Americans are fixing their teeth in Mexico
Every year, more than a million walk or drive there, fleeing the high cost of dental work in the US.
Los Algodones in Mexico may have more dentists per capita than any place in the world; well over a thousand in a town of 2,500.
Every year, more than a million Americans walk or drive there, fleeing the high cost of dental work in the US. A root canal in Los Algodones – aka Molar City – may cost less than one-fifth of what it would in Yuma, Arizona, ten minutes away.
Burkhard Bilger, a staff writer at The New Yorker Magazine, visited Molar City for a piece in the latest issue.
“Dentistry tends to be a no-fly zone for journalists – who wants to relive those moments in print?
“But wherever I went in town, people couldn’t wait to talk about their teeth. Nothing is more memorable, for better or worse, than a trip to the dentist.
“From Louis XIV to the latest celebrity with a bad veneer job, everyone has a horror story to tell.
“But the opposite is also true. If dentists are willing to endure so much abuse, it’s because no one is more grateful, more profoundly relieved, than a patient whose pain has been taken away.”
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