The clinical record generated during treatment has value beyond the practice that produced it, particularly for patients whose subsequent care will occur elsewhere.
The medical history questionnaire is frequently completed hurriedly and regarded as administrative. Several classes of medication materially alter surgical planning, and omissions are not without…
Consent is not the form you sign in the chair. It is whether you actually understood what was going to happen, and language turns out to matter more than most patients expect.
Teeth in a day is a real protocol with real evidence behind it. Full mouth in a day, as advertised by some clinics, is usually a different claim wearing the same words.
The initial remote consultation determines whether treatment abroad is appropriate for a given patient, and its value depends substantially on the questions the patient brings to it.
Continuing education appears prominently in practice marketing, and the volume of courses cited is frequently presented as evidence of quality. The relationship is less direct than that…
Before-and-after galleries are the main thing patients judge a clinic on, and they are among the easiest things in dentistry to make misleading without technically lying.
Every patient we treat leaves with a complete photographic and digital record of their case. That is partly for us, but it matters considerably more to you than it might sound.
The distinction between a general dental practitioner and a formally qualified specialist is frequently obscured in patient-facing material, and the circumstances in which it carries clinical…
In larger practices, the clinician conducting the initial consultation is frequently not the clinician performing the surgery. This is a normal division of labour, and the patient is nonetheless…
It probably reads oddly on a page written by a clinic that treats international patients, but a meaningful number of the people who contact us are told that travelling here is not their best option.
If someone has just quoted you five figures for full-mouth work, the most valuable thing you can do next is get another opinion. Not to find a cheaper price, but to find out whether the plan is right.
Selection of a surgical provider on the basis of lowest price constitutes the single variable most consistently associated with adverse outcomes in dental travel, and the mechanism by which this…
The following characteristics recur consistently across arrangements that produce poor outcomes. Their presence does not establish that a provider is unsuitable, but each warrants explanation…
Warranty is where a lot of dental travel arrangements turn out to be vaguer than they sounded. Getting the specifics settled beforehand takes one email and saves an enormous amount of grief.