Changelog
Every data update, correction, and methodology change is logged here and in each clinic's own change history. The rating updates whenever the underlying public data changes.
| Date | Subject | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-03 | Methodology v1.3.1 | Clarified that the publication criteria refer to the clinic’s own channels: a service list, the names of the dentists and a price list count when the clinic itself publishes them (its website, its social profiles or its own Google Business profile) — registers, directories and review sites do not, and a time-limited promotional offer is not a price list. Added a third state for a dentist’s licence, "checked, not found in the public register": a dentist we searched for in the national register and did not find is now recorded as checked-but-unverified with the date of the check, instead of being shown either as "not checked yet" or as the "not published" red flag. Neither change alters any weight or penalty; the red-flag rule still fires only on a verified negative. Also corrected the wording of the penalty note under the ranking table, which rendered as "20−" in right-to-left dictionaries. |
| 2026-08-25 | 172 NYC Dental | Re-verification 2026-08-25: confirmed website live, address/phone unchanged, not permanently closed; Google rating changed 4.9->4.8 and review count rose 109->269; captured Maps URL/coordinates. |
| 2026-08-25 | 172 NYC Dental | License verification 2026-08-25 against NY State Education Dept Office of the Professions Verification Search: Dr. Kafko, Dr. Ifraimov and Dr. Mitroi each matched a single licensed NY dentist by surname; Dr. Ahn and Dr. Wang left null (surname shared by many licensees, no first name given); clinic PSC/PLLC entity not located under searched variants. |
| 2026-08-25 | 209 NYC Dental | Re-verification 2026-08-25: confirmed website live, address/phone unchanged, not permanently closed; Google review count rose 1,700->1,900 (rating steady 4.9); captured Maps URL/coordinates. |
| 2026-08-25 | 209 NYC Dental | License verification 2026-08-25 against NY State Education Dept Office of the Professions Verification Search: clinic entity 209 NYC DENTAL LLP (PSC 131823) found; Dr. Stella Park found licensed (#062556); Dr. Ahn/Wang/Reddy left null — site lists surname only and each surname matches many NY dentists. |
| 2026-08-25 | Central Park West Dentistry | Re-verification 2026-08-25: confirmed website live, address/phone unchanged, not permanently closed; rating steady 4.8, now with 482 reviews (previously uncounted); captured Maps URL/coordinates. |
| 2026-08-25 | Central Park West Dentistry | License verification 2026-08-25 against NY State Education Dept Office of the Professions Verification Search: clinic entity CENTRAL PARK WEST DENTISTRY PLLC (PSC 100584, address-on-file names owner Dr. Lhota) and all 5 named doctors found licensed. |
| 2026-08-25 | City Dental Group NYC | Re-verification 2026-08-25: confirmed website live, address/phone unchanged, not permanently closed; Google review count rose 308->321 (rating steady 4.7); captured Maps URL/coordinates. Note: Google lists the business as 'City Dental PC' (site brands as 'City Dental Group NYC'). |
| 2026-08-25 | City Dental Group NYC | License verification 2026-08-25 against NY State Education Dept Office of the Professions Verification Search: clinic entity CITY DENTAL PC (PSC 062047, name matches Google Business Profile) and 3 of 4 named doctors (Papando, Atsen, Berwald) found licensed; Junoh Kim not confirmed (0 exact-name results, one uncertain spelling variant found). |
| 2026-08-25 | Dr. Victoria Veytsman (Cosmetic Dental Studios) | Re-verification 2026-08-25: website live (veytsmandds.com, verified via browser after an automated fetch was blocked with HTTP 403), address/phone unchanged, not permanently closed; captured first Google rating 4.9 (288 reviews) for the 'Cosmetic Dental Studios - Victoria Veytsman DDS' listing. |
| 2026-08-25 | Dr. Victoria Veytsman (Cosmetic Dental Studios) | License verification 2026-08-25 against NY State Education Dept Office of the Professions Verification Search: clinic entity VICTORIA VEYTSMAN DDS PC (PSC 067099) and Dr. Victoria Veytsman (#051747) both found licensed. |
| 2026-08-25 | Emergency Dentist NYC | Re-verification 2026-08-25: confirmed website live, address/phone unchanged, not permanently closed; captured first Google rating 4.1 (266 reviews). |
| 2026-08-25 | Emergency Dentist NYC | Recorded sedation / general anaesthesia availability (informational): not documented in public sources. Site explicitly states patient is awake (relaxed, amnesiac effect) during IV sedation; not general anesthesia/asleep. |
| 2026-08-25 | Emergency Dentist NYC | License verification 2026-08-25 against NY State Education Dept Office of the Professions Verification Search: all 5 named providers (Datikashvili, Choi, Yang, Yunov, Akbari) found licensed; clinic PSC/PLLC entity not located under searched name variants, left null. |
| 2026-08-25 | Lowenberg, Lituchy & Kantor | Re-verification 2026-08-25: confirmed website live, address/phone unchanged, not permanently closed; captured first Google rating 4.6 (10 reviews). |
| 2026-08-25 | Lowenberg, Lituchy & Kantor | License verification 2026-08-25 against NY State Education Dept Office of the Professions Verification Search: clinic entity MARC LOWENBERG DDS & GREGG LITUCHY DDS PC (PSC 011434, address matches clinic exactly) and all 4 named doctors found licensed. |
| 2026-08-25 | Maiden Lane Dental | Re-verification 2026-08-25: confirmed website live, address/phone unchanged, not permanently closed; rating steady 4.9, now with 535 reviews (previously uncounted); captured Maps URL/coordinates. |
| 2026-08-25 | Maiden Lane Dental | License verification 2026-08-25 against NY State Education Dept Office of the Professions Verification Search: both named doctors (Lloyd Becker, Demetrios/Demetrious Tsiokos) found licensed; clinic PSC/PLLC entity not identified under searched variants, left null. |
| 2026-08-25 | Manhattan Dental Spa | Re-verification 2026-08-25: confirmed website live, address/phone unchanged, not permanently closed; rating steady 4.9, now with 737 reviews (previously uncounted); captured Maps URL/coordinates. |
| 2026-08-25 | Manhattan Dental Spa | Recorded sedation / general anaesthesia availability (informational): documented as available. Site's sedation page documents IV sedation as "Deep Sedation / General Anesthesia": patient sleeps through procedure with little/no memory. |
| 2026-08-25 | Manhattan Dental Spa | License verification 2026-08-25 against NY State Education Dept Office of the Professions Verification Search: clinic entity MITCHELL CHARNAS DMD & JOHN VARGAS DDS LLP (PSC 038331, address matches clinic exactly) and all 5 named doctors found licensed. |
| 2026-08-25 | Methodology v1.3.0 | Corrected how the two licensing red flags are applied ("Clinic operating licence not published" and "Dentists / their licences not listed"). Previously they were applied whenever licensing data was absent from our records, which treated unchecked data as a negative finding — contrary to the methodology's own rule that unverified data is a fact about our coverage, not about the clinic. Both flags now apply only where we have verified that the information is not published. Manual licensing flags that rested on unverified data were removed from the affected clinics. No other scoring rules changed; most scores rise because the incorrect penalty is removed. |
| 2026-08-25 | New York Center for Cosmetic Dentistry | Re-verification 2026-08-25: confirmed website live, address/phone unchanged, not permanently closed; captured first Google rating 4.9 (220 reviews). Note: Google lists the business as 'The New York Center for Cosmetic Dentistry' (site itself omits 'The'). |
| 2026-08-25 | New York Center for Cosmetic Dentistry | License verification 2026-08-25 against NY State Education Dept Office of the Professions Verification Search: Dr. Emanuel Layliev found licensed (#049730); clinic PSC/PLLC entity not confidently matched (a similarly-named Brooklyn LLP found is not confirmed as the same practice) — left null. |
| 2026-08-25 | NYC Dental Implants Center | Re-verification 2026-08-25: confirmed website live, address/phone unchanged, not permanently closed; captured first Google rating 4.9 (200 reviews). |
| 2026-08-25 | NYC Dental Implants Center | License verification 2026-08-25 against NY State Education Dept Office of the Professions Verification Search: clinic entity NAVID RAHMANI DDS PC (PSC 067579) and all 4 named doctors (Rahmani, Maiberg, Pae, Starace) found licensed. |
| 2026-08-25 | ORAL Dental Studio | Re-verification 2026-08-25: website live (Google lists it as 'ORAL Dental Studio NYC'), address unchanged, not permanently closed; captured first Google rating 4.9 (484 reviews). Discrepancy: Google Business Profile shows phone +1 646-663-7633, differing from the site/worklist number (646) 681-7006, which the site itself still displays -- flagged, not overwritten. |
| 2026-08-25 | ORAL Dental Studio | Recorded sedation / general anaesthesia availability (informational): not documented in public sources. Offers nitrous oxide (patient stays fully conscious) and lists oral sedation; no GA/deep sedation documented. |
| 2026-08-25 | ORAL Dental Studio | License verification 2026-08-25 against NY State Education Dept Office of the Professions Verification Search: Dr. Hieu Pham found licensed (#060465); clinic's PSC/PLLC entity name could not be identified under searched variants, left null. |
| 2026-08-25 | Sachar Dental NYC | Re-verification 2026-08-25: confirmed website live, address/phone unchanged, not permanently closed; Google review count rose 401->424 (rating steady 5.0); captured Maps URL/coordinates. |
| 2026-08-25 | Sachar Dental NYC | License verification 2026-08-25 against NY State Education Dept Office of the Professions Verification Search: clinic entity SACHAR DENTAL PC (PSC 062258) and 3 of 4 named doctors (Sachar, Osterman, Cohen) found licensed; Marisa Drach not confirmed (sole 'Drach' NY dentist record has a different first name). |
| 2026-08-25 | Smile Arts of NY | Re-verification 2026-08-25: confirmed website live, address/phone unchanged, not permanently closed; Google rating changed 4.9->4.8 (820 reviews, previously uncounted); captured Maps URL/coordinates. |
| 2026-08-25 | Smile Arts of NY | License verification 2026-08-25 against NY State Education Dept Office of the Professions Verification Search: all 6 named doctors (Mann, Chen, Chang, Zhi, Innabi, Wong) found individually licensed; clinic PSC/PLLC entity not confidently identified (2 similarly-named entities found are in Brooklyn/Astoria, not Midtown Manhattan) — left null. |
| 2026-08-25 | Tribeca Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery | Re-verification 2026-08-25: website live (tribecaoralsurgery.com, verified via browser after an automated fetch was blocked with HTTP 403), address/phone unchanged, not permanently closed; captured first Google rating 4.9 (46 reviews). |
| 2026-08-25 | Tribeca Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery | Recorded sedation / general anaesthesia availability (informational): documented as available. Site's own sedation page documents IV sedation ("twilight sleep", asleep, no memory) and general anesthesia (deep sleep, remember nothing). |
| 2026-08-25 | Tribeca Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery | License verification 2026-08-25 against NY State Education Dept Office of the Professions Verification Search: clinic entity TRIBECA ORAL AND MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY PLLC (PSC 059615) and all 3 named doctors (Fay, Schiffman, Shank) found licensed. |
| 2026-08-23 | Methodology v1.2.0 | Added an informational "Sedation & general anaesthesia" availability field to every clinic and a new "Sleep Dentistry (Sedation / GA)" list, for patients who cannot tolerate — or would rather not be awake for — treatment. This field is informational and does not change any transparency score. |
| 2026-07-08 | 172 NYC Dental | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-08 | 209 NYC Dental | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-08 | Central Park West Dentistry | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-08 | City Dental Group NYC | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-08 | Dr. Victoria Veytsman (Cosmetic Dental Studios) | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-08 | Emergency Dentist NYC | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-08 | Lowenberg, Lituchy & Kantor | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-08 | Maiden Lane Dental | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-08 | Manhattan Dental Spa | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-08 | Methodology v1.1.0 | Added licensing transparency: clinics are now penalised when they do not publish their operating licence, or do not list their dentists together with their professional licence numbers. Each clinic page now shows a Licensing & Credentials section. |
| 2026-07-08 | New York Center for Cosmetic Dentistry | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-08 | NYC Dental Implants Center | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-08 | ORAL Dental Studio | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-08 | Sachar Dental NYC | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-08 | Smile Arts of NY | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-08 | Tribeca Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-03 | Methodology v1.0.0 | Initial public methodology. |