Comments for Cheap Dental Work in Ho Chi Minh City

Sep 04, 2010
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Risks of Overseas Health Care
by: Anonymous

A few questions to ask yourself before having any kinds of health related procedures done overseas.

In the states, there are many government agencies that exists to ensure your safety. For example, the equipments are sterilized and functioning to strict standards according to state and federal government regulations. In the US, dental and medical offices are visited by these organizations to ensure that all the standards are met. Would you like to go in an office not knowing if the equipments are properly sterilized or even done at all?

In the US, health care professionals have to be properly licensed and maintain continue education annually. Their licenses and continue educations are strictly monitored by professional organizations. Would you like to go into an office to have a medical procedure perform on you not knowing where the person was train or if they have proper credentials, and up to date training?

Let's say you go to a California for a nose job and have follow up a few days later and things went well. Then a month later you have complications. You can return to the same doctor who worked on you that have your records and know exactly what was done and can help you.
Same scenario but you went to Vietnam instead. Will you fly all the way back to Vietnam a month later when you have complications or will you go see a local physician where you live? How much more money will you have to spend to have it redone???

The biggest question you have to ask yourself is risking your health worth saving a few hundred or even thousand dollars? Flying to Vietnam is on average $1200 to $1800 round trip. How much are you spending for other things when you get there? A few grand? When you get there, you will pay $100 for a crown and $300 for a nose job and even $100 for a few botox injections. A few months later when you get home, your crown breaks, your nose starts to feel funny, and you developed jaundice. So now you are in pain from the exposed crown that broke and you can't eat on that side and you have a sinus infection from the nose job. You just found out from the doctor that you have liver failure caused by hepatitis C infection from improper sterilizations in Vietnam.

Do your research before you put your health at risk to save a few thousand dollars. Your health is not something you can bargain for.

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Reply, Travel-Budget-Asia

Scare the living hell out of everyone then extend your hand and say,

"But if you take this you won't die of H1N1

Please don't use the fear tactics here.

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I also disagree with you. Just have a look at the Franco-Viet Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City. Most the doctors are from France. It is also one of the most well-equipped medical facilities in the world.

Take Care