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High UK dental costs driving patients abroad

Patients going abroad for dentistry

At the recent World Health Tourism Congress in Cyprus, the launch of the International Medical Travel Association (IMTA) was announced.

The IMTA seeks to represent the interests of medical travellers and the medical travel industry including healthcare providers and medical travel facilitators. The association currently has 26 registered members from across the world. Dr Steven Tucker, Medical Director of the West Clinic Excellence Cancer Centre in Singapor, is the President of the IMTA.

How successful the organisation will be in developing internationally accepted standards and codes of conduct for medical tourism.....who knows?

The medical tourism market is very fragmented consisting of many minor players such as doctors, dentists and individual clinics and various medical tourism "facilitators"and hospital groups. As yet, no one company has attempted to take a really significant share of the market. It's likely that those who take the lead in this fast emerging market will be the standard setters which others will follow.

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Date published: 10 Jan 2008

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I have read that article and many other articles from different publications and the press.My earnings are "mid-range" and I simply cannot afford £4000 for a bridge with crowns and two front veneers. I've found www.yourfavouritedentist.co.uk and signed up with them for a treatment in early March.But still I don't get it;Too much tax or VAT,expensive gear and materials,why..why is so expensive here in the UK?

Phill B (28/10/2010 12:23:30)

Yes, I read the article in the independent yesterday, although I'm not too sure if the research can be trusted. I'd rather go to a site like http://www.dentalholiday.co.uk where they have a price comparison for dental treatment abroad and treatment such as implants, veneers and crowns. But at least the UK citizens are finally becoming more and more aware that the dental situation is terrible in the UK and they simply must go abroad for treatment.

Daniel Shaw (28/10/2010 12:23:04)