I know Dental Implants are expensive

[Sarcany]

rjmacs wrote:
They don't rip out the root - just grind down the enamel and drill out the pulp, killing the tooth permanently, leaving the root as a base to anchor the metal post that hold the crown. If they ripped out the whole tooth, you'd need an implant or denture.

Thank you for clarifying. That's so much better.

:bomb:

[anonymouse1]

Canadian professional article on dental tourism:

https://www.agd.org/constituent/news/202...al-tourism

[Paul F.]

Two ideas I've read about for a buddy of mine (who is too stubborn to do anything about his mouthful of rotten, broken, teeth... but that's another story...);

Thailand and Mexico.

Both have lots of U.S. and Canada trained dental practices at FRACTIONS of what the work costs here.
My friend needs all his remaining teeth pulled, and implants to hold dentures put in. Here, he's looking at $35,000 at least, according to him.
A dental clinic in Thailand "rough" quoted me (since I don't have his dental records, and they couldn't examine the actual patient) $7,500 for the full extraction, AND the two weeks recovery time in a hotel next to the dental practice, and about $2,000 to have the dentures fitted. So, less than 1/3 the cost.

[anonymouse1]

Perhaps obviously, the trick with medical tourism is finding a reliable provider.

[macphanatic]

Are you near a reputable dental school? If so, contact them to see if this is something they can do.

[SteveG]

dentists should not be allowed to own real estate of play the stock market.
-
Dental school students are by definition people who don't know what they are doing.

[rgG]

Budapest, Hungary is apparently where the europeans go to have dental work done, or it was about 10 years ago.

[Paul F.]

rgG wrote:
Budapest, Hungary is apparently where the europeans go to have dental work done, or it was about 10 years ago.

Yeah, but Thailand has beaches! :-)

[rz]

Thankfully I was taught young to take care of my teeth.

[rgG]

Paul F. wrote:
[quote=rgG]
Budapest, Hungary is apparently where the europeans go to have dental work done, or it was about 10 years ago.

Yeah, but Thailand has beaches! :-)
There is that. Plus, you are on the correct coast for Thailand, me, not so much. Lol

We found out about this dental stuff when we went to Budapest/Vienna/Prague for our daughter's college graduation trip in 2012. The place we were staying had "dental packages" with special soft food meals and such. Apparently, even with national health care in most of the EU, at that time, dental could still be quite expensive in places like the UK, so they would come to Budapest to have major stuff done.