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jimmiller

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Our son had four wisdom teeth extracted several days ago,in Guad. The total cost was 3,000 pesos,including the x-rays, painkillers, anesthetics, follow-up visit, a few phone consultations,and PARKING. The dentist is a very experienced gentleman, in a very nice consultoria.

Where we lived in New York, that would have been 3 thousand dollars,minimum. Plus parking.

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I had a similar experience: three crowns, a root canal, two fillings and a cleaning for about $14,400 pesos ($1,100 USD). Not a lot of fancy frills in the office, but then that's not what I came for. The female dentist was very gentle and professional. She had to call in a specialist from Guadalajara to do the root canal. His charge (part of the total quoted above) was $1500 pesos or about $115 USD. When he gave me a shot of anesthetic in the gums, normally a procedure I dread, I couldn't even feel the needle. it was the gentlest shot I have ever had, far better than anything I've experienced in the US. I really got the impression that these folks cared, and I was not just another medical billing on the hoof.

Another amazing aspect: When I called with the original problem, I was told to come in that afternoon! I never had to wait more than a week for an appointment after that. In Kaiser Permanente HMO, I routinely had to wait several months for an appointment, and then was treated brusquely and mechanically, as if I was on an assembly-line. And that was for $1000/month premium! If I can possibly avoid it, I'll never go back to that butcher's yard they call the American "health care" system. They only procedure they excel at is a very professional wallet-ectomy.

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I had a similar experience: three crowns, a root canal, two fillings and a cleaning for about $14,400 pesos ($1,100 USD). Not a lot of fancy frills in the office, but then that's not what I came for. The female dentist was very gentle and professional. She had to call in a specialist from Guadalajara to do the root canal. His charge (part of the total quoted above) was $1500 pesos or about $115 USD. When he gave me a shot of anesthetic in the gums, normally a procedure I dread, I couldn't even feel the needle. it was the gentlest shot I have ever had, far better than anything I've experienced in the US. I really got the impression that these folks cared, and I was not just another medical billing on the hoof.

Another amazing aspect: When I called with the original problem, I was told to come in that afternoon! I never had to wait more than a week for an appointment after that. In Kaiser Permanente HMO, I routinely had to wait several months for an appointment, and then was treated brusquely and mechanically, as if I was on an assembly-line. And that was for $1000/month premium! If I can possibly avoid it, I'll never go back to that butcher's yard they call the American "health care" system. They only procedure they excel at is a very professional wallet-ectomy.

So much for HMO's they are not the answer...the system is broken and needs fixing

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