01 Your Doctor Should Never Change
What other treatment lasts more than a year — often more than three? Orthodontic treatment is unique among all dental treatments in that it takes the longest and demands the greatest continuity. This kind of treatment produces the best and most efficient results when a single doctor oversees it from start to finish. In fact, even at university hospitals, residents treat their assigned patients throughout their three-year training program, striving to complete treatment within that period and avoid handing patients over to another doctor midway.
At Yonsei Godeok S, a Chief Director specializing in orthodontics is always on site — the same clinic at the beginning, the middle, and the end of your treatment. Your attending doctor will not change, and we will take responsibility through to the very end.
02 Your Treatment Should Be Performed by a Doctor Who Specializes in Orthodontics
Among the many dentists out there, the number who specialized in orthodontics is not large. Only about 30–40% of dentists have completed specialty training at a university hospital, and among those, the number who completed a residency in the department of orthodontics is only around 5% — a very small group.
Doctors who specialized in orthodontics at a university hospital study nothing but orthodontic treatment for three years, which is what gives them their expertise. Many clinics advertise their orthodontic appliances, but an appliance is only a tool — whichever appliance is used, the doctor's experience and skill matter most in orthodontic treatment.
Yonsei Godeok S is the first orthodontic-specialist dental clinic in Godeok New Town, where a Chief Director trained in the Department of Orthodontics at Yonsei Severance Hospital personally provides treatment.
03 Commitment to Preventing Relapse: Our 10-Year Retention Program
Orthodontic treatment is not easy while it lasts — but maintenance after it ends is often even harder. Yonsei Godeok S Dental Clinic has introduced a "10-Year Retention Program": even after your orthodontic treatment is complete, we work to prevent relapse through systematic follow-up care, and we take responsibility through to the very end.
04 A Clinic That Provides All Treatments, Including Orthodontics
Looked at from an orthodontic perspective, dental clinics can be divided into "clinics that provide only general dentistry," "clinics that provide only orthodontic treatment," and "clinics that provide all treatments, including orthodontics." Which should you choose? Just as with the human body, your teeth and the tissues around them are organically interconnected.
Specializing in a single field is certainly valuable — but when every type of dental care can be performed at a specialist level within one clinic, a higher quality of care is the natural result. At Yonsei Godeok S, specialists in each field collaborate to provide treatment across every area of dentistry, including orthodontics — delivering quality care to our patients.
05 An Orthodontic Clinic Equipped with Advanced Diagnostic Technology
In every treatment, diagnosis matters most. No matter how knowledgeable the doctor, the best treatment plan can only be developed when the underlying diagnostic data is of high quality. Yonsei Godeok S Dental Clinic provides the finest diagnostic records with a low-dose 3D CT that images the entire facial skeleton, the Morpheus facial scanner that analyzes your face before and after orthodontic treatment, and the iTero intraoral scanner that captures the inside of your mouth at high speed for diagnosis without conventional impressions.
- Facial scanner: Morpheus 3D
- Intraoral scanner: iTero
- CT: Vatech Green 16