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Hi Guys,

Here's a plug for a dentist I used this time last year. I knew I needed around $14k worth of dentistry. My boss said he needed me to do 4 weeks work at the Clark Education City (old USA Clark AFB) in the Philipines. I emailed the local Aussie boss and asked him to recommend a dentist - and he did. I understand that the Aussie expats up that way pretty much use and recoomend this dentist:

http://smilemakeoverdentalclinic.com/

The $14k worth of dentistry cost me under $6k and so far (one year later) no problems at all. $8k of savings far more than pays for flights and accomodation. When I was up there last year, $1 Aust bought around 40 pesos. Beers were less than $1 Aust and bottles of spirits were around $10 Aust.



PAH

How much were smokes?

Do they have any deserted roads with lots of twisties...or a good race track...

Yep a teeth clean over in Thailand cost me $20 which is about $200 over here.

I also may need to some root canal done in the future. I have been quoted $5500 over here but just $800 over there.

Thing is when looking at this guys degrees, they were all from England. Plus his shop was cleaner than most over here

Yep a teeth clean over in Thailand cost me $20 which is about $200 over here.

I also may need to some root canal done in the future. I have been quoted $5500 over here but just $800 over there.

Thing is when looking at this guys degrees, they were all from England. Plus his shop was cleaner than most over here

You got them cleaned twice Russ?

The oldman imports and sells dental lab and surgery equipment. The dentists and labs overseas can be clean and qualified to the hilt. The problem arises when they use cheap inferior materials in fillings, root canal or even just for the basic clean. Do you know what exactly they actually put in your mouth? At least here everything is meant to be TGA approved. Similarly the equipment they use is often not intrinsically safe or installed to standards. You often get what you pay for and it may be 5-10 years later things go wrong

Would any of youse tightarses ever wear a helmet approved for use in the Philipines but not Australia????

I f-----n' hope not.As fireyrob says....You get what you pay for!!!
Hope it all ends up well for those risking medical/dental stuff overseas,good luck with it....you'll probably need it.

Post the results in 5-10 yrs won't youse please.

Repeat after me ..... General Discussion is not the place for discussing dentists.

Your Not really comparing apples with apples.

Maybe it is cheaper in his case because we don't have
- massive minimum wage.
- massive rental costs
- massive electricity costs
- massive Australian medical practice costs
- cost of living is huge


The fact is a lot of things in this country are so dear by our own doing. Don't always knock other countries because they can do it cheaper.

I agree with what Firey has to say as he has knowledge on the subject, unlike your appeared lack of knowledge that you displayed above by comparing it with 'helmets'.

Oh and where do you think half or more of Australian (thus worlds) helmets are made, or at least the components there of they still protect your noggin and have passed the 5 tick test

dave#3 wrote:Repeat after me ..... General Discussion is not the place for discussing dentists.

Boooo fun police.

fireyrob wrote:The oldman imports and sells dental lab and surgery equipment. )

Does he do any DIY Kits ?? The kids need some filings and I reckon I could do a good job , not that different to Plastex is it ?

the kid wrote:

fireyrob wrote:The oldman imports and sells dental lab and surgery equipment. )

Does he do any DIY Kits ?? The kids need some filings and I reckon I could do a good job , not that different to Plastex is it ?

Its basically drill bits to clean and superglue mixed w cement. Go for it

Just knock the lot out and replace with Pazzo levers.....they're better than the chinese ones

fireyrob wrote:

the kid wrote:

fireyrob wrote:The oldman imports and sells dental lab and surgery equipment. )

Does he do any DIY Kits ?? The kids need some filings and I reckon I could do a good job , not that different to Plastex is it ?

Its basically drill bits to clean and superglue mixed w cement. Go for it

Does your Ol Man do PayPal ?