Clinic Records
ONE Dental Clinic
A Korean dental clinic weighted towards implants, which states 69,377 fixtures placed as at November 2024. Six dentists, four implant systems, and an oral and maxillofacial surgeon on staff.
Clinic Records
ONE Dental Clinic
A Korean dental clinic weighted towards implants, which states 69,377 fixtures placed as at November 2024. Six dentists, four implant systems, and an oral and maxillofacial surgeon on staff.
Doctors
Close enough to walk back to the hotel
A clinic six floors above Myeongdong-gil, running a menu built on short downtime. Proximity is the reason that menu works here and would not work an hour away.
Treatments
Root canal treatment, and the core that has to go in afterwards
The nerve is removed, the canal is cleaned and sealed, and then the hollow tooth has to be rebuilt with something hard enough to be crowned. The second half is the part patients are not told about.
Devices & Injectables
Pigment lasers are sorted by wavelength and pulse, not by brand name
Two numbers decide what a pigment laser does: which wavelength the light is, and how long the pulse lasts. Melasma is the exception that stops any of them being ranked.
Patient Guides
The five documents to ask for before you leave the clinic
Almost everything a clinic hands you at discharge is written for you. The documents your doctor at home will need are different, and they are far harder to obtain once you have flown.
Clinic Records
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Gowoonmom Clinic
A clinic in Seocho that works almost entirely in body-contouring fillers: hips, chest and shoulders rather than faces. The record, and the questions that matter more here than anywhere else.
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Vyneherb Clinic
A Korean medicine clinic near Dosan Park, built as a sequence of rooms rather than a corridor of cubicles.
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Doctors
- The surgeon operates on faces and very little else A face only practice in Gangnam, and the one clinic in this network whose registration to treat international patients has actually been checked. Published
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Twenty-four years on the same Songpa street
A clinic that opened in 2002 and never moved has watched several waves of device fashion arrive and settle. That is worth more to a patient than any single machine in the room.
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Where the difficult graft is an ordinary Tuesday
Bone that is not there yet, and a sinus floor sitting too low, are the two problems that send implant cases somewhere else. This Gangnam clinic is built around keeping them, with an oral surgeon in the building.
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Treatments
Implants, Crowns, bridges and dentures, Cosmetic dentistry, Gums, nerves and roots, or see all in Treatments
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Gum disease: the reason most of the implants on this site exist
Bacteria inflame the tissue holding the tooth, the inflammation eats bone, and the tooth is eventually lost. Almost every implant page here describes fixing damage this caused.
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Ceramic veneers: a thin shell on the front of a tooth, and what is removed to fit it
A veneer is bonded to the front surface of a tooth after that surface has been minimally reduced. ONE Dental states it can complete the treatment in a single day. What comes off the tooth does not grow back.
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Temporary teeth: what you actually wear while an implant heals
A flipper is a light plate with a tooth on it, held by a wire or resin clasp. A flexible denture bends. Neither is for chewing, and both are the difference between waiting comfortably and hiding.
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Devices & Injectables
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A unit of botulinum toxin is not a unit of anything else
Units look like a currency and are not. Each maker defines the unit against its own potency assay, so a price per unit means nothing until the brand is named.
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The five seconds before the needle: what a box of filler can and cannot prove
A lot number ties the object in the room to a manufacturing batch. It is worth asking for, and it is a smaller claim than the word "verified" suggests.
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What is actually in the syringe: reading a Korean clinic’s injectables shelf
The brand names collapse into four families, and the family answers what the brand will not: how long it lasts, what it costs to be wrong, and whether it can be undone.
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Patient Guides
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Quote, deposit, final estimate: which number is the one that binds
A price sent before anyone has examined you is an estimate of a plan that does not exist yet. The shape of the bill is checkable even when the figure is not.
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After you fly home: who to contact, in what order, if something goes wrong
Anything urgent is treated locally, and anything about what was done goes back to the operator. Korea also has a statutory mediation route that a patient abroad can use by email.
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How to check a Korean clinic and its agency before you pay anyone
Both the clinic and the agency sit on public registers. Here is how to look each one up in about ten minutes, and what a registration does not prove.
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