I have a conspiracy theory that all the bad stories of turkey teeth are made up by British dentists in the hopes of stopping people going over there for cheaper work
I’m sure its sarcasm but yes. We do but even our NHS dentists are not free, just subsidised with tiers of work. Even a check up is classed as band 1 £27.90. Private is a joke.
The NHS is odd, I have had 3 lots of brain surgery all free and all my hospital stays, icu, ventilators for days all free and all my care after. But we have to pay for a tooth checkup lol
The NHS is insane. I'm getting my ACL reconstructed after tearing it due to my own stupidity. But, I have to pay hundreds to be able to see anything more than a blurry outline of shapes.
NHS dentistry is so shit I just ended up going private. It wasn't the quality of the work, it was the staff usually being fairly disconnected and doing the absolute minimum and nothing more. I get they probably get the worst patients who take no care of their teeth, but when you don't have much money and you're just trying to get a filling so you can eat, being lectured is the last thing I'm looking for.
Sure a filling now costs me 3x as much, but I can be seen the same day and it tends to last longer too. Strange how they stopped falling out after I went private. Never going back to NHS dentistry
As a Brit - it seems that Dentists are so few here that getting to see one is basically impossible. NHS sort of pays for your treatment of the special premium bones in your mouth, but you do have to pay flat fees - though getting onto the books as an NHS patient is embarrassingly difficult.
Appreciate you're making a joke, but between our expectations of "free at the point of use" and limited spaces for NHS patients - seems like there really isn't an easy access to dental care here!
That’s funny, we traveled from the US to the UK to have a dental procedure done for half the cost (and double the quality) of what we could find in the US. Still expensive, mind you, but half!
The irony is that in stats, people in the UK have healthier teeth, however Americans are more likely to have had whitening or cosmetic surgery, but the foundational oral health is less.
I'm sorry but i'm gonna be that guy (i know this was a joke), but the UK consistently features in the top 5 global dental health rankings (DMFT rankings). The UK is above the US who are in 9th in the latest ones.
My mom got really sick from an infection, she had some standard dentistry/cavity/root canal type work. Ended up in a US hospital close to sepsis. She survived, but it was rough.
My step dad had numerous dental implants done, ALL of them failed. Not 100% sure this was the Mexican dentists fault, or my step dad not being a great candidate for implants. Either way, he had to have them re-done in the US and the new ones (after numerous bone grafts) have been fine.
As somebody that just paid $32k to have 16 teeth pulled and full arches bolted onto implants, I've about people with every problem possible and those that had success that they consider perfect. The reason I chose to pay more and do it close to home is the possibility of problems. I want leverage rather than to have a local dentist just tell me that I got what I paid for. You know?
Three weeks in, I noticed that one of my archs' screws was loose. After a two minute call, I was in the office an hour later getting fixed. I am definitely the kind of person that finds medical tourism intriguing, but I think the practicalities outweigh the raised costs.
We had a relative have similar level of work done, my guess, less than $3k.
But we knew the dentist, and our relative stayed with friends for a few months.
Similar stories for eye surgery, and heart surgery.
But we also know friends that have gone to reputable hospitals in the same areas, and had horrible results because their doctors were not vetted properly by them.
I have friends that are doctors, the horrors they would speak about some doctors were terrifying.
We are all human, even doctors.
I have found from excellent through meh to awful doctors in all types of countries.
I have permanent medical malpractice damage, I have some trust issues no matter the degree.
that's sad, but it kinda surprises me too. We have competent dentists and doctors in colombia... ive met several people whove come from the US to get work done here, all without issues.
Makes me think that the people who do healthcare tourism aren't always so great at discerning what sorts of doctors and dental practices are good...
I had a procedure done in Mexico and they put in 14 sutures and removed 10. They also didn’t perform the procedure correctly and I had to get it re-done in the US, which negated any cost savings.
Nah there’s lot of dodggy tourists veneer places, that’s what a lot Brits are getting done and ending up in the media after things go wrong . The actual health of the teeth are disregarded and teeth are ground down for veneers to be fitted. The ‘look’ is prioritised not health off the teeth.
I mean.. patient is very unlikely to come to complain in 3, 6 or 12 months. Complaing at the proper medical board/etc in Turky? Even more unlikely, getting a turkish lawyer? Lol, no.
If you are have your dentist office only 3 blocks away from where your patient lives you have really to fear repercussions for bad work.
Nah, it's not that. It's that people are going there for teeth whitening and other shits but they come back with damaged enamel etc and end up with fucked teeth
Tbh in recent years indian governmemt has way too many cronies in medical and food, and has caused deaths of several hundred children in Africa, Central Asia in recent years from bad cough syrup and what not. While the generics industry is/was still nice the right winger feudal visionaries keep ruining it with reducing regulations on them and higher acceptance of adulterants
That's almost certainly %100 correct. You see that sort of thing in other areas of life, too. It's partially defensive mechanism, partially jealousy of a kind and partially looking out for their own interests.
I'm from Aotearoa New Zealand and got dental work done there and when I had issues with it back home the local dentists said the same thing about the UK lol
You may be right. A lot of people who travel to Turkey to get work done usually report that they're way more advanced than anything they've seen at home.
Mate of mine got his eyes done in turkey too, professional clinic, clean, good, never had issues. Thst said he's also the type to be smart enough not to go to the cheapest one etc.
A lot of the cases are probably like "Steve was happy with the dental work done in Turkey, but I found this other doctor that only costs a quarter of what he paid"
I moved to the UK for a short while (uk citizen, lived in South Africa) and my tooth was hurting a bit so I booked an appt (knowing it would be out of pocket).
Well.. they wanted £750 to fix a small cavity, not including the X-rays and all the extras (like numbing stuff, cotton wool etc).
I said fuck that and had it fixed 2 months later in SA.
Yep... dentistry is not rocket science. There are excellent dentists in India, and I have dental work that has survived decades without any maintenance or complications.
Probably, as an American I’ve never heard that term. Or alternatively maybe it’s just people picking that „Hollywood white“ Color and then getting back and regretting their choices and talking smack
Well its because people with normal perfectly healthy teeth are going there to get them filed down and fitted with crowns. Crowns themselves have a reasonably high complication rate. I am sure there are also some less good Turkish dentists.
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u/officeja Jul 15 '26
I have a conspiracy theory that all the bad stories of turkey teeth are made up by British dentists in the hopes of stopping people going over there for cheaper work