There are still many people that associate the name “Albania” with the communist dictatorship and the civil war of 1997. They often ask: “Is it a safe place?!”. Now everything has changed!
In recent years, Albania has experienced exceptional economic and infrastructure development. This has helped tourism so much that, except the famous Ionian coast, it has also developed in its capital, Tirana. This city with more than one million inhabitants has turned into a very popular tourist destination.
Forget the sad, gray city, poor in infrastructure and services of the Stalinist dictatorship. Today Tirana is a safe city, full of life and colors, recommended by all best travel guides in the world, such as Lonely Planet, Rough Guide ,etc.
Tirana is a city that covers about 1100 sqm of the urban area and in recent years has further increased its surface. Surely one day is not enough to see all that this city has to offer. There is a symbiosis between the beautiful daytime cafes with the extraordinary night clubs, and among the almost chaotic vitality of the center with the serenity of the suburbs! Tirana today is full of things to do and visit. The best places you should not miss are:
Dental tourism, born in recent decades, is a branch of medical tourism: people choose to move to places that offer the same dental service, but at a much more reasonable price. So the United States and Canada were the first to move towards Mexico, Costa Rica, and Peru. Then Australia moved to Thailand and India. The Italians chose to rely on dentists in Croatia, to do small dental treatments while on vacation.
Dental tourism in Albania was born more than ten years ago, with the first Albanian patients who lived in Italy and used the summer holidays to take care of their teeth in a low-cost way. They were the first to recommend dental tourism to Italian friends as a way to save up to 60%. But today dental tourism has become a very organized system. Many clinics also offer services that include ticket assistance, transport from the airport, accommodation, and even tour guides.
There is no doubt that Albania has made great changes to medical service in the past two decades. In Tirana, we find famous European hospitals, like the Hygea Hospital, the American Hospital ,and dental clinics that all offer highly professional services. Albanian doctors invest a lot in their careers and dental practices. They keep themselves updated following meetings and national or international conferences that are organized every year.
There are many clinics where the service offered is truly modern, being able to count on the latest technological equipment, such as fingerprints, laser treatment of gums, computer- guided implantology ,and digital smile design before intervening.
If you search the web for “Dental Tourism in Albania”, you will find many clinics that can be the promoters of your next smile. Nowadays it is very simple to get all the information for the dental care that these clinics offer. So we can see that almost every clinic offers everything: ticket advice, airport pick-up/drop-off, accommodation, and sometimes even the tourist tour. In these circumstances, it’s all simple, or not?
In today’s Tirana, it is very easy to get organized and offer all these types of conveniences. It is easy to find comfortable hotels in the city center at a good price, going around by taxi and eating in delicious restaurants with Italian or traditional cuisine; all these paying much less than in Europe! Many clinics that offer dental tourism have included all these services in their packages so that everything becomes easier for the patient. From this point of view, it is indeed convenient to rely on dental tourism in Albania!
“Save up to 50%” is what all dental clinics advertise, but is it really so? In Albania, everything costs less, and this gives you the chance to smile again with new teeth, saving half, being a tourist and relaxing for some days. The lowest prices of dental treatments are in the same line as all other cheap services in Albania.
Taxes, wages, rents: everything costs much less than in the developed European countries. Many dentists in these countries accuse their Albanian colleagues of using poor quality materials, but this is absolutely not true because there are dental clinics in Tirana that operate with the ISO 9001 Quality Certificates and all materials they use to have the CE mark.
At the end what really matters are certainly quality, professionalism, and longevity of dental treatments. Just like in all the other countries of the world, we can always find two sides of the same coin. Even in Albania, you can find dental clinics that offer, without any doubt, the same quality and professionalism as all the other more developed European countries, however, at the same time, there are many clinics that offer everything but in fact give you nothing.
You can simply search the web for “dental tourism reviews” and you will see thousands of people happy with the aesthetic and functional results achieved. If you find the right clinics and professionals, dental treatment will be safe and healthy for many, many years to come.
There are some European dentists, who believe it is impossible to do a good job in just 7 to 10 days. And they try to prove it with practical data such as, for example, the time required to make fillings, root canal therapies, crowns, etc.
In fact, most patients who decide to rely on dental tourism in Albania, request large mouth reconstructions, usually replacing all the teeth with dental implants. They do not have dozens of fillings and root canals to do, because it is not convenient to come to Albania just to do some fillings.
The first phase of implantology, which is the surgical phase, is performed in a single intervention for one or both jaws. This is the protocol also followed by European dentists in their clinics. It must also be said that Albanian dentists, who work in the dental tourism field, give priority to foreign patients so that everything can be concluded quickly. The possibility of having a temporary prosthesis with immediate loading on implants is a service that Albanian dentists offer like their European colleagues.
In conclusion, the services offered by Albanian dentistry are really performed in a short time, just as promised.
