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Picton Street Dental

Dental clinic · Howick, 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
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Picton Street Dental

Dental clinic · Howick, Central Auckland

Where you stand#186of 277 dentists
Overall health3.3/10across the eight areas
How AI describes youMarketbase business report

What AI tells people about you

Picton Street Dental is a preventative-focused dental clinic in Howick, Auckland, offering dental and hygiene services for families. The clinic takes a conservative, child-friendly approach for children of all ages. Review themes describe gentle, calm appointments, clear communication and attention to comfort, including for patients with sensitive teeth or gums.

Picton Street Dental is a preventative-focused dental clinic on Picton Street in Howick, Auckland. It provides dental and hygiene services for people across the family, with an approach that focuses on maintaining oral health and supporting regular care.

The clinic also offers a conservative approach for children of all ages, with a focus on making dental visits suitable for younger patients. Its services include hygiene appointments, check-ups and cleans, as reflected in customer experiences shared about the clinic.

Customers describe appointments as gentle, calm and comfortable. Review themes include clear communication, precise treatment and careful attention to patient wellbeing. Patients with sensitive teeth or gums have described staff taking steps to help them feel at ease, including the use of numbing gel where needed and equipment such as ultrasonic and Airflow tools during hygiene care.

Locally, Picton Street Dental is distinguished by its focus on prevention, family dental and hygiene services, and a child-friendly conservative approach. Its Howick location provides a neighbourhood option for customers seeking routine dental care, with reviews consistently describing a considerate and low-stress experience.

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Your Google listing

Picton Street Dental has an above average Google Business Listing health score of 5.8 out of 10. The listing includes the business name, website link, phone number, trading status and claimed ownership, giving customers a reliable base for finding and contacting the clinic. The main opportunities are to expand the description and improve category coverage so more relevant searches include the business.

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 listingYou have more photos on your listing than half the businesses here, so a customer arriving has enough to look at that they stay on it.
11 checks on your Google listing. You're seeing 6 of them.
5.8Room to grow
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5.0 ★★★★★ (12)
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From the business

Picton Street Dental is a preventative focused dental clinic, providing dental and hygiene services for everyone in the family. We also provide a fun conservative approach for children of all ages.

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02ReviewsMarketbase business report

Your reviews

Picton Street Dental has an above average Google review health score of 5.9 out of 10. Its star rating is among the highest in the local market, helping customers form a positive first impression. The main gap is review volume, which sits below the market midpoint and limits confidence when customers compare several dental listings. Maintaining review responses also remains important.

Strengths

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    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

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    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.
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    Review countYour review count sits under the middle of this market, so you are readable to a customer without yet being convincing.
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    Response rateYou answer more of your reviews than the middle of this market, so a customer scrolling your page mostly finds you there.
4 checks on your reviews. You're seeing all of them.
5.9Room to grow
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Janine G.★★★★★ · 5 months ago

I saw Kathryn for a hygienist appointment. I have sensitive teeth and it was a surprisingly pleasant experience! She has a very gentle, calm manner and uses equipment called an ultrasonic and Airflow (I think this is what they are called) w...

Response from the owner3

Thank you for your lovely review Janine 😊

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Danielle B.★★★★★ · 5 months ago

I have recently seen Kathryn for a check up and clean. Kathryn is very precise in the treatments she provides and creates a gentle and calm expereince!

Response from the owner

Thank you Danielle! It was lovely having you 😊

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Where you show up on the map

Picton Street Dental has an above average Maps Search Performance health score of 7.0 out of 10. The clinic ranks particularly well for dental hygiene, specialist services and dental clinic searches across Howick, Shelly Park, Bucklands Beach and Mellons Bay, with several first- to third-place results. Maintaining the weekly review ask and checking the main service search locally can help protect this visibility.

Strengths

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Top two opportunities

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    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.
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    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.
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1Top three for "dental hygienist" in 4 suburbs, seen in 7
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Howick Dental Surgery4.9 ★ (1,004) · Dental clinic
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Howick Village Dental4.8 ★ (54) · Dental clinic
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Picton Street Dental25.0 ★ (12) · Dental clinic
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A+ Dentists5.0 ★ (187) · Dental clinic
Map positionsCentral Auckland dentists · 277 businesses
You are #84 for map positions
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Where customers find you

Picton Street Dental has an Average Citations & Social Presence health score of 4.6 out of 10. The main gaps are the absence of active Instagram and TikTok profiles, while the Facebook page is not clearly connected through the business's own website or Google listing. Missing Cylex and Dentist NZ listings also limit visibility for customers checking local and dental directories.

Strengths

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

Top three opportunities

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    Instagram ProfileWe could not find an active Instagram Profile profile for your business, so a customer who looks for you there finds nothing.
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    Having a Facebook page at allWe found your Facebook Profile page through search alone.
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    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.
4.7Room to grow
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InstagramNo account found1
TiktokNo account found3
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Listings and socialCentral Auckland dentists · 277 businesses
You are #146 for listings and social
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Your Facebook page

Picton Street Dental's Facebook page has an Average health level at 5.7 out of 10. The page provides customers with a phone number, email address, street address, cover photo and a link to the clinic's own website. The main gaps are no Facebook Recommendations, 111 followers, no page username, and no information explaining what the clinic offers.

Strengths

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    Where your page link pointsThe link on your page goes to a domain that is yours, so a visitor who came for the photos leaves on your terms and the enquiry lands in your inbox rather than someone else's.
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    A phone numberA phone number shows on your page, so the person who found you on Facebook before they found your website can ring straight from it.
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    An email addressCustomers can see an email address on the page, which gives the one who wants a quote in writing a route that does not depend on anyone picking up the phone.

Top three opportunities

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    Recommendations on your pageNo recommendations sit on your page, so a stranger who came to see whether anyone else has used you leaves with only your own posts to go on.
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    People following your pageFewer people follow your page than most in this market, which means a post reaches people who already know you rather than anyone still deciding.
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    A page address you choseYour page address is one Facebook generated rather than one you chose - your business name with a long number bolted on, or just the number.
8 checks on your Facebook page. You're seeing 6 of them.
5.4Room to grow
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Picton Street Dental | Auckland3
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Facebook pageCentral Auckland dentists · 277 businesses
You are #127 for your Facebook page
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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.

Top three opportunities

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    Domain HealthYour website did not come back healthy when we tried it, and anyone clicking through from your Google listing is meeting whatever we met.
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    On-page scoreYour home page did not return anything we can measure, and a page that will not answer a scanner is usually the same page that keeps a customer waiting.
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    Separate sites linking to youNo separate website links to yours.
23 checks on your website. You're seeing 4 of them.
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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

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    What that traffic is worthSearch is delivering you nothing you would otherwise have to pay for.
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    Monthly search visitsYour site draws no measurable visitors from search, so the only people reaching it are ones you sent yourself.
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    Search terms you rank forYour site does not appear in search results for any terms we can measure, so nobody is finding it by searching for what you do.
6 checks on your search and traffic. You're seeing 3 of them.
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Google search and trafficCentral Auckland dentists · 277 businesses
You are #195 for Google search and traffic
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08Opening hoursMarketbase business report

Your hours against demand

Picton Street Dental's hours cover 66% of the week's customer traffic, but several busy periods remain outside its opening hours. Monday 9am to 6pm is a closed period while the market is busy, so customers meet a closed door. Picton Street Dental should add Monday 11am to 3pm, letting customers arrive and be served during the busiest part of that period.

Strengths

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Top opportunity

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    Hours aligned with demandYour hours cover some of the busy stretches but fewer than half the businesses here, which means someone ringing round on a Saturday morning reaches your competitors and your voicemail.
1 check on your opening hours. You're seeing it.
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Hours 1
MondayClosed
Tuesday7:30am-5pm
Wednesday8am-5pm
Thursday8am-8pm
Friday8am-5pm
Saturday9am-2pm
SundayClosed
Popular times Monday · Howick
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Opening hoursCentral Auckland dentists · 277 businesses
You are #169 for opening hours
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02Reviews3 opportunities

03Map positions2 opportunities

04Listings and social3 opportunities

05Facebook page3 opportunities

06Your website3 opportunities

07Google search and traffic3 opportunities

08Opening hours1 opportunity

Where you'd stand#186of 277 Central Auckland dentists
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Central Auckland dentistsOverall · 277 businesses
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