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The Baltimore Sun, in a story today, quotes experts as saying that dental care for seniors is a major issue — one that will only become more acute as the population ages. Many lack insurance coverage, money and specialists, the headline warns.
Many of Prisma’s patients have been older Americans in exactly the situations described by the newspaper article, coming to Costa Rica for high quality dental work they cannot afford at home.
“… About 12 years ago, Carrie Lemon started losing teeth. One by one, to curb pain, Lemon had most of her teeth extracted.
“Today, at 72, she has only six left. Eating has become a daily chore, and Lemon wants desperately to be fitted for a set of dentures. ‘I’ve just been going from one dentist to another, but all of them tell me that our medical system doesn’t cover it,” Lemon said. “I don’t have the money to get them.’ “
According to Dr. Richard H. Price, a spokesman for the American Dental Association, “Twenty-five million adults forgo dental care because they can’t afford it. A goodly amount are seniors.” Read the rest of this entry »
Zirconium crowns are beautiful, aren’t they? They look even better, of course, after Josef puts them in and creates a new, perfect smile for a patient.
The Sun-News of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, has an article today about people traveling abroad for medical care. The paper notes that:
“But with hefty medical costs in the United States, more Grand Strand residents and others across the country are taking advantage of cost-saving health care opportunities abroad.”
… and goes on to give an example of a patient who went to Costa Rica and saved approximately $30,000 on dental implants. Dental care abroad tends to cost roughly 60 to 80 percent less than care in the U.S., said David Boucher, S.C. Blue Cross Blue Shield senior vice president for health care services. Prisma Dental is in partnership with Companion Global Healthcare, a subsidiary of BlueCross BlueShield South Carolina (as this blog has previously noted.)
Among the compelling reasons that patients come to us in Costa Rica for dental crowns and prostheses is that we run our own dental lab, which means we control the quality. We make our own crowns and bridges right at Prisma.
Not many dentists have that kind of control. A report in The Columbus Dispatch of Ohio today (link to story) that also aired on TV station WBNS (link to video) said that dangerous levels of lead has been found in dental crowns coming from a lab in China, “the source of a growing number of dental implants used by U.S. dentists.” Read the rest of this entry »
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Our Main Number in Costa Rica is: 506.2291.5151.
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