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...

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...

The All on 4 (all on four) and the All on 6 implantology (all on six) are surgical techniques for the total rehabilitation of the two arches   (upper and lower jaws) that have become very popular in the last decade. The inventor of this technique is a Portuguese dentist: Dr. Paulo Malo, who has taken up the concepts of implant surgery developed in the 90s, which suggested the possibility of avoiding complex and invasive interventions, such as bone grafts or maxillary sinus elevations, inclining the implants in a way to anchor them in the patient's residual bone. Table of contents 1   About Implantology All on 4 and implantology All on 6 2   Implantology: removal of alveolar bone 3   A minimal-invasive alternative 4    AllonSix Prettau® protocol with respect to implantology All on 4 and implantology All on 6: What are the advantages? About All-on-4 implantology and implantology All-on-6 The relative ease of these technique...

In the previous article, we have clarified an important concept: the rejection of implants does not exist and those who speak of rejection are cunning or do not know what they are talking about. At the end of the previous article, I explained to you that the failure of the Implants is caused by a series of factors that act together and most of them are not known yet! But we know well most of them and I want to explain them to you in this article. Here are the 4 causes of dental implant failure -- (surely there are a thousand others but we don't know it yet) First Cause: The experience and knowledge of the Surgeon. Wouldn't you have thought that?  What will it take to make a hole in your bone and place a screw? Well, obviously there is a lot of experience and knowledge. A recent scientific article tells us that implants placed by general dentists fail significantly more than those inserted by implantology specialists.  Just to clarify, the general den...

Here we will see how to plan the patient's post-surgical feeding, so as to allow an optimal post-operative course and at the same time guarantee high nutritional quality. Nutrition in the patient undergoing oral surgery needs special attention, especially in the days immediately following the operation. The traumatic condition of the post-intervention tissues reduces the chewing ability, furthermore swelling and any mild painful symptoms reduce the oral opening. The mechanical action of chewing can also worry the patient about possible complications such as the detachment of the sutures or the penetration of food residues into the wounds. For every moment of the day, we recommend combinations of optimal foods for the operation just undergone, well balanced from a nutritional point of view, attentive to other existing pathological conditions and to any further needs and preferences of the patient. For post-surgical feeding, in general, we recommend soft, non-acid, non-hot ...