I heard this phrase coined on a PBS radio broadcast last night. I also join this crowd because I can't afford the dental treatment in the USA. So I am going to begin a prolonged campaign in my gob with a Russian dentist. Marina is making the arrangements. This will take many visits over several years so I had better get along with Marina!!
I will tell everyone how it goes.
Apparently American, Australian and even European folks are going to Thailand in droves to get elective surgery done. Everything you can think of. Hip replacement, knee replacement, dental work and the old tummy tuck. Makes sense to me. Medical care has become outrageous in the USA. My dentist told me with a straight face that I needed about $40 to $50,000 put in my mouth. So I finished laughing and left. I can get the same thing done in Russia for about $2,000. I checked with my friend Sergey and he told me that the dental care there is the best. So I guess I am going to find out.
erective surgery? Would you care to explain please, and also highlight what this has to do with dentistry, and for whom the latter if you are having the former?
Shame man, poor girl! ;-)))
On this program they were talking about possibly the price of medical insurance in the USA reducing because of a 2 tiered system. Having the surgery, whatever, done either here or in Thailand or Russia.
Why not just get hit by a car or something and get it all for free?? LOL.. I wonder how to cross the street to be hit only in the mouth, but may be it is worth the effort.. Only to really rub it in... If you lived in Norway you would get it for free... Just as all other medical treatment... Sometimes I feel lucky to live here, but most of the time I think this nation is just like the "backwards-land" where everything is opposite of what it should have been...
izifaddag, I don't have any comments....I didn't hear about such an idea of tourism, but the prices for medical treatment are rather cheap if to compare them with other countries...but going through all paper's work just to visit a dentist...sounds rather strange to me...or maybe I don't understand anything???
izifaddag, I don't have any comments....I didn't hear about such an idea of tourism, but the prices for medical treatment are rather cheap if to compare them with other countries...but going through all paper's work just to visit a dentist...sounds rather strange to me...or maybe I don't understand anything???
We had a regular contributor here here for a while who was a dentist. I think he went by the name codered (?)
Anyway - his fiance had some great deal of difficulty with her dental work that had been done in Russia. He was quite frustrated because where she had gone did not even have adequate Xrays and he claimed that the equipment was primitive.
Maybe if you can afford to go to the right place you can get good care at great prices - but either she (his fiance) didn't or couldn't.
Well dental can be expencive here but my mediacl cover is affordable and has there own dentist. My x had some work done in Russia about 2 years before she came here. Totaly dodgy as I had to pay about $1000US to get it fixed. She nearly lost her front tooth but as always, there are good and bad stories. The good ones are not news. I would say also, concerning another tooth she had a problem with the second day I met her. We met in a different city to where she lived therefore she could not get cheap dental. She got an appointment but I thought it was expencive even by Australian standards. To my understanding things work city to city there. Make sure the prices you get from your girl are for you, and not for her inj her own city as I am 100% that there is 2 prices, maybe more
Codered was a lawyer Jet, probably still is in fact.
Yep Ptich', I also think it's strange to try to combine a first date in Russia with visits to a dentist. By all means do it, but if I were her I'd have the thoughts Ptichka has, worse actually - WHY are you here in the first place? To score a saving or a wife?
But for those who want to play medical tourist, go to the bigger cities only. I would definitely inspect the equipment first, and for instance ask if temporary light-curing fillings are possible. If they cannot make X-rays then forget about it. A full panoramic jaw-scan only the real good one's can do, hospitals do normally. But never mind the drills etc, if they still use gas for anaesthetic (?) then I'd run out of there!
But Izi, that amount you mentioned, surely you're talking several ounces of gold?
Heard a similar story about this on the BBC about a year back. So called poor countries are setting aside special hospitals just for so called wealthy foreigners. I also heard a report about a clinic in Russia that was offering injections of stem cells I think for about 5000 to 15000 dollars. I think it was for the higher amount but I am just covering myself.
You know the idea is just developing here but it really works. Now I am starting a new project dealing with all kinds of tourism to Belarus and you know, medical tourism is what is already there. The prices for medical treatment can't be compared to the US ones, you can get a professor's research of your case and full consulting just for about $300-$500. Dental services are several times cheaper and don't believe if someone tells that the level of services is lower here. Our doctors have always been considered the best on the planet and in the last decade enough modern clinics with modern equipement opened.
Izi, a great idea of yours.
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Thank you for the real input. Apparently some are here to "score" and are so incredibly rich that they can afford to pay vast sums of money to have a so called superior western dentist enjoy a vacation in Hawaii on them. I have never read such BS in my life. What is wrong with going to see a lady and making an investigation to solve another problem at the same time??
American dentists and doctors are not to be trusted. I know from personal experience. they crack on that the finest medical care is right here in the good old US of A.
Wrong!
It is if you can afford it. You had better educate yourself on whatever it is that ails you or they will perform unnecessary crap to milk the insurance company. They don't care so long as they get paid.
I think it only makes sense to investigate what is available in FSU for this stuff. I am going anyway, many times it would seem and I have somebody who is more than willing to help me because she cares. I guess that would be the one I am trying to "score" with. How offensive can you get.
izifaddag, I will try to explain what is wrong...it is like coming to a romantic dat in the girl's flat and asking for a permission to take a shower...so what is the first reason of coming? To see your girl or to take a shower? These are just some of thoughts that will come into girl's mind... The best outcome will be spoiling her mood for the whole evening, the worst one is that she will break all connections with you!:)
Paperwork...and I thought that a visa and some other documents were a need to come into a foreign country..
I just got word from an insider friend of mine. This friend is, apart from well, also well informed, and ‘well’ includes Russian medical issues. Besides, I’m told I HAVE to tell you this, otherwise I’ll be mutilated with a rusty scalpel there where it hurts most ;-)
Hygienic standards out there may not quite be what you’re used to, especially the Americans due to suing for wealth being possible there, for too hot coffee self-served even. Now, if the equipment is not really polished could not bother me too much, but recycled syringes and poorly sterilized equipment might lead to HIV or Hepatitis C, both not really worth the savings if you ask me. Plenty of not too rich counties recycle syringes, and such would give a new meaning to penny wise, pound foolish.
Arse Injected Death Sentence anyone? Past tense - dentists wear rubber gloves these days, and finger condoms, however they’re working on the opposite side of the prostrate. Endo reamers are disposable, ditto for most other ‘consumables’, but sadly, and possibly, not in all dental rooms they are considered as such.
‘Cheaper’ means cutting cost somewhere – maybe recycling? I know we live only once, but living on this edge is Russian roulette.
Any takers?