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Many goods and Services are less expensive overseas, at least in less less developed countries. This is sometimes an advantage when travelling, but it can backfire. We do not recommend overseas dental or medical care. The results can be disappointing, and there is no way for the doctors to follow up the treatment. Our heath is too important to risk.
Some Issues with Dental Tourism:
Varying Standard of Care
Dentists in foreign countries may have lower standards of care. This will vary between individual practitioners; we have no way to ascertain the abilities of the practitioners in advance.
Australian Dentists are required to register with the ADA (Australian Dental Association). This guarantees a decent standard of training and care.
Lower Quality Materials
The availability of quality materials and tools is an issue in some countries. Even if the dentist is competent they will not do acceptable work if the materials are of poor quality.
Language Barriers
Many serious problems stem from miscommunications. An overseas dentist will often not have enough English to understand you correctly. This can lead to the wrong type of treatment, or the dentist not understanding that you have an allergy.
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Limited Options
Some dental operation have a limited range of services, and have a ‘one size fits all’ approach to treatment. A crown will not be custom made to fit your mouth; the overseas dentist will use a pre-made tooth that roughly fits into place.
Rushed Schedule
Some dental treatments, like implants or root canal treatments, require several appointments spread over several weeks. The patient needs to heal after their first procedure before the second procedure is started. Overseas dentist may rush, and perform the procedures too close together. This is very risky.
High Risk of Complications
If something goes wrong with your dental work you go back to the dentist to have the matter attended to. This is not really possible if you have the work done overseas, not once you have returned home.
The water in many overseas countries contains different bacteria. The locals have developed an immunity to this, but Australians will not be able to tolerate this, at least not straight away. This can mean illnesses and infections that the patient is not able to tolerate.
Bringing Back Infections
An Australian who has dental work overseas may contract an illness and inadvertently spread it to others. Some forms of Hepatitis are common in foreign countries, and Australians are not inoculated against this.
Hidden costs
Some foreign dentists will quote in advance for the procedure, but then charge more for anesthetic or other essential parts of the operation. It is hard to back out of this.
No Insurance
Dental procedures in Australia will often be partially covered by medical insurance. Overseas treatments will not usually be covered, so they are not as cheap as they first appear.
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Australian Dentists provide high quality treatment with aftercare. This is often partially of fully covers by insurance.
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