For The Cost of Dentist In Mexico, You Can Vacation Free

The Dental Tourist
Dental Tourists can vacation virtually free in Cabo San Lucas, San Jose del Cabo or Los Barilles, Baja California Sur, Mexico (map of Baja Sur) for the cost of dentist, or, more precisely, with the savings they get by having their dental treatments at Dra. Peña’s Angels Touch Dental Clinics. 

Dra. Rosa Elena Pena of San Jose del Cabo (near Cabo San Lucas) has been pioneering Dental Vacations to Baja Sur for almost twenty years. The cost of dentistry in Mexico is very low compared to costs in the USA. 

“Sometimes entire families come and visit me each year for their cleanings, fillings,

A quality hospital should have bacteria scrubbing air ventilation systems in the operating rooms. Unfortunately this is not always the case in many small town American hospitals, or in older Mexican hospitals and rural clinics. But many Mexican health care facilities are brand spanking new. 

Besides professional care, medical and dental tourists to Mexico can expect warm, friendly care by people happy to host foreign tourists visiting their country.

People often say that medical treatment is superior in the West, but, not anymore. The long held myth that American medical care is somehow superior to everywhere else has been shattered.  In reality, the only thing superior about American medical care is the high cost.

In America one gets high prices and less service. Long lines and long waits for appointments with doctors (and dentists) that see dozens of patients a day and are paid bonuses by the insurance companies and HMO’s to deny serious treatments. Then they prescribe medications that cost a hundred dollars a week but cost only fifteen dollars a week for the same item in Mexico.

Some American dentists even charge patients $25 or $50 if they miss or are late to an appointment!  Whatever happened to caring and sensitive doctors in America?  Has it really become just all about money?

Mexico has universal health care for all its citizens along with extremely low generic and name brand label drug costs. A consultation and minor treatment by a doctor in a government or first class private hospital can cost you five to fifty dollars - irregardless of whether you are a Mexican or an American.   The hard but true fact is – that a poor hotel worker or construction laborer in Mexico has better access to affordable medical and dental care than many folks do in the richest nation in the world – 40% of whom haven’t any health care coverage at all.  

Brenda Patton a recent internet patient from Yakima Washington recently rented a house for a month on the Sea of Cortez in Los Barilles for her spouse and six teenagers to vacation in while she had twenty-seven crowns made saving the family over $15,000 dollars vs. the cost of having the work done back home. 

The ABC Good Morning America TV show featured the Patton family’s dental adventure on the morning news.  What an exciting vacation they had! – Snorkeling, sailing, ATVing, riding desert dune buggies on a racetrack, dining, dancing, partying in Cabo and just relaxing at their beach house in tranquil Los Barilles. 

Dra. Peña has two clinics with five doctors including endodontists, general dentists, a periodontist and an orthodontist. One clinic is in San Jose del Cabo (convenient to Cabo San Lucas) the other dental clinic is in Los Barilles on the East Cape.  She hires top English speaking dentists from all over Mexico who are tops in their field with some ranked at the head of their graduating classes, (Rosa won a national medal in dentistry) and other honors. 

Angels Touch clinics are recommended or under contract with the best hotels in Los Cabos including the Presidente, Hilton, The One and Only Palmilla, local banks and government consulates as the dental provider for their employees and customers. 

Mexican dentists train for as long as their counterparts elsewhere in the West (even longer when the required one year of social service in a government clinic is added in) and they use the same materials, equipment ordered from the same international suppliers everyone else on the planet does.

Porcelain crowns run $800 to $2,200 USD each in American big cities but only $350 – 500 USD in San Jose del Cabo.  The difference in cost is many faceted.  Lab costs are less in Mexico, dental assistants make $500 a month - not $3-4,000 USD per month as in the USA.  Office rents are less. Most materials and equipment are the same though.  But a nice ocean view house in Los Cabos might cost the doctor $300,000 vs. $1.5 million USD (or more) a dentist in San Diego county might pay.  And a Baja dentist will likely drive a VW Jetta or Chrysler rather than a Mercedes.

Cosmetic dentistry including laser whitening, veneers, crowns, dentures and implants are just some of the many specialty treatments available to the dental tourist at Angels Touch Dental clinics. 

Patients who wish to eliminate the uncertainties of visiting a dentist in Mexico can receive free consultations.  Folks can email or fax photos or x-rays of their teeth, their dentist’s treatment plan or just ask questions such as:  How much for a root canal?  Where is a good place to stay by the beach? etc.  Packages featuring hotel, ground transportation, diving, snorkeling trips, spa treatments, city tours, big game fishing, golf and more are available.

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To find out more about dental vacations in Los Cabos, Baja California Sur, Mexico or to get your free online consultation contact the clinic visit the Angels Touch website