If your teeth are cracked, decayed, fractured, or otherwise in bad shape, you may have considered extraction at one point. If you have made this decision or at least thought about it, you are certainly not alone; in the United Kingdom, 74 percent of adult patients have elected extraction at least once in their lives.

Deciding against tooth extractions is the main driver of dental tourism in Costa Rica. The root, so to speak, of dental tourism is an underlying desire to keep as much of the natural dental anatomy as possible. The dental procedures known as smile restorations are treatment strategies that combine crowns, bridges and 21st century technology to avoid extractions and dentures.

The New Smile Dental Group of Costa Rica specializes in all the treatments and procedures sought by dental tourists. The idea is to provide sensible alternatives to extractions through the treatment doctrine of restoration. This does not mean that extraction are never performed in Costa Rica; in fact, there are situations when a loose tooth will require extraction before proceeding to restoration, but this is something that dental professionals will always try to avoid.

When it comes to dental crowns or bridges, our teeth can be used as natural bases to support them. Crowns are used to restore the shape, color and proportion of our teeth. Crowns are utilized to improve both form and function; they improve the appearance of a smile while also contributing to oral health. Bridges are also functional and aesthetic; they are fixed restoration elements used to replace missing teeth by anchoring them to contiguous teeth or implants.

The decision to get dental crowns and/or bridges is often the best for the patient. At the New Smile Dental Group in Costa Rica, our main concern is to provide dental tourists with the highest value in terms of available services. Our philosophy of dentistry care is to keep and restore your natural teeth as much as possible without sacrificing health or aesthetics.

For more information about getting crowns and bridges done in Costa Rica, please contact the dental tourism counselors at New Smile Dental, it’s a toll-free call from North America: 1 (888) 663-9764.