雅柏牙醫診所 (Ya-Bo Dental Clinic)
According to our open methodology, this clinic scored 53.3/100 for transparency, reputation, service accessibility, and digital visibility.
Overall rank: #19 of 21 ranked clinics · Last checked: 6 September 2026
53.3/100
Positions by Rating Profile
- Overall Transparency & Trust#1953.3/100
- Best for Expats#1654/100
- Best for Dental Implants#2046.5/100
- Best for Emergency Dental Carenot ranked
- Best Price Transparency#1938.8/100
- Best English-speaking Clinics#1159.5/100
- Best for Families / Children#1058.3/100
- 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) — No general anaesthesia or deep sedation documented The implant page states explicitly that treatment is under local anaesthesia and that general anaesthesia is not required; no sedation service is documented. [s3]
Summary
Lingya district practice operating together with a sister clinic, Yang Ming Dental Clinic, in Xiaogang. Its site publishes a page per treatment area — implants, fixed and removable orthodontics, MRC appliances, wisdom-tooth extraction, paediatric dentistry, veneers and inlays, periodontics, whitening and family dentistry — each with a plain-language explanation. The American Institute in Taiwan lists it under Dentistry as Ya-Bo Dental Clinic. The team and clinic-hours pages are published as images, so the dentist roster and the timetable could not be read in this pass.
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: 1.5 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; 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 Read in a browser on 2026-09-06 from the image-built medical-team page, which the initial data collection could not parse. The clinic publishes a full roster of fifteen dentists by name, each with degrees and posts: Lai Te-Jung, Hsu Chih-Kai, Yang Fang-Tai, Sung Chang-Lin, Lin Cheng-Han, Hung Chiao-Jung, Hsieh Tien-Yu, Wen Ling-Kai, Lin Yen-Hung, Chen Ming-Lei, Lu Sheng-Ching, Chien Chao-Yu, Chang Chia-Chen, Li En and one further entry. The clinic-hours page independently names the same dentists session by session. The names are published as text inside images rather than as machine-readable text, which is why the earlier fetch saw nothing; a patient looking at the page sees them plainly. [br1] [br2] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Dentist specializations listed Read in a browser on 2026-09-06 from the same image-built medical-team page. Each dentist's entry lists qualifications and fields, and several are named specialisms: Lai Te-Jung is a Ministry of Health and Welfare oral and maxillofacial surgery specialist with a doctorate from Kaohsiung Medical University; Sung Chang-Lin is a Taiwan oral and maxillofacial surgery specialist; Hsu Chih-Kai holds paediatric-dentistry and orthodontic training and is a Formosa implant society specialist; Lin Cheng-Han and Hung Chiao-Jung are specialists of the Republic of China family dentistry society; Chang Chia-Chen is a member of the orthodontic society; Hsieh Tien-Yu holds a Taipei Medical University doctorate and implant-society membership. [br1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Real clinic photos The "About Ya-Bo" page carries a clinic-environment gallery of thirteen photographs of the premises. [s2] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Service list published The services section lists implants, orthodontics, clear aligners, MRC orthodontics, removable orthodontics, wisdom-tooth extraction, paediatric dentistry, veneers and inlays, periodontics, whitening, family dentistry. [s3] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Clear contact details The contact page gives the address and phone for this clinic and for the sister clinic, plus LINE, Instagram and Threads. [s4] | 2/2 |
| ✗ | English website version Traditional Chinese only. [s1] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Address and map published Address published with a location-map link; matches the MOHW register entry. [s4] [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 The site has no fees or price-list section and the per-treatment 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 [ya-bo-dental-kaohsiung-deepen] | 6/6 |
| ✓ | Google review volume [ya-bo-dental-kaohsiung-deepen] | 3/3 |
| ? | Review recency The newest of the three reviews Google renders is two years old, so no recency bucket is proven and the value is left unknown rather than guessed at "older". The base is over 1,300 reviews, so fresher ones almost certainly exist; Google simply did not surface any. Sample: the three reviews Google Maps renders on the place page in its own relevance order; a newest-first list was not available. | 0/3 |
| ✗ | Clinic responds to reviews None of the 12 reviews read from the last 24 months (dated 2024-11-07 to 2026-10-04) carries an owner reply on Google; the only reply seen, dated 2024-01-26, is on a review of 2024-01-03. [ya-bo-dental-kaohsiung-deepen] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | No recurring complaints None of the three reviews Google renders is critical. The histogram carries 36 one-star and 4 two-star ratings out of 1,355 (3 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 1236/69/10/4/36 distribution carries a full, graded tail over a base of more than 1,300 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 The clinic links its own Facebook fan page from the site menu. [s1] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | TripAdvisor presence No TripAdvisor listing found via its search for "Ya-Bo Dental Clinic Kaohsiung" and "Ya-Bo Dental"; the clinic's site does not link to TripAdvisor (checked 2026-10-05). [ya-bo-dental-kaohsiung-tripadvisor] [ya-bo-dental-kaohsiung-tripadvisor-2] | 0/0.5 |
| ✗ | Other review platforms The Dent&Co profile exists but carries no patient reviews. [s5] | 0/0.5 |
Medical Infrastructure
7.5 / 15
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 Dedicated implants page explaining indications, materials and staging. [s3] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Orthodontics Orthodontics, clear-aligner, MRC orthodontics and removable-orthodontics pages. [s3] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Oral surgery Wisdom-tooth extraction page. [s3] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Pediatric dentistry Paediatric dentistry page. [s3] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ? | Emergency care | 0/1.5 |
| ? | Works with international patients | 0/2 |
Communication & Service
7 / 10
How easy it is to contact the clinic, get answers, and book - especially for international patients.
| ✓ | WhatsApp / LINE available LINE add-friend QR published in the site footer. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ? | 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 Each treatment page explains the procedure, who it suits and aftercare in plain language. [s3] | 1/1 |
| ✓ | Convenient opening hours Read in a browser on 2026-09-06 from the image-only clinic-hours page, which the initial data collection could not parse. The published grid runs Monday to Saturday in three sessions: morning 09:00-12:00, afternoon 15:00-18:00 and evening 19:00-21:30, with the Saturday evening session marked closed. Evening clinics to 21:30 five days a week plus Saturday morning and afternoon. [br2] | 1.5/1.5 |
AI & Search Visibility
1.5 / 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 Not named in the top answer. [sq1] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: English speaking dentist Taiwan Not named in the top answer. [sq2] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | 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 9 results; only the clinic's own Facebook and Instagram profiles, an unrelated similarly-named competitor (GrandAsiaDental) and unrelated Kaohsiung-institution Wikipedia entries surfaced (web search 2026-09-07) [giq1] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Dedicated service pages A separate page per treatment under the services section. [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: 3707350082 — MOHW institution code; facility type dental clinic, operating status operating, NHI-contracted. Checked in the MOHW institution register on 2026-09-04. [reg1] [reg3]
Dentists & professional licences
No published dentist roster is recorded for this clinic 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
- Reputation & Reviews: Review recency
- Medical Infrastructure: On-site X-ray
- Medical Infrastructure: CBCT (3D imaging)
- 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--wuvo8ujmzgje.tw/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +886 7 223 7165 |
| https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063687055630 | |
| Google Maps | Map listing |
| Address | 高雄市苓雅區廈門街3號 (No. 3, Xiamen St., Lingya 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--wuvo8ujmzgje.tw/ | Clinic homepage (the clinic's own Chinese-script .tw domain name): navigation, notices, LINE / Instagram / Threads links, address and phone | 2026-09-04 |
| s2 | https://www.xn--wuvo8ujmzgje.tw/p/412-1034-307.php | About-Ya-Bo page — clinic statement and the premises-introduction photo gallery of the premises | 2026-09-04 |
| s3 | https://www.xn--wuvo8ujmzgje.tw/p/404-1034-934.php | Treatment-services page — the eleven treatment areas and the implant page text, including the statement that implants are placed under local anaesthesia | 2026-09-04 |
| s4 | https://www.xn--wuvo8ujmzgje.tw/p/404-1034-897.php | Contact-us page — address and phone for this clinic and for its sister clinic (a separately named practice under the same ownership) | 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 |
| 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/3707350082 | Dent&Co ("Dentist's Helper") directory profile: corroborates address and phone and carries no 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%9B%85%E6%9F%8F%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--wuvo8ujmzgje.tw/p/412-1034-308.php | The clinic's own dentist-team page rendered in a browser: the dentist roster, published as fifteen images, with each dentist's name, degrees and specialist qualifications | 2026-09-06 |
| br2 | https://www.xn--wuvo8ujmzgje.tw/p/404-1034-8708.php | The clinic's own clinic-hours page rendered in a browser: the monthly session grid, published as an image, with session times and the dentist on duty in each session | 2026-09-06 |
| giq1 | search:雅柏牙醫診所 高雄 Ya-Bo Dental Clinic Kaohsiung | the clinic's own domain does not appear anywhere in 9 results; only the clinic's own Facebook and Instagram profiles, an unrelated similarly-named competitor (GrandAsiaDental) and unrelated Kaohsiung-institution Wikipedia entries surfaced | 2026-09-07 |
| ya-bo-dental-kaohsiung-tripadvisor | https://www.tripadvisor.com/TypeAheadJson?action=API&details=true&q… | TripAdvisor's own search, read 2026-10-05: 12 suggestions for "Ya-Bo Dental Clinic Kaohsiung" (3 places, 5 attractions, 4 hotels), none of them a dental practice in or near Kaohsiung; 12 suggestions for "Ya-Bo Dental" (5 places, 5 attractions, 2 hotels), none of them a dental practice in or near Kaohsiung; no listing for this clinic | 2026-10-05 |
| ya-bo-dental-kaohsiung-tripadvisor-2 | https://www.xn--wuvo8ujmzgje.tw/ | Clinic's website, home page read 2026-10-05: no link to a TripAdvisor page | 2026-10-05 |
| ya-bo-dental-kaohsiung-deepen | https://www.google.com/maps?cid=8179589290550959783&hl=en | The clinic's own Google listing (Dental clinic; No. 3, Siamen St, Linwei Village, Lingya District, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan 802; telephone +886 7 223 7165), read 2026-10-05 in 5 review orders (lowest-rated first, newest first, most relevant first, newest first in the local-language interface, most relevant first in the local-language interface): 4.8 from 1365 reviews (1★ 36 / 2★ 4 / 3★ 10 / 4★ 70 / 5★ 1245); 20 distinct reviews read, dated 2019-08-03 to 2026-10-04, 1 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 5 review orders (20 distinct reviews, dated 2019-08-03 to 2026-10-04; 4.8 from 1365): owner replies false. Google rating and review count updated to 4.8 from 1365 (was 4.8 from 1355). |
| 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. |
| 2026-09-06 | 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 medical-team roster and the clinic-hours grid - were rendered and read, filling dentistNamesListed, specializationsListed and convenientHours. |
| 2026-09-04 | Initial data collection for the Taiwan Dental Transparency & Trust Index: verified against the clinic’s own site, the MOHW institution register, the NHI daily open dataset and the AIT provider list. |
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