Mmmm, like you Inanna, I would be extremely wary of this sort of work. Especially the dental stuff. I've seen some shocking work come back from o/s.......patients who needed really exxy work, or wanted cosmetic work, couldn't afford it here, so had it done in Thailand/India. It ended up costing them all a fortune because it was so dodgy it caused them problems once they were home, and they had to pay someone here to fix it!!!! So a very expensive venture, and one that ruined their mouth as well.
As far as I know, there is no international dental qualification. To be brutally honest (sorry to all the brits out there) I wouldn't be keen on letting a UK dentist work on my mouth. And there is NO WAY I'd let an Indian dentist near me. I am in no way racist, that is merely based on their lack of quality training. I know an Indian dentist, lovely girl, who has been working for a few years in Melbourne as a dental nurse.......she came here hoping to undertake the necessary course and work as a dentist (overseas dentists have to take a course and pass exams before they are allowed to practice here). After working for a very competent dentist, as her nurse, she has decided that she won't do that, as there is no way she knows enough!!!! She'd never even performed an extraction in her Indian studies, yet she's a qualified dentist???? There are procedures that she'd never even seen, let alone performed herself. Craziness.
So yeah, that's my five cents, I'll get off my soapbox now. I won't continue on about the cost of dental treatment, and the incredibly long waiting lists......
Nope, I've read one too many stories in trashy mags about botched up O/S cosmetic surgery. Then again, one of my friends moved to Bangkok last year with a nasty gynie problem that Australian Drs had done nothing for. Her first visit to her Thai gynecologist he gave her a going over with the dildo cam, found the issue and had admitted her to hospital and fixed up within the week.
Soooo, I guess that if a serious medical problem arose while I was overseas I would be comfortable with Drs in a quality hospital treating it but I doubt that the Drs offering cut price cosmetic surgery and the Drs working in the good hospitals are of the same standard.
I think it's alarming that people feel that the "have" to go o/s to afford dental work though.... This girlfriends DD just couldn't afford it in Aust but in Thailand it was a done deal... I am just a bit shocked...
Our dental system is pretty horrible - it's kind of sad that people's dental work has become a mark of their economic state. The lamest thing is that the wait is so long that people lose teeth that could have been fixed if they had seen a dentist when they first tried to make an appointment.
This thread is reminding me that I'm long overdue for a visit to the dentist - I hate going.
Having had cosmetic surgery myself, there's no way I'd get anything done overseas.
So do the plane fares, accomodation, surgery and hospital stay all cost less than just the surgery in Aus or is it just the surgery?
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