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Interested in having some Medical or Dental work done at a fraction of the cost when you visit Medellin?
It's not just that 100 million Americans will reach retirement age over the next 30 years, and growing numbers of them won't be able to afford the ever rising U.S. health care costs. Americans already are traveling to Panama, Mexico, Costa Rica, Colombia, Argentina and Chile, among other countries, for heart operations, cosmetic surgery or dental work at half price, and with more personalized attention. Also, many US health insurance companies will not cover many elective surgeries.
Physicians in Medellin Colombia have been treating patients from all over the world for years, especially for cosmetic and eye surgery. Colombia has also become a recognized provider of advanced cardiovascular and transplant surgery. What often compels people to seek transplant surgery offshore is not only cost considerations, but waiting lists (such as in the U.S.) or the lack of an organized organ inventory and donor system in their home country. Colombia has such an organ donor and banking system which makes organs available to foreigners with certain legal restrictions. All Colombians are considered organ transplant donors unless otherwise documented.
Orthopedic surgeries, such as knee and hip replacements, are done in Colombia with U.S. made (FDA approved) prosthetics at a fraction of the cost.
Colombia has many surgeons that have either trained and/or practiced in other countries such as the U.S. and Europe. Salaries for doctors, nurses, and supporting personnel in Colombia are about 20% of U.S. salaries for similar occupations even though they are required to have the same level of education and job skills. Real estate costs related to medical care facilities are also only a fraction of what they are in the U.S.
Many Medellin travelers choose to have dental work performed while they are visiting Medellin. Local Medellin Dentists are well trained, have modern up to date equipment and offer everything from regular exams, X Rays, cleanings, implants, crowns and laser whitening at costs well below the US and other countries.
Cosmetic surgery is big business in Medellin. It doesn't hurt that this South American nation is enjoying a tourist boom that brought more than a million visitors to the country last year for the first time in two decades, according to the Ministry of Commerce and Tourism. (Medellin is sometimes referred to as "Silicone Valley" (Silicone with an e)
Of all those people coming to Colombia, at least 3 percent come to get medical treatment. In 2004, about 21,000 people came for surgery and in 2005, about 30,000. That number continues to climb significantly every year.
According to the Colombian Society of Plastic Surgeons, more than half operations performed last year were breast augmentations, costing about $2,000 to $3,000 per procedure" <http://www.roadandtravel.com/travel%20directory/Colombia/ravereviews/colombia.htm>
Physicians in Medellin Colombia have been treating patients from all over the world for years, especially for cosmetic and eye surgery. Colombia has also become a recognized provider of advanced cardiovascular and transplant surgery. What often compels people to seek transplant surgery offshore is not only cost considerations, but waiting lists (such as in the U.S.) or the lack of an organized organ inventory and donor system in their home country. Colombia has such an organ donor and banking system which makes organs available to foreigners with certain legal restrictions. All Colombians are considered organ transplant donors unless otherwise documented.
Orthopedic surgeries, such as knee and hip replacements, are done in Colombia with U.S. made (FDA approved) prosthetics at a fraction of the cost.
Colombia has many surgeons that have either trained and/or practiced in other countries such as the U.S. and Europe. Salaries for doctors, nurses, and supporting personnel in Colombia are about 20% of U.S. salaries for similar occupations even though they are required to have the same level of education and job skills. Real estate costs related to medical care facilities are also only a fraction of what they are in the U.S.
Many Medellin travelers choose to have dental work performed while they are visiting Medellin. Local Medellin Dentists are well trained, have modern up to date equipment and offer everything from regular exams, X Rays, cleanings, implants, crowns and laser whitening at costs well below the US and other countries.
Cosmetic surgery is big business in Medellin. It doesn't hurt that this South American nation is enjoying a tourist boom that brought more than a million visitors to the country last year for the first time in two decades, according to the Ministry of Commerce and Tourism. (Medellin is sometimes referred to as "Silicone Valley" (Silicone with an e)
Of all those people coming to Colombia, at least 3 percent come to get medical treatment. In 2004, about 21,000 people came for surgery and in 2005, about 30,000. That number continues to climb significantly every year.
According to the Colombian Society of Plastic Surgeons, more than half operations performed last year were breast augmentations, costing about $2,000 to $3,000 per procedure" <http://www.roadandtravel.com/travel%20directory/Colombia/ravereviews/colombia.htm>
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Is Laser Teeth Whitening Popular for Medellin Visitors?
You bet it is! Think...$$$$ Savings!!
It seems that the desire for whiter teeth has been the source for an incredible amount of research in recent years, because the new developments just keep on coming. The fact is, that now more than ever you can have an effect on the color and brightness of your smile and just how much is really up to you.
The latest technology to hit the dentist office for teeth whitening is called Zoom laser and it sounds like space age technology. The fact is, that it is space age technology but don't worry because it is perfectly painless, because the laser that is used is far less powerful then lasers you may have seen demonstrated on TV programs.
What are the benefits of a Zoom laser treatment and with so many whitening treatment options already available is this new one really necessary? The fact is that Zoom laser teeth whitening is no gimmick and it has some added benefits that other treatments just don't offer.
To begin with, it is much faster and can be done in as little time as one hour in a dentist office that offers Zoom teeth whitening treatments. In that one hour your teeth can be whitened by as much as six shades, which is the same amount of brightening that other conventional treatments require several hours to achieve.
Because it is so much faster than other whitening treatments it is less costly as well. With Zoom laser teeth whitening it is actually possible to have your teeth whitened on your lunch break if you really wanted to.
Over the counter teeth whitening strips can take up to thirty days to show any result and even then it will only be one shade at best. This means that when you add up the total cost of a few months supply of teeth whitening strips it is comparative to one Zoom laser treatment that gives six shades of whitening in just one hour.
You bet it is! Think...$$$$ Savings!!
It seems that the desire for whiter teeth has been the source for an incredible amount of research in recent years, because the new developments just keep on coming. The fact is, that now more than ever you can have an effect on the color and brightness of your smile and just how much is really up to you.
The latest technology to hit the dentist office for teeth whitening is called Zoom laser and it sounds like space age technology. The fact is, that it is space age technology but don't worry because it is perfectly painless, because the laser that is used is far less powerful then lasers you may have seen demonstrated on TV programs.
What are the benefits of a Zoom laser treatment and with so many whitening treatment options already available is this new one really necessary? The fact is that Zoom laser teeth whitening is no gimmick and it has some added benefits that other treatments just don't offer.
To begin with, it is much faster and can be done in as little time as one hour in a dentist office that offers Zoom teeth whitening treatments. In that one hour your teeth can be whitened by as much as six shades, which is the same amount of brightening that other conventional treatments require several hours to achieve.
Because it is so much faster than other whitening treatments it is less costly as well. With Zoom laser teeth whitening it is actually possible to have your teeth whitened on your lunch break if you really wanted to.
Over the counter teeth whitening strips can take up to thirty days to show any result and even then it will only be one shade at best. This means that when you add up the total cost of a few months supply of teeth whitening strips it is comparative to one Zoom laser treatment that gives six shades of whitening in just one hour.
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