Dental Tourism: More Costly Than Going To Your Dentist?

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The price of travelling abroad for cheap dental treatment can work out to be more costly than visiting your local dentist according to new research reported by the website Dentistry.co.uk.

Research by Dentale, a British dental implant clinic, suggests that although the recession has driven more people abroad for treatment, when you factor in the cost of travel and lodging -especially when multiple dental treatments are involved-, he could end up making dental tourism more expensive than simply going to a local dentist near where you live.

"It's important that when people are looking to go abroad for dental treatment that they not only investigate the cost of the procedure, but also the other added expenses such as hotels, flights and how many times they will have to see the dentist before the treatment is complete" warned Dentale's Jason Buglass. "In the case of dental implants, you need to make a number of follow-up visits and if your dentist is in another country this can not only be very time consuming but also costly."

Increasingly, so-called traveling to a poorer countries for dental treatment (i.e.'dental tourism') has provedg popular in recession-hit Great Britain and especially in the United States. Eastern Europe, Mexico and even India openly encourage dental tourism to their countries. Although less expensive, the standards for hygiene in the dental offices of these countries vary greatly and are usually do not measure up to those in either England or America.


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