Sindang Station Dental Clinic / Crown case and price for treating discoloration in a tooth with a dead nerve / Our foreign patient shed tears

Hello, we are Yonsei Yegam Dental Clinic, located at Exit 7 of City Hall Station.

We are a dental clinic located directly across from the Samsung Main Building,

opened in 2018 and now in our 8th year. (The director has more than 10 years of clinical experience in dentistry.)

Today, we would like to introduce an emotional case from our dental clinic, where foreign patients deliberately come to receive treatment, involving a foreign patient who shed tears after treatment.

[We only introduce cases with the patient’s consent!]

Before treatment, after crown treatment on one front tooth

The patient is a foreign patient in her 20s.

She had already received root canal treatment on one front tooth after an accident when she was 8 years old, and after that it became discolored. Aside from that discolored upper front tooth, she was a perfect foreign woman.

When there is one tooth that stands out so noticeably in yellow, she probably couldn’t even smile. How difficult must that have been during childhood and adolescence?

This year, she came to our clinic and also worked hard on treatment for other cavities.

The director explained the front tooth crown option, saying, “It’s not something you absolutely have to do, but if you want it, getting a crown on the front tooth will make the color much better than it is now.”

For a discolored tooth with a dead nerve after root canal treatment, there is something called non-vital tooth whitening.

However, non-vital tooth whitening has limitations in recurrence and color stability, and it often does not end in a single treatment session, requiring follow-up observations for long-term maintenance. In other words, the major drawback is that the discoloration is likely to recur relative to the money and effort invested.

(For teeth in which the nerve has completely died, ordinary whitening products used for maintenance rather than non-vital tooth whitening will of course not work.)

If the tooth is covered with a front tooth crown, the color is essentially covered entirely with an artificial material, so the color can be maintained almost permanently with the crown color. Considering the permanent aspect of the color, a crown is more stable, so we recommended the crown.

After crown treatment on one front tooth

She came back after having the tooth prepared and wearing a temporary tooth, and then returned to have the crown we made attached.

Unlike molar crowns, front tooth crowns require careful consideration of shape and color, and especially for color, the shade of teeth varies greatly from person to person and tooth to tooth, so we always explain that color adjustments may be possible.

We also asked this patient whether she would like us to adjust the color a little.

But as soon as she put the crown on in the dental chair, she cried because she was so happy with the color.

(We actually wanted to adjust it just a little more naturally. But the patient liked it so much that, as is usually the case with front teeth, she did not even want temporary cementation and wanted permanent cementation right away.)

After crown treatment on one front tooth

Because our clinic does a lot of front tooth treatment compared to general dental clinics, and we do a lot of whitening, veneers, and front tooth crowns,

often people come saying they thought we were a clinic specializing in front teeth. So I suggested to the director that we push our front tooth treatments, and this is what the director said!

Director’s words: Can a dental clinic be good only at front teeth? Fundamentally, you can only be good at front teeth if you are good at molars, and because occlusion also has to be considered, does the idea of a “front-tooth specialty clinic” even make sense?

I thought it was a reasonable point. Dental treatment is not about looking at just one tooth; all the teeth are connected through occlusion, contact, and more. There can be no clinic that is only good at front teeth.

There can be clinics that are only good at molars!

But clinics that are good at molars and front teeth together are rare!

A clinic that is good at both molars and front teeth is Yonsei Yegam Dental Clinic.

Here is the crown price you are probably most curious about (as of 2025).

• Examinations including panoramic X-rays are covered by the national health insurance premium, and - all dental treatments are carried out under the diagnosis of the treating doctor.

• Zirconia crowns for molars are 500,000 KRW each.

• Front tooth crowns are more difficult than molar crowns, especially when it comes to matching color, because color and shape are especially important. Therefore, front tooth crowns are more expensive than molar crowns, and the price of a front tooth zirconia crown is 650,000 KRW per tooth for a standard case. If there is deep decay in areas other than the part that needs to be trimmed for the crown, the cost of resin core buildup after caries removal may be added.

▼Another foreign patient front tooth discoloration crown case

https://blog.naver.com/yonseiyegam/223164133365

▼Severe discolored front tooth & one protruding tooth crown case

https://blog.naver.com/yonseiyegam/223023042826

▼ My front tooth is protruding / It broke case

https://blog.naver.com/yonseiyegam/222619692686

A place people even visit from overseas to create beautiful and healthy teeth

Yonsei Yegam Dental Clinic at City Hall Station, close to Euljiro, Seoul Station, Chungjeongno, and Gwanghwamun