Smile Planners Dental Holidays Featured in Tropical MagazineDental Tourism News

by Matt Kelleher on March 13, 2011 with Comments Off on Smile Planners Dental Holidays Featured in Tropical Magazine comments

A few month’s back I was contacted by reporter Ben Keene who was writing an article for Tropical Magazine entitled, Thailand’s Perennial Allure to Health Travelers. It was a pleasure to talk with him about the medical and dental tourism industry. The article discusses the different types of treatments, from elective to dental to rejuvenation …

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Lost and Found – Gold Dentures in the UKDental Tourism News

by Matt Kelleher on January 15, 2011 with Comments Off on Lost and Found – Gold Dentures in the UK comments

The hotel chain Travelodge has released a list of items that people had forgotten in their hotel rooms in 2010. Now forgetting your tooth brush is one thing, but forgetting a set of gold dentures is quite another. Especially when those dentures are valued at £6,500. But dentures and false teeth are some of the …

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Looking for a Chiang Mai Dentist and Holiday?Dental Tourism News

by Matt Kelleher on January 11, 2011 with Comments Off on Looking for a Chiang Mai Dentist and Holiday? comments

Located an hour from Bangkok by plane, Chiang Mai is called Thailand’s Rose of the North. Chiang Mai runs at a slower pace than Bangkok and provides its own Lanna (northern Thai) charm which extends to Chiang Mai dentists as well. Smile Planners knows Chiang Mai well and is familiar with the major clinics in …

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What Cheap Dental Implants Could Mean for Dental Tourism in IndiaDental Implant News, Dental Tourism News

by Matt Kelleher on December 14, 2010 with 0 comments

First came the Tata Nano, the world’s least expensive car at around $2900 USD, showroom new. Now Indian researchers are looking to lower the cost of dental implants with a $155 USD titanium implant. The new implant is the result of five years of research by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the Indian …

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Taiwan Enters Medical Tourism MarketDental Tourism News

by Matt Kelleher on December 8, 2010 with 0 comments

Taiwan’s president leading the effort to promote Taiwan as a medical tourism destination. On December 5th, 2010, Taiwan’s President Ma Ying-jeou announced the launch an international medical development fund to help jump start the country’s aspirations as a medical tourism and dental tourism destination in Asia. President Ma puts the current number of international patients …

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Dental Holidays, the Cost of Dentures in AsiaDental Tourism News

by Matt Kelleher on December 2, 2010 with 1 comments

This blog post looks at the published prices of dentures in Asia, including Thailand, India, the Philippines and China. In terms of dental holidays and dental tourism a trip to a location, like Thailand, the Philippines, India or China for dentures could cost as much as having the dentures fitted locally, once the price of …

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