Czech Dental Treatment in Kromeriz and Zlin
Moravia - Czech Republic

 

Dental treatment in the Czech Republic and in Kromeriz ?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This page contains vital information concerning our dental treatment organization services and about the dental services situation in the Czech Republic.

You SHOULD read this page so as to understand the who, how come, why, when, how long, what for, and also the how much.

Especially if you have any doubts whatsoever concerning getting dental treatment in the Czech Republic - Kromeriz or Zlin (Moravia) and about a dental treatment organization service such as ours.

If you read this page you will be wiser.

After all, I myself wouldn't put my teeth in someone else's 'hands' without being absolutely clear on what they were offering and why.

Lower down you will find links to the dental treatment services and their costs but please do read what follows.
In case you are of the die hard sort, feel free to go directly to the:
czech dental treatment costs page
BUT also see the dental treatment in the Czech Republic faqs page.

Also while you're at it - see some pics of dental madness (dental patients between dental sessions over here )

And also some dental patients who have had dental treatment in the Czech Republic testimonials

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My own case story on how I got my teeth repaired in Kromeriz and saved a fortune, and then moved to the Czech Republic, and am now offering reliable dental treatment appointment organization for international dental patients to the Czech Republic, ... and a lot of other rubbish that won't interest anyone except those who might be basing their dental treatment in the Czech Republic on what I tell them.....

[ adendum
quite a lot of dental patients who have come over to the Czech Republic to Kromeriz or Zlin for dental treatment have told me upon their arrival and meeting me - that they had been under the impression that I was perhaps Italian (since I had lived there) - or maybe even German.

Actually I'm english, brought up in London, and my mother is Czech ...just to set the record straight and to help prospecting patients understand who will be organizing their dental treatment ]

How this all started:

This web site was initially created for pleasure and hobby since I, Pete, first came to Kromeriz in 1998 with my then italian girlfriend Simona to visit some friends and by chance we also got our teeth repaired.

During this first visit to Kromeriz we took the opportunity to visit a dentist for a simple check up and a cost quote for some dental work both of us knew would have to be done sooner or later on our teeth.

We were then living in Italy and were dreading not only the work itself that needed doing - but especially the Italian dental costs.

The result of the Kromeriz dental exploratory visit was an extended stay to 11 days during which both Simona and myself visited the dentist almost twice a day - each and every day - to have the 'work' done in record time and at very accessible costs.

Between the two of us we had:
4 porcelain crowns,
2 reconstructed teeth,
9 fillings,
plaque removal, tartar removal
partial periodontal gum disease treatment
teeth polishing
x-rays / local anaesthetic etc.

Elsewhere in Europe the time needed for all this drilling and filling would have been at least 3 months (UK) to 1 year (Italy) and the average cost for example in Italy for this type of work would have been around Euro 4000 upwards.

In Kromeriz this was all done in 11 days and the overall cost came to
Euro 600.
Lock, stock and new teeth for both of us.

[[[ I have since found out that in the UK and Ireland - today in 2005 - the average cost of 1 crown is about £450 (663 Euro)
In Kromeriz or Zlin today, a crown will cost about Euro 200 Euro.

I'm no maths wizard but that's less than a third of the UK costs according to my calculator and if you're having say 5 crowns done, then you save £1,250+.
Work it out for yourself if you can add up better than I can.]]]

Anyway... I liked the town of Kromeriz so much that this web site ensued.

And Simona and myself were so pleased with the dental treatment we received, especially the cheap dental costs that I initially put up our 'teeth repair' experience on this site, as a sort of teeth repair travel journal.
(Modesty aside - it was I who invented Blogs back in 1999 !)

Then our friends from Italy and the UK started going to Kromeriz to get their teeth repaired too and this site began to receive requests from people from all over the world who found the teeth pages through search engine searches.

[[[ In the last week of August 2005 alone, we had 6 individual dental patients in Kromeriz, 2 from Ireland, 2 from the UK and two from Italy.
Two of them have decided to buy a house here.
From the end of October 2005 we receive an average of 20 dental patients each month ]]]

Anyway....
Slowly I came to the conclusion that it would be a pity not to tell the world all about 'it' - and have since then expanded our 'teeth pages' to what they are today.

[[[ I moved to the Czech Republic in 2002, and now live between Zlin and Kromeriz with my Czech girlfriend.]]]

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Some information
about Czech Dentists :

Having myself experienced various european dentists: in the UK where I was brought up, in Germany, Spain, and Italy where I lived for longer periods, and also those of the Czech Republic, I have found most to be pretty good.

[ 2005 - I have since changed my mind on UK dentists from what I keep hearing from UK dental patients who have been over here. My old dentist in London near St Paul's - in 1979 - was a great dentist and so was his surgery and all was done on the NHS, but the news I keep getting now is that all this has changed and that most dentists in the UK today have now become private clinics and that now it's all about money. sheesh ]

Anyway....
a good dentist is a good dentist in most civilized countries.

But each good dentist has his good or exaggerated price and short or very long work spans for getting the job done.
Not to mention the ridiculous dentists's waiting lists as in the UK and Ireland.

Recently, one dental visitor from London told me that in the UK the procedure in getting a tooth repaired is as follows:
You fix an appointment with a dentist and then 3 months later you go to that appointment.
Your dental plan is made and your next appointment is made for 9 months later.
9 months later you finally go to get your dental treatment and if by then the tooth has not fallen out - it is extracted.

Sure - this may be a bit of an exaggeration, but there again probably not by much.

Czech dentists operate under stringent, top European and worldwide standards and are easily compared to USA, German, British, Spanish, Italian and Swiss dentists in all aspects - apart from the costs and times.

For a fraction of the price in a much shorter time span - in Kromeriz (and now in Zlin too) you can have your teeth repaired, get fillings done, have crowns set, veneers fitted or have implants and even more complicated work such as bone grafts done whilst enjoying a short dental holiday and saving a fortune on your UK etc. dental bills.

If you have teeth problems and have been quoted a fortune by your local dentist for the work to be done and done in a longer time period - then you might consider a trip to the Czech Republic Kromeriz or to Zlin.

Kromeriz and Zlin are just a 90 minute flight from Stansted with Ryan air all year round.

The money and bother you will save are unequaled anywhere else.

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Examples of Czech dental treatment costs:

1)
In 2003 someone had work done in Kromeriz which basically involved reconstructing all the upper teeth with implants (riveting base structure to the jaw bone) to hold the new metal ceramic teeth structure.
This came to cost Euro 4000.

Elsewhere in Europe a similar 'job' would have cost around Euro 20.000.
TWENTY THOUSAND !

2)
A friend of mine from Switzerland had one implant done between August 2004 and January 2005.
This involved a first exploratory visit with x-rays to decide which titanium bolt and what size and thickness to use.

The chosen titanium bolt was then inserted and this was done under local anaesthetic and took 30 minutes.
The gum where the tooth was missing was cut open, a hole drilled in the jawbone and the titanium bolt screwed in.
The gum was then stitched with self-disolving stitches (4 stitches) so he could go back to Switzerland and not have to go there to a dentist to have the stitches removed.

As this was the upper jaw, a 5 month healing period was required between the bolt insertion and the ceramic tooth placement.

5 months later on the second visit - on a Monday the implant was checked out, a cast was taken of the upper teeth to make the porcelain tooth and the implant was prepared for the tooth to be placed onto it.
Basically a small cylinder is placed around the protruding bolt to make room around it for the new tooth.
The tooth was then made and was ready to be screwed onto the titanium bolt the same week on the Friday.

The whole process of 2 visits, dental work and top material - the titanium bolt - cost a total of Euro 750.
In Switzerland my friend was quoted Euro 3000.

In Prague this same treatment would cost nearly twice as much as in Kromeriz, so about Euro 1500, which is still half of the Swiss quote .. but is still Euro 750 more than in Kromeriz.

So going by the treatment Simona and I myself received, or the two examples quoted above, it must be pretty obvious that even going over to Kromeriz or Zlin several times, there is much money and time bother to be saved.

Want to compare
dental repair costs worldwide ?
You can have some fun and check this USA dental costs calculator out for yourself.
( www.bracesinfo.com/dental costs/)
This is a dental services cost calculator for the USA.

Amazing, and in my next life I want to be an N.Y. City dentist !

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Why is dental work so professional but then still so cheap in the Czech Republic ?

Especially outside of Prague ?

It's professional because if the communists were good at one thing - it was providing top medical services to the people. This aspect has gotten even more professional since the comrades got thrown out in 1989 and in the last 16 years Czech dental services have caught up to match if not to better all the latest technology available elsewhere like in the USA and rest of Europe.

[ One of the dentists we work with has a mini mouth camera and a monitor above the dental chair and will be happy to show you around your mouth where every nook and cranny and the state of your teeth is visible on-screen ]

Cheap dental repairs ?
Actually it's not that it's cheap - it's just that these are the local rates.

Someone such as a teacher in Kromeriz, who earns about Euro 350 a month can't be expected to pay Euro 700 for a single porcelain crown can they ?
International patients pay local prices with a small difference as they do not have Czech national health insurance which for Czech patients pays a part of their costs.

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Because of the overwhelming demand for dental treatment, probably due to our offering top dental treatment organization services in the Czech Republic and working with top Czech dentists and implantologists who are experts in the field - We now work with three Czech dentists.
Two in Kromeriz and one in Zlin

The Kromeriz and Zlin dentists will undertake the following dental treatments:
• Ceramic Crowns
• Metal ceramic crown Bridges
• Dental Implants (Branemark)
• Faceted Crowns
• Porcelain Veneers
• Root canal treatment
• Bleaching - cosmetic treatment,
• Laser whitening
• Amalgamate filling with local anaesthetic
• Photocomposit filling with local anaesthetic
• Simple extraction with local anaesthetic
• Complicated extractions
• Prothesis (False teeth),
• Partial Prothesis (partial false teeth you dummy)
• Paradontosis treatment
• Anti - Bruxism protection
• General exploratory visit
• Plaque cleaning and removal
• Oral X-ray and analysis
• Panoramic X-ray and analysis
• Dental Surgery
• Bone graft
• Sinus lifting

See links lower down for exact explanation and costs of each treatment.

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So what do I get
out of all of this ?

Do I make any money ?
Do I exploit people who need professional but cheap teeth repairs in the Czech Republic ?

Click link to be bored stupid:
Something about myself:

It really is pretty boring - but might help you go figure.

And if you want to see some of the actual dental patients who have been to Zlin and Kromeriz then click here.

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So is our dental treatment services organization in the Czech Republic for free ?
..... and yes ... here comes the SMALL TEXT....

Due to the overwhelming demand for dental treatment in the Czech Republic - Kromeriz and now also in Zlin... and due to the utmost care and organization details that either myself or Carla put into getting dental appointments organized for international patients in the Czech Republic, as of May 2005 we have come up with a plan where everyone is happy:

To organize a dental treatment appointment in Kromeriz and Zlin the usual scenario is as follows:
We receive a request via e-mail.
I filter this and evaluate if it is a sincere request for dental treatment or a time waster.
( i.e. someone who requests false teeth made of diamonds is a time waster. )

Once filtered, and if judged as sincere, the request is translated into Czech and emailed to the dentist.
The dentist e-mails me back with possible appointment dates and any technical questions he might have concerning the request.
Quite often this will also involve several phone calls between ourselves and the dentist and quite often even the patient.

During this stage - you - the prospecting dental patient get a list of contact details of patients who have been over here recently and you can e-mail or phone these persons to ask them anything you like about me, our service or about the dentists and the quality of their work.

We then email the patient back either confirming that the treatment is viable or with the translated technical questions from the dentist.
This goes on until both parties, the patient and the dentist know what each will have done / will be doing.
Usually one or two e-mails between the prospecting dental treatment patient and ourselves are enough but sometimes it can be 5 to 10 emails for sorting out the details.
(Once it was 35 e-mails - Hi Kevin)

Then the dentist gives his ok and the patient confirms he's coming.

We then organize his taxi pick-up if requested at Prague, Brno or Vienna airport.
(It's much cheaper to send a taxi from Kromeriz then get taken to the cleaners by Brno or Prague Taxi drivers)
Also - our taxi driver will wait for hours if necessary (flight delay) and not charge extra.

Or we send detailed information on public transport from Prague, Brno or Vienna to Kromeriz / Zlin (train or bus) to the patient.

We then book his accommodation.
We welcome him/her/them upon arrival in Kromeriz or in Zlin.
We take him to the dentist on his first visit.
We organize transport in the Kromeriz / Zlin area for sight seeing if required and give him a complete map and itinerary with what to do in her/his spare time between dental sessions, and basically the patient feels welcome and at home.
I myself am reachable via mobile phone all the time (24 hours a day) in case the patient has any questions or needs.
...and quite often we actually spend time with the visiting patient during his stay showing him/her/them around and even going on a night clubbing tour with them - which is amusing and a great distraction from the drilling and filling (drilling at the dentist you perverted twit)

Also, during a patient's stay we keep in touch via phone with them quite often and also directly in person if needed and phone calls and petrol do not grow on trees over here.

We also now give dental patients a Czech mobile phone sim card which they can use for their phone calling when over here (up to 90% cheaper than using your own UK etc, phone rates)

Sounds easy ?
When the patient doesn't require us to contact the dentist 10 times, changes his arrival date in the last second and does not want to bring his mother-in law and grandmother last-minute style for even more dental repairs - it's easy.

Otherwise more e-mails and phone calls are involved between us and the dentist and so on.

And all this work is mainly done by myself, but Carla also helps out in the organization details (hotel bookings, shopping arrangements etc.) and our faithful taxi driver Mr Lehky also des his bit.
In August 2005 we had a patient who fell asleep with his contact lenses still in - got an eye infection and Mr Lehky spent the whole next morning with him at the oculists (I was in Zlin).

I also supervise over the proceedings, keep count of all arrivals and appointments and give assistance where needed.

So we now operate under the following conditions.

Everything is organized as stated above and only after your first visit to the dentist when you are done and content you pay an organization fee of Czech Crowns 6.000 which is about Euro 207 depending on the exchange rate of the day.


This fee is payable after the first visit to the dentist where a panoramic x-ray is taken, you get examined, you and the dentist agree on the best treatment for you and also you get an accurate cost quote for all the treatment you will be receiving including a timeline for all the next dental visits during your stay.

If you are by any chance not satisfied, or should decide that you have changed your mind - you don't pay the organizational fee.

Never happened up to now but seems a fair guarantee for anyone who might be thinking that this might be some sort of fiddle.

And believe me, when we go out with the patients for meals, we pay for ours ourselves, the same for club visits, golf games, etc there is not much left of the 207 Euro so basically it's more like expenses money than a real income.
I make my real income as explained here.

Please note - we DO NOT get any provision whatsoever from the dentist, nor from the patients themselves for any direct dental work done.
If you spend 300 Euro or 10.000 at the dentists - I still only get Euro 207.
Every patient who has been over here has told me that this is cheap in comparison to what they receive and that's why the fee used to be €130 and is now € 200.
And if you save thousands of pounds on your dental treatment costs and get it all done in 10 days or two weeks, then this fee is pretty nominal.

Please note - any subsequent visits for further dental treatment - i.e. you come back 6 months later to get the treatment completed or need new dental treatment the treatment organization fee is Czech Crowns 1500 / Euro 52.
For fee structure for 2 or more persons coming in a group for dental treatment - please see the czech dental treatment price list section.

[[[ However - having myself survived poorer days when money was short and life was hell - if anyone can reasonably convince me that they really are without money and have only so much to pay for the dental treatment - this means that you must be very poor indeed - I will offer my services for free. ]]]

Here are some dental testimonials.

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Still with me ?
(and I can be even more boring over a good glass of REAL Slivovitz ... which my dentist recommended as the best painkiller after having a tooth extracted.)
... but do read the rest please.

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Interpreting services from Czech to English and from English to Czech:

The dentists we now work with all speak reasonable English and I myself will accompany you on your first visit, to translate, introduce you and to make sure everyone is clear on what everyone is going to be doing / having done - and this is included in the organization fee.
If this first visit is at 7 in the morning or other inhumane time - you owe me one czech beer (which costs 50 cents) to make the shock of getting up so early less painful for me.

I myself speak Czech, English, Italian, German and Spanish, so I can take care of most visitors.

If you feel that you would like me to be present at the other dental visits during your stay - then I charge 10 Euro per hour for interpreting and my time.
This is not necessary but some patients chose to have it this way.
90% of dental patients who have been here have managed perfectly on their own at the dentist after the first introductory visit.

If, by chance the dentist needs me to translate something or to better explain some part of the treatment at a later visit -then I will come to the next dental visit and translate free of charge.

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Get it ?

Hopefully, you the prospective dental patient looking for good but cheap dental services in the Czech Republic now understand the mechanics - or the 'human logic', behind our dental treatment assistance services.

Obviously, if you can organize your own interpreter or contact person who knows dependable dental services in the Czech Republic, who in turn should be able to get you dental treatment appointments with them - then you are wasting your time in reading the rest of the dental treatment section of this web site.

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How can you get your teeth repaired in the Czech Republic in Kromeriz or in Zlin ?
You could just turn up on your own in Kromeriz or Zlin, or any other similar sized town throughout the Czech Republic, find a Czech dentist and hope he can fit you in but we do suggest having someone who speaks Czech with you and in getting an appointment and cost quote well in advance of your just turning up.

And please remember, Prague dentists are at least three times as expensive as those in Zlin and Kromeriz.

But just turning up is NOT ADVISABLE.
Simply because like other European dentists, Czech dentists have their appointment schedules which are pretty tight and just turning up after coming all the way from Australia to only be told to come back in 6 weeks would be a shame.

This is why we now work with three dentists who in turn have two separate dental labs to make the crowns and bridges for them so that we can get you an appointment within one week's notice.
For emergencies - even tomorrow if you can get here so fast.

 

The correct procedure in getting an appointment in Kromeriz or in Zlin with the dentists and eventually having dental treatment done is as follows:

A)
First of all check out our czech dental treatment section - and the costs of each dental treatment - and the time needed for each type of dental treatment
Price list of czech dental services

B)
Read the czech dental organization services FAQ page.
The Faq page offers details on how to go about getting a dental appointment.

If you don't read the FAQ page and do not follow the procedure described you probably won't receive a reply from us concerning any request you might have made.

Yes - you have up to now read that we actually do offer a phone number through which you can speak to us directly.
This number is included somewhere in the rest of the information pages (links above) concerning our dental treatment organization services and you will find it only if you invest enough of your time to get more informed on the treatment costs and dental treatment descriptions.

We prefer to organize dental appointments for people who are not lazy in getting all the facts - which are all included in this part of the website.

We take this pretty seriously - and since it's your teeth, please do so too.