Posted on 06/21/2014 9:26:58 AM PDT by blam
Harrison Jacobs
June 20, 2014
For Americans looking to mix in a little dental work with their vacations, there is no better place than Vicente Guerrero, a small Mexican border town better known by its nickname: Los Algodones (translation: Molar City).
Mexico is a top destination for so-called medical tourists from the United States who go South of the Border for significantly cheaper dental work, eyeglasses, plastic surgery, and prescription drugs. In Los Algodones, some 350 dentists work within a few blocks of the city center, NPR recently reported.
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Yes, generally speaking Mexican dental work is far inferior to American work and I stand by that.
i guess you gotta know where to go... my niece is in the middle of dental work right here in North Carolina... she has had to go three times to have a cap replaced because within an hour of leaving the dental office, it falls off... she is going for a fourth time next week...
Im sure that good dental care is available to those who can afford it and know where to find it.
This predates Obama by many years.
In the mid 1990s, for example, a DFW TV news did a report on seniors heading to the border to buy semi-annual supplies of common prescriptions. They were going in bus loads from various locations, some from as far away as southern Oklahoma.
Border Patrol knew what they were doing and didn’t ‘inspect’ their packages very thoroughly on their return trips across the border.
Long before there was an Obama, American drugs were cheaper in Latin America and many of them are available, over-the-counter.
I have looked at the dental clinics in Mexico. I didn’t see much difference in the price. If you pay cash you can negotiate prices with dentists and docs.
“We have two sets of friends who go to Thailand for all of their planned medical and dental procedures. They have been doing it for years and swear by it.”
A Colombian co-worker did the same (in Colombia), and highly recommended it.
People routinely travel from developed nations to less developed nations, to get personal services. That’s what you’re doing, when you, for instance, vacation at a resort on a Caribbean island. All that says about America, is that you pay your service workers more than they would get elsewhere.
I know people who go to Mexico for dentistry and plastic surgery.
They swear by it and they look fine.
I’m not able to convince myself to do it.
I will say I once forgot a prescription while in Mexico. Pills cost the same as they do in USA without prescription plan or insurance. But, when yer out and need emmm..
Nothing to do with Obama. It’s been happening years and years. We moved to NM in 2002 and lots of people were going down then for medical things, especially dentistry and weight loss surgery.
You wonder how Russians rationalized life under the Soviets? You are getting a glimpse of it now.
Extremely good observation.
“I knew someone who had this done in Mex.
5 years later she had it all redone in USA”
Jose’s cut rate tooth shop. Where the motto is: “Cleanliness; we don’t need no stinky cleanliness”
Where is the accountability when medical work is performed abroad?
I mean, should a foreign clinic botch your procedure, isn’t it a practical impossibility to sue them for malpractice?
Then attempting to mislead people makes you part of the reason America's prosperity has declined.
That’s nothing. I know someone who went to the Philippines from London for his dental work - American-trained dentists at a price that includes the vacation there afterward.
Ain’t none but, somehow people are able to pick a good dentist for 10% of what procedures cost here.
I don’t know how .
They tell me people aren’t dropping like flies, so they are competent.
“They built the aqueducts, after all, can probably do xlnt root canals. And bridges.” LMAO!
Yes, using mortar and re-rod. :-)
////cheaper dental work, eyeglasses, plastic surgery/////
Nothing like cheap plastic surgery. And I prefer my dental work in the old US f A.
What is NM? New Mexico?
That depends on the dentist. I have a dentist in Mexico and he is excellent, far better than the American dentist my hubby goes to. Thank goodness I have not had to go to him since the cartel war has been so bad.
There are excellent dentists, doctors, and such in Mexico but you have to get someone to refer you to a good one because there are many that are terrible. Funny thing I have found is that usually the worst are in the fancy buildings catering to the tourists and the good ones have an office that looks pretty rustic and is usually further from the border.
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