Silicon Valley Endodontics is a solo specialist practice on purpose. The doctor who reviews your CBCT and sits with you at the consult is the doctor who does the procedure — and the doctor who sees you again if a retreatment, follow-up imaging, or microsurgical revision becomes necessary years later. For retreatments, apicoectomies, second opinions, and any case where the diagnosis isn't obvious, continuity changes the outcome.
Consult, treatment, follow-up, future revisions — all with Dr. Kung.
Your general dentist gets reports from one named specialist with one phone number.
Procedures only scheduled on Dr. Kung's clinic days. No mid-case substitution.
For straightforward single-visit root canals, it matters less. For retreatments, microsurgical apicoectomy, multi-visit cases, second opinions, and any case where the diagnosis is uncertain at the consult, continuity matters a lot. The doctor who reviewed your CBCT, palpated your tooth, and listened to your symptom history has context that doesn't fully transfer in a chart note.
No — a well-run group practice can be excellent, and group practices often have advantages we don't (deeper bench for scheduling, more doctor-hours per week). The trade-off is that the doctor you meet at consult may not be the doctor who treats you, especially for procedures scheduled weeks out. For some patients that's fine. For others, particularly anxious patients and complex-case patients, having one specialist throughout is the deciding factor.
Our office only schedules procedures on days Dr. Kung is in the office. Urgent walk-in patients during vacation periods are referred out with a written summary; routine cases are scheduled for Dr. Kung's return. We never substitute a different specialist mid-case.
It's simpler. Your general dentist gets reports from one named specialist with one phone number — every retreatment, every second opinion, every follow-up. Coordination is direct rather than triaged through a group scheduler.
See also: specialist endodontist vs. group practice · when to get a second opinion · about Dr. Kung.