Orthodontic treatment spans years, but its quality is largely set in one appointment: the diagnosis visit. Seoul Top Dental Hospital explains what that visit involves.
The records session
Panoramic and cephalometric X-rays, photos from standardized angles, and digital impressions of your teeth. Together they capture what your bite is doing in three dimensions, and this data becomes the raw material of the plan.
The analysis
Cephalometric analysis measures tooth angulation and jaw relationships against norms. This is where “crooked teeth” resolves into a real diagnosis: dental crowding, protrusion, a skeletal discrepancy, or a combination.
The plan discussion
Extraction or non-extraction and why, appliance options with honest trade-offs, expected duration and its variables, and what your smile and profile are expected to look like, including which changes are realistic and which are not.
The overseas-patient design layer
Visit rhythm, remote check-in methods and a what-if protocol for appliance problems are agreed before anything is bonded. Appliance choice itself may weigh your travel schedule.
Leaving with a decision you can trust
You are not obligated to start that day; a good diagnosis stands on its own. When you do start, everything after follows this map. Timelines vary by case. Book the diagnosis visit through Clinic in Korea.