Park Jonguk DDS, MS

Conservative dentistry is the specialty of saving teeth — before extracting or crowning, it asks what can still be kept. Through caries care, endodontics, and restoration, the entire residency trains one question: how to cut less and keep more, longer.

That is why veneers at Dream begin from no-prep and minimal-prep. Aesthetics is the goal, but preserving natural teeth is the instinct the specialty instills. Park’s AES, which plans reduction to 0.01 mm, and his work in the Korean Academy of Adhesive Dentistry are extensions of the same question.

And the person who diagnoses is the person who fabricates. Consultation, diagnosis, design, layering, and bonding pass through one set of eyes and hands — so the shade and translucency observed chairside carry straight into the ceramic.

Twenty years of clinical work were never kept private. The theory and cases of multilayer build-up became Korea’s first clinical veneer textbook, and the Lamista Academy shares them with fellow dentists through regular seminars — because turning what you have learned into something verifiable and teachable is the best way to refine it.

The consultation principle is the same: orthodontics or crowns for teeth veneers do not suit, and no treatment at all for teeth that need none. That some consultations end without a recommendation to treat — that is the standard kept for twenty years.

Even the diagnostic tool is his own. Park’s AES is an aesthetic diagnosis system that distills twenty years of proportion and reduction data into a working protocol — built to decide by numbers, not feel, whether no-prep is possible and where, and how much, to trim. It is shared openly with fellow dentists through his seminars.

Since the clinic opened, the center of practice has stayed the same: front-tooth aesthetics, and veneers above all. Working one treatment for decades reveals the grain of its cases — an accumulation that becomes diagnostic accuracy and the range to handle even revisions. Narrow, but deep — that is why Dream never widened its scope. Every answer given in today’s consult room stands on those twenty years.