get the benefits of many consultations

One of the biggest factors in bad health care is errors in diagnosis. People can quite literally die because the doctor they visit has not seen your particular illness before. Your doctor may be a great doctor with the best of intentions and a commitment to quality care, but something new and rarely seen often requires an experienced doctor. This is nothing new. This advice has been given for years and years, and is common sense.

What is unfortunate is that in America the costs for 2nd and 3rd opinions is often too high to be practical. For a major surgery, those opinions are of life-and-death importance!

For a DentaRica traveler, its easy to get these extra consultation, resulting in better outcomes. Prices in Costa Rica are so much more reasonable that just about anyone can afford multiple doctor visits.

Speaking of better outcomes, did you know that you can afford a better doctor of dentist for much less money? Did you know how marvelously high-tech Costa Rican medicine can be? It's shocking.

Our newest partner, Dr. Retana, has been to France and the U.S. to lecture and teach other dentists! He has personally designed his dental office to be among the safest in Costa Rica. His sanitation methods are above and beyond what we have come to expect. He is one of very few Costa Rican densists (outside of hospitals) to have an anesthesiologist on staff, specializing in sedation dentistry. He has a long list of international and professional accreditations and certifications, including the American Academy of Implant Dentistry, NYU College of Dentistry, and AAAASF International.

For example, most U.S. dentists will do their best to know where the nerves are in your jawbone before your dental surgery. They do the best they can without expensive medical scans which would make their prices unpopular. In Costa Rica, they do not have to sacrifice quality to keep costs low, because even the higher prices in Costa Rica are cheap compared to the U.S. prices.
They are not trying to be cheap. This is not cut-rate quality!
Look at his website for yourselves! He describes all this in detail.

Ask your U.S. dentist why he doesn't do a scan on the nerves in your jaw. Ask him or her if they have an AAAASF International certification. Ask if there is an an anesthesiologist on staff.

And simply consider the health benefits of extra personal attention! In the U.S., there is often one nurse to every twelve patients, or sometimes worse. The nurses in the U.S. (bless them) just can't provide the personal attention that they want to. In Costa Rica, it's one nurse for every four patients. How civilized! In my opinion, that is the way healthcare should be for everyone. That's simply humane.

So, in short, my travelers receive BETTER healthcare for LESS money (even after expenses).