Young dentists help neighbors in need
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Yonsei Good Day Dental Clinic dentist Choi Se-kyung
By Jhoo Dong-chan
Young dentist duo in their 30s are contributing their talents to help their neighbors in need.
Yonsei Good Day Dental Clinic dentists Baek Do-young and Choi Se-kyung provide a free lecture service teaching people how to care for their teeth and gums every year at the Yangjae Senior Welfare Center in Seocho-gu, southern Seoul. Those elderly people in need who participate in the lecture are also subject to receive partial funding for implant surgery and gum care procedures.
They also regularly visited the Suseo-dong Office in Gangnam-gu, southern Seoul, to help needy teenagers as well by providing cavity treatment and teeth correction services. Patients only pay the material costs.
Baek and Choi are also partner dentists of the Smile Charity Foundation, a charity group that provides free dental services for low-income disabled people.
“It is our social responsibility to provide quality dental services to people equally no matter how rich or poor they are and where they live,” said Baek.
“We offer top-quality university hospital-level dental services for our neighbors in the Gangnam area.”
Last year, Yonsei Good day Dental Clinic won the Korea Quality Satisfaction Index award for Choi and Baek’s efforts to help needy neighbors and their differentiated dental service quality.
They were also recently selected as this year’s best teeth correction dentists in Korea by the Ministry of Health and Welfare and the National Assembly Health and Welfare Committee.
Choi said that their success is attributed to their commitment in specialty work, service and sympathy for their patients.
“Our clinic features the latest dental equipment helping us provide the best dental service possible. Also, I, Baek and two other dentists in the clinic closely consult with each other for various dental cases to obtain the best results for the patients,” he said.
“It is really rewarding to see our patients smiling without hesitation after receiving our service.”