We see a lot of dads throughout the year at Prisma Dental. We have a number of dads who work at Prisma Dental. And we have a big smile for all of them today, their special day.
The blog editor will be heading to Costa Rica next week, so you can look for additional stories, photos and even video from Prisma Dental, from San Jose and from Costa Rica both while I am there and after I return.
We have a lovely thank you from a Florida couple, who wrote after returning home:
Dear Dr. Rubenstein,
I really appreciate the excellent dental work you did for me. The crowns feel perfect. Thank you for having them made so quickly! WE will refer our friends to you.
Best of Life to you and your family!
Cathy and Bill
Tiffany Kofroth, Prisma’s patient coordinator, will be out of the office on Friday and Prisma Dental will not be answering the toll-free line for that day only.
Tiffany will be checking email and will be back in the office on Monday morning, June 8, as usual.
Summer is a great time to make your dental appointment at Prisma Dental. The weather is great in San Jose — not to0 hot, due to the elevation of 4,900 feet (1,161 meters) above sea level.
Our congratulations to the Costa Rican national soccer team on its 3-1 win over the United States in World Cup soccer yesterday! Both Costa Rica and the U.S. remain strong contenders to qualify for next year’s tournament in South Africa.
Well, of course Demi Moore goes to the dentist. She’s just like everyone else, right?
Besides being a movie star and married to Ashton Kutcher, that is. This week, Moore posted photos showing her in the dentist chair, minus a front tooth, and posted to her Twitter account (She goes by mrskutcher, there, and has more than a million “followers”) about her temporary new look (see photo.)
She’s missing tooth No. 8. The actress joked on her page, “Happy to share and always appreciate the opportunity to find humility!!! Or at least be able to laugh at myself!”
We hope and trust that she had a great dentist, and want to let her know she and Ashton would be very welcome to stop in for a checkup at Prisma Dental the next time they are in Costa Rica! We’d love to see her “after” picture with her new No. 8 tooth, but there will surely be plenty of those. Pictures, that is.
Jill, from Washington, D.C., recently had crowns, some extractions and a dental prosthesis at Prisma Dental. She writes:
All is well here and I can’t stop smiling! Friends are amazed at how I became a whole new person, which is exactly how I feel.
Love and kisses to everyone, I’ll stay in touch if I have any questions and please stay in touch, too.
Here are her “before and after” photos:
She plans to visit Prisma again in January, if not before. Jill’s a great example of how great dental work and a new smile can be literally life-changing.
A poll released by Gallup on May 18 says up to 29 percent of U.S. residents would consider traveling abroad for medical procedures.
Domestic healthcare costs are expected to increase to an estimated 21 percent of gross domestic product by 2010.
Gallup did not ask specifically about dental care or destinations. The poll indicated that U.S. residents on the east and west coasts are more accepting of the possibility of medical travel than those in the midwest or south.
Costa Rica surgeons and dentists pioneered medical and dental tourism beginning in the late 1970s and the country remains a prime destination for medical, dental and cosmetic surgery patients from the U.S. Prisma Dental has been serving patients from the U.S. for two generations.
