Hot on the heels of the root canal talk...would you go to Mexico for dental work?
Know a fellow who, due to financial reasons, neglected his mouth for many, many years and by the time he could afford to get in a dentist's chair, the news was bad. The quote was even worse. We're talking 5 figures. Quote was actually for $16,000 worth of crowns, plates, nuclear weapons, you name it. According to his dentist, his entire mouth needed to be rebuilt.
He went to Mexico, spent 5 days in a chair, came back with the most alarming set of huge, white chompers you've ever seen. He is please as punch with his work, has had no problems and saved money! It was cheaper to leave the country, have this done, recover every evening while sipping cheap alcohol, than to stay here and have it done.
As someone else said, many Mexican dentists are trained in the United States. But I have heard that their clinics do not look anything like our clinics. THey have old equipment. BUt old does NOT mean inadequate. IT does not mean dirty. It can still do the job.
Domestic dentists like to warn you that you are likely to have problems if you go south of the border. But that is an elitist and frankly racist comment! You can get a mouthful of crappy dental work right here in good old Canada, thank you very much! Canadian dentistry is NO GUARANTEE of good or ethical work! Local dentists like to say if you go to Mexico and something goes wrong, are you going to go back to Mexico to have it fixed? Well, if you go to your local dentist and he balls it up so bad...are you going to keep going back or are you going to try another dentist and hope he's better? So, this 'who is going to fix it?' stance is a bit of smoke and mirrors.
If you were faced with a massive dental undertaking, and obviously had done your research on that little border town, The Cotton, I believe it is called. El Godones? I could be wrong. Anyway, if you had checked it all out...would you go south with your mouth?
Know a fellow who, due to financial reasons, neglected his mouth for many, many years and by the time he could afford to get in a dentist's chair, the news was bad. The quote was even worse. We're talking 5 figures. Quote was actually for $16,000 worth of crowns, plates, nuclear weapons, you name it. According to his dentist, his entire mouth needed to be rebuilt.
He went to Mexico, spent 5 days in a chair, came back with the most alarming set of huge, white chompers you've ever seen. He is please as punch with his work, has had no problems and saved money! It was cheaper to leave the country, have this done, recover every evening while sipping cheap alcohol, than to stay here and have it done.
As someone else said, many Mexican dentists are trained in the United States. But I have heard that their clinics do not look anything like our clinics. THey have old equipment. BUt old does NOT mean inadequate. IT does not mean dirty. It can still do the job.
Domestic dentists like to warn you that you are likely to have problems if you go south of the border. But that is an elitist and frankly racist comment! You can get a mouthful of crappy dental work right here in good old Canada, thank you very much! Canadian dentistry is NO GUARANTEE of good or ethical work! Local dentists like to say if you go to Mexico and something goes wrong, are you going to go back to Mexico to have it fixed? Well, if you go to your local dentist and he balls it up so bad...are you going to keep going back or are you going to try another dentist and hope he's better? So, this 'who is going to fix it?' stance is a bit of smoke and mirrors.
If you were faced with a massive dental undertaking, and obviously had done your research on that little border town, The Cotton, I believe it is called. El Godones? I could be wrong. Anyway, if you had checked it all out...would you go south with your mouth?
