喨粒晶牙醫診所 (Shining Dental Clinic)
According to our open methodology, this clinic scored 63.1/100 for transparency, reputation, service accessibility, and digital visibility.
Overall rank: #8 of 21 ranked clinics · Last checked: 6 September 2026
Positions by Rating Profile
- Overall Transparency & Trust#863.1/100
- Best for Expats#862.5/100
- Best for Dental Implants#857/100
- Best for Emergency Dental Carenot ranked
- Best Price Transparency#1341.6/100
- Best English-speaking Clinics#967.3/100
- Best for Families / Children#466.3/100
- Sleep Dentistry (GA / deep sedation)#363.1/100
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 All-on-6 full-arch rehabilitation is published together with target-controlled infusion sedation, and the clinic's overview describes sedation for implant surgery. [s5]
Summary
Three-floor practice on Zhongqing Road in Beitun District, open for over a decade and holding a National Health Insurance contract. Eleven dentists are named with their disciplines across periodontics, orthodontics, oral surgery and implantology, the site is published in Traditional Chinese, English and Japanese, and full-arch rehabilitation is offered under target-controlled infusion sedation.
Strengths
- Information Transparency: 18 of 20 points.
- Reputation & Reviews: 18 of 20 points.
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)
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 Team page names eleven dentists, led by Li Kun-Jin, with Xu Jia-Long, Chang Chih-Chieh, Yu Chun-Ting, Wang Chien-Ching, Chung Yun-Ying, Chen Yi-Jung, Kuan Hsuan-Chi, Huang Chun-Yi, Chu Te-Chia and Tsai Hsueh-Ya. The MOHW institution record counts 9 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 Each entry states a discipline and its certifications, e.g. Xu Jia-Long orthodontics (LH system, Invisalign), Yu Chun-Ting oral and maxillofacial surgery, Wang Chien-Ching periodontics. [s2] | 2/2 |
| ? | Real clinic photos | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Service list published [s1] [s3] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Clear contact details Phone published on the site matches the MOHW institution record and the NHI contracted-clinic file. [s1] [reg1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | English website version Full English site at /en/ plus a Japanese version at /ja/. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Address and map published The clinic publishes its own Google Maps place link with coordinates. [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 English and Chinese treatment pages were read; no price list, ranges or consultation fee is published. [s1] [s3] | 0/3 |
| ✗ | Cleaning price listed [s3] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Filling price listed [s3] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Crown price listed [s3] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Implant price listed [s3] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Consultation price listed [s1] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | X-ray / imaging price listed [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: 1735 five-star, 48 four-star, 11 three-star, 7 two-star, 69 one-star. The buckets sum to 1870, matching the 1870 in the place-page header exactly, and the weighted mean 4.804 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 1,735 and the header 1,870 both survive intact, and the buckets sum exactly to the header. [gmp1] | 3/3 |
| ◐ | Review recency The newest review visible is 11 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 The owner replied to the critical review in the visible sample. 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, a year old and rated four stars: the patient says she chose the clinic for its many good reviews and that the dentist who treated her was incredibly rude and said nothing on entering. The clinic answered it. A single grievance inside a four-star review is not a repeated theme. The histogram carries 69 one-star and 7 two-star ratings out of 1,870 (4.1 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 1735/48/11/7/69 distribution carries a full, graded tail over a base of nearly two thousand reviews - not the shape manipulation produces. What IS irregular on this card is not the Google distribution but the clinic's own published numbers; see the record on file note. 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 "Shining Dental Clinic Taichung" and "Shining Dental"; the clinic's site does not link to TripAdvisor (checked 2026-10-05). [shining-dental-taichung-tripadvisor] [shining-dental-taichung-tripadvisor-2] | 0/0.5 |
| ✓ | Other review platforms Has a page on Dent&Co, Taiwan's dental review and booking site, with online booking open (no review yet). [shining-dental-taichung-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 [s3] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Orthodontics Damon and Invisalign systems with two named orthodontic providers. [s1] [s2] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Oral surgery Yu Chun-Ting is presented as an oral and maxillofacial surgery specialist with hospital residency training. [s2] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Pediatric dentistry Dedicated pedodontics page on the clinic's own site. [s4] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ✗ | Emergency care The published treatment list makes no mention of emergency or same-day care. [s1] [s3] | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | Works with international patients The clinic publishes its full site in English and Japanese alongside Traditional Chinese. [s1] | 2/2 |
Communication & Service
How easy it is to contact the clinic, get answers, and book - especially for international patients.
| ✓ | WhatsApp / LINE available Two LINE accounts linked from the clinic's own site. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ? | Response speed | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | English spoken A complete English version of the site is maintained by the clinic. [s1] | 2.5/2.5 |
| ? | Pre-visit consultation possible | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | Clear service explanations [s3] | 1/1 |
| ✓ | Convenient opening hours The clinic publishes its own hours in the page markup as Mon.-Sat. 09:00-12:00, 14:00-17:30 and 18:30-21:30 — evening sessions six days a week; the National Health Insurance session grid independently records evening clinics Monday to Saturday. Re-read 2026-09-04. [s1] [nhi1] | 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] | 1/1 |
| ✓ | Mentioned for: dental implants Taiwan [sqa] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: emergency dentist Taiwan [sqb] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: Taiwan dental clinic for expats [sqb] | 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 English-language Taichung dental searches. [sqa] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Dedicated service pages Separate pages for implants, All-on-6, periodontal treatment, whitening, all-ceramic crowns, orthodontics, pedodontics and general dentistry, each mirrored in three languages. [s3] [s4] | 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 3703290334 — Shining Dental Clinic, private dental clinic, operating status: operating, 1F-3F, No. 488, Section 2, Zhongqing Road, Beitun District, Taichung; NHI-contract flag: yes. MOHW medical institution search, checked 2026-09-04. National Health Insurance contract running since 2020-12-30 per the NHI contracted-clinic open dataset refreshed 2026-09-04. (The institution code is Taiwan's published licence-side identifier and only currently operating institutions appear in the register. The clinic does not publish this code on its own site. The MOHW staffing record counts nine registered dentists against the eleven the clinic names, a gap the register itself explains: it records one primary practice registration per dentist and never links a person to a clinic.) [reg1] [nhi1]
Dentists & professional licences
| Dentist | Specialization | Licence No. |
|---|---|---|
| 李昆縉 (Li Kun-Jin) [s2] [reg2] | Head of clinic; implant dentistry and minimally invasive dentistry | not verified |
| 徐嘉隆 (Xu Jia-Long) [s2] [reg2] [shining-dental-taichung-doclic] | Orthodontics — LH super-elastic system, Invisalign digital aligners | not verified |
| 余俊霆 (Yu Chun-Ting) [s2] [reg2] | Oral and maxillofacial surgery | not verified |
| 王千青 (Wang Chien-Ching) [s2] [reg2] | Periodontal treatment | not verified |
Dentists are named; their licence numbers have not been checked against public sources yet — unverified, no penalty.
Red Flags
- medium Aggressive marketing practices (-3 pts) — The clinic publishes three different review figures, two of them in a single HTML document. Its own page hard-codes a schema.org aggregateRating of ratingValue 5 over ratingCount 2,568; the "powered by Google" review widget in the same page reads 4.8 from 1,264 and has not updated since about 25 September 2024, so it reads as live while being a two-year-old cache; and the live Google Business Profile, read on 2026-09-06, shows 4.8 from 1,870 reviews. The declared perfect five matches neither of the other two. Severity is medium rather than low because the contradiction is internal to one document the clinic controls. Nothing was taken from either the declared block or the widget: this card's rating and review count come from the place page. [s1] [gmp1]
Red-flag penalty applied: -3 points (capped at -20).
Data We Could Not Verify
- Information Transparency: Real clinic photos
- Medical Infrastructure: On-site X-ray
- Medical Infrastructure: CBCT (3D imaging)
- 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.shining-dc.com.tw/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +886 4 2291 6565 |
| LINE | https://line.me/ti/p/ZmPxdrvebc |
| https://www.facebook.com/shining6565 | |
| Google Maps | Map listing |
| Address | 1F-3F, No. 488, Section 2, Zhongqing Road, Beitun District, Taichung 406, Taiwan (臺中市北屯區中清路二段488號1、2、3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://www.shining-dc.com.tw/en/ | Clinic's own name forms, English and Japanese versions, service overview, LINE, Facebook and Instagram links, published Google Maps place link with coordinates, schema.org markup | 2026-09-04 |
| s2 | https://www.shining-dc.com.tw/team/ | Team page naming eleven dentists in Traditional Chinese with disciplines and certifications; the English mirror at /en/ carries the clinic's own romanisations | 2026-09-04 |
| s3 | https://www.shining-dc.com.tw/en/dental-implant/ | Implant treatment page and the sibling per-treatment pages; confirms no price is published | 2026-09-04 |
| s4 | https://www.shining-dc.com.tw/en/pedodontics/ | Dedicated paediatric dentistry page | 2026-09-04 |
| s5 | https://www.shining-dc.com.tw/en/all-on-6-target-control-infusion/ | All-on-6 full-arch rehabilitation under target-controlled infusion sedation | 2026-09-04 |
| reg1 | https://ma.mohw.gov.tw/Accessibility/BASSearch/MASearchBAS | MOHW medical institution search searched 2026-09-04 for institution name "Shining Dental" (the clinic's Chinese name), region 03 (Taichung City): one row, Shining Dental Clinic, Beitun District, Taichung; institution record gives institution code 3703290334, operating status: operating, phone 04-22916565, address: 1F-3F, No. 488, Section 2, Zhongqing Road, Beitun District, Taichung (matching the address on this card), NHI-contract flag: yes; staffing tab gives 9 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: Li Kun-Jin one row Taichung City, Yu Chun-Ting one row Taichung City, Wang Chien-Ching one row Taichung City, Xu Jia-Long one row Hsinchu City | 2026-09-04 |
| nhi1 | https://data.gov.tw/dataset/39283 | National Health Insurance contracted-clinic open dataset, resource refreshed 2026-09-04: institution 3703290334, contract start 2020-12-30, session grid with evening clinics Monday to Saturday | 2026-09-04 |
| sqa | search:English speaking dentist Taichung / dental implants Taichung | AI/search visibility scout 2026-09-04 | 2026-09-04 |
| sqb | search:best dentist Taichung / emergency dentist Taichung / Taichung dental clinic for expats | AI/search visibility scout 2026-09-04 | 2026-09-04 |
| gmp1 | https://www.google.com/maps/place/%E5%96%A8%E7%B2%92%E6%99%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 |
| shining-dental-taichung-doclic | https://www.shining-dc.com.tw/team-introduction/ | Own-site team page names this dentist (read 2026-09-10) in its own meta description, which states that the practice is "led by director Li Kun-Jin" and lists nine further named dentists including this one. This page (already in the automated read's cache, n=2) is distinct from the already-cited source s2 (/team/); the automated matcher missed the hit because the card's dual-script name "Xu Jia-Long" was matched as one latin-dominant string and the romanisation tokens are not present anywhere on the Chinese-only page. | 2026-09-10 |
| shining-dental-taichung-presence | https://www.dentco.tw/clinic/3703290334 | Dent&Co clinic page for Shining Dental Clinic, No. 488, Sec. 2, Zhongqing Rd., Beitun Dist., Taichung, phone 0800-226-565 — the card's address and the clinic's toll-free number: online booking open with one dentist listed, no patient review yet (read 2026-10-02) | 2026-10-02 |
| shining-dental-taichung-tripadvisor | https://www.tripadvisor.com/TypeAheadJson?action=API&details=true&q… | TripAdvisor's own search, read 2026-10-05: 12 suggestions for "Shining Dental Clinic Taichung" (6 attractions, 6 hotels), none of them a dental practice in or near Taichung; 12 suggestions for "Shining Dental" (1 place, 4 attractions, 6 hotels, 1 restaurant), none of them a dental practice in or near Taichung; no listing for this clinic | 2026-10-05 |
| shining-dental-taichung-tripadvisor-2 | https://www.shining-dc.com.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. |
| 2026-10-02 | Presence re-checked: presence on other review platforms — yes. |
| 2026-09-10 | Name-verification 2026-09-10: the remaining dentist confirmed in the meta description of the clinic's own already-cached team-introduction page; a dual-script name-matching gap in the automated tool, not a data gap. |
| 2026-09-06 | Data gate: red flag aggressive_marketing added for the schema.org aggregateRating the clinic hard-codes into its own markup, measured against the live place page. The existing catalog id was used ("unverifiable superlative claims"); no new id was coined. |
| 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 trilingual site, the MOHW institution and personnel registers, and the National Health Insurance contracted-clinic open data. Coordinates taken from the clinic's own published Google Maps place link; rating and review figures deferred to a manual browser check. |
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