Dental tourism is a media-hatched label used to describe the phenomenon of people travelling abroad to seek cheaper dental treatments. Over recent years travelling to another country for treatment has dramatically increased in popularity, undoubtedly owing to the high costs of dentistry in the U.K. Unfortunately, a lot of people tend to rush into dental tourism because it sounds great a first, without realising that it could have a big impact on the quality of treatment and service which you receive.

Dentists in the U.K are extremely professional and treatment is standardised to a very high quality. If a dentist is negligent, you are legally entitled to compensation for it, and so you always have that safety net. The same may not be true for some of the countries people are visiting for dental procedures.

Although dental tourism occurs in a large number of different countries, basically anywhere where dentistry is significantly cheaper than in the U.K, I chose to visit India to receive my dental treatment there. Everything seemed fine at first, but I didn’t do my research properly and later discovered the extent of how poor the quality of treatment was that I had received. I paid a significant amount of money for a complete smile renovation with veneers, but just a few weeks after they were put on, the veneers began to fall out and to fall to pieces! I had to pay for a cosmetic dentists in Reading to restore my smile, and I wasn’t able to recover any of what I had spent in India. So, although dental tourism might seem great at first, it is truly important you do your research before you go. Don’t make the same mistake I did.

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