Dental implants abroad?

Voyager2002

May I ask if anyone has travelled to another country for affordable dental implants? If so, please share how you found a competent dentist and the various checks you performed to make sure that you would get a decent implant, correctly fitted. I am horrified by the cost of this work in England, but have heard a few horror stories about failed implants.

donnac2558

If you search in Health many threads about dental treatment abroad.

Voyager2002

donnac2558 said:

If you search in Health many threads about dental treatment abroad.

None of them really answer my question, but thank you.

lisyloo

Implants are not fit and forget.
what if something goes wrong?
youll need to then pay a lot over here as another dentist won’t be keen to take liability for a botch job abroad.

are you brave enough to use a dental college in the uk?
not sure I would be.

save up, have gaps or get dentures.
sorry

Voyager2002

lisyloo said:

Implants are not fit and forget.
what if something goes wrong?
youll need to then pay a lot over here as another dentist won’t be keen to take liability for a botch job abroad.

are you brave enough to use a dental college in the uk?
not sure I would be.

save up, have gaps or get dentures.
sorry

Yes, I am happy to use a dental college but they don't offer implants.

Adequate research before buying should make it unlikely that anything would go seriously wrong.

Ibrahim5

If you ever meet a surgeon who tells you that it is unlikely that anything would go seriously wrong run away fast.

qwert10

I had dental implants at Dentum in Zagreb Croatia cannot recommend them enough. Reasonably priced, professional and they pick up from airport and let you stay free at their apartments at the dentist. Other cheaper places in Split but not tried them.

qwert10

Went on recommendation as so many Brits go there as UK so useless for dentists.

Tats22

Although I can't comment from personal experience as to which clinics to use, I know a few young British/Irish people studying medicine and dentistry in Poland (a much more affordable option than studying here) who tell me their standards and training are just as rigorous over there. Their qualifications are accepted here so it's generally their intentions to come back here to work. That would therefore make me confident in getting dental work like implants done in Poland (and Croatia and similar) as long as I'd done my homework as to the clinic's credentials, staff qualifications etc and not consider it a "bodge job". As a nervous patient in the dentist's chair I would be worried about being used as a student's guinea pig at a dental college, but they are carefully overseen by their tutors so it is an option I suppose if any offer implants, and I imagine as an advanced procedure it's only already fully qualified dentists who'd be learning this technique anyway rather than more inexperienced dental students.

brook2jack2

It's mostly not a problem with qualifications , it's a problem with travelling long distance for multiple appointments for complex treatment , which may not always go entirely to plan. 

I would never advise anyone from any country to travel long distances for implant treatment . 

Dental hospitals , which train students , do not offer implants. Dental implant training is a postgraduate (and very expensive ) course. Dentists undergoing training are heavily supervised and offer their own regular patients discounted implants which they place during their training.

Voyager2002

qwert10 said:

I had dental implants at Dentum in Zagreb Croatia cannot recommend them enough. Reasonably priced, professional and they pick up from airport and let you stay free at their apartments at the dentist. Other cheaper places in Split but not tried them.

Thank you for the recommendation. May I ask how long ago you had the implants from them? Because even a poor job is likely to seem OK for a couple of years. Airport transfers and a place to stay are all very nice, but what matters is the quality of the dentistry.