An end to dental tourism?
Friday, October 9th, 2009DIO Implant of South Korea is now operating in the UK after identifying a gap in the UK market.
DIO Implant of South Korea is now operating in the UK after identifying a gap in the UK market.
Health tourists seeking cosmetic surgery abroad – including dental treatment – will be able to buy insurance to cover specifically against ‘mishaps’ for the first time ever.
A COLCHESTER man left in agony after he ventured to Hungary as a “dental tourist” has warned other people to think twice before heading abroad for treatment.
BIRMINGHAM patients going to Eastern Europe for cheap dental work have been returning home with damaged nerves and abscesses eating away at their roots, a leading city dentist has warned.
You can get medical treatment abroad at a snip of the price that you would pay for it here – and without the waiting lists. But if things go wrong, you may find that the emotional and financial scars will last even longer than the physical ones.
Simon Purchall of Smile Savers Hungary says, “ The NHS Information Centre has released findings about the staggering levels of some dentist salaries, this coupled with news of the drill & fill practices are sure to inflame the dental debate and leave patients fuming.
LAST year 45,000 people from the UK travelled overseas for dental treatment.
HUNDREDS of Brummies are flying to Hungary and other European destinations abroad to get cheaper dental treatment.
Patients from Sussex are increasingly travelling overseas to visit a dentist.
As the cost of dental and cosmetic treatments rises, patients are taking package trips to a Polish city escaping its industrial past.