As reported by Laura Bly, USA TODAY, health care and dental tourism will be a top ten travel trend for 2010. She 
reports, ” As Washington lawmakers continue to grapple with health-care reform, more Americans — an estimated 1.6 million by 2012, according to Deloitte Center for Health Solutions — will combine foreign vacations with carpal tunnel surgery, dental crowns and other short-stay, outpatient procedures that cost 30%-70% less than U.S. prices. Driving the trend: more coverage of overseas medical care by major U.S. insurers, an increase in individual insurance policies that typically carry a high deductible, and a marketing push by companies that combine travel and medical services.”
Due to low annual maximums you will probably not dee the same push from dental insurers. That is because people will be using all benefits available for a given year on one trip. Paying out benefits costs an insurance company money and if the maximum is paid there is no incentive for an insurance company to encourage the trip. But is good practice to know your dental benefits. Understand how you can use them if you take a dental vacation to countries like India, Thailand or Mexico.
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So you know you have costly dental needs and you have heard about the concept of a dental vacation. Sounds great and it can be great, but there
are times when it may not work out in your best interest. The UK has a lot of people seeking dental tourism due to the recession and it has been discussed about how it may not work out to save costs. That is particularly true if you are considering treatment that needs multiple visits. Obviously when you have multiple visits you have mutiple flight and hotel costs that can quickly eat into your savings in dentistry.
Dental implants are a procedure popularly advertised that the complete process from placing the implant to putting a crown on the implant can take months due to healing time needed. Unless traveling to another country that is very convenient (like living on the US border and going to Mexico) this would be a case where dental tourism may not be for you.
If you are traveling a distance consider procedures that can be done in one visit or two visits spaced a maximum of two weeks apart or whatever time you can afford to by away. Most dentistry can be done in this time frame. For instance fillings, crowns, bridges and veneers can be done this way. Implants orthodontics, and continuing gum care take place over as much as a year and may not be convenient or give the cost savings you want.
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