Posted in Dental News. Tags: dental tourism.

Does it make sense to get your dental care in another country — outside of the United States — in order to save money on dentures and dental implants? Dental Practice Marketing and Management Blog editor Jim Du Molin covered the topic recently in one of his posts.  He acknowledged that while it isn’t really mainstream at this point, it is growing and that the Deloitte Center for Heath Solutions estimates that about 648,000 patients will take medical and dental vacations overseas this year — which is about 20% higher than in 2008.

Read Jim Du Molin’s post at Dental Practice Marketing & Management

Posted in Dental Implant News. Tags: cost, costs, dental implants, dental tourism, eastern european countries, europeans, hungary, matt messina, travel, uk patients.

In the UK and around the world patients are increasingly traveling overseas to visit the dentist. They’re heading to places like Hungary and other Eastern European countries, where brass plaques and molar-shared signs bearing easy to grasp names like “Eurodent” and “Happy Dent” line central streets. In the town of Mosonmagyarovar (population 33,000) there are over 150 dentists. But to save thousands of dollars on dental implants, many Western Europeans are finding it worth the trip.

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