Treatment records
Dental treatment records from Seongnam, Korea
Real cases treated at The Seoul Dental, written in English for patients considering treatment in Korea. Each entry below is a summary — open one to read the full record. Patient-identifying details are removed.
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Correcting a Protruding Mouth Without Extractions
Extract or not is the question every protrusion case turns on – and getting it wrong in either direction has a visible cost. This one was treated with self-ligating braces…
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Choosing the Cheaper Crown on Purpose
Decay hidden under an old amalgam filling, flagged at a check-up and deferred. By the time it was treated the tooth’s prognosis was limited – which is why a PFM…
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A Broken Front Tooth: Three Levels of Damage, Three Different Treatments
How a chipped tooth is treated depends entirely on how deep the break goes. This one had fractured through to the pulp – and the X-ray was taken to rule…
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Three Implants in One Mouth, Three Different Levels of Difficulty
Root infection at three sites. One was routine, one needed care near the nerve, and one had so little bone left that it was grafted and buried to heal. Same…
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Infection Around an Implant: Clean It, or Take It Out?
Three implants with half the fixture length exposed by bone loss. There are two ways to treat that, they are not equally likely to work, and the difference is worth…
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Implants When You Have Diabetes: Clearance First, Then a Minimal Incision
An older patient with diabetes and high blood pressure needed an implant and a sinus lift, and was worried about bleeding. What was done differently, and what was checked before…
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Gum Disease Under a Gold Bridge: Reading Bone Loss on an X-Ray
A gold bridge concealed how far the supporting bone had gone. Upper teeth extracted and implanted the same day; the lower side planned digitally around the nerve.
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Root Canal Retreatment: When the Patient and the Dentist Want Different Things
A previously root-treated front tooth had fractured at the crown, with infection at the root tip. The patient wanted it saved. The honest assessment was that an implant had the…
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Implant Overdentures: The Middle Option Between Dentures and Full-Arch Implants
Four decades of conventional dentures had left almost no ridge to work with. An overdenture clips onto a small number of implants – and costs a fraction of implanting a…
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Why Two Implant Crowns Are Sometimes Joined Together
A second implant next to one placed five years earlier. Rather than fitting the new crown on its own, both were splinted – and the reason is how fracture risk…
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Front Tooth Crowns: PFM, Zirconia or All-Ceramic
A resin repair that had failed four times, and a patient who wanted it covered instead. What each crown material gives up, and why the dentist argued against crowning first.
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Dental Implant or Bridge: How to Choose for a Missing Tooth
An implant replaces the root of a missing tooth. A bridge spans the gap using the teeth on either side. The choice usually turns on what those neighbouring teeth are…