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About 15 years ago my wife needed a fair amount of dental work due to a dentist screwing up her mouth in childhood. We traveled to Brazil and got the work done by a dentist that my family knew and spent a week hanging out with my family there. The cost including travel and the dentist, etc. was far less that what the US dentist quoted and my wife hasn't had a dental problem since. The procedures were far less invasive than what was recommended by the US.

Too many people uncritically accept the highly motivated claims of experts. Fortunately, if you get a second opinion from another dentist, they are unlikely to imagine the exact same set of fake problems as the first dentist.



I had problems with a molar that had received a root canal about 20 years ago. The dentist told me that it had to come out, but I had several options:

-Leave the hole, and the surrounding teeth would gradually fill in the space (I still have all my wisdom teeth, so that wouldn't be an issue)

-Have a partial plate inserted

-Have an implant inserted

The insert was quoted at about USD $5000. I found that I could have it done in Costa Rica, by US-trained dentists, for less than $1,000.

I seriously considered the Costa Rica route, but ended up just going with the gap.




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