Hungary Is Fighting Tooth and Nail over English Smiles
Low Costs of Dental Implants Lure More English Patients to Hungary
Dental tourism in Hungary has done more than help English patients save on the costs of dental implants. It has also offered desperate patients the opportunity to have treatment without the need to wait months for an appointment. According to the Budapest Times, every month, more than 60,000 Britons scour the Net looking for dental tourism help on great and affordable clinics abroad. This medical vacation trend has caused enough angst for British dentists that they’ve launched an all out attack on the quality of dental treatment abroad.
A Hungarian Medical Vacation to Perfect the English Smile
The British Dental Health Foundation (BDHF) recently issued a statement advising Britons against traveling abroad for dental treatment. At first glance, it seems like a perfectly straightforward statement, the concern of a national dental association for the state of its citizens’ molars. Until you consider the fact that the British health care system is teetering on the verge of collapse, with severe understaffing, poor infrastructure, and an increase in hospital infections.
A recent survey of over 5,000 British dental patients revealed the extent of the decay in the dental system, no pun intended. According to the survey, at least 6% of Britons faced with a lack of timely dental care had resorted to using pliers to perform self extraction, and using superglue to fix broken crowns. Mike Silford is the manager of the aptly named Perfect Profiles, a dental tourism company that helps Britons travel to Budapest for treatment. He minced no words pointing out that the BDHF was talking “on behalf of their members who have lost quite a considerable amount of business to overseas.”
Not that the BDHF seriously believes Britons already fed up with the snail’s pace of health care services in their country are going to take its advice to heart. Its warning ended with a rather tame plea that anybody going abroad for treatments should do so “with their eyes open.”
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