Dr Pang Yoke Teen

About Dr Pang

Dr Pang Yoke Teen graduated from the National University of Singapore with an MBBS and chose Otolaryngology — Head & Neck Surgery — early in his career, drawn to its blend of fine surgical work, clinic-based diagnostics, and the chance to look after patients of every age, from newborn babies to grandparents. He completed postgraduate ENT training in Singapore before pursuing further subspecialty fellowships in the United Kingdom and the United States, returning home to spend more than a decade at the National University Hospital.

At NUH he served as a Senior Consultant and Clinical Director in the Department of Otolaryngology, where he helped build the rhinology and allergy clinic into one of Singapore's busiest tertiary referral services. It was during this period that he introduced two programmes that have since shaped Singapore ENT practice — Sublingual Immunotherapy (SLIT) for allergic rhinitis, and Image Guided Surgery for complex sinus and skull-base cases. He moved into private practice at Mt Elizabeth Medical Centre to offer the same standard of subspecialty care in a focused, unhurried setting at CENTAS, and continues to teach and supervise junior ENT colleagues.

Dr Pang's consultations are deliberately conversational. He believes patients deserve to understand why they have the symptoms they do before being asked to commit to any treatment, and he routinely talks through nasoendoscopy footage and CT images on the consulting-room monitor so that patients can see what he is seeing. His approach is conservative-first: lifestyle changes, allergen avoidance, medical therapy, and immunotherapy are explored before surgery is considered, and surgery is recommended only when medical management has clearly failed or when the anatomy will not heal without it. He consults in English and Mandarin (with simple Hokkien and Cantonese for elderly patients), and is recognised by colleagues for his patience with anxious children and his unhurried style with elderly patients who need time to process information. Every recommendation he makes is grounded in current evidence-based ENT and allergy guidelines.

Qualifications & Training

• MBBS, National University of Singapore
• Postgraduate ENT specialist training, Singapore
• Subspecialty fellowship training, United Kingdom — rhinology and image-guided sinus & skull-base surgery
• Subspecialty fellowship training, United States — allergy diagnostics and immunotherapy (SCIT & SLIT)
• Fellow, Royal College of Surgeons (Edinburgh)

This combination of UK rhinology and US allergy training is unusual in Singapore. It allows Dr Pang to look at a difficult nose problem from both angles at once — surgically (is there a structural cause that needs operating on?) and immunologically (is there an underlying allergic driver that, if treated, would settle the problem without surgery?). For Singapore patients, that integrated view often shortens the path from years of antihistamine trials to a definitive diagnosis and a long-term plan.

Clinical Firsts & Achievements

• Pioneered Sublingual Immunotherapy (SLIT) for allergic rhinitis at the National University Hospital — Dr Pang was the first to introduce non-injection allergen immunotherapy into mainstream Singaporean ENT practice. SLIT matters because it is a daily home dose taken under the tongue rather than a clinic-administered injection, which makes long-term treatment realistic for needle-phobic adults and, critically, for children — a population for whom monthly injections are usually a non-starter.
• Established the Image Guided Surgery Programme at NUH — real-time 3D navigation for sinus and skull-base surgery, similar in principle to GPS for the operating field. This dramatically improves safety in revision sinus surgery, in patients with distorted anatomy from previous operations, and in cases where the disease lies close to the eye, brain, or carotid artery.
• Former Senior Consultant & Clinical Director, Department of Otolaryngology, National University Hospital
• Spearheaded the ENT Allergy & Rhinology Clinic at NUH — building a multidisciplinary service for patients with allergic rhinitis, chronic rhinosinusitis, and nasal polyposis
• Over 20 years of ENT specialist experience, across the United Kingdom, the United States, and Singapore

Areas of Special Interest

Dr Pang's clinic is broad-based ENT, but the following are the conditions he sees most often and has built focused expertise in:

What to Expect at Your First Visit

Most first consultations at CENTAS take between 30 and 45 minutes. The pace is deliberately unhurried — Dr Pang would rather take 10 extra minutes today than have you return next week unsure of what was found.

1. Registration at reception. Please bring NRIC or passport, your insurance card, any referral letter, and a list of your current medications. New patient registration takes about five minutes.
2. Medical history discussion with Dr Pang. A structured conversation about your symptoms, when they started, what makes them better or worse, prior treatments tried, and any relevant family history of allergy, asthma, or ENT problems.
3. Physical examination. Ears (otoscopy), nose (anterior rhinoscopy), throat, and palpation of the neck nodes. Brief and painless.
4. Nasoendoscopy if indicated. A thin flexible camera, about the diameter of a thick spaghetti strand, is passed gently through the nose. The procedure takes about a minute and is comfortable for most patients, including children. The images are shown on a monitor in real time.
5. Hearing test or allergy testing if needed. An audiogram (hearing test) is performed in the on-site sound-treated booth. Skin prick allergy testing is performed during the same visit — results read in 15 minutes.
6. Discussion of findings & treatment plan. Dr Pang reviews the nasoendoscopy footage, hearing results, or imaging on the consulting-room monitor with you. You leave with a written summary, a clear plan, and any prescriptions or referrals printed.
7. Total duration: approximately 30–45 minutes for a standard new consultation; longer if multiple investigations are performed in the same visit.

Bilingual consultations (English and Mandarin) are standard. A spouse, parent, or adult child is welcome to sit in — patients often appreciate having a second pair of ears for the explanation. Paediatric assessments are paced specifically for children: the room has been set up so that small patients see the camera, the monitor, and Dr Pang's calm demeanour all working together, which keeps anxiety to a minimum.

Patient Reviews & Trust Signals

★★★★★  4.8 out of 5 · 207 Google reviews

Patients consistently mention Dr Pang's clear explanations, his willingness to take time over questions, and his measured approach to treatment. The reviews most frequently highlight three things: the diagnosis-on-the-day allergy clinic, his manner with children, and his preference for medical management over surgery wherever it is reasonable.

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