The media in the U.K. recently has been full of stories about the inadequacy of dental care under the National Health System there, as we pointed out on Feb. 28 here. Today, there’s a report about waiting lists from The Scotsman.
“WHEN Caroline Dollemore-Hunt urgently needed a dentist to treat a painful problem with her teeth, she thought the NHS would provide one.
But after being told she is 6,836th on the waiting list merely to be registered with an NHS dentist, she has become resigned to her teeth crumbling and falling out before she can get help …”
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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.
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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.)
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As we start to spread the word that we have a dental blog up for Costa Rica, we’ve been getting e-mail from around the world and patients old and new. I especially liked this one, from today:
“Josef and Telma are a world class professional team. The services they provided along with the Prisma dental staff are unmatched; their office is one of the best examples of modern technology and professional dental care available around the world.
“Costa Rica has become a provider to the United States (in the import of dental equipment) and Prisma Dental has become a successful model to follow. I believe that any dentist new to the field could benefit greatly by following the same path for quality and training that Prisma Dental has achieved.”
Sincerely,
William R. Galloway
Thanks, Mr. Galloway, for the kind words.
-jeff
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 »
