Slim Dental Kids

Slim Dental Kids Slim Dental Kids (previously York Kids Dental) is a Pediatric Dental office that serves the dental n

Update 2025: We love Slim dental! We just saw Dr. Kim yesterday and she is so professional and thorough. My daughter‘s r...
11/23/2025

Update 2025: We love Slim dental! We just saw Dr. Kim yesterday and she is so professional and thorough. My daughter‘s regular dentist is Dr. Naco and she is excellent too. This is a great business.I struggled to find a good pediatric dentist in NYC since we moved. My daughter's last dentist on the Upper East Side was impersonal and got right down to discussing a multitude of procedures, which apparently needed to happen asap. I was not thrilled.After doing my research on what my insurance (Metlife) covered, I found Slim Dental and just had my daughter's checkup with Dr. Lin. I was so impressed with his demeanor, how rationally he explained his answers to my questions, and the clean and calm setup of this practice.Highly recommend Dr. Lin and Slim Dental if you want a dentist who is genuinely nice to kids and has a great bedside manner. Also, surprise, surprise - he didn't push for any of the services that were 'highly necessary' as deemed by the other dentist. Always worth getting a second opinion!

We had a wonderful first dentist experience with our 21-month old. The dentist was very patient and warm, which helped o...
11/22/2025

We had a wonderful first dentist experience with our 21-month old. The dentist was very patient and warm, which helped our child feel at ease. She was very informative and we left with a lot of tangible tips and info. Highly recommend! As an update- we sent our 14 month old for her first appointment and were so pleased with the attentiveness, bedside manner, and thoroughness!

My granddaughter had the best "first" experience with Dr. Kim. She put her to ease, explained everything that she was do...
11/21/2025

My granddaughter had the best "first" experience with Dr. Kim. She put her to ease, explained everything that she was doing, and was very kind. We are very satisfied customers.2nd visit, and Lia is still smiling!Lia loves coming to the dentist. Dr. Lim is the absolute best. He answers all of her questions with a smile. Couldn't ask for more!

Address

1400 York Avenue
New York, NY
10021

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 6pm
Tuesday 9am - 6pm
Wednesday 9am - 6pm
Thursday 9am - 6pm
Friday 9am - 6pm
Saturday 9am - 4pm

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+16467270256

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Founded In the Aftermath of Superstorm Sandy

SLimDental used to be called Stephen Lim, DDS (founded in 2003) before the name change in 2011. I started my practice so I could practice the ideal standard of care that I learned in dental school. SLimDental was one dental practice with 2 locations in the Rockefeller Center and Murray Hill. We generated alot of buzz through our exceptional patient care delivered with soft hands and soft skills. It wasn’t long before people were asking when will we see their children. Happy to stay in familiar territory I limited our practice to the adult population of Manhattan referring children to a long established childrens’ dentist. I worked and lived in Manhattan myself and sent my own kids to a reputable pediatric dentist. But in 2012 my family escaped the island to take refuge with family friends in Queens during the blackout caused by Superstorm Sandy.

Well it was during that time that my oldest child then 9 years old complained to me that something fell out of his teeth and there was a big whole in one of them. I chalked it up to the stress of the event for a 9 year old boy and perhaps he was grinding his teeth. One by one more and more fillings were popping out so one day we endured the traffic leading into the Midtown Tunnel and opened up SLimDental Rockefeller Center so that Daddy the dentist could fix the problem. As I looked at all the dental work done on my son by my reputable Pediatric Dentist colleague, finding them loose and having to replace them the thought dawned on me: we can do better. As I was filled with confidence seeing my son receive his father’s treatment so gratefully out of want and need, it clicked in my mind and SLimDental Kids was conceived.

I made the announcement to my team in the following weeks and 6 months later we opened York Kids Dental in an already built out and abandoned dental office on 58th and Lex. It wasn’t long before we decided to re-locate to a state of the art facility custom built for us on the Upper East Side at 1400 York Ave. Ironically, after moving to York avenue we changed the name from York Kids Dental to SLimDental Kids out of a desire to give recognition to the connection between our now 3 offices. As I write this story I am sitting in a classroom in UCLA taking continuing education for pediatric dentistry. From tragedy comes blessing. Superstorm Sandy brought in SLimDental Kids to benefit children and families in Manhattan. We are going the extra smile!