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Implications of dental tourism Examining US patients travelling to Mexico for dental care

BDJ In Practice volume 32, pages 20–23 (2019)Cite this article

This narrative literature review aims to condense key themes on the implications of dental tourism. The review focuses specifically on US patients travelling to Mexico for care and explores the ethical and economic effects this has on both the practise of dentistry and more broadly on the destination and departure countries.

When discussing the implications of dental tourism, the focus of the patient, practitioner and academics hitherto largely centres on the implications for the patient of travelling abroad. Such implications include the lack of the same legal redress for malpractice that patients would have received domestically1 or concerns over the quality of care.2

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