Much like medical services, dental work is often much cheaper outside the U.S., so it may make sense for many to have some dental work done if you're on vacation somewhere for a time or even to travel overseas specifically for expensive dental work.
I have a 19 year old 4 acrylic tooth bridge on a couple of titanium implants that has seen better days. It's become a bit discolored and the teeth have worn down badly (from rubbing against my other teeth) over the almost 2 decades I've had it.
My family dentist in Florida quoted me ~ $5000 to replace it ($1000 per tooth + bridge material). So I didn't have it done, since I can't afford that being ER'd.
My dentist here in Estonia (she's also a trained oral surgeon) just quoted me $745 for the same thing! And her office is just as modern as the one back in FL. It's in a larger dental clinic so the overhead per dentist is probably much lower than a private office.
A new set of x-rays (from machine straight to computer screen, none of those plastic x-ray sheets), oral exam, tooth cleaning and polishing cost me $25. The goop they squirt into your mouth to make a dental mold (for the new bridge) was $60 for a full set of upper and lowers.
Even if I didn't live here, it would be cheaper to travel here from the US just to have that kind of work done. $700 plane ticket, $500 hotel for a week, couple hundred in food plus the dental work of $745 is only ~ $2000. Saving of $3000.
I'm not promoting the dental services here, I can imagine Americans can get an even better deal going someplace closer and cheaper like Mexico or Central America.
I just wanted to point out that it's definitely worth looking into if you're on a tight ER budget and need expensive dental work.
Trek
I have a 19 year old 4 acrylic tooth bridge on a couple of titanium implants that has seen better days. It's become a bit discolored and the teeth have worn down badly (from rubbing against my other teeth) over the almost 2 decades I've had it.
My family dentist in Florida quoted me ~ $5000 to replace it ($1000 per tooth + bridge material). So I didn't have it done, since I can't afford that being ER'd.
My dentist here in Estonia (she's also a trained oral surgeon) just quoted me $745 for the same thing! And her office is just as modern as the one back in FL. It's in a larger dental clinic so the overhead per dentist is probably much lower than a private office.
A new set of x-rays (from machine straight to computer screen, none of those plastic x-ray sheets), oral exam, tooth cleaning and polishing cost me $25. The goop they squirt into your mouth to make a dental mold (for the new bridge) was $60 for a full set of upper and lowers.
Even if I didn't live here, it would be cheaper to travel here from the US just to have that kind of work done. $700 plane ticket, $500 hotel for a week, couple hundred in food plus the dental work of $745 is only ~ $2000. Saving of $3000.
I'm not promoting the dental services here, I can imagine Americans can get an even better deal going someplace closer and cheaper like Mexico or Central America.
I just wanted to point out that it's definitely worth looking into if you're on a tight ER budget and need expensive dental work.
Trek