu-taipei-tripadvisor] [drwells-weiyu-taipei-tripadvisor-2] | 0/0.5 |
| ✓ | Other review platforms Has a clinic-kept page on Dent&Co, Taiwan's dental review and booking site (online booking open, no review yet). [drwells-weiyu-taipei-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) | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Implantology Fully guided digital implant placement, full-mouth reconstruction, soft- and hard-tissue grafting. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Orthodontics [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Oral surgery Soft-tissue grafting, hard-tissue regeneration and crown-lengthening surgery are listed. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Pediatric dentistry Paediatric dentistry is listed in the service catalogue and a paediatric specialist is named on the group roster. [s1] [s2] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ? | Emergency care | 0/1.5 |
| ? | Works with international patients | 0/2 |
Communication & Service
How easy it is to contact the clinic, get answers, and book - especially for international patients.
| ? | WhatsApp / LINE available | 0/2 |
| ? | Response speed | 0/1.5 |
| ? | English spoken | 0/2.5 |
| ✓ | Pre-visit consultation possible Online booking and consultation request form on the branch's own site. [s1] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ✓ | Clear service explanations [s1] | 1/1 |
| ✓ | Convenient opening hours Read in a browser on 2026-09-06 from the image-only clinic-schedule page, which the initial data collection could not parse. The published grid runs Monday to Saturday in three sessions - morning 09:30-12:30, afternoon 13:30-17:30 and evening 18:00-21:30 - with the Saturday evening session marked closed. Evening clinics to 21:30 five days a week plus Saturday morning and afternoon. The same image carries the branch address No. 120, Zhongzheng Road, Shilin District, Taipei City and the appointment line (02)-2838-0071, both the card's, which confirms the page belongs to the Shilin branch rather than another Dr. Wells clinic; it also names about fifteen dentists session by session and marks three of them as specialists (orthodontic specialist, paediatric orthodontic specialist). [br1] | 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 Taiwan", "English speaking dentist Taiwan", "dental implants Taiwan", "emergency dentist Taiwan", "Taiwan dental clinic for expats".
| ✗ | Mentioned for: best dentist Taiwan [sqb] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: English speaking dentist Taiwan [sqa] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: dental implants Taiwan [sqb] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: emergency dentist Taiwan [sqb] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: Taiwan dental clinic for expats [sqa] | 0/1 |
| ✓ | Structured data on website [s1] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ✓ | Google indexing quality A name query returns the branch's own site, the group site and its own social profiles ahead of directory entries. [sqd] | 2/2 |
| ✗ | Dedicated service pages Treatments are listed in a services section of the homepage; the site has no separate treatment pages. [drwells-weiyu-taipei-deepen] | 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: Institution code 3701157407 — Dr. Wells, private dental clinic, operating status: operating, No. 120 and 120-1, Zhongzheng Road, Shilin District, Taipei; NHI-contract flag: yes. MOHW medical institution search, checked 2026-09-04. (The institution code is Taiwan's published licence-side identifier; only currently operating institutions appear in the register. The clinic does not publish this code on its own site. The group trades as the Dr. Wells dental chain across several premises, each of which is separately licensed; this record is the Shilin institution only.) [reg1]
Dentists & professional licences
| Dentist | Specialization | Licence No. |
|---|---|---|
| 曾育弘 [s2] [reg2] | Founder of the group; implantology, full-mouth reconstruction, orthodontics, sleep apnoea | 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: CBCT (3D imaging)
- Medical Infrastructure: Emergency care
- Medical Infrastructure: Works with international patients
- Communication & Service: WhatsApp / LINE available
- 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://www.drwells-weiyu-dentalclinic.com/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +886 2 2838 0071 |
| https://www.facebook.com/drwell.tw/ | |
| Google Maps | Map listing |
| Address | No. 120 and 120-1, Zhongzheng Road, Shilin District, Taipei 111, Taiwan (臺北市士林區中正路120號、120之1號) |
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.drwells-weiyu-dentalclinic.com/ | Branch name, address, phone, bilingual service catalogue including sedation implantology and paediatric dentistry, Facebook and Instagram links, online booking, schema.org markup, absence of any published price | 2026-09-04 |
| s2 | https://www.drwells-weiyu-dentalclinic.com/doctors | Dentist-team page roster of twenty named dentists with stated fields; no branch assignment is published | 2026-09-04 |
| s3 | https://www.drwells-weiyu-dentalclinic.com/weiyu-clinic | Branch page with premises photographs, address and service summary | 2026-09-04 |
| reg1 | https://ma.mohw.gov.tw/Accessibility/BASSearch/MASearchBAS | MOHW medical institution search searched 2026-09-04 for the clinic's Chinese institution name (branded "Dr. Wells" in English), region 01 (Taipei City): one row, matching this clinic, Shilin District, Taipei; institution record gives institution code 3701157407, operating status: operating, phone 2885-5032, address: No. 120 and 120-1, Zhongzheng Road, Shilin District, Taipei (matching the address on this card), NHI-contract flag: yes; staffing tab gives 10 dentists | 2026-09-04 |
| reg2 | https://ma.mohw.gov.tw/Accessibility/DOCSearch/MASearchDOC | MOHW medical personnel search (personnel category C, dentist) searched 2026-09-04 for the clinic's named dentist: one row, county/city of practice Taipei City | 2026-09-04 |
| sqa | search:English speaking dentist Taipei / Taipei dental clinic for expats | AI/search visibility scout 2026-09-04 | 2026-09-04 |
| sqb | search:best dentist Taipei / dental implants Taipei / emergency dentist Taipei | AI/search visibility scout 2026-09-04 | 2026-09-04 |
| sqd | search:Dr. Wells 維育牙醫診所 士林 中正路 | Name-targeted search scout 2026-09-04 | 2026-09-04 |
| gmp1 | https://www.google.com/maps/search/%E7%B6%AD%E8%82%B2%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.drwells-weiyu-dentalclinic.com/schedule | The branch's own clinic-hours page rendered in a browser: the weekly session grid, published as an image, with the dentist on duty in each session | 2026-09-06 |
| drwells-weiyu-taipei-presence | https://www.dentco.tw/clinic/3701157407 | Dent&Co clinic page for Dr. Wells (Weiyu) Dental Clinic, No. 120, 120 2F and 120-1, Zhongzheng Rd., Shilin Dist., Taipei, phone (02) 2838 0071 — the card's address and phone: kept by the clinic (its own introduction, online booking open), no patient review yet (read 2026-10-02) | 2026-10-02 |
| drwells-weiyu-taipei-deepen | https://www.drwells-weiyu-dentalclinic.com/ | Homepage and sitemap read on 2026-10-02: the services section lists cosmetic, filling, orthodontic, implant, periodontal, root canal, oral surgery and children's treatments on the homepage; the sitemap lists only the homepage and the news, clinic, article, doctors, schedule, Weiyu Clinic and reservation pages. | 2026-10-02 |
| drwells-weiyu-taipei-tripadvisor | https://www.tripadvisor.com/TypeAheadJson?action=API&details=true&q… | TripAdvisor's own search, read 2026-10-05: 12 suggestions for the clinic's name in its own script with "Dr. Wells Taipei" (3 places, 4 attractions, 5 hotels), none of them a dental practice in or near Taipei; 12 suggestions for "Wells Dental" (3 places, 4 attractions, 5 hotels), none of them a dental practice in or near Taipei; no listing for this clinic | 2026-10-05 |
| drwells-weiyu-taipei-tripadvisor-2 | https://www.drwells-weiyu-dentalclinic.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. |
| 2026-10-02 | Read the clinic's website HTML on 2026-10-02: service pages: absent. |
| 2026-10-02 | Presence re-checked: presence on other review platforms — yes. |
| 2026-09-06 | Checked by hand in a browser: the Google Maps place page was read for the whole reputation block and the pin was filled, and the image-only clinic schedule the open question queued was rendered and read, filling convenientHours. |
| 2026-09-04 | Initial data collection for the Taiwan Dental Transparency & Trust Index: verified against the branch's own site and the MOHW institution and personnel registers. Google Maps figures and the image-only clinic timetable deferred to a manual browser check. |
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