Costa Rica Dental Experiences

Have you ever thought about choosing a dentist abroad to treat your teeth? Dental tourism, as we have often written in the blog, is a phenomenon that has taken hold for several years now. More and more people are willing to and one of the countries, most chosen by North Americans and Canadians, it's Costa Rica.  It is the desire of many patients, but a fatal mistake is to jump on the first foreign dentist who is online and blindly relies on his care. It is the first step to take: find dentists that operate according to the American Dental Association (ADA) regulations on hygiene, safety, and reliability of tools and materials used.  And Patients must be more cautious now during these times of Pandemia!! In times of crisis like these last nasty pandemic, patients are looking for quality dental services at lower prices than in their own country . In addition, there is the advantage of a holiday abroad, and in this, they see greater benefits: they combine dental c...

If you have this in your mind, you are probably looking for implantology and intend to find a good quote for 4-6 implants.  In this article, you will discover all the information you need to understand the costs of implantology and to choose the best proposal. The connection between price and type of installation Dental Implant sets can be compared to common screws; if we decided to buy some in a hardware store, probably at our request of the type: "I would like 6 screws", the shopkeeper would reply: "We have so many, what length, step, thickness, and quality do you need?" This problem is much more complex when it comes to titanium dental implants. In fact, each patient has different bone anatomy that requires the use of different types of implants. Some types are produced exclusively by certain companies and it is common that there are significant price fluctuations between different plants and manufacturing companies. This could be enough to understand t...

I wrote dozens of articles about the dental experience and I realized now that I forgot the first reason people go to the dentist! --- TOOTHACHE! So let's try to explain what can happen to you in your mouth if it goes wrong!  I think that's why you're documenting yourself on the web and reading this article. Basically, the types of toothache for which you go to the dentist in an emergency are 5: Pain from caries near a live nerve Pain from an abscess or acute apical periodontitis Gum pain The pains from cracks in the teeth Muscle pains Ok, two are not Toothache, but I have to write TOOTHACHE often, otherwise you will not find this article when you look on Google for Toothache and so I went ahead because I wrote toothache 4 times in 3 lines. Before talking about toothache (and we are 5 times in 4 lines), however, let's debunk a myth. CAVITIES DON'T HURT ... unless they are very large or that they create a hole in which food can enter, ...

Today I would like to help you to think about the importance of a complete dental service. Often the information about the quality of services we rely on is poor and this causes us to lose huge amounts of time and mental energy. Our brain, in fact, cannot close that chapter but the "file" relating to the service we would like to obtain must remain open until perhaps, one day, we will come to terms with it. Today I'm on vacation because I decided with my wife to use the morning to buy a piece of furniture that she is asking me for a long time. -- Since I already know how it ends up in these cases I don't go directly to the store but, as a shrewd person, I call first to ask if they can provide me with that service. Answer (I swear I'm not kidding !!): "Look ... call our representative (???) so she will tell you what you want to know. I'll give you the number ... " The representative listened to my large explanation on the phone and, in an equ...

Nowadays, whatever expenses are incurred to pay for an item is balanced by a guarantee. When is a health service paid the same thing? "Medicine is not an exact science", we often hear. And in the health field, there are diagnostic and operational processes that differ in many ways from the mere purchase of an object. But it is also true that healthcare costs put a strain on patients' pockets, which cannot be deprived of a form of guarantee on the therapies to which they have been subjected, so the subject I believe deserves further study. Just last month I had 30 minutes on the agenda to meet the lawyer of one of my patients who is carrying out a legal battle to claim damages and compensation against her previous dentist. She had been reporting her previous dentist due to issues with an aesthetically beautiful total ceramic crown restoration, which underneath the crowns I don't think there was even one without infection. This has made me reflect on what form...

There is something that always surprises the dentists when a patient visits their clinic for the first time. Medical history is compiled before you sit down at the dental chair and the doctor see you for the first time, which is the way to indicate a series of questions about the patient's state of health. One of the questions we ask concerns the reason for the visit, which is often "control and cleaning". As soon as doctors introduced themself and read the medical history, the first thing they say to the patient is: - "Ok, you wrote that you came for a check and a hygiene session. So you have no particular suspicions or pains? Does everything look okay? " And often the answer is: - "Yes, it was a while since I went to the dentist ... I wanted to do some cleaning" Then the doctors ask: - "And in the past have you have had big problems or do you have one of those mouths that just needed little care?" And often as an answer we ge...