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Gentle Care Dentist

Dental clinic · Panmure, Central Auckland

What your customers see when they look for you, and where that puts you among 277 Central Auckland dentists.

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Checked13 October 2026
Your marketCentral Auckland dentists · 277 businesses
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Gentle Care Dentist

Dental clinic · Panmure, Central Auckland

Where you stand#160of 277 dentists
Overall health4.2/10across the eight areas

Going well

08Opening hours8.703Map positions6.2

Where we can help

07Google search and traffic5.501Google listing5.005Facebook page4.702Reviews3.904Listings and social3.206Your website-
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What AI tells people about you

Gentle Care Dentist is a locally owned dental practice in Panmure, Auckland. It provides general dental care with a focus on gentle treatment, and offers late-night and Saturday hours. The practice also advertises free treatment for children aged 13 to 18, quotes for social welfare, Q-card finance and Southern Cross Easy-claim.

Gentle Care Dentist is a locally owned and operated dental practice in Panmure, Auckland. It aims to provide dental care in a gentle way and welcomes local customers seeking routine or procedural treatment.

The practice advertises free treatment for children aged 13 to 18, quotes for social welfare, and flexible opening hours that include late nights and Saturdays. Q-card finance is available, and Southern Cross Health Society members can use Easy-claim at the practice.

Customers describe their experiences as professional, friendly and caring. Review themes include smooth tooth extractions, gentle treatment, orthodontic care and cleanings. Reviews also mention staff who are nice and patient, along with procedures that customers found reassuring and well managed.

Gentle Care Dentist is distinguished locally by its Panmure location, locally owned operation and focus on gentler dental care. Its extended hours and payment and claiming options provide practical choices for customers arranging appointments, while its advertised support for teenagers and social welfare clients adds to its local accessibility.

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01Google listingMarketbase business report

Your Google listing

Gentle Care Dentist's Google Business Listing has Average health at 5.0 out of 10. The listing includes the business name, website link, phone number, open status and claimed status, giving customers reliable ways to identify and contact the practice. The main gaps are a shorter-than-typical description, limited category coverage and fewer photos than nearby listings, which may reduce visibility and comparison appeal.

Strengths

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    Open statusYour listing shows the business as trading, so customers see accurate availability and Google treats the listing as live.
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    ClaimedYour listing is claimed, so you control what it says, you can reply to reviews, and edits suggested by the public come to you first.
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    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.

Top three opportunities

  • 1
    Description lengthYour description is far shorter than what most businesses here have written, which means a customer comparing listings gets a line from you and three paragraphs from the business beside you.
  • 2
    Category fitYour categories cover less of this market than nearly every competitor, so someone searching for a job you actually do is shown a list your listing was never entered into.
  • 3
    Photos on the listingThere are more pictures on most listings around you than on yours, so a customer flicking between them gets a fuller look at the businesses either side of you.
11 checks on your Google listing. You're seeing 6 of them.
5.0Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
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4.5 ★★★★★ (27)
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From the business

We aim to provide top quality dental care in the gentlest possible way.

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Google listingCentral Auckland dentists · 277 businesses
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02ReviewsMarketbase business report

Your reviews

Gentle Care Dentist has a below average Google Business review health score of 3.9 out of 10. The most immediate gap is review response, with no customer reviews receiving a reply. The business also sits below the local market midpoint for both rating and review count, reducing confidence for customers comparing dental practices. Addressing these areas could strengthen credibility on the listing.

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
    Review confidenceYour rating and your review count together sit behind half the businesses here, so a customer weighing three listings has slightly less reason to trust yours.
  • 3
    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.
4 checks on your reviews. You're seeing 3 of them.
3.9Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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Google reviewsCentral Auckland dentists · 277 businesses
You are #168 for your Google reviews
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03Map positionsMarketbase business report

Where you show up on the map

Gentle Care Dentist has an above average Google Maps health score of 6.2 out of 10. It ranks fifth for several key Panmure searches, including dentist, dental clinic, emergency dental service and teeth whitening. The main opportunity is broader visibility across surrounding suburbs, where competitors appear more often. Reviews and regular local search checks are the recommended focus.

Strengths

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Top two opportunities

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    Maps visibility across the city groupYou turn up across fewer of the surrounding suburbs than half the businesses here, so someone two suburbs over searching for your service is shown your competitors and never sees your name.
  • 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.
6.2Good
What customers seeWhere you rank
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1Seen in 4 searches across Central Auckland, top three in none
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Panmure Dentists4.9 ★ (145) · Dental clinic
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Classics Dental4.8 ★ (112) · Dental clinic
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Panmure Dental Centre5.0 ★ (9) · Dental clinic
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Dental World4.6 ★ (84) · Dental clinic
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Map positionsCentral Auckland dentists · 277 businesses
You are #105 for map positions
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Where customers find you

Gentle Care Dentist has a below average Citations & Social Presence health score of 3.2 out of 10. The main issue is limited visibility across key social platforms and local directories. No active Facebook, Instagram or TikTok profiles were found, and the business was also absent from Dentist NZ and OpenLocally, reducing the places where customers can confirm details or make contact.

Strengths

Your first one is close. Sort an opportunity below and it moves up here.

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 3 of them.
3.2Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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FacebookNo account found1
InstagramNo account found2
TiktokNo account found3
Listings and socialCentral Auckland dentists · 277 businesses
You are #188 for listings and social
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05Facebook pageMarketbase business report

Your Facebook page

Gentle Care Dentist has no Facebook page that customers can find. That removes a common place for people to check that the practice is real, see what it does and make contact before booking. In this market, 150 of 277 businesses have a findable page, making the absence unusual. Creating or correcting the page would close that gap.

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.
4.7Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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Facebook pageCentral Auckland dentists · 277 businesses
You are #148 for your Facebook page
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06Your websiteMarketbase business report

Your website

Strengths

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    Domain UniquenessYour web address is yours alone, so everything your site earns - links, mentions, search standing - accumulates under your name and stays with the business.
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    FaviconThe tab your site opens in carries your own icon, so a customer with a dozen tabs going can find their way back to you by sight.
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    Page load speedYour home page appears in under three seconds, so someone tapping through from a search result meets your business rather than a blank screen while they decide whether to wait.

Top three opportunities

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    Meta descriptionThe summary under your name in search results is either too brief to say anything or long enough that Google cuts it mid-sentence.
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    On-page scoreThe basics on your home page are half in place: it opens and it reads, but enough checks still fail that a customer on a phone away from wifi notices the wait before they notice the business.
  • 3
    Separate sites linking to youFewer separate websites link to you than half the businesses here, which means when someone searches for what you do, the businesses with a longer list of vouchers are the ones on the page they actually read.
23 checks on your website. You're seeing 6 of them.
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What customers seeWhere you rank
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Your websiteCentral Auckland dentists · 277 businesses
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How people find you on Google

Strengths

Your first one is close. Sort an opportunity below and it moves up here.

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.
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    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.
5.5Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
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Gentle Care Offer ; ∙ FREE TREATMENT for Children (13-18yrs)* ; ∙ QUOTES for Social Welfare ; ∙ FLEXIBILE HOURS - Opens Late Nights & Saturdays. ; ∙ Q-card ... Read more

3About 458 visits a month from search, across 29 searches
Google search and trafficCentral Auckland dentists · 277 businesses
You are #125 for Google search and traffic
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08Opening hoursMarketbase business report

Your hours against demand

The business's hours are well aligned with demand, covering 74% of the week's customer traffic without opening during quiet times, with one clear gap remaining. On Sunday from 1pm to 4pm, customers meet a closed door while the market is busy. The business should open Sunday from 1pm to 4pm, allowing customers to arrive and be served when demand is highest.

Strengths

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Top opportunity

  • 1
    Hours aligned with demandYour hours line up with demand better than nearly every business here, so most of the time you are open, people are actually looking.
1 check on your opening hours. You're seeing it.
8.7Strong
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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Hours 1
Monday9am-5pm
Tuesday9am-5pm
Wednesday9am-5pm
Thursday9am-5pm
Friday9am-5pm
Saturday9am-1pm
SundayClosed
Opening hoursCentral Auckland dentists · 277 businesses
You are #36 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

08Opening hours1 opportunity

Where you'd stand#160of 277 Central Auckland dentists
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Central Auckland dentistsOverall · 277 businesses
You are #160 overall
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