Study undertaken by the official International Passenger Survey, which queries UK residents leaving almost all international airports and ports, shows that in 2004, 25,000 Brits travelled overseas for private medical care. NOW ALMOST 100,000 Britons travel overseas for dental treatment, says a new survey, particularly to Hungary.
The statistics follow a new poll which found that 7.4million people cannot access a NHS dental professional.
The most recent trend is for dentistry work. This isn't surprising as, based on the Citizens' Advice Bureau, seven million Uk adults do not have access to a dental professional.
The situation became even worse in 2006 when new dentistry contracts were launched and One Thousand dentists quit the NHS.
Dental treatment abroad is the key reason for “health tourism”, because individuals attempt to find methods to save upon the price of private treatment within Britain.
Two years agao in excess of forty five thousand people went abroad, up 15,000 on 2006, according to the health advice web site, Treatment Abroad.
England is the most expensive place within the european union for dental treatment. Those who often can't pay for private treatment or find an NHS dental professional are increasingly looking overseas for dental treatment abroad.
In the UK many private operators charge in excess of £800 for a crown, nearly £200 for a filling and also up to £2,000 for a brace, but charges for all those these kinds of treatments can be a third less elsewhere in Europe, especially Hungary.
Meanwhile, brand new figures show that a lot more individuals are choosing braces in the pursuit of a really perfect smile, through an increase of 345 % last year.
Even though Fourteen, thousand five hundred people still chose ceramic veneers, at as much as £1,000 a tooth, that number has remained static, while 1,164 had braces, which usually cost only £1,500. The equivalent prices for Dental Treatment Abroad means UK patients are saving thousands.
