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Home Depot Ciudad Juarez Lopez Mateos
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Defying the admonition of best acquaintance dentists, Americans after dental allowance are absorption to bound towns of Mexico for crowns, bridges, implants and added assignment on their teeth. An accessory of abundance afresh paid $560 for such treatments in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico (right beyond the Rio Grande from El Paso), that would accept amount bristles times as abundant at home.
To ability El Paso, from which a abbreviate airing over the Santa Fe Arch brings you to Juárez, flights are accessible for as little as $386 round-trip from as far abroad as New York (packagers like Site59.com and some airlines generally action such rates). From your auberge in El Paso (and it's added adequate and safe to break in El Paso while accepting treatment), it's alone account to Juárez; a U.S. aborigine can bound move aback and alternating over the bridge, and some dental clinics will alike aces you up from your El Paso auberge and bear you anon to the dentist.
It's cogent that the Web armpit of the U.S. admiral in Juárez lists three arresting dentists in Juárez for which it either vouches or about whom it has accustomed favorable recommendations. (Web sites of the dentists themselves run copious recommendations from above clients.) I'd accumulate the consular acknowledgment in apperception back you analysis the angered comments on Mexican dentistry from the U.S. dental profession.
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One such acute admonishing is from Rep. Charlie Norwood (R-Ga.), himself a above Army dentist and alum of the Georgetown University School of Dentistry. In September 2005 he corrective a ashen account of dental tourism in a account cavalcade on his official Web site. He wrote: "Some patients are lucky, and acquisition a able dentist who delivers acceptable analysis at a arrangement price. Added patients are not so lucky, ache austere abrasion from amateur hacks, and end up ailing or worse from infection. Quality in dental affliction in the bound towns is begin alone in the luck of the draw."
Obviously, you'll charge to be cautious. You'll appetite to apprentice advanced area the Juárez dentist of your best advised and if he is accountant and certified to convenance dentistry. If your Spanish is up to it, you'll appetite to verify this advice with the Mexican Dental Association's Web armpit (www.adm.org.mx); at the actual least, you ability alike appetite to acquaintance the Juárez admiral (http://ciudadJuárez.usconsulate.gov) to apprentice if complaints accept been lodged adjoin the dentist in catechism by added American visitors. You'll again appetite to acquaint the dentist what you charge fixed, and ask for an appraisal afore authoritative an appointment.
Among the English-speaking dentists and clinics in Juárez are:
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• Ruben Escobar Prieto, president, College of Dental Surgeons of Ciudad Juárez, Constitucion 383 Esq. Con Mejia, phone: 011-52-656-612-0259, fax: 011-52-656-614-0767; adm-cdJuárez@chihuahua.com
• Armando Tellez-Giron, Coyoacan 3032, amid Pronaf Circuit and Av. de las Americas, buzz Juárez: 011-52-656-616-4646, buzz El Paso: 915-726-6666; www.artofcosmeticdentistry.com.
• Jorge Ramos Burgos, Av Malecon 200, buzz 011-52-656-612-5661, fax: 011-52-656-612-5714
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• Washington Dental Clinic, Ave. Lerdo 746, 1-800-538-6492, 1-800-813-7862
• MedWest Dental, Juan de la Barrera 500, 011-52-656-613-5330, www.medwestdental.com
• Americana Dental Center, Internacional 790, 915-449-3959 or 800-925-2966, www.americanadentalcenter.com.
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• Rio Dental, Lopez Mateos 1925, 800-635-RIO-2, www.RioDental.com (it has a decidedly absorbing Web armpit announcement photos and bios of the dentists and added cadre who will amusement you).
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