Does anyone know a great dentist in Chaing Mai?

Dentaland

7 Nimmanhemin n.17 tel 053-334578

The best treatments received in 38 years, 'nuff said.

Previous thread here: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=33810

Does anyone know a great dentist in Chaing Mai?

Do they have an e mail address?

Dentaland

7 Nimmanhemin n.17 tel 053-334578

The best treatments received in 38 years, 'nuff said.

Do they have an e mail address

Dentaland

7 Nimmanhemin Lane 17

Muang

Chiang Mai 50200

Telephone 053 224 578

Email : [email protected]

Hours: Mon-Fri 9:00am - 8:30pm, Sat-Sun 9:00am - 6:00pm

Dentaland - be a little careful. I went to get teeth cleaned. Ended up after an hour with a botched filling I didn't need and no teeth cleaning.

Second appointment 6pm still waiting 20 minutes later. I asked how long before I'd see the dentist - another 20 minutes. Another appointment was going to be 2 weeks!

Next day went to the little dentist near Thapae gate all done and dusted in 45 minutes, good dentist, quick and reasonable prices :- Funsabai Dental Clinic.

Grace Dental Practice

053 89 4568

www.gracedentalclinic.com

I have all my dental work done their. Not cheap, but very hi-tech and painless.

All the Doctors speak good English and they are very professional

Grace Dental is certainly expensive, about what you'd pay in the U.S. A friend went there expecting to pay as much as 1500 baht for a cleaning. Surprise, they only did half of his teeth and said he'd have to come back a couple of days later to finish, and charged him another 1500 baht! They're good, but overpriced in my opinion.

While the devaluation of the dollar may well have made Grace expensive, I don't think it has reached U.S. price levels yet, but then again I haven't been there in six years and perhaps dentists lowered their prices since, I doubt it.

Even at 30 baht to the dollar, I doubt a root canal and full crown would cost 18k or 600 USDs the cost of my last one at Grace in November. My last root canal in the U.S. was 500 USD.

Three days ago a filling fell out of my mouth and Dr. Korakot at Grace cleaned it out of decay and replaced the filling. Apointment lasted almost an hour as we talked some. I was shocked at the bill. 300 Baht!!! Where in the U.S. can you get a tooth filled properly for 10 USDs??????

Dr. Korat in her conversation spoke of having general dentists cleaning teeth at Grace some years ago however they encountered so much gum involvement among the patients that by having a gum specialist doing the cleaning they avoided referrals to the gum specialist, good for the patients and the clinic.

While I don't know of the previous posts tooth condition, it is possible that some mouths need so much extra work to get them cleaned to the level of Grace's world standard that two appointments may be necessary.

I do know if the plaque is too great, the unltra-sound machine won't do the trick and extensive hand scaling is required. There may be an undisclosed rule of thumb that if the cleaning takes more than an hour, a second appointment and second billing is in order for the extra time.