Cosmetic Dentistry / New York City
209 NYC Dental
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Market detail: Cosmetic Dentistry · New York City
209 NYC Dental is not ranked in the all-time results.
No qualifying recommendation is recorded in this market's published all-time ranking. Raw appearances below may include other roles.
Research details Historical appearances, assistant counts and question types · all roles, separate from qualified recommendations.
All-time results for this market
Business appeared Jul 10, 2026–Oct 11, 2026
- Responses analyzed
- 8,460
- Responses naming business
- 186
- Historical appearance rate
- 2.2%
- Dates with published rank
- 10
These raw appearance totals cover all retained responses for this city and category, across all question types and roles, including sources and incidental mentions. They are not qualified recommendation counts. Appearance dates show when responses named this business; published rank dates can include repeated use of those responses. Current rank and confidence use the latest dated ranking.
Per-AI breakdown
Counts cover all published Atlas research for this market.
- Claude
- 6 mentions
- ChatGPT
- 0 mentions
- Gemini
- 2 mentions
- Perplexity
- 178 mentions
By question type
All-time mentions grouped by the type of question the buyer asked.
- Constraints
- 19 mentions
- Situation
- 18 mentions
- Follow Up
- 15 mentions
- Decision
- 24 mentions
- Crisis
- 106 mentions
- Advice
- 4 mentions
Peer firms in New York City cosmetic dentistry
Current ranks and mention rates · Oct 11, 2026 edition.
#1
Dr. Michael Apa
35.4% current mention rate · 4/4 AI
#2
Dr. Marc Lowenberg
30.7% current mention rate · 4/4 AI
#3
Lowenberg, Lituchy & Kantor
21.1% current mention rate · 4/4 AI
#4
Apa Aesthetic
19.7% current mention rate · 4/4 AI
#5
Dr. Brian Kantor
14.3% current mention rate · 4/4 AI
#6
Jonathan B. Levine
13.2% current mention rate · 4/4 AI
#7
NYC Smile Design
7.8% current mention rate · 4/4 AI
#8
Elisa Mello
6.5% current mention rate · 4/4 AI
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Buyer questions and AI answers
Simulated buyer questions from Atlas’s test dataset, paired with AI answers that mentioned this firm or professional. Open to see the questions and what was said.
186 AI answers with recorded context · 0 reviewed in context
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Simulated buyer question · Cosmetic Dentistry · New York City · Medical My dental insurance covers exactly zero of the cosmetic work I need in New York City. Are there any cosmetic dentists here that will structure any of the treatm... perplexity/sonar 2026-10-11 16:02:20 How the name appeared: Uncertain Open question and AI answer
What the simulated buyer asked
My dental insurance covers exactly zero of the cosmetic work I need in New York City. Are there any cosmetic dentists here that will structure any of the treatment as restorative (broken tooth, cracked filling) so at least the medically necessary portion is billable? Or is that not a real option?
…actice, NYC offices that say they can help with “restorative” claims or pre-authorization include Prosth & Co., Luxury Dentistry NYC, Smilist Brooklyn Heights, Dreisen Dental, and 209 NYC Dental[2][3][7][11][14][15]. Those offices appear to focus on insurance coordination and documenting any legitimate restorative portion of treatment rather than inventing coverage for cosmetic-only work[2][3][7][12][15].
The real option is this: if part of the treatment truly involves a broken tooth, cracked filling, or other functional repair, that portion may be bill…
How to read this mention
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Unreviewed contextual evidence; no qualification established.
Market: Cosmetic Dentistry · New York City · Medical
Factual accuracy: unverified · Practice fit: unknown
Context review: unreviewed. This is separate from practice eligibility and ranking.
No source URLs were recorded for this answer.
Simulated buyer question · Cosmetic Dentistry · New York City · Medical My dental insurance covers exactly zero of the cosmetic work I need in New York City. Are there any cosmetic dentists here that will structure any of the treatm... perplexity/sonar 2026-10-11 16:02:15 How the name appeared: Uncertain Open question and AI answer
What the simulated buyer asked
My dental insurance covers exactly zero of the cosmetic work I need in New York City. Are there any cosmetic dentists here that will structure any of the treatment as restorative (broken tooth, cracked filling) so at least the medically necessary portion is billable? Or is that not a real option?
…eck benefits before treatment[9].
- Midtown Dentist New York — says it can perform treatment and then bill insurance for reimbursement, including out-of-network plans[14].
- 209 NYC Dental — notes that some procedures that look cosmetic can still have restorative, medically necessary benefits[13].
What is not a real option is simply relabeling purely cosmetic work as restorative with no underlying clinical basis; insurers generally deny that[1][3][6]. The workable path is to have the dentist document the broken, cracked, decayed, or failing …
How to read this mention
The role of this name in the answer is uncertain or has not been reviewed.
Unreviewed contextual evidence; no qualification established.
Market: Cosmetic Dentistry · New York City · Medical
Factual accuracy: unverified · Practice fit: unknown
Context review: unreviewed. This is separate from practice eligibility and ranking.
No source URLs were recorded for this answer.
Simulated buyer question · Cosmetic Dentistry · New York City · Medical I'm looking for a cosmetic dentist in New York City whose office handles Mandarin fluently — I'm doing a smile makeover and my mother is helping me make the dec... perplexity/sonar 2026-10-11 15:59:40 How the name appeared: Uncertain Open question and AI answer
What the simulated buyer asked
I'm looking for a cosmetic dentist in New York City whose office handles Mandarin fluently — I'm doing a smile makeover and my mother is helping me make the decision and she speaks no English. Which practices actually have Mandarin-speaking staff, not just Google Translate?
…].
- Expert Dental NYC / Dr. Yi-Ling Shiao — Manhattan practice with a dentist who speaks English and Mandarin Chinese; the practice also lists a cosmetic focus[3][5].
- 209 NYC Dental / Dr. Ben Ifraimov and Dr. Jin Wang — Practice listing says Mandarin is spoken at the practice and includes cosmetic dentistry among services[1][13].
How to read this mention
The role of this name in the answer is uncertain or has not been reviewed.
Unreviewed contextual evidence; no qualification established.
Market: Cosmetic Dentistry · New York City · Medical
Factual accuracy: unverified · Practice fit: unknown
Context review: unreviewed. This is separate from practice eligibility and ranking.
No source URLs were recorded for this answer.
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