Dental Tourism to Mexico, Ciudad Juárez (Columbus: buy, costs)

[dentaltourism]

Dental Tourism is indeed gaining popularity along the US-mexican border as well as to Mexico in general - Booming border cities with a unique advantage on the Mexican side: Medical Costs are way cheaper in Mexico compared to U.S. costs. Therefore U.S.-Americans travel just over the border to see a doctor or buy pharmaceuticals.

[fnord]

I cannot complete your survey because I've never personally gone to Mexico for dental services. I'm one of those people who only goes to a dentist if I have a bad toothache or need urgent dental care - and the next time I do get a toothache I will be going to Mexico to see a dentist.

In the past year, the border region here between New Mexico and Mexico has become uncomfortably violent and has repelled many Americans from crossing the border for any reason at all. For example, in Juarez there have been over 1,400 murders so far this year. A few months ago in Palomas, Mexico the mayor of Columbus, New Mexico crossed the border for dental care and was robbed while sitting in the dentist chair. There are a lot of drug-related shootings.

[TKO]

You'd have to be crazy to go over there these days. I say this as a lover of Mexico and long time traveler there. That's sad because it's just one more aspect of the local economy of the border towns these freakin' narco traficantes have killed, pun intended. Really disturbing. I think it would be safer further east or west of our border.