Mexico Dentist for my Wisdom Tooth Extraction??? ?

Question

I have no dental insurance and my dentist referred me to a oral surgeon who I cant afford to surgically remove my impacted wisdom tooth. The other one he pulled came out really easy.

I hear good things about the dental work just over the boarder. I live within a few hundred miles of the boarder in Texas. Others are telling me I'm crazy but I'm also broke and need to get this done before the skin grows over it.

Anyone out there have a good or bad experience to tell me about???

Answer 1

Think about going to one of the local universities that have a dental school,  3rd year students supervised by teaching professors, sometime just like barber school etc, you get a cheap haircut etc...Crossing the border has it's up and downs, you have to shop around, my wife had a tooth implant done by a Hispanic lady, graduate of Penn State Dental School, cost her 700US our dentist in Sacramento wanted 2400US.  My wife had the surgery, she was given antibiotics and has never had a problem.. You have to visit, see where they went to school. I had dental work done in Turkey, and no problems, so it's sometimes where the dentist when to school, most come to the states for their training..

Answer 2

Be very careful. The problem with out of states dentist is they are not controlled by a dental board and rules as in the US. They don't carry malpractice insurance to pay you with if something goes wrong. OSHA doesn't check to make sure they instruments are sterilized, etc. They may not even be sterilizing instruments. They may not even be licensed or educated in the dental field. Having said this, I know there are very bad ones, very good ones, and inbetween ones out there. I have seen a variety of work from people who went to Mexico. Most of it bad. You need to find someone in the dental field that knows of a good one.

Answer 3

I have some swamp land send me a check.