Global Tourist Guide to Oral Care - A Systematic Review

Consumption of dental services: Medical tourism in CEE

“…According to M. Jaapar, G. Musa, S. Moghawemi and R. Saub (2017) dental tourism is understood "as activities related to travel and to hosting a tourist who stays at least one night in the destination region for purposes which include maintaining, improving or restoring health through dental care intervention". K. Dhama, B. Patthi, A. Singla, J. Kumar and M. Prasad (2016) add that "dental tourism means travelling abroad for economical dental treatment as the cost of treatment is high in one's own country". In the analysis of the cross-border provision of dental care services, some researchers perceive the phenomenon as the flow of mobile patients resulting from high costs and/or high co-payments for dental services in the patients' country of origin and from the country's legal regulations.…”

“…It seems that the relatively low cost of dental care in some countries where the cost of living is lower is the main reason for seeking treatment beyond the permanent place of residence, disregarding potential complications, but making sure that appropriate quality of service is maintained (Dhama et al, 2016;Kesar, Mikulić, 2017;Romita, Perri, 2017). According to Patients Beyond Borders (Double-time dental, 2017), a patient could save as much as $4,400, $5,800 or $6,400 travelling to get implant-supported dentures (upper and lower) to Costa Rica, South Korea or Singapore, respectively, compared to the same treatment purchased in the US.…”

Political priority of oral health in India: analysis of the reasons for neglect

“…Available preventive interventions for the most common oral diseases and risk factors, such as tooth decay and tobacco use, are not prioritized despite their good evidence in terms of public health gains. Contrasting to this, India is positioning itself as an emerging destination for global medical and dental tourism . This paper aims to analyze the politics of oral health in India and to understand underlying reasons for the priority it receives.…”

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“…This pattern could explain the similarities of YouTube-based searches between both country groups. Finally, a new YouTubebased difference found in the last year of analysis can be related to the mobile access to the Internet, which differs in diffusion, cost and quality according to countries (Fox & Duggan, 2013). The growing interest in toothache observed in both platforms can be justified by the negative impact of untreated dental caries in permanent teeth on the quality of life of individuals (Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, 2018), being related to the self-resolution of oral symptoms (Cruvinel et al, 2019).…”

“…The growing interest in toothache observed in both platforms can be justified by the negative impact of untreated dental caries in permanent teeth on the quality of life of individuals (Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, 2018), being related to the self-resolution of oral symptoms (Cruvinel et al, 2019). This behavior is motivated by financial barriers for dental treatment, due to high expenses of private services and insufficient offering of public attendance (Dhama et al, 2016). In these conditions, the use of YouTube as a source of health information may be elucidated by two factors.…”