Reuters reports:
It was fear of the hefty bill as much as fear of the drill that kept American musician Don Clay away from U.S. dental clinics for 30 years.
When a sorely infected tooth eventually drove him to the dentist last month, it was to a clinic in a Mexican border city better known for violent crime and drug cartels.Shrugging off concerns about hygiene and Mexico's brutal drug war, thousands of Americans are heading to Ciudad Juarez and other Mexican border cities for cheap dental treatment.
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U.S. dental treatment costs up to four times as much as in Mexico, making it tough for uninsured Americans to treat common problems such as abscessed teeth or pay for dentures.
A dental crown in the United States costs upward of $600 per tooth, compared to $190 or less in Mexico.
I hate going to the dentist. I just went the other day and it was as miserable as ever. It's not the prices that bother me, though. It's the metal things they use to scrape with. And the annoying gag-inducing things they use to take the X-rays. If someone in Mexico can find a way to clean my teeth without all that, I'm going!
