Treatment records
Implants
Implant cases treated at The Seoul Dental in Seongnam, Korea – single implants, full-arch restoration, bone grafting and revision of failed implants.
Cases treated at The Seoul Dental in Seongnam, Korea. Each entry is a summary — open one to read the full record. Patient-identifying details are removed.
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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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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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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…
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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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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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Root Infection and Multiple Missing Teeth: Rebuilding a Whole Bite
Missing molars, a retained root, severe root-end infection and teeth tilted into the gaps. How a full-mouth plan of implants, crowns and a bridge was sequenced.