生活家牙醫診所
According to our open methodology, this clinic scored 65.6/100 for transparency, reputation, service accessibility, and digital visibility.
Overall rank: #7 of 21 ranked clinics · Last checked: 6 September 2026
65.6/100
Positions by Rating Profile
- Overall Transparency & Trust#765.6/100
- Best for Expats#1061.3/100
- Best for Dental Implants#560.7/100
- Best for Emergency Dental Carenot ranked
- Best Price Transparency#449/100
- 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) — No general anaesthesia or deep sedation documented Neither general anaesthesia nor deep sedation appears in the published service list. [s1]
Summary
Orthodontics- and prosthetics-oriented practice above Zhongxiao Dunhua in Da'an District, holding a National Health Insurance contract since 2020. The site names its dentists with their certifications, publishes evening and Saturday clinics, and carries a body of explanatory articles on all-ceramic crowns; it is published in Traditional Chinese only.
Strengths
- Information Transparency: 18 of 20 points.
- Reputation & Reviews: 19.5 of 20 points.
- No red flags identified in public sources.
Weaknesses
- Price Transparency: 2 of 15 verifiable points (missing: prices or price ranges published; cleaning price listed; filling price listed; crown price listed; implant price listed; x-ray / imaging price listed)
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 The clinic's own site names Hsieh Meng-Ling, Chiang Kai-Wen, Kuo Chien-Yuan and Chen Chien-Lin across its team block and case pages. The MOHW institution record counts 3 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. [s1] [s2] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Dentist specializations listed Hsieh Meng-Ling is presented with orthodontic certifications (Invisalign, Damon, LH, Tweed), Chiang Kai-Wen with Invisalign and implant training, Kuo Chien-Yuan with oral surgery. [s1] [s2] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Real clinic photos Dedicated clinic-environment page showing the clinic's own premises. [s5] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Service list published Implants, orthodontics, general dentistry, whitening, all-ceramic crowns and bridges, periodontal treatment and ceramic veneers. [s1] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Clear contact details Phone and address published on the site match the MOHW institution record. [s1] [reg1] | 2/2 |
| ✗ | English website version The site is published in Traditional Chinese only; no English version or language switch was found. [s1] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Address and map published Address published with a Google Maps link on the clinic's own site. [s1] | 2/2 |
Price Transparency
2 / 15
Whether patients can estimate costs before visiting. Published price ranges count; exact prices are not required.
| ✗ | Prices or price ranges published The site publishes a registration-fee adjustment notice and an orthodontic consultation fee of NT$1,000 but no standing price list and no ranges across services; under methodology 1.3.1 individual fees are not a price list. [s1] [s3] | 0/3 |
| ✗ | Cleaning price listed [s1] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Filling price listed [s1] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Crown price listed The clinic's article on all-ceramic crown pricing explains what drives the cost but publishes no figure of its own. [s3] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Implant price listed [s1] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Consultation price listed Orthodontic consultation fee published as NT$1,000. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✗ | X-ray / imaging price listed [s1] | 0/2 |
Reputation & Reviews
19.5 / 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) Star histogram read live on 2026-09-06 from the place page: 999 five-star, 38 four-star, 10 three-star, 7 two-star, 44 one-star. The buckets sum to 1098, matching the 1098 in the place-page header exactly, and the weighted mean 4.768 reproduces the published 4.8. [gmp1] | 6/6 |
| ✓ | 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 999 and the header 1,098 both survive intact, and the buckets sum exactly to the header. [gmp1] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Review recency Newest Google review is dated 2026-09-24 (listing read 2026-09-26). [lifedr-dental-taipei-gbp-2026-09-26] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Clinic responds to reviews The owner replies to Google reviews: 5 of the 10 reviews read carry an owner reply, 3 of them recent (within the last 12 months), the latest reply dated 2026-07-01. [lifedr-dental-taipei-deepen] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | No recurring complaints One critical review in the visible sample, three years old, from a Local Guide holding 39 reviews: it says in two sentences that the clinic discriminates against foreigners and refuses to serve them, and calls it a racist clinic. It is a single account and the clinic answered it, apologising and stating that it respects every patient, so it is not a repeated theme and the field stays false. The content is recorded verbatim in substance rather than summarised away, because this card is one the directory presents to foreign patients. The histogram carries 44 one-star and 7 two-star ratings out of 1,098 (4.6 per cent) that the visible sample cannot reach. 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 999/38/10/7/44 distribution carries a full, graded tail rather than the clean five-star wall manipulation produces, over a base of more than a thousand 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 Facebook page "Lifedr Dental" (5,949 followers) with posts up to 2026-09-24, the page behind the Messenger handle on the clinic's website; its About gives the clinic's address and phone. [lifedr-dental-taipei-presence-2] | 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). [lifedr-dental-taipei-tripadvisor] [lifedr-dental-taipei-tripadvisor-2] | 0/0.5 |
| ✓ | Other review platforms Reviewed on Dent&Co, Taiwan's dental review and booking site: 1,123 patient reviews. [lifedr-dental-taipei-presence] | 0.5/0.5 |
Medical Infrastructure
10 / 15
The range of publicly documented equipment and services. This measures documented availability, not clinical quality.
| ✓ | On-site X-ray PaX-i3D unit documented on the clinic's own equipment page, providing panoramic and cephalometric imaging. [s4] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | CBCT (3D imaging) The same PaX-i3D unit is described as delivering 3D CT imaging; the clinic also documents a Leica M320 surgical microscope and an iTero intraoral scanner. [s4] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Implantology [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Orthodontics Invisalign and Damon systems, with two certified orthodontic providers named. [s1] [s2] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Oral surgery Kuo Chien-Yuan is presented as an oral-surgery specialist, with the clinic's own notice covering salivary-gland cyst removal under local anaesthesia. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✗ | Pediatric dentistry Children's dentistry does not appear in the published service list. [s1] | 0/1.5 |
| ✗ | Emergency care No emergency or same-day service is documented on the clinic's own site. [s1] | 0/1.5 |
| ? | Works with international patients | 0/2 |
Communication & Service
4.5 / 10
How easy it is to contact the clinic, get answers, and book - especially for international patients.
| ✓ | WhatsApp / LINE available LINE official account linked from the clinic's own site. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ? | Response speed | 0/1.5 |
| ✗ | English spoken The clinic's own channels carry no English-language material or claim of English-speaking staff. [s1] | 0/2.5 |
| ? | Pre-visit consultation possible | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | Clear service explanations A series of plain-language articles on all-ceramic crowns, their lifespan and their drawbacks. [s3] | 1/1 |
| ✓ | Convenient opening hours Site publishes weekday clinics to 21:30 and Saturday 09:30-19:00; the National Health Insurance session grid confirms evening sessions Monday to Friday and a Saturday clinic. [s1] [nhi1] | 1.5/1.5 |
AI & Search Visibility
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 [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 The clinic's own domain surfaces for its name and for Da'an District dental searches in Chinese. [sqc] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Dedicated service pages A page per treatment plus a set of dedicated articles on all-ceramic crowns and Invisalign. [s1] [s3] | 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: Institution code 3701028509 — the clinic's operating entity, private dental clinic, operating status: operating, 6F, No. 212, Section 4, Zhongxiao East Road, Da'an District, Taipei; NHI-contract flag: yes. MOHW medical institution search, checked 2026-09-04. National Health Insurance contract running since 2020-07-01 per the NHI contracted-clinic open dataset refreshed 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.) [reg1] [nhi1]
Dentists & professional licences
| Dentist | Specialization | Licence No. |
|---|---|---|
| 謝孟玲 [s2] [reg2] | Orthodontics — Invisalign Platinum Elite, Damon system, LH orthodontics, Tweed course | not verified |
| 姜凱文 [s2] [reg2] | Family dentistry, Invisalign, implant training | not verified |
| 郭倩瑗 [s1] [reg2] | Oral surgery | not verified |
| 陳建霖 [s2] [reg2] [lifedr-dental-taipei-doclic] | — | 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: 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://lifedr.tw/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +886 2 2776 6338 |
| LINE | https://line.me/ti/p/1645278921-kWRPP32q |
| https://www.facebook.com/teethdr.idr/ | |
| Google Maps | Map listing |
| Address | 6F, No. 212, Section 4, Zhongxiao East Road, Da'an District, Taipei 106, Taiwan (臺北市大安區忠孝東路4段212號6樓) |
Contact details are provided for identification only and may change; verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | https://lifedr.tw/ | Clinic name, address with map link, phone, LINE account, service list, named dentists (the orthodontist, the family dentist and the oral surgeon), opening hours, registration and orthodontic consultation fees, schema.org markup, absence of an English version | 2026-09-04 |
| s2 | https://lifedr.tw/page/050AFE19DFC1FAC16FB4 | Damon orthodontic case page naming the clinic's orthodontist and a further dentist on the roster as treating dentists | 2026-09-04 |
| s3 | https://lifedr.tw/article/all-ceramic-crown-price | Clinic's own explanatory article on what drives all-ceramic crown pricing; confirms no figure is published | 2026-09-04 |
| s4 | https://lifedr.tw/page/C192AFA5580B0C91799C | Equipment page documenting a PaX-i3D unit providing panoramic, cephalometric and 3D CT imaging | 2026-09-04 |
| s5 | https://lifedr.tw/page/B0BD07E5D9F0DA82C81E | The clinic's own environment/premises page, with photographs of its premises | 2026-09-04 |
| reg1 | https://ma.mohw.gov.tw/Accessibility/BASSearch/MASearchBAS | MOHW medical institution search searched 2026-09-04 for the clinic's own Chinese institution name, region 01 (Taipei City): one row, matching this clinic, Da'an District, Taipei; institution record gives institution code 3701028509, operating status: operating, phone 27766338, address: 6F, No. 212, Section 4, Zhongxiao East Road, Da'an District, Taipei (matching the address on this card), NHI-contract flag: yes; staffing tab gives 3 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: the clinic's orthodontist and its oral surgeon each one row, Taipei City; its family dentist one row, Changhua County | 2026-09-04 |
| nhi1 | https://data.gov.tw/dataset/39283 | National Health Insurance contracted-clinic open dataset, resource refreshed 2026-09-04: institution 3701028509, contract start 2020-07-01, session grid with evening clinics Monday to Friday and a Saturday clinic | 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 |
| sqc | search:台北 大安區 牙醫診所 官網 醫師團隊 | Chinese-language search scout 2026-09-04 | 2026-09-04 |
| gmp1 | https://www.google.com/maps/place/%E7%94%9F%E6%B4%BB%E5%AE%B6%E7%89… | 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 |
| lifedr-dental-taipei-doclic | https://lifedr.tw/page/DDA864C25EFFF8F75E91 | Own-site page names this dentist (read 2026-09-10) via a banner image alt attribute that gives this dentist's name in Chinese with the honorific "Dentist" appended. This page (already in the automated read's cache and already the source for 3 of the clinic's other 4 clinicians) is distinct from the already-cited source s2 (page 050AFE19DFC1FAC16FB4). | 2026-09-10 |
| lifedr-dental-taipei-gbp-2026-09-26 | https://www.google.com/maps?cid=11447942886582037478&hl=en | Google listing read on 2026-09-26: rating 4.8 from 1097 reviews; star histogram 1★ 44 / 2★ 6 / 3★ 10 / 4★ 38 / 5★ 999; newest review dated 2026-09-24. | 2026-09-26 |
| lifedr-dental-taipei-presence | https://www.dentco.tw/clinic/3701028509 | Dent&Co clinic page for Lifedr Dental Clinic, 6F, No. 212, Sec. 4, Zhongxiao E. Rd., Da'an Dist., Taipei, phone (02) 2776 6338 — the card's address and phone: 1,123 patient reviews, online booking open, its dentists listed with their own ratings (read 2026-10-02) | 2026-10-02 |
| lifedr-dental-taipei-presence-2 | https://www.facebook.com/teethdr.idr/ | Facebook page "Lifedr Dental" (5,949 followers, GP practice), read 2026-10-02; newest post 2026-09-24; 82% recommend (77 reviews); address 6F, No. 212, Sec. 4, Zhongxiao East Road, Taipei (given in Chinese); phone +886 2 2776 6338; website lifedr.tw; page name given in Chinese; its Messenger handle teethdr.idr is the one the clinic's website links | 2026-10-02 |
| lifedr-dental-taipei-deepen | https://www.google.com/maps?cid=11447942886582037478&hl=en | Google listing the clinic's own (Dental clinic; 10689, Taiwan, Taipei City, Da’an District, Jianlun Village, Section 4, Zhongxiao E Rd, 212 6), read 2026-10-05 in 2 review orders (lowest-rated first, newest first): 4.8 from 1099 reviews (1★ 44 / 2★ 6 / 3★ 10 / 4★ 38 / 5★ 1001); 10 distinct reviews read, dated 2023-06-28 to 2026-10-01, 5 with an owner reply. | 2026-10-05 |
| lifedr-dental-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 "Taipei" (2 places, 5 attractions, 5 hotels), none of them a dental practice in or near Taipei; no suggestions for the clinic's name in its own script; no listing for this clinic | 2026-10-05 |
| lifedr-dental-taipei-tripadvisor-2 | https://lifedr.tw/ | 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. |
| 2026-10-05 | Read the clinic's Google listing on 2026-10-05 in 2 review orders (10 distinct reviews, dated 2023-06-28 to 2026-10-01; 4.8 from 1099): owner replies true. |
| 2026-10-02 | Facebook presence re-checked on 2026-10-02: live Facebook page confirmed. |
| 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; review recency within 3 months (newest review dated 2026-09-24). |
| 2026-09-10 | Name-verification 2026-09-10: the remaining dentist confirmed via an image alt attribute on an already-cached clinic page not previously cited for him. |
| 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 own channels. |
| 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, and the National Health Insurance contracted-clinic open data. Google Maps figures deferred to a manual browser check. |
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