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Over £8000 Savings On Dental Implants – Travel Costs Incl.

June 26th, 2012 | Posted by Dental Europe in Dental Tourism - (Comments Off)

John saved quite a lot of money by visiting Hungary twice for his dental implants. If you had £8000 what would you buy from that? Present for your children? Something expensive that you’ve been declining due to its cost? There are hundreds and thousands of availabilities that you can come up with surely. So how you can do that safely,  so you know that your teeth will be in good hands?

The main reasons that evoked ClickFlySmile were just that – how to make sure that you will have a healthy and beautiful smile with eliminating any risks that could happen because of the inappropriate education or experience of the dentist you choose. You can select from dental practices with impeccable history of successful treatments – this why there are only good or better choices. Compare along many choices – price, duration, localtion etc. – and pick the dental treatment you like the best.

So what would you do if you knew that you can safely save £8000 without any hassle?

Our New Dental Tourism Concept Was Selected By ITB Berlin!

April 26th, 2012 | Posted by Dental Europe in Dental Tourism - (Comments Off)

ITB Berlin is the World’s Leading Travel Trade Show, taking place every year in March in berlin.  The topic of Medical tourism is key one at ITB, as hundreds of thousands of patients are crossing borders every year to seek a medical treatment abroad.

This year, we had the privilege to be selected by ITB as one of the top ten most innovative projects in the domain of medical tourism.
ClickFlySmile CEO, Erwan Allené, was one of the speakers. His impressions of the show ?
“ITB was a fantastic experience, where I could meet with various players in the field of dental tourism: competitors, partners and of course patients. It is in such events that you realize how much investments are being made throughout the world to develop medical tourism. Health through medical tourism generally and dental tourism specifically are the concerns of many many people in the world. We were able to confront clickFlySmile to various health professionals and the feedback we got was extremely positive and encouraging. Thanks a lot to ITB, we are looking forward to being there again next year”
 Meet you there next time…

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Had Enough of High Dental Costs In the UK?

March 13th, 2012 | Posted by Dental Europe in Dental Tourism - (Comments Off)

As I was wondering around some dental related sites, I spotted many very interesting and surprising comments. I was, in a self-reassuring way, getting the feeling that I am not alone who was lost in the jungle of the much-cited healthcare system and had enough of the oft ridiculously high prices charged by dentists. So today I am going to share one of these comments and my thoughts on that with you.

” My husband and I are registered with an NHS dentist and we were both quoted £250 each for a filling (as we both needed 1 filling) and my husband got quoted £3000 for a new bridge. We’ve been quoted half the price for a highly recommended dentist abroad – how does that make sense?”

Well, it does not.

There is a pretty well-known controversy here. On one side you have millions of patients struggling to access free dental care and on the other, you have dentists earning £300.000+ annually. But of course there is much more to that than just huge salaries. Every year more and more people feel that their dentists are just ripping them off. How does it make sense to have a 15 minutes dental work on a tooth and be charged £100-200 pounds? And we also have to talk about people who simply cannot get an appointment with an NHS dentist. They are even willing to pay. However, the waiting lines are far too long so they might have to wait a year (!) to get into a dental chair. A 2010  survey, amongst many others, conducted by the Department of Health confirms this idea.

Of course, it is not that there are no patients who get their treatment done and dentists who are not reliable. What I am expressing here are doubts that this very existing phenomenon results in a negative way not only for patients but as well for dentists in the UK. And one fast solution people find is dental tourism. There are no waiting lines, expenses are greatly reduced even with the additional travel costs and the service quality even matches, or even surpasses the UK counterparts. These people have a chance to save huge amount of  money and get their teeth done in a professional manner. Plain and simple. The ‘only thing’ you have to do is finding the right dentist. Well, this is where Click Fly Smile comes into the picture, where you can find only reliable dentists who have several years of experience dealing with people coming from the UK. Are you ready to save thousands and get your teeth done?

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3 Million Pounds for Dental Tourism In Hungary

February 1st, 2012 | Posted by Dental Europe in Dental Tourism - (0 Comments)

Dental tourism is greatly supported by the Government in Hungary. Approximately 3 million GBP (1 billion HUF) is to be given to improve the competitiveness of dental offices in Hungary. The offer is especially dedicated to clinics that are having dental tourism in their dental services palette. All funds are from inviting applications via the national state fund program ‘Új Széchenyi-terv‘. Applications are open from 1 March till 31 May. The National Development Agency hopes to give dental tourism another boost in order to reinforce dental tourism industry in Hungary.

This coordinated market development is quite interesting from our point of view because there are almost too many dental clinics in Hungary – let alone in Budapest. So the question is more like which dentistry offices could be financially supported through this tender. And there are few practitioners who are aware of the benefits of dental tourism and fewer who can really stand a ground as Hungarians are not well-known for their fluent English. However, there is a tendency that more and more dentists are learning not only English but many other European languages as well – like French, Italian etc. I am more concerned about the clinics’ side. Will this application lead to natural competition or only big dental facilities can apply. Is this an opportunity to give a chance for everybody or to widen the distance between smaller ang bigger dental offices in Hungary.

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Dental Treatment Abroad 2.0

January 27th, 2012 | Posted by Dental Europe in Dental Tourism - (Comments Off)

We have several ways to tell going abroad to have a dental treatment with the exact same thing. Dental tourism 2.0 is on the way with Health 2.0 though nobody knows what that means – except for the fact that it involves newly redesigned devices (e.g. smartphones, tablets and the list goes on…). There is only few that we know for certain: dental tourism always try to gain one thing and it wants it bad: the trust of people.

A trust thing could easily be some kind of a  ‘ghost’ following the dental tourism industry – the systematical data hyping about the facts and figures ended up with mistrust and a lot of confusions. But I believe that is now fading away. Yes, it made (and sadly sometimes still makes) some pretty deep and bad reputation in the news media that the dental tourism industry must correct or at least make constant effort to minimize it. The industry made some great mistakes and trust was wasted, big time. Now all we do is fighting for that trust, some in an aggressive way some with wit – at the end of the day it is just the same.

However, all those negative effect had an effect on how patients look for a dental treatment abroad. For one thing they are more self-aware and cautious with the clicks. So this time it is the industry players to make it right this time. The focus should be more on the patients in ways of customer relationship and regain their trust again by not just empty promises (best price, best quality) but outstanding customer relations and an extraordinary experience. Of course it doesn’t mean that line should be erased. You can’t do it because it is the essence of dental tourism but rather extend on other dental services, definitely focusing on patients. Yes, they are looking for a high quality dental treatment at an reasonable price but what they need in addition to that is an outstanding experience, that they can share with their friends. In order to make it happen there is just so many things that has to be done, the list starts with customer services ( hint ) and finding an acceptable way for aftercare – all made as simple as possible. Take Click Fly Smile for an example.

Why We Never Go to See a Dentist in Time

January 26th, 2012 | Posted by Dental Europe in Dental Tourism - (Comments Off)

It is quite a fact that standard health insurance never offer coverage for cosmetic dentistry procedures and people, needing dental implants for example, have to dig very deep in their pockets at a dental practice for this oral surgery. In some places in England you might have to pay £97 for a 15 minute regular dental exam – and until now, the dentist hasn’t done a thing, she only checked upon your oral health in order to see what procedures you might be requiring.

It is Okay, I will Survive…

Dental professionals charge between £45 and £124 for a regular dental exam in the UK – at over four hundred dental practices according to the “Which?” research. People have given up going for regular check-ups. Instead, they will choose to go only when a throbbing dental pain is torturing them, of course last minute, or when they simply cannot stand the frustration of living with missing teeth anymore. Statistics have revealed that more than half of the UK population has not visited a dentist in the past two years, and that is straight unacceptable!

Forget Delays and Start Doing Something

Dental treatment in the UK is the most expensive around the world – small wonder why many of us postpone because of the high prices, and we haven’t even mentioned dental phobias yet. However, if you can find a safe dentist abroad you most certainly be treated by dental practitioners using high-end technology in their practices – and most importantly the prices are even 50% lower. Why postpone because of the high prices, save thousands on your dental care and book an appointment with experienced dentists in Central Europe – Click Here to Test Run the Dental Comparison Tool. You just fill out your medical information and dental clinics will make offers for your treatment. Boom! This is 21. century dental tourism!

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Dental Tourism – Our Way or the Highway

January 23rd, 2012 | Posted by Dental Europe in Dental Tourism - (Comments Off)

You always hear good things only from dental clinics or agencies so there is a little wonder why the media tends to exaggerate bad rumors and stories very likely and often.

Indicated by a medical tourism report back in 2008, an impressive 90% tended to have their treatment successfully and were satisfied with it. With 650 people filled out, it leaves us 65 negative feedback only. According to statistics, a typical dissatisfied customer will tell eight to 10 people about his or her bad experience. One in five will tell 20 or more. But it’s likely those word-of-mouth statistics are understated in today’s online marketplaces. Besides, if we assume that you’d tell a negative story to everybody you know and they start to share on social media… we should assume those 65 people could reach more than the other 585.

Oral surgery is profound and complex, even intimate – normally you don’t talk about your dentistry experiences to everybody. Dentists making that experience bad (not talking about mistake, rather not having it fixed), you find yourself in a very vulnerable situation where you get really angry and frustrated. Not saying that practitioners cannot make mistakes, rather they could work on making the whole experience memorable. This is where dental tourism could and should improve for the better – big time. You have something wrong with your teeth, no worries. Come back, we’ll fix it for free in no time. Dentists should prepare for these instances as well and people have to get the focus of dental tourism industry back on the patient and get more people telling the story of their extraordinary dental experience abroad.

Hyping Dental Implant Costs an Arm and a Leg and Oral Surgery Abroad

January 20th, 2012 | Posted by Dental Europe in Dental Tourism - (0 Comments)

There are so many word from clinics and agencies promoting dental tourism. This time I though it may be valuable lesson for patients and clinics as well to review how a dental clinic advertisement may sound:

“It is getting essential to save on your dental treatment when it has become near a luxury in most of the countries. Mostly everybody have concluded  this resolution several times before going for dental treatment. There are several ways to save on your oral surgery – one being affordable dental treatment in Asia or Central Europe, countries like India or Hungary, where you can find the same service for less then half of the price at home.

The most expensive country is, by large, the UK and the US, however, France, Germany and Canada are in the top gear in charging more money for any dental treatment. Recently, dental tourism begins to flourish (again) because more and more people are forced to go abroad to find a more reasonable price for his or her dental custom. Procedure charges are far below the western counterparts – you can save about 60-75 per cent of the total dental costs. Dental implant, root canal treatment, crown, bridge or filling, you name it – costs will be much more reasonable and the quality of the treatment is as good as on any of the high-end clinics.”

This is the part when they are trying to combine holidays with dental surgery and tell you about not to worry about your dental care, best quality etc.

For starters, everybody is sensitive when it comes to dentistry and tend to postpone even with their own dentists at home. How can we make people trust if we just putting up big and empty words and not providing real help to people who are desperate to find outstanding value for their money. Value not promises. Customer services is essential so as any form of communication but this is still not enough. Personal connection must evolve into a new level, where patients are in the center and the provider, well… provides. This may sound silly for the first time, though few people is just enough to make a torrent of complaining in forms of articles, posts and comments on the web and there is no one who can stop that when it’s started.

At a time when trust in dental tourism is crucial we can’t waste our energy on fake promises, but making every effort to ensure safety and comfort as well as travel and treatment flow, so more people will share their exciting (positive) stories online and maybe more people is going to have more trust and feel confident about their dental trip.

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What We (Should) Do In the Name of Tooth Tourism, Dental Tourism – or More Generally Medical Tourism and Cross-Border Healthcare

January 18th, 2012 | Posted by Dental Europe in Dental Tourism - (0 Comments)

There are so many names we are addressing the same thing: going abroad to have a dental treatment. As medical tourism industry evolves into a new form there are constant upgrades on the road. I will hit the main and relevant issues concerning dental tourism.

For one thing, the ‘haunting shadow’ of the dental tourism industry is fading away, however it left (and sadly sometimes still leaves) some pretty deep marks that ‘the living’ must correct or at least make constant effort to minimize it. One of the medical tourism industry blogs‘ comment mentioned that there was a shift in 2005 in medical tourism. It is more likely to have similar patterns as the dotcom bubble: data hyping by industry players. This is what I call the Shadow – the industry made great mistakes and trust was wasted, big time.

However, it had an impact on how patients look for dental treatment abroad: definitely more cautious. So this time it is the industry players (counting ourselves in) to ‘make it right this time’. We must concentrate more on the patients in ways of customer relationship and gain their trust again by not empty promises (high quality, low-cost) but extraordinary customer support and an impressive experience. Not saying that we should erase that line – it is the essence of dental tourism. Rather we must extend our expertise on peripheral services (focusing on patients). ‘Dental tourists’ are seeking high quality oral care at affordable prices but what they need besides is an outstanding experience. And in order to make it happen we need to provide loads of additional information (list of accreditation and certificate of materials used, so aftercare is much less frustrating etc.) and make it as simple as possible.

 

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Why Do People Have Their Dental Care Abroad?

January 12th, 2012 | Posted by Dental Europe in Dental Tourism - (0 Comments)

Almost everybody is looking for ways to cut their dental care expenses and many find their answers not in their home country – in other words they benefit from dental tourism to save thousands.

It has become known that people who made their research on dental treatment costs are faced with the fact that prices for a dental treatment abroad is (far) less expensive in foreign countries even with traveling and accommodation expenses included. If you’ve never considered dental tourism as an option then perhaps this article places a different light on this matter.

Dental Care Costs + Traveling Costs + Accommodation = is it Still Cheaper?

Many and more people are embarking on a ‘dental trip’ or ‘dental holiday’ solely to save their dental expenses. Dental clinics in European countries (such as Hungary and Poland) are offering their dental service at a far reduced price compared to dentists in Britain. It is not about saving a hundred or so, but their prices are rather a great deal less costly compared to the UK. So if you are looking for dental cosmetic surgery though you might not be able to afford it, then dental tourism is definitely can be help – if you use it wisely and consider safe precautions as well.

You are Not Alone

We even postpone our appointments with our dentists just because we are babies when it comes to our mouth. Add this to the very high prices and we might never see a dentist unless our teeth hurt so bad we can’t sleep or just do not want live with a missing tooth.
You might be surprised to find out that thousands of Britons travel abroad to have their dental work annually. Besides it being a next best option for many of us it may also help lowering waiting lists in dental clinics. There are many websites dedicated especially for medical and dental tourism that offer high-end clinics with experienced dentists along with your travel arrangements. British men and women are incredibly happy about their therapies – even some believe that the majority of the cosmetic dentists and oral surgeons overseas can beat the British counterparts.

Dental Treatment and Holiday at the Same Time?

Many people are making an allowance for this question. Plainly, agencies tend to promote ‘dental holiday’ or ‘dental vacation’ and dental professionals oppose. I’m getting to realise that focusing on one or the other could be most beneficial for you. Having a dental implant is pretty serious – taking painkillers could make you dizzy and less focused. So I would recommend you to choose one and do only that at a time. A combination is possible if you can maybe divide holiday before the treatment, but who would delay if you exclusively came for an oral surgery?

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