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I had several crowns done in Budapest in 2009. Excellent work and been praised by many dentists over here since. I didn’t stay the night though. There and back in a day and returned 5 days later to have them fitted.
V interesting to hear, Amy. My OH and I just had a double-whammy of expensive UK treatment, and I swore if it happened again, we’d just go to BKK a few times (where we have friends: admittedly haven’t looked at Budapest). Some UK prices are eye-watering.
Having just reread this thread (from 2yrs ago!) I will just say a dental nurse friend of mine says they regularly have patients come in after having work done in Turkey and it’s damaged the tooth extensively.
Apparently what a lot of Turkish dentists call veneers we would call crowns, so much more invasive. The problem is that they drill down too far and disturb the nerve causing lots of pain.
I do think there is generally a big, big difference between Hungary and Turkey in this respect.
Yes Peter K, “Turkey teeth” are seen with increasing frequency sadly. While this name is, I’m sure, very unfair on the vast majority of Turkish dentists, it is a particular subset of practices that market very heavily to the UK dental tourism market and appear to be largely unregulated as a result. They seem to particularly target the young, naive and impressionable – think Instagram “influencers”.
In general terms for Turkey and elsewhere: if a clinic’s solution to lots of dental problem seems to be a large number of crowns (or “veneers”) done all at once, then run a mile. There are only a very few situations in modern dentistry where drilling down healthy or lightly restored teeth and providing large number of crowns all in one go is a sensible and justifiable approach.
Sorry to hijack the thread to keep repeating that warning. Back to Hungary – interesting study – as I said 2 yrs ago, dental university education in Hungary is generally viewed as of high quality and there is certainly some very good dental work that comes from there, although I don’t know anything about their regulatory or compliance structures and I’ve seen a couple of shockers too, so don’t take that as advice one way or another 😀 .
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