Cm Vs Home Dentists

[Rancid]

Over my many years living in CM I had quite a bit of dental work done at two clinics often listed as recommendations. These ranged from root canals, crowns, surgery and implants. Some worked and some failed, the failures often being quite expensive gold crowns or surgery.

I recently had surgery done to prep for implants, from the first day it was very swollen and I was taking a lot of pain killers, yet I was reassured everything was fine. In the end our visas cleared quickly so I returned to Oz. Since being here the surgery was giving me headaches so I saw a local specialist. His immediate thought was infection which didn't show up on x-ray. So he used a 3D scanner, a technology the CM clinic doesn't have and found the infection. I went in to have the surgery reversed under anasthesia, not the local I had in CM. I woke up with no swelling and no local pain plus the original pain has gone. He was not only a dental surgeon but a doctor as well and his opinion was that the original surgery was botched, his price to correct was about 20% more than what I paid in CM to get buggerered up.

He has viewed my "top of the range" implant on x-ray and says he can't even recognise it and doesn't by its shape regard it as high end although says that it has taken well. He says he can redo the surgery for implant prep after things settle down again at little more than CM would cost. He concedes though that implants are very expensive here but suggests being careful about who I use later for implants in Thailand as his experience is that many Thai dentists who claim to have studied in the US have only done so under observer status and are not as well trained as they claim.

Just passing this on for information purposes although I know many here have their favourite dentist they swear by. Also the local dentist who arranged my referral to the specialist immdiately found two teeth needing fillings just using the pick, wheras every Thai dentist I have seen also requires x-rays to find. I supposedly had all fillings done before I returned as well. Hmmm.

[elektrified]

"...many Thai dentists who claim to have studied in the US have only done so under observer status and are not as well trained as they claim."

I was going to go to a dental clinic here in C.M. because the dentist advertised he was a graduate of UCLA Dental School. Upon further questioning it turned out he had only taken a 1 year class there.

[kaptainrob]

All due respect, but why post anti-Thai medical advice without naming the source? Because it's not allowed... could be sued?

There will always be medical stories good and bad, from both Thai and o/s specialists. My old Oz dentist, Dr Kennedy, failed to remove 2 tooth fragments which caused infection and pain over several years. Amoxyl was always prescribed until I got fed up with it and asked Dr Jarunee to have a look. Her 3D panoramic you beaut star wars equipment showed the problems and it was rectified @ 1700 baht.