Dental tourism

Introduction : Dental Tourism is another subset of medical tourism and is referred to cross-border travellers seeking make-overs relating to teeth, gum and jaws. Driven by price considerations, dental care seekers usually travel from high-income countries to low-cost developing economies that are well equipped with pseudo worldclass dental care machinery and provides quality dental services. Other factors that influence a decision to travel, include differences between the funding of public healthcare or general access to healthcare. Well equipped and promising low cost and high quality dental service outlets in Mexico, Hungary, Bulgaria, Austria, India, Australia, the Philippines and uncounted points in between are pitching their services to relatively affluent, yet cost-conscious health care consumers in Western Europe and the United States. Widely seeked dental services in dental care tourism include Dental Implants, Cosmetic Dentistry, Crowns and Bridges, Porcelin Veneers, Orthodontics, Teeth Whitening, Periodontics (Diagnosis, prevention and treatment of gum diseases), Oral Surgery, Restorative Dentistry (Fillings), Painless Root Canals, Complete Denture services, Ultrasonic Teeth Cleaning, Full mouth Rehabilitation, Skyce Tooth Jewellery, Nightguards and Pedodontics (Sealants, space maintainers).

Spread of Dental Tourism : Austrians, Germans and other Europeans for decades have been crossing over to Hungry to get their teeth fixed, often at jaw-droppingly low prices. Now, a small but growing number of Americans, prompted by soaring medical costs and dwindling insurance benefits at home, are following suit and are contributing to the rising popularity of "tooth tourism". Many of them traditionally combined dental visits with shopping for other lower-priced goods such as cigarettes and cheese.
Whereas U.S. and European dentists charge $300 to $400 for a single caries restoration, it costs only $20 to $40 in India. This is what makes it the most sought after tourism sectors in the developed countries especially for the burgeoning population of the middle-aged and above. An exotic vacation at a place known for extremely cheaper cost of living with all modern amenities, heritage spots, cultural and historical backlog, all encompassed diverse natural replenishments and of course world class dental care at their disposal is what attracts a majority of them to India. The state-of-the-art equipment and facilities are available with expert aesthetic dentist, prosthodontist, periodontist, implantologist, endodontist, orthodontist and oral and maxillo facial surgeons. All these competent facilities are in the European or American quality with affordable lowest price. Cosmetic Dentistry, Smile Designing, Teeth Whitening, Root Canal Treatment, Dental Implants and Gum Treatments are available in almost all major dental hospitals and clinics in India.