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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What Are All on 6 Dental Implants?All-on-4 Implants

by Matt Kelleher on February 25, 2011 with Comments Off on What Are All on 6 Dental Implants? comments

With the All on 6 implants procedure, the implant dentist places 6 dental implants in the upper or lower jaw. The dental implants work like your tooth’s natural root but are made out of titanium. Titanium has a very beneficial quality as a metal, it actually fuses to the jaw bone. That’s why dental implants …

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The Cost of Dentures in AustraliaDentures News

by Matt Kelleher on January 21, 2011 with 5 comments

In the news, papers in Australia are reporting that Winston Churchill’s dentures have just sold at auction for $25,000. Another set of his dentures went on the auction block last year, and fetched $24,000. It was Churchill’s dentures that gave him his characteristic lisp. Today I am looking at the price of dentures in Australia. …

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India and Philippines to Offer Medical Tourism and Dental Tourism VisasMedical Tourism News

by Matt Kelleher on January 20, 2011 with 0 comments

There are tourist visas, business visas, education visas and a whole host of other visas, including the brand new medical tourism visa, that will cover dental holidays as well. You might wonder why you need a visa and which countries require them. Every country is different. Thailand, for example, allows tourist stays up to 30 …

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Australia Looking to Offer Hi-end Medical Tourism, and Las Vegas TooMedical Tourism News

by Matt Kelleher on January 18, 2011 with 0 comments

The Sydney Morning Herald and the Canberra Times are reporting that the Australian Government is looking to promote Australia as a medical tourism destination for wealthy Asian heath travelers. The Australian government wants to market Australian medical services to the rich from the developing world, like Thailand, the Philippines and India. Aren’t those are some …

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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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