S-Plant Dental Hospital
According to our open methodology, this clinic scored 45.8/100 for transparency, reputation, service accessibility, and digital visibility.
Overall rank: #10 of 12 ranked clinics · Last checked: 26 August 2026
Positions by Rating Profile
- Overall Transparency & Trust#1045.8/100
- Best for Expats#1044/100
- Best for Dental Implants#1040/100
- Best for Emergency Dental Carenot ranked
- Best Price Transparency#931.1/100
- Best English-speaking Clinics#1048.3/100
- Best for Families / Childrennot ranked
- Sleep Dentistry (GA / deep sedation)#345.8/100
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 Site documents general anesthesia / monitored sedation with sleep-like, no-memory state. [s1]
Summary
Dental hospital in Cheongdam-dong, Gangnam-gu, founded in 2008 and focused on implants and cosmetic dentistry, with services also including orthodontics, prosthetics, periodontal treatment and sedation dentistry. Staffed by four dentists holding doctoral degrees; offers a foreigner phone line and English, Chinese and Russian site versions.
A dedicated foreigner phone line (+82-2-512-0715) is also advertised.
Strengths
- Information Transparency: 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 Four dentists listed. [s1] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Dentist specializations listed [s1] | 2/2 |
| ? | Real clinic photos | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Service list published [s1] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Clear contact details [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | English website version English site at splant.kr; also Chinese and Russian. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Address and map published [s1] | 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 [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) as of 2026-08-26 [s-plant-dental-hospital-refresh] | 3/6 |
| ◐ | Google review volume [s-plant-dental-hospital-refresh] | 1/3 |
| ✓ | Review recency [s-plant-dental-hospital-refresh] | 3/3 |
| ? | Clinic responds to reviews | 0/2 |
| ? | No recurring complaints | 0/2 |
| ? | No suspicious review patterns | 0/2 |
| ? | Active Facebook presence | 0/1 |
| ? | TripAdvisor presence | 0/0.5 |
| ✓ | Other review platforms Listed on medical-tourism directories (ClinicsOnCall, PlacidWay, VisitSeoul Medical). [s2] | 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 Guided implants, bone grafting, immediate loading. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Orthodontics [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Oral surgery Implant surgery, bone grafting, sedation dentistry. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ? | Pediatric dentistry | 0/1.5 |
| ? | Emergency care | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | Works with international patients Dedicated foreigner phone line and multilingual site. [s1] | 2/2 |
Communication & Service
How easy it is to contact the clinic, get answers, and book - especially for non-Thai speakers.
| ? | WhatsApp / LINE available | 0/2 |
| ? | Response speed | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | English spoken [s1] | 2.5/2.5 |
| ? | Pre-visit consultation possible | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | Clear service explanations [s1] | 1/1 |
| ✓ | Convenient opening hours Weekdays 09:30-18:30, Saturday 09:30-13:00; orthodontics evenings 19:00-21:00. [s1] | 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 Seoul", "English speaking dentist Seoul", "dental implants Seoul", "emergency dentist Seoul", "Seoul dental clinic for expats".
| ✗ | Mentioned for: best dentist Seoul [sq] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: English speaking dentist Seoul [sq] | 0/1 |
| ✓ | Mentioned for: dental implants Seoul Appears in Korean implant search results. [sq] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: emergency dentist Seoul [sq] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: Seoul dental clinic for expats [sq] | 0/1 |
| ? | Structured data on website | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | Google indexing quality [sq] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Dedicated service pages [s1] [sq] | 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: 에스플란트치과병원 — HIRA-registered 치과병원 (건강보험심사평가원 세부조건별 의료기관 찾기), 서울특별시 강남구 도산대로 410, 5,7,8층 (청담동) (HIRA 세부조건별 의료기관 찾기 (지역=서울, 종별=치과병원): searched name variant '에스플란트' (S-Plant transliteration); returned '에스플란트치과병원', address (410 Dosan-daero, Cheongdam-dong, Gangnam-gu) matches clinics.json exactly. 2026-08-26.) [s-plant-dental-hospital-lic]
Dentists & professional licences
| Dentist | Specialization | Licence No. |
|---|---|---|
| Lee Jeong-Taek [s1] | DDS, doctorate in dentistry (implants/cosmetic) | not verified |
| Roh Hyun-Ki [s1] | DDS, doctorate in dentistry | not verified |
| Sohn Byoung-Sup [s1] | DDS, doctorate in dentistry | not verified |
| Baik Sang-Hyun [s1] | DDS, doctorate in dentistry | not verified |
Dentists are named; their licence numbers have not been checked against public sources yet — unverified, no penalty.
Red Flags
- low Opaque or bait pricing (-2 pts) — No treatment prices published on the website. [s1]
Red-flag penalty applied: -2 points (capped at -20).
Data We Could Not Verify
- Information Transparency: Real clinic photos
- Reputation & Reviews: Clinic responds to reviews
- Reputation & Reviews: No recurring complaints
- Reputation & Reviews: No suspicious review patterns
- Reputation & Reviews: Active Facebook presence
- Reputation & Reviews: TripAdvisor presence
- Medical Infrastructure: On-site X-ray
- Medical Infrastructure: CBCT (3D imaging)
- Medical Infrastructure: Pediatric dentistry
- Medical Infrastructure: Emergency care
- Communication & Service: WhatsApp / LINE available
- Communication & Service: Response speed
- Communication & Service: Pre-visit consultation possible
- AI & Search Visibility: Structured data on website
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://splant.co.kr/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +82-2-512-0700 |
| Google Maps | Map listing |
| Address | 2-6 Cheongdam-dong (410 Dosan-daero), Gangnam-gu, Seoul, South Korea |
Contact details are provided for identification only and may change; verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | https://splant.co.kr/ | Clinic name (KR/EN), address, phone, dentists, services, hours, registration number, multilingual site | 2026-07-10 |
| s2 | https://clinicsoncall.com/en/clinic/s-plant-dental-hospital/ | Presence on international medical-tourism directories | 2026-07-10 |
| sq | search:임플란트 서울 강남 치과 | AI/search visibility scout 2026-07-10 | 2026-07-10 |
| s-plant-dental-hospital-refresh | https://www.google.com/maps/place/%EC%97%90%EC%8A%A4%ED%94%8C%EB%9E… | Google rating 4.2 (22 reviews) as of 2026-08-26. Maps lists '에스플란트치과병원' at 410 Dosan-daero, Cheongdam-dong, phone +82 2-512-0700, matching worklist address and phone exactly. | 2026-08-26 |
| s-plant-dental-hospital-lic | https://www.hira.or.kr/ra/dtlCndHospSrch/dtlCndHospSrch.do?pgmid=HI… | searched: 에스플란트, 지역=서울, 종별=치과병원 — returned '에스플란트치과병원', 서울특별시 강남구 도산대로 410, 5,7,8층 (청담동) | 2026-08-26 |
Change History
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-26 | License verification 2026-08-26 against HIRA (건강보험심사평가원): hospital confirmed as registered 에스플란트치과병원 at the address on file. No public name-searchable dentist licence register exists in South Korea (lic.mohw.go.kr is document/barcode verification only) — all four named doctors left null with that note. |
| 2026-08-26 | Re-verification 2026-08-26: confirmed website live at splant.co.kr, address/phone unchanged, clinic open. Newly captured Google Maps rating 4.2 (22 reviews, most recent review ~2 weeks old) with pin coordinates via live Maps visit. |
| 2026-08-25 | Recorded sedation / general anaesthesia availability (informational): documented as available. Site documents general anesthesia / monitored sedation with sleep-like, no-memory state. |
| 2026-08-25 | Re-verified live facts (website, contacts, operating status): no changes. Google reputation not captured — search tools unreachable this session (WebSearch budget exhausted; Google/Maps/Bing/DuckDuckGo/Yandex blocked). |
| 2026-07-10 | Initial data collection. |
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