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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How Long Does Dental Numbness Last, and What Should You Avoid?
Numbness after dental treatment wears off on its own. What matters in the meantime is not biting the lip or cheek you cannot feel, and knowing which symptoms are worth…
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Korea’s National Health Insurance and Dental Implants: What It Covers
If you are enrolled in Korea’s National Health Insurance and are 65 or over, two implants are covered in your lifetime. The conditions attached to that are specific, and several…
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Lateral or Crestal: The Two Ways a Sinus Lift Is Done
Where the upper jaw is too thin for an implant, the sinus floor is lifted first. There are two techniques, they are chosen for different reasons, and they differ in…
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A Gold Crown Worn Through, and Bone Lost to the Furcation
A heavy bite had worn a hole through an old gold crown, and the molar beneath it had lost bone as far as the root division. Treated one side at…
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A Cavity Between the Two Front Teeth, Filled in One Visit
Decay between the upper central incisors, visible as a dark shadow and running through to the back surface. Why this position is technically awkward, and how it is restored in…
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Braces or Implants First? Why the Order Is Not Negotiable
An implant fuses to bone and stops moving. That single fact settles the sequence when a patient needs both aligners and implants – and getting it backwards cannot be undone.
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Dental Inlays: What the Five Materials Actually Trade Off
When a cavity is too large for a simple filling, an inlay is made to fit it. Resin, Tecera, ceramic, Lava and gold – what each is good at, what…
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Rebuilding a Mouth After Advanced Bone Loss: Grafting, Then Implants
Most of the lower teeth already gone, the rest mobile, and alveolar bone lost throughout. A staged plan over ten months: extractions, grafting, then implants upper and lower.
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What Happens Before a Wisdom Tooth Comes Out: The Examination Sequence
Oral examination, panoramic X-ray and, when the nerve canal overlaps, a 3D CT scan. What each step is looking for, and how it changes the way the tooth is removed.
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An Old Gold Crown That Started to Smell: Replacing It With Zirconia
An aching tooth and an odour from an old gold crown. The margin had lifted, decay had reached the nerve underneath, and the crown had to come off before anything…
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Wisdom Tooth Removal in Korea: The Scan, the Surgery and the Week After
A lower wisdom tooth lying sideways against the molar in front of it. Why a CT scan is taken before removal, how the nerve is avoided, and the aftercare that…
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Black Triangles and a Failing Resin Repair on Lower Front Teeth
Gaps between lower front teeth had been closed with composite resin years earlier. By the time the discolouration was noticed, an X-ray found root infection and bone loss underneath.