If you are coming to SteemFest, you really aught to consider this as well....

There are a lot of "tips and tricks" going on in the feed right now to help the people that are attending Steemfest in November and I've read all of them (some of them are written by me) and they are all pretty solid (especially the ones written by me :P ) but there is one thing that I think that no one else is going to recommend and it is important and very unlikely to be suggested by anyone.

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Dentistry

Perhaps it sounds silly to say this but dental work in Thailand is actually extremely good and also very cheap. There are many people attending that come from countries that have "free" medical care but normally this does not extend to dentistry.

When I lived in the USA I didn't have a great salary when i worked for the U.S. Government but i did have pretty decent medical benefits. However, even this didn't extend to "elective" dentistry which by the way is pretty much all of it.

So i can only speak from an American point-of-view because that is what I am but let me go ahead and tell you a little story (I promise it will be brief):

I lost the bottom half of both my front teeth in a soccer game when i was 16. The bottom half of my two front teeth are fake since then. This involves a process where they smear and mold some fake ceramic something or other on the bottom of your teeth and then use alien technology to make them solid like a tooth would be.

I have had to repeat this process dozens of times in the 20+ years that I have had these fake toofs, and when they would break in the states, it was always an expensive process to achieve (like $300 a time.)

I broke one of my USA made veneers (that's what they are called by the way) during a USA World Cup match many years ago and scheduled an appointment for the following day not knowing what to expect and to be honest, assuming that their work was going to be garbage.

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This was over a decade ago and i still have those veneers in my mouth right now.

I mentioned before that this sort of dental work costs $300+ back in the USA. When I had this emergency work done here over a decade ago it cost me around $30 for both teeth together. I was convinced (at the time) that this work was going to fall apart in a week or so but yet here I am more than 10 years later and the dental work they did that ill-fated day in Krabi is still holding strong as I type this.

It doesn't have to be major

Maybe you just need a cleaning or a filling or something minor that would otherwise involve an appointment and hundreds of dollars out of your pocket back home. It will not cost much here.

My last scheduled cleaning was about a month ago and it was the most pain-free cleaning I have had in my life at a dental clinic I had never been to before. The final bill was 600 Baht and this is around $18. I was extremely impressed and believe you will be as well.

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tl;dr

Dentistry is really inexpensive in Thailand and from someone who has lived half his life in USA and half his life in Thailand I can say with absolute certainty that not only is it dramatically cheaper to have dental work done in Thailand, but I honestly believe it is superior in quality.

If you need dental work, or just a simple neglected "regular cleaning," this is a wonderful opportunity for you to have what very well could end up being the best dental care you ever get in your life.... for $20-30.

I know you didn't plan your trip to Thailand to go to the dentist, but honestly, it is a situation you will not regret. Just remember; dentists are not considered doctors in this country.

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