More Brits Taking Overseas Dental Trips

Thu, 07 Jan 2010

More than a quarter of a million Brits head abroad each year in search of affordable dental treatment, new research has revealed.

A study by implant clinic Dentale found that over 250,000 people travel overseas annually to get their teeth fixed due to the high costs of dental treatment in the UK and the impact of the recession.

It showed that between 2004 and 2008, around 1.3 million Brits had dental work carried out abroad. Of these, nearly 70 per cent were under the age of 34.

Almost a third of the dental tourists were from London, with 408,000 people from the capital visiting foreign dentists during the four-year period. Scots were the second biggest dental tourists .

According to the research, the cost of having a dental implant fitted in the UK is on average around £1,918, but across Europe the average cost is £660, meaning Brits can save over £1,000 by travelling overseas .

However, Jason Buglass, from Dentale, stressed that those interested in dental tourism must take into consideration the added expenses of hotels, flights and food, as well as the number of trips they will have to make for the treatment to be completed.
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