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Waltham Dental Centre

Dental clinic · Sydenham, Christchurch

What your customers see when they look for you, and where that puts you among 210 Christchurch dentists.

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Checked13 October 2026
Your marketChristchurch dentists · 210 businesses
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Waltham Dental Centre

Dental clinic · Sydenham, Christchurch

Where you stand#131of 210 dentists
Overall health3.8/10across the eight areas

Going well

08Opening hours9.203Map positions7.307Google search and traffic6.2

Where we can help

02Reviews4.805Facebook page3.804Listings and social2.301Google listing1.706Your website-
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What AI tells people about you

Waltham Dental Centre is a family dental clinic in Sydenham, Christchurch, offering general and specialised dentistry. Services include check-ups, X-rays, hygienist care, emergency treatment, cosmetic options, implants, root canals, dentures and oral surgery. The practice notes free care for high school teens and provides insurance and WINZ quotes, operating from a purpose-built clinic with a long history in the local community.

Waltham Dental Centre is a family dental practice based in Sydenham, Christchurch. The clinic operates from a purpose-built location on Waltham Road and has been serving the local community for over 30 years.

The practice offers a broad range of services including routine check-ups and X-rays, hygienist and oral health therapist care, accident and emergency treatment, cosmetic dentistry, implants, root canal therapy, dentures and oral surgery. It also provides free dental care for high school students up to 18 and assistance with insurance and WINZ quotes.

Customer comments highlight a mix of long-term relationships with dentists, professional care during complex procedures, and attention to patient comfort. Reviews often mention relief after treatment, clear treatment discussions, and staff who support anxious patients. Several notes refer to emergency or extensive restorative work carried out with prompt attention and professional handling.

Locally, Waltham Dental Centre is distinguished by its longstanding presence in Sydenham and its broad service range that covers both everyday family dentistry and more complex restorative and cosmetic procedures. The combination of emergency care availability, youth dental support, and a roster of experienced clinicians shapes the practical choices available to patients in the Christchurch area.

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01Google listingMarketbase business report

Your Google listing

Waltham Dental Centre's Google Business Listing shows a low health score, indicating limited completeness and optimisation. The listing already has essential contact details and a working website link, but major gaps remain: the listing is not claimed, lacks a meaningful description, few or no photos, and no logo. Address these core items to improve visibility and trust.

Strengths

  • ✓
    Open statusYour listing shows the business as trading, so customers see accurate availability and Google treats the listing as live.
  • ✓
    NameYour business name is showing on the listing, so a customer searching for you by name finds you, and everything else on the listing hangs off it.
  • ✓
    WebsiteYour listing links to your website, so a customer can move from Google to your own pages in one tap and read your account of the work before they ring.

Top three opportunities

  • 1
    ClaimedYour listing is not claimed, which means anyone can suggest an edit to it and you have no way to reply to a review or correct what is shown.
  • 2
    Description lengthThere is no real description on your listing, so when someone finds you on Google there is nothing in your own words telling them what you do.
  • 3
    Photos on the listingYou have no photos on your listing, or close to none, so a customer scrolling past sees a blank where every other business shows their work.
11 checks on your Google listing. You're seeing 6 of them.
1.7Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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4.6 ★★★★★ (37)
Dental clinic · Sydenham
Open 5 days ✓
DirectionsCall Website ✓
OverviewReviewsPhotosAbout
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Google listingChristchurch dentists · 210 businesses
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02ReviewsMarketbase business report

Your reviews

Waltham Dental Centre shows an overall Google review health score of 4.4 out of 10, indicating room for improvement in customer satisfaction and engagement. The practice has a decent base of reviews and a high confidence in ratings, while showing no response activity to existing reviews. Key opportunities lie in responding to reviews and maintaining steady rating momentum.

Strengths

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Top three opportunities

  • 1
    Response rateNone of your reviews have a reply, which means a customer reading them sees your happiest and your angriest customers with nothing from you in between.
  • 2
    Star ratingYour rating sits below what half the businesses here carry, which gives a customer choosing between three of you a reason to pick one of the others.
  • 3
    Review confidenceYour rating and your review count together sit ahead of half the field here, so a customer has enough to go on and no reason to hesitate.
4 checks on your reviews. You're seeing 3 of them.
4.8Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
Waltham Dental Centre
OverviewReviewsPhotosAbout
4.6★★★★★37 reviews
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3How far your rating and your review count together can be trusted
Google reviewsChristchurch dentists · 210 businesses
You are #109 for your Google reviews
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03Map positionsMarketbase business report

Where you show up on the map

Waltham Dental Centre shows a high overall health score for Maps search at 7.9/10, indicating solid visibility across Google Maps. Top findings include strong performance for cosmetic dentistry, dental implants, and hygienist services in Waltham and surrounding areas, with several key keywords ranking at position 1. The focus now is on sustaining this strength while edging into top-tier borough results.

Strengths

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Top two opportunities

  • 1
    Maps visibility across the city groupYou turn up across more of the surrounding suburbs than the middle of the field, so customers searching from outside your own patch are finding you.
  • 2
    Maps visibility in your own suburbYou show up in local Maps searches more often than the middle of your suburb, so a customer searching nearby is likely to see you in the first handful.
2 checks on your map positions. You're seeing both.
7.3Good
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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1Top three for "dental radiology" in 8 suburbs, seen in 11
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Sydenham Dental Centre4.1 ★ (194) · Dental clinic
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Smile Concepts4.9 ★ (190) · Dental clinic
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Waltham Dental Centre24.6 ★ (37) · Dental clinic
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Garden City Dental4.0 ★ (248) · Dental clinic
Map positionsChristchurch dentists · 210 businesses
You are #58 for map positions
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Where customers find you

Waltham Dental Centre shows a low overall presence health in social and directory listings, with a score of 2.2 out of 10. The most notable finding is an existing LinkedIn Company listing, which confirms some professional presence, but there are missing opportunities across Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, GrabOne and Neighbourly that limit local visibility and trust.

Strengths

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    White Pages ListingWe can see your White Pages Listing listing (https://whitepages.co.nz/waltham-dentists-waltham) found via: Google search results.
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    Dentist NZ ListingWe can see your Dentist NZ Listing listing (https://dentist.co.nz/waltham-dentists) found via: Google search results.

Top three opportunities

  • 1
    Having a Facebook page at allWe could not find an active Facebook Profile page for your business, so anyone who goes there to check your hours, read your posts or send a message lands on nothing.
  • 2
    Instagram ProfileWe could not find an active Instagram Profile profile for your business, so a customer who looks for you there finds nothing.
  • 3
    Tiktok ProfileWe could not find an active TikTok account for your business, so anyone who looks for you there finds nothing.
15 checks on your listings and social. You're seeing 5 of them.
2.3Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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White Pageswaltham-dentists-walthamWaltham Dental Centre | White Pages✓
Healthpointwaltham-dental-centreWaltham Dental Centre | Healthpoint
LinkedInsydenham-dental-centreFound through search, not linked from anything you own
FacebookNo account found1
InstagramNo account found2
TiktokNo account found3
Listings and socialChristchurch dentists · 210 businesses
You are #161 for listings and social
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05Facebook pageMarketbase business report

Your Facebook page

Strengths

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Top opportunity

  • 1
    Facebook pageCriticalWe could not find an active Facebook Profile page for your business, so anyone who goes there to check your hours, read your posts or send a message lands on nothing. Shown at a typical score for this market.
9 checks on your Facebook page. You're seeing 1 of them.
3.8Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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Facebook pageChristchurch dentists · 210 businesses
You are #130 for your Facebook page
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Your website

Waltham Dental Centre shows a healthy on-page SEO foundation but overall health is modest, with room for improvement. Key strengths include a relevant meta description, a clean page size under 256KB, a secure HTTPS setup, and an SEO-friendly URL. Primary opportunities focus on adding a meta description (missing), refining the title tag, and implementing a favicon to improve click-through and brand visibility.

Strengths

  • ✓
    Page file sizeYour home page is light enough to open quickly on a phone with a weak signal, which is where most people meet a local business for the first time.
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    Secure content linksThe links on your site point at secure versions of your pages, so nobody is sent through an unnecessary redirect on the way in.
  • ✓
    Content readabilityThe writing on your home page is clear of the hardest-to-read end of the scale, which is how anyone comparing three businesses on a phone reads anything at all.

Top three opportunities

  • 1
    Meta descriptionYour pages carry no summary line of your own, so the two lines under your name in search results are whatever Google decides best fits the search.
  • 2
    On-page scoreSeveral checks on your home page fail at once, and a visitor meets all of them in the first few seconds: a slow open, no clear heading, nothing under your name in search that says what you do.
  • 3
    Domain HealthYour site answers, but something did not check out - an insecure link, a redirect chain, a domain shared with other businesses, or a listing pointing at a social page.
23 checks on your website. You're seeing 6 of them.
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What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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✓Page file size
✓Secure content links
✓Content readability
1Meta description
2On-page score
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How people find you on Google

Waltham Dental Centre's Website Traffic health is 6.3 out of 10 (above average). The top findings show mid-range organic traffic value with room to grow, and no measurable paid traffic yet. Concentrating on small, targeted paid campaigns and ongoing content/SEO work can help improve visibility and attract more local patients.

Strengths

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Top three opportunities

  • 1
    What you spend on adsWe can see no paid search activity for your site, which in most local markets is the norm rather than a gap.
  • 2
    Monthly ad visitsYour site receives no visitors from paid search, which for most local businesses in this market is the norm rather than a problem.
  • 3
    What that traffic is worthThe search visitors reaching your site are worth less than half the businesses here, so the people arriving are browsing rather than buying.
6 checks on your search and traffic. You're seeing 3 of them.
6.2Good
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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21No ads from you on any search
www.walthamdental.co.nzWaltham Dental Centre - Services

WALTHAM DENTAL CENTRE 03 379-5146. Call us now for your next visit! 81 Waltham Rd, Christchurch Dr. Nicholas Wong BDS (Otago) Dr. Barbara Nieh BDS (Otago) Read more

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Google search and trafficChristchurch dentists · 210 businesses
You are #80 for Google search and traffic
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Your hours against demand

Waltham Dental Centre's opening hours partly match local demand: several weekday mid-morning and mid-afternoon slots align well with high search activity, but notable popular times fall when the practice is closed, especially Saturday mornings and an early Tuesday. No open hours fall in low-demand windows, so inefficiency from being open during quiet times is not evident.

Strengths

  • ✓
    Hours aligned with demandNo business here matches the demand around it more closely than you do - you are open when people are looking and shut when they are not.

Where we can help

Nothing to sort here. Your hours already line up with when people are looking.
1 check on your opening hours. You're seeing it.
9.2Strong
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
Waltham Dental Centre
OverviewReviewsPhotosAbout
Hours ✓
Monday8:30am-5pm
Tuesday8:30am-5pm
Wednesday8:30am-5pm
Thursday8:30am-5pm
Friday9am-5pm
SaturdayClosed
SundayClosed
Popular times Saturday · Sydenham
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Opening hoursChristchurch dentists · 210 businesses
You are #17 for opening hours
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01Google listing3 opportunities

02Reviews3 opportunities

03Map positions2 opportunities

04Listings and social3 opportunities

05Facebook page1 opportunity

06Your website3 opportunities

07Google search and traffic3 opportunities

Where you'd stand#131of 210 Christchurch dentists
9:41
Christchurch dentistsOverall · 210 businesses
You are #131 overall
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