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Yaldhurst Dental

Dentist · Yaldhurst, 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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Yaldhurst Dental

Dentist · Yaldhurst, Christchurch

Where you stand#83of 210 dentists
Overall health6.1/10across the eight areas
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What AI tells people about you

Yaldhurst Dental in Yaldhurst, Christchurch provides family dental care with a focus on long-term oral health. Dentists Dr Janet Chou and Dr Gilbert Sia offer routine check-ups, cleans, emergency treatments for toothache and broken fillings. The practice aims for a caring, gentle and stress-free approach, and serves patients seeking compassionate, high-quality general dentistry.

Yaldhurst Dental is a family dental practice located at 7 Filly Place, Yaldhurst, Christchurch. The clinic is run by dentists Dr Janet Chou and Dr Gilbert Sia and presents itself as a local provider of general dental care focused on oral health and patient well-being.

Services listed by the practice include routine dental check-ups and professional cleans alongside common treatments for toothache, broken fillings and other basic restorative or emergency care. The clinic emphasises high-quality care for all ages and positions itself as a place for ongoing dental maintenance across a lifetime.

Reviews indicate customers experience gentle, compassionate care and clear explanations from the dentists. Feedback mentions a pleasant and friendly reception team, a clean and welcoming clinic environment, and confidence in treatment-patients note professionalism during procedures such as extractions and that the clinicians take time to explain options and show understanding.

Locally, Yaldhurst Dental is presented as a neighbourhood practice that combines general family dentistry with a caring, low-stress approach. Patients looking for routine maintenance, urgent attention for simple dental problems, or a long-term dental relationship are the type who are likely to visit this Christchurch clinic.

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01Google listingMarketbase business report

Your Google listing

Yaldhurst Dental shows a healthy Google Business Listing with a 7.7 out of 10 health score, indicating solid presence and data completeness. Key strengths include accurate open status, a direct website link, and a claimed listing with a visible phone number. The business description and photos are at or above local medians, supporting credible, accessible customer information.

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 gives a reader more than most listings here do, so a customer choosing between three of you gets more of your case than of theirs.
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    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.
  • 3
    Category fitYour category set is one of the better-fitted in this market, so you are eligible for nearly every search happening around you.
11 checks on your Google listing. You're seeing 6 of them.
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From the business

At Yaldhurst Dental we genuinely believe good oral health is the first step to your general well-being. We strive to provide high-quality dental care for you and your family. Our aim is to have a caring, positive and stress-free approach that looks after your oral health for life. Do you have a toothache? A broken filling? Or perhaps you are after a routine dental check-up and a clean? Call us now to have your dental needs seen to by our friendly and gentle dentists, Dr. Janet Chou and Dr. Gilbert Sia

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Google listingChristchurch dentists · 210 businesses
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02ReviewsMarketbase business report

Your reviews

Yaldhurst Dental shows a solid health score with strong client satisfaction in Google reviews, but engagement with reviews is lacking. Overall health is moderate, driven by high star ratings and a respectable review count, while the absence of responses to any reviews may limit trust-building.

Strengths

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    Review confidenceRating and volume together put you at the head of this market: well rated, with enough reviews behind it that a customer takes the number seriously.
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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 two opportunities

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    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.
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    Review countYou hold more reviews than most of this market - depth buyers read as proof.
4 checks on your reviews. You're seeing all of them.
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Google reviewsChristchurch dentists · 210 businesses
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03Map positionsMarketbase business report

Where you show up on the map

Yaldhurst Dental shows very high overall health on Google Maps, indicating strong visibility across local searches. The strongest finding is borough-specific visibility in Yaldhurst, sitting in the top 10 percent, with continued room to refine. A second notable trend is solid rankings for several cosmetic and dental keywords, maintaining top positions.

Strengths

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    Maps visibility in your own suburbNo business in your suburb turns up in local Maps searches more often than you do - for a customer searching nearby, you are among the first names on the screen.

Top opportunity

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    Maps visibility across the city groupYou turn up across more of the surrounding suburbs than nearly everyone here, so a customer searching well outside your own patch still sees you.
2 checks on your map positions. You're seeing both.
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Yaldhurst Dental✓5.0 ★ (62) · Dentist
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Church Corner Dental Surgery4.8 ★ (134) · Dentist
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Yaldhurst Health Centre2.4 ★ (5) · Dentist
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Boutique Dental Christchurch5.0 ★ (303) · Dentist
Map positionsChristchurch dentists · 210 businesses
You are #16 for map positions
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Where customers find you

Yaldhurst Dental shows a low overall social presence health, indicating limited visibility across Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and local directories. The standout finding is the lack of active profiles on major platforms, which constrains local trust and reach. Opportunities lie in establishing or restoring profiles on Facebook and Instagram, and exploring Neighbourly listings to improve discoverability.

Strengths

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    Healthpoint ListingWe can see your Healthpoint Listing listing (https://healthpoint.co.nz/yaldhurst-dental) found via: Google search results.
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    Cylex ListingWe can see your Cylex Listing listing (https://cylex.co.nz/yaldhurst+dental-18173872) found via: Google search results.

Top three opportunities

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    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.
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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.
  • 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.
2.2Room to grow
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Listings and socialChristchurch dentists · 210 businesses
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Your Facebook page

Strengths

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Top opportunity

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    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
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Facebook pageChristchurch dentists · 210 businesses
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Your website

Yaldhurst Dental shows a solid on-page SEO health score with strong technical fundamentals. The site performs well on load speed and has a secure, concise URL, plus a valid favicon and clean page size. The top finding is the meta description length, which needs adjustment to avoid truncation and improve appeal for potential patients.

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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    Separate sites linking to youOnly a handful of separate websites link to yours, well behind most of this market.
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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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    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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How people find you on Google

Yaldhurst Dental's website traffic health scores mid-range, indicating opportunities to stabilise paid activity while continuing organic gains. Organic traffic values are above the 25th percentile, suggesting ongoing SEO work is paying off. Paid traffic shows little to no measurable spend, with room to test small campaigns and targeted landing pages.

Strengths

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Top three opportunities

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    What that traffic is worthThe search visitors reaching your site are worth less than most businesses here, which means the work coming in arrives through word of mouth and repeat customers rather than through people searching for what you do.
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    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.
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    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.
6 checks on your search and traffic. You're seeing 3 of them.
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www.yaldhurstdental.co.nzJanet Chou BDS | Gilbert Sia BDS | Yaldhurst Dental | New ...

At Yaldhurst Dental. Contact us now at 03 925 8127. Our suite of general and family dental services include preventive dentistry, dental fillings, tooth ...

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1About 385 visits a month from search, across 54 searches
Google search and trafficChristchurch dentists · 210 businesses
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Your hours against demand

Yaldhurst Dental's opening hours partly match local demand but overall temporal alignment is below average (health score 3.2/10). The practice is open for 42 well-aligned peak hours but also misses 33 popular hours when closed. There are no clear low-demand open hours, so the main issue is gaps during high-demand windows on late mornings and early evenings that could lose appointments.

Strengths

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Top opportunity

  • 1
    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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Yaldhurst Dental
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Hours 1
Monday9am-7pm
Tuesday9am-5pm
Wednesday9am-5pm
Thursday10am-7pm
Friday9am-4pm
SaturdayClosed
SundayClosed
Opening hoursChristchurch dentists · 210 businesses
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02Reviews2 opportunities

03Map positions1 opportunity

04Listings and social3 opportunities

05Facebook page1 opportunity

06Your website3 opportunities

07Google search and traffic3 opportunities

08Opening hours1 opportunity

Where you'd stand#83of 210 Christchurch dentists
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Christchurch dentistsOverall · 210 businesses
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