City Dental Group NYC
According to our open methodology, this clinic scored 51.9/100 for transparency, reputation, service accessibility, and digital visibility.
Overall rank: #9 of 15 ranked clinics · Last checked: 25 August 2026
Positions by Rating Profile
- Overall Transparency & Trust#951.9/100
- Best for Expats#1146.8/100
- Best for Dental Implants#946/100
- Best for Emergency Dental Carenot ranked
- Best Price Transparency#935/100
- Best English-speaking Clinics#1150.3/100
- Best for Families / Children#452.6/100
- 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 No sedation/anesthesia info found on site homepage.
Summary
City Dental Group NYC is a Lower Manhattan practice offering general, cosmetic, implant, orthodontic and pediatric services with a team of general dentists and a periodontist. The site lists dentists, services and real photos, and provides a Google Maps link. Prices are not published.
No prices published.
Strengths
- Information Transparency: 20 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 [s1] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Dentist specializations listed [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Real clinic photos [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Service list published [s1] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Clear contact details [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | English website version [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 2026-08-25 [city-dental-group-nyc-refresh] | 5/6 |
| ◐ | Google review volume [city-dental-group-nyc-refresh] | 2.5/3 |
| ✓ | Review recency [city-dental-group-nyc-refresh] | 3/3 |
| ? | Clinic responds to reviews | 0/2 |
| ? | No recurring complaints | 0/2 |
| ? | No suspicious review patterns | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Active Facebook presence [s1] | 1/1 |
| ? | TripAdvisor presence | 0/0.5 |
| ✓ | Other review platforms Yelp, Zocdoc, BBB. [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 Digital X-rays. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ? | CBCT (3D imaging) | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Implantology [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Orthodontics Invisalign, cosmetic braces. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Oral surgery Wisdom teeth, extractions, periodontist on staff. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Pediatric dentistry [s1] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ? | Emergency care | 0/1.5 |
| ? | Works with international patients | 0/2 |
Communication & Service
How easy it is to contact the clinic, get answers, and book - especially for non-Thai speakers.
| ✗ | WhatsApp / LINE available [s1] | 0/2 |
| ? | Response speed | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | English spoken Native English (US clinic). [s1] | 2.5/2.5 |
| ? | Pre-visit consultation possible | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | Clear service explanations [s1] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | Convenient opening hours Mon-Fri only, closed weekends. [s1] | 0/1.5 |
AI & Search Visibility
Whether the clinic is discoverable when patients search - including via AI assistants. Checked with fixed queries: "best dentist New York", "English speaking dentist New York", "dental implants New York", "emergency dentist New York", "New York dental clinic for expats".
| ? | Mentioned for: best dentist New York | 0/1 |
| ? | Mentioned for: English speaking dentist New York | 0/1 |
| ? | Mentioned for: dental implants New York | 0/1 |
| ? | Mentioned for: emergency dentist New York | 0/1 |
| ? | Mentioned for: New York dental clinic for expats | 0/1 |
| ? | Structured data on website | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | Google indexing quality [s2] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Dedicated service pages [s1] | 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: CITY DENTAL PC (NY Office of the Professions PSC #062047) (NYSED business-entity search (profession 050, Dentistry, open registry); searched 'City Dental' (31 results across NYC) — selected CITY DENTAL PC (PSC 062047) because its name is an exact match to this clinic's own Google Business Profile listing ('City Dental PC', noted in the site's change history), even though the registry address-on-file (Brooklyn) differs from the clinic's 11 Broadway suite. Searched/reported 2026-08-25.) [city-dental-group-nyc-lic]
Dentists & professional licences
| Dentist | Specialization | Licence No. |
|---|---|---|
| Anis Papando [s1] [city-dental-group-nyc-lic] | General dentist | 058580 (NYSED Dentistry, licensed since Jul 19, 2016) |
| Val Atsen [s1] [city-dental-group-nyc-lic] | General dentist | 056492 (NYSED Dentistry, licensed since Dec 5, 2012) |
| Junoh Kim [s1] | General dentist | not verified |
| Barbra F. Berwald [s1] [city-dental-group-nyc-lic] | Periodontist | 047691 (NYSED Dentistry, licensed since Jul 9, 1998) |
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 prices or price ranges published (derived from data).
Red-flag penalty applied: -2 points (capped at -20).
Data We Could Not Verify
- Reputation & Reviews: Clinic responds to reviews
- Reputation & Reviews: No recurring complaints
- Reputation & Reviews: No suspicious review patterns
- Reputation & Reviews: TripAdvisor presence
- 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
- AI & Search Visibility: Mentioned for: best dentist New York
- AI & Search Visibility: Mentioned for: English speaking dentist New York
- AI & Search Visibility: Mentioned for: dental implants New York
- AI & Search Visibility: Mentioned for: emergency dentist New York
- AI & Search Visibility: Mentioned for: New York dental clinic for expats
- 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://citydentalnyc.com |
|---|---|
| Phone | (212) 425-0505 |
| https://facebook.com/citydentalnyc | |
| Google Maps | Map listing |
| Address | 11 Broadway, Lobby 4, New York, NY 10004 |
Contact details are provided for identification only and may change; verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | https://citydentalnyc.com | Doctors, address, phone, services, hours, photos, Google Maps link. | 2026-07-08 |
| s2 | https://www.yelp.com/biz/city-dental-group-nyc-new-york | Rating ~4.7 / ~308 Google reviews, platform presence. | 2026-07-08 |
| sq | search:best dentist New York | AI/search visibility queries. | 2026-07-08 |
| city-dental-group-nyc-refresh | https://www.google.com/maps/place/City+Dental+PC/@40.7053407,-74.01… | most recent visible review posted about 3 weeks before 2026-08-25 | 2026-08-25 |
| city-dental-group-nyc-lic | https://eservices.nysed.gov/professions/verification-search | NY State Education Department, Office of the Professions Verification Search (profession code 050, Dentistry) — searched business entity name 'City Dental': found CITY DENTAL PC, PSC #062047 (Professional Service Corporation), address on file 2216 Avenue X, Brooklyn NY 11235. | 2026-08-25 |
Change History
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-25 | 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 | 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'). |
| 2026-07-08 | Initial data collection. |
A question or a correction?
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