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Medical travel for major dental work, plastic surgery and other medical care continues to be in the news in the United States. On Friday evening, Jeff Schult, author of Beauty from Afar, (me, in other words) was interviewed about the subject on the Your Time with Kim syndicated talk radio program. Here’s the segment:
Your Time with Kim Iverson/Jeff Schult Interview
The show, hosted by Kim Iverson, was broadcast in Austin, Texas; Buffalo, New York; Denver, Colorado; Indianapolis, Indiana; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Memphis, Tennessee; Norfolk, Virginia; Portland, Oregon; and Wichita, Kansas. If you’re joining our blog for the first time from any of those cities, welcome! And feel free to browse around or contact us with any questions.
Prisma Dental and Costa Rica are mentioned, of course. 
Prisma has been a recommended dental provider for Companion Global Healthcare Inc., based in South Carolina, for a number of years now. Prospective patients might be interested to take a look at one of the company’s brochures (click on the image for full size.)
In other news:
– We have been asked several times to post again a link to the Delta Sky magazine article that features Prisma. Here is the direct link to the Nov. 2009 issue of Delta Sky:
Nov. 2009 Delta Sky (Chris Rock on the cover)
To get to the medical tourism article that features Prisma, flip through to page 112 or search the issue for Prisma.
– Prisma Dental now has more than 650 friends on Facebook! Come join us, if you have not already. Today, we have pictures of the grand opening of Tiffany’s in Costa Rica. Of course, Prisma’s international patient coordinator Tiffany Koffroth had to be there, along with Dr. Telma:
We’re always looking for trends in dental care, and I don’t think anyone would be surprised that dental implants are becoming increasingly popular in the United States, Canada and western Europe. One way to see how popular they’ve become is to look at the frequency of searches on Google.
This graph at Google Trends shows the relative search traffic for the term “dental implants” since 2004. It also shows the relative number of news articles about the subject, over time. Google Trends is a fun site to play with, if you’re curious about what people on the Internet are looking for.
So anyway, I was specifically curious about which cities in the United States produced the most searches for “dental implants” over the last year, and here they are:
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Las Vegas, NV, USA |
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Denver, CO, USA |
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Kansas City, MO, USA |
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Louisville, KY, USA |
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Livingston, NJ, USA |
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Phoenix, AZ, USA |
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Austin, TX, USA |
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San Antonio, TX, USA |
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Miami, FL, USA |
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Richardson, TX, USA |
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We wouldn’t have guessed that Las Vegas would be No. 1, would you? Incidentally, though, we’re pretty sure Prisma has had patients from every one of these cities, over the years.
Prisma Dental is proud and honored to be among the first medical facilities in Costa Rica to be accredited by the American Association for Accreditation of Ambulatory Surgery Facilities International (AAAASFI).
“The certificate of accreditation is a symbol to patients that the accredited facility has taken the additional step of opening its practice to the scrutiny of an international organization dedicated to patient safety. This could be a deciding factor for those patients seeking the highest quality results in the safest environments.” — Dr. Ronald Iverson, President of AAAASFI
The AAAASFI review process is comprehensive and thorough,” said Dr. Josef Cordero Pinczanski, D.D.S. “We’re pleased to have it recognized that we are in compliance with the highest professional standards for our facilities and methods. Our patients deserve the best and this is one way of letting them know that they are getting the best.”
According to the AAAASF, the vast majority of ambulatory surgery facilities even in the United States are still unaccredited, operating independent of any peer review and inspection process. A growing number of states and specialty societies, however, are recognizing the need for mandatory accreditation. AAAASF has been and continues to be in the forefront of these legislative efforts.
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Tiffany has sent over a number of recent comments from new patients at Prisma Dental, along with before and after pictures. We know people love to see those.
This note came from Karen, in North Carolina:
Came here not knowing what to expect, and received the world with a whole new smile … I had a tooth that another dentist ignored the look of for 20 years … and Dr. Telma fixed it and made a new smile for me. I will never go anywhere else! It was well worth the trip from North Carolina and Casa Lima B&B was the best! — Karen, North Carolina
You can see why she’s happy: Here are her before and after photos. (Click on the photos to see larger size.)
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