まつうら歯科医院 歯内療法専門室 (The Akira Matsuura, DDS Endodontics)
According to our open methodology, this clinic scored 55.6/100 for transparency, reputation, service accessibility, and digital visibility.
Overall rank: #14 of 21 ranked clinics · Last checked: 6 September 2026
55.6/100
Positions by Rating Profile
- Overall Transparency & Trust#1455.6/100
- Best for Expats#1553/100
- Best for Dental Implantsnot ranked
- Best for Emergency Dental Care#653/100
- Best Price Transparency#1258.5/100
- Best English-speaking Clinics#1753.8/100
- Best for Families / Childrennot ranked
- Sleep Dentistry (GA / deep sedation)not ranked
General Anaesthesia & Deep Sedation
Whether the clinic documents treatment under general anaesthesia or deep / twilight sedation — "sleep dentistry", where the patient is asleep and unaware (does not feel, see, or hear the procedure). Ordinary conscious sedation, where the patient stays awake and responsive, does not count here. This is informational and does not affect the transparency score.
- ? General anaesthesia / deep sedation (sleep dentistry) — Not verified Intravenous sedation is offered as an add-on at 130,000 yen plus tax, but the clinic does not state whether the patient is asleep and unaware, so this is left unverified rather than counted.
Summary
Single-dentist practice near Hakata station limited to endodontics and endodontic microsurgery, working entirely on a self-pay basis outside the national insurance scheme and capping treatment at one or two patients a day. The director trained at the University of Southern California graduate endodontics programme; the site publishes a detailed fee schedule, per-procedure risk disclosures and an English page, and is updated with case write-ups almost daily.
Strengths
- Information Transparency: 18 of 20 points.
- No red flags identified in public sources.
Weaknesses
- Reputation & Reviews: 4.5 of 14 verifiable points (missing: google review volume; active Facebook presence; tripAdvisor presence; other review platforms)
- AI & Search Visibility: 4 of 10 verifiable points (missing: mentioned for: best dentist Japan; mentioned for: dental implants Japan; mentioned for: Japan dental clinic for expats; structured data on website; dedicated service pages)
Score Breakdown
Every criterion below is scored from public sources. ✓ verified yes · ✗ verified no / not found · ◐ partial · ? unverified (scores 0, not a negative finding).
Information Transparency
18 / 20
Whether basic facts about the clinic - its team, premises, services, and location - are publicly verifiable.
| ✓ | Has a working website [s1] | 4/4 |
| ✓ | Dentist names listed Director Akira Matsuura, whose romanisation is published by the clinic itself; he is the only dentist. [s2] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Dentist specializations listed University of Southern California graduate endodontics programme 2016; AAE Specialist Member; Nagasaki University School of Dentistry 2002. [s2] [s5] | 2/2 |
| ? | Real clinic photos | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Service list published The practice publishes exactly what it does and does not do: endodontics and endodontic microsurgery only, with no prosthetic, implant, bridge or denture work. [s1] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Clear contact details Phone, fax, e-mail and address in the site header; the phone and address match the national medical-institution register entry. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | English website version [s5] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Address and map published [s4] | 2/2 |
Price Transparency
9 / 15
Whether patients can estimate costs before visiting. Published price ranges count; exact prices are not required.
| ✓ | Prices or price ranges published Standing fee schedule dated 2025-04-23 covering consultations, root-canal and retreatment, apicoectomy, intentional replantation, regeneration, perforation repair, file removal and core build-up, with worked examples of a full course of treatment. [s3] | 3/3 |
| ✗ | Cleaning price listed Not offered: the practice is limited to endodontics. [s3] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Filling price listed Core build-up 55,000 yen including tax. [s3] | 2/2 |
| ✗ | Crown price listed Not offered; crown removal is priced at 5,500 yen but crown work itself is referred back to the patient's own dentist. [s3] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Implant price listed Not offered: the practice states it does not carry out implant, bridge or denture work. [s1] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Consultation price listed First consultation 11,000 yen including tax per tooth with a referral letter, 110,000 yen without; follow-up visits free. [s3] [s4] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | X-ray / imaging price listed Radiography and medication are stated to be included in the treatment fee; additional CBCT scans are charged at the same per-tooth consultation rate where several teeth are imaged. [s4] | 2/2 |
Reputation & Reviews
4.5 / 20
Public review signals. The Google rating is adjusted with a Bayesian prior (rating 4.0, weight 25) so a 5.0 from a handful of reviews does not outrank a 4.8 from hundreds.
| ◐ | Google rating (Bayesian-adjusted) Star histogram read live on 2026-09-06 from the place page: 3 five-star, 0 four-star, 0 three-star, 0 two-star, 1 one-star. The buckets sum to 4, matching the 4 in the place-page header exactly, and the weighted mean 4.000 reproduces the published 4. [gmp1] | 3/6 |
| ✗ | Google review volume Read live on 2026-09-06 from the place-page header; the star histogram sums to the same figure. [gmp1] | 0/3 |
| ◐ | Review recency The newest review visible is 6 months old, which proves the within-a-year bucket and no better. Sample: the 3 reviews Google Maps renders on the place page in its own relevance order. A newest-first sort was not available; re-checking the Reviews tab returned the same three reviews, so no fresher slice is available. [gmp1] | 1.5/3 |
| ? | Clinic responds to reviews | 0/2 |
| ? | No recurring complaints | 0/2 |
| ? | No suspicious review patterns | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Active Facebook presence The clinic's Facebook page has had no post since June 2020 and has no reviews; the clinic's website fukuoka-endodontics.com is its working channel. [matsuura-endodontics-fukuoka-presence-4] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | TripAdvisor presence No TripAdvisor listing found via its search for "Matsuura Endodontics Fukuoka" and "Matsuura Dental"; the clinic's site does not link to TripAdvisor (checked 2026-10-05). [matsuura-endodontics-fukuoka-tripadvisor] [matsuura-endodontics-fukuoka-tripadvisor-2] | 0/0.5 |
| ✗ | Other review platforms No review profile on the Japanese review sites: Caloo has no page for it, EPARK Dental lists it only from public data with no review, and WhatClinic has no page for it (checked 2026-10-02). [matsuura-endodontics-fukuoka-presence] [matsuura-endodontics-fukuoka-presence-2] [matsuura-endodontics-fukuoka-presence-3] | 0/0.5 |
Medical Infrastructure
9.5 / 15
The range of publicly documented equipment and services. This measures documented availability, not clinical quality.
| ✓ | On-site X-ray [s4] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | CBCT (3D imaging) CBCT imaging is part of the published first-visit protocol and is priced per additional tooth imaged. [s4] | 2/2 |
| ✗ | Implantology The practice states explicitly that it does not perform implant, bridge or denture treatment. [s1] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Orthodontics Practice limited to endodontics and endodontic microsurgery. [s1] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Oral surgery Apicoectomy, intentional replantation, perforation repair and regenerative endodontic surgery under the microscope. [s3] | 2/2 |
| ? | Pediatric dentistry | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | Emergency care The English page lists dental emergencies among the reasons to contact the practice. [s5] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ✓ | Works with international patients English page states the director speaks fluent English and sees foreign patients daily, and that the practice maintains a referral network of US-trained English-speaking specialists. [s5] | 2/2 |
Communication & Service
5 / 10
How easy it is to contact the clinic, get answers, and book - especially for international patients.
| ✗ | WhatsApp / LINE available No LINE or WhatsApp channel; contact is by phone or e-mail. [s1] | 0/2 |
| ? | Response speed | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | English spoken [s5] | 2.5/2.5 |
| ✓ | Pre-visit consultation possible Appointments and questions are taken by phone (English spoken) or by e-mail. [s5] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ✓ | Clear service explanations Each procedure is published with a numbered list of risks, side effects and refund terms, plus linked video explanations. [s4] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | Convenient opening hours Monday to Friday 10:00-16:00 only; closed Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays, as also recorded in the national medical-institution register. The English page's claim of Saturday opening contradicts both the Japanese site header and the register. [s1] [s6] | 0/1.5 |
AI & Search Visibility
4 / 10
Whether the clinic is discoverable when patients search - including via AI assistants. Checked with fixed queries: "best dentist Japan", "English speaking dentist Japan", "dental implants Japan", "emergency dentist Japan", "Japan dental clinic for expats".
| ✗ | Mentioned for: best dentist Japan Web search 2026-09-06: not among results for "best dentist Fukuoka" (named results were Shinozaki Dental Clinic, Hakata Chuo Dental Clinic, ALLON4 ZYGOMA Clinic, Yamamichi Dental Clinic). [q1] | 0/1 |
| ✓ | Mentioned for: English speaking dentist Japan [sq1] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: dental implants Japan Web search 2026-09-06: not among results for "dental implants Fukuoka" (named results were Fukuoka Dental College Hospital, ALLON4 ZYGOMA Clinic, Yamamichi Dental Clinic, Kasuga Dental Clinic, Hakata Chuo Dental Clinic, Hachishika Clinic). [q2] | 0/1 |
| ✓ | Mentioned for: emergency dentist Japan Web search 2026-09-06: its own English page (fukuoka-endodontics.com/?page_id=43, titled "English - Matsuura Shika Iin Shinai Ryoho Senmonshitsu", i.e. Matsuura Dental Clinic, endodontic practice) appeared among results for "emergency dentist Fukuoka", though the answer text summarized Hakata Chuo, Yasumasu, Tomo, and Yoshizuka Hamai by name instead. [q3] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: Japan dental clinic for expats Web search 2026-09-06: not among results for "Fukuoka dental clinic for expats" (named results were Yamamichi Dental Clinic, Tomo Dental Clinic, Yasumasu Dental Office). [q4] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Structured data on website The JSON-LD carries WebPage, WebSite, BreadcrumbList, Organization, ImageObject and SearchAction markup only; there is no LocalBusiness or Dentist node. [s1] | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | Google indexing quality own domain fukuoka-endodontics.com takes the top result plus its clinic-info, English and director pages (4 of 12), with the practice's seminar sites fukuoka-endodontics.blog and fukuoka-endodontist.com also ranking; the remaining results are unrelated academic endodontics papers (web search 2026-09-07) [giq1] | 2/2 |
| ✗ | Dedicated service pages The site's pages cover the practice, the specialty, fees, referral procedure and seminars; individual procedures are documented in blog case reports rather than on dedicated service pages. [s1] | 0/1.5 |
Licensing & Credentials
Whether the clinic publishes its operating licence and the dentists working there together with their professional licence numbers. A verified “not published” is recorded as a red flag; data we have not checked yet is shown as unverified and carries no penalty.
Clinic operating licence: Registered in the national medical-institution register, MHLW Healthcare Information Net, under the statutory reporting system (Medical Care Act Article 6-3), facility ID 4030009080198 (prefecture 40 / dental clinic / institution code 0009080198), record last updated 2026-04-03; founder type: individual, with the founder and responsible-dentist fields left unreported by the facility. (The clinic is absent from the Kyushu Regional Bureau list of designated health-insurance institutions (hoken iryo kikan, snapshot 2026-08-01, re-read to the last of its 2,937 rows on 2026-09-04 and searched by telephone, name and dentist name) because, as it states on its own site ("this dental clinic is not a health-insurance medical institution", in the site's Japanese), it works only on a self-pay basis. That absence is therefore not evidence of any missing licence.) [reg3] [reg1] [s1]
Dentists & MHLW register entry
| Dentist | Specialization | MHLW entry |
|---|---|---|
| 松浦 顯 (Akira Matsuura) [s2] [reg2] | Director; Nagasaki University School of Dentistry 2002; University of Southern California graduate endodontics programme 2016; US-trained endodontist and AAE (American Association of Endodontists) Specialist Member | not found in the public register (checked 4 September 2026) |
One or more named dentists could not be found in the public register on the date checked — recorded as unverified, no penalty.
Red Flags
No red flags identified in the public sources we reviewed.
Data We Could Not Verify
- Information Transparency: Real clinic photos
- Reputation & Reviews: Clinic responds to reviews
- Reputation & Reviews: No recurring complaints
- Reputation & Reviews: No suspicious review patterns
- Medical Infrastructure: Pediatric dentistry
- Communication & Service: Response speed
Unverified items score 0 points but are not treated as negative findings. If you can document any of them, please send a correction.
Contact Information
| Website | https://fukuoka-endodontics.com/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +81 92-409-8345 |
| Google Maps | Map listing |
| Address | 3-13-4 Hakataeki-mae, Hakata-ku, Fukuoka 812-0011, Japan (Lien Premium Hakata Ekimae Bldg. 2F) |
Contact details are provided for identification only and may change; verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | https://fukuoka-endodontics.com/ | Clinic name, scope of practice, statement that it is not a health-insurance institution, contacts, opening days, structured-data check | 2026-09-04 |
| s2 | https://fukuoka-endodontics.com/?page_id=21 | Director's name with published romanisation, education, USC graduate endodontics programme and AAE membership | 2026-09-04 |
| s3 | https://fukuoka-endodontics.com/?page_id=1215 | Fee schedule dated 2025-04-23, consultation fees, per-procedure prices, sedation surcharge and worked cost examples | 2026-09-04 |
| s4 | https://fukuoka-endodontics.com/?page_id=35 | First-visit protocol with CBCT imaging, radiography included in the fee, and numbered risk and refund disclosures per procedure | 2026-09-04 |
| s5 | https://fukuoka-endodontics.com/?page_id=43 | English-language page, English-speaking statement, emergency mention, address, hours and payment methods | 2026-09-04 |
| s6 | https://www.iryou.teikyouseido.mhlw.go.jp/znk-web/juminkanja/S2430/… | Register-recorded opening hours 10:00-13:00 and 14:00-16:00 Monday to Friday, closed Saturday, Sunday and public holidays | 2026-09-04 |
| reg1 | https://kouseikyoku.mhlw.go.jp/kyushu/gyomu/gyomu/hoken_kikan/index… | Kyushu Regional Bureau of Health and Welfare medical-institution code roster, Fukuoka Prefecture dental workbook (r8_08_shika_fukuoka_02.xlsx), snapshot 2026-08-01, read to the last of its 2,937 numbered entries: this practice is not listed, consistent with its own statement that it is not a health-insurance institution | 2026-09-04 |
| reg2 | https://licenseif.mhlw.go.jp/search_isei/jsp/top.jsp | MHLW physician/dentist qualification confirmation search (national dentist register): exact full-name searches for Akira Matsuura and for the standard-kanji-form variant of his name both returned no rows on 2026-09-04. The register’s own coverage statement limits it to dentists who filed the 2024 biennial notification plus those licensed from January 2025, so a nil result is a gap in the register’s population, not evidence about this dentist | 2026-09-04 |
| reg3 | https://data.e-gov.go.jp/data/dataset/iryou_teikyouseido_mhlw | MHLW Healthcare Information Net open data, 03-1_dental_facility_info_20251201.csv, snapshot 2025-12-01, record 4030009080198: official name, address and coordinates 33.587763 / 130.415241 | 2026-09-04 |
| sq1 | search:English speaking dentist Fukuoka dental clinic | AI/search visibility scout 2026-09-04 — practice named in the answer as assisting the English-speaking community | 2026-09-04 |
| gmp1 | https://www.google.com/maps/place/%E3%81%BE%E3%81%A4%E3%81%86%E3%82… | Live Google Maps place page read in a browser: rating, review count, star histogram, review dates, owner replies, listing website, phone, address and pin coordinates | 2026-09-06 |
| q1 | search:best dentist Fukuoka | AI/search visibility scout — canonical query | 2026-09-06 |
| q2 | search:dental implants Fukuoka | AI/search visibility scout — canonical query | 2026-09-06 |
| q3 | search:emergency dentist Fukuoka | AI/search visibility scout — canonical query | 2026-09-06 |
| q4 | search:Fukuoka dental clinic for expats | AI/search visibility scout — canonical query | 2026-09-06 |
| giq1 | search:まつうら歯科医院 歯内療法専門室 福岡 Matsuura Endodontics Fukuoka | own domain fukuoka-endodontics.com takes the top result plus its clinic-info, English and director pages (4 of 12), with the practice's seminar sites fukuoka-endodontics.blog and fukuoka-endodontist.com also ranking; the remaining results are unrelated academic endodontics papers | 2026-09-07 |
| matsuura-endodontics-fukuoka-presence | https://caloo.jp/hospitals/search/40/all?name=%E3%81%BE%E3%81%A4%E3… | Caloo's own search of Fukuoka prefecture for the clinic's name, 2026-10-02: 7 clinics named Matsuura, none at 3-13-4 Hakataeki-mae, Hakata-ku; no result for its full name | 2026-10-02 |
| matsuura-endodontics-fukuoka-presence-2 | https://haisha-yoyaku.jp/bun2sdental/detail/index/id/z200014074/ | EPARK Dental page for Matsuura Dental Clinic endodontic office, 3-13-4 Hakataeki-mae, Hakata-ku, Fukuoka, read 2026-10-02: a page built from public data with a listing-request control and no review; the clinic does not take bookings through EPARK | 2026-10-02 |
| matsuura-endodontics-fukuoka-presence-3 | https://www.whatclinic.com/dentists/japan/fukuoka | WhatClinic catalog of dentists in Fukuoka read page by page on 2026-10-02 (2 listings on 1 page) and checked against the WhatClinic sitemap (2 Fukuoka profiles), addresses compared: no profile of the clinic; direct profile addresses for its name (matsuura-dental-clinic, matsuura-endodontics) return 404 | 2026-10-02 |
| matsuura-endodontics-fukuoka-presence-4 | https://www.facebook.com/uscendodontistinjapan/ | Facebook page "Matsuura Dental Clinic, Akira Matsuura DDS Endodontics" (248 followers), read 2026-10-02; newest post 2020-06-15; Not yet rated (0 reviews); address 3-13-4 Hakata-ekimae, Lien Premium Hakata Ekimae Bldg 2F (given in Japanese); phone +81 92-409-8345; website fukuoka-endodontics.com, the clinic's own site | 2026-10-02 |
| matsuura-endodontics-fukuoka-tripadvisor | https://www.tripadvisor.com/TypeAheadJson?action=API&details=true&q… | TripAdvisor's own search, read 2026-10-05: 12 suggestions for "Matsuura Endodontics Fukuoka" (1 place, 4 attractions, 6 hotels, 1 restaurant), none of them a dental practice in or near Fukuoka; 12 suggestions for "Matsuura Dental" (1 place, 4 attractions, 6 hotels, 1 restaurant), none of them a dental practice in or near Fukuoka; no listing for this clinic | 2026-10-05 |
| matsuura-endodontics-fukuoka-tripadvisor-2 | https://fukuoka-endodontics.com/ | Clinic's website, home page read 2026-10-05: no link to a TripAdvisor page | 2026-10-05 |
Change History
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-05 | TripAdvisor presence checked on 2026-10-05: no listing found for this clinic. |
| 2026-10-02 | Facebook presence re-checked on 2026-10-02: the clinic's Facebook page is inactive. |
| 2026-10-02 | Presence re-checked: presence on other review platforms — no. |
| 2026-09-29 | Corrected 2026-09-29: no recurring complaints and no suspicious review patterns now unverified: 4 Google reviews are too few to show a pattern; clinic responds to reviews now unverified: with 4 Google reviews a missing owner reply shows nothing yet; active Facebook presence now unverified: no Facebook search is on record, so the absence of a page is not established. |
| 2026-09-06 | Checked by hand in a browser: the Google Maps place page was opened in a real browser and read for rating, review count, star histogram, review recency, owner replies, complaint and manipulation reading, listing website, phone, address and pin coordinates; the checks that needed a rendering browser were worked through on the clinic's own channels. |
| 2026-09-04 | Adversarial verification pass 2026-09-04: the licence search re-run live under both gender filters and both kanji forms (still nil); the Kyushu Regional Bureau list re-read to its last row and the absence re-confirmed against the clinic's own statement that it is not a health-insurance medical institution (hoken iryo kikan); the Iryo Joho Net detail record re-opened (operator and managing dentist genuinely unreported); the English page's Saturday claim re-confirmed to contradict both the Japanese site header and the register; the investigative text moved out of the rendered licence value. |
| 2026-09-04 | Initial data collection for the Japan Dental Transparency & Trust Index: verified against the clinic's own site, the MHLW national medical-institution register Iryo Joho Net and its 2025-12-01 open data, the Kyushu Regional Bureau health-insurance institution list (snapshot 2026-08-01) and the MHLW national dentist register. |
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