Please read this before you go to Tijuana for dental implants / Scams /tips/ good luck
Well ! this is from my humble experience and with a good intention i would like to share a few notes with you if you are trully planing to go to tijuana for Dental implants, as for some dental work you don't really need much of tips since most of the work can be done by any dental pratictioner .
- Don't get foolded by the reviews and nice pictures on any websites or from google reviews or yelp since most of those reviews are just made up or begged for or from people hired for that stuff to lure new customers or victims or whatever . I was asked to write a good review and i kind of wrote something then changed my mind .
- Do your research and try to find clinics with the highest rate of success . better to find a real client you know or managed to get hold of who did some work you are planing to get as well .
- a few of those clinics don't really have real doctors , because doctors are expensive so what they get is cheap pratictioner or some someone still being trained because they are cheaper . the whole Tijuana dental thing is all about making money , lot of money and they have to resort to scamming and to scam they have to lie and fool you by surprising you with additional hidden fees
- some of them don't really use real receipts with the clinic logo , how much you paid and what for instead they just give you a piece of papers with the amount you paid and your balance basically like trash .
- Never pay the whole thing or pay like 12k before the surgery and 7 after to get the finals . You always wanna pay as you go. Pay for the first surgery that's it becuase the surgey is a miss or hit thing . If it fails you are doomed . you have to change the clinic and find somewhere better with real doctors to remove those screws , clean and do it again properly as soon as possible before you it gets almost impossible because a failed surgery can resluts in the loss of bone thus you never be able to have implants in the future . also always bear in mind the surgery is the most important step .
- Always after a surgery and after you heal a few months go get xrays someone , it is cheap and see if the surgery didn't fail, you can see it whenthe bone completey grab the screws mean there's no hiatus between them or ask a third party to explain to you . because they never tall you that the surgery did fail never , they would lie to you untill they get the remaining money then they will start suggesting to you cheap solution or just tell you well the doctor say tis or that but they will never tell you what heppened because they would rather have loose pice of metals in your gums and try to force a cheap denture on you . Removing those screws and doing again cost money besically you gonna lose money any way why i said it is a miss or hit procedures.
- Before and afetr the surgery quit smoking and change your diet , get whatever if good for your bone growth .
- in my situation they showed me a different an xray and they added 3D screws to tell me it is cool so far . but right after i gave them the other 7 K the owner came to me with a different story and this " you are not gonna get any money back and you have to stick with us " attitude . they even told me after the fialed surgery that could leave that day with the final basically soe cheap dentures and that 's it .
- after i hadd my temporary just plastic crap homless people get for free in california with the lower jaw with a couple of screw . the owner came to me with a camera and asked me to smile , he took the picture and dind't know why . but one day i was reading the reviews in yelps and saw one person complained who had a similar issue like me, the owner responded by saying we still have the pictures of you before and after and he posted the picture which was a scam . basically the temporary became the finals .
- they have ghidden fees like after they get all your money , whenever you go back there they expect you to go to the front desk and pay something . even though you paid for the whole package and what they do , they keep messing with the same thing and never finish it just to milk you . Basically the 20k is just for extraction and placing screws that half of them might fail because the guy who did the surgery was just hired , never saw him again .
- clinics in turkey which i believe is the best destination you get your finals in 2 trips , cheaper , more professional , real doctors and best technology they have . Clinics in turkey they have the lab where they make thiose dentures and teeth , they have the x rays machines and the 3D zicornia printers everything in the same clinics . they even have places wher you can sleep if you have to stay longer
- i trully believe is better to pay half in america somewhere cheaper with 5 years insurance
- In my case , they lie a lot like they say ok! next time take three or so days we gonna put the finals just to make you pay some more then they create another excuse to comer another time .
- Some families have nothing to do with medical field and they just rent an office and turn it into a clinic but they get work done in labs , xrays in different places , blood tests and oter stuff in different clinics , they pay for you and charge you lot for that or if should be all included in the package .
- Most of those dental agencies online that hook you up with clinics in tijuana who are based in Florida, california or .. they promise you a deal for the whole package but they never tell you about the hidden fees becvause what heppen they get a cut from your money and the clinic expect to get more from you later on . So they rely a lot on those agencies to lure victims to their clinics .
_- they make you sign something , before , you'd better read it carefully and as i said go do your research about the cost of the surgery and ask questions, about credentions . The prices always range between like 2500 to 3500 or more for the full extraction and placing of those screws before they start stitching . and pay as you go and read above .
- Somwething weird they do , at first they put you in a nice hotel with a buffet which i thought was dumb because you don't need that luxurious buffet because your mouth gonna be swollen , no teeth and not good to eat that food all you need is blended food with proteins the firt days and supliments maybe , soup, juice... you don't need to move your jaws or bite on something those screws can getr easily moved . Hotels are cheap all you need is a 30 dollars hotel to sleep in downtown where everything is close . they try to impress you at first , as soon as they get all your money they change alot and start treating you like a new client. because they could .
-Alway document like take videos when you pay cash especiallycash , they love cash, with cash they can scam you easily . videos like a pen or glasses or something in case they wanna turn on you in the future. i now sound funny .
- Never pay the last amount before you see the finals and double check them they are not some cheap materials . if you pay before the finals , you might get cooked and stuck .
- Always see clinics that belongs to real doctors, not some families instead of opening a burrito stand or restaurent , they open a clinics and hire cheap people to work there and get labs to do the work. Ask for diplomas to see to feel confortable .
-verify credentials, check recent patient reviews, and confirm the clinic's sterilization standards.
Confirm Memberships: Look for registrations with the College of Dental Surgeons of Baja California or the Asociación Dental Mexicana (ADM).
Verify Materials: Ask if they use recognized, high-quality dental materials and implants (e.g., Straumann, Nobel Biocare
Pay as you go pay as you go ... never never go for the package if you do which gonna be less expensive when you get down there. Sit down with them " they gonna hate it whch would be a red flag for them that you are well informed " and beak down the costs into 3 steps
The Implant Placement (Surgery full extraction and placing of the screws and abuttements , the Abutment Placement then ipressions and Crown Delivery, activation of the implant by another minor surgery to get the impression and placing of the temporary dentures to wait untill you get used to it and you heal basically , then a nother trip to get the finals basically it takes between 3 trips to 6 max without any failures .
- If the surgery failed. stop stop ... don't pay the rest , talk to them if they can give you some money back and just go somewhere which is painful .
- one last thing , you have to be qualified for the surgery otherwise you might need different surgery before but they never tell you you are not qualified they might just go ahead with the extraction then expecting you to pay the whole ammount of money for just dentures or a coupleof screws to hold some cheap crap expecting you to keep coming back to the for maintenance .
THe cime they commited with me was that my upper jaw implants ' screws" failed but didn't tell me , it was so painful to place the temorary because the csrew were loose in my gum , so painful . they had to inject my face with all kind of anesthesia couldn'y feel my face and they placed some cheap dentures and basically told me was ready to go . that was horrible . they tried to cheat because they didn't want to give me my money back and be honest with me . they could get the 5k and give me the rest but they just wanted the whole thing . so greedy and immoral .
Ok sorry for my english . forgove me if i gave you hard time . Am jsy depressed over it . good luck and don't let my review or experience sour your expectations . maybe wasn't just lucky . Love
