Check Only These 2 Criteria for a Good Place for Teeth Straightening

If I wait any longer, I feel like I might not be able to do it even if I want to

I’m planning to straighten my teeth with Invisalign,

and I really want to go to a place that is good at teeth straightening.

What criteria should I use to look at a dental clinic?

Hello, this is Yang-gu Lee, CEO and chief dentist at ID Dental Clinic.

These days, it is common for children to undergo orthodontic treatment at the right time while they are young, but in the past, because orthodontic treatment involved a lot to consider in terms of cost and time, many people put it off and often missed the timing.

Of course, just because you are an adult does not mean orthodontic treatment is impossible.

However, since physical growth has already been completed, tooth movement and speed may be somewhat slower than when the body is still flexible at a younger age.

On top of that, if problems such as malocclusion or impacted wisdom teeth are found structurally before orthodontic treatment, the difficulty of treatment can increase even more.

So adult orthodontic treatment can feel burdensome in many ways.

Even if the ideal time for treatment has already passed, if your malocclusion is severe enough that eating is uncomfortable right now, or if uneven teeth alignment is a visible complex, then starting orthodontic treatment before it gets any later may be the right answer.

And at this point, if you decide to get orthodontic treatment, it is only natural to visit several orthodontic clinics for consultations and compare each one’s conditions.

At this stage, it is also completely natural for anyone to want to find a place that is good at teeth straightening and trust them with the treatment.

So today, at ID Dental Clinic, I will explain in detail just two criteria that can help you identify a place that is good at teeth straightening.

Specialist orthodontist providing 1:1 dedicated care

Does the clinic take responsibility until the end of treatment?

In general, Invisalign orthodontic treatment uses genuine orthodontic appliances called “Invisalign,” made by Align Technology in the United States.

In effect, the appliances are the same here and there,

so you may wonder whether there is much point in looking for a place that is good at teeth straightening.

However, beyond the shared point of using a “genuine appliance,” the outcome of Invisalign treatment can be completely different depending on how experienced the dentist in charge is and what treatment plan is created step by step and over what period of time it is carried out.

Moreover, the mechanism of tooth movement in Invisalign treatment is also completely different from other types of orthodontic treatment.

In typical bracket orthodontics, teeth are moved by pulling them into empty space. Invisalign treatment, by contrast, moves teeth by pushing them.

Therefore, multiple appliances must be created at once while comprehensively considering the direction of tooth movement, the shape of the dental arch, and the process of correcting the bite.

In this process, the orthodontic specialist must establish a suitable plan for each treatment stage. If appliance modifications are needed, communication with the U.S. headquarters is also required.

As such, Invisalign orthodontic treatment is nearly impossible to carry out properly without extensive orthodontic experience and flexible know-how to support it.

So, to check whether a clinic is good at Invisalign orthodontic treatment,

it is best to first check whether the orthodontic specialist treats patients directly.

Because the complex orthodontic process can also be affected by a change in the treating clinician, you should additionally check whether the clinic operates on a 1:1 dedicated care system.

In particular, at ID Dental Clinic, we assign each patient a dedicated clinician for 1:1 care from consultation to treatment, completion, and retention management, and we take responsibility for helping them throughout.

At ID Dental Clinic, a place known for Invisalign orthodontic treatment, we first use the 3D oral scanner “i-Tero” to reproduce the patient’s tooth condition and structure as they are, and based on that, we carefully check the before-and-after orthodontic outcome.

Then, highly experienced orthodontic specialists use this information to guide the patient through a more suitable treatment plan step by step, delivering a much higher level of orthodontic results.

Invisalign status Red Diamond

How much orthodontic experience do they have?

But how can you tell how much orthodontic experience the clinic and the medical team who will handle your treatment have, and how skilled they are?

A place that is good at Invisalign orthodontic treatment can be identified by checking the “Invisalign tier.”

The Invisalign tier is assigned once a year by Align Technology, the U.S. headquarters that developed and manufactures Invisalign appliances, and is given only to dental clinics that perform Invisalign treatment.

This can be reviewed in a total of 10 levels.

Each tier can be earned only by meeting certain criteria, and the highest-tier Red Diamond among the Invisalign rankings requires more than 1,000 Invisalign cases per year.

And among clinics in Korea that are good at teeth straightening, ID Dental Clinic was the first to achieve this top Red Diamond tier in 2021.

Among domestic Invisalign clinics, ID Dental Clinic is also the only single clinic in Korea to hold the Red Diamond tier.

As this has continued for four consecutive years to date, the cumulative record, which already means more than 4,000 cases, is also unique. (As of December 2024, 4,622 cases were recorded.)

Therefore, one could say that ID Dental Clinic is among the places in Korea that have performed the most Invisalign treatments.

Extensive experience often proves technical skill along with know-how. It also gives a sense of how stable that technique is.

And in the end, such experience is refined and built through countless and diverse cases.

The same is true for orthodontics.

So when looking for a place that is good at Invisalign orthodontic treatment, we recommend checking the tier first whenever possible.

Up to this point, we have explained in detail the two criteria for identifying a place that is good at teeth straightening at ID Dental Clinic.

ID Dental Clinic is also the only Invisalign Flagship Clinic in Korea officially recognized by Invisalign.

Accordingly, we actually attend domestic and international symposia and conferences for the advancement of dental technology, sharing our own orthodontic techniques and know-how and introducing various orthodontic treatment cases.

Looking at this, many areas have recently introduced AI technology.

At ID Dental Clinic, we believe there is a role that can only be performed by a human and cannot be replaced.

That is why we never become complacent with our technical capabilities and continue to conduct research in the field of orthodontics without pause in order to give each patient the most ideal treatment results.

I hope the information shared today was helpful to those of you considering orthodontic treatment.

Please refer to it carefully, and I hope you are able to receive more satisfying orthodontic care.

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Treatment and surgery outcomes may vary depending on the patient’s condition, and side effects such as swelling, bleeding, and pain may occur. Please consult with medical staff before undergoing treatment.

This treatment was personally provided by Director Yang-gu Lee at ID Dental Clinic. The photos were taken under the same shooting conditions of the same subject and published without separate photo editing.