Archive for the Dental News category
Companion Global Dental, a division of Companion Global Healthcare, Inc. in Columbia, South Carolina, has chosen Prisma Dental as among its first partners in healthcare abroad. Companion Global Healthcare is a subsidiary of BlueCross Blueshield of South Carolina.
Phil Midden, manager of complementary health care programs at S.C. BlueCross, said rates at Prisma are substantially lower than those at many U.S. clinics, and that he was thoroughly impressed with Prisma, its facilities and the dentists and staff. Read the rest of this entry »
Dear Friends and Patients,
If you have visited Prisma Dental, you know that we like to be at the leading edge of dental technology, and that means staying up with the latest in materials science and computers as well.
Zirconium oxide is the latest material to be adapted by modern dentistry. The introduction of this material in restorative and prosthetic dentistry is made possible by computerized dentistry technology in use at Prisma Dental, and is a decisive step towards the use of full ceramics. Zirconium oxide has very high strength and corrosion resistance. With new zirconium crown techniques, we can also eliminate the problem of exposed metal crown margins in the older, porcelain-fused-to-metal technique.
Zirconium oxide crowns have several advantages … Read the rest of this entry »
I was on the radio program “Windsor Now” (AM800 CKLW, Windsor Ontario and Detroit, Michigan) with host Melanie Deveau yesterday, talking about medical tourism and travel, and of course Costa Rica came up as one of the main places that North Americans go.
Most people are unaware that dental care is the biggest single component of the so-called “medical tourism” phenomenon. Major dental work is expensive in both Canada and the U.S. (one of the reasons I and thousands of other Americans and Canadians went to Prisma over the last 16 years.)
According to Neilesh Patel of the non-profit company HealthCare Tourism International, more than 40 percent of patients who search his organization’s website are looking for dental care and, after that, cosmetic surgery and treatment. Read the rest of this entry »
News 14 Carolina, with Ivanhoe Newswire, did a news feature last week on medical travel that featured Jeff Schult talking about his dental work in Costa Rica, along with patients who went outside of the U.S. for life-saving surgeries because they were uninsured.
Here is the original story with video.
Though the story did not directly mention Prisma Dental — that is where he had his work done, of course.
If you have difficulty accessing the video on the News 14 site, here it is:
Though many American patients come to Prisma because they cannot afford the U.S. prices for the extensive dental work they need, sometimes at least some of the dental care is covered by insurance. At Prisma, we help patients with the forms they need for reimbursement from their U.S. insurers.
Josef and Telma
