The Maloney Review
Reviewed clinics, named flaws, sourced claims. Edited by an Australian-registered specialist endodontist with 23 years and ~14,000 root canal cases.
Treatment option reviews
Monolithic zirconia on four to six implants is the headline product of high-volume dental tourism. The procedure has real indications. The $8,000 Antalya version produces a recognisable failure pattern, and the failure is in the prosthetic geometry, not the country.
Treatment option reviews
Monolithic zirconia on four to six implants is the headline product of high-volume dental tourism. The procedure has real indications. The $8,000 Antalya version produces a recognisable failure pattern, and the failure is in the prosthetic geometry, not the country.
Treatment option reviews
A 41-year-old woman from Telford had implants pushed through her sinus floor and into her nasal cavity at an Antalya clinic. The BBC published the scan. The case is the cleanest illustration we have of what the Turkey teeth coverage keeps under-reporting.
Treatment option reviews
The 'Turkey teeth' coverage is correct that aggressive tooth preparation is destructive. It is wrong about where the real danger is.
Treatment option review
Bone grafting is the most-quoted, least-questioned add-on in international implant dentistry. The real indications, the alternatives, and the cost line item to ask about by name.
Treatment option review
Three options. One under-used. One financially incentivised. The honest decision criteria, with the cost numbers attached.
Clinic reviews
A five-category clinical assessment of Worldwide Dental & Plastic Surgery Hospital (formerly Dr. Hung & Associates Dental Center), Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, on a different axis from prior reviews: a fully licensed hospital, a documented adverse-outcome complaint from a plastic-surgery patient, and a marketing surface dominated by sponsored coverage and curated aggregator reviews.
Clinic reviews
A primary-source review of Westcoast International Dental Clinic — a 22-year-old, 100%-foreign-invested three-site dental system operating in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City under a British Virgin Islands holding entity. The founder credential traces to UBC 1997. The Vietnamese-language site discloses a named technical-medical-director and a practising-licence number — more disclosure than most Vietnamese clinics publish. The gaps are about the corporate structure, the gap between the practising-licence number and the operating licence, and a multinational dentist roster that is not individually verifiable on the public surface.
Clinic reviews
A primary-source review of Nhân Tâm Dental, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, on two axes the framework has now applied to four prior clinics: the credential-representation axis (does the marketed credential match the credential the issuing institution actually awards) and the volume-claim axis (does the headline case count survive arithmetic against the clinical pathway). The findings are different from Greenfield's, different from Elite's, different from Westcoast's, and different from East Rose's. The founder is a real PhD researcher with a documented surgical-innovation record. The marketing of the UCLA continuing-education credential repeats the East Rose Dental pattern. The 200,000-customers-a-year figure is in marketing-approximation territory.
Clinic reviews
A primary-source review of the registration, credentials, and statistical claims published by Greenfield Dental Clinic, Hanoi, Vietnam, against the Hanoi Department of Health practitioner registry and the Vietnamese national business register.
Clinic reviews
A primary-source review of Elite Dental, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, on the same registration-and-credentials axis applied to Greenfield Dental Clinic, Hanoi. The findings line up differently. The named founder's credentials trace; the Straumann Centers of Dental Education affiliation traces on Straumann's own domain; the AACI accreditation date and score are documented. The gaps are about what the clinic does not publish, not what it overstates.
Clinic reviews
A primary-source review of the 'Harvard-trained chief dentist, established 2000' presentation East Rose Dental Clinic publishes to international patients. The Harvard School of Dental Medicine publishes its degree alumni and its continuing-education participants on different surfaces and in different language. A short continuing-education course is not a Harvard degree. On the documents on file, the language the clinic uses to describe the principal dentist's training does not survive contact with what the institution itself publishes about its own programmes.
Trial of the week
A 23-centre Iranian trial randomised 407 mature molars with irreversible pulpitis to vital pulp therapy or root canal treatment and followed them for five years. The success rates were the same. The implications for the patient who has been quoted a root canal are worth thinking through carefully.
This week in dental tourism
Five items from the primary record on global oral health, regulatory standards, and the structural conditions that produce dental tourism. Concede-pivot framing on each. The launch issue sets the column's posture: we report what the regulators and the peer-reviewed literature actually say, not what the marketing departments want them to.
Cost reference
A molar root canal costs $1,200–$2,000 NZD out of pocket in New Zealand, and Te Whatu Ora pays none of it — a gap that has existed without interruption since 1985.
Cost reference
A breakdown of what Australian patients actually pay out-of-pocket for dental care, what private health insurance covers, and how the Medicare exclusion came to exist.
Cost reference
Single implant + abutment + zirconia crown across ten countries, with currency, date, what's-included, and the trip-cost framework that turns a sticker price into a total cost.
Procedure reference
What endodontic retreatment is, when it is indicated, what happens during the procedure, and what the published outcome data show.
Long read
Australian, New Zealand, American, and Canadian patients are flying overseas for dental work because four governments, over forty years, declined to cover dentistry under the public health systems they otherwise built. The price differential is real. So is the cohort it most strongly attracts: cost-deferred, complication-vulnerable, and least able to afford the trip going wrong.
Long read
Why the patient cannot tell good clinics from bad ones, and what to do about it. A structural account, an honest audit of every available remedy — and an explicit acknowledgement of what no review framework, including this one, can fix on its own.