{"id":14188,"date":"2015-08-13T15:00:09","date_gmt":"2015-08-13T20:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/?p=14188"},"modified":"2015-08-13T15:00:09","modified_gmt":"2015-08-13T20:00:09","slug":"facing-rising-dental-costs-seniors-head-to-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/facing-rising-dental-costs-seniors-head-to-mexico\/","title":{"rendered":"Facing rising dental costs, seniors head to Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Another great article was in The Miami Herald last week that mirrors what is happening in Panama but to a much smaller degree.<\/p>\n

In this Thursday, April 30, 2015 photo, a street full of a dental offices is seen in Los Algodones, Mexico, which sits on the border with California. Thousands of Americans and Canadians travel to Los Algodones each year for affordable and reliable dental work from dentists who speak English and sometimes accept U.S. insurance. The trip, even counting the cost of traveling long distances, is often more affordable than getting dental care in the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n

By ASTRID GALVAN<\/span> Associated Press<\/span><\/div>\n
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LOS ALGODONES, Mexico <\/span><\/p>\n
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Mark Bolzern traveled 3,700 miles to go to the dentist. The 56-year-old Anchorage, Alaska, native left home this spring, made a pit stop in Las Vegas to pick up a friend, and kept heading south, all the way to Los Algodones, Mexico, a small border town teeming with dental offices.<\/p>\n

About 60 percent of Americans have dental insurance coverage, the highest it has been in decades. But even so, the nation’s older population has been largely left behind. Nearly 70 percent of seniors are not insured, according to a study compiled by Oral Health America. A major reason is because dental care is not covered by Medicare and many employers no longer offer post-retirement health benefits. What’s more, the Affordable Care Act allows enrollees to get dental coverage only if they purchase general health coverage first, which many seniors don’t need. At the same time, seniors often require the most costly dental work, like crowns, implants and false teeth.<\/p>\n

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