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Nick Wong Dentist Waltham

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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Nick Wong Dentist Waltham

Dental clinic · Sydenham, Christchurch

Where you stand#149of 210 dentists
Overall health2.9/10across the eight areas

Going well

08Opening hours7.907Google search and traffic6.2

Where we can help

05Facebook page3.803Map positions3.502Reviews2.101Google listing1.704Listings and social0.806Your website-
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What AI tells people about you

Nick Wong Dentist Waltham operates from Sydenham in Christchurch as Waltham Dental Centre, offering family dental care from a purpose-built clinic. The practice notes over 30 years of service and a team of dentists and therapists. Services include routine check-ups, emergency care, implants, orthodontic and cosmetic options, with free care for high school teens and support for insurance or WINZ quotes.

Nick Wong Dentist Waltham trades as Waltham Dental Centre in Sydenham, Christchurch, providing comprehensive family dental care from a purpose-built clinic. The practice highlights over 30 years of service and lists several registered dentists on staff.

The clinic offers a broad range of services drawn from routines to specialist procedures: check-ups and X-rays, hygienist or oral health therapist appointments, accident and emergency care, implants, root canal treatment, dentures and oral surgery. Cosmetic treatment options are listed to enhance smiles, and the clinic provides insurance and WINZ quotes.

Customers tend to experience consistently positive outcomes; review data shows a high average rating, indicating strong satisfaction with care and service. Appointments appear to cover both routine preventive visits and on-going or urgent dental needs, with staff available for expected follow-ups and therapy support.

Locally, Waltham Dental Centre distinguishes itself by combining long-standing community presence with a wide clinical mix, a purpose-built facility and practical supports such as free dental care for high school students up to 18 and assistance with quotes for funding. That mix of general, emergency and specialist services aims to serve families across Sydenham and greater Christchurch.

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01Google listingMarketbase business report

Your Google listing

Nick Wong Dentist Waltham shows a low overall Google Business Listing health, with room for improvement in claimed status and content. The most impactful findings are that the listing already has a website link, a title, a phone number and a full address, but lacks claimed status, a meaningful description, and sufficient photos and logo.

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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Dental clinic · Sydenham
Open 5 days ✓
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Google listingChristchurch dentists · 210 businesses
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02ReviewsMarketbase business report

Your reviews

Nick Wong Dentist Waltham shows low overall health in Google reviews with a 1.9/10 score, indicating significant room for improvement. The business has started collecting reviews and maintains a high star rating within the top 10%, suggesting strong patient satisfaction. The key finding is that while ratings are high, engagement with reviews is lacking and the review base is small.

Strengths

  • ✓
    Star ratingYour rating is among the highest in this market and it does its own selling - a customer sees it before they read anything else.

Top three opportunities

  • 1
    Review confidenceRating and review volume together sit well behind this market, which means a customer comparing you has both halves of the picture reading thin.
  • 2
    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.
  • 3
    Review countYour review count sits well below what buyers here are used to seeing, which means a customer comparing options side by side reads you as the less proven choice.
4 checks on your reviews. You're seeing all of them.
2.1Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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1How far your rating and your review count together can be trusted
Google reviewsChristchurch dentists · 210 businesses
You are #167 for your Google reviews
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03Map positionsMarketbase business report

Where you show up on the map

The Maps search health for Nick Wong Dentist Waltham shows a 4.4 out of 10 overall health, indicating limited visibility in Google Maps results. Top opportunities include improving aggregate Maps results overall and strengthening the borough presence to move toward the local midpoint. Strong keyword performance in Waltham categories supports continued growth.

Strengths

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

Top two opportunities

  • 1
    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 less often than half your suburb, so on a search from nearby you sit below businesses a customer would otherwise treat as equal.
2 checks on your map positions. You're seeing both.
3.5Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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1Top three for "dental clinic" in 2 suburbs, seen in 7
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Sydenham Dental Centre4.1 ★ (194) · Dental clinic
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Colombo Street Dental4.5 ★ (186) · Dental clinic
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Smile Concepts4.9 ★ (190) · Dental clinic
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Dana Dental Ltd5.0 ★ (7) · Dental clinic
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Nick Wong Dentist Waltham2Further down, below the first results
Map positionsChristchurch dentists · 210 businesses
You are #136 for map positions
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Where customers find you

Nick Wong Dentist Waltham shows low overall health in the Citations & Social Presence area, with room for improvement across social profiles and local directory listings. The strongest completed item is a LinkedIn profile, providing a professional touch that can reach clients via business networks.

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.
0.8Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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FacebookNo account found1
InstagramNo account found2
TiktokNo account found3
Listings and socialChristchurch dentists · 210 businesses
You are #193 for listings and social
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05Facebook pageMarketbase business report

Your Facebook page

Strengths

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

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

The on-page SEO health is 4.8 out of 10, indicating average technical health. The most notable findings are that the title tag is well aligned with content already, and a relevant meta description exists, but key gaps remain such as missing meta description for the homepage, lack of an H1 tag, and no valid favicon. Addressing these could improve click-through and crawl clarity for the business.

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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✓Content readability
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How people find you on Google

Nick Wong Dentist Waltham shows an above-average health score for website traffic, indicating solid overall performance. The top findings point to paid traffic underutilisation and room for growth in paid and organic visibility. Organic traffic value is mid-range but indicates progress and opportunities to improve content, UX and link-building to lift rankings.

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.
  • 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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08Opening hoursMarketbase business report

Your hours against demand

Nick Wong Dentist Waltham's published hours partially match local demand: several weekday mid-morning and mid-afternoon slots align with strong search activity, but the practice is closed during several popular weekend and late-afternoon times. There are no obvious low-demand hours currently open. Closing gaps at weekend mornings and Friday late afternoon represent clear missed demand that could be worth testing.

Strengths

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

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.
7.9Good
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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Hours 1
Monday9am-5pm
Tuesday9am-5pm
Wednesday9am-5pm
Thursday9am-5pm
Friday9am-3:30pm
SaturdayClosed
SundayClosed
Popular times Saturday · Sydenham
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Opening hoursChristchurch dentists · 210 businesses
You are #44 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#149of 210 Christchurch dentists
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Christchurch dentistsOverall · 210 businesses
You are #149 overall
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