Adult Dentistry Costa Rica

Source: www.worldental.org

Costa Rica is an utterly attractive country from a tourist point of view, but the medical field has also become an attraction for visitors.

There are several medical and dental tourism companies out there that offer extremely advantageous packages for those who seek top treatment conditions and want to combine that with fine vacationing.

A great majority of Americans and Canadians prefer Costa Rica for the excellent prices in the dental medical field.

According to Euromonitor statistics, approximately 90% of the services in the cosmetic dentistry field of Costa Rica are being offered for foreign tourists.

The dental treatments here come on extremely low prices, while the quality of the services offered is at high standards. Certainly this is the most convenient factor for most that choose Costa Rica as a medical and vacationing spot.

The National Association of Dental Plans has released some statistics according to which, around 46% of the American adults do not have proper dental insurance. The rest of the population who has insurance actually struggles with very low levels of coverage. All these of course contribute to the fact that more and more people are seeking advantageous dental tourism packages offered by different companies.

In Costa Rica you can get a wide array of dental services including veneers, dental implants, crowns and bridges and even up to the most complex dental surgical interventions. The facilities there are equipped with the latest technological tools and the dentists are highly skilled professionals that are able to offer the same high standard treatments that you would get at an office within the borders of the US.

For example, the dental implants are extremely expensive in the US, but if you choose to travel to such a destination as Costa Rica you might have to pay for the same exact procedure only 1/3 of the price. For the money you would spend in the US on one implant, you are able to get three in Costa Rica.

This is just an example, but there are certainly plenty other dental services that will cost you less than at home. Comparing the dental services prices for general treatments such as dental Xrays, fillings, extractions, plus considering the dentist fees, in Costa Rica the prices are 50% to 70% lower.

Besides offering top notch medical services, Costa Rica is an idyllic country for vacationing, and plenty of Americans choose it as their favorite spot for retirement purposes.

Source: worldental.org

Costa Rica has become lately a very favored medical tourism destination for patients from all over the world.

Besides being a country where there is high quality patient treatment possible, and where the doctors are highly skilled professionals, the country also offers several entertainment options for tourists.

Therefore, many choose to combine their medical needs with relaxation, and choose Costa Rica for this flexibility.

There are several tourism and retirement services available which help international travelers get the most advantageous quotes both for their vacationing packages and for their dental treatment needs. They basically find the most renowned dental professionals or cosmetic surgeons and then offer you a reasonable quote. Read the rest of this entry »

Fuente: calidaddevida.eluniversal.com

Lunes 16 de mayo de 2011 – La organización Cordón de Vida anunció que colaborará con Store-A-Tooth en varios países latinoamericanos, incluyendo a Venezuela.

La idea es recolectar y preservar células madre de dientes de leche perdidos durante la niñez, extraídos para hacer espacio para retenedores de ortodoncia y muelas del juicio extraídas de adolescentes y jóvenes.

Los dientes removidos durante la atención dental de rutina serán enviados a un centro altamente especializado en la conservación de células madres en Estados Unidos. El convenio, además de Venezuela, concierne Panamá, Costa Rica, Ecuador y Guatemala.

En el año 2000, investigadores del U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) demostraron que los dientes son una fuente de células madres con el potencial de diferenciarse en varias clases especializadas de células.

Las células madres dentales fueron utilizadas para regenerar el hueso de la mandíbula y el tratamiento de enfermedades periodontales. Se estudia la posibilidad de tratar la diabetes y el Parkinson.

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Few of the basic requisites of a medical travel destination are advanced health care system, availability of highly developed medical facilities, proficient doctors, caring hospital staff, great sightseeing options, suitable weather and a supportive national infrastructure for a trouble free healthcare journey. Costa Rica is one such place that offers all these things in great abundance with extremely superb medical and healthcare facilities, highly competent medical professionals and great support system in terms of staff and other facilities.

Costa Rica has a highly developed tourism industry. It is perhaps the world’s leader in eco-tourism with dense topographical rain forests, stunning mountains, diverse flora and fauna, fabulous beaches, suitable climate and friendly & generous people. All this combined with the high quality medical facilities available at amazingly low prices, every year thousands of United States citizens head towards Costa Rica to acquire treatment while holidaying.

India

A rich potpourri of various cultures and religions, India is also a preferred destination for medical tourism as well. It is perhaps one of the world’s least expensive medical tourism destinations.

Offering cost effective treatment for chronic heart diseases to cosmetic surgeries to years old Yogic & Ayurvedic spa Read the rest of this entry »

Los traumatismos dentales pueden variar desde una simple afectación del esmalte hasta la avulsión (salida) del diente fuera de su alvéolo. Varios autores han realizado clasificaciones sencillas de los traumatismos que facilitan su descripción  y consideración. Actualmente es casi universal el uso de la clasificación de Andreassen, que es una modificación de la propuesta por la Organización Mundial de la Salud en su catalogación internacional de enfermedades aplicada a la Odontología y Estomatología de 1978.

Esta clasificación se refiere a las lesiones de tejidos duros dentales y la pulpa (nervio), así como a los tejidos periodontales (tejidos de sostén de los dientes), la mucosa y el hueso. Tiene la ventaja de que se puede  aplicar tanto a la dentición temporal como a la permanente. Read the rest of this entry »

¿Por qué es necesaria?

La higiene oral constituye el medio ideal para gozar de una buena salud oral, ya que elimina los restos de comida de la boca, favorece un buen sabor, evita el mal olor y crea una sensación de confort en la cavidad oral, mejorando también la estética y la calidad de vida de las personas.

El objetivo fundamental de la higiene oral es reducir el nivel de bacterias que provocan estas enfermedades, es decir controlar el nivel de placa bacteriana que puede provocar la caries dental y la enfermedad periodontal. La higiene oral puede efectuarse de dos formas complementarias: mecánica mediante el uso de cepillos dentales, y química, mediante la utilización de substancias antisépticas en pastas o enjuagues. Read the rest of this entry »

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¿Cómo funciona?

Me gustaría aclarar el concepto de blanqueamiento. Ésta técnica no consiste en un “blanqueamiento” del diente propiamente dicho, sino en un aclaramiento, ya que no se altera el color propio del diente. El color de un diente viene determinado, desde que nacemos, por la tonalidad del núcleo del diente (dentina) y por la transparencia y capacidad de refracción de la luz por el esmalte. El color del núcleo no se altera, sin embargo, con el tiempo el esmalte se va tiñendo a base de sustancias colorantes como pueden ser el tabaco, los pintalabios, el café, el té, el tomate, pigmentos químicos, bebidas de cola, uso de determinados medicamentos, etc. En consecuencia, el blanqueamiento dental consiste en eliminar del esmalte, por medio de sustancias químicas, todas aquellas partículas que alteran su color original. Nosotros somos partidarios de que sea el profesional quien marque las pautas en función de la tinción existente. En general creemos que los procedimientos más idóneos para cada paciente deben elegirse en función del diagnóstico, el cual se realiza tras un examen de los dientes y una historia clínica adecuada. Read the rest of this entry »

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The price of dental care can be pretty costly. Even if you have insurance you can be stuck paying thousands of dollars.

Some people are now going out the country to get their teeth fixed. It’s called “dental tourism.”

“I just thought I’ll never be able to have it done,” says Sheila Liner, who booked a trip through a dental tourism company. The found her a dentist in Costa Rica. Liner paid him $3,600 and made a vacation out of it.

“I was just so excited to be able to smile again, it had been a long time!” she says.

Shelia is part of a growing trend. More and more people are heading outside the country to places like Mexico, Turkey, Brazil, Thailand and Korea for dental work.

Source by nacion.com

Costa Rica aprovechará el segundo Congreso Latinoamericano de Turismo Médico que se realizará aquí, en el 2011, para posicionarse como el líder regional en esta materia.

Tal es la principal consigna de los representantes del Instituto Costarricense de Turismo (ICT) y el Consejo para la Promoción Internacional de la Medicina de Costa Rica (Promed), los cuales dieron detalles, ayer, de este cónclave.

La cita se realizará del 2 al 4 de mayo, en San José y Guanacaste, y hasta el momento 10 países han confirmado su asistencia. Read the rest of this entry »

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No doubt Costa Rica has some if not the best dentists in the world that have gone to school in the U.S and opened up practice in Costa Rica. Read the rest of this entry »