Dentistry News

A map has surfaced on the Washington Post recently. It is a map that was designed to help tourists make a choice of destinations for their vacations. It is a map with the countries in various colors of the red and blue scale. It is meant to describe the most and least friendly places for foreigners to visit, with friendly places in blue, and unwelcoming places in deep red.

November has been renamed Movember, in an attempt to raise awareness about cancer, especially cancers concerning men, who are at a much higher risk for developing deadly tumors than women.

Hungary, and its beautiful capital Budapest are still the number one destination for dental tourism in Europe, attracting most of the European market, and a good chunk of the overseas one as well. This makes it the third year sequentially that Hungary has this honor. Let’s look into why this small Central European country has so much to offer the dental tourist.

The information age has first and foremost shortened distances, and has almost conquered space as we know it. An article written in Budapest will manifest itself on a computer screen in Brazil just hours after being written, a video posted in Malaysia is up on youtube and viewed within minutes in America. Many positive aspects of this shortening of distances can be felt, and medical tourism as a whole is possible only in such an age. But there are negative consequences as well.

Previously, the boundaries of medical tourism seemed absolutely non existent. The entire industry was, after all, born to overcome national boundaries and to help get people thew medical treatments that they deserved, and at a price that they can afford. So now that the boundaries of medical tourism, and the extent that this industry can help people is being known and being felt out, the industry is changing to make it more marketable, more profitable, and to reach out to more people. Here are some of the unexpected changes that you may not yet have heard about.