Dental Treatment Abroad

Murtle

I haven't used Poland for dental treatment but have booked treatment in both Mauritius and South Africa, both were booked through friends or family dentists. Top quality treatment, I'd be sure to book through a regulated group if going to Poland as I don't know what their standards of learning are like. Good luck

CashBash

These links should help:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,8123-2091078,00.html

http://www.treatmentabroad.net/

CashBash

My reply to this similar thread should help:

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=176511

saz9961

After being landed with a whopping £6500 estimate from my (provincial) dentist for a pre-molar implant, a crown and some restorative work on worn molars (using the Dahl technique),, I've really got to look for alternatives. I know dentistry abroad is a fairly popular subject on this board, but hopefully I'll have some questions that haven't been covered before.

1. One concern is through a dentist making a hash of things, and an infection resulting. I've no reason to think that a Hungarian dentist is any more competant than my UK dentist (I read a particularly galling post on a Irish message board noting how bad UK dentists were). I'm a microbiologist by profession, and understand the reasons why any dental surgery is usually followed up by a prophylactic course of antibiotics. What else could go wrong that would be difficult to fix here?
2. Post-operative care; putting in an implant means the gum is stitched/sutured over after the metal post is put into the jaw bone, to allow osso-integration. Somehow.somewhere, the sutures need to be removed; anyone had any problems in a UK dentist carrying out this procedure?
3. My UK dentist has naturally warned me away from going overseas; he cites the lack of insurance and whether guaranteees would be honoured or not. As far as I can make out, Hungarian Law requires all dentists to carry liability insurance, so that appears to be no problem, but on the other aspect I'm not clear about. Those that I have contacted, such as the "British Hungarian Dentist Association" have assured me if a particular dentist left their group, another would be appointed. But I'm not sure what consumer rights I will have. Can I refer to English Common Law, or Hungarian law, or something other. If I use good ol' Barclaycard to pay for it, if there was a non-mdeical compliocation, I could leave it to them to sort out the mess?
4. During my researches, I have come across the "British Academy of Aesthetic Dentistry" and the "Association of Dental Implantology", both of which list Hungarian members. Are these truely professional bodies, and does membership of them actually mean anything?
http://www.adi.org.uk/
http://www.baad.org.uk/

stluke023

holiday resort now for germans going primarily for there teeth and then incorporating the other pleasures of holdays.
If the Germans are doing it and their dentists and standards arguably are higher than the uk,---have a holiday go to Hungary

CashBash

Saz - see if these links provide you with answers or details of how to find out more information:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,8123-2091078.html

http://www.treatmentabroad.net/

Toothsmith

there seem to be a fair few of these cropping up today.

Type 'dental treatment abroad' into the search bit at the top, and you'll see it's been discused a fair bit before.

saz9961

Toothsmith wrote:

there seem to be a fair few of these cropping up today.

Type 'dental treatment abroad' into the search bit at the top, and you'll see it's been discused a fair bit before.

I take it from your postings you are a practicing UK dentist. Can you comment on the above linked organisations? Its difficult to dissociate fact from advertising guff at times.

The easy option would be just to go to my exisiting dentist, and get hawked up to the eyeballs. But amongst the many things he was to do is a crown on a root canal filled tooth, on the pretext that the tooth is now more brittle. That might be, but he's obviously forgotten that he had done the tooth 10 years, and its been perfectly fine since then. Sounds a bit like gouging to me.

Toothsmith

I have made comment on other threads.

Those organisations are just glorified, if rather specialized travel agents. They run it as a business to make themselves a living. They will be on a %age of whatever you pay.

Dentists in this country and all countries are also running businesses. We too have to make a profit.

The reason it's dearer in this country than Poland/Hungary is because costs are higher.

We're cheaper than Germany, Ireland, USA, Canada.......

Your tooth has been fine for 10 years, but, as your dentist says, dead teeth are more brittle. You would be cross if it broke and needed extracting, and he said, "Oh dear - we could have saved that if we'd crowned it last year!"

If you trust a travel agent and an unknown dentist more than your own (Regular?) dentist then go for it.

Hopefully nothing will go wrong, and you won't be forced to fly to Warsaw with a face the size of a football.

Toothsmith

Sorry - if you meant the two organisations in your first post. I'd not heard of either of them until tonight!

From a brief look though, it would seem you just have to pay to be a member rather than do any exams. I haven't looked closely though.