JDC Dental (Johnsonville Dental Centre)

According to our open methodology, this clinic scored 75.6/100 for transparency, reputation, service accessibility, and digital visibility.

Overall rank: #8 of 21 ranked clinics · Last checked: 24 September 2026

75.6/100

Positions by Rating Profile

  • Overall Transparency & Trust#875.6/100
  • Best for Expatsnot ranked
  • Best for Dental Implants#874.3/100
  • Best for Emergency Dental Care#868.7/100
  • Best Price Transparency#679.9/100
  • Best English-speaking Clinics#1267/100
  • Best for Families / Children#572.3/100
  • 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) — Not verified

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Summary

Johnsonville, Wellington family practice with a multilingual team — Dr Ryan Ku (English/Korean), Dr Robin Chen (English/Hindi/Chinese) and oral health therapist Tuyen Nguyen (English/Vietnamese).

Strengths

  • Information Transparency: 18 of 20 points.
  • Price Transparency: 13 of 15 points.
  • Reputation & Reviews: 18 of 20 points.
  • No red flags identified in public sources.

Weaknesses

  • Communication & Service: 3.5 of 8.5 verifiable points (missing: whatsApp / LINE available; pre-visit consultation possible; convenient opening hours)
  • AI & Search Visibility: 4.5 of 10 verifiable points (missing: mentioned for: English speaking dentist New Zealand; mentioned for: dental implants New Zealand; mentioned for: emergency dentist New Zealand; mentioned for: New Zealand 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

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 About page names Dr Ryan Ku (BDS, Otago), Dr Robin Chen (BDS, NZDREX) and Tuyen Nguyen (Bachelor of Oral Health, Otago), each with the languages they speak. [s2] 3/3
✓ Dentist specializations listed The about page states a qualification for each clinician: Dr Ryan Ku BDS (University of Otago), Dr Robin Chen BDS (NZDREX) and Tuyen Nguyen Bachelor of Oral Health (University of Otago), each with the languages they speak. [s2] 2/2
✗ Real clinic photos The site illustrates itself with generic imagery — a black-and-white lifestyle hero and stock clinical close-ups — and its about page lists the team by name and qualification without a single photograph of a clinician or of the premises. [s1] 0/2
✓ Service list published The services page publishes a concrete treatment list: six-monthly hygienist/dentist programme, sore-or-broken-tooth consultation, cosmetic dentistry (braces, ceramic and composite veneers and crowns, whitening), dental implant surgery, root canal treatment and extractions including wisdom teeth, plus ACC, WINZ and adolescent (OHSA) subsidised care. [s3] 3/3
✓ Clear contact details [s1] [gmp1] 2/2
✓ English website version [s1] 2/2
✓ Address and map published [s1] [gmp1] 2/2

Price Transparency

13 / 15

Whether patients can estimate costs before visiting. Published price ranges count; exact prices are not required.

✓ Prices or price ranges published The clinic publishes a downloadable fee schedule listing a fixed NZD price against each of eighteen named services, from the check-up and consultation through fillings, extractions, root canal treatment, crowns, implants, orthodontics and appliances. [s4] 3/3
✓ Cleaning price listed The published fee schedule prices “Dentist Check-up & Quick clean” and the “Hygienist Session (Intensive Clean)” at NZD 180 each. [s4] 2/2
✓ Filling price listed The published fee schedule prices “Composite Restoration (Filling)” at NZD 400. [s4] 2/2
✓ Crown price listed The published fee schedule prices the ceramic crown/veneer (laboratory-milled) at NZD 1,600 and the direct composite crown/veneer at NZD 800; the gold crown is quoted at gold market price. [s4] 2/2
✓ Implant price listed The published fee schedule prices implant placement surgery at NZD 3,000 and the implant-supported ceramic crown at a further NZD 3,000. [s4] 2/2
✓ Consultation price listed The published fee schedule prices “Dentist Check-up / Consultation only” at NZD 100 and the orthodontic consultation at NZD 100. [s4] 2/2
✗ X-ray / imaging price listed The published fee schedule has no radiograph line of its own; the services page instead states that radiographs are included with the six-monthly programme, so no separate X-ray price is published. [s4] [s3] 0/2

Reputation & Reviews

18 / 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) Automated Google Maps place lookup, re-read today; star histogram 1★ 3 / 2★ 1 / 3★ 4 / 4★ 45 / 5★ 924 = 977 reviews. [gmp1] [gmp2] 6/6
✓ Google review volume Read today from the clinic’s own Google place record (listed there as “Johnsonville Dental Centre”); the first pass returned no count. [gmp2] 3/3
✓ Review recency Newest review rendered on the place page is 2 months old (further reviews at 3, 4, 5 months and a year). Only star-rated first-person reviews were counted: owner replies and Google Business Posts render in the same record with their own age stamp and were excluded. [gmp2] 3/3
✓ Clinic responds to reviews Four of the seven star-rated reviews rendered on the clinic’s Google place page carry a dated owner response (owner replies and Business Posts excluded from the denominator). [gmp2] 2/2
✓ No recurring complaints 1-2★ reviews under 1% of the base, no shared theme [jdc-dental-johnsonville-wellington-deepen] 2/2
✓ No suspicious review patterns No manipulation signals found [jdc-dental-johnsonville-wellington-deepen-2] 2/2
✗ Active Facebook presence Facebook searches by its full name with the city, by its brand with the country and by its phone number found no page of the clinic [jdc-dental-johnsonville-wellington-deepen-17] 0/1
✗ TripAdvisor presence No genuine TripAdvisor listing; only match is an unrelated shopping centre sharing the suburb name [jdc-dental-johnsonville-wellington-deepen-6] [jdc-dental-johnsonville-wellington-deepen-7] 0/0.5
✗ Other review platforms No profile found on WhatClinic, Dental Departures, Bookimed or Trustpilot (checked 2026-10-01). [jdc-dental-johnsonville-wellington-deepen-8] [jdc-dental-johnsonville-wellington-platforms] [jdc-dental-johnsonville-wellington-platforms-2] [jdc-dental-johnsonville-wellington-platforms-3] 0/0.5

Medical Infrastructure

11 / 15

The range of publicly documented equipment and services. This measures documented availability, not clinical quality.

✓ On-site X-ray Complimentary radiographs included in the six-monthly hygienist/dentist programme [jdc-dental-johnsonville-wellington-deepen-10] 2/2
? CBCT (3D imaging) 0/2
✓ Implantology Dental implant surgery is a listed service, priced in the clinic’s own fee schedule. [s3] 2/2
✓ Orthodontics Orthodontic (braces) treatment and retainers are listed services, priced in the clinic’s own fee schedule. [s3] 2/2
✓ Oral surgery Extractions and impacted wisdom-tooth removal are listed services (“our oral-surgery team”), priced in the clinic’s own fee schedule. [s3] 2/2
✓ Pediatric dentistry OHSA-subsidised adolescent dental care explicitly offered [jdc-dental-johnsonville-wellington-deepen-11] 1.5/1.5
✓ Emergency care Urgent sore/broken-tooth consultation offered ("resolve your issue asap") [jdc-dental-johnsonville-wellington-deepen-12] 1.5/1.5
✗ Works with international patients The website (all four pages) addresses the Wellington public and lists its clinicians' languages, but says nothing about international or visiting patients. [jdc-dental-johnsonville-wellington-deepen-18] [s3] 0/2

Communication & Service

3.5 / 10

How easy it is to contact the clinic, get answers, and book - especially for international patients.

✗ WhatsApp / LINE available Homepage, about, services and contact pages read; no WhatsApp/Line link, only phone and email [jdc-dental-johnsonville-wellington-deepen-13] 0/2
? Response speed 0/1.5
✓ English spoken [s2] 2.5/2.5
✗ Pre-visit consultation possible Only a generic name/email/message contact form; no service or time selection [jdc-dental-johnsonville-wellington-deepen-14] 0/1.5
✓ Clear service explanations Each service is explained, not just named [jdc-dental-johnsonville-wellington-deepen-15] 1/1
✗ Convenient opening hours The clinic’s own Google Business profile, read on 2026-09-11, publishes Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday 8:00am–5:00pm and Wednesday 8:00am–4:30pm, with Saturday and Sunday closed — no evening close at or after 7pm and no weekend surgery. Its own website publishes no hours on the pages read and answers every automated request with an HTTP 403 challenge; the week in a clinic’s own Business profile is a published week, which is why this is recorded as an answer rather than left unknown. [gmp2] 0/1.5

AI & Search Visibility

4.5 / 10

Whether the clinic is discoverable when patients search - including via AI assistants. Checked with fixed queries: "best dentist New Zealand", "English speaking dentist New Zealand", "dental implants New Zealand", "emergency dentist New Zealand", "New Zealand dental clinic for expats".

✓ Mentioned for: best dentist New Zealand Ranked #7 (own domain) for “best dentist Wellington New Zealand”. [av1] 1/1
✗ Mentioned for: English speaking dentist New Zealand [av2] 0/1
✗ Mentioned for: dental implants New Zealand Not present in the top web results for "dental implants Wellington, New Zealand" on 2026-09-24. [jdc-dental-johnsonville-wellington-deepen-3] 0/1
✗ Mentioned for: emergency dentist New Zealand Not present in the top web results for "emergency dentist Wellington, New Zealand" on 2026-09-24. [jdc-dental-johnsonville-wellington-deepen-4] 0/1
✗ Mentioned for: New Zealand dental clinic for expats Not present in the top web results for "Wellington, New Zealand dental clinic for expats" on 2026-09-24. [jdc-dental-johnsonville-wellington-deepen-5] 0/1
✓ Structured data on website Every page of the clinic website carries JSON-LD structured data (Organization, WebSite, WebPage, BreadcrumbList). [jdc-dental-johnsonville-wellington-deepen-9] 1.5/1.5
✓ Google indexing quality [av1] 2/2
✗ Dedicated service pages All services are described on one consolidated page, not separate URLs [jdc-dental-johnsonville-wellington-deepen-16] 0/1.5

Ranking leaders in AI answers

The queries above are this index's own check. The three leading clinics have also been measured in full: how often ChatGPT and Gemini name them when a patient asks them to recommend a dentist.

  1. #1Wellington Dentists50.4 of 100View report →
  2. #2Greenhithe Dental Boutique19.1 of 100View report →
  3. #2Christchurch Boutique Dental53.8 of 100View report →

Measured by Ansmeter, 8 October 2026 – 9 October 2026. Ansmeter is an affiliated service. Its figure is not part of this rating and does not affect positions — scores change only when public data changes.

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: not checked against public sources yet — unverified, no penalty

Dentists & professional licences

DentistSpecializationLicence No.
Dr Ryan Ku [reg0]General dentistry (Bachelor of Dental Surgery, University of Otago); English and Koreannot verified
Dr Robin Chen [reg0]General dentistry (Bachelor of Dental Surgery, NZDREX); English, Hindi and Chinesenot verified
Tuyen Nguyen [reg0] [s2]Oral health therapist (Bachelor of Oral Health, University of Otago); English and Vietnamesenot 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: CBCT (3D imaging)
  • Communication & Service: Response speed

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

Websitehttps://jdc-wellington.com/
Phone+64 4 939 8649
Google MapsMap listing
AddressLevel 2/128 Johnsonville Road, Johnsonville, Wellington 6037, New Zealand

Contact details are provided for identification only and may change; verify with the clinic directly.

Sources

IDSourceWhat it supportsAccessed
s1https://jdc-wellington.com/Clinic homepage2026-09-10
s2https://jdc-wellington.com/about/About page naming dentists and languages spoken2026-09-10
gmp1https://www.google.com/search?tbm=map&hl=en&gl=nz&q=JDC%20Dental%2C…Google Maps automated lookup: rating, geo, address, phone (resolved to the Johnsonville Dental Centre listing)2026-09-10
reg0https://dcnz.org.nz/practitionersDCNZ statutory register (reCAPTCHA-gated) and HealthCERT scope (our registry research)2026-09-10
av1search:best dentist Wellington New Zealand(the five canonical city queries)2026-09-10
av2search:English speaking dentist Wellington(the five canonical city queries)2026-09-10
av3search:dental implants Wellington(the five canonical city queries)2026-09-10
av4search:emergency dentist Wellington(the five canonical city queries)2026-09-10
av5search:Wellington dental clinic for expats(the five canonical city queries)2026-09-10
gmp2https://www.google.com/maps?cid=8314380687601107071Google Maps place page read again automatically on 2026-09-10 (two-step /maps?cid= → /maps/preview/place): name, address, phone, rating, review count, star histogram, review dates and owner responses2026-09-10
s3https://jdc-wellington.com/services/Services page: treatment list and link to the published fee schedule2026-09-10
s4https://jdc-wellington.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/2025-JDC-Fee-…Clinic’s published fee schedule (PDF), linked from the services page2026-09-10
jdc-dental-johnsonville-wellington-deepenhttps://www.google.com/maps?cid=8314380687601107071&hl=enHistogram 1★ 3 / 2★ 1 / 3★ 4 / 4★ 45 / 5★ 930 of 983 (0.4% 1-2★) on 2026-09-24; readable low reviews cover unrelated issues (an old cancelled appointment, price concern, a mixed-experience admin complaint) with no repeated theme2026-09-24
jdc-dental-johnsonville-wellington-deepen-3search:dental implants Wellington, New ZealandWeb search on 2026-09-24: results 1–9 were citydentists.co.nz, supremedentalconcepts.co.nz, wellingtonperiodontics.co.nz, wellingtonoralsurgery.co.nz, welloral.co.nz, wellingtondental.co.nz, wellingtondentist.co.nz, thorndondental.co.nz and redentklinik.com; the clinic’s site and name were not among them.2026-09-24
jdc-dental-johnsonville-wellington-deepen-4search:emergency dentist Wellington, New ZealandWeb search on 2026-09-24: results 1–9 were supremedentalconcepts.co.nz (x4), thorndondental.co.nz (x2), emergencydentists.nz, peninsuladental.co.nz and whdental.co.nz; the AI overview named Newtown Dental, Thorndon Dental Surgery, Supreme Dental Concepts and Peninsula Dental; the clinic’s site and name were not among them.2026-09-24
jdc-dental-johnsonville-wellington-deepen-5search:Wellington, New Zealand dental clinic for expatsWeb search on 2026-09-24: results 1–9 were lumino.co.nz, expatfocus.com, healthpoint.co.nz, healthnz.govt.nz, supremedentalconcepts.co.nz, whatclinic.com, otago.ac.nz, wellingtondental.co.nz and mtwellingtondentalcentre.co.nz; the AI overview named the NZDA directory, Health New Zealand and "The Wellington Dental Practice"; the clinic’s site and name were not among them.2026-09-24
jdc-dental-johnsonville-wellington-deepen-2https://www.google.com/maps?cid=8314380687601107071&hl=en94.6% 5-star (930 of 983, not 100%); review dates spread 2019-2026; accounts include established Local Guides (157, 51, 38, 17 reviews)2026-09-24
jdc-dental-johnsonville-wellington-deepen-6https://www.tripadvisor.com/TypeAheadJson?action=API&query=JDC%20De…TripAdvisor's own search for "JDC Dental" returned 2 results, none a match: "Johnsonville Shopping Centre" (Wellington and Tennessee), not the dental clinic2026-09-29
jdc-dental-johnsonville-wellington-deepen-7https://jdc-wellington.com/Clinic's own homepage read; no tripadvisor.com link on the page2026-09-29
jdc-dental-johnsonville-wellington-deepen-8https://www.whatclinic.com/dentists/new-zealand/wellingtonWhatClinic: its Wellington dentist listing (1 page, 1 clinic shown), checked against its profile sitemaps (78 dentist profiles in New Zealand; the 30 not shown in its Auckland, Christchurch, Hamilton and Wellington listings opened one by one) and the profile addresses built from the clinic's name (not found), have no profile for JDC Dental (Johnsonville Dental Centre) and none at 128 Johnsonville Road (checked 2026-10-01)2026-10-01
jdc-dental-johnsonville-wellington-deepen-10https://jdc-wellington.com/services/"Six-monthly Hygienist or Dentist Program... Includes complimentary radiographs to check for tooth-decay and gum/bone health"2026-09-29
jdc-dental-johnsonville-wellington-deepen-11https://jdc-wellington.com/services/"Other Services: ...OHSA - Subsidized Adolescent dental care (age 13-18)"2026-09-29
jdc-dental-johnsonville-wellington-deepen-12https://jdc-wellington.com/services/"Sore/Broken-tooth Consultation - Consultation with one of our trusted Dentists to resolve your issue asap!"2026-09-29
jdc-dental-johnsonville-wellington-deepen-13https://jdc-wellington.com/contact/Contact page lists only email (reception@jdcnz.com) and phone; no WhatsApp or Line link on this or any other page read2026-09-29
jdc-dental-johnsonville-wellington-deepen-14https://jdc-wellington.com/contact/Contact page offers only a generic form ("Your Name*, Email*, Your Message*, Phone") with no appointment-time or service selection, and no online estimate/record-submission flow2026-09-29
jdc-dental-johnsonville-wellington-deepen-15https://jdc-wellington.com/services/Each service includes an explanation, e.g. "Dental Implant Surgery... Step 1 - Assessment & Planning... Step 2 - Titanium Implant placement... Step 3 - Ceramic Crown placement"; "Root Canal Treatment - When you have a tooth with a failed/abscessed nerve... a more cost-efficient alternative to Dental Implant"2026-09-29
jdc-dental-johnsonville-wellington-deepen-16https://jdc-wellington.com/services/All services (hygiene program, consultation, cosmetic dentistry, implants, root canal, extractions) are described as sections of the single /services/ page; none has its own dedicated URL2026-09-29
jdc-dental-johnsonville-wellington-deepen-17https://www.facebook.com/Facebook searches on 2026-09-30 by its full name with the city, by its brand with the country and by its phone number: no page of the clinic2026-09-30
jdc-dental-johnsonville-wellington-platformshttps://www.dentaldepartures.com/Dental Departures: its clinic search does not recognise New Zealand as a location and lists no clinic there (checked 2026-10-01)2026-10-01
jdc-dental-johnsonville-wellington-platforms-2https://bookimed.com/clinics/country=new-zealand/Bookimed: its New Zealand clinic page has been removed (HTTP 410), and none of the 2,127 clinic pages in its clinic sitemap carries this clinic's name (checked 2026-10-01)2026-10-01
jdc-dental-johnsonville-wellington-platforms-3https://www.trustpilot.com/review/jdc-wellington.comTrustpilot: no company page for jdc-wellington.com (checked 2026-10-01)2026-10-01
jdc-dental-johnsonville-wellington-deepen-9https://jdc-wellington.com/Clinic's website read in full on 2026-10-02 (home, about, services and contact - the four pages of its navigation): every page carries a JSON-LD block (Organization "JDC", WebSite, WebPage, BreadcrumbList) and schema.org microdata (Organization, site navigation)2026-10-02
jdc-dental-johnsonville-wellington-deepen-18https://jdc-wellington.com/about/About page read 2026-10-02: a small team based in Johnsonville serving "the public of Wellington, New Zealand"; clinicians Dr Ryan Ku (English/Korean), Dr Robin Chen (English/Hindi/Chinese) and hygienist Tuyen Nguyen (English/Vietnamese). Nothing on the four pages of the site (home, about, services, contact) addresses international, overseas or visiting patients, travel insurance or treatment for tourists2026-10-02

Change History

DateChange
2026-10-02Read the clinic website in full on 2026-10-02: every page carries JSON-LD structured data; nothing on it addresses international or visiting patients.
2026-09-30Searched Facebook for the clinic by its full name with the city, by its brand with the country and by its phone number; none of the searches found a page of the clinic. Recorded absence from Facebook.
2026-09-29Read the clinic's services and contact pages: complimentary radiographs in the six-monthly programme, subsidised adolescent care (OHSA, age 13-18) and an urgent sore/broken-tooth consultation; every service is explained on one consolidated services page; the contact page offers only a general enquiry form and no WhatsApp or Line link. No TripAdvisor or WhatClinic profile found.
2026-09-24Corrected: other review-platform presence re-assessed on 2026-09-24 -- a Healthpoint directory entry is not a review platform, and no WhatClinic profile was found in the city catalogue, so presence is left unverified.
2026-09-24Search visibility checked on 2026-09-24 for the three pending Wellington, New Zealand queries — "dental implants Wellington, New Zealand", "emergency dentist Wellington, New Zealand" and "Wellington, New Zealand dental clinic for expats": not present for "dental implants Wellington, New Zealand", "emergency dentist Wellington, New Zealand" and "Wellington, New Zealand dental clinic for expats".
2026-09-24Re-read on 2026-09-24: the clinic's Google listing (newest, lowest and default review views), plus Healthpoint and TripAdvisor. Recorded: a Healthpoint directory listing under the clinic's address. No recurring complaint theme and no signs of manipulated reviews. The clinic's own website showed a bot-verification page on every page tried on this date, so website-dependent facts (equipment, service pages, contact channels, structured data) were not re-verified and are unchanged from the last reading.
2026-09-11Opening hours settled from the clinic’s own Google Business profile, which publishes a full five-day week with both weekend days closed; the criterion had been left unanswered because the clinic’s website publishes no hours.
2026-09-10Checked by hand in a browser: the site, which blocks automated requests, opened in a real browser — team qualifications and languages, the full service list, and the clinic’s published fee schedule (eighteen priced services) read; imagery judged stock.
2026-09-10The verification pass adversarial verification: every cited URL re-opened, clinic /about, /team, /fees, /services and /contact pages read, Google place record read again automatically (rating, review count, star histogram, review dates, owner responses), AI-visibility citations re-checked against the AI-visibility record and the listicles it ranks.
2026-09-10Initial data collection: clinic website (home, about), automated Google Maps lookup, DCNZ/HealthCERT registry conclusion applied, AI-visibility record canonical queries.

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