Americans already save money by purchasing prescription drugs from Canada and getting plastic surgery in South America. Now they’re crossing over to Mexican border towns for high-quality dentistry, which can cost over 60% less than comparable work in the U.S. Reuters notes that “a dental crown in the United States costs upward of $600 per tooth, compared to $190 or less in Mexico.”

“We’ve gone from a handful of patients when we started 2-1/2 years ago to 150 new patients a month,” said Joe Andel, an American who owns the Rio Dental clinic in Ciudad Juarez with his Mexican dentist wife, Jessica.

Rio Dental, which uses U.S. labs to make its crowns, picks patients up at the airport in El Paso, Texas, across the border and has treated people from as far away as Alaska and Hawaii.

“The Internet makes this possible. It allows patients to find us and research us and shows we can do dental work of equal or superior quality to the United States,” Andel said.

“Americans go to Mexico for a cheaper perfect smile” [Reuters]

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