Bangkok Dental Services

What’s the deal with Bangkok dental services? For one thing, they’re quite convenient to both locals and non-locals. To be more specific, let us blow your mind by opening it up to the concept of dental tourism.

Many people visit Bangkok for the sights and sounds of this beautiful Southeast Asian metropolis filled with modern western sensibilities mixed with laidback Thai culture.

In turn, dental tourism also exists so that vacationers can go to Thailand to enjoy its many tourist attractions while getting some Bangkok dental services in the middle of it to mix dental business with touristy pleasure.

What to Look for in Bangkok Dental Services

Look for a center or clinic that’s fully furnished and new. The best Bangkok facilities even feature waiting rooms and condominium units for you to sleep at in case you’re undergoing multi-day appointments.

Other dental offices feature luxury accommodations nearby so that you’re just walking distance from the center when all is said and done.

The facilities of the clinic itself should feature state-of-the-art chairs and the latest equipment or materials, from dental amalgam material to UV light to allow the composite filling material to easily set in.

The more specialists available at the Bangkok dental center, the better. The most sophisticated of such offices even feature each specialist with their own dental assistant to ensure efficient performance of your respective procedure.

The dentist and his/her assistant should attend to your specific requirements with peak efficiency, like a well-oiled machine and expertise comparable to western dentistry.

Your Bangkok dentist center of choice should be committed to the specific goal of giving you a healthy, functional smile that combines form with function or aesthetics with functional health.

You shouldn’t have to suffer whenever you eat or bite down on food. You also deserve a pleasant smile, so you won’t feel embarrassed enough to hide either.

The Convenience of Bangkok Dental Services 101

Bangkok dental clinics, centers, and hospitals are conveniently found at the heart of the Thailand capital, from places like Sukhumvit to Huai Kwang (the Thantakit Dental Center is located there) as well as Pathum Wan (the Thantakit Dental Clinic is located there).

• Experts Galore: The city is home to some of the most advanced dentistry centers available, filled with highly skilled dentists and internationally trained dental specialists (in other words, they’re mostly trained in western countries).

  They offer excellent dental care to both international and local patients, which makes them great providers of dental tourism for Thailand.

• Pleasant Ambiance: Bangkok dentistry through dental tours also prioritize giving patients a relaxing ambiance that’s painless, pleasant, and comfortable when push comes to shove.

• Affordable World-Class Dental Care: The whole point of dental tourism is to entice people to avail of Thailand’s first-rate medical care at the fraction of the price of Medicare or private medical insurance.

  You can avail yourself of them without paying a premium to cover your out-of-pocket expenses. Furthermore, their doctors provide the utmost care and respect for every patient.

• Safety First: As providers of world-class dentistry, Bangkok dental centers or clinics also observe strict sterilization standards because they don’t want patients to suffer from infections and complications from a poorly maintained dentist’s office.

• Accessibility and Convenience: You normally wouldn’t call a dentist center located on the other side of the world from where you are as accessible and convenient. However, it depends on context.

  For example, Thantakit is accessible through many transportation and accommodation portions, from the BTS Skytrain to various buses and taxis. It’s also an affordable choice for expensive procedures like implant dentistry.

• Medical and Dental Tourism: Foreigners go to Bangkok to avail of the country’s advanced healthcare in what’s known as medical tours. They can get affordable surgeries done there at a fraction of the cost of local procedures even when you take travel costs into account!

• Search for Trusted Names in Dental Care: To ensure that your dental tour package is worth the trip to Southeast Asia (whether you’re from the Americas, Europe, or nearby Australia), go for only the most trusted names in dental care.

  This is certainly the case for Thantakit, which due to insistent demand from patients in Thailand and abroad, has started accommodating an international clientele with affordable dental tour packages.

• A Vacation and Affordable Dental Visit in One Package: The beauty of a dental tour is that once you’re through with your procedure, you can go outside your hotel or condominium accommodation and take a literal sightseeing tour or shopping tour on top of your dental tour in Bangkok.

  There are also clinics and offices that become part of dental groups to show that they mean business and they uphold quality standards. Great smiles start here in centers like the Thantakit Dental Center within the Land of Smiles.

Bangkok Dental Centers Should Have Modern Technology

Bangkok has modern dentistry technology available among its best dental clinics and centers (of which Thantakit belongs). It’s because having outdated tech would defeat the purpose of offering dental tourism in the first place.

It’s no wonder Thailand is considered the Land of Smiles. You can get the most dazzling smiles possible by indulging in dental tourism there for the most affordable or at least the most cost-effective of prices!

• Go for Modern Dental Tech: Modern dental technology like digital CAD/CAM makes it possible for Bangkok dentists to give the absolute best and world-class service to both local and foreign patients, thus making it a successful industry by even international standards.

  In particular, the computer-aided design and manufacturing (by 3D printing) of dental prosthodontics allows for a quicker turnaround for dental implants, crowns, veneers, and inlay/onlay procedures.

• The Use of the Latest Techniques: The best Bangkok dentists use high-tech services like scanners and dental x-rays to make it easier (yet somehow cheaper) for you to deal with cases such as impacted wisdom tooth removal with microscopic precision.

• Safety Achieved Through Sterilization: The safety standards of your Bangkok clinic of choice should be quite high, with the instruments regularly cleaned and sterilized to prevent infection and complications.

  Their primary concerns should be your wellbeing and safety so that the success of your dental surgery or procedure should naturally follow. Thankfully, all of Bangkok’s finest dentist centers offer “good and clean” instruments.

• Cutting-Edge Dentistry at Affordable Prices: The advanced, world-class dentistry available at Bangkok for dental tourists and eager locals alike come at the fraction of the cost of such services stateside in the U.S. or even across Europe and Australia due to the exchange rate and Thailand’s competitive pricing.

• The In-House Dental Laboratory: It’s perfectly fine for a Bangkok dental clinic to have a dental laboratory elsewhere when fitting you with a new bridge or crown over your teeth. You just need to wait a few days to get the prosthodontics done.

  However, an in-house dental laboratory—along with digital design and manufacturing of customized prosthodontic products—ensures quicker or even same-day installation of your new crowns or bridges over implants.

• Should You Go to Bangkok for Simple Procedures? It’s probably more affordable for you to go local for simpler procedures like getting tooth filling or your annual teeth cleaning at the nearest dental clinic. Go to Thailand if you’re facing procedures that cost a fortune and don’t have insurance coverage.

• The Bangkok Dental Services Themselves: There’s also the services offered, such as Metal Braces, Clear Aligners, Gum Surgery, Tooth-Colored Fillings, Crowns, Bridges, Veneers, All-on-4 to All-on-6 Dental Implants, Single/Multiple Implants, Orthodontic Care, Cosmetic Dentistry, Bleach-Based Teeth Whitening, Laser Teeth Whitening, and so forth.

  Bangkok dentistry clinics and centers also do Prophylaxis, Root Canal Treatment (Endodontic), Cleaning, Scaling, and Polishing, Extractions, and Gum Treatments to deal with receding gum lines on top of a Fresh Breath Center for halitosis treatment and the like. They take care of your oral and dental health.

• Does Bangkok Dentistry Offer Quality Products? The same products you find in high-end local dentist centers, such as dental restoration and prosthodontic brands, are also available in Bangkok, Thailand. The best ones are partnered with the likes of Invisalign, Nobel Biocare, Straumann, and CEREC Dentistry.

  Bangkok Dentistry is certified as world-class because its internationally trained dentists ensure you only get the best treatment you can possibly get on the world stage as far as your dental care is concerned.

  They strive to provide you with a bright and shining smile as well as healthy gums and properly functioning jaw bones and teeth.

To Get or Not to Get Fillings in Bangkok via Dental Tourism

Perhaps getting fillings to fill out the cavities in one tooth or two teeth doesn’t justify a trip all the way to Bangkok. However, if you have multiple teeth that require fillings or cleanings and you wanted to visit Bangkok anyway, dental tourism is justified.

Just make sure that what you’ll be saving in filling costs (which is indeed much cheaper than any local filling cost in the western world) will match or exceed your travel costs.

Fillings are needed to stave off tooth decay. They are holes that form whenever food acids or bacterial waste products from plaque and tartar attack the enamel or outer shell of the tooth.

If the cavity is large enough, you might need to undergo a root canal to remove the infected tooth nerve and pulp then replace it with a cap or crown.

There’s also the option to extract the tooth and replace it with a dental implant, which can get quite expensive. Some patients prefer to put a cantilever or full bridge in place, which is a type of prosthodontic to replace missing teeth by turning nearby teeth into anchors.

Fillings are the most common and affordable way to fix teeth that have started to decay. The tooth-colored material or dental amalgam can fill up the cavity like cement to a pothole.

The Price of Fillings in the U.S. vs. in Bangkok, Thailand

A filling in a U.S. dental clinic can cost you $100 to $150 depending on the material used to fill up the cavity. For silver amalgam filling, it’s $50 to $150. For tooth-colored composite filing, it’s $90 to $250. For gold or porcelain fillings, it’s $250 to upwards of $4,500 per tooth.

All of the above-mentioned options are single-surface operation prices. Their price should multiply accordingly depending on the number of surfaces involved.

Incidentally, the five tooth surfaces are:

• Lingual (Side of the Tooth Facing the Tongue)

• Facial (Side of the Tooth Facing the Cheek)

• Occlusal (Top of the Tooth)

• Mesial (Front of the Tooth)

• Distal (Back of the Tooth)

At Bangkok Dental Centers like Thantakit, the price of fillings is THB 1,500 per tooth (USD 45, GBP 34, AUD 67, NZD 72). If you’re dealing with two surfaces, you can still get it discounted at THB 2,500 per tooth (USD 75, GBP 57, AUD 111, NZD 120).

If it’s three surfaces instead, the price is THB 3,500 per tooth (USD 105, GBP 80, AUD 156, NZD 168). Finally, dealing with four surfaces costs THB 4,500 per tooth (USD 134, GBP 102, AUD 200, NZD 216). So even complex cavities come at a discount beyond THB 1,500 per tooth (USD 45, GBP 34, AUD 67, NZD 72).

How About Extractions, Root Canals, and Dental Implant Surgery?

Extractions or pulling damaged or infected teeth in the U.S. cost them $75 to $200 per tooth on average depending on how simple or complex the procedure is. If they’re extracting an impacted wisdom tooth or teeth, it can cost upwards of $800 to $4,000.

Meanwhile, at Thantakit:

• A regular tooth extraction costs THB 1,500 to THB 2,500 (USD 45 - 75, GBP 34 - 57, AUD 67 - 111, NZD 72 - 120).

• A complicated tooth extraction (involves cutting through the gums or multi-part extraction of broken teeth shards) costs THB 2,500 to THB 3,500 (USD 75 - 105, GBP 57 - 80, AUD 111 - 156, NZD 120 - 168).

• You have to pay THB 4,000 (USD 119, GBP 91, AUD 178, NZD 192) to extract a fully erupted wisdom tooth.

• It then costs THB 5,000 to THB 9,000 (USD 149 - 268, GBP 114 - 204, AUD 222 - 400, NZD 240 - 432) to remove a partially impacted wisdom tooth.

• Finally, you need to pay from THB 10,000 to THB 15,000 (USD 298 - 446, GBP 227 - 340, AUD 444 - 666, NZD 480 - 720) for removal of a fully embedded wisdom tooth.

In contrast, a root canal treatment or endodontic procedure was an infamously painful procedure involving removal of an infected tooth nerve and pulp inside the root canal so that what remained of the tooth can be saved and protected with a crown casing.

Thanks to anesthetics and surgical advancements, the root canal treatment has become relatively painless compared to the root canals of your great-grandfather or ancestors.

In the U.S., a root canal for a single tooth can cost you from $300 at the cheapest to upwards of $2,000 or more on average. At the Thantakit Dental Center A root canal procedure only costs:

• THB 16,000 (USD 476, GBP 363, AUD 711, NZD 768) for the molar tooth

• THB 13,000 (USD 387, GBP 295, AUD 578, NZD 624) for the premolar tooth

• THB 10,000 (USD 298, GBP 227, AUD 444, NZD 480) for the anterior-incisor tooth

When retreating a root canal, an additional THB 1,000 to THB 2,000 (USD 30 - 60, GBP 23 - 46, AUD 45 - 89, NZD 48 - 96) is added. As for the root filling, this costs about THB 1,000 to THB 2,000 (USD 30 - 60, GBP 23 - 46, AUD 45 - 89, NZD 48 - 96). They’re still cheaper than their U.S. counterparts.

Dental implant surgery, on the other hand, involves replacing missing teeth and empty tooth sockets with a metal stud drilled into the jaw that serves as an anchor to the crown, simulating how natural teeth are anchored to the jaw.

The price of a single implant in the U.S. can range from $1,500 to $5,000. A $12,000 to $20,000 All-on-4 implant deal is already considered a huge bargain, since such a procedure can cost you upwards of $25,000 per arch or as much as $50,000 per arch.

Single implants cost varies depending on the brand.

• Dentium costs THB 65,000 (USD 1933, GBP 1472, AUD 2886, NZD 3119).

• MegaGen costs THB 70,000 (USD 2082, GBP 1585, AUD 3108, NZD 3359).

• BioHorizons cost THB 75,000 (USD 2230, GBP 1698, AUD 3330, NZD 3599).

• Straumann Roxolid SLA costs THB 90,000 (USD 2676, GBP 2038, AUD 3996, NZD 4318).

• ZeraMex costs THB 105,000 (USD 3122, GBP 2377, AUD 4662, NZD 5038).

The surgery’s Dynamic Computer-Aided Navigation by NAVIDENT should also cost you THB 8,000 (USD 238, GBP 182, AUD 356, NZD 384).

All-on-4 implants also vary depending on the brand.

• Dentium costs THB 340,000 (USD 10110, GBP 7696, AUD 15096, NZD 16313).

• MegaGen costs THB 360,000 (USD 10704, GBP 8149, AUD 15984, NZD 17272).

• Straumann Roxolid SLA costs THB 400,000 (USD 11894, GBP 9054, AUD 17760, NZD 19191).

The NAVIDENT assistance for All-on-4 implant surgery should instead cost THB 7,000 per implant (USD 209, GBP 159, AUD 311, NZD 336) (it’s at a discount).

Take Care of Your Oral Health

Take better care of your oral and dental health by overcoming your fear of dentists and taking the plunge when it comes to dental tourism. Modern dentistry has advanced by leaps and bounds since the days of the incredibly painful root canal procedure.

The best Thai dental doctors will do their best to make you feel comfortable as they offer pain-free work on your teeth and gums.

Aside from being less painful than grandpa’s dental experiences back in the day, you can avail of normally expensive dental surgery and options at the fraction of the price through dental tours in Bangkok, Thailand.

Thantakit International Dental Center is Thailand’s longest established dental center. Situated in Bangkok, our clinic is renowned across the world as a destination for world-class dentistry, with most of our patients flying to us from Australia.

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