"It’s important to shop around at home and explore where you might be able to save money."
- Jo Turner, Head of Product & Proposition for Group Protection at Canada Life
Of those surveyed (2,000), 32% of holidaymakers from the UK travelled for dental cleaning. This was followed by teeth whitening or fillings (24%), crown procedures (20%), root canals (19%), extractions (18%), and veneers or composite bonding procedures (11%). On average, people have spent £3,780 on dentistry abroad.
Canada Life highlights that these numbers come as 13% of adults in the UK admit to having not seen a dentist for over five years – nearly half (48%) said they’d been putting off booking an appointment due to cost (13%), dentophobia (12%), or lack of suitable appointment times (7%).
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“It’s understandable why many are going abroad for dentistry when the alternative of UK treatments are often a lot more expensive by comparison,” said Jo Turner, Head of Product & Proposition for Group Protection at Canada Life. She warns customers not to be “seduced” by what looks like a bargain; “Having to fix mistakes can end up blowing your budget out of the water.”
Jo believes it’s “important to shop around at home and explore where you might be able to save money.”
