Dental treatment abroad

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My father needs to have several dental implants which will cost him thousands of pounds. He is thinking of going abroad for treatment as he thinks it will be cheaper.

Has anyone had any experience of this, or can recommend a clinic that they or someone they know has used? I am concerned about the quality of treatment and the cost of doing this, I really do not want him to get ripped off, or to come home needing even more repair work.

Can anybody help?

Is this just an advert for foreign dental treatment?

Yus, have reported as spam. The thread is ancient and full of complete bollocks anyway!!

I don't understand how you can have implants abroad?

Doesn't the bone have to grow around the implants for several weeks before you get the crown done?

You can load them immediately. Put the new tooth on top at the same time but it's not ideal in lots of cases and of course, if something goes wrong you've no comeback. Dentistry in the UK is more regulated than anywhere else in the world.

Dd2 has been undergoing treatment at our local dental hospital for years. We've just moved onto a new department (hopefully the final phase), and the dentist was telling me that they do loads of rectification work for those who have had "cheap" treatment abroad. He felt quite strongly that the NHS shouldn't be picking up this cost, and that the British were mad to allow this, he was on a scholarship from his home country.

Me and my wife want to immigrate to Canada but have been told that we need to get jobs first. if we both go there how much do think will be the expenses for medical only?

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My mom used to go abroad for dental care once. she got her implant at dental clinic in Thailand and it's really cheap compare to my country

This is website that my mom used on that time

www.dentaldepartures.com/

Crooke and Laguna are one of the biggest Dental Clinics in the South of Spain and are very well respected. They have a dedicated team of English speaking dentists and implantologists for UK customers who want to get cheaper implants or dental treatment.

dentaltreatmentinspain.co.uk

I have been to one of the clinics and it was impressively clean and very modern. I think they have 4 clinics in and around Malaga in the Costa Del Sol and they are much cheaper and better than UK dentists.

I have had implants done two weeks ago in Croatia. I need to return in January to get the new teeth in. So far so good. Total 11grand there compared to 33 grand in the UK. Time will tell if I made the right decision but I didn't just jump in to this. I checked the doctors out and rang people from the UK who have been.
However when back home I needed to see my own dentist for something minor, a broken crown, nothing to do with the implants. My dentist fixed it but then struck me off saying he couldn't work on teeth that someone else had started on. It is possible he was upset that I had chosen not to spend my money on his implants. He told me I would struggle to find another UK dentist.
I left my surgery in tears. For a short time I was feeling scared thinking the NHS had abandoned me.
Managed to find another dentist who also specialises in implantology. He xrayed me and put my mind at rest saying all looks ok what Croatia has done. Probably best 35 pounds ever spent to be told that.
Can keep you all updated.

If you are thinking about dental treatment in Hungary, please read before the story of my daughter treatment: baddentistry.hu
It happened in Haifa dent, one of Dental Network clinics, who holds a 5-star award of Whatclinic.com (do not believe it their awards and their reveiws, they refuse to publish negative feedbacks)
It is only beginning of the story, it still continues. We have faced a very lazy, unprofessional patients rights protection system in Hungary. I guess it exists mostly to help bad dentists to avoid responsibility.

I highly recommend a clinic in Turkey named Dent in Levent.You can see the website www.dentinlevent.com/ they have experienced fluent English speaker doctors and five times cheaper when compaired UK.I have healthy and elegant smiles now. The quality is high and they are so sensitive to their patients desires.